Tumblr’s Phishing Protection Code

At the top of every Tumblr user’s blog, there’s a piece of JavaScript inserted by Tumblr itself. In general, Tumblr is very generous about the control they give you over your blog’s appearance. They don’t insert any advertisements or enforce any global content other than a Quantcast visitor analytics script, follow/dashboard controls on the upper […]

Anti-fraud Detection in Best of Berkeley

Near the end of Spring Break, I helped build the back-end for the Daily Cal’s Best of Berkeley voting website. The awards are given to restaurants and organizations chosen via public voting over the period of a week. Somewhere during the development, we decided it’d be more effective to implement fraud detection rather than prevention. […]