This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
This is A Big Deal. Makes stealing session cookies from other computers on your local network as easy as clicking a button. Will be interesting to see how big sites respond. Are we finally going to see HTTPS deployed on all pages?
OpenID provider which uses SSL client certificates, not passwords, to authenticate. Doesn’t work terribly well (I haven’t successfully logged in anywhere with it!), but a clever idea for an unphishable OpenID. [Update: I’ve got it working a couple of places now. Not clear at whose end the remaining bugs lie.]
This isn’t a bad deal at all: $15 for an SSL certificate recognized as valid by any moderately-recent webbrowser. Perfect for your home-run webmail server.
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.