January 19, 2002, 11:58 am
The IDL That Isn’t
“The web service model is a very good one. But it will only be adopted if interoperability is easy to achieve. The best way to do that is to move to the IDL-centric model used by the classic RPC technologies of the past. Ultimately, web service toolkits will have to support a development model that starts with WSDL and web service developers will have to embrace and use that language. To facilitate that, WSDL should be radically reworked by the W3C and ultimately simplified (preferably along the lines we described in last month’s column). Until then, WSDL will remain the IDL that isn’t.”
January 18, 2002, 10:29 am
Sun’s James Gosling on .NET: “You find stuff in it that has essentially loopholes for everything. They had this problem in their design rules that they had to support C and C++, which means you have to have a memory model where you can access everything at all times. It’s the existence of those loopholes that is the source of security, reliability and productivity problems for developers. So on the one hand, they copied Java, and on the other hand, they added gratuitous things and other things that are outright stupid. That’s amusing.” 
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January 15, 2002, 9:47 am
Chris Weber, SecurityFocus:
Using IPSec in Windows 2000 and XP
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January 14, 2002, 9:51 am
Opt-out links
for killing pop-up ads from eight major ad servers
(DoubleClick, Advertising.com, X10.com, FastClick.com, Interpolis, 24/7 Media, Avenue A, Blue Streak) — just one click per advertiser, and no questions to answer, puts a “do not disturb” cookie into your browser.
January 14, 2002, 8:36 am
Find the Cost of (Virus) Freedom. Nimda, Sir Cam, Code Red and friends caused more than 50,000 security incidents last year. But experts say the estimates of billions in clean-up costs are pure guesswork. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
January 10, 2002, 5:19 pm
New Shockwave Virus Uncovered. Cosmiverse.com Jan 10 2002 4:09PM ET [Tech latest]
January 7, 2002, 9:56 am
vnunet: Rare Linux virus on the loose
It has emerged in the last week that another of those rare Linux viruses may be on the loose. And this one has strong similarities to October’s Remote Shell Trojan (RST) that was largely dismissed by the Linux community.
In a posting to a security mailing list at the end of December, SecurityFocus brought ‘RST.b’ to the internet community’s attention.
January 7, 2002, 9:54 am
vnunet: Users lose confidence in AV software
“The problem is that most of the software available today is reactive and not proactive. They are signature based and are linked to a database. If a new virus comes along that it does not recognise it will get through,” he added.
January 7, 2002, 8:24 am
TechnologyEvaluation.com: OKENA Pioneers Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention: “Intrusion prevention has evolved as a smarter alternative to intrusion detection. Pioneer OKENA has mapped application behaviors into rules, and is using these behavior rules to prevent intrusions up front. This second-generation approach offers substantial bottom line savings, and frees up IT resources for other tasks.”
