...I have some online financial sites that recognize Netscape and IE, but refuse to work with Mozilla......there's still some web sites I know that say they support Netscape and not Firefox... [from another thread]
WHAT SITES?
One way to get them to change is to have more people complain about them. When we don't say who they are, this can't happen! Come on now, please think.
you know things are bad for MSIE when even Slate/MSN is piling on
in the article, Paul Boutin writes that "...the higher [security] setting disables parts of Slate's interface..."
unfortunately, he can't resist falling back on the the argument that IE is more likely to be attacked because it is more widely used -- maybe the only way he could get it published
shampoo for my real friends, and real poo for my sham friends
that's not true, according to the ISC handler's log -- the malcode can be appended to an image, but it cannot be executed -- it must be appended to an html file in order to be executed
the ISC handler log mentioned that all known infected sites had been taken offline. Thus, publishing the sites would have no direct postive impact on surfing safety.
That said, I still want to know. If it's my bank, I want to bank elsewhere.
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Thank you for the well-written, insightful post. Any time we can think about these issues from such a different perspective, we all benefit. I do have 2 comments:
1. Virus writers have used social engineering extensively (ILoveYou, etc.) to get users to open attachments.
2. How do we know that we haven't seen feints and diversions? I see no reason to assume that sufficiently subtle attacks aren't already taking place. "The practical implications of this are staggering; with minimal skill, a malevolent individual could break into thousands of machines and use them for almost any purpose with little evidence of the perpetrator left on most of the compromised hosts."
We use Lotus Notes here, and I do use the preview pane. Yet, only Outlook/OE seem to be targets of these viruses. Or are there less publicized issues involving Notes as well??
Am I to understand that only computers with a particular firewall installed are vulnerable? Is the virus written to ignore boxes without BlackICE? That sounds mighty vindictive, and makes me think they probably have a [bad] relationship with the person responsible, even if they don't know who [yet].
How am I to reconcile this with advice seen here that all Windows users should have a firewall installed (ICF, ZoneAlarm, or what have you)?
If my firewall makes me *more* vulnerable than some shmo without a firewall, that is a HUGE problem for the firewall industry.
And before anyone starts ranting about thousands of armies full of pacemaker brain-people... cut me a break. (although it would probably make a pretty cool book) There's too many things that are not directly related to science for that to happen.
I don't know. Hackers and spammers could team up again, unleashing wave after wave of door-to-door herbal viagra salesmen.
People like Harlan not only want people to not share ebooks, but he doesn't want them to share real physical books either. They don't like libraries, they don't like used book stores. They don't like auctions for used books. They don't even want you to give a copy of a book to a friend when you're done reading it. They want every person who ever reads their work to have to pay for it all over again.
Nice unattributed rant. It doesn't matter what Ellison (and "people like [him]" whatever that means) does or doesn't like or want. It matters what is legal. Go to a library. Wait for it to come out on paperback. Borrow it from a friend. If it's worth the money, buy it. If it's not worth the money, don't buy it. It's a choice.
Apart from the receipt, this is a great idea. Why haven't we heard about any OSS e-voting initiatives. 99% of the concerns I have heard about e-voting are addressed by OSS (but maybe that's just because it's/.).
Great post. In the spirit of "deadlock or consensus", though, wouldn't it make more sense to hold the presidential election separately from House + 1/3 of Senate? I think a lot of people still share the founding fathers' mistrust of the same party controlling both branches. If we elected a president of Party X in 2004, then I think the odds would be a lot better of having a legislature controlled by Party Y if we held that election in 2005 instead.
Now that we've determined I'm not some snooty grammar nazi, "Some what" should have been one word, and "lead" should have been "led". Anyway.
It will be interesting to see how Kerry and Bush measure up against each other in debates, etc. Hopefully, it will give us all a chance to compare them on a more apples-to-apples basis.
I'll vote for the better strategy against terror. Bush has done well so far. Kerry has to prove he has a better policy.
I actually agree w/ the first part, but not the second. Not sure how you're measuring Bush's strategy. I don't consider curtailment of domestic freedoms to be doing well against terror. It's late.
