Comments for Daniel Hall's Website

Comment on Protecting Email with DKIM by Mujtaba Hussain

Mujtaba Hussain — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:53:34 +0000

Do I still have to put up with sendmail in this era?

Comment on Google’s Privacy Bungle by Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:54:29 +0000

Its not Facebook I am critisizing, its the people who complain about privacy and then go and put all their data on Facebook.

Comment on Google’s Privacy Bungle by Mujtaba Hussain

Mujtaba Hussain — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:15:45 +0000

I agree with you. Google should not be liable for capturing it. It is a past time now a days to blame your technical incompetence on the technical competence of others.

Mujtaba Hussain

p.s. You too, my friend, are on facebook, so don’t rush to criticise it

Comment on Cross-Domain AJAX by Alex Peters

Alex Peters — Wed, 05 May 2010 01:01:55 +0000

Consider also JSONP.

Comment on The Australian Mandatory Internet Filter by Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:30:57 +0000

The ISP’s may decide on what filter to put in place, but ultimately the approach I outlined is the only possible way for the filter to work. The filter can either intercept all traffic and filter it (which would lead to false positives) or only filter specific traffic over the HTTP protocol by using a DNS intercept. This is practically the only approach that will come close to working for a large ISP but doesn’t even come close to scaling to an entire country. In December 2008 the UK tried to block Wikipedia[1] causing all sorts of havok for the Wikipedia administrators and UK citizens alike. It should be noted that not all UK ISPs were involved and even that small subset managed to highlight the potential failure. This is not an attack at any particular filter, but rather the whole internet filtering methodology.

Everybody nowdays tends to believe that all URLs begin with http:// but this is not the case. URLs can be used for any number of protocols[2]. For example samba (windows file sharing) URLs begin with smb://, FTP links with ftp:// and even vnc:// for VNC connection strings. While all these can be filtered, the filters proposed by the Government and tested at ENEX test labs are focused on the HTTP protocol only.

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081207/1805293043.shtml
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator

Comment on Pet Projects by Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:22:02 +0000

Of course calling exec on a compiler (or part thereof) would be a no-no.

Comment on Pet Projects by Mujtaba Hussain

Mujtaba Hussain — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:11:28 +0000

How about this ? You write a piece of code which has more than 5 functions and you write it in C. Do not run it or check it. Then you write a proper piece of code, in whatever language you want, to check if the first code section has any errors in it.

This should keep you occupied

Mujtaba Hussain

Comment on The Australian Mandatory Internet Filter by MaxG

MaxG — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:33:26 +0000

Soz mate, but your technical description of the filter is inaccurate on several fronts.

First of all the ISPs will choose what filters they put in place, not the gov.

Second, no filters have been chosen yet.

Third, it is a URL filter system scenario, not a http filter.

So from all the filters that have not been chosen yet, which one does not handle high loads, and give a us a list of all the filters that were not tested but are still available to ISPs?

Start there, get those right and let’s see another article mate…

Good luck!

Comment on About Me by Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:21:28 +0000

Urrrr, no comment? Why is your website asking me for a password Mujtaba?

Comment on About Me by Mujtaba Hussain

Mujtaba Hussain — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:43:13 +0000

Why are you such a jerk Daniel ? huh ? WHY WHY WHY ?