Sunday, August 05 2001

Marc Waldman, Aviel D. Rubin and Lorrie Faith Cranor : Publius

"A robust, tamper-evident, censorship-resistant web publishing system." (pdf)

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Reuven M. Lerner : CodeRed.pm

"This Perl module should be invoked whenever the CodeRed or CodeRed2 worm attacks. We don't have to worry about such attacks on Linux (sic) boxes, but we can be good Internet citizens, warning the webmasters on infected machines of the problem and how to solve it." Be sure to follow the thread on this one for a fitting example of why the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

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Me : Apache::SOAP::Jabber.pm

This is a quick and dirty mod_perl/SOAP handler that acts as a gateway for sending IM messages via a Jabber server. I wrote it after reading the following... Needless to say, someone else is already providing the service. This is proof of concept stuff, folks. It works but there are bugs.

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is fallible

| source : web1913 | Fallible \Fal"li*ble\, a. [LL. fallibilis, fr. L. fallere to deceive: cf. F. faillible. See {Fail}.] Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible. | source : wn | fallible adj 1: likely to fail or be inaccurate; "everyone is fallible to some degree" [ant: {infallible}] 2: having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only human"; "frail humanity" [syn: {frail}, {imperfect}, {weak}]

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