Computer Security World

I just found this article on securityfocus which talks about what are the legal implications of computers executing operations on your behalf. Who is responsible if an automated agent buys something on your behalf , or logs on to a website on your behalf by automatically accepting the TOS? As usual technology seems to be moving much faster than the law here. Maybe that is why the book The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age says that technology is gong to end the nation state as government's powers are eroded by technology moving too fast for them to control.

I love Firefox and besides the standard reasons of it being faster, better interface etc., the main reason I love firefox is because of their addons. As an example some of the security related addons that I have on my firefox browser are:

• Add N Edit cookies: Allows me to edit any cookie. A great took for hacking the cookies that are stored by a website.
• No Script: This is the greatest Firefox extension in terms of improving the security. It gives awesome amount of control over which websites are allowed to run scripts in a browser and even prevents some XSS attacks.
• Tamper Data: Allows you to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers and post parameters. Great hacking tool!

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This is my first post. I will try to put information, news and comments on different security and cryptography aspects including Tutorials, Howtos, reviews etc. Basically, anything that catches my fancy in the area of security and cryptography.