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So all the attack vectors the NSA has used to date are based upon backdoors (voluntary or otherwise) to existing vendors? Something I've been confused and/or mislead about is that …

In the wave of recent disclosures of the NSA's intrusions, I'd like to know more about security/cryptography practices. Most articles are geared towards one of two audiences: the c…

> When you start with the point of view that we are all reasonable, and well intentioned.. the problem then becomes about process and culture, and you can actually start making pro…

> Hypermedia APIs expose a workflow, not a data model. I would say this is true of REST APIs. Not necessarily hypermedia APIs. An API that directly exposed a graph database as an H…

> Sure css, js etc are fetched, but this is hard-coded behaviour, there is nothing dynamic or discovered about it. Or I fail to understand it. It grabs the links from the content o…

This is a fair point! Mostly, I think that would produce an ugly API. The reason I've been leaning towards that solution is that it assigns the responsibility of locating any other…

> This kind of thing sounds great for exploratory development, but undesirable (for the reasons I outlined previously) for an actual production app. We actually do this in our prod…

> Apart from parsing, I am the API client in this instance. I'm the one making decisions from understanding what services are about. Your browser parses, yes, but then it goes and …

OP here. I'm not strictly advocating HATEOS. Hypermedia and HATEOS are related but not the same concept. I am very strongly advocating hypermedia, as I believe it it greatly reduce…

You'd be smart to ask "Which ones?" before you dismiss all dev blogs as 'horse shit'. Blogs like Coding Horror and Object Mentor should gain your respect, not your disdain.