Trust boundaries
Mark Pilgrim: And now that RSS is moving into the mainstream, the design decisions that got it there are becoming more and more of a problem.
It looks like my comment system was tested, and this time at least, it passed. Combinations of tags and attributes that I don't recognize, I encode so that they display literally.
It looks like a number of aggregators need a bit of hormone therapy
Exploits
Mark gave us a vivid example of exactly what could happen without actually doing anything harmful. People publish demonstrations like this because software vendors have historically ignored private warnings. A demonstration makes it... [more]Trackback from Entries in Life at
Cell biology related to distributed computing
Something ingenious I missed the first time via, uh, Sam Ruby. If you sort biological organisms by size, you will see a point at which the strategy shifts from making larger cells to making more cells. Cells are surrounded by a trust boundary. Cells...Excerpt from Stu's Weblog at
RSS Safety Validation
I'm thinking that it might be a good idea to ask Sam these types of issues checked out in the RSS Validator....... [more]Trackback from snellspace at