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Online vs. Offline Gambling

Monday, June 11th, 2007

And since it’s illegal to operate an online casino business in US, where are the datacenters and all the servers that host zillions of online gambling websites

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PhishTank vs. Anti-Phishing Working Group

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

The biggest two online anti-phishing databases are PhishTank and Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). However, I noticed some big differences between these two organizations.

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PHP vs. PHP. Live bugs every day during March

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

It seems that Esser’s initiative to disclose one PHP vulnerability each day during March 2007 is unpopular among core PHP developers, especially for Zeev Suraski, co-creator of PHP and chief technology officer of Zend, which manages PHP development.

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Compliance Audit IS NOT Substantive Audit

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

The other day I attended a meeting where I got hit by a new concept .It is the unfortunate brainchild of the new age of risk management and compliance obsession. So it goes like this : Compliance = Vulnerability.

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