How Your Passwords Are Actually Stored (And Why Plaintext Is a Disaster)
In December 2009 a hacker got into the database of RockYou, a company that made apps for social networks, and walked off with 32 million pa…
Articles tagged “how things work”
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How HTTPS Actually Keeps You Safe: TLS Explained
With plain HTTP, every request your browser sends crosses the network as readable text: the address of the page, the form you filled in, th…
QR Codes Explained: How They Actually Work
The QR code was built for the factory floor. In the early 1990s, Japanese manufacturers, car-parts makers among them, were running into the…