Gradle dependency versions plugin
Developers often have a lot on their plates, maintaining current version of their library dependencies often takes a back seat…
Clear-Site-Data HTTP Header
In an effort to improve security on the client-side modern browsers have introduced a means to allow for web applications…
Global Privacy Control (GPC) – Sec-GPC HTTP Header – /.well-known/gpc.json file
GPC is the latest attempt at allowing customers to specify how their browsing data is to be shared online, the…
security.txt files
Similar to robots.txt and humans.txt is a recent addition of a security.txt file. This is currently a draft proposal to…
SameParty cookie attribute
While Google has made strides to remove cookies, there was a recent addition to the Chromium product upon which Chrome,…
Cookie Priority attribute
While Google has made strides toward removing cookies, this new feature was recently added in Chrome 81+ in what appears…
USB Data-Blocker aka USB Condom
I was recently reading Kevin Mitnick's "The Art of Invisibility" and found that he'd also recommended these devices. I've been…
Google Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) – optout
Google Chrome 89 and other browsers based upon it such as Chromium Edge have introduced a new capability known as…
Javascript let keyword
ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) added the 'let' keyword. let works a lot like the legacy 'var' keyword, but adds scoping capabilities.…
Javascript const
Formally introduced in ES6, const was introduced in JavaScript 1.5 and was a Mozilla-specific extension and not part of ECMAScript…