Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 35

Added this basic but fundamental protection layer to the website.

The email setup will of course be reused when notifications are eventually implemented.

Currently using SendGrid as the email provider. Very easy to setup, and has a free plan.

Adding reCAPTCHA immediately after email is a must otherwise an attacker could send infinitely many emails to random addresses, which would lead to the domain being marked as spam. I was pleasantly surprised about how easy the integration ended up being.

Every article now has a (very basic) GitHub-like issue tracker. Comments now go under issues, and issues go under articles. Issues themselves are very similar to articles, with a title and a body.

This was part of 1.0, but not the first priority, but I did it now anyways because I'm trying to do all the database changes ASAP as I'm not in the mood to write database migrations.

Here's an example:

You can now write:in lieu of the old:

Limited the number of articles, and the size of article bodies. This, together with the reCAPTCHA setup from Email verification and reCAPTCHA signup protection should prevent the most basic types of denial-of-service attacks by filling up our database.

The limits can be increased by admin users from the web UI, and will be done generously when it is evident that it is not a DoS attack. Admin users are also a recently added feature.

One encoding to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them.

Microwave only found applications into the 1940s and 1950s, much later than radio, because good enough sources were harder to develop.

One notable development was the cavity magnetron in 1940, which was the basis for the original radar systems of World War II.