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Category: hype

  • Script kiddies and the sensationalists media

    There is a great urge in the media today to come up with more and more sensationalists titles. This is understandable, because their main job is creating content and their success is measured directly in number of visitors. This is why (at least from this point of view) blogs are mostly better because (a) people…

  • A mixed bag of comments

    A short post of things I found in my Google Reader: A new challenge from the guys over at SANS: The Twelve Days of Christmas Packet Challenge Also there are some vulnerabilities there: All I want for christmas are my exploits…. – my thoughts: you have to be insane to put your DB server on…

  • I’m not a ‘lone bitter old man 🙂

    You might remember this post, where I was criticizing the so called vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7. Alex Eckelberry over at the SunbeltBLOG just came out with a post saying the exact same thing. While I don’t agree with many of his previous posts (like those about HIPSs and Patchguard), this one is spot on.

  • The fact that you write for a big site doesn’t make you an expert

    The corollary of the above being: don’t rephrase what the expert said if you don’t understand it. Real life example from an eweek article: The Redmond, Wash. software giant has convinced major U.S. computer makers—including Dell, Gateway and Hewlett-Packard—to make default changes at the BIOS level to allow a new Vista security feature called ASLR…

  • Myth-Busting AJAX (In)security

    Via Ajaxian: Myth-Busting AJAX (In)security

  • What is not AJAX?

    Not everything involving browser scripting is AJAX. The following two things are not AJAX: Yellow fading effect on web pages Downloading and running an executable in Internet Explorer if you have your Internet Zone security level set to low.

  • Talking out of your head (as opposed to an other body part)

    Recently a hoax / misinformation / hype is making its way around the web (or at least the part of the web I see ;)). I’m talking about the article title Internet Explorer 7 – Still Spyware Writers Heaven. While I’m by no means a MS fan and criticized the IE7 team for not making…

  • The kind of articles I don’t want to see

    After reading this article I was in pain. I don’t want to offend anybody, but this is a perfect example for the things against which this blog was created. The article contains a lot of hype-words but is vague on technical details and some of the details is wrong. I don’t want to accuse anybody…