Useful DuckDuckGo bangs

DuckDuckGo bangs are just shortcuts to redirect your search to another search engine. My personal favorites: !gnomebugs — Runs a search on GNOME Bugzilla. Especially useful followed by a bug number. For example, search for ‘!gnomebugs 100000’ and see what you get. !wkb — Same thing for WebKit Bugzilla. !w — Searches Wikipedia. There’s 6388 …

Stop using RC4

A follow up of my previous post: in response to my letter, NIST is going to increase the CVSS score of CVE-2013-2566 (RC4) to match CVE-2011-3389 (BEAST). Yay! In other news, WebKitGTK+ 2.8 has full support for RFC 7465. That’s a fancy way of saying that we will no longer negotiate RC4 connections and you will now be unable to access …

Security and Privacy Roadmap for Epiphany and WebKitGTK+

I’ve laid out some informal thoughts on where we should be heading with regards to new security and privacy features in Epiphany. It’s in the form of a list of features we really ought to have. (That is, it’s a wishlist.) Most of these features would be implemented in WebKitGTK+, so other applications using WebKitGTK+ …