July 14, 2008
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CAPTCHA used to be an easy and useful way for Web administrators to authenticate users. Now it’s an easy and useful way for malware authors and spammers to do their dirty work. CAPTCHA — Completely Automated Public Turing Test to … Continue reading
July 10, 2008
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If you don’t think the recent discovery of the DNS cache-poisoning flaw is bad news and needs to be addressed as soon as possible, let me repeat what Paul Mockapetris, DNS’ (Domain Name System) inventor, had to say about this … Continue reading
July 7, 2008
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What part of “Yahoo doesn’t want a thing to do with you” did Ballmer not get? The new lord and master of Microsoft seems to be deaf, as well as dumb, in his latest attempt to try to buy Yahoo. … Continue reading
July 5, 2008
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Mozilla’s successful attempt to set a world record for downloads of a single program, Firefox 3 was dumb. It was also incredibly successful. Does anyone really care about how many copies of a program are downloaded in a day? In … Continue reading
June 27, 2008
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Generally speaking for consumer/SMB grade network equipment, I swear by Linksys hardware. I’ve been using he Linksys WRT54G family of access points since 2002 ever since Linksys open-sourced the firmware for many WRT54G models and they’ve never let me down. … Continue reading
June 18, 2008
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The Mozilla Foundation is celebrating the arrival of Firefox 3 with a worldwide party — and an attempt to set a new world record for the most downloads ever of a single software program. OK, so that’s silly and extremely … Continue reading