Next week's issue online now
Greetings fellow travelers. We've successfully posted week one of our April 15th issue. Practically the entire issue outlines methods for building and maintaining a successful service relationships. Of particular interest, is Jonathan Feldman's story on the 11 Questions to Help You Select the Best Service & Support Provider. BTW, we asked him if his amp went to 11...he only laughed and said, "you got me."
Some stories we're following today
KaZaA sleeper code a security threat? -- We stumbled upon an interesting research paper by Nicholas Weaver from Berkeley, entitled Reflections on Brilliant Digital: single Points of INternet Ownership. In it, Nicholas outlines some very interesting issues raised by the security mechanisms in use within Brilliant's sleeper code. Scary stuff. If you're running this on your machine at work, you may want to perform a quick uninstall.
MS Office Web Components Vulnerable...say it aint so. -- Speaking of security issues, it looks like Microsoft's trustworthy computing folks have got their work cut out for them. A small research company, GreyMagic, announced three interesting security vulnerabilities within the Office Web Components (OCW), which hackers can use to actually override the security settings within a users browser -- like turning scripting back on to allow further attacks.
Apache reaches 2.0 -- It's party time! Ok, maybe not immediately. Thought this is a major release (the first in perhaps 3 years), we're still considering the tradeoffs between the new features (security, performance, platform support) and the risk of upgrading something that works so well as is.
Posted by Brad Shimmin at 3:20:00 PM
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