Bit flipping, favicons, and what the hell is your browser actually doing?

Presented at Kiwicon 6: The Con of the Beast (2012), Nov. 18, 2012, 4:35 p.m. (15 minutes).

The results of analyzing a year of weblogs from several bitflipped versions of a popular .nz website and the subsequent investigation into what browsers will happily download without telling you. A few WTFs for sure


Presenters:

  • Blair Harrison / trogs as Blair "trogs" Harrison
    Trogs is a shady-looking sysadmin from Wellington. Previously he has talked about that fibre optic stuff we all love, but he seems to have moved up the stack a bit this year. He will happily accept free beers.

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