Despite the weekly “aw…Bill” bit in the TGIF posts, I like Bill. I think he’s a cool guy who despite saying some silly things (I have too, but I’m not rich and famous so not a lot of people care), has been visionary. Lets not forget the work of “The Bill and M[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft;’
October 22nd, 2008 - 5:39 am § in Uncategorized
CAPTCHA broken!
Dr Jeff Yan and PhD student Ahmad Salah El Ahmad have revealed widespread vulnerabilities in the Microsoft email service. They actually cracked this in 2007 but had to notify Microsoft first and wait for them to work on it to publish their findings. The CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing[...]
September 11th, 2008 - 7:20 pm § in Uncategorized
Chrome security – calm down.
I answered a post on SEW and thought it was useful information for the blog as well, so I’ve added to it. It was a thread about how Chrome has security flaws and should people be using it basically. Last week, the German federal office for information security advised against the use of Goog[...]
September 5th, 2008 - 10:37 pm § in Uncategorized
Relating Documents via User Activity
Elin Pedersen (Google) and David McDonald (Uni Washington) wrote an interesting paper entitled “Relating Documents via User Activity: The Missing Link“. The research was “carried out as part of a project in the Office of the CTO, Microsoft”. The Abstract: “In this paper[...]
August 9th, 2008 - 12:19 am § in Uncategorized
Cuil vs Powerset
There’s been an awful lot of talk around Cuil, the alternative search engine to Google that xooglers launched recently. There hasn’t been much noise around Powerset (founded in 2005), recently aquired by Microsoft. It’s important to note that the engine is running on wikipedia for [...]
