Month: January 2019
The risk of the link shortener
In my twitter feed I got this message from Shared Services Canada. It says: 2019 tech resolutions: Learn about your online security and privacy settings to keep your information private! Stay cybersafe with these tips: http://ow.ly/6pGp30n2i96 #SSCtechSPC @GetCyberSafe #GCdigital OK, nice sentiment. The URL it references is http://ow.ly/6pGp30n2i96, pointing to ‘https://www.getcybersafe.gc.ca/cnt/prtct-yrslf/prtctn-dntty/index-en.aspx‘. What is this? .ly is…
Deleting pipelines in Gitlab 11.6
Gitlab 11.6.0 just released, and one of the new features is deleting a pipeline. Why might you want to delete a little bit of history? Well, perhaps you have inadvertently caused some private information to be printed (a password). Or perhaps you left Auto DevOps enabled and ended up with a whole slew of useless…
