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Microsoft guru: Stamp out HTTP:
Delivering the keynote at European DevWeek in London on Tuesday, Don Box, an architect for Microsoft’s .NET Developer Platform team, said HTTP presents a major challenge for Web services, for peer-to-peer applications and even for security. A replacement will eventually have to be found, he said, but it is not at all clear who will provide this replacement.
IPSec VPNs for Extranets: Not what you want to wake up next to
The VPN Paradox:
For the past several years, vendors have touted VPNs as the natural solution for leveraging the lower cost Internet medium to support intranets, remote access, e-commerce, and extranets. While VPNs have made significant progress in replacing dial and leased lines for RAS and intranet connections, they have fallen short when it comes to Extranets. In general VPNs are ill suited to building multi-company extranets [see Jim Slaby, Giga Information Group] or any situation that extends across organizational boundaries or where there is unbalanced trust between end points.
Business Week: Software That Asks “Who Goes There?” It’s enough to give any business a headache, let alone a health-insurance company. Tech-support staffers at insurer Wellpoint say they receive 14,000 calls every month from employees who have forgotten their computer-access passwords for the company’s Intranet site and need a manual reset. [Tomalak’s Realm]
SecurityFocus:
Snort Sniffs Out a Commercial Future
The creator of the popular open source intrusion detection system gets megabucks in venture capital for a Snort start-up.
VeriSign opens up Web services roadmap. CW360.com Feb 21 2002 12:30PM ET [Moreover – Computer security news]
Mass ICQ ‘hack’ baffles world+dog. Accounts sent to deathrow.com [The Register]
Blue Robot: CSS FOUC (Flash of Unstyled Content) “Just one LINK element or SCRIPT element inside a document’s HEAD element will prevent a flash of unstyled content.”
Meryl Evans: “The
CSS test files help you destruct a Web site, whether it be for finding leftover font tags or for seeing how a Web site has been constructed.”
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