Stories by talklittle
OAuth would be a big step toward a proper API, e.g. for mobile apps.
Benefits of OAuth over cookies, which we have now:
* Users can grant narrower permission scopes to applications that should not require full access
* Applications can be blocked by the admins to reduce abuse
* Auth tokens c...
The "all languages" part:
> we need to build tools to make WebAssembly easier to load, and easier to interact with from JS. This work will help Rust. But it will also help all other languages that target WebAssembly.
The 2018 Edition will be the next edition of Rust. The current, and only, Rust edition is 2015. [What are Editions?](https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/edition-guide/editions/index.html) explains that Rust editions are like fuzzy major version numbers, released every two or three years, independent...
The actual paper is behind a paywall [on Nature](http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature24270).
FinFisher surveillance campaigns: ISPs possibly involved infecting legitimate applications
(welivesecurity.com)
> The applications we have seen being misused to spread FinFisher are WhatsApp, Skype, Avast, WinRAR, VLC Player and some others. It is important to note that virtually any application could be misused in this way.
> We discovered these latest FinFisher variants in seven countries; unfortunately,...