Jaded Users Roll Their Eyes at IE's Latest Security Debacle

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Refreshing them jaded eyes: Dan Sugaski
writes a parrot compiler

Refreshing them jaded eyes: Dan Sugaski
writes a parrot compiler 04/15/2004 11:37 PM
Yesterday i talked about being jaded. Here's what I find fascinating:

Neither rewriting [DecisionPlus] nor ditching it for someone else's software was an appealing option, especially given that the reason to do so was essentially an internal issue and mostly invisible to the users. We decided instead to do the sensible thing—we rewrote DecisionPlus. Or, rather, we wrote a compiler that understood DecisionPlus and, rather than targeting the DecisionPlus virtual machine and runtime that was causing us problems, we targeted a newer and less restrictive system.

That may sound mad, but it really was the simplest thing to do, by far.

However what i found interesting was not the nuts-and-bolts of implementing a compiler (jaded look again). It's the project management side of it: why the decision was made, how long it took, etc. The details on writing a compiler can be found in any text book. What's hard to estimate is how long it will take, and when you can justify the project.

PS: People are also wr iting compilers that emit PHP code.

Site slams IE's security

Site slams IE's security 08/27/2004 02:07 PM

Data Security Debacle

Data Security Debacle 06/02/2004 10:06 AM

"OH oh, I smell...RECORDGATE!!!!! (Roll
the eyes.)"

"OH oh, I smell...RECORDGATE!!!!! (Roll
the eyes.)" 07/09/2004 08:21 AM

Five lose jobs over nuke lab security
debacle

Five lose jobs over nuke lab security
debacle 09/16/2004 07:07 PM
Land of the Redundant

Firms roll out latest notebooks to meet
business demand

Firms roll out latest notebooks to meet
business demand 06/16/2004 07:01 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 16 2004 11:11AM GMT

Ask Jeeves eyes home users

Ask Jeeves eyes home users 11/14/2003 10:54 PM

Specifix eyes new version of Linux for
corporate users

Specifix eyes new version of Linux for
corporate users 07/14/2004 05:05 PM
Two former Red Hat Linux software engineers are creating a new version of Linux for corporate users that they say will allow custom code modifications to be made while maintaining full support for the rest of the OS.

Mac Users having trouble with latest
update

Mac Users having trouble with latest
update 05/29/2004 09:37 AM

Seems some Mac users are reporting problems with the latest update in that applications are not launching and some server issues. [eWeek]

Mac Users Report Trying Times with
Latest Update

Mac Users Report Trying Times with
Latest Update 05/28/2004 08:02 PM
Reports of installation problems continued to surface online following Apple's Wednesday release of the Mac OS X 10.3.4 Update.

Sasser worm latest threat to computer
users

Sasser worm latest threat to computer
users 05/04/2004 05:11 AM
Net 4 Nowt May 4 2004 8:48AM GMT

Microsoft urging users to update with
latest fixes

Microsoft urging users to update with
latest fixes 08/09/2004 10:00 AM
Service Pack 2, released Friday, is triage for Microsoft's Windows XP, a long-awaited remedy for a lot of the operating system's security flaws and holes. Michael Cherry has been updating his computer regularly during the past few years, getting many of the fixes that are part of Service Pack 2. As lead analyst for Directions on Microsoft, a Kirkland, Wash.-based company that analyzes Microsoft's strategies and products for businesses, Cherry needs to stay on top of things.

PayPal users targeted by latest Mimail
mutant

PayPal users targeted by latest Mimail
mutant 11/18/2003 11:20 PM
CNET Asia Nov 18 2003 10:21PM ET

I?m jaded: supersize my brain

I?m jaded: supersize my brain 06/30/2004 01:04 AM
I’ve finally managed to watch the documentary Supersize Me, and I’ve just realized something really important: I’m jaded. Throughout the documentary, I kept thinking just how silly the point it was making is. Eating MacDonald’s for a month will damage your health. Great. Now go eat a fifty-dollar steak, fries ...

Rapidata switches to biometric security
in Bacs roll-out

Rapidata switches to biometric security
in Bacs roll-out 03/23/2005 10:02 AM
Computer Business Review Mar 23 2005 2:02PM GMT

A Queen Arrives in New York, and Even in
the Jaded Big City, Jaws Drop

A Queen Arrives in New York, and Even in
the Jaded Big City, Jaws Drop 04/22/2004 10:45 PM
The world's longest ocean liner sailed under one of the world's longest suspension bridges and beside one of the world's most famous statues on Thursday morning.

