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I disagree, it gives the gist of what is in the background. You can easily tell if the layer is over the homescreen or Mail or Safari etc. I like the blur effect because it makes i…

When I call a language fun, I generally mean: 1. It delights me by doing what I want. 2. It makes normally complex programming tasks easy (try metaprogramming in php). 3. It is sim…

No, node.js needed to happen. Javascript makes it very easy to write event-driven code, which it turns out is a pretty good model for a web server, especially if you are routing re…

1. node.js happened 2. lots of devs already know the javascript API very well.. a lot of times these same devs write server backends. why not share code between client and server? …

That's a bad assumption. I could feasibly purchase the appsp0t.com domain, grab an ssl cert for nodecrypt.appsp0t.com, hop onto the LAN and run sslstrip, redirect the user to https…

Using his same attack, it's easy to spoof the js crypto libs to be insecure/have a backdoor, while the site appears unmodified to the user. Even worse is that the attacker only rea…