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> Plus the 4 appended to the www
> part of the url makes it seem that it could
> possibly be a false url.
PeopleSoft Customer Connection did (does?) appears as www4.peoplesoft.com
...I have some online financial sites that recognize Netscape and IE, but refuse to work with Mozilla... ...there's still some web sites I know that say they support Netscape and not Firefox... [from another thread]
WHAT SITES?
One way to get them to change is to have more people complain about them. When we don't say who they are, this can't happen! Come on now, please think.
1. his rights ON (and over) the double yellow LINE
2. he was watching a downloaded episode of SG-1 from a recently-busted "fan forum site"
"Currently there are a great number of sites that only work with IE and some businesses rely on those sites."
The rest of your post "For example..." got cut off. Seriously, everyone says that and almost no one provides specific examples.
Thanks.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2103152/
you know things are bad for MSIE when even Slate/MSN is piling on
in the article, Paul Boutin writes that "...the higher [security] setting disables parts of Slate's interface..."
unfortunately, he can't resist falling back on the the argument that IE is more likely to be attacked because it is more widely used -- maybe the only way he could get it published
shampoo for my real friends, and real poo for my sham friends
that's not true, according to the ISC handler's log -- the malcode can be appended to an image, but it cannot be executed -- it must be appended to an html file in order to be executed
the ISC handler log mentioned that all known infected sites had been taken offline. Thus, publishing the sites would have no direct postive impact on surfing safety.
That said, I still want to know. If it's my bank, I want to bank elsewhere.
Visitors to our site may have experienced intermittent problems today because we got Slashdotted. These connectivity problems are not directly related to the Akamai outage, but are the result of a large number of visitors accessing our site today. Thanks for being patient while waiting for the ISC site to load. (from their website)
So which large corporations fail to take advantage of their purchasing power?
Thank you for the well-written, insightful post. Any time we can think about these issues from such a different perspective, we all benefit. I do have 2 comments:
1. Virus writers have used social engineering extensively (ILoveYou, etc.) to get users to open attachments.
2. How do we know that we haven't seen feints and diversions? I see no reason to assume that sufficiently subtle attacks aren't already taking place. "The practical implications of this are staggering; with minimal skill, a malevolent individual could break into thousands of machines and use them for almost any purpose with little evidence of the perpetrator left on most of the compromised hosts."
Ew. Isn't that like English cooking or French military?
We use Lotus Notes here, and I do use the preview pane. Yet, only Outlook/OE seem to be targets of these viruses. Or are there less publicized issues involving Notes as well??
Am I to understand that only computers with a particular firewall installed are vulnerable? Is the virus written to ignore boxes without BlackICE? That sounds mighty vindictive, and makes me think they probably have a [bad] relationship with the person responsible, even if they don't know who [yet]. How am I to reconcile this with advice seen here that all Windows users should have a firewall installed (ICF, ZoneAlarm, or what have you)? If my firewall makes me *more* vulnerable than some shmo without a firewall, that is a HUGE problem for the firewall industry.
His name is Obbay Ilavay.
A friend of a friend of a friend can get your message out for a very reasonable fee!
Please spell-check next time you write your congress-critter. It will probably make a better impression.
Apart from the receipt, this is a great idea. Why haven't we heard about any OSS e-voting initiatives. 99% of the concerns I have heard about e-voting are addressed by OSS (but maybe that's just because it's /.).
it kind of blows the whole "secret" part of "secret ballot" away
Great post. In the spirit of "deadlock or consensus", though, wouldn't it make more sense to hold the presidential election separately from House + 1/3 of Senate? I think a lot of people still share the founding fathers' mistrust of the same party controlling both branches. If we elected a president of Party X in 2004, then I think the odds would be a lot better of having a legislature controlled by Party Y if we held that election in 2005 instead.
Now that we've determined I'm not some snooty grammar nazi, "Some what" should have been one word, and "lead" should have been "led". Anyway. It will be interesting to see how Kerry and Bush measure up against each other in debates, etc. Hopefully, it will give us all a chance to compare them on a more apples-to-apples basis.