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Tuesday, 16th December 2008

Adobe: Akamai Download Manager FAQ. Tip for Adobe: if the bizarre, buggy custom Java applet you force people to use to download your software requires an FAQ this long, maybe you should provide a “just do it the way everyone else does” option.

# 10:13 am / adobe, akamai, usability

Yahoo! yesterday launched their new development platform for My Yahoo! and Yahoo! Mail, which uses Caja to protect users from malicious gadgets. This means Caja suddenly got 275,000,000 users. Wow! I guess this makes Caja the most widely used capability language ever.

Ben Laurie

# 4:33 pm / ben-laurie, caja, security, yahoo, yahoomail, ydn

Microsoft: Big Security Hole in All IE Versions. Looks like a 0-day that’s being actively exploited.

# 8:26 pm / 0day, ie, internet-explorer, microsoft, security

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