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Meta employees ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats while fighting child safety disclosures

Meta's lawyers have argued that certain evidence should be withheld from public view on the grounds of attorney-client privilege in the ongoing lawsuits over alleged harm to teens' safety and mental health. Lawyers suing the company said this week that the label has been applied far too broadly, while pointing to a recently unsealed document […]

Meta employees ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats while fighting child safety disclosures

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Why SSH Key Authentication Beats Password Authentication — What Is Actually Being Proven

"Use key-based auth instead of a password" is common advice for connecting to a server over SSH. But what exactly does key authentication prove, and how does that differ from what a password proves?

  • Password authentication transmits secret directly, vulnerable to attacks
  • Public-key authentication proves possession of key through signature
  • Public-key authentication safe for server leaks due to public key

Stop Making Developers Guess Which Icons to Mirror in RTL

Direction is part of an icon’s behavior. In right-to-left interfaces, some icons should mirror. Others should not. A back arrow usually changes direction. A checkmark does not.

  • Icon behavior includes directional mirroring in RTL interfaces.
  • Developers currently guess which icons need to mirror in RTL.
  • Icon catalog stores metadata to centralize RTL decision-making.

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