I’ve written about signing your code using Authenticode a lot over the years, from a post in 2015 about my first hardware token to a 2024 post about signing using a Digicert HSM. Recently, Azure opened their Trusted Signing Service preview program up for individual users and I decided to try it out. The documentationContinue reading “Authenticode in 2025 – Azure Trusted Signing”
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Guidelines for Secure Filename Display
Many years ago, I wrote the first drafts of Chromium’s Guidelines for Secure URL Display. These guidelines were designed to help feature teams avoid security bugs whereby a user might misinterpret a URL when making a security decision. From a security standpoint, URLs are tricky because they consist of a mix of security-critical information (theContinue reading “Guidelines for Secure Filename Display”
Attack Techniques: “I Already Hacked You” Scams
Scammers often try to convince you that you’ve already been hacked and you must contact them or send them money to prevent something worse from happening. I write about these a bunch: Another common “Bad thing already happened” scam is to send the user an email telling them that their devices were hacked some timeContinue reading “Attack Techniques: “I Already Hacked You” Scams”
My New Desktop
After a frustrating morning with my troublesome P1 Gen 7 laptop, I decided it was time to bite the bullet and stop working off laptops full-time, a habit that I inexplicably fell into at the start of the pandemic. I first surveyed the high-end desktop options at various vendors, but after the P1 fiasco andContinue reading “My New Desktop”
Fiddler – My Mistakes
On a flight back from Redmond last week, I finally read Linus Torvalds’ 2002 memoir “Just For Fun.” I really enjoyed its picture of Linux (and Torvalds) early in its success, with different chapters varyingly swooning that Linux had 12 or 25 million users. But more than that, I enjoyed some of the “behind theContinue reading “Fiddler – My Mistakes”