Federated ID, OpenID, and OAuth: A Web Authentication Primer
Federated ID Federated ID, also called Federated Identity Management (FIM), allows a Service Provider (SP) to offer a service without implementing its own authentication system,…
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Gandhi Hated Black People, and MLK Was a Plagiarist
Many of our best people were really bad people. But I read a lot, so I already knew this, and it’s actually not the worst…
Conservative Cognitive Dissonance on Public Healthcare
There’s a saying in atheism circles that aims to show Christian hypocrisy related to how they dismiss all the thousands of gods that have existed…
Wallarm Research Releases Nuclei Template to Counter Threats Targeting LLM Apps
Wallarm Research has just released a powerful new Nuclei template targeting a new kind of exposure: the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This isn’t about legacy…
Fascism is Upon Us, and Other Thoughts About Our Future
We’ll start with a couple of definitions:: Those are decent, but this article at Alternet has one I prefer much more. It comes from historian…
Racism Scopecreep in the Liberal Media
Image from edweek.org I like the New York Times; I think they produce an overall strong product. But sometimes the PC-bend is simply overwhelming. This…
A Philosophical Precipice | Daniel Miessler
As I debate with people about public health care as a specific, and about giving assistance to the weak and ignorant as a general, I…
Updated Ruby Code for Querying IpInfoDB
This version adds two main features: avoids barfing if the array size is zero when appending to the query string sends the web service 25…
An Empty Existence | Daniel Miessler
Imagine you went to sleep one night and awoke to find yourself sitting at a table, on an alien space ship, with a view of…
If You’re Not Experiencing Some Failure, You’re Not Taking Enough Risk
I just came across a really interesting concept, which I’ll call “Living by Umesh”, or, being “Umeshian”–in honor of the source. A blogger by the…
Ruby: Parsing an IP List to Send to IpInfoDB
The code below does the following: Read a list of IPs Send each line (IP) to the ipinfodb web service Parse the XML result Display…
PageRank for People Rather Than URLs
This is an interesting post about how the concept of PageRank for URLs is becoming dated at best, and obsolete at worst. The idea is…