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Artur Bergman posted an interesting story yesterday on O’Reilly Radar titled Your browser is a tcp/ip relay. In the post, Bergman explains a new technique that could allow malicious code to bypass the same origin browser security model. The article credits security researcher Dan Kaminsky with discovering the loophole, though it appears to have been around for a while. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve been following Linux kernel news then you’ve probably heard about the new Completely Fair Scheduler that has been merged into the upcoming 2.6.23 kernel release. It’s been a while since I’ve done much Linux kernel hacking, so the initial announcement was mostly over my head. After reading about the new scheduler in several places, I decided to do a bit of research into how the current Linux scheduler works, and what makes the new scheduling algorithm so interesting. Here’s what I learned. Read the rest of this entry »