Um, excuse me?

Opera Mini decrypts SSL at their site, then forwards it on to your mobile handset.  Excuse me?

The only reason I can imagine that this isn’t the biggest security uproar in recent memory is that the Opera Mini market share isn’t big enough to have caught anyone’s attention yet.

Did you get that, world?  If you use Opera Mini, they are decrypting your traffic in their own, private network, “adding value” to it by reformatting, then forwarding it on to you. It’s a purpose-built man-in-the-middle attack, for fuck’s sake.

Let’s get sorta unique

Behold, I have released a new gem.  Meet SUID- the sorta unique ID.

Reset with the best of them

One of my favorite designers, Chris Boone, has released his own, hand-tuned cross-browser reset stylesheets to the world. Check out the blog post, or just go directly to his GitHub for the files.

End of civilization in three, two, …

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32641476/ns/us_news-life/

If society doesn’t spontaneously combust within the next 24 hours, I’ll take it that the “defense of marriage” crowd was just wrong, and get on with my life.

Somehow, I’m incredulous…

Parsley:~/work/people_places_things(master)$ rake specs
(in /Users/dburkes/work/people_places_things)
.......................................................................

Finished in 0.0708490000000001 seconds

71 examples, 0 failures

Rake now has timing resolution down to 10E-16 seconds? Uh huh…