Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

SHA-1 is Just Fine for k-Anonymity Let's begin with the actual problem SHA-1 presents. More than a decade ago now, I wrote about how Our Password Hashing Has no Clothes and in that post, showed the massive rate at which consumer-grade hardware can calculate these hashes and consequently "crack" the password. And for what?

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CGI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Over the last few years, there has been a big drive to digitize the retail bank; and, of course, across Europe, all banks have had to make their data available to third parties that offer bank consumer services in response to PSD2 and open banking. Their mind-set is changing.

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Robert's Db2

DECEMBER 30, 2016

What is consequential to developers who want data-as-a-service capability is consistency and ease of use, and those concerns have much to do with the rapid rise of REST as a means of invoking programmatically-consumable services. Getting that type of workload growth means presenting a developer-friendly environment and attitude.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 18, 2025

This is why, at present, you don’t have an AI agent doing much of anything for you, nor will you anytime soon. They may have deals with every payment, travel, and airline company on earth, but those deals don’t contemplate a novel consumer service like a flight-booking AI agent.

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