Archive for December 2nd, 2002

Monday, December 2nd, 2002

FBI Arrests Bandwidth Hogs. Apparently a number of people in Toledo, Ohio had uncapped their modems. Their ISP responded by contacting the FBI and having their customers charged with “theft.” I am certainly aware that these people violated their TOS, but doesn’t their seem like a little bit of over kill? Update: Here is… [Lockergnome's [...]

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Monday, December 2nd, 2002

Don’t Trust Microsoft. While some of you may accept this as axiomatic, in this case the statement is to be taken somewhat more literally. According to MS02-066, since the original ActiveX control corrected by this security update still has a valid digital signature, it is possible for a website to replace the new… [Lockergnome's Bits [...]

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