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I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• July 8th, 2007

  Pownce has a big security problem

  Kevin Rose’s latest project, Pownce, has a glaring security problem on its front page. The JavaScript that Pownce uses in its login form can reveal your password in plain text on the screen. Here are the steps to reproduce the problem in Firefox: Login to Pownce via http://www.pownce.com/. Allow Firefox to save your login information [...]

• June 27th, 2007

  Kevin Rose’s new project: Pownce

  Digg founder Kevin Rose’s “IM competitor” startup that was hyped on Digg two months ago has been introduced, and it appears to be a Twitter clone with support for posting files. It’s named Pownce, and it calls itself “a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends.” It’s invite-only right now (I’m [...]