Since Google launched Chrome yesterday, much have been said on the blogosphere about its privacy implications. The issue is Google can log your search keystrokes as you type, even prior you hitting that Enter key to submit the search. But since Google Suggest is now enabled by default, this behavior is actually no different than [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Google Suggest vs. Privacy
Posted in security, tagged google, privacy, suggest on September 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Struts2 external redirect
Posted in java, tagged struts2 on September 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
For one of my S2 apps I needed to redirect to an external site. If you Google on how to do this, you’ll see examples in the form of: <result name=”foo” type=”redirect”>${externalUrl}</result> which doesn’t actually work, at least not in 2.0.11.2. Instead, I’m using the httpheader result type to do a 301 redirect: <result name=”foo” [...]
Moore’s law == SSL
Posted in security, tagged freebsd, openssl, poweredge, sc1435, security, ssl on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When it comes to security, Moore’s law usually benefits crackers: faster brute-force is an obvious benefit. One win for “the good guys” is in regards to SSL. Not so long ago, implementing SSL was so expensive compute-wise we had to deploy special cryptographic accelerator cards either on our load-balancers or on our edge servers. One [...]
