By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: December 31, 2005
Saturday, 31 December 2005
- Markdown and WordPress 2.0 ★
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Michel Fortin has the scoop on using Markdown with the recently-released WordPress 2.0.
- Camino 1.0 Beta 2 ★
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Lots of improvements from beta 1.
- Wired: How Click Fraud Could Swallow the Internet ★
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Charles C. Mann reporting on pay-per-click advertising fraud:
Probably the most worrisome emerging threat is zombie networks — hordes of linked machines controlled by rogue software. Without their owners’ knowledge, these boxes continuously send spam, transmit worms and viruses, participate in denial-of-service attacks, and execute a host of other antisocial tasks. These zombie networks can be enormous. […] The robot machines create clicks from all around the world at apparently random intervals, making them difficult to identify.