Why Do Not Track is worse than a miserable failure. In theory, Do Not Track is a brilliant idea.
It’s an elegant, simple bit of technology. A user-agent (typically a web browser, but it could be anything) that is compliant with the Do Not Track standard adds a tiny snippet of information in its header. DNT=1 means that the owner of that user-agent has expressed a desire that his or her online movements not be tracked. Too bad it doesn’t work. The trouble with this voluntary standard is that it requires good faith cooperation from the parties at the other end of the web connection.
As a consumer, you’d think that the meaning of “Do Not Track” is pretty clear. And yet, according to Sarah Downey, an attorney and privacy advocate who works for the online-privacy firm Abine, that’s not what’s happening. Two big associations, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Digital Advertising Alliance, represent 90% of advertisers. That’s a perverse interpretation, and certainly isn’t what an ordinary consumer would expect.
Yikes. 10 Free Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Creative Suite. Posted 06/21/2011 at 1:50pm | by Florence Ion When there's just not enough cash in the bank and you're in a bind, the last thing you're able to do is drop a ton of money for pricey software like Adobe Creative Suite.
And sometimes, the professional-grade stuff is too much overkill for simple tasks like putting together a poster, blurring out a license plate in a photo or cropping out a shaky part of your vacation video. So that's what open source software is for. While they're sometimes not the most stable of applications, they're free and they oftentimes get the job done, just like their paid-for counterparts. We compiled a list of some of the best open source Adobe Creative Suite alternatives. 1 of 10 10 Free Open Source Alternatives to Adobe CS View the full image GIMPReplaces: Photoshop GIMP is easily one of the most powerful pieces of open source software available on the internet today.
Firesheep - codebutler. When logging into a website you usually start by submitting your username and password.
The server then checks to see if an account matching this information exists and if so, replies back to you with a "cookie" which is used by your browser for all subsequent requests. It's extremely common for websites to protect your password by encrypting the initial login, but surprisingly uncommon for websites to encrypt everything else. This leaves the cookie (and the user) vulnerable. HTTP session hijacking (sometimes called "sidejacking") is when an attacker gets a hold of a user's cookie, allowing them to do anything the user can do on a particular website. On an open wireless network, cookies are basically shouted through the air, making these attacks extremely easy.
This is a widely known problem that has been talked about to death, yet very popular websites continue to fail at protecting their users. After installing the extension you'll see a new sidebar. That's it.