Tiffany B. Brown

A web log about web development and internet culture with frequent detours into other stuff.
TrueCrypt now available for Mac OS X
Sniffing users’ browser history and Firefox extensions to stop it

A Thursday three-fer in case you missed it

WordPress 2.3.3
WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog.
Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information
Google Docs now lets you create custom forms to collect information and store it in a spreadsheet. Hoping that my preferred web based spreadsheet service follows suit.
Online sex predators prefer IM, chat rooms to social networks
[S]ocial networking sites are actually safer than chat rooms and instant messaging, while most perpetrators are upfront about both their ages and desires.
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