• Mac Security

    Cross Site Scripting or Simple Stupidity?

    So recently I was entering some codes online to see if I won something.  In the address string at the top of the page I noticed it said winner=false in the string.  I switched that to say winner=true and refreshed the page.  My loosing code was suddenly a winning code.  Not really fancy and not really cross site scripting, but definitely bad coding…

  • Business

    OpenOffice 3.0

    OpenOffice.org, the increasingly popular Office-like productivity suite is finally native on the Mac with the latest releases, still in Release Candidate, although hopefully close to a stable full release.  Since Sun has bought OpenOffice it’s been looming in the background as a potential Office killer.  But OpenOffice has never taken that step.  People seem leery about it, not wanting to retrain users, not trusting of a new, weird app.  Understandably, most everyone on the planet seems pretty darn used to using Office at this point, and users don’t typically take well to change.  The new document formats for Office, .docx (for Word), pptx (for Power Point) and .xlsx (for Excel)…