CERT Recommends NonIE Browsing
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CERT recommends anything but IE
CERT recommends anything but IE
06/28/2004 06:54 AMSafer surfing
CERT Recommends XP SP2
CERT Recommends XP SP2
09/02/2004 08:42 AMCERT has issued a recommendation that Microsoft XP customers upgrade
to Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) using Automatic Update/Windows
Update. But at the same time, CERT advocates users first back up their
data and consult their PC maker's Web sites before proceeding with any
SP2 installation.
CERT Recommends Mozilla, Firefox
CERT Recommends Mozilla, Firefox
06/27/2004 01:05 PMCERT Recommends SP2 But Urges Caution
CERT Recommends SP2 But Urges Caution
09/02/2004 07:25 PMWhile the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team cites "significant
changes to improve the security of Windows XP," it also advises users
to back up data and consult with manufacturers on compatibility
issues.
CERT Recommends NOT Using Microsoft
Internet Explorer
CERT Recommends NOT Using Microsoft
Internet Explorer
06/27/2004 07:25 PMFree Internet Press Jun 27 2004 10:11PM GMT
Cert.?
Cert.?
08/19/2004 08:51 PMSo the question on Grokster-watchers' minds: Cert? (For non-lawyers:
will the Supreme Court hear this case?) My guess is yes, for 5
reasons, ranging from more to less legal: 1. These is a stated legal
conflict on the Sony standard as between the 7th and 9th Circuits; 2.
The 7th...
Do you really need a .NET cert?
Do you really need a .NET cert?
02/07/2003 01:31 AMCNET Feb 7 2003 1:24AM ET
US-CERT
US-CERT
01/28/2004 05:39 PMUS-CERThttp://www.us-cert.gov/US-CERT, a partnership between the Department of Homeland Security's
National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) and the private sector, has
been established to protect our Nation's Internet infrastructure. It
will do this through global coordination of defense against and
response to cyber incidents and attacks across the United States.
US-CERT's objectives are to aggregate available cyber security
information and provide it to individuals and organizations in a
timely and understandable manner.
US-CERT also provides a
mechanism that allows citizens, businesses, and other institutions to
communicate directly with the United States government regarding cyber
security information. US-CERT has created the
National
Cyber Alert System, which is America's first cohesive national
cyber security system for identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing
emerging vulnerabilities and threats. The system provides credible and
timely information on cyber security issues for both technical and
non-technical users.
CERT RSS
CERT RSS
04/17/2004 03:21 PMUS-CERT RSS Channels: The
U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team uses RSS.
US-CERT publishes a number of XML RSS 1.0 format files
containing headlines about recently published US-CERT documents,
including Technical Alerts, Alerts, Bulletins, and
Tips.
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US-CERT: Beware of IE
US-CERT: Beware of IE
06/29/2004 01:38 PMInternet News Jun 29 2004 4:58PM GMT
Do you really need a .NET cert to be a
success?
Do you really need a .NET cert to be a
success?
02/04/2003 02:27 AMCNET Feb 4 2003 1:24AM ET
Changes to CERT Advisories
Changes to CERT Advisories
01/28/2004 01:32 PMKFile-Cert 0.1
KFile-Cert 0.1
06/14/2004 08:28 AMA KFile (KDE) plugin for X.509 certificate files.
MS Recommends Firefox!
MS Recommends Firefox!
07/08/2004 05:39 AMMicrosoft’s own Slate news service recommends Firefox over
Internet Explorer. While this may seem like a mind blower, I think it
is great that they recognize this and I hope that they continue
showing this kind of brutal honesty in other Slate articles.
US-CERT Urges All To Install XP SP2
US-CERT Urges All To Install XP SP2
09/02/2004 09:41 PMTechWeb Sep 3 2004 2:21AM GMT
CERT: Sendmail Hacked
CERT: Sendmail Hacked
10/11/2002 07:56 AMInternet News Oct 10 2002 0:40AM ET
CERT: IE bug is bait for phishers
CERT: IE bug is bait for phishers
06/15/2004 09:51 AMCERT Warns of SIP Vulnerabilities
CERT Warns of SIP Vulnerabilities
02/21/2003 03:42 PMThe text-based signaling protocol contains numerous security bugs that
could lead to denial-of-service attacks.
