The FTC had solicited public comments on contactless payment systems:  The Federal Trade Commission and the Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic at the University of Washington Will Host a Town Hall Meeting on July 24, 2008, to Explore the Growth of Contactless Payment Systems and Their Implications for Consumer Protection  If I had known this was happening in Seattle I would have definitely attended.

I just learned about CSS sprites for reducing the amount of HTTP requests it takes to render a page.  Very cool stuff.

I happened to notice this in my Spam bucket.  Funny to see the phishers adapting to the trend of increased use of EV certs and the fact that customers are rightly ignorant of what EV certs actually are and why they would be good for them.  It’s never as simple as one might think to solve these kinds of problems with technology.  There is that human factor…

I recently listened to Rush while driving and wanted to reach into the radio and shake him because his delivery is so annoying. He must love to hear himself talk so much he repeats everything ad nauseum. Or perhaps his demographic falls asleep often during his show and needs an instant replay?

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I have often wondered about this kind of thing.  Browsers implement all kinds of “policies” that are largely implemented as undocumented logic in code – probably in response to a security bug.  Never before that I’m aware of has such a great documentation of considerations for client-side security for browsers been documented.

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In Courtroom Showdown, Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms | Threat Level from Wired.com

I was thinking recently about developers wanting to be able to exploit future bugs in systems like the iPhone (and even in windows media player and the like) to gain access to locked content, features or.  I was thinking about how this means they are not reporting security bugs but keep them secret.  Which seems to be an overall negative _for the platform_ since they have created a market through their own actions that thrives on finding and keeping bugs secret.  Not all those who use such vulnerabilities are good guys trying to get their fair use rights back for sure and that is where the danger lies.

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