• Dec 17, 2003

  Shooting around corners

  A cool weapon from the Israelis - the Corner Shot:

  

  Good for anti-terror and SWAT teams, but I dread the day it gets into the hands of an overzealous sniper (remember Maryland?).

  Read more about it.

• Dec 14, 2003

  MT-Blacklist Updater

  MT-Blacklist Updater is back up and works, this time. I'm still in need of testers so do try it out and let me know of any bugs you may find. Thanks!

  Comments, suggestions, bug reports are highly appreciated.

  I used to use a very simple PHP script which simply grabs the latest master blacklist and overwrites the local copy on my server. I didn’t think too much of having any entries I’d made myself being overwritten then. Now I do, after I received quite some spam that wasn’t caught by MT-Blacklist, and decided to rewrite it so that it uses the blacklist changes RSS feed to update my local blacklist non-destructively.

  The results of a few hours work (mostly spent writing documentation!): MT-Blacklist Updater.

  Didn't work! See this and this.

• Dec 14, 2003

  Google can track your FedEx delivery

  Search By Number is a new Google feature that allows you quick access to your UPS or FedEx delivery information, and easy access to patent, FAA and FCC numbers/IDs.

• Dec 10, 2003

  New IE vulnerability - fake URLs

  IE has a new security flaw which will be a major boon to spammers and frauds. This flaw allows spoofing of URLs via the http://user@domain nomenclature. For example, a fraudulent spammer could well direct victims to http://wwww.paypal.com&sessionid%123123123&@chuyeow.wtf, but have it show up as http://www.paypal.com&sessionid%123456789 (of course, the fraudulent webpage has to be convincing enough to fool victims into believing they are actually at PayPal!). This works because by including a 0x01 character after the "@" character, IE hides the real location of the page!

  To see it in action, fire up IE and check out this demonstration.

  Source: Simon Willison

• Dec 10, 2003

  Easy charity with Buck-a-Hit

  Jack Bog and his wife are giving USD1 for each hit they receive today (Wednesday, December 10, 2003) from 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. PST (GMT-0800) to charity.

  Want to feel charitable without any hard commitments? Visit his blog once or twice today Or 24 times. Quoting Jack:

  If you go away and come back more than an hour later, however, that will count as two hits.

  Well, seems like a good way to promote your site too - of course I do not doubt the altruistic motives behind Jack's move.

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