Is it any surprise that Google has confirmed that they are indeed using DoubleClick tracking cookies to keep track of people’s web surfing habits and putting that information to use in refining their advertising?
Windows Vista has been ‘pwned’ big time. A couple of researchers attacked Vista by using the way that Internet Explorer handles active scripting and .NET objects which results in effectively bypassing the memory protection safeguards in Vista.
So, You’ve finally decided to bite the bullet and get an actual domain for that website or blog that you’ve been running on a subdomain since forever. The biggest problem you’ve got now is that all of a sudden those inbound links you’ve been working your arse off to get are going to stop working.
I got a comment on my recent post “Is Hushmail Safe?” where someone expressed the idea that a privacy service located in Canada wouldn’t be able to provide you with any real protection because of it’s proximity to the US and MLAT treaties between the two.
There’s been a fair amount of talk lately about Hushmail and whether it’s still “safe” to use. This has apparently originated with a post on cyptome that cast some doubt on the .jar file for the applet that they use. This was later corrected, apparently somebody compared the wrong files.
That’s the question that more and more people are asking after Comcast and then others have been caught interfering with customers net connections by sending false reset packets to both sides of a bittorrent transfer.
The birth and death of a really useful application in one day.
In spite of the fact that Google, Yahoo, Ask, Microsoft and a dozen or so others pretty much have the search engine market locked up there are still new sites popping up all the time. One of the youngest of these is “Cuil” {pronounced “Cool” }, in Internet terms it’s not even teenage yet.
That’s a question that has to be answered by anyone that’s planning to create a website. Yes, there’s a bunch of “free” hosting solutions out there and that’s fine if you’re just talking about a personal page you’re building about you’re pet robot collection. If on the other hand you’re talking about a website, forum, blog or whatever that needs to be reliable, fast and responsive then that’s another matter.
I was going through some ancient emails packed away in the virtual cardboard boxes hidden deep in the dusty recesses of my inbox and ran across this little gem. These aren’t all actually true, but they are funny.
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