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Wednesday, June 30, 2004 |
CERT now says it, too:
Beware of IE (Ryan Naraine story in Internet News).
The U.S. government's Computer Emergency Readiness Team
(US-CERT) is
warning Web surfers to stop using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE)
browser.
On the heels of last week's sophisticated malware attack that targeted
a known IE flaw, US-CERT updated an earlier advisory to recommend the
use of alternative browsers because of "significant vulnerabilities"
in technologies embedded in IE.
There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies
relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model,
MIME-type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce
exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different Web browser,
especially when browsing untrusted sites, US-CERT noted in a
vulnerability note.
3:44:18 PM 
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Reverend Billy's Smart Mobbery on CBS.
From The Daily Glyph via Dave Pentecost: "In a triumph of Gandhian tactics and smart mob performance, Rev. Billy (minister for both the Church of Stop Shopping and The Church of the United States Constitution) and friends appeared in a CBS News story last Saturday." Reverend Billy [aka Bill Talen] and friends were "protesting against the prohibiition of protest at the Republican convention." NewYorkMetro.com has more detail on Talen's protest:
Talen has been been busy organizing weekly "First Amendment Out Loud" sessions with his "Church of Stop Shopping" volunteers who mysteriously assemble in the World Trade Center path station every Tuesday to recite the First Amendment into their cell phones. The young group Greene Dragon, named after the pub where John Hancock and Paul Revere used to drink, promises a Paul Revere’s ride, for which the group’s impresario, Jonny America, will suit up in Colonial garb and charge down Lexington Avenue on horseback, shouting, "The Republicans are coming! The Republicans are coming!" And Parsons M.F.A. student Joshua Kinberg is launching a Girls Gone Wild-inspired Boobs Against Bush Website, which will collect photos of women with messages LIKE MORE CLEAVAGE, LESS TAX CUTS on their breasts. "I want the RNC to be like spring break," he says. "You’ll see me on Hannity & Colmes." [Link to RealVideo of CBS Report on Reverend Billy's protest.]
[Smart Mobs]
7:19:46 AM
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EFF Publishes Patent Hit List. Winnowing a field of nearly 200 questionable patents, the Electronic Frontier Foundation decides to challenge 10 of what the group considers to be the most dubious and abused technology patents. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News]
7:13:59 AM
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King Kaufman's Sports Daily. A great read: The Washington Post takes a long, hard look at Bud Selig, and it isn't a pretty picture. [Salon.com]
In Part 1 of the Post series Sunday, Fainaru reviewed the story of how Selig, who is both the commissioner and the owner of the Milwaukee Brewers, got the state of Wisconsin to pay for Miller Park, something the state of Wisconsin is very sorry about having done these days. (Selig put his Brewers holdings in a blind trust on becoming acting commissioner in 1992, but there's little doubt he still wields the power in the organization.)
Part 2, on Monday, told the story of the famous "bag job," in the words of a Massachusetts official, that resulted in Jeffrey Loria, who as owner of the Montreal Expos had systematically run that franchise into the ground, being paid to take over the Florida Marlins so that Marlins owner John Henry and his co-investors could buy the Boston Red Sox despite not being the highest bidders.
I'm sugarcoating. The story is nastier than that.
7:07:00 AM
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