Firefly & Serenity

Posted by Mike Haller on Sunday, August 29. 2010 at 03:50 in Private
I love the movie. If you do too, visit http://projectserenity.blogspot.com/ and sign the petition:

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Patching Miranda to disallow version requests

Posted by Mike Haller on Friday, August 27. 2010 at 01:48 in Selfmade
Miranda is a well-known and open source instant messenger. It includes support for Jabber, which basically uses the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). The XML-based protocol allows servers to request certain information from clients.

Sometimes, it is advisable to disallow software to automatically and quietly communicate and reveal certain information to others.

One of those questionable requests is used to gather information about the client software name, version and operating system (e.g. what would be called User-Agent in HTTP).

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My name is Mike Haller and I'm a software developer and architect at Bosch Software Innovations in Germany. I love programming, playing games and reading books. I like good food, making photos and learning and mentoring about the craftsmanship of commercial software development. Stack Overflow profile for mhaller

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