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Entries from November 2008

Free Dr. Pepper overloads site, exposes captcha key

November 23rd, 2008 ·

I love Dr. Pepper. So when then announced they where giving it away for free I was all over it.
Sadly though the site was not up to the task and was continually failing in new and wonderful ways. Everything from Service Unavailable to this piece of code poo:
Start ‘, gmdate(”F j, Y, g:i:s a T”, [...]

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Tags: Humor · OS X · Security · web site security

MS Destroys the Consumer AV Market

November 18th, 2008 ·

Today Microsoft announced that they are going to start offering free anti-virus/spyware/trojan/rootkit protection. Say bye-bye to Symantec and Mcafee’s cash cows. It looks like it took about 5 years to make it happen assuming they are using the technology they aquired back in 2003 via GeCAD.
So the big question is how long will it take [...]

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Tags: Security Industry