Cybersecurity
Why systems are attacked, and how they hold.
Cybersecurity
Why do phishing emails still work on careful people?
They do not target carelessness — they target context, arriving at a moment when the request they make is exactly what you were expecting.
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Cybersecurity
Why can't a website tell you your forgotten password?
A well-built site never stored your password in the first place — only a one-way scramble of it, which can be checked against but cannot be turned back.
6 min readintermediate
Cybersecurity
Why can't websites read files on your computer?
Browsers run every page inside a deliberately powerless sandbox, because the alternative — letting arbitrary code from strangers touch your filesystem — would make visiting a link as dangerous as running a downloaded program.
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