Liberty Eyes Digital TV Security

Liberty Eyes Digital TV Security 04/14/2004 03:56 PM
The digital identity service group works with the digital video recorder group to protect user privacy.

Microsoft Eyes Homeland Security Role

Microsoft Eyes Homeland Security Role 01/22/2004 03:32 PM
Microsoft says it is well-positioned to aid the U.S. homeland security initiative.

Buckingham Palace Eyes Improving
Security (AP)

Buckingham Palace Eyes Improving
Security (AP) 09/14/2004 11:00 AM
AP - Alarms and cameras at Buckingham Palace worked well in detecting the breach of security by a man dressed in a Batman costume, but it was still too easy for him to get onto a balcony, a minister said Tuesday after the latest intrusion embarrassed officials guarding the royal residence.

Getting Around IE's PNG Issues

Getting Around IE's PNG Issues 07/22/2004 01:26 PM

PNG is an awesome image format, primarily useful for its ability to support 8-bit transparency (that is, an alpha channel where there's a continuum from opaque to transparent, instead of the simple on/off transparency of GIF). So what's been holding you back from using it? IE for Windows, mostly, which is the only browser left that doesn't support the PNG alpha channel properly.

When IE 5.5 rolled around, IE gained some ability with PNG's in the form of the AlphaImageLoader filter. In the past, I've gotten around the IE problem by using this filter, but you really have to kludge up your HTML to implement it.

Bob Osola has a solution that's downright diabolical.

The code can be used either by a one-time copy-and-paste or as an include file. The entire thing is completely ignored by all other browsers - in fact it is treated as an HTML comment - thanks to IE's conditional comments. This solution is therefore light, portable and non-invasive to other browsers.

I wish there wasn't a need for a hack like this, but it appears that MS has stopped further development of IE. So the choice as of June 2004 is: ignore PNGs or use hacks.

He hides the script block in a c onditional comment, one of the few helpful features of IE (although I only use it to fix problems with IE, I guess 'helpful' is a bit too generous).

The script spools through all the images on the page, finds all the ones whose source ends in '.png', and changes them to spans that have the image as the background, filtered through AlphaImageLoader. So you don't need to add any special code to your PNG IMG tags in order to use it.

It should work on all non-IE browsers (since it does nothing), and all versions of IE older than 5.5. That maps to enough of the browser market to suit my tastes. The site also lists a couple of alternative ways around the problem. Well done.

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A Firefox in IE's Henhouse

A Firefox in IE's Henhouse 09/17/2004 10:19 AM
Business Week Sep 17 2004 2:16PM GMT

"Multiple IE's in Windows"

"Multiple IE's in Windows" 11/10/2003 11:14 PM

timeline of the latest security bug

timeline of the latest security bug 07/10/2004 07:34 PM
sacarny’s own work .. in about 24 hours .. timeline

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IE's Tabbed Browsing Embarrassment

IE's Tabbed Browsing Embarrassment 06/17/2005 04:33 PM
Asa is smacking someone on the IE team pretty hard today: It's obviously a hack that's actually based on new windows for each tab. I can crash it at will. It's so flickery as to be completely unusable. It's filled with serious dataloss bugs. It's just crap, plain and simple. Anyone that makes any excuse for this embarrassment, please trackback me because I'm very interested in hearing how anyone can defend it. Yikes. At least there's a semi-amusing trail of...

Clearing IE's typed URL list

Clearing IE's typed URL list 07/11/2004 08:38 PM

IE7, a clever workaround of IE's CSS
bugs

IE7, a clever workaround of IE's CSS
bugs 03/08/2004 11:17 PM
the name's bad, but the idea of wrapping up all these fixes in a behavior is extremely clever

