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Linked List: August 1, 2005

Monday, 1 August 2005

Cisco Harasses Security Researcher ★

Bruce Schneier:

I’ve also written about how security companies treat vulnerabilities as public-relations problems first and technical problems second. This week at [BlackHat], security researcher Michael Lynn and Cisco demonstrated both points.

Lynn was going to present security flaws in Cisco’s IOS, and Cisco went to inordinate lengths to make sure that information never got into the hands of the their consumers, the press, or the public.

More Mac Mysteries ★

Steven Frank on iPod Shuffle Déjà Vu and the Curse of Spotlight.

Apple’s Safari Team Is Hiring ★

Darin Adler, who manages the Safari and Web Kit teams at Apple, says they’re hiring engineers for both. He also mentions a bunch of the things they’re working on, including several JavaScript performance improvements, improved support for contentEditable sections, and a new form control implementation from Dave Hyatt (which implementation will allow for form controls to be styled with CSS). No other team at Apple is developing out in the open like this.