Here's a message I've attempted twice to post to Bugtraq, but it appears to have been lost both times. Traffic on Bugtraq has been spotty lately. It talks about a security problem with Blogger's handling of comments:

Having notified Blogger of this twice over the course of a number of months, and not seeing them...
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You may have heard about something Google's toolbar has started doing lately that could alter the presentation of your webpages. It's called AutoLink, and it turns some text in web pages into links--for example, addresses, book ISBN numbers, etc. Many arguments, both for an against are being made regarding this feature. There are also two...
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I love Google. In the spirit of that love, I point out something about my dear friend that is bugging me, and point you, gentle reader, at a petition addressed to Google, requesting a change.

Google has recently debuted a feature in their web browser add-on toolbar called AutoLink. What it does is turn text...
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I love Google. In the spirit of that love, I point out something about my dear friend that is bugging me, and point you, gentle reader, at a petition addressed to Google, requesting a change.

Google has recently debuted a feature in their web browser add-on toolbar called AutoLink. What it does is turn text...
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Referrer spam is all those entries you see in your web server's referrer log that indicate that people are coming to your site from web pages that don't really link to you. It's left there in the hope that your referrer logs will be visible to Google and friends, and that you (and your site's...
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A TLD, or top level domain, is the last part of a domain name. For example, .com, .net, .edu, .uk, etc. So I have a question: who's the dope who thought of the ".ws" TLD? It stands for "web site". I can understand that some people might think it was a good idea: "I want...
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Services like BugMeNot.com are helping people get around the registration required of various news sites. Many sites like the New York Times require readers to complete a free registration before accessing much of their content in order to enable them to gather statistics necessary for selling advertising. For some reason, a lot of people feel...
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The following, excepted from Yahoo!'s FAQ about DomainKeys, their proposal for authenticated email, points to a possible implementation of SSL (a.k.a. HTTPS or secure HTTP) which wouldn't require a CA, which would make setting up a secure server free, rather than requiring anywhere form $50 to hundreds of dollars per year:

Does DomainKeys require signing...
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I noticed some traffic coming in from a Korean site to one of my blog entries today. I don't read Korean, so I popped the text into Sherlock for translation, and this is what I got:

This will be contradictory conduct of inside oneself? Yesterday

"against" ' a reflection or an expansion be ' as...
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A few days ago, Amy Gahran posted on her Contentious Weblog (no, I don't mean it's an unfriendly weblog, that's the blog's title) a response to Google's sending a cease-and-desist to someone who'd been providing a service to convert Google News searches to RSS. As much as I'd love to see RSS feeds of Google...
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