Here's your (ir)regular reminder that HTTPS certificates without the CN (Common Name) field are completely valid. For example the 6-day certificates from Let's Encrypt do not have a CN as per the "shortlived" profile https://letsencrypt.org/docs/profiles/

Browsers do not use CN for validation even if it exists, they use the SAN (Subject Alternative Name) field only. Baseline Requirements by CA/Browser Forum say that "For Subscriber Certificates, the Subject Alternative Name MUST be present", while the section about Subscriber Certificate Common Name Attribute begins with "If present".

I always find entering personal details into a company website to tell them to stop processing the very same data a bit absurd.

This business data enrichment company is processing my personal phone number. They told me to fill out this form to opt-out, so I did. Now I'm asking how they process my data I have entered into the form 😅

There's a chance they need to store my data to not use them anymore if a new "enrichment source" appears, sort of a "lock". They also say they're not controllers as per GDPR, only processors, so they can't delete my data, but entering my data could made them one.

I could be wrong though. This will be interesting🤔 And I hope I'll learn a thing or two.

One of my favorite XSS tricks when you can add only attributes (when < and > are removed from the input) is to add onfocus=alert(1) and autofocus: <input value="" onfocus="..." autofocus="">.

To not create a "focus loop", I often add this.blur() to the onfocus handler, otherwise alert(1) steals the focus, and when you close it, the field gains focus once again and so on 😅

Instead of `cat`, I use `bat`, "a cat(1) clone with wings." https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

It supports syntax highlighting, line numbers, git, invisible chars etc. I even have it aliased to `cat`.

But if you'd like to concat multiple files into a single file like `cat 1 2 3 > foo`, you should run the original unaliased `cat` (by prefixing it with `\`, like `\cat`), seems much faster, at least in my case up to 10x. So now my scripts contain `\cat` instead of just `cat`.