Wow… this latest fix for IE is hillarious. There’s a bug in IE (shocking, I know) that was identified nearly two months ago. It allows michievous web developers to direct people to spoofed web sites that appear to have the same address as the real ones without any clue in the URL that you are not looking at the real site. The whole URL would be something like this: http://www.wright.edu%01@www.t3hevil.com
but IE would only display everything before the special character “%01″ (%01 is the ASCII start of heading character), resulting in http://www.wright.edu being displayed in the status bar. Roll your mouse over to see an actual exploitation. Try it with IE and something else. The link doesn’t actually go anywhere by the way.
Anyway, back to the hillarity. Microsoft’s advice is to type suspicious link addesses in manually. Excuse me for a second. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! *ahem* Whew.
You thought web surfing was slow on your dial up connection right now? I mean, if you can’t click on links, I don’t think IE qualifies as a browser anymore.
An actual fix to this bug would be to get an actual web browser.
I managed to decipher that message I posted about earlier:
imaynotbeabletogrowflowersbutmygardenproduces
justasmanydeadleavesoldovershoespiecesofropea
ndbushelsofdeadgrassasanybodysandtodayibought
awheelbarrowtohelpinclearingitupihavealwayslo
vedandrespectedthewheelbarrowitistheonewheele
dvehicleofwhichiamperfectmaster
Once someone told me the word wheelbarrow was in the text, it was a lot easier to figure stuff out. I had originally gotten away from the word “wheel” because an e followed it in one spot and that didn’t add up. How are you supposed to apply frequency analysis to 5 lines that have the word wheelbarrow in them twice? It’s insane!!
Got my marketing homework done in record time tonight. Only took me an hour! w00t!! I spent a little more time than that at Tone’s… but it was time well spent.
Just watched the latest RvB, Episode 22. Just wanted to tell everyone that it is indeed hilarious. Now go watch it.
(all misspellings are intentional)
*ahem* sorry…don’t know how that pun slipped out. couldn’t come up with something better. *ducks*
Er, not to piss even more of my readers off, but yes, we WSU students had a snow day today. You could have one too if you become as cool as we are. I still contend that the weather we got yesterday wasn’t that crappy. That said, I’m not too mad that some people think I’m wrong.
It seems the local tv stations have nothing better to do so they’re staying on the air for over 3 hours now to cover “Blizzard 2004.” They’ve been going back and forth between radar maps, prediction maps, reports from poor field crews standing out in the bad weather. Roads have never been this slippery before. There have been minor accidents on the highways. *Gasp!* We’re talking about four to seven inches of snow by tomorrow!!
/end sarcasm
Do they have these reports anytime there’s more than an inch of snow? Maybe these reports are why everyone panics down here at the sight of a solitary snowflake. >_<
Seriously, it isn’t that bad outside.
I have this insane task I’m supposed to do for my cryptography lab. I’m supposed to decipher the following ciphertext that’s produced using a random substitution key (random stuff like A->R, B->J, etc).
EMGLOSUDCGDNCUSWYSFHNSFCYKDPUMLWGYICOXYSIPJCK
QPKUGKMGOLICGINCGACKSNISACYKZSCKXECJCKSHYSXCG
OIDPKZCNKSHICGIWYGKKGKGOLDSILKGOIUSIGLEDSPWZU
GFZCCNDGYYSFUSZCNXEOJNCGYEOWEUPXEZGACGNFGLKNS
ACIGOIYCKXCJUCIUZCFZCCNDGYYSFEUEKUZCSOCFZCCNC
IACZEJNCHNCSHFZEJZEGMXCYHCJUMGKUCY
We’re supposed to use frequency analysis and knowledge of the patterns of the english language to help us make well-informed guesses and solve it letter by letter. Problem is, this block of text is much too small to say that e is the most frequent letter or that th will be the most common pair of letters in this sentence/phrase/???. That’s the other problem. Where are the damn spaces and punctuation?? How do I know if letter x is at the end/beginning/middle of f-ing nowhere?? I give up.
