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What is HIPS and what isn’t?
I support Microsoft’s attempt to introduce kernel patch protection whole heartedly and I don’t have a too high opinion about HIPSs either, but this interview can only be characterized as: Microsoft trying to say: look, HIPS products can work with KPP Sophos saying: we have HIPS too To make it even clearer: running an executable…
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The hidden capabilities of windows firewall
Windows, beginning with XP SP2 contains a decent firewall. It doesn’t have leak prevention or outbound connection filtering. However it does have: inbound connection filtering, ICMP filtering, a default deny policy, GUI and command line interface, configuration using group policy and something I discovered only recently: limiting a certain rule with multiple IP / netmasks…
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Graceful degradation people!
I went to check out Less Accounting (because I saw it at the Web 2.0 show). Here are two screenshots, one with javascript enabled and the other with it disabled: Do I really need javascript to submit a simple form? Really? As for the server running the given website, its version number isn’t too reassuring…
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The Problem with Programming
Via Raganworld comes the following interview with Bjarne Stroustrup (you know, the C++ guy :)): The Problem with Programming My favorite quote: There are just two kinds of languages: the ones everybody complains about and the ones nobody uses. (the article has also a nice threaded discussion possibility added. almost as nice as the one…