Monthly Archives: September 2002

Mozilla is reported to be sus­cep­ti­ble to a pri­vacy exploit that can reveal the last page you vis­ited. This applies to all Mozilla-based browsers.

Dan Brick­lin, cre­ator of Visi­Calc, has writ­ten Why Johnny can’t program.

Be hon­est, you’ve prob­a­bly received the famed Niger­ian email scam at least once. If you even both­ered to read it (it’s a hoot) you more than likely didn’t think of respond­ing (and you cer­tainly didn’t take it seri­ously, right?). Luck­ily, … Read More →

How do you know a oper­at­ing sys­tem is pop­u­lar? When crack­ers develop worms for it. The lat­est exploit against Linux is called Slap­per and it affects OpenSSL instal­la­tions. Find out how to fix your vul­ner­a­bil­ity here and more about Slap­per … Read More →

If you run a file shar­ing app (Mor­pheus, Kazaa, Gnutella, etc.), your ISP may be shut­ting you down because of your exces­sive band­width usage. Your ISP has to pay for pack­ets that go beyond it’s net­work bound­ries, so it has … Read More →

Dan Gill­mor lays down the three issues that will shape the Inter­net going for­ward. This is a follow-on to a pre­vi­ous col­umn on the deci­sions that made the Inter­net what it is today.