Monthly Archives: August 2005
Archives
Well, I’ve sort of fixed the archives problem I mentioned previously. The monthly archives are still unavailable ( except for August, which is fine), but I found a great plugin that lists the underlying posts in each month, so the same effect is reached. I’ll keep working on the problem, I’ve learned a lot while [...]
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Faking it! – Blawg Review #20
My posts on Attention made it into Blawg Review #20, hosted this week over at The Mommy Blawg. The theme? Reality TV shows. My posts fall into her “Faking it” category since she didn’t know where to fit them into the other themes. Nice theme idea, I suggest reviewing all the submissions this week. When [...]
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Attention – Part Two
Since the first post, I found an excellent summary of Attention from a practical point of view by Dare Obasanjo. Nick Bradbury has another good post. From an IP attorney’s point of view, Attention is interesting because it is an attempt to create a new property right in the aggregate of data. It’s different from [...]
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Attention – Part One
My Attention was drawn by the recent Gillmor Gang on Attention, forcing me to listen to the whole thing three times in order to get a handle on where the Gang was coming from. Steve Gillmor is now the president of Attention Trust, a new non-profit group interested in advocating for the βbasic rights of [...]
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Spyware part of ID Theft Ring
This is very, very disturbing. An article over at Eweek claims that the spyware called CoolWebSearch is actually a keylogger. A test by a spyware removal company found that the program is sending passwords, user names and bank account information to a server in Texas. The FBI has been notified, but the article does not [...]
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Archives
For some reason, the archives are still messed up. It’s a result of the conversion from Blogger, and I haven’t had much luck fixing it. Until I fix it, the best way to get older posts is by category. Thanks for bearing with me.
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Must Read: Inside the Cisco/Lynn Controversy
For those of you who don’t know, Michael Lynn gave a speech at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on July 26th that has erupted into controversy. The topic? A revelation of the vulnerabilities in the Cisco routers that are the backbone of the Internet. He had to quit his job before doing it, [...]
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Microsoft: Damned if you do.