Back when the Beta version of Netscape 8 was released to the public, I stated in a previous blog entry, that: The plugin used to access Internet Explorer’s rendering engine opens Netscape 8 to the same security vulnerabilities Internet Explorer has, regardless of what rendering engine is being used. To further explain this, there is [...]
There has been some recent confusion about threads in the secnews.netscape.com newsgroups being closed. I just want to make things clear for everyone. What is this all about? There has been too much off-topic discussion taking place on the secnews.netscape.com user support newsgroups. While camaraderie is encouraged, the utility of the user support venue is [...]
Today Netscape 8 was released; so I went to Netscape.com to download it. I was automatically redirected to a detour page, with this message [click on image for the full page]: I’m using Firefox 1.0.4. Netscape 8 is based on Firefox 1.0.3. Folks, if you get this message, don’t believe it. It’s a lie. The [...]
I while ago, I noticed that Google Groups‘ new Beta system does not display full email addresses. Seeing as Google is probably the most popular usenet archival engine, and thus the main source of email address harvesting for spammers, I wondered how much affect the new system had on spam. For the past week, I [...]