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dinsdag, januari 28, 2003

Robert X. Cringley: This column is about U.S. patent 5,933,841 … a patent you will be hearing more about because nearly every modern web page appears to violate it, maybe even this one. I HATE when that happens!

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maandag, januari 20, 2003

Donald Rumsfeld: THE FACT THAT FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY (FOUO) AND OTHER SENSITIVE UNCLASSIFIED INFORMATION (E.G., CONOPS, OPLANS, SOP) CONTINUES TO BE FOUND ON PUBLIC WEB SITES INDICATES THAT TOO OFTEN DATA POSTED ARE INSUFFICIENTLY REVIEWED FOR SENSITIVITY AND/OR INADEQUATELY PROTECTED. OVER 1500 DISCREPANCIES WERE FOUND DURING THE PAST YEAR. THIS CONTINUING TREND MUST BE [...]

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woensdag, januari 15, 2003

Spamhouse: Where does spam come from? Who are the spammers? Spamhouse: Spammers have conducted a massive 5-month-long Dictionary Attack against the mail servers of Hotmail and MSN to grab the email addresses of millions of Hotmail and MSN users.

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maandag, januari 13, 2003

Sriram Rajan: “My thesis involves the implmentation and study of honeypots and related technologies.” Honeypots are computers configured to track the activities of the blackhat community.

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dinsdag, januari 7, 2003

Philip Jacob: Alternatives to Realtime Blackhole Lists (RBLs) should be actively deployed because of serious well-known problems with the RBL spam filtering technique. Wired: Few of the ominous potential traumas reported in 2002 turned out to have any real impact on most computer users. NYT: Law enforcement officials are finding a new source of evidence: [...]

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donderdag, januari 2, 2003

Wired: The Bush administration’s efforts in 2002 to poke into the private lives of American citizens prompt one privacy advocate to draw comparisons to Sauron, the all-seeing dark wizard in The Lord of the Rings. NYT: A few brave, or perhaps foolhardy, physicists are now saying that relativity might have limits and will someday have [...]

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