The CVSS score was never meant to be your patch queue
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WCAG asks for 24 pixels, not the 44 everyone quotes
The 44-pixel tap target is quoted everywhere as the accessibility requirement. It is WCAG's Level AAA figure. The criter...
Nobody has required a seven-pass disk wipe since 2006
Disk utilities still offer a seven-pass erase labelled "DoD 5220.22-M". The Department of Defense removed overwriting sp...
Indonesia prints one food date and bans selling past it
Indonesian labelling law prescribes a single phrase, "Baik digunakan sebelum" — best used before — and defines it as a q...
NIST forbids the password rules most companies still enforce
Character-mix requirements and ninety-day expiry are not NIST recommendations that have gone out of fashion. The current...
A barcode does not tell you where a product was made
The chain message that reads country of origin off a barcode's first three digits has the standard against it. GS1's own...
Singapore's Employment Act has no overtime pay cap
The Ministry of Manpower publishes an overtime cap of S$2,600, or S$13.60 an hour. The Employment Act's Fourth Schedule...
In Malaysia a lorry driver on RM6,000 still gets overtime and a clerk on RM4,100 may not
A lorry driver on RM6,000 and a coordinator on RM4,100 work for the same employer, and on the face of the First Schedule...
No international rule says your passport needs six months left
Airlines worldwide enforce a six-month passport validity margin as though it were international law. ICAO Annex 9, the t...
Singapore's S$400 import limit is measured three different ways
A S$390 pair of trainers with S$35 shipping sits under Singapore's S$400 import threshold on one test and over it on ano...
AWS shuffles the availability zone letters for every account
Two AWS accounts looking at us-east-1a are usually looking at different buildings. AWS maps physical zones to letters ra...
Registered post pays about US$41 if it is lost, whatever was inside
The Universal Postal Convention caps compensation for a lost registered item at a flat 30 SDR — about US$41 — regardless...
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