Entries for month: February 2007
IE7 and vista more secure, in a pigs eye
Posted by john
from some apache logs:
IE7 for Vista HTTP_USER_AGENT:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; MSDigitalLocker Vista 1.3; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 3.0.04222; .NET CLR 3.0.04320; InfoPath.2)
For comparison, HTTP_USER_AGENT with FireFox:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9
This gives a potential hacker an almost complete picture of the visiting system. Combine it with other cgi.vehicles and you have a base line of vulnerability in client sites.
I love Linux, everyone say it with me "I will not upgrade to vista, I will get Ubuntu or buy a mac."
the actual logs are from a userfriendly user. but i felt ti worth to pass along this friendly reminder that M$ will sell your info to the dumbest of apache logs out there.
So its official
Posted by john
I have lost 8 years of email. I trusted in a USB hard drive as a backup device and it died before i could move the backed up mail folder off it. its not quite as bad as a family member dying , but I lost several letter from my now wife I would have liked to have kept to show our children. Everyone and I mean everyone needs to backup to a trusted physical device as much as possible.
NTFS read on a mac
Posted by john
Ok, well theoretically you could take these drivers and read that USB drive your relative so smartly formatted as NTFS instead of FAT32.
link here
Ha Ha Cthulhu Calls
Posted by john
Got to love the warm fuzzy antics of an elder god bent on humanities destruction.
What REALLY happend in boston
Posted by john