I don’t know how long it’s been since they fixed this, but I check again this morning and discovered that enabling comments on Blogger-generated blogs that publish to PHP, ASP, SHTML, etc. powered sites is now safe! Back at the end of March, I posted a message on Bugtraq outlining a vulnerability that I’d reported [...]

Google Toolbar Keeps Controversial Linking Feature: “Google executives have stressed that they are only giving users more choice. AutoLink does not add links unless a user clicks on a toolbar button to initiate the feature.”
I hadn’t realized at first that AutoLink had to be activated by clicking a button each time the user arrives at [...]

Our VoIP adapter from Vonage arrived today, and I placed my first VoIP call…which I answered myself on our Qwest line. Next, I talked to my wife with her on the Vonage phone and me on the Qwest cordless. Then I called my mom to invite her to dinner (and got her voice mail). So [...]

The bookmarks file generated by Mozilla is busted. The other day, I tried to create an XHTML file to turn my bookmarks file into a CSS-powered cascading menu, but I ran into a problem: since bookmarks.html doesn’t have closing tags for many of its elements, I couldn’t get the CSS styles applied as desired. Mozilla–please [...]

My yesterday’s entry in Mental Arc about the difficulty of finding a website among a growing number of TLDs prompted me to write a pre-draft of an RFC for a generalized method of autodiscovery of information about and services provided by a website. The core idea is to have an “autodisc” folder at the root [...]

Everybody knows who the domain name “microsoft.com” belongs to–that 10-ton gorilla from Redmond. But what about hansen.com? That could be any of many millions of individuals. Let’s take a slightly simpler example: hansens.com. That could be any one of probably hundreds of companies–some big, some small, some in one industry and some in another. Unfortunately, [...]

Here’s a message I’ve attempted twice to post to Bugtraq, but it appears to have been lost both times. Traffic on Bugtraq has been spotty lately. It talks about a security problem with Blogger’s handling of comments:
Having notified Blogger of this twice over the course of a number of months, and not seeing them take [...]

You may have heard about something Google’s toolbar has started doing lately that could alter the presentation of your webpages. It’s called AutoLink, and it turns some text in web pages into links–for example, addresses, book ISBN numbers, etc. Many arguments, both for an against are being made regarding this feature. There are also two [...]

I love Google. In the spirit of that love, I point out something about my dear friend that is bugging me, and point you, gentle reader, at a petition addressed to Google, requesting a change.
Google has recently debuted a feature in their web browser add-on toolbar called AutoLink. What it does is turn text in [...]

I love Google. In the spirit of that love, I point out something about my dear friend that is bugging me, and point you, gentle reader, at a petition addressed to Google, requesting a change.
Google has recently debuted a feature in their web browser add-on toolbar called AutoLink. What it does is turn text in [...]