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Archive for December, 2003
New IE vulnerability – fake URLs
In: Browsers
10 Dec 2003IE has a new security flaw which will be a major boon to spammers and frauds. This flaw allows spoofing of URLs via the http://user@domain nomenclature. For example, a fraudulent spammer could well direct victims to http://wwww.paypal.com&sessionid%123123123&@blog.codefront.net, but have it show up as http://www.paypal.com&sessionid%123456789 (of course, the fraudulent webpage has to be convincing enough to [...]
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Easy charity with Buck-a-Hit
In: Blogging
10 Dec 2003Jack Bog and his wife are giving USD1 for each hit they receive today (Wednesday, December 10, 2003) from 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. PST (GMT-0800) to charity. Want to feel charitable without any hard commitments? Visit his blog once or twice today Or 24 times. Quoting Jack: If you go away and come back [...]
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Using a web browser with a phone dial
In: Fun
9 Dec 2003Seems David Lu does some interesting work, like this Phone Dial Web Browser for instance. Ouch! Rotary dial? IP address only? Meh! This electronic etch-a-sketch simply named Etch is another (apparently) frivolous project. On the other hand, 3D XML Viewer (requires Flash Player) is an amazing 3D, graph-based visual representation of XML documents. Reminds me [...]
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Just Say No to Microsoft
In: Fun
9 Dec 2003Just Say No to Microsoft Not pretty, a little biased. But great alternatives are listed.
A good Mozilla Firebird nightly build
In: Mozilla
9 Dec 2003Finally a Mozilla Firebird nightly (2003-12-07) with most severe regressions fixed (severity as determined by Jesse Ruderman). Builds since 2003-11-21 do not work with Tabbrowser Extensions (the fault is with TBE, not Firebird), so I’d given up on nightlies since. But this major regression-free build had me coming back and searching for a fix to [...]
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