My 'fun' car is in the shop again. It's a 93 VW Corrado with 184,000 miles on it and just about as many memories. She's always been a very fun car to drive - light weight with enough horsepower to keep temptation to speed always present. :) Unfortunately, as I said - she's in the shop 'unable to perform' - can't start. :( My mechanic here in town has always been good, but this time I think my car has become the project they're doing between cars they intend on fixing. not good.
Remember that concept I posted about a few months ago called 'zero day'? it's where there is a flaw in a program you may be using is discovered AND there is no available fix.
» Mozilla ups unpatched Firefox flaw to ‘high severity’; Preps fix Zero Day ZDNet.com
The BIG bummer with this news is - I like Firefox! it's faster than Internet Explorer (IE) and highly customizable. The fact that it's a minority player in the market and it's not as embedded into the operating system as IE both make it imminently less attractive to hackers as a good attack point. But here we are with a big stinkin hole. bummer
It's a little encouraging that the non-custom version of the browser sounds safe, but the hole that is there is big. Stealing sessions is like if you were to log onto your bank account, then hand your laptop over to a random person. That person could now change your password, mailing address - everthing and most websites have NO way of knowing it's not you. bummer!
Remember that concept I posted about a few months ago called 'zero day'? it's where there is a flaw in a program you may be using is discovered AND there is no available fix.
» Mozilla ups unpatched Firefox flaw to ‘high severity’; Preps fix Zero Day ZDNet.com
The BIG bummer with this news is - I like Firefox! it's faster than Internet Explorer (IE) and highly customizable. The fact that it's a minority player in the market and it's not as embedded into the operating system as IE both make it imminently less attractive to hackers as a good attack point. But here we are with a big stinkin hole. bummer
It's a little encouraging that the non-custom version of the browser sounds safe, but the hole that is there is big. Stealing sessions is like if you were to log onto your bank account, then hand your laptop over to a random person. That person could now change your password, mailing address - everthing and most websites have NO way of knowing it's not you. bummer!
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