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Security implications of MyBlogLog vs. BlogRovr

According to a TechCrunch story , Citibank is putting a warning message up for users of comment and blog tracking services. As it turns out, there is a known issue with the coComment plug-in and, though I'm not familiar with the service, it sounds like BlogRovr also has a browser extension. Since...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-27-2007
The UAC security flaw in Vista

User Account Control (UAC) is one of the key security mechanisms introduced in Vista. In the past, the default account as an administrator. Following the principle of least privilege , the default Vista account runs with limited access, and Vista detects when something requires "administrator prompts...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-03-2007
The Pros and Cons of OpenID

The Radar team has a good post up about the pros and cons of OpenID . So what does all that mean? It means that there are a lot of people who have OpenID, but they don't have many places to use them and they probably aren't aware that they have one. It is a good step towards solving some key online identity...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-02-2007
Streamburst offers innovative DRM for video

I've already discussed the German music store using watermarks to discourage piracy , and now it seems another service is applying the same principle to video . Instead of handcuffing viewers who want to view films they purchase on multiple devices and otherwise use content legitimately in ways DRM blocks...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-28-2007
Google launches Google Apps Premier Edition

As rumored yesterday , Google made a major announcement : a subscription package of premium, hosted business applications. (Man, Arrington's sources are scary good). The service combines GMail, Google Calendar, Google Talk and Google Docs & Spreadsheets for $50 per user annually. I still insist that...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-22-2007
OpenID gaining momentum

On the heels of Microsoft's announcement that it will support OpenID in CardSpace , AOL has become the latest major player to support OpenID . "Every AOL/AIM user now has at least one OpenID URI". This is big news. We made the decision to use OpenID as the sole authentication mechanism on a product we...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-17-2007
An Introduction to OpenID

OpenID, which describes itself as "an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity", has been gaining momentum and getting press in the Identity 2.0 space. The fundamental idea of OpenID is that a URI is necessarily unique and thus a good way to identify users. If you say you...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-15-2007
Fighting crime with technology

Last week, the big news here in NYC that the police are going to use technology to help fight crime . "This year, we'll begin a revolutionary innovation in crime-fighting: Equipping 911 call centers to receive digital images and videos New Yorkers send from cell phones and computers something no other...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-22-2007
Safety through Chaos

There is a theory that strict laws encourage anti-social behavior . Ultimately, these strict laws do the opposite of what they were intended to do, because they allow us to rationalize away responsibility. Along those lines, a Dutch town has eliminated nearly all traffic lights ( via Jeff ) and seen...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-10-2007
If you can read a file, you can copy it

Raymond reminds us that there is no "Copy" access mask because copying is not a fundamental file operation . Copying a file is just reading it into memory and then writing it out. Once the bytes come off the disk, the file system has no control any more over what the user does with them. Something to...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-09-2007

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