Latest Affordable SMB Security Offerings

Latest Affordable SMB Security Offerings 03/31/2005 11:44 AM
WiTopia joins several other companies in offering affordable WPA Enterprise service, personal VPN: The company announced two products to help small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) and mobile workers. SecureMyWiFi, is an outsourced 802.1X offering using WPA Enterprise offering that provides the RADIUS and keying back-end needed to have unique keys for each user on a network based on their credentials (username and password). The rates start at $29 per year for a single access point and up to five users; additional APs are $10 per year each, while additional blocks of five users are $5 per year each. The system uses standard 802.1X clients. SecureMyWiFi competes against similar offerings from Wireless Security Corporation (WSC Guard) and BoxedWireless. In a comparison chart I put together as part of an article for Mobile Pipeline, I noted that a 10-user setup from WSC cost $449.99 for the first year while BoxedWireless would run $288 for those parameters. In contract, 10 users from SecureMyWiFi on a single AP would cost $34 for the first year, while even assuming three access points would only cost $54 per year. Move up to 25 users and WSC Guard $1,124.75, BoxedWireless $1,212, and SecureMyFi (assuming four APs for coverage) would be $74 per year. Their personalVPN offering provides an SSL-based VPN service for $79 per year which works out to $6.58 per month. This competes primarily, in my knowledge, against HotSpotVPN.com, which costs $8.88 per month for a PPTP VPN. WiTopia's explanation that PPTP "is susceptible to hacking" is a bad summary of the issue. PPTP encryption can be cracked through poor password choice. HotSpotVPN, like all PPTP VPN service providers, enforces good password choice which fully defeats the cracking hole. personalVPN is available only for Windows XP, but WiTopia promises a Mac OS X version. Normally, in seeing price discrepancies this huge, my reaction would be, "Who are these crazy people and what are they trying to pull here?" But then I look at the management biographies, find the parent company Full Mesh Networks has been around for two years, and realize these guys aren't smoking pot, they're dealing it as a gateway drug. Psychopharmacopia references aside, Full Mesh is a full-service network IT and mobile worker support outsourcing firm that manages enterprise-scale resources. WiTopia lets them work with the very large, very undersupported SMB market--and provides those smaller customers with a taste of the larger picture....

iPods are the latest security risk

iPods are the latest security risk 07/07/2004 09:17 AM
Thumbs down from Gartner

HP tests latest security tool

HP tests latest security tool 08/19/2004 05:33 AM
Computer Weekly Aug 19 2004 10:07AM GMT

Latest Red Hat clears security hurdle

Latest Red Hat clears security hurdle 05/02/2004 12:14 AM

Despite Latest Patches, Firefox Still
Beats IE On Security

Despite Latest Patches, Firefox Still
Beats IE On Security 03/27/2005 12:35 PM
Information Week Mar 27 2005 3:43PM GMT

Microsoft release latest security update

Microsoft release latest security update 05/13/2004 02:13 AM
Microsoft has released the May security patch updates everyone should run Windows Update as soon as possible. [Microsoft]...

Latest SP2 Flaw Bypasses IE Security
Zone

Latest SP2 Flaw Bypasses IE Security
Zone 08/21/2004 01:15 PM
A researcher is able to execute scripting in Internet Explorer's local computer zone, contrary to Service Pack 2 restrictions.

Microsoft spearheads latest security
partnership

Microsoft spearheads latest security
partnership 07/13/2004 07:03 PM
Software, security, and networking vendors are banding together to provide more comprehensive network protection.

Latest Mozilla releases fix 10 security
flaws

Latest Mozilla releases fix 10 security
flaws 09/15/2004 05:45 PM
At least three critical vulnerabilities are among those fixed by the most recent versions of Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird.

Roll-up, Roll-up; Get Your Google IPO
Bidder ID

Roll-up, Roll-up; Get Your Google IPO
Bidder ID 08/02/2004 03:15 AM
Search Engine Lowdown Aug 2 2004 7:14AM GMT

Internet users statistics 2003: the
latest from National Statistics

Internet users statistics 2003: the
latest from National Statistics 02/18/2004 03:47 AM
PublicTechnology.net Feb 18 2004 8:02AM GMT

BW Online | September 17, 2004 | A
Firefox in IE's Henhouse

BW Online | September 17, 2004 | A
Firefox in IE's Henhouse 09/17/2004 10:10 AM
BusinessWeek online reports .. very noticeably eroding .. Business Week .. businessweek

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Apple security update addresses latest
issues

Apple security update addresses latest
issues 06/07/2004 04:06 PM
Apple on Monday issued a security update for Mac OS X addressing a number of issues found in the operating system. Secutiry Update 2004-06-07 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users, according to Apple. The update includes the following components: DiskImages; LaunchServices; Safari; and Terminal
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