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No alternative to Facebook. . .Yet.

Posted by on May 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Personal web pages started for the most part at universities, because students and profs all had accounts, so why not? Then the internet opened up to mortals, and a lot of them put up web sites, though often on their own dime. Then along came Geocities, which provided free hosting for people’s web sites. And [...]

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Other dangerous viruses

Posted by on May 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

The swine flu and overnight singing sensation Susan Boyle have a lot in common, and I don’t mean that in the most obvious (and insulting) sense, so shame on you. The swine flu worked its way into Canada from the south, and the video of the self-proclaimed 47-year old virgin worked its way through the [...]

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Wormholes on the web

Posted by on October 1, 2007 · Leave a Comment 

Recently an exploit was discovered on the web that allowed bad web sites to hijack the accounts of clueless Second Life users via a script that would grab the user’s login info from wherever it’s stored in Internet Explorer. I refer to the victims as clueless not only because they use Internet Explorer, but also [...]

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