RoastMyOpsecBlog
Answer-first OPSEC guides for public websites and apps. Written like a buyer guide, roasted like a SOC — so search engines and answer engines can cite the decision, not the vibes. Ten guides per page.
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Safety · Apr 7, 2025
Private Network Access vs CORS for browser APIs is two different gates. CORS (Access-Control-Allow-Origin) decides whether a web page may read a cross-origin HTTP response. Private Network Access (PNA, evolving as Local…
Read guide →News · Mar 29, 2025
preload vs modulepreload for public pages is a resource-hint decision: rel=preload fetches a specific asset early with an as= type, while rel=modulepreload is for ES modules and can fetch the module graph. Use preload…
Read guide →Vulnerabilities · Mar 21, 2025
postMessage vs CORS for embedded widgets is two different cross-origin pipes. CORS decides whether fetch may read another origin's HTTP response. window.postMessage sends a structured clone to another window; CORS…
Read guide →Vulnerabilities · Mar 12, 2025
pnpm-lock.yaml vs package.json on a production origin is two Node inventory files that do not belong next to index.html. /package.json is declared dependencies — the roast signatures it. pnpm-lock.yaml is the exact pnpm…
Read guide →Vulnerabilities · Mar 4, 2025
phpMyAdmin vs /wp-admin on a public marketing origin is not a style contest. /wp-admin is the CMS staff door — still needs MFA, SSO, and rate limits, but its presence is normal. phpMyAdmin (and cousins like…
Read guide →Vulnerabilities · Feb 23, 2025
phpinfo() vs verbose API errors on production is two costumes of the same leak class. phpinfo() prints PHP version, extensions, paths, and often environment-shaped configuration into an HTML page. Verbose API errors…
Read guide →Vulnerabilities · Feb 15, 2025
.user.ini vs .htaccess on a production origin is two server config files that must not be downloadable next to index.html. .htaccess is Apache per-directory rules. .user.ini is PHP's per-directory INI. Both can name…
Read guide →Safety · Feb 6, 2025
Permissions-Policy vs device APIs is a default-deny choice for public HTML. The header (formerly Feature-Policy) tells the browser which powerful APIs this document and its iframes may use. A brochure site should…
Read guide →Safety · Jan 29, 2025
Permissions-Policy unload vs beforeunload is a browser-lifecycle split, not two spellings of one header: the unload feature gates the window unload event (handlers that break back-forward cache), while beforeunload is a…
Read guide →Safety · Jan 20, 2025
Partitioned cookies vs SameSite=None is how browsers are shrinking the shared third-party jar. SameSite=None; Secure still lets an embed send one cookie on every site that frames you — a cross-site identity. The…
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