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Mike West

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web browser stuff: security, privacy, safety, etc.

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Ricky Mondello @rmondello.com · 08/09/2026
New post on my blog about switching password managers in 2026! It covers: - why your iPhone or iPad, and not your Mac, might be the place to start your switch - the recent controversy in password management and some thoughts on values - and more! rmondello.com/2026/09/07/s...
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Switching Password Managers in 2026
Important Note: Although I work at Apple in the password management and app/website authentication spaces, in this post I am speaking only for myself, personally. There is no “news” in this post or any kind of “inside scoop”. Please do share this post, but if I see “Apple’s Ricky Mondello” anywhere, I’ll be sad. My [...]
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Scott Helme @scotthelme.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This looks like it could be really promising! Connection Allowlist: a network firewall, built into the browser scotthelme.co.uk/connection-a...
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Connection Allowlist: a network firewall, built into the browser
Connection Allowlist is a new browser security mechanism that lets a document declare, up front, the exact set of destinations it's permitted to open network connections to. Anything not on the list…
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Freddy @freddyb.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Modern solutions against cross-site attacks (frederikbraun.de/modern-solut...): An article about cross-site leak attacks and browser-based defenses. You will also learn why web security best practices is always opt-in and finally how YOU can get increased security controls.
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Modern solutions against cross-site attacks
Modern solutions against cross-site attacks
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Mike West @mikewe.st · 20/11/2024
Do you, like me, periodically need to produce a base64-encoded SHA-2 hash of some text? Have you found existing online generator tools to be slightly annoying in some minor way that doesn't precisely fit your workflow? Well, here's another that will annoy you in _different_ ways: sha2.it
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SHA2 digest generator
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Michele Spagnuolo @miki.it · 17/11/2024
Happy to publish the effort of my last five years: Security Signals. research.google/pubs/securit...
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Security Signals: Making Web Security Posture Measurable At Scale
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Mike West @mikewe.st · 17/11/2024
I'm skimming RFC9421's signing and validation algorithms for reasons, and it seems like the spec provides way more room for confusion about what's being signed than I'd prefer, with guidance like "Determine an order for any signature parameters...". How? 🤷 www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9421....
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RFC 9421: HTTP Message Signatures
This document describes a mechanism for creating, encoding, and verifying digital signatures or message authentication codes over components of an HTTP message. This mechanism supports use cases where...
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Mike West @mikewe.st · 15/11/2024
Daniel Stenberg's notes from this week's HTTP Workshop are a nice way of catching up on smart folks' thoughts about the present and future of your favorite transport protocol: Day 1: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11... Day 2: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11... Day 3: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11...
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The 2024 HTTP Workshop
Day one. For the sixth time, this informal group of HTTP implementers and related "interested parties" unite in a room over a couple of days doing a HTTP Workshop. Nine years since that first event in...
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Mike West @mikewe.st · 15/11/2024
I set up this account, then nerdsniped myself right past the process of crafting a witty and enticing "Hello, world!" post to instead spend a few minutes trying to figure out whether Bluesky supported security keys rather than email for 2FA. It apparently doesn't. 🤷
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