HULK BASH! - The Internet is Broken, But My Part is Fine

Well, the Internet is broken again. It sucks to be us (and by “us” I mean “people whose income depends on a working Internet”).

But as for my piece of the Internet, I'm not too worried. I'm paranoid, but not worried.

I’ve been hacked a lot over the years. The first Unix machine I ever had root on was hacked within a week of me becoming responsible for it — because it was one of the few unmetered machines at the university where I was working my way through school.

Published at September 25, 2014 ·  2 min read

Steal This Code and Protect Their Data: Simplifying KeyChain Access

 

 

##The Code

The last couple of months, I’ve been working on my first Mac App (more on that in a later post).  As part of this App, I’m calling a REST API that requires that I have the user’s password for that service to use in the API calls.  Although that API is a minor part of the App, and although the service doesn’t have horrible consequences if someone gets the user’s password for it (in my opinion at least), there was no way I was going to store that password on disk unencrypted.  After all, users have a bad tendency to use the same password for multiple services, and one of those other services might contain important information.

Published at September 3, 2011 ·  4 min read