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Category Archives: Security and Privacy
Web accessibility, virus throttles and QC errors
The W3C site undergoes a redesign that is XHTML strict. The error rate in quantum computing could pose a barrier to its practicality. Joe Clark drops Web accessibility science on the clueless at Slash. Bright sparks over at HP invent … Continue reading
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Irony in easy to swallow pill form
I rarely post political stuff here but, I just saw the shield for the Information Awarenss Office. Holy Ned! Don’t these fools realize that this logo hands the conspiracy nuts a loaded gun? Let’s think about what was running through … Continue reading
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Wireless security, GUI cruft, Web accessibility and the law
A good primer on making your wireless LAN secure against wardriving. They’ve managed to make microsopic batteries powered by nuclear decay. The limitations of computer hardware in the past had forced the makers of graphical user interfaces to do things … Continue reading
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Junkbuster Update and the Human Clock
Privoxy is the geek’s tool (Read that as, “you have to have a vague understanding how HTTP and proxies work in order to use it.”) for combating popups and other forms of obnoxious Web advertising. It is a revision of … Continue reading
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CSS, nuclear materials tracking and the loose, wanton ways of Windows
For quick summation of some great CSS hacks, visit Real World Style. If you have NT 4, Windows 2000 or XP and you’ve looked at the service settings in MMC, you’ll find something called Windows Messenger service. Windows systems, including … Continue reading
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Links!
Web advertising just gets uglier and more in our face as time goes on. Good thing I got Internet Junkbuster to cut through all this junk. Take a look at the Small Times site, it’s a good source for nanotech, … Continue reading
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Privacy and Security
What follows is rather jumbled but in my mind it’s all related. You may have heard of the Realtime Blackhole List. Now there is a blacklist of mail servers with poor security. These mail servers are often used by the … Continue reading
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Who watches the watchmen?
A few years ago, a friend and I were talking about using the redundant bits in web images to store text messages. You could drop the image into binary/hex editor and see the message or something like that. We discussed … Continue reading
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Web Bugs
If you need a reason to install an ad and cookie blocker, to spoof your referrer information and to shut off all client side scripting except for trusted domains, web bugs are that reason.
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Hope This Doesn't Keep You Up at Nights–
The US spends over a billion dollars each year to assure that decommissioned Russian nuclear weapons don’t fall into the wrong hands. Recently, Russian scientists discovered several flaws in the database software that the US lends to Russia to track … Continue reading
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