You had your chance, but now the previously reported DNS vulnerability has been disclosed publicly, more or less. Dan put up this cryptic post, and the comments basically spell it out. The exploit is known, and it can be performed in less than 10 seconds. More here. Patch now!
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The WordPress for iPhone application was recently released. It’s free and native, and so far the general consensus is that it’s nice but still has some kinks to work out. Indeed, I typo’d the password when setting this blog up in it and was presented with this broken screen:
So I’ve had the device for a few days, and I have to say - the iPhone was totally worth getting. I love it more than I expected I would. The UI is incredibly expressive, and if the English language doesn’t have a word to express how intuitive and user friendly it is. I treated it like a movie I wanted to see and didn’t read much about how it actually worked. As I mentioned before, I bought the iPhone early and in a direct response to my unhappiness with how well my BlackBerry Curve II synced with OS X 10.5 Leopard. Plus the calendar on the BB was so ugly that it was practically unusable. In fact for a smart phone I only used 3 applications on it: Email, which was superb and in many ways still better than the iPhone; Google Maps, where the iPhone does trump the Curve; and TwitterBerry, a decent twitter client that allowed me to send updates and read a few of the last updates of my friends, but lacked any kind of ‘Wow’ factor.
In the end, I switched to Apple’s device for the promise it offered - having one device be the center of my digital experience, and one that I would use every square inch of. And it has more than delivered.
Continue reading ‘iMpressions of the iPhone’
“First, take the advisory seriously—we’re not just a bunch of n00b alarmists, if we tell you your DNS house is on fire, and we hand you a fire hose, take it.” Sage advice from Paul Vixie on the recent DNS Cache Poisoning exploit. Many systems remain unpatched, even though this security vunerability is critical and should be addressed immediately.
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