tony at lbdigest dot com.
I may even use your question as a post so that it may help others (anonymous, if you so choose).
I saw this on Slashdot today, where a bunch of hackers developed a tool for stealing session IDs in Gmail. By default, gmail authentication is encrypted, but the rest of your session is not. In the requests that you send to gmail is included a session ID cookie, which is in the clear. With your [...]
I was on a run in my new home of Portland, Oregon when I came upon an AMC Pacer parked on the street. And I thought, how like the old Alteons the AMC Pacer is. They’re both rather odd looking, and have a rather fanatical fan following (as evidenced in it being in a starring [...]
I tend to separate out infrastructures into two different beasts: A site, and a super-site. Super-sites get tremendous amounts of traffic (1 Gigabit+) and typically are associated with a brand, such as Amazon.com, Google.com, or what have you.
On Slashdot today was a posting about the infrastructure for the super-site Wikipedia. And what load balancer do [...]
