The Hypocrisy Weblog

Every user of vbportal (vBulletin add-on) should check this thread over at The Admin Zone! Apparently the software contains security holes which makes it possible for an outsider to edit the content of a site running vbportal as well as editing the apache-configuration.

The “f” in http://us.f348.mail.yahoo.com stands for “farm”, as in which server-farm your mail-account with Yahoo! Mail is based on.

The staff behind Yahoo! Mail made a post on their blog, which they gave the entertaining name “We’ve parked your Mail account next to the tractor“.

An interesting thing that the staff write in this blog-post is:

“But we regularly move accounts from farm to farm to balance the load on our servers. So there’s no guarantee your account will be on any specific farm for any amount of time.”

I know Yahoo! has immense traffic and a gigantic datastorage over at their end, but why not do what Google has done and only point to “mail.google.com”, or in Yahoo!’s case: “mail.yahoo.com”?! This would make such questions never pop up in their customers, aka their users’ minds.

Speaking about Yahoo! Mail; The beta of their webmail-service is a nice, yet a bit heavy on the local computer, but it does have more features making it closer to a “real” email-client than what their biggest competitor Google Mail.

Though, one of the major downsides of Yahoo! Mail is their advertisements. It takes up way too much of the usable space. I can’t wait, or at least I hope this day comes, when Yahoo! ditches their banner advertisements in their webmail-service and implements context-based text-ads.

Ah, before I could get the rewrite-module to start working and get the old directory structure of this blog up I thought I would tear my hair off – though now everything seem to work just fine

I didn’t realize that the directory structure within the blog didn’t work until today, so I hope that I didn’t lose to many readers over this!

Anyways, kick butt!

Hacker group Hacktivismo has released a secure instant messenger client known as “ScatterChat”, which encrypts all conversations and on top of that tunnels all transfers over the onion router service “Tor“.

Hacktivism says:

“ScatterChat is a HACKTIVIST WEAPON designed to allow non-technical human rights activists and political dissidents to communicate securely and anonymously while operating in hostile territory. It is also useful in corporate settings, or in other situations where privacy is desired.”

ScatterChat is built around the open source instant messenger program Gaim and can be downloaded here.