CSS FOUC (Flash of Unstyled Content)
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.”
CSS test files
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.”
.NET morphing over time
CNET: .NET morphing over time ‘As Microsoft prepares to launch the first trials of .Net My Services this fall, key details of the plan are still “not figured out,” said Jim Allchin, Microsoft’s group vice president in charge of Windows and server software development. “I think we just got ahead of ourselves and didn’t get clear enough thinking,” he said, echoing similar concerns
voiced last August.’
Ephraim Schwartz details the man-in-the-middle attack that’s possible in the current iteration of 802.1x authentication
Ephraim Schwartz details the man-in-the-middle attack that’s possible in the current iteration of 802.1x authentication: because of the way in which 802.1x pieces elements of security together, a man-in-the-middle attack is possible in which a hacker poses as an access point to a client and a client to an access point. William Arbaugh and his graduate student Arunesh Mishra at the University of Maryland have made their report available in PDF form. (If you don’t have PDF, use Adobe’s online PDF-to-HTML converter.)
Apache XML Security 1.0.0 released
Apache XML Security 1.0.0 released. The Apache XML Project have released the first stable version of their XML Security project, implementing Canonical XML and XML Signature. [xmlhack]
Schneier worried about SOAP security
Schneier worried about SOAP security. Bruce Schneier has written,
in the latest issue of CRYPTO-GRAM,
an analysis of the security of Microsoft’s products, touching on .NET and SOAP. [xmlhack]
FCC Approves Initial Ultrawideband (UWB) Standards
The FCC
Approves Initial Ultrawideband (UWB) Standards: UWB is a very, very clever idea. Instead of using swaths of spectrum at low or high power,even rotating frequencies and jumping, you use incredibly short-duration high-power pulses across broad swaths of bandwidth that a similarly synchronized device interprets. You can use existing spectrum without (proponents hope testing will bear out) interference because existing devices rely on, would be affect or damaged by, or listen to a different pattern. By the time a pulse would pass, existing equipment wouldn’t even tick over. Because of the broad amount of spectrum that could be reused, even many times in the same physical area, UWB might ultimately replace a number of existing technologies across a broad swath of consumer, scientific, medical, and military purposes. Here’s a highly technical article on it from EE Times.
Network security in 2002
Gartner: Network security in 2002. ZDNet Feb 11 2002 11:21AM ET [Moreover – Computer security news]
Snoop Software Shreds Reality
Snoop Software Shreds Reality. Wired News Feb 11 2002 6:39AM ET
David Gelertner, the world-renowned computer scientist, Yale professor, author and art critic — says he has a prescription for companies to avoid Enron-Arthur Andersen-type scandals: better management of corporate e-mails, Web pages, calendar items and other electronic documents.
…
Gelertner has more than a passing interest in pushing a solution for corporate ills that center around “knowledge management,” as it’s known in IT circles. He’s the chief scientist for a startup,
Mirror Worlds Technologies, which makes such a system. Xerox, Autonomy and Lotus are some of the company’s knowledge management competitors.
[via Moreover – Tech latest]
