Dale Price

1996: be careful entering your credit card details online because the connection might not be secure

2026: be careful entering your credit card details online because the website might have an extremely secure connection to 798 advertising partners, 24 malicious NPM package authors, 5 secretly North Korean software contractors, 3 firms that collect personal info for right wing political campaigns, 2 data sets used for training the AI that picks ballistic missile targets, and ICE

Mar 9 at 11:20pmWeb
Show threadjiub   Mar 10
@dale_price and somehow, the north koreans are the least dangerous in that group
Show threadMetaph Mar 10

@dale_price

Also it just got hacked and oops it turns out the connection was secure but the credit card information was stored plain text in the cloud afterwards

Show threadbuheratorMar 11
@dale_price The fact that browsers used to make you click through a warning window when you encountered a HTTPS site still makes me giggle