Making third-party hosted scripts safer with Subresource Integrity

Websites routinely include third-party hosted resources - images, scripts, stylesheets and so on. It's now a standard practice. One thing to keep in mind is that if your website includes a JavaScript script from another site (example.org): technically speaking you’re relying on the security level of the script provider’s server example.org. In case example.org would start serving malicious content, your site including this content might …

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Technological soft influence on elections

Update (April 2019) It was brought to my attention that Brennan center has used some of the research described in the article to fill an amicus curiae (legal opinion to the appeal court) in a case touching election protection from disinformation operations and political advertisement transparency. The rest of the…

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Why do I need this?

It was never my intention to have a "blog". Then, as I have found myself increasingly interested in, and doing more and more things, I indentified a need to have a place for writing. It is not a good idea to put my thoughts on my site; I prefer to…

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