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Next-gen Windows features and the fallout

Next-gen Windows features and the falloutInsufficiently mitigatedThat someone else can gain full access to the computer at any time is a vulnerability because it is permanently part of the operating system.I think that remote access should be an application the user installs when needed and removes when the need has...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web browsers, SECURITY, Operating systems, creepiness, fallout, Microsoft Corp., nil

Discussion threads 2007-07-12

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In search of: Startups that could upend Google and Microsoft

Earlier this week at one of Mary Jo Foley's talk before the New York Software Industry Association one of the folks in the audience posed a great question. The gist: The Google vs. Microsoft online advertising war resembles Sears vs. Montgomery Ward years ago. The punch line: While Sears and...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., BzzAgent, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-23

Follow-up: Build-A-Bear says it will take privacy suggestions to heart

There were lots of reactions to my last post about Build-A-Bear luring kids and parents into divulging personal information they might otherwise, in other contexts, guard more closely. While some responses channeled Scott McNealy, most seemed to get that my beef was not with the fact of the data...

Tags: Information, Build-A-Bear, Privacy Policy, Upshot, E-mail, Online Communications, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-01-26

Come and get it: $20K bounty on Microsoft vulnerabilities

An outfit called Digital Armaments has announced a $20,000 bounty for hackers that cook up and exploitable vulnerability or working exploit for Windows applications. The contest's deadline is Feb. 29. Aside from the creepiness of the whole effort, Ryan Naraine points out that there's...

Tags: Vulnerability, Bounty, Microsoft Corp., Outfit, Hacker, Exploit, Digital Armaments, Hacking, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-15

Jerry Yang offers sneak peak of Yahoo's future: Life!

Jerry Yang offers sneak peak of Yahoo's future: Life!Yahoo MailYes, well I understand you have to say nice things about Yahoo Mail, but for me it SUCKS! It rarely works correctly! The servers are down WAY TOO much!If I didn't have to use it I wouldn't!...

Tags: E-mail providers, server, Yahoo! Inc., Jerry Yang

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

Supermarket: Let your fingers do the paying

Supermarket: Let your fingers do the payingSurreptitious Big Brother SupermarketismSorry, but the only time I expect to be fingerprinted is after I pump some lead into some loser's skull. Until then I can't imagine me willingly allowing big business/government to further profile me more than it already is. Just wait...

Tags: supermarket, Albertson

Discussion threads 2005-02-01