Category Archives: Internet

  • How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet. A rather damning article on Flickr’s demise. I never was a big Flickr user, but I must admit I did not renew my pro membership when it was up for renewal in January. In theory the groups are great, but the navigation was awkward and were difficult to follow.

 

Good article on music piracy from The Register: Hey, Music Industry. You’re suing the wrong people.

Abusing HTTP Status Codes to Expose Private Information | Mike Cardwell, Online

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This is pretty amazing. With a few lines of JavaScript it is possible to test if you are logged on at a number of popular web sites, such as Facebook, Gmail and Twitter. It works by requesting certain pages on these sites and analysing the http return codes. The requested pages are accessible or inaccessible depending whether a user is logged on or not. They thus give different status codes depending on their accessibility. Pretty cleverand pretty scary!

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