VAT and foreign websites

A lot of people reading this blog will be aware that the EU has a tax on non-essential items which, in the UK, is called Value-Added Tax, or VAT.  The annoyance of VAT itself aside, it is a legal requirement for sites to support it when selling things for VAT-registered entities based in the EU.  [...]

Insecurity features

I’m surprised I haven’t written about this before, actually, since it’s something that really bugs me and I see it happening more and more.
The amount of sites out there which insist on checking that passwords match /^[a-zA-Z0-9]$/ and exclude all other characters astounds me.  There’s no better way to make passwords easily crackable than limiting [...]