links for 2009-07-26
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SMTP server in modern, MVC design, written in Python, released under GPL. Very interesting.
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A more step-by-step explanation of where the "Free Public WiFi" SSID comes from, and how Windows zero-configuration is at fault.
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Ever come across ad-hoc wifi access points called "Free Public WiFi" or "hpsetup"? Here's a plausible account of where they may be coming from — in short, a Windows setting (now fixed, I think) used to rebroadcast AP SSIDs as ad-hoc networks under the same SSID. So some SSIDs just spread virally. Very weird.
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Shopify (hosted e-commerce) has an API that looks very well designed. It's RESTful XML-over-HTTP. Very clean and easy-to-read documentation too.
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Canonical's Launchpad bug tracker / software development collaboration platform is now open-sourced.
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Some insight into Google/Postini's internal principle. In my experience. the service has a lot of false positives.
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Lessons from Germany's electronic health card system implementation, the world's largest public key infrastructure.
"Matthias Merx, the firm's managing director, told heise online that following a voltage drop, something happened in D-Trust's 'Trustcenter' that does occasionally occur. 'The HSM [hardware security module] independently deleted the data because it suspected an attack."
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Justin Mason's analysis of the recent problems (likely DNS cache poisoning) at Eircom.
chris @ July 27, 2009