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February 10, 2006

Police blotter: Patriot Act e-mail spying approved

Filed under: Computer Security,My Thoughts,News/Articles,Tech Related — Suramya @ 12:27 PM

Another not so useful move by the US govt in the ‘war’ against terrorism. My cooking can be described as a lethal weapon so I guess they need to check my email to make sure I am not a terrorist.

Abstract:

A federal judge recently approved a prosecutors’ Patriot Act request for e-mail surveillance without any evidence of wrongdoing by the target. The Patriot Act’s amendments authorize that type of easily obtainable surveillance of e-mail. All that’s required is that prosecutors claim the surveillance could conceivably be “relevant” to an investigation.

Complete Article: Patriot Act e-mail spying approved

– Suramya

January 27, 2006

Deleting code

Filed under: My Thoughts,Tech Related — Suramya @ 3:30 PM

Pretty interesting article on why its important to delete code you don’t use. I never thought about it before reading this but now that I think about I don’t like deleting code either.

Even though I have subversion that I have started to use as a source control repository I still comment out code and leave it in there. Sometimes I do it because I am not sure the new code will work and then it jsut stays behind as “dropping’s” until I remove them (Which is not that often) I am not as bad as some of the examples depicted but I guess I have to improve on this…

Overall an interesting point of view.

Original Article: Ned Batchelder: Deleting code

– Suramya

December 7, 2005

20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration

Filed under: Security Tutorials,Tech Related — Suramya @ 11:36 PM

Finally a decent guide on how to secure an Apache installation. I am not maintaining any apache server’s right now but if I was this would have been a great help.

Complete Article: 20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration

– Suramya

November 9, 2005

Building extra secure Web applications

Filed under: Security Tutorials,Tech Related — Suramya @ 4:30 PM

Interesting article from IBM that offers a new security design framework that covers two common types of vulnerability: action tampering and parameter manipulation (also known as data tampering).

Check it out: Build extra secure Web applications

– Suramya

November 8, 2005

Reducing browser privileges for a user

Filed under: Security Tutorials,Tech Related — Suramya @ 10:31 PM

This article shows a simple approach of reducing privileges for Internet-facing applications on such as IE, Firefox, IM and email clients when the user must operate as a Windows administrator.

Reducing browser privileges

November 2, 2005

Windows XP services that can be disabled

Filed under: Computer Security,Security Tutorials,Tech Related — Suramya @ 9:53 PM

One of the most effective ways to secure a Windows workstation is to turn off unnecessary services. This reference sheet lists the Windows XP SP 2 services, describes each service’s function, specifies whether you can safely disable the service, and outlines the ramifications of disabling the service.

Good Information. Check it out.

Downloading Windows XP services that can be disabled – TechRepublic

Windows XP services that can be disabled

Filed under: Computer Security,Security Tutorials,Tech Related — Suramya @ 9:51 PM

One of the most effective ways to secure a Windows workstation is to turn off unnecessary services. This reference sheet lists the Windows XP SP 2 services, describes each service’s function, specifies whether you can safely disable the service, and outlines the ramifications of disabling the service.

Good Information. Check it out.

Downloading Windows XP services that can be disabled – TechRepublic

Network monitoring with Cacti

Filed under: Computer Software,Security Tools,Tech Related — Suramya @ 9:04 PM

Interesting software to try out for network monitoring. Hopefully it will be simpler to use/setup than some of the other software I have tried earlier.

Network monitoring with Cacti

October 31, 2005

Ajax Tutorial: Ajax What Is It Good For?

Filed under: Computer Software,Tech Related,Tutorials — Suramya @ 9:09 PM

Nice Tutorial on Ajax and what it is good for. Interesting read.

Ajax Tutorial: Ajax What Is It Good For?

– Suramya

October 27, 2005

An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Filed under: News/Articles,Tech Related — Suramya @ 10:03 PM

Really good article introducing Artificial Intelligence to the general public.

MacDevCenter.com: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

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