This very interesting article explains in details how cross site scripting can be used to hack google desktop (if new version of Google desktop in not installed yet):
Overtaking-Google-Desktop.pdf
This demo shows how potential hacker can operate:
Demonstration of Google Desktop vulnerability
The article is pretty impressive and made me think about XSS vulnerability of my own postjobfree.com web site.
Keywords: XSS, Web site security, javascript, hacker attack, XSS, RegEx, hack, Google Desktop.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Geeks Rule and MBAs
Eric Sink (SourceGear) recommends to start software company with developers only.
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Geeks Rule and MBAs Drool
It is common to see software companies starting out with two founders, a geek and an MBA. Do you really need the MBA?
If I were to oversimplify the message of this article, I would make two statements:
Developers add more value to a software company than anybody else.
The truth of statement 1 is inversely correlated with the size of the company.
When a company is very small or just getting started, nobody can add value as well as a developer because there isn't really much other stuff that needs to be done. You don't have customers yet.
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Geeks Rule and MBAs Drool
It is common to see software companies starting out with two founders, a geek and an MBA. Do you really need the MBA?
If I were to oversimplify the message of this article, I would make two statements:
Developers add more value to a software company than anybody else.
The truth of statement 1 is inversely correlated with the size of the company.
When a company is very small or just getting started, nobody can add value as well as a developer because there isn't really much other stuff that needs to be done. You don't have customers yet.
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