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Farewell del.icio.us you were truly great

Looks like Yahoo is closing down del.icio.us I just exported my bookmarks, but that means that I’ll have them on one machine but not the others, and keeping the several machines I use on a regular basis will be more of a pain.

Anyhow it looks like there are a few alternatives out there that I’ll have to investigate which give me something else to do over the holiday.

Is it really going to save a huge amount of money for Yahoo, compared to the pain that it’ll cause the users and the bad publicity for them. I’ve already heard that several people ruminating about the long term future for flickr – I’ll not be buying a flickr pro account in the near future.

Warren Ellis has some more on the story.

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Possible backdoors in NetBSD IPSEC stack?

I just picked this up from a friend at the FSFE.

Apparently, someone who was working with the FBI a few years ago alleges that he came across information regarding backdoors that had been inserted into the IPSEC stack.

I know, that this is technical but it comes down to the fact that the FBI can snoop on “secure communications” that are encrypted using the NetBSD IPSEC stack. Now is the time for a code review, especially as it appears that the FBI have apparently been pushing use of the allegedly backdoored stack for firewalls and VPN tunnels.

The email that details this is linked below:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129236621626462&w=2

I do like the “Merry Christmas” at the end.

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Google Instant Blacklist

So you’ve used google instant right?

What happens if you accidentally type in something that might return some “dodgy” results? Well, good old google will protect you from yourself through its blacklist.

You can still get the full results by pressing return in the search box, so make sure that you press return if you want all those results.

And for a full list of words on the blacklist, pop over to 2600.com…
http://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/

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Spam filtering, and how not to do it.

Alun is not having a very fun time with secureserver.net and from the sounds of their technical support staff, they’re secure through a certain amount of incompetence.

I’m sure that you will enjoy reading the exploits of a sys-admin at a UK university, so here’s the link secureserver spam blog entry

Oh, and this counts as a little assistance in getting pushed up the google search rankings