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Domain Name Security, and Why It Really Matters

By: Michael Diedrick on Mar 8, 2021

Any website build or redesign requires we get involved with the organization’s domain name, and we’ve seen a lot of things that worry us. We’re creating this nice, easy checklist to keep everyone's domain names safe and secure. After the break we'll explain an overview about domain names, registrars and why keeping domain names safe and secure is vital. We'll also include a bonus round that can save money and administrative headaches.

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Tags: Domain Names Security

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Coded Bias at Milwaukee Film's Black History Month

By: Michael Diedrick on Feb 1, 2021

Coded Bias is a new documentary that follows a researcher at MIT, Joy Buolamwini, who discovered that facial recognition doesn’t work for women or people with brown skin. Was it a bug, a feature, or an indication of something endemic to the industry that produces the applications and software that surrounds us?

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Tags: MKE Film Festival Security

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Byte CMS Upgrade: Issues Manager

By: Sam Korthof on Jan 5, 2017

After a request and some interesting conversations about issues, and some upgrade-building and testing, we are excited to announce that the new issues system is ready to install and use on your site.

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Tags: content management General News Process Security

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What We Aren’t Talking About With Healthcare.gov’s “Debacle”

By: Michael Diedrick on Oct 29, 2013

To us as web developers, it’s fun when a website makes news. More so when the President of the United States has a press conference about a bad website launch. Even more so when a website plays a part in a great national debate. But it’s downright fascinating to see how website part the debate itself is just plain wrong. Read more past the break.

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Tags: Security

Eponymous Laws: Schneier's law

By: Michael Diedrick on May 15, 2012

Each month, we're taking a look at an eponymous law, a 'law' that's named after someone, usually the author.

Today we're looking at Schneier's law - "Any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can't think of how to break it." More, my new hacker friend, after the break.

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Tags: Eponymous Laws Process Security Tech Simplicity