Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

How to Scare a Blogger

Spotted at The American Street:

cache poisoning somewhere? a 302 exploit? ) or what I can do about it.

Update: Kevin amended his post, and we exchanged emails. For the reason described in the comments, the problem is solved (Kevin seemed to have inherited a spammer's IP number, which I had redirected).

Posted in Discourse.net | 9 Comments

New and Visiting Faculty Next Year

It's been something of an open secret, but the Dean has now officially announced the list of New and Visiting Faculty for 2005-2006. It's a long list, and a good one.

Posted in U.Miami | 2 Comments

Firefox 1.0.3

Firefox issues another security update. See the Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 Release Notes or just download the latest version.

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Meaningless Personality Quiz, Pt. 8

Mais bien sur!


Your Inner European is French!



Smart and sophisticated.

You have the best of everything – at least, you think so.

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National Journal on Froomkinization

The National Journal takes on the metaphysical question of whether my brother's column really qualifies as a blog.

Posted in Dan Froomkin | 1 Comment

Protect Yourself from Unwanted ActiveX Controls and Macromedia ‘Persistent Local Shared Ojbects’

The world needs this: The indefatigable Ed Bott explains how to Protect yourself from unwanted ActiveX controls. (Although, in fact, cautious folk like me have already done the equivalent by manipulating our settings manually.)

Meanwhile, the really paranoid, will be worrying about persistent cookies set by Macromedia Flash applications. And will be turning off the persistent 'Local Shared Objects' with a fix from Macromedia. There's even a neat Firefox extension called objection, which will allow you to control these in Firefox for Windows.

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