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+ - http: Must Die! 0

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87C751

on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @05:49PM

87C751 writes "It's a scary-sounding headline, true, but Lauren Weinstein says the venerable cleartext protocol's time has come and gone. A move to an all-SSL web would be a step in the right direction for Net Neutrality. (unless, of course, you don't mind your ISP putting their own content in your pages)"

+ - Verizon gave up its subscribers' information-> 0

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87C751

on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @09:53AM

87C751 writes "According to this article in the Washington Post (warning: subscription link), Verizon has given up subscriber information "hundreds of times" since 2005 without a court order. The company says it "does not determine the requests' legality or necessity because to do so would slow efforts to save lives in criminal investigations." AT&T apparently made similar disclosures, though the numbers weren't disclosed."
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+ - AJAX considered harmful

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87C751

on Saturday January 06, 2007 @10:10AM

87C751 writes "Security lists are abuzz about this presentation from the 23C3 conference, which details a fundamental design flaw in Javascript. The technique, called Prototype Hijacking, allows an attacker to redefine any feature of Javascript. The paper (warning: PDF link) is called "Subverting AJAX", and outlines a possible Web Worm that lives in the very fabric of Web 2.0 and could kill the Web as we know it."