Peter Torr: Why not Hash Anti-Phishing URLs?
Monday, September 12th, 2005Peter Torr explains some of the reasons why Phishing Filter does not hash URLs when looking up visited sites. As always, product design involves many tradeoffs.
Archive for September, 2005
PDC Must See: IE7 on Vista Security Architecture
Monday, September 12th, 2005If you write browser extensions, such as ActiveX controls or BHOs, FUNL03 is a must-see. 11:45-12:30 tomorrow in Halls C&D. Rob Franco and Walter VonKoch will be talking about the security enhancements to IE7 on Vista. If you always thought it was a truism that “the web browser runs in user space, […]
Random PDC Brain Dump
Monday, September 12th, 2005So I arrived at LAX today, got checked in to the hotel and had a couple of meetings. This was a little complicated:
The power in L.A. went out today, jamming up traffic and causing minor chaos. A couple of delays for people, but no big deal.
My hotel, New Otani, is further from the […]
NPR Podcasts
Monday, September 5th, 2005Want to have NPR shows downloaded to your MP3 player automatically, for listening at your convenience? 130 shows available via podcast now. Look out, sattelite radio.
Jimmy Hates IE
Thursday, September 1st, 2005Or more accurately, he hates IE “beyond words”. I can’t say I can identify with the precise emotional state, but when I read his blog post I could sure identify with his description of hitting a CSS bug and searching for hours for the right hack.
A short while ago, Chris Wilson of the IE […]