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In a recent discussion about unemployment in South Africa ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has called on companies to employ young graduates despite their lack of work experience with the following comments: Employers need to understand that for our country to succeed,...
The instructions below are working on OSX and should equally work on any distribution with OpenSSL. From Chrome58 onwards only the SAN (subject alternative name) extension is used to match the domain name and site-certificate (prior to Chrome58 the commonName...
Despite SSL being widely used, Java mutual SSL authentication (also referred to as 2-way SSL authentication or certificate based authentication) is a fairly simple implementation when understanding the key concepts of how mutual SSL authentication works. Today I noticed that...
With the release of Java SE 7 the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension was introduced as a default in the JSSE client. This enables TLS clients to connect to virtual servers (SNI is explained in RFC 4366 and I am not going...
SourceDNA has released a report titled “AFNetworking Strikes Back: 25,000+ Apps” which highlights that over 25,000 iOS apps face exposure due to a security flaw (which has been fixed about a week ago) in a commonly used networking library. I originally...
In order to fully “appreciate” this epic disaster, one has to go back to 2006 when I worked for Software Futures as an architect for Vodacom. Software Futures was back then a typical body-shop and most freelancers worked through them...
Sun was clever enough to probably use a String-compare instead of a number-check to validate if the OS X version is greater than 10.1 and as such a JDK 1.7 install fails on OS X 10.10. There is no fix/patch from...
Perhaps the end of Java as we know it? James posted the following at his new blog: “…Yes, indeed, the rumors are true: I resigned from Oracle a week ago (April 2nd). I apologize to everyone in St Petersburg who...
Reflection gives your code access to internal information for classes loaded into the JVM and allows you to write code that works with classes selected during execution, not in the source code. This makes reflection a great tool for building...
Working with exceptions in Java has become among developers a common task. Most of the time, however, the concept of exceptions is misunderstood. An exception-condition prevents the continuation of a method or the scope that your are in. In some...
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