Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Monday, December 20, 2004

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RSS and science publishing: "Haven't gotten all the way through it yet, but for my non-librarian readers who are syndication enthusiasts, DLib has an article on RSS that (judging from what I have gotten through) is well worth your perusal." [Caveat Lector]


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Google Suggest Dissected: "Chris Justus diggested the very cool Google Suggest. The code is absolutely brilliant and uses a bunch of tricks that few people knew about. [...]. It is still a mystery how google's servers can respond so damned fast, though." [Ming the Mechanic]


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2004 was good and bad for IT security: "2004 was the best of times, and the worst of times for those concerned about IT security. It was a year with high-profile arrests of virus authors, and the explosion of online crimes, from cyberextortion to identity theft, a year in which ISPs (Internet service providers) won millions in damages from spammers, and spam messages increased by 40 percent." [InfoWorld: Top News]


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New IE hole could perfect phishing scams: "A newly reported security problem in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser allows attackers to create a fake Web site that looks exactly like a genuine site." [InfoWorld: Top News]