Posts by Simon T

Grisoft acquires LinkScanner

@john

>made a connection(or several) to a web site through the firewall. What the link

>scanner is doing is monitoring the high level content of the HTTP data stream

>scanning for known exploits against browser vulnerabilities

sites serving up malware via SSL will be an interesting problem then......

Wernher Von Braun's 1934 PhD thesis auctioned

As learned from colleagues in the Royal Artillery....

"I fire my missile in the air.....

where it lands, I know not where"

Remembering the IBM PC

Pokes at 256

Ermmmmm. Got me there :) You are 100% correct (or 99%, if starting from 0).

Hacking Jet Set Willy?

I still remember the poke code for that on the Vic 20:

Poke 9926, 256

I think thats for two player, can't remember the single player poke.

Funny what sticks in the mind.

Darling admits Revenue loss of 25 million personal records

Internal Mail in Govenment departments

I worked (as an IT contractor) at a large military headquarters just outside Watford about ten years ago (no place names, just think Yes Prime Minister..... season 1 episode 1...) where internal mail took seven WORKING days to travel the epic journey from one office to another. Mail frequently went missing.

However classified docs (iirc) were not sent via the internal mail!