November 10, 2003
Ask Tog: D'ohLT #2: Security D'ohLTs.
Only a D’ohLT would come up with a security scheme that is so overly complex that it’s guaranteed people will write down their passwords. And yet, this kind of D'ohLTishness is par for the course with these guys. They are the most clueless profession I know, and they are showing no signs of getting any better.
News.Com: Web hijack riles Belkin router users.
Belkin is trying to defuse a potentially embarrassing situation that arose after network administrators learned the company's routers can periodically hijack users' Web connection and display an advertisement for parental control software.
Seattle Times: At the heart of the spectrum: Powell is the man to watch on wireless.
What Powell thinks and how he approaches issues will influence the outcome of the spectrum issue. In turn, the proposed changes themselves could be significant, leading experts say, because of their potential to transform the economy and to create an abundance, rather than scarcity, of spectrum.
News.Com: Internet Explorer to stomp pop-ups.
Darin Linnman, a Microsoft spokesman, said that the company plans to add the pop-up blocking feature to an updated version of Explorer with Service Pack 2 when it's released in the first half of next year.
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