One additional thing the article doesn't mention - Open Secure Wireless was originally an idea proposed by Christopher Byrd, who is helping to demonstrate the technology along with IBM at Black Hat. More information about the proposal including additional details is available at http://riosec.com/open-secure-wireless
Actually, since the bug only affects the first 2048 bytes of content, and only when using the IE back button, one solution I have heard suggested before is to prepend the content with 2048 spaces.
This might sound counter-intuitive, but 2k spaces compresses *very* well (about 14 bytes according to a quick test).
Of course, it's always a shame to have to put in a hack like this to get around IE's "features" (after being in as many versions as this has, its hard to think of it as just a bug anymore) in the first place...
You never did have to buy a wireless router. There are several Linux distributions that integrate firewall and wireless gateways. IMHO this seems like just a repackaged solution. Take a look at:
Actually, even when using the keyboard there is still information that can be gathered. For instance, the web page could also track where you are with combinations of onKeyPress events. Turning of javascript can also not be an option, as a web site could easily mandate the use of javascript to view the site. Without finer grained preferences for javascript, it can be all or nothing on web sites that use this.
And I thought I was the only one who had played this! It was called Robot Odyssey, I believe, for teaching logic and the basics of electronic components. I actually called them (The Learning Company) to see if I could get a copy. The people that I talked to hadn't even heard of it, and said that there were "no plans" to re-release a game by that name. Currently, the only way that I have found to play it is via Commodore emulator... If anyone has found a way to get a PC version of this, I would also love to hear about it.
Except in some extremely simplified cases, If two painters are asked to create a portrait of a single scene, the two paintings will not be identical. They may be similar, but variations will exist.
Except in some extremely simplified cases, when asking two programmers to create a program from the same requirements, the two programs will not be identical. The programs may even follow the same logic, but at least the variable names used, exact functions used, etc will vary.
Can anyone think of an area of expression where more than one person would create the exact same results (without seeing the results of another work?) On the other hand, things that are not expressive are duplicatable (follow a logical process). This seems to be a good argument that programming should be considered in the same vein as art or literature, and is expressive.
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One additional thing the article doesn't mention - Open Secure Wireless was originally an idea proposed by Christopher Byrd, who is helping to demonstrate the technology along with IBM at Black Hat. More information about the proposal including additional details is available at http://riosec.com/open-secure-wireless
Actually, since the bug only affects the first 2048 bytes of content, and only when using the IE back button, one solution I have heard suggested before is to prepend the content with 2048 spaces.
This might sound counter-intuitive, but 2k spaces compresses *very* well (about 14 bytes according to a quick test).
Of course, it's always a shame to have to put in a hack like this to get around IE's "features" (after being in as many versions as this has, its hard to think of it as just a bug anymore) in the first place...
Actually, even when using the keyboard there is still information that can be gathered. For instance, the web page could also track where you are with combinations of onKeyPress events. Turning of javascript can also not be an option, as a web site could easily mandate the use of javascript to view the site. Without finer grained preferences for javascript, it can be all or nothing on web sites that use this.
And I thought I was the only one who had played this! It was called Robot Odyssey, I believe, for teaching logic and the basics of electronic components. I actually called them (The Learning Company) to see if I could get a copy. The people that I talked to hadn't even heard of it, and said that there were "no plans" to re-release a game by that name. Currently, the only way that I have found to play it is via Commodore emulator... If anyone has found a way to get a PC version of this, I would also love to hear about it.
Except in some extremely simplified cases, when asking two programmers to create a program from the same requirements, the two programs will not be identical. The programs may even follow the same logic, but at least the variable names used, exact functions used, etc will vary.
Can anyone think of an area of expression where more than one person would create the exact same results (without seeing the results of another work?) On the other hand, things that are not expressive are duplicatable (follow a logical process). This seems to be a good argument that programming should be considered in the same vein as art or literature, and is expressive.