It is a general misconception that NSA involvement made Windows Vista more secure. NSA may certainly know stuff about cryptography but they are only humans. Thus, when it came to security, they suck like everybody else. Here is a cross-site script (XSS) vulnerability at the NSA web site for a sample:
http://www.nsa.gov/notices/notic00004.cfm?Address=”%20onmouseover=”alert(’boo’)
(go to ACCEPT link at […]
If you ever wanted to feel yourself like a computer virus then
go to http://www.google.com
type inurl:google -gogole
navigate to any result page after 11th and here we go
Seems that anything else instead of “google” will work the same way. Humans are not supposed to browse that far, ya know.
Edited, 03-03-07: Google fixed this bug.
In case you haven’t seen this yet: there are few documents available as exhibits in the Comes v. Microsoft case at http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/. These are inside letters and memos elaborates on Microsoft’s competitive practice. Although there is nothing new and you can hardly find anything you didn’t know already, it is still an interesting reading.
It took just couple months since Spynote was publicly announced and here we go – there are few fresh Web 2.0 startups modeled after it. Same idea, same accents, etc. Once again I’ve proved to myself that I’m damn good at creating things. After all nobody would steal be inspired of something lame and non-appealing. […]
It recently came to my attention that support at Nattyware flooded again with users report about some Trojans inside Pixie. Well, it is the same story as it were once because of PestPatrol made by morons. So here is what I, as the author of Pixie, would like to say:
- Pixie’s code was not changed […]
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