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Dumb and Dumber Proprietary Innovation Strikes Again

Posted by tuxchick on · 11 comments
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But to my way of thinking, Nominum didn't fix a thing. The article describes combining four techniques for foiling what they are now calling the Kaminsky Attack. I guess "cache poisoning" isn't glamorous enough. The techniques sound questionable, and the fixes only applies to their expensive, closed proprietary caching server. Nobody else benefits from this fix. So it's not a fix at all- it's as though they were claiming to have cleaned up a small volume of water in a large swimming pool.

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Comments (11)

tracyanne ·
Quoting:Using ActiveX is like rubbing yourself with bacon and flinging yourself into a hyena pack.


jdixon ·
> Fool me thousands of times over many years...let's get married!"

Sorry TC, I'm already taken. :)

Great line though. It made me laugh.
techiem2 ·
I love the bacon quote too. That has to be the best description of ActiveX I've seen yet. :)
tuxchick Story submitter ·
awww, thanks. It's nice when your pet phrases are appreciated :)
Steven_Rosenber ·
I have ONE thing I do that requires the use of IE. One thing. It's a big one thing.

I saw a colleague do this one thing with the Opera browser. Since Opera's not FOSS, I had never even tried it, but the chance to eliminate IE from my diet was and is too good to pass up.

So I'm IE- (and ActiveX-) free now, and yes, I feel much better.
Sander_Marechal ·
What's the "one thing"?
tracyanne ·
yeah, my curiosity is piqued.
dinotrac ·
>my curiosity is piqued.

I hear a couple of aspirin and 8 solid hours of sleep will fix that right up.
Steven_Rosenber ·
My "one thing" is a company-specific, Web-based content management system that the programmers decided to make IE-only.

About 50 percent of the app works with Firefox. I can get 95 percent of the way with Opera for some reason. I get a few CSS errors every once in awhile, but for the most part I can do my work a whole lot faster while not waiting for IE to do its thing ...

And I can do that work on computers that don't run Windows, meaning I can work from home, where neither the buffalo nor Windows currently roam
herzeleid ·
> My "one thing" is a company-specific, Web-based content management system that the programmers decided to make IE-only.

Yes, we have a "one thing" like that in my workplace, a hold over from the bad old days. It's a timecard/attendance app and the javascript works only with msie 5.5 or 6. Luckily I only have to use it twice a month.

On the upside, the management is taking a much more enlightened approach these days, and when they request bids for such applications, they write it into the contract that it must be verified to to be 100% functional with no OS or browser-specific dependencies, or the vendor doesn't get paid.

I'm happy to report some early results from that - a similar app, which is a daily time tracker app, works on firefox, seamonkey, safari, msie, and it doesn't matter whether I'm using mac, linux or pc.

Good times.

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