Javascript is an interesting language. Its partly a functional programming language and part object oriented. It uses a C style syntax but borrows its naming conventions from Java (mostly). Personally I find Javascript language to be one of the most interesting languages that I have played with. The complaints I hear most often regarding Javascript [...]
One of the problems with the email and the protocols used to transfer it (SMTP) is that they were designed long ago when the Internet was a much friendlier place. When SMTP was designed it was assumed that other hosts on the Internet could be trusted. This is particularly visible in the configuration of relays [...]
Google has recently taken a large amount of criticism for capturing unencrypted wireless network traffic as part of its Street View project. Google admitted to the world that although it was only looking to capture station MAC addresses it inadvertently also captured the payload data. Many articles have emerged blasting Google [...]
When making an xmlhttprequest from a website the browser will restrict you to the site from which the script came. This is a security precaution. If sites were able to tell the browser to make requests from other domains then they would be able to DDOS a site with a users browser. There are legitimate [...]
About EncFS
EncFS is an encrypted filesystem based on FUSE. It transparently encrypts files stored in it and places them on another volume. This is in contrast to block level encrypted filesystems which transparently encrypt the data under the filesystem layer as it is being written to disk. Think of EncFS as a bind mount, except [...]