Following the wise advice of Prince Charming, I edited a custom personal 256 bit secret into the php code of Avatar Privacy avatar generator, so that now it actually works as it is supposed to. So now we have avatars, and actually do have privacy. My own personal experience in security is that your boss orders one to do something inexplicably stupid that introduces a subtle flaw, an order that …
Month: February 2021
Back again
My blog has been down for a while – the perils of being your own system administrator. Because of political events, I have moved the blog onto a server physically located on the boundary between the US empire and the Chinese hegemony, in a country that piously proclaims fealty to both, and tends to be left alone by both. (Which means we are now being spied on by twice as …