Sat 18 Dec. 2004

Session Riding - Widespread Vulnerability in Web Applications

O oh! Heads-up by SecureNet over at Heise. (German)

Must read this! (PDF - English)

Google Suggest Dissected…

An excellent report by Chris Justus - Server Side Guy on the inner workings of the Javascript on Googles beta service.

It gets a deservedly fair ammount of exchange on Slashdot too : Notably this comment that it’s

Not Clippy style, I mean assisst you as in being useful.

Ha! I’d say. Who hasn’t been driven to frickin’ distraction by the brain-dead “assistants” dreamt up by the “wizards” in Redmond? Aaaahhhrggg!

Before I go off on another raving anti-MS rant - there’s more intersesting stuff to be gleaned from the Slashdot comments, such as:

And that’s aside from Chris Justus’ link to the code itself [fastbugtrack.com].
 

Microsoft May Charge for Security Tools

Slashdot

You’ve got to hand it to them. Microslo.. soft, I mean.

On second thought, as a Mac user, I wouldn’t hand it to them. Not one bean. Nada.

I’d be willing to wager large amounts, though, that many Windows dependents would.

Tsk, tsk.

EU decision on Turkey

The European Union’s decision to begin entry talks with Turkey has received a widespread welcome.

A good thing too, and a relief it is - for there are more than enough naysayers on the continent (in France, Austria and Germany, for example) to have occasioned significant doubt.

The fact that we’re only at the stage where an agreement has been reached to hold talks on the issue, and the possibility of Turkey actually being allowed into the club will not be realized for well over a decade from now… does little to deter those opposed from carrying on as if it were a question of mere months.

A referendum on the issue, which has been promised in France and Austria, will not happen in good old Germany - non!, nein!, no siree!

Heaven forbid. They wouldn’t dare take that chance. I mean, giving the “Volk” free rein to collectively express their true sentiment - on such an issue on top of it all? Forget it. Gibt es nicht. It’s totally verboten anyway, by the German constitution, or so the argument goes…

Oni soit qui mal y pense.