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Reading Rainbow: Episode 12

Posted on August 24, 2008 by samurai

While working on my web-spider class for an application I was developing, I did some searching for efficiency of spidering algorithms. I came across this comparison of the depth-first versus breadth-first search algorithms. http://www.leekillough.com/trapopt.html Using a combination of Javascript and … Continue reading →

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Reading Rainbow: Episode 11

Posted on July 18, 2008 by samurai

Windows has it’s place in today’s world. Here are some examples of places it is and really shouldn’t be. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29644 Many companies provide their employees with company cell phones. When text messaging is enabled a unique privacy issue develops regarding … Continue reading →

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Reading Rainbow: Episode 10

Posted on July 7, 2008 by samurai

“90% of emails sent are spam” is a statistic found on the following article. With such a large percentage of emails being considered spam protection techniques need to move to proactive, rather than reactive. One method being suggested is tracking … Continue reading →

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and… we’re back!

Posted on July 3, 2008 by samurai

After nearly a month of no updates, I have returned to post again. Just because I haven’t been posting doesn’t mean that articles aren’t in the works. There are quite a few posts sitting in various stages of partial completion … Continue reading →

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Reading Rainbow: Episode 9

Posted on June 16, 2008 by samurai

Virtual machine’s use unique MAC addresses to access the internet. This article provides a listing of their identifiers so that you may asertain whether or not a particular machine is within a Virtual machine. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=538&tag=nl.e102 Botnets are no new threat … Continue reading →

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Reading Rainbow: Episode 8

Posted on June 7, 2008 by samurai

Restrictive passwords make cracking more difficult by requiring that users use a wider range of characters; however, can restrictive password policies actually decrease time required to crack? This blog goes into the math behind it. http://lukenotricks.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-on-counting-restrictive-password.htm Mozilla has a new … Continue reading →

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