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Feed Security and FeedDemon, Part II
In my previous post I wrote about FeedDemon’s security features, the most important of which is the fact that FeedDemon’s newspapers operate in Internet Explorer’s “Internet Zone” instead of the less...
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I Missed my Calling
Yesterday I was talking with Brent Simmons and Brian Kellner about feed security, and how you really have to think like a hacker to find vulnerabilities in your software. That reminded me of my own...
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Feed Security and FeedDemon, Part III
Last month I promised to talk about the exploits that James Snell uncovered which left feed readers vulnerable to some very annoying script-based attacks. I didn’t want to provide details of the...
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Kudos to Microsoft
I’ll echo Sam Ruby’s comments: “When the IE team screws up, it makes front page news everywhere. If life were fair, items like this one would get equal coverage.” Microsoft takes a lot of crap about...
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Why do firewalls have to be such a PITA?
I’m in a ranting mood today, so it’s the perfect time for me to complain about the state of firewalls. Specifically, about how they’re an incredible pain for desktop developers and support technicians...
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Simplicity Ain’t So Simple, Part VI: Simple = Secure
If you want to create software that’s used by a lot of people, you already know you’ve got to make it simple. But if you’re designing a desktop application which connects to the Internet, you’ve also...
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Is Steve Jobs Giving Up on the Desktop?
Apparently a few people were surprised when I blogged about being disappointed when I heard that third-party developers wouldn’t be able to build native iPhone apps. After all, I’m a Windows desktop...
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Response: On Stripping Styles for Security
Adrian Sutton blogs about the lack of CSS support in RSS aggregators, and concludes: "There has been a huge push in recent years to move away from the old habits of early HTML and to leverage CSS for...
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Sanitizing CSS: 10 Tips for Aggregator Developers
Earlier this week I wrote about sanitizing CSS, and I’ve been thinking about it a bit more. Like many RSS aggregators, for security and presentation reasons the current version of FeedDemon strips all...
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FeedDemon 2.6 Crack Available
Amazing. I’ve already spotted several warez sites that offer supposedly cracked versions of FeedDemon 2.6, despite the fact that FeedDemon is now free. That’s right, folks – instead of safely...
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