When a user grants a website access to their social media profile, they are not only trusting that website, but also third parties embedded on that site” writes Englehardt. This chart shows that what some trackers are pulling from users. Freedom To Tinker warned OnAudience about another security issue recently, leading it to stop collecting user info.
Source: Login With Facebook data hijacked by JavaScript trackers | TechCrunch
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When the new Weather.com launches it will be the highest trafficked Drupal site in existence with over 1 billion page views per month.
via Mediacurrent | Weather.com Moves to Drupal.
On the technical side, our approach was to increase cache efficiency by utilizing Javascript and Edge Side Includes (ESI) for client side rendering as well as optimizing calls made to their content delivery network (CDN), Akamai.
The JavaScript Source is an excellent JavaScript resource with tons of “cut and paste” JavaScript examples for your Web pages. All for free!
via JavaScriptSource.com – Free JavaScripts, Tutorials, Example Code, Reference, Resources, And Help.
It didn’t take long for the victimized test server to begin struggling under the sudden load. In the first hour of the test, during which only $2 was spent on ads, more than 130,000 connections from browsers swamped the server. It wasn’t much longer until the server began falling offline under the growing load.
via Web Ads Used to Launch Online Attacks | MIT Technology Review.
At some point it will occur to you that keeping 30MB buffers open to display a photo thumbnail is a really bad idea, so you will introduce 6) the buffer that is going to hold a smaller photo suitable for display in the next screen, 7) the buffer that resizes the photo in the background because it is too slow to do it in the foreground. And then you will discover that you really need five different sizes, and thus begins the slow descent into madness. It’s not uncommon to hit memory limits dealing just with a single photograph in a real-world application.