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About Me :
I'm a grownup nerd living in the Boston burbs. I write computer programs for a living and plays for fun.
I'm married to a wonderful woman, and we share a nice little house with our daughter and our cats.
I'm a humanist, a technologist, an artist, and an idealist. I believe in reason, freedom, love, equality,
and democracy. (Did I mention that I'm
an idealist? I did, OK.)
I'm also a pragmatist and an empiricist. I reject ideology and dogma, especially when they conflict with
practical facts (i.e., pretty much always). I particularly hate willful ignorance, which tends to go hand-in-hand
with ideology and dogma.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
More Reassurance from Microsoft
This makes me feel secure. Microsoft is reporting that a new flaw has been discovered, deep in the Windows XP code, which can be exploited to take control of your computer. The twist is that this time, the code can be embedded in a JPG image, which the typical websurfer encounters thousands of times every day. Your machine could be infected simply by viewing an image on the web!
Microsoft is issuing patches for literally dozens of different products which share the code base. It's a huge pain in the ass to patch your M$ products, I know; but it beats getting hacked. Of course, you could always go open-source; this might be just the reason to switch to from Internet Exploiter -- er, Explorer -- to Firefox.
Microsoft : your potential, our patchin'
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This makes me feel secure. Microsoft is reporting that a new flaw has been discovered, deep in the Windows XP code, which can be exploited to take control of your computer. The twist is that this time, the code can be embedded in a JPG image, which the typical websurfer encounters thousands of times every day. Your machine could be infected simply by viewing an image on the web!
Microsoft is issuing patches for literally dozens of different products which share the code base. It's a huge pain in the ass to patch your M$ products, I know; but it beats getting hacked. Of course, you could always go open-source; this might be just the reason to switch to from Internet Exploiter -- er, Explorer -- to Firefox.
Microsoft : your potential, our patchin'
