Archive for the ‘Web’ Category
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
I'm not typically a big fan of hardware tokens, but I discovered a neat little device at IIW that takes the cake when it comes to hardware based authentication. The YubiCard is a incredibly small device; requires no drivers at all and doesn't need a LCD screen. ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
I noticed this interesting entry in my server's access log today. I certainly have phpMyAdmin running at that location, but you can't get the process list unless you login.
66.249.70.89 xxxxxxxxx.com - [21/Nov/2007:13:43:18 -0800] "GET /MyAdmin/server_processlist.php?lang=en-utf-8&convcharset=iso-8859-1&collation_connection=utf8_unicode_ci&token=a1bb5490499a10bb493edc160625e33b&kill=49481 HTTP/1.1" 404 345 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
You can do two things at ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
I got an invitation to take the Paypal Anti-Phishing challenge. It's all of 5 questions long, but it's a neat way to educate user's about phising.
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
I have the privilege of attending this years Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View. I'll be hanging out there Dec 3-5. I'll try to get some pics and things to post on my blog along with an overview of the event.
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
This week seems to have been filled with ridiculous Javascript hacks.
I came up with this one. I'm sure you can figure out what it does.
function send_mail(body,subject) {
var mailwin = window.open("mailto:admin@example.com?subject="
+ subject + "&body=" + body);
mailwin.close();
}
I have to ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
I was forced to drop VPSLink after it took them more than 12 hours to not restore my server image. I finally settled on Quantact and I'm far more pleased with the performace and my overall experience with their service. I just hope they work out for the ...
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
I'm totally obsessed with Chore Wars I found out about it from Penny Arcade basically you do quest IRL and get Exp and Gold! I have to admit I've been more interested in ways to cheat than actually doing the laundry. We started a CW group at work ...
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