Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - Posts
The Blog Spamming is growing... it's the 3rd day that I've to delete spam on my feedback. 
We've discussed a lot about the spam problem on blogs and I think that the solution widely adopted now (disabling the feedback feature) is not the correct way to do... Blogs must absolutely be opened for comments but spam must be avoided.
An idea to fight spam on a blog comment could be the adoption of a CAPTCHA image... something like this:
You can write a comment on a blog post only by typing the correct image...
This is not a way to stop all the possible spamming, but with this way you're sure that someone "live" is under the monitor (spamming robots are dead).
A little idea for the CommunityServer::Blogs (.Text) staff is launched... 
A vulnerability has been reported in Gaim, the popular multi-protocol Instant Messaging client, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of MSN SLP messages. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by supplying a specially crafted sequence of MSN SLP messages. Successful exploitation may potentially allow execution of arbitrary code.
Two other bugs have also been reported, which can be exploited to crash the application when accepting file transfers and processing a malformed MSN SLP message.
Solution? Update to version 1.02 soon: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
I've see only this morning that on on MozillaNews is appeared a thread that talks about a possible target for GBrowser, the domain bought by Google for a possible (??) browser project: a Google branded and customized version of Mozilla Firefox! :)
I don't know who is the author of the article but I don't think that the Google plans are these. The idea is fascinating but not a key of success for a company like Google. If they really want to open the door to the browser world, they must start thinking to a revolutionary way to surf the web, not only limited to a customized Firefox version with lots of Google toys...
A Firefox based Google Browser with GMail, GoogleGroups, Blogger, GoogleIM, Google Search for the web and for the desktop is (in my opinion) not the real target, but the real point of arrival could be a complete platform that integrates many popular web and desktop features, a new way to manage your pc and your net surfing. Do you remember that a month ago I talked about ideas for a Network Pc?