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Yet another huge gaping hole has been found in Internet Explorer. Do they
ever stop coming in? This one lets a malicious website execute
anything it wants by tricking a user to think it's just a simple txt file or
something. And the scary thing is that Microsoft has known about this
vulnerability since November 19th but thanks
to "Security through Obscurity" it hasnt' been announced to the general public
until now. Who knows what other holes in IE or Windows Microsoft
isn't announcing? Anyways, until a patch is released, the only way to be
safe is either to stop using IE or else disallow all file downloads. I
hear Netscape isn't too bad...
Google now has 20 years of Usenet posts on it's servers, and it has compilied a
list of
noteworthy posts. Some of the more interesting ones are Linus's "pet project" which would eventually turn into Linux, and the first Usenet post from an AOL user. Yes, back in the day AOL users couldn't connect to
the internet as a whole, but had to stay in their own little AOL universe. If
only that could still be true.
Well I spent all today backing up my D: drive, because according to Windows
Setup, it has a jiggillion errors and won't let me install Windows until they're
all fixed. It took 18 700MB CD's, and a few hours, but it's now all safe and
sound on some CDR's.
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