Security
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More on the Chronicle Colloqy
Both MacInTouch and Applelinks picked up my post about the Chronicle of Higher Education colloquy on dealing with worms and Trojan horses. You might want to take a look at the reader comments…
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Argghhhhh Mac OS X: Virus-Free
The Chronicle of Higher Education has, once a week or so, a “Colloquy,” or live discussions about a set topic. Readers submit questions in advance, which are answered by an “expert.” This week…
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Flash Woes
Bear with me while I engage in a controlled rant. One of the more trying aspects of shopping this past holiday season was that, for one reason or another, I had to do…
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Movabletype Spam Vulnerability
Six Apart has provided a fix for a potential Spam vulnerability in MovableType’s “Email this to a friend” feature. You can read about the fix, and download it, here. If you haven’t already…
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Information Wave Technologies Bans the RIAA
From a press release from host Information Wave Technologies, via Metafilter: Due to the nature of this matter and RIAA’s previous history, we feel the RIAA will abuse software vulerabilities in a client’s…
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SSL Certificate Security Flaw In Microsoft Internet Explorer
I first saw this in The Register, who attributes discovery of the flaw to Mike Benahm, but CNET has a clearer take: The IE problem has been around for at least five years…
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Earthlink Allows Tech Support to Access Users’ Passwords
As this Wired story reveals, Earthlink allows tech support representatives to see users’ passwords. This is just wrong, not to mention unprofessional, and begging for various nasty kinds of law suits, or worse.…
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Real Names
Much to my amusement, I discovered a faculty member who typically located items on the web by opening up Internet Explorer and typing in words or phrases she thought would be “reasonable.” Just…
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Why Unicode Won’t Work
The SlashDot article on Spoofing with Unicode linked to this provocative essay about the inherent flaws in Unicode, especially in terms of supporting Asian languages. There’s some good background info there as well.