Island in the Net by Khürt Williams
Technology and Photography Musings. Established circa 2000.
Live Documents takes a different tack for the sharing of electronic documents over the web.
Live Documents is Powerful Stuff: "A new service called Live Documents allows Windows PC users with Office already installed on their computer to syncronize documents across multiple users over the Internet."
(Via TechCrunch.)
In my opinion this kind of software is a bad idea. I see visions of corporate espionage as entire HR or accounts databases are stolen with the click of the send button.
Virus and worm writers will love the ability to increase the size of their payloads. Whohoo!
I should shut up. The masses of PC users will herd like sheep around such a wonderful product.
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I am discovering just how challenging it is to be secure and anonymous while using the web. Aparently Java code embedded in a web site can read various configuration settings of your computer while you are browsing that site. This happens without prompting the user. In my case I was browsing the Audit My PC web site using Firefox, a browser most consider to be more secure than Internet Explorer. The only option available to the user is to disable Java and JavaScript. Of course this prevents the user from experiencing the full functionality of some sites such as Gmail which make heavy use of AJAX. I guess the lesson here is while connected to a remove server one must be ever vigilant.