CERT Warns of SSH Vulnerabilities
CERT Warns of SSH Vulnerabilities
12/17/2002 09:38 AMIn severe cases, CERT warned that remote attackers could execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the Secure Shell process.
CERT: Sendmail Hacked
CERT: Sendmail Hacked
10/09/2002 09:46 AMSome copies of the source code for Sendmail has been hacked by an
intruder and now contain a Trojan horse.
CERT Amends DNS Flaw Fix
CERT Amends DNS Flaw Fix
09/03/2002 11:37 AMThe advisory center has found that a previous fix for buffer overflow
exploits in DNS resolver libraries is not sufficient.
Web Browsing on Your PSP
Web Browsing on Your PSP
03/27/2005 10:46 AMSlate recommends Firefox
Slate recommends Firefox
07/01/2004 03:38 PMWow. Even Microsoft-owned Slate.com is recommending Firefox over
IE (via kottke.org)
.
CDC recommends new gonorrhea treatment
CDC recommends new gonorrhea treatment
04/26/2004 01:13 PMW3C recommends mobile Web standard
W3C recommends mobile Web standard
01/16/2004 11:02 AMZDNet Jan 16 2004 1:35AM GMT
FTC Recommends Bounty on Spammers
FTC Recommends Bounty on Spammers
09/16/2004 10:38 PMPC board recommends AKFED bid for HBL
PC board recommends AKFED bid for HBL
12/30/2003 11:09 PMDaily Times Dec 30 2003 9:40PM ET
W3C recommends Semantic Web specs
W3C recommends Semantic Web specs
02/10/2004 02:35 AMThe Web's leading standards group finalizes two drafts at the core of
its ambitious effort to let computers glean meaning from the documents
they help create, store and transfer.
Re: Hysterical first technical alert
from US-CERT
Re: Hysterical first technical alert
from US-CERT
02/10/2004 02:35 PMShawn McMahon (Feb 08 2004)
US-CERT: Critical Flaws in libpng
US-CERT: Critical Flaws in libpng
08/05/2004 10:21 AMMultiple vulnerabilities in the popular PNG reference library puts
users at risk of malicious hacker attacks.
CERT Warns of Internet Vulnerability
CERT Warns of Internet Vulnerability
04/21/2004 02:29 PMline56 Apr 21 2004 6:45PM GMT
CNCERT/CC And ISC Form CERT Community
CNCERT/CC And ISC Form CERT Community
03/28/2005 01:42 AMChinaTechNews.com Mar 28 2005 5:53AM GMT
IBM and SuSE win key Linux security cert
IBM and SuSE win key Linux security cert
01/22/2004 12:55 PMPersonal Computer World Jan 22 2004 5:43PM GMT
VeriSign dead cert causes net
instability
VeriSign dead cert causes net
instability
01/10/2004 12:28 AMNAV gets lost in translation
CERT Reports Flaws in Compaq GUI
CERT Reports Flaws in Compaq GUI
07/11/2002 12:06 PMTwo vulnerabilities in Common Desktop Environment could allow hackers
to pose a denial-of-service attack.
An Archaeology of Browsing...
An Archaeology of Browsing...
02/17/2004 10:30 PMSo here's a weird sensation. I'm trying to install a Photoshop
upgrade at two in the morning, because i'm jetlagged and can't
concentrate on work but can't sleep either so I'm procrastinating. And
in order to install said upgrade I'm going to have to restart my
browser. So I start the process of closing down windows and tabs and
adding them to a little bookmarks stash and I'm about forty-five tabs
down (and about half-way through the process) when I start finding
clumps of windows that I opened during presentations at ETCon. One
browser window is full tabs stuffed with ubicomp and networked objects
sites, another is full of robot-related material. As I grab the URLs
and stuff them in a folder for later, I start to realise how clearly I
remember navigating to each of the sites and how I'd determined to
keep them for later. Suddenly I'm back in the auditoria, next to Phil and Paul keeping notes and
listening for the hum of the infinity of extension cords that litter
the carpet around us.
