Friday, July 03, 1998

MSNBC covers the $DATA hole.

Jakob Nielsen comments on trust and security holes.

Hey if you'll be in Silicon Valley on September 30, check out the Sand Hill Challenge. Great use of Flash!

One reader questions whether my PasswordMaker page generates "truly" random passwords as it says it does. Maybe it generates a "pseudo" random password, mathematically speaking? But if you think it thru, since each character in the password is generated from a modulus of the system clock, and since the time any individual loaded the page *is* a random event, then the page generates "truly" random passwords. Hey! That works.

There's a 1993 standard for random password generators.

Here's the scoop on Netscape's Action Sheets.

My project for yesterday was to do a screen shot tour of Frontier 5.1, but the IIS security hole pushed it aside. By the end of the day I didn't have the juice to do new screen shots, so instead...

My favorite gifs are at the end of the slide show, for some random reason. And the best picture, the one that really gives me goosebumps, is the picture of Uncle Sam saying We Won! For two gold stars, do you remember what it was we won?