The Guardian specifically calls out the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for a standard they published in 2006. Cryptographers have always had complicated feelings about NIST, and that's mostly because NIST has a complicated relationship with the NSA.
Here's the problem: the NSA ostensibly has both a defensive and an offensive mission.]]>
The changes will bring all your website activity and site preferences into one place, which we hope will make it easier for you to find and to manage them. Where "you" actually means "everyone else".]]>
No problem. Just try one of these random comments and you'll be sure to impress the self‑proclaimed who's who of the left‑wing internet intelligentsia. No comment.]]>
At least 20% of the comments left on the Guardian website each month come from only 2,600 user accounts, who together make up just 0.0037% of the Guardian’s declared monthly audience. The other 80% come from a maximum (mathematically calculated) of 498,600 accounts, or 0.7% of the total monthly audience, broadly reaffirming the 90:9:1 rule.]]>
We'd always known mobile to be a "fragmented" space, with the number of handsets expanding seemingly by the day, but could we get a better picture of what that fragmentation looked like?
A dip into the data proved instructive.
Note: we've looked at the top 250 mobile phone models ranked in terms of pages viewed. We looked at traffic to m.guardian.co.uk, our native iPhone and Android apps, and mobile devices accessing the guardian.co.uk desktop site. We did not include traffic to our iPad edition app. The sheer number of different Samsung devices by 2012 is remarkable. However...]]>
As part of this switch in focus, from Monday 17 December we will begin directing users who click on a Guardian link within Facebook straight to our website to view articles, so over time all users will no longer be shown the content on a page within Facebook.]]>
Part of the reason for this new platform is technical: we've re-architected it to separate it from our content management system, so that high comment traffic will never compromise our ability to serve up pages quickly. We'll have more details soon on our developer blog. Coming soon to a screen near you. (Thanks @angusthebull for the link.)]]>
The website has also been updated, a campaign to "celebrate or change" high streets across the country has been launched, and this morning n0tice moved from Google Maps to open source platform Open Street Maps.
n0tice, which launched in private beta in May 2011, allows anyone to set up and curate a noticeboard and offers the opportunity to earn money as the site is funded by location-based small ads. Obvious disclosure notices (or n0tices) apply. ]]>
"So, Craig Snowden @CraigSnowedIn, a 17 year old developer from Scotland who answered a twitter call to open the consultation, popped it into Google docs.
"In Google docs you can read and comment, and see others’ comments, and properly understand what this might be saying.
"Now, this is not the formal process, but there is no reason why the comments cannot be fed into the formal process and I will volunteer to do that."All of a part with the Guardian's Digital Literacy campaign - get stuck in.]]>