Opera's Slashdot Easter Egg and Speed Dial

Thelomen writes "Opera Browser contains an Easter egg that is not widely known, recently reported over at OperaWatch.com: type /. in the address bar and you are taken directly to slashdot.org. Other recent news from Opera is their new Speed Dial feature, present in the most recent build from Desktop Team. At first glance Speed Dial just looks like 9 bookmarks you can open with CTRL+1 to CTRL+9. However, the pages on the Speed Dial are shown in thumbnail and are automatically pre-fetched in background — a useful thing if you have some heavy pages among your top bookmarks."

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Opera runs without hardware DEP

[faramir_fr]

Do you guys still trust a browser that runs without hardware DEP? (buffer overrun protection)

A fully patched Windows XP SP2 box that runs the latest version of Opera will turn off DEP (Data Execution Prevention) for the Opera process. Leaving the door open to buffer overrun attacks. Not good at all.

The problem comes from the fact that the DEP OPTOUT mode should be called OPTOUT + BACKDOORS. There are currently 3 backdoors section strings that when found in the executable header disable the DEP for the process. These strings are .aspack (an executable packer used by Opera, IrfanView and XNView), .pcle (currently unknown) and .sforce (the VERY UNPOPULAR game/programs copy protection).

More about this on my blog. http://blog.fabriceroux.com/index.php?blog=1&title =hardware_dep_has_a_backdoor&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 http://preview.tinyurl.com/2cwcom