Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
As seen in the comments of my previous posts and here, Sitemeter decided to respond. Two points:
1. Why wait for over a week before a response? Blogs are there for a reason - its gives companies ability to respond quickly.
2. Why not post about it on their own blog?
Setting that ...
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Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Tonight word comes from multiple blogs (here, here, here and here) that a popular free stats called SiteMeter made a deal with a third party marketing company called Specific Media to place tracking cookies on ALL sites that use SiteMeter. Sitemeter's privacy policy makes no mention of this fact. Needless ...
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
The latest entry into the ever growing Google Labs sandbox is the Google Web Accelerator - a tool that claims to speed up your browsing speed. Among the tricks used to do that are the following:
o Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.
o ...
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
USA Today is running a story about new guidelines on background checks from the Transportation Security Administration:
The federal government plans to begin collecting the full names and birth dates of air travelers this summer in its latest effort to screen passengers for possible links to terrorism. In a few weeks, ...
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
A news story and this post are talking about Microsoft's new technology for securing private data:
Microsoft in the coming months will roll out test versions of its latest operating system—code-named Longhorn—and its newest browser, which includes new approaches users can take to protect their identities online, safely swap data, and ...
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Saturday, March 5th, 2005
One would think that putting up genealogy information would be a good thing. However, while working on it I came across a rather interesting security risk - most genealogy programs will hide details for living individuals but will still keep their names open. This MAY be a security problem since ...
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Saturday, March 5th, 2005
I have been recently playing around with some geneology utilities for my website and came across an interesting problem. One of these programs, PHP GedView, requires a directory with full write access in order to work. Their documentation recommends that "for optimal security, you should move the "index" directory to ...
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2005
There has been quite some talk on the 'Net and in the media about whether giving permission to the government for the use of commercial database services will help with fighting terrorism. I recently ordered a report from one of these companies, Axciom and frankly the results that I got ...
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2004
Recently I had a weird problem while using Tomcat - sessions would get lost when using Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Since Tomcat stores the session id as JSESSIONID cookie, the session would get lost when the cookie is not stored. Same behavior occurs with other web servers including IIS and Resin.
After ...
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Friday, July 2nd, 2004
Another example of interesting spam arrived in my inbox today. The interesting part is that it was addressed to an email address at my domain that is only used in one place - WHOIS records. My registrar uses a CAPTCHA (reverse Turing test) during WHOIS lookups but they managed to ...
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