The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
I can’t give proper credit to the author of this piece. He may be an expert on computer security, but he doesn’t seem to know much about how to set… Read more »
Microsoft AutoRun Fix
Microsoft has finally addressed the problem I described here and and released an official update to let you really disable AutoRun. (via The Register.)
The Formula That Killed Wall Street
Wired tracks down the actual mathematical formula used by the investment bankers and credit rating agencies to wreck the economy. Maybe it’s unfair to blame David X. Li, who did… Read more »
An Illustrated TARP
Greg Newton dug up a series of photos that seems to do a nice job of explaining the system.
Plugging the Windows AutoRun Hole
Back in the early 1990s, when Microsoft was raring to conquer the world, and still thought that security was something that could be dealt with as an afterthought, they added… Read more »
Blog Personality Analysis?
Typealyzer asks you the enter the URL of a blog, and attempts to determine the personality of the author according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. (via Megan McArdle.) Naturally I… Read more »
aLinks 2.0 Bug Fixes
I had been happily using the “aLinks” WordPress plugin by Sean Hickey for quite a while. The plugin automatically generates links for keywords that you specify. Version 1 did everything… Read more »
Michael Lewis on the Financial Collapse
Michael Lewis, the author of Liar’s Poker, delivers a blow by blow account of the final days of the subprime bubble, from the viewpoint of some people who not only… Read more »
Using Fiddler to Capture Web Traffic from an Application Running Under IIS
Just add the following to the web.config file for the application: <system.net> <defaultProxy> <proxy proxyaddress=”http://127.0.0.1:8888″ /> </defaultProxy> </system.net> Thanks to Rick Strahl. Get Fiddler here.
New Version of WordPress
I just upgraded to version 2.6.1 (after leaving the site at version 2.5.1 for a dangerously long time.) In the past a “second-digit” version upgrade has sometimes caused trouble. If… Read more »