Archive for the ‘LINKS’ Category.
Amy Wohl: “Sun has never been a smart and persistent seller of software.”
Amy Wohl: “So far, Sun has never been a smart and persistent seller of software. Scott has, in fact, been their own worst enemy, telling me on many occasions that software exists for the purpose of selling hardware. Maybe he’s now changed his mind. That would be a good first step.” 
[Scripting News]
SnoSoft faces DMCA breach
VNUnet:
SnoSoft faces DMCA breach:
Citing breach of the DMCA and Computer Fraud Abuse Act as grounds for attack, HP is threatening to sue security researcher SnoSoft for publishing an exploit for a vulnerability in HP’s Tru64 Unix operating system.
Back to School, re Yale SSN fiasco
Back to School:
“Now let’s move on to the other criminally dumb figure in this fiasco. That Yale Web site was designed by a self-promoting Yale sophomore who brags that he has worked for Microsoft since he was 14. He’s the genius who decided that birth dates and Social Security numbers would make the perfect passwords because of their “personally identifiable nature,” according to the Yale Daily News, the student newspaper that broke the story late last month before it was picked up by The Washington Post and the wire services…. Outside audits of security still matter, too. Yale actually has an Information Security Office that investigates cases such as identity theft – but apparently no one talked to the office until after the site had been up for six months and had already been hacked. “
“It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one’s thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.”
Isabel Colegate. “It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one’s thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.” [Quotes of the Day]
William Safire explains “blog”
In the Sunday NY Times, William Safire explains “blog.”
Peek-a-Booty allows people in Beijing to surf the Web freely
Roland Piquepaille: “Peek-a-Booty allows people in Beijing to surf the Web freely.”
