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News · Jun 6, 2026
Website OPSEC vs app OPSEC is a scan-mode choice on the same public URL, not two different products. Website mode emphasizes marketing-site hygiene: headers, cookies, trackers, robots.txt, mixed content. App mode leans…
Read guide →News · May 29, 2026
Webmention vs Pingback for public blogs is a notification-protocol decision: Webmention (W3C) is a simple HTTP mention flow, while Pingback is an older XML-RPC handshake still enabled on many WordPress origins. Prefer…
Read guide →News · May 20, 2026
WebAuthn vs passwords for public site login is an authenticator-bound credential versus a string people reuse. Passkeys (WebAuthn / FIDO2) prove possession of a device-bound key, often with a biometric or PIN on that…
Read guide →News · May 12, 2026
Web app manifest vs public metadata on production is a PWA catalog versus other JSON you accidentally ship. /manifest.webmanifest or /manifest.json names the app, icons, start_url, and display mode so installing the…
Read guide →Vulnerabilities · May 3, 2026
.vscode vs .DS_Store on production origins is two leftover folders next to index.html. .DS_Store is Apple Finder metadata that can list filenames. .vscode (and JetBrains .idea) is editor config: launch.json, tasks.json,…
Read guide →Vulnerabilities · Apr 25, 2026
Verbose API errors vs generic client messages is a production-logging split. Clients should get a short, stable code and a human sentence that does not name files, SQL, or framework versions. Operators should get the…
Read guide →News · Apr 16, 2026
URL scan vs GitHub deepen is a visibility split, not two competing products. A public URL audit sees what the internet already gets: headers, cookies, mixed content, robots.txt, and well-known path leaks. GitHub deepen,…
Read guide →Safety · Apr 8, 2026
upgrade-insecure-requests vs HSTS for mixed content is a page-level rewrite versus a host-level memory. Content-Security-Policy: upgrade-insecure-requests tells supporting browsers to try HTTPS for http:// subresources…
Read guide →Safety · Mar 30, 2026
Trusted Types vs CSP for DOM XSS is two layers, not a replacement. Content-Security-Policy script-src (nonces, hashes, no unsafe-inline) limits which scripts load. Trusted Types (CSP trusted-types and…
Read guide →News · Mar 22, 2026
Topics API vs third-party cookies for marketing sites is two advertising identity models. Third-party cookies (especially unpartitioned SameSite=None) let an embed recognize the same browser across sites. The Topics API…
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