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Supreme Court to Hear Case on Texas Law Restricting Access to Porn
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AI Trains On Kids' Photos Even When Parents Use Strict Privacy Settings
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Despite OS Shielding Up, Half of America Opts For Third-Party Antivirus
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Canned Water Made From Air and Sunlight To Hit US Stores in September
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The Rubik's Cube Turns 50
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Google Might Abandon ChromeOS Flex
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Netflix is Starting To Phase Out Its Cheapest Ad-Free Plan
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Greece Introduces Six-day Working Week
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Figma Disables AI Design Tool That Copied Apple Weather App
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Biden Administration Provides $504 Million To Support 12 Tech Hubs Nationwide
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China Signals Brain-Tech Ambitions with Standards Drive
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10-Year-Old Open Source Flaw Could Affect 'Almost Every Apple Device'
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Swiss Broadcasting Corporation To Pull Plug On FM Radio
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Arctic 'Dirty Fuel' Ban For Ships Comes Into Force
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CodeSOD: Certificate of Security
Joe wanted to interact with a social media service's API. As one does, he went out and found a library for his language, and started investigating it. Now, the API was, unsurprisingly, an HTTP based API, wrapped in TLS for security. The library had a handy built-in function which validated the security certificates to ensure they were still valid and hadn't been compromised:
Private Function ValidateCertificate(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal certificate As System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate, ByVal chain As System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Chain, ByVal sslPolicyErrors As System.Net.Security.SslPolicyErrors) As Boolean Return True End FunctionThis would definitely be the easiest way to validate the certificate. What could possibly go wrong?
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Survey Finds Public Perception of Scientists' Credibility Has Slipped
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Anthropic Looks To Fund a New, More Comprehensive Generation of AI Benchmarks
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Alzheimer's Scientist Indicted For Allegedly Falsifying Data In $16 Million Scheme
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Microsoft Tells Yet More Customers Their Emails Have Been Stolen
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