Microsoft is finally putting all the pieces together in their plans to start raking in transactional fees from as much electronic commerce as possible. If I have time, I’ll write something about this later.
There’s a trojan horse being distributed via email that sends the user’s AOL password to a malicious person when they run the program. It gets the AOL password off of the user’s hard disk. AOL isn’t taking responsiblity, of course, but I’m forced to wonder why AOL passwords are stored unencrypted. Maybe they are encrypted and the story fails to make that clear. At least the trojan horse lets you know that it just stole your password, so you can change it.
takeitoffline.com is a service that allows you to create one-shot discussion forums for off-topic discussions on mailing lists and in newsgroups. Now you can not only tell people to take it offline, but you can give them a way to do it. (Thanks to Tara Calishain for this link.)
Unsurprisigly, the Linux community is responding to the anti-Linux FUD being disseminated by Microsoft. Nicholas Petreley says the whole incident is cause for celebration.
Cam is sold on epinions.com.