Mike West

@mikewest
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Chrome's trust and safety team, but my tweets are my own, etc, etc. He/him.
Websitehttps://mikewest.org/
Using `const_cast<...>` with abandon is my favorite part of prototyping.

We're making some changes in Chrome to try to prevent bounce tracking on the web. Please help us test and provide feedback! 🙏

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/vyXWn1W1daA/m/tL3f1_WbAwAJ

Ready for Trial: Bounce Tracking Mitigations

Google Is Rolling Out Passkeys, the Password-Killing Tech, to All Accounts

The tech industry’s transition to passkeys gets its first massive boost with the launch of the alternative login scheme for Google’s billions of users.

WIRED

🆕 📢 Call for Participation! @w3c organizes a "Secure the Web Forward" workshop on June 7-8, #London 💂🇬🇧, at MSFTReactor #security #developers
https://www.w3.org/2023/03/secure-the-web-forward/

Take the opp to speak at the event and submit a position paper before April 24!

The workshop is presented jointly by @w3c, @openssf , @owasp and @openjsf . The PC is composed of @torgo @hadleybeeman Harold Blankenship @jorydotcom @rginn206 @dontcallmeDOM @lehors @mikewest and Christopher 'CRob' Robinson.

Workshop overview

Bringing together experts to drive developer awareness and adoption of Web security standards and practices

Next week's Web Application Security working group draft meeting agenda is up at https://github.com/w3c/webappsec/blob/main/meetings/2023/2023-03-15-agenda.md.

We're aiming to talk through some ideas around deprecations and changing web defaults, the high-level results of December's permissions workshop (https://www.w3.org/Privacy/permissions-ws-2022/report), and hardening Blobs.

webappsec/2023-03-15-agenda.md at main · w3c/webappsec

Web Application Security Working Group repo. Contribute to w3c/webappsec development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

I'm most of the way through the Childrens' Adventure prelude to #WorldsBeyondNumber, and it is _delightful_.

Since their website does a fairly terrible job pointing you towards the actual content: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/worlds-beyond-number/id1670750937 is their public feed, and https://www.patreon.com/worldsbeyondnumber supports the endeavour.

‎Worlds Beyond Number on Apple Podcasts

‎Fiction · 2023

Apple Podcasts

IT IS TIME! Enigma 2023 conference videos are posted. There are a bunch of *amazing* talks to check out. (Except mine. Mine is a 20 minute rant about how bad metrics make people do bad things and how not to do it.)

https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2023/program

Enigma 2023 Conference Program

Enigma 2023 will take place January 24–26, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara in Santa Clara, CA, USA. Enigma centers on a single track of engaging talks covering a wide range of topics in security and privacy. Our goal is to clearly explain emerging threats and defenses in the growing intersection of society and technology, and to foster an intelligent and informed conversation within the community and the world.

USENIX

Please stop using “mom” as an example of an unsophisticated user of technology. This reinforces harmful stereotypes.

Instead, I suggest using “congressperson”.

We're about two weeks out from the next WebAppSec WG call, which means it's a good time to start pulling an agenda together. If you have thoughts on topics we ought to be paying attention to, https://github.com/w3c/webappsec/issues/618 would be a great place to note them.
Planning the 2023-02-15 call. · Issue #618 · w3c/webappsec

#617 was the discussion around the 2023-01-18 call. We explicitly called out the following as coming next time: @johnwilander floated a linked-on-or-after idea at TPAC and could talk about it more ...

GitHub
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