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Safari 15’s IndexedDB Vulnerability, An Attack of the Wordle Clones, & more on DevNews

Tough luck for now if your browser uses WebKit 😬

Listen to that story and many more on this week's episode of the DevNews podcast

As a refresher, DevNews is the news show for developers by developers. Each season, our hosts cover the latest in the world of tech, and speak with diverse guests from a variety of backgrounds to dig deep into meaty topics such as security, the pros and cons of outsourcing your authentication, and the latest bugs and hacks.

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  • Valentin Vasilyev is an entrepreneur and open source enthusiast. He Co-founded FingerprintJS in 2020 based on the GitHub project he started in 2012

In this episode, we talk about Walmart’s plans to get into NFTs and cryptocurrency, telecom operators starting to block Apple’s iCloud Private Relay, and an attack of the Wordle clones. Then we speak with Valentin Vasilyev, co-Founder and CTO at FingerprintJS, whose team spotted a vulnerability in Safari 15’s IndexedDB API.


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