If they'd all been hand-outs, I'd have them in my hands - little
grubby bits of paper stacked in piles here and there, clogging up bags
and boxes and bookcases. Every so often I'd glance inside them to find
one thing in particular and a wave of nostalgia and association would
fill my head. That is - at least - until I finally snapped and threw
them all away. Now until this point I'd always assumed that the web
was getting rid of interactions like that - that our relationships to
sites were transitory and fleeting - but now I'm not so sure. The act
of "saving" and the act of "having open" are gradually merging and I
can foresee a time when I haven't closed my browser in months rather
than weeks and in which I've managed to accumulate thousands of open
windows across a whole range of applications. The stuff near the
surface will be the stuff I've been working on recently, but I'll be
able to do an archaeology of my own browsing when I'm bored and filter
through the collected papers, throwing away the things that no longer
have any relevance to my life. Will we start wanting to transfer
documents in their open states between computers when we upgrade? Will
we expect a computer desktop to be as persistent and never-changing as
a wooden one? When someone famous dies, will the biographer go through
their enormous accumulated browser cache to find out what they were
interested in five or ten years ago?
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Tabbed Browsing
Tabbed Browsing
03/11/2003 09:44 AMI've seen a lot of comments in various Mac forums where people have
claimed that "Dave Hyatt said he doesn't like tabbed browsing!" or
"Dave Hyatt hates tabbed browsing!" I find these posts perplexing,
because I never said any such thing, and of course the opposite is
true. I love tabbed browsing. I implemented
tabbrowser in the Mozilla trunk. I implemented tabbed
browsing in Chimera. I implemented the version used in Phoenix.
Given how many times I've implemented it, I'm amazed that people would
think that I am not a tabbed browsing devotee.
That said, I wanted to express some of my thoughts about the
various UI decisions one has to make when designing a tabbed browsing
system.
Target Audience
I think the most important question you have to answer before
designing a multi-page system is "Who is my target audience?" In the
case of Phoenix the target audience is experts and power users. I do
not believe that tabs serve any useful purpose for novice users,
because novice users don't ever use multiple views of Web data. They
just browse from page to page.
The classic novice user Web setup is to have Windows IE maximized
with the sidebar open. That kind of user simply doesn't need tabs.
Tabs are total overkill for what that person wants to do with his/her
Web browser.
That is why I think ideas like this, although extremely pretty, seem to be targeting an audience that
IMO doesn't exist. A power user doesn't want thumbnails, since they
wouldn't be easily distinguishable anyway once you opened several
tabs, the overflow mechanism for such a system would be clumsy (or
would use too much space, scrollbar anyone?), and you lose too much
horizontal real estate. Sure, it's got a neat initial "whizzy" factor
to it, but it's simply not as usable or as scalable as the classic tab
strip model.
Bookmark Groups vs. Folder Options
This is something I've implemented three different ways in Phoenix,
Mozilla, and Chimera. In both Chimera and Mozilla the bookmark group
is a special entity that you have to make by taking a tab snapshot. I
now hate this idea. The implementation is to just have a tagged
special folder that when clicked loads all the bookmarks in tabs, a
sort of one-click clustered loading. This complicates bookmark
management and viewing, since you now have this third kind of entity
along with regular folders and bookmarks.
I much prefer the system we came up with for Phoenix, which is
borrowed somewhat from Opera. In this system, folder submenus pick up
an extra "Open in Tabs" menu item, and you can just load any folder's
children in tabs. No special new kind of bookmark group, and no
special means required for creating bookmark groups. You just work
with folders and can now load a single page of a group by drilling
into a folder, or load all the pages in a group.
With the Chimera way, you'd end up having a Blogs group,
and then you'd also have to bookmark individual blogs for when you
didn't want to load the group. You had needless replication that is
avoided by just making the operation available on folders instead.
Replace vs. Append?
When doing clustered loading, we took two approaches. One can be
seen in Mozilla, and I personally hate it. The other can be seen in
Phoenix and is my favorite choice. Mozilla actually appends the tabs
loaded by a bookmark group to the end of the tabbed list. This means
that if you click first on a News group and load tabs 1-5 and
then click on a Blogs group, you'll end up with new tabs
6-10.
In Phoenix, you replace instead, so the News tabs go away and are
replaced by tabs 6-10. The argument for append is basically that you
end up with potential data loss in that you may lose access to the
previous tabs by closing up some of the ones you replaced, e.g., if
the second group has fewer tabs than the first. This is of course a
solvable problem, though, and doesn't justify changing the default
behavior to append.
