Security Is Hard, Y'all
Web Security is Too Hard Posted byericlaw2026-08-042026-08-04Posted inbrowsers, security, storytelling, webTags:best-practices, browsers, phishing, SmartScreen It started innocently enough. I saw a tweet about a new product offering from one of my favorite companies, Cloudflare. I clicked through to the site and there it is: And huzzah!, my preferred handle, @ericlaw is still available.
- ▪Web Security is Too Hard Posted byericlaw2026-08-042026-08-04Posted inbrowsers, security, storytelling, webTags:best-practices, browsers, phishing, SmartScreen It started innocently enough.
- ▪I saw a tweet about a new product offering from one of my favorite companies, Cloudflare.
- ▪I clicked through to the site and there it is: And huzzah!, my preferred handle, @ericlaw is still available.
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| Original publisher | text/plain |
| Canonical URL | https://textslashplain.com/2026/08/04/security-is-hard-yall/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:29:32 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-04T18:40:46.805Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-04T18:40:46.805Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | ERlTnIHVQEFb · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Web Security is Too Hard Posted byericlaw2026-08-042026-08-04Posted inbrowsers, security, storytelling, webTags:best-practices, browsers, phishing, SmartScreen It started innocently enough. I saw a tweet about a new product offering from one of my favorite companies, Cloudflare. Neat! I clicked through to the site and there it is: And huzzah!, my preferred handle, @ericlaw is still available. I’d better hurry to claim it before someone else gets it! Since I’m already a long-time Cloudflare user, I just need to sign in. That makes sense, how else will they bind the handle to my account? Easy peasy. I’m in.
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