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Thursday, January 29, 2004 |
InfoWorld: Microsoft: change to IE will block some Web URLs. Microsoft will soon release a software update for IE that will end that browser's ability to accept Web URLs that hide the address of the Web page being displayed using the "@" symbol. The update will remove a feature that is being exploited in scams that use spoof Web sites to harvest personal information from unsuspecting Internet users... [Tomalak's Realm]
This is a real on-the-one-hand-but-on-the-other-hand kind of a thing, no? Great to take steps to block spoofing/phishing scams in the infrastructure. But what are we to think when MS hacks the browser to make some urls inaccessible?
Let the record reflect that, this once, that's only two hands.
3:32:21 PM 
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January 28, 2004.
For some reason, Microsoft's brilliant and cutting-edge .NET development environment left out one crucial tool... a tool that has been common in software development environments since, oh, about 1950, and taken so much for granted that it's incredibly strange that nobody noticed that .NET doesn't really have one.
Please Sir May I Have a Linker?
** Heute verwende ich die deutsche Version von CityDesk um mein Weblog zu erstellen. No, I don't speak German, but I know CityDesk well enough to find my way around!
[Joel on Software]
7:07:44 AM
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Hackers capitalizing on Mydoom's success. A back door to computer systems opened by the Mydoom e-mail worm is turning into a bonanza for thousands of hackers, who are scanning the Internet furiously for systems infected by Mydoom, antivirus experts said Wednesday. [InfoWorld: Top News]
7:06:00 AM
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One Possible Cost of Mobile Technology: A Tired, Aching Back. ALONG with the changes wrought by gadgets in political campaign coverage has come the question of just how much stuff to carry around. Many reporters are finding that the more equipment they can merge the better, and the less to lose. This makes a device like the Handspring Treo 600, a combination telephone, keyboard, organizer, digital camera, MP3 player and more, very appealing. Newer and faster do not always mean lighter or more streamlined. By Katharine Q. Seelye. [New York Times: Technology]
On the one hand, this is just more coverage of reporters' favorite subject: reporters. On the other, there's interesting stuff here about how the availability of an array of small, portable, nearly-always-connected devices has altered the campaign trail for the media and campaign pros alike.
6:58:06 AM
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