Practical Technology

By the time you read this, there’s a decent chance Twitter will be dead in the water. Technically, there are many reasons I can safely predict its coming crash, but I’m not here to talk about Twitter remote procedure calls (RPCs) or its SMS…Read More

Ninety-five percent of web applications — that’s not a typo, 95% — have security holes. I know program security is bad, and so do you. We all know it. But when Synopsys announced in its latest report, the “Software Vulnerability Snapshot: The 10 Most…Read More

How bad? Is a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score of 10.0 bad enough for you? These days with security holes appearing fast and furious it takes a truly exceptional security bug to catch my eye. However, cloud native security company…Read More

Hot on the heels of the arrival of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.7, Red Hat has released the next version of its RHEL 9 family, RHEL 9.1. What’s the difference? Why two versions of one enterprise Linux distro? While under the hood there are many…Read More

As Twitter continues to circle the drain, many people are already heading for the doors looking for a new online home. The good news is there are many other social networks. The bad news is none of them are complete Twitter replacements. So, first…Read More

With all of Twitter’s ever-growing technical problems, I’d missed an elephant in the room-sized disaster. Fortunately, a friend reminded me that many people use Twitter’s log-in as their login for other websites. Eep! You need to stop doing that…Read More