Adam Peake and myself wrote a joint comment to the Multilingualization of Internet naming system. (btw, Multilingualization isn’t a word in the English dictionary). This paper really shock me with its biases (and attempt rewrite reality). I also finish reading 17 out of 20 of the paper and with an exception of a few (Internet […]
Happy Chinese New Year
Happy Chinese New Year! Once again, it is the time of the year where all the Chinese around the world celebrate our Lunar new year. It is the time where we all go back to our home town to have ‘reunion dinners’ with families and visiting relatives and friends, many of them probably only this […]
IDN and homographs spoofing
There is a published spoofing attack using homographs IDN. By using a Cyrillic SMALL LETTER A (U+430), Securnia is able to pretend to be http://www.paypal.com/. Actually this is well-documented in RFC 3490 under the Security Consideration: To help prevent confusion between characters that are visually similar, it is suggested that implementations provide visual indications where […]
Everyone wants a piece of me
Arggh! Everyone seem to want a piece of me lately. APRICOT coming in 2 weeks times and they have been chasing me for my Bali Trip report on the site visit. (I just finish it this weekend). (Argghh, just realized I havent even do any of my slides for my presentations at APRICOT!). APEET is […]
Feedback on Virtual Keyboard
Finally got my hand on the Virtual Keyboard I mention two months back. The manual said it does not work with Mac/OS but I managed to get it to pair with my Mac anyway. Just go to the Bluetooth setup Assistant and instead of selecting “keyboard”, choose Other Device, and the proceed to pair them […]
DualPhone, Taiwanese version
Remember DualPhone which I got so excited about? Several people also email me to ask me what I think about it. Sorry for the not replying but that’s because all I get from DualPhone is ‘Sorry, we don’t ship to Singapore’. Anyway, Taiwanese manufacturer Sysgration gave this new cool Skype device ASG-300. The way it […]
Solution to Trackback Spams
Several MT users has emailed me to write a Captcha solution to the latest trackback spams problem. Unfortunately, Captcha cannot be easily integrated with trackback. In fact, trackback spams are harder to catch because both legit and spams trackback are normally send by machines so any tools that tries to differentiate human from machine will […]
WGIG papers
The Working Group for Internet Governance has just published some working papers (via Adam Peake) on a whole set of issues like IP address & domain names, root servers, peering and interconnection, multilingualization, spam, voip etc etc. I already taken a quick look at the Multilingualization paper and I am shock! shock shock shock! What […]
Warning about VoIP?
US warns on risk of net-based telephony reports FT Internet-based telephony known as voice over internet protocol, or VoIP promises lower costs and greater flexibility by using existing data networks. But a report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which develops technology guidelines for US government agencies, warns of the “inherent vulnerabilities†of […]
New technologies, new lens
Be afraid said Businessweek (via VoIP Watch) The big mistake many people make with new technologies, from personal computers to the World Wide Web and, most likely, VOIP, is to compare them with existing ways of doing things, and then–big surprise!–they don’t measure up. Yet already, more than 22 million people, plus 70,000 more every […]