Posts by tsal

Google App Engine has THIRTY flaws, says researcher

Re: Could be interesting, but...

"Evidence and implication information would be gratefully received."

Thanks for delivering on the first point.

Now if someone could state what this situation means in practice then great... the article will have been of use.

Could be interesting, but...

This article could be interesting, but it doesn't explain:

1/ what evidence there is for the escape taking place? - at the very least, why should we take this security outfit seriously; do they have 'previous' in finding flaws?

2/ what are the implications of these flaws? - the details provided (if true) don't sound good, but if escaping the sandbox leaves you in a vacuum of space then it probably doesn't amount to much.

What we are told is that when they tried to do things they shouldn't, their account was shut down - which seems reasonable.

Evidence and implication information would be gratefully received.

NO MORE ALL CAPS and other pleasures of Visual Studio 14

D(HE)LL?

"You can also have applications running side by side and using different versions."

...sounds like a great recipe for DLL Hell.

Hopefully this has been considered (or I've missed something)

EU Parliament rubber-stamps 'irreversible' data protection reforms

On balance, good imho

New legislation is always a hassle and often costs businesses money, but I still think this is a smart move that will (a) increase inward investment in EU based IT infrastructure, and (b) put pressure on other nations to tighten data protection laws.

I work with a number of clients who already insist on serving data to the US from the EU for data protection reasons. If implemented, these reforms are only likely to increase this.