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28 Apr 2014
AOL finally
confirmed today
that crooks have stolen credentials and address books from some large number of
AOL users.
(They say 2%, but that's only the ones they know about so far.)
So we suggest you take some routine security precautions.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/aolchange.html
19 Apr 2014
Heartbleed,
for anyone who doesn't read the papers, is a serious bug in the popular
OpenSSL security library.
Its effects are particularly bad, because OpenSSL is so popular, used to
implement the secure bit of https: secure web sites on many of the
most popular web servers such as apache, nginx, and lighttpd.
A few people have
suggested that the problem is that OpenSSL is open source, and code this important
should be left to trained professionals.
They're wrong.
The problem is that writing and testing cryptographic software is really, really hard.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/openssl.html
I used to say to our audiences: "It is difficult to
get a man to understand something when his salary depends
on his not understanding it!"
- Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And how I Got Licked, (1935), p. 109
In November, the Authors Guild suffered a
crushing defeat
in their long running suit against Google's book scanning project,
with a broad decision agreeing with Google that the scans are protected by fair use.
Not surprisingly, they're making a last ditch appeal to the Second Circuit.
While I see no realistic chance of them winning, not least because Judge Chin
who wrote that decision is now a well respected member of the court to which they
are appealing,
it's always interesting to see how they think they'll get the court to reverse.
Having read
their brief,
all I can say is, it's really strange.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/agaltrel.html
07 Apr 2014
DMARC is what one might call an emerging e-mail security scheme.
It's emerging pretty fast, since many of the
largest mail systems in the world have already implemented it,
including Gmail, Hotmail/MSN/Outlook, Comcast, and Yahoo.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/yahoobomb.html
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