software development, security, opinion
Archive for September 2001
Exiscan v2.01
Exiscan is an email virus scanner which works together with the Exim MTA
(http://www.exim.org). It is written in Perl and designed to be very easy
to implement. Exiscan supports multithreaded unpacking and scanning of mail,
with a configurable number of processes. Exiscan has generic support for
available command line virus scanners. Exiscan can scan inside of MS-TNEF
and SMIME (signed) wrapped messages. [Security Focus]
Chronicle of Higher Education: Libraries Criticize Federal Report on Digital-Copyright Law. Advocates for libraries are criticizing a U.S. Copyright Office report, released late Wednesday, that recommends against revising copyright law to assure that libraries and consumers can lend and archive software and other electronic material they purchase. [Tomalak’s Realm]
The SOAP Opera Progresses – Helping XML to Rule the World
-by Michael F. Reed
An important emerging standard in the web arena, known as SOAP (Simple
Object Access Protocol), originally developed by Microsoft, has achieved
a new milestone. Since IBM joined in support for the SOAP standard with
increased security, SOAP may replace DCOM, and possibly even CORBA
eventually. The W3C consortium has just released a new version, 1.2,
which will be widely accepted and adopted by vendors.
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