An interesting story about sniffing VPN (or more correctly: what the user thought to be VPN). This shows that you always have to be alert. Why is the web the default development platform? – completely agree with all the points (and also most of the points made in the comments). One additional thing is: instant…

Open cooperation at its best. Remember: if you use open source software, try giving feedback when possible. Monitor testing software: For Windows: Nokia Monitor Test – old, and geared towards CRTs, but can still be used for TFTs From Extra Pepperoni: ScreenQuery for the Mac For Linux: lcdtest A rant about penetration testing. I agree,…

From the “Things that make you go hmmm” blog: Do most people vote on five star ratings in extremes? [analysis, MySQL queries] – interesting look, however I’m not sure how much value there is in such analysis. I don’t really feel an urge to “please the public”, however on some more technical posts (“how to”…

The guys over Jupiter Broadcasting (is it a sign of networking geekdom if I kept typing Juniper broadcasting? :-)) reviewed boxee. It is very cool to find out that the product is based on an open-source program (XBMC). Also, AFAIK it is only available on Mac and Linux currently and because of this I couldn’t…

Via /dev/random: the story of a fictitious penetration testing. Very interesting, eager to read the rest. From Kim Cameron’s Identity blog: Leaving a comment (with CardSpace / IdentityCards). The first time you do this it takes a whopping 11 steps! I fail to see how this is better than current systems or OpenID. (I’m talking…

Seen on Slashdot: Alarm Raised On Teenage Hackers – my view on it: these kids shown the challenge to be on the defender’s side. IMHO most of them do this because they want to feel special. Showing them that attacking a system is pretty easy compared with defending it could win the over… This has…

From scriptnode comes: Multiline Strings in JavaScript. Interesting. From Think Vitamin comes: Reduce Your Business Costs With Free Stuff. Good list in the spirit of my Things you can get for free post (and much more comprehensive).

Via Pat’s Daily Grind: Philosophical Health Check and Battleground God. Very cool pages which aim to discover discrepancies/contradictions in your world view. I’ve been using Chrome for some time now and my conclusion is: it doesn’t matter what browser you use, as long as it is a reasonably new one. Thins I’ve liked: resizable textboxes…

Interesting series, given the current economic situation: a crash course in economics. A two part series on what it is like to write the technical book from one of the authors of “High Performance MySQL”: Part 1 Part 2 The editor’s reply It is very interesting, especially the technical methods used to automatically detect parts…

Via Deb-Tech: Security Watch Revisiting the 10 Immutable Laws of Security, Part 1. Very good post, definitely worth reading, I can’t wait for part 2 and 3. From the same author: Help: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?. While you’re there, you can refresh your memory by reading the original 10 Immutable Laws…