Position of Tabs inside the Tab Strip
Chimera centers tabs within the tab strip. Everyone else puts them
on the left. The only reason Chimera does this is because I couldn't
figure out how to use the normal tab widget to make the tabs be
left-aligned. Center-alignment for a dynamic tab system is of course
awful, since for every tab you open, all of the tabs move.
It's much better to avoid moving all of the tabs around when a
single new tab opens, and left-aligning the tabs inside the tab strip
makes for a much less jarring experience.
Where do new tabs open?
A highly debated issue with tabs is "Where should new tabs open?"
NetCaptor and the old Chimera (in early versions) use the following
model. If you click to open a link in a new tab, then the new page
will open just to the right of the current tab. Links will
continue to open to the right if you keep opening them, so you may
have a setup like this:
1 2 3 4
where 2 is the active tab, and you then open three more links from
2 and end up with:
1 2 7 6 5 3 4
The advantage of this approach is that similar pages stay together.
The disadvantage is that the opening of new tabs is more jarring,
since you do an insertion in many cases rather than an append.
A disadvantage is that you have to read the pages from right to
left in order to preserve the original order. Because of this, when
you *close* tabs, this model dictates that you move to the
left.
You do have the advantage that when you finish with the child
links, you conveniently end up back at the original document as you
close up tabs.
The second model, and the one I favor (used in Phoenix, Chimera,
and Mozilla now) is to always open new tabs on the far right.
Usability testing at AOL showed that this was far and away what users
expected to happen, and it lends a smoothness to the tab opening
process, since you never move any other tabs.
You also get to read links from left to right instead of right to
left, e.g., the previous example would result in:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
In this model, in order to be able to browse the links you open
effectively, when tabs are closed you need to move to the
right. Note that when you finish with child links, you don't
end up back at the previous page in this case, but in the common case,
you do. Note that by far the common case is to simply have:
1
and that you'll open a few links, end up with:
1 2 3 4
and still end up back at 1 once you close up. The ability to
easily read left to right, and to not shuffle the tabs around on the
tab strip when you open new links more than makes up for the edge case
where you may not end up back at the parent tab.
Close Boxes
I actually prefer Galeon's behavior here. Phoenix and Mozilla
offer close boxes for the tab strip, but this UI frankly stinks,
because the user expectation is that clicking on the X will actually
close up the entire tab strip. In effect, the X should map to the
"Close Other Tabs" command, but instead it maps to "Close Selected
Tab." This is utterly confusing, and at least Chimera avoids the
problem by not having a close box at all.
The right way IMO to do this is to have a close box for closing up
the tab strip itself in the same place Phoenix and Mozilla have it,
but to also have close boxes on the tabs themselves (the way Galeon
does it). With this model, it's clear what the different close
metaphors are, and you don't end up with user (even power user)
confusion.
Background vs. Foreground
Despite the inconsistency with opening links in new windows, I
strongly support the default in Phoenix, which is to open links in new
tabs in the background by default. This option should be overridable
with a modifier key (SHIFT in Phoenix) and also the default should be
controllable via a pref. Phoenix, Moz and Chimera all have the same
pref and modifier key, but only Phoenix defaults to background loading
by default.
It's really interesting just how many different choices have been
made by tabbed browsing implementers. Pick the browser that
implements the system you like best I guess. :)
The pleasures of browsing
The pleasures of browsing
07/19/2004 09:53 AM I don't know Debbie Davidson, but I went to her LiveJournal blog
because she dropped me a line about something I'd written. Thumbing
through the entries, you not only get dropped into the stream of her
life, but you find stories like this one about how 9/11 intersected
the lives of several of her friends. We just haven't had anything
quite like this before....
Browsing the Web? Not Anymore
Browsing the Web? Not Anymore
07/09/2004 04:50 PMI can't remember the last time I actually browsed the Web. You know,
just sort of aimlessly following links in the hopes of encountering
something unique or interesting. (I'm also glad that idea of calling
it "surfing" seems to have become less popular.) Between the few sites
I visit daily to get things done, links that come in via e-mail, and
the various weblogs and news feeds I guess I'm spending enough time in
my browser already. It's a far...
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