Developers can find a variety of useful web tools at https://tools.adminforge.de/. The entire collection is, like many other development tools, Open Source. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.
Given the numerous security issues Microsoft has faced, this at least points to an improvement in the situation. However, Kathleen Hogan will have to be held to these statements over the coming year. Tom Warren writes in ‘Every Microsoft employee is now being judged on their security work’ for theverge.com Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft’s chief people officer, has outlined what the company expects of employees in an internal memo obtained by The Verge. “Everyone at Microsoft will have security as a Core Priority,” says Hogan. “When faced with a tradeoff, the answer is clear and simple: security above all else.” ...
Thomas Di Giacomo writes in »Open Source projects vs products: A strategic approach« for opensource.net Every new version of Open Source upstream projects may remove features we and our customers depend on, introduce new bugs and potential performance issues, and cause other regressions that can disrupt business operations. Therefore, businesses that rely on Open Source must actively manage these changes to avoid potential disruptions. ...
I found a great tool for measuring website speed: »Yellow Lab Tools«. It stands out for its ability to even find CSS errors that other audit tools often miss. The tool ist Open Source can also be self-hosted if needed. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.
In their study »Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHA v2«, the authors Andrew Searles, Renascence Tarafder Prapty and Gene Tsudik argue for discontinuing the service. They justify this by generally poor user acceptance. They also criticize the significant resource demands in terms of time and data centers. Added to this is a troubling susceptibility to bots — a stark contradiction of its intended purpose. We explore the cost and security of reCAPTCHAv2 and conclude that it has an immense cost and no security. Overall, we believe that this study’s results prompt a natural conclusion: reCAPTCHAv2 and similar reCAPTCHA technology should be deprecated. ...