Archive: February 2006

I didn't know before, that Google Maps knows where I'm living I'm living here, in the center. I can almost see my car.
Based on information found buried deep within the GMail's javascript source, Garett Rogers in a post at ZDNet entitled "GMail code hints at coming domain feature" gives a pretty good hint that Google is developing a service that will make GMail as a server. The code name of this service is "Caribou".

What makes Garett Rogers say that is these portions of javascript code from GMail:

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There are many ways to search for vulnerable sites with google. I'll show you here how to get username and password from sites that use FrontPage extentions. Microsoft FrontPage Extensions creates a service.pwd file inside the _vti_pvt directory in the HTTP server's document root. This file contains user names and passwords that could be remotely retrieved by an attacker. The good news is that Google indexes this kind of files, so they are very easy to search for. The bad news is that the passwords are encrypted, but wait, this is not really a bad news :-) because you can crack them if you are patient and you have the will. If you want to become a hacker, you have to be patient and you have to have the will. Please note: I'm not telling you to hack sites, this stuff is just for learning. So if you want to do illegal things, you should know that jail is a possibility.

So lets go to the details:

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It seems that Google corrected the fault of subtraction which has been discovered a few months ago. For more details on this fault you can read my article entitled "Google can't subtract". Now, 1-0.9-0.1 gives 0 as result and not -2.77555756E-17 any more: