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Pop-quiz: What new service is missing in this review? Right, it is Spynote! Well, yeah, it was not featured at the Web 2.0 Summit but anyway how could anyone miss such a great service?! Have you? :)

One of my old proof-of-concepts has finally become alive. It was sketched about this time back in 2005, privately used since then until recently it went to public as Spynote. Spynote is a free web based secure notepad. Using it you can safely make confidential notes and these notes will be available for you from […]

Bruce Schneier wrote about the Windows Access Control paper and pointed out to the nice Felten’s commentary on it. The quote:
“There are two lessons here. First, complicated security mechanisms lead to mistakes, even among relatively sophisticated software developers and companies, so the desire to control privileges precisely must be tempered by the virtue of simplicity. […]

While looking at all this Sony DRM thing I’m wondering why someone, being in good mental health, would spend a bunch of efforts and resources to do an obviously stupid yet rather harsh thing while anyone may simply plug a CD player into the line-in and grab whatever super-puper-DRMed stuff anyway?

Sample x.c:#include <stdlib.h>#include <stdio.h>
int main (void){ char *s = “%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s”; printf(s, “boo”); return 0;}
Compile: cl /Wall /Wp64 /GS /RTC1 x.c
Run and it will crash. The question here: what was the point then?