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"$t": "\u003Cdiv style\u003D\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003EIt all started with me getting a call from microsoft inviting me to come and watch the event which was to take place at Air force auditorium, Delhi. Frankly speaking i was not at all interested in going to watch the event as i knew that the projects would be build on .NET only and i don\u0027t like .NET at all. But then, the lady on the phone said the golden words. She said, \u0022\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-style: italic;\u0022\u003EYou are going to get a Free DVD of windows Vista for personal use, free lunch and tickets to watch the movie Spiderman 3\u003C/span\u003E\u0022. I was already planning to go and watch the movie the next day which incidentally was the release date (5 may 2007) of the movie and getting printed DVDs of windows Vista was also to my liking. So, i agreed to go to watch the event along with a few of my friends. I was in for a big surprise.\u003Cbr /\u003EThe first thing i noticed when i reached the venue was that the persons who were managing the event and were at the reception were pretty bad at management and things were haywire everywhere. Then, they didn\u0027t have my name on some kind of list they had. When i told them that i had got a call from microsoft to come and watch the event they said they knew nothing of that sort and i would not get the movie tickets. I would still get Windows Vista for which i would have to fill in a form. When i had a look on the form i realized that we were net getting any printed DVDs but instead i would get a userid which i can use to download it from microsoft\u0027s website. Aargh!! this sucks. I came in the hope that i would get printed DVDs and free spiderman tickets but instead i got none. I tried to console myself that atleast there was free lunch and knowledge to gain. Little did i know what was to come later.\u003Cbr /\u003EThe projects that were on display had some genuine good ideas although one can\u0027t say that they were really innovative but yes they were good. I would give a brief description of the top three. Remember that the theme of this years imagine cup was \u0022\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-style: italic;\u0022\u003EEducation for all\u003C/span\u003E\u0022 so all the project had to do something with education.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\u003Col style\u003D\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003EAabha\u003C/span\u003E: (3rd) This was supposed to be a integrated web based educational system with facilities has facilities for Multilingual Text Summarization, digital lecture board, online handwriting recognition and Speech to text and text to speech facilities. The text summarization part was really and maybe was the only reason the team got the third place. The rest of the things were pathetic jokes just using .NET frameworks apis and doing nothing more.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003EeduGrid\u003C/span\u003E: (2nd, my pick) This project aimed to answer the what and why questions given a database and some collaboration using grid computing as the backend. Although not innovative in any way they were doing something of my interest and according to me going in the right direction.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003ERecog\u003C/span\u003E: (1st) This project aimed to improve learning by clustering information and showing how these clusters correlate with each other and to what extent. Good idea but nothing innovative. I believe what was going on is a simple keyword matching going on to find to what extend the keywords match in between different clusters which were nothing clustered but simple data with certain key word defined. The only thing i believe which got them the first prize was their snappy GUI.\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E\u003Cdiv style\u003D\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003EThe teams had worked hard and i hope Team Recog wins the first prize in korea. Nothing against any team just my 2 cents :).\u003Cbr /\u003EThere was also initially a panel discussion on \u0022\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-style: italic;\u0022\u003EWhat is required to spur innovation among indian students\u003C/span\u003E\u0022. This discussion was good and to the point.\u003Cbr /\u003EComing to lunch. The lunch was managed horribly. There were too many people and too few plates which had been arranged. There was no planning whatsoever. I had to wait half an hour for more plates to come. Total disappointment!!! :(\u003Cbr /\u003EAt the and there was too much commotion at the counter where we had to submit our completed forms to get the userids. Sigh, another example of bad management.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003EFinal Toughts\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-size:100%;\u0022\u003EAlthough the event on the whole was all right the management was horrible. Microsoft is a big company and can\u0027t afford to do such kind of mistakes especially when it is facing so much heat from the market already. This is in contrast to the world finals of 2006 which also happened in Delhi and i was fortunate enough to attend. The event was very, very well managed. And they had got beer there :D. Maybe they have some kind of prejudice against India. I went empty handed and came back empty handed. \u003C/span\u003EYou might also think that i am greedy or something but then when you have the prospect of getting a $250 worth of software for free who isn\u0027t?\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EPS:It has been around 25 days and me and my friends are still waiting for the userids to come.\u003C/div\u003E"
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"$t": "\u003Cdiv style\u003D\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http://www.cio.com/\u0022\u003ECio\u003C/a\u003E has an article running explaining the \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http://www.cio.com/article/113110\u0022\u003E5 reasons to use mysql\u003C/a\u003E for development. I thought i would follow it with my own article outlining 10 reasons for using \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http://pidgin.im/\u0022\u003Epidgin (previously gaim)\u003C/a\u003E as an instant messenger. You can read what pidgin is and what it is used for at the pidgin website.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\u003Col style\u003D\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003EPidgin is multi-protocol and multi-platform\u003C/span\u003E:- The first and the foremost reason for using pidgin is that it is multi-protocol supporting virtually any messaging protocol a user requires plus it is platform independent. You can run it on linux, windows, bsd any platform you want.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003ELarge userbase\u003C/span\u003E:- Pidgin is the most popular instant messaging protocol and included as default messenger in many bsd and linux distros. It has been time tested by a large user base and once you start using it you rarely go back to using another messenger (i have been using it for over 3 years and rarely use any other messenger).\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003EMultiple login support\u003C/span\u003E:- Most of the time users have multiple logins available for a particular service which they use it for different purposes(home, business etc.). Most of the messengers don\u0027t allow multiple logins(without using some kind of illegal hacks or patches). With pidgin this is natively supported. You can login in any number of accounts you want to login to at the same time(more then 10 accounts are logged in on the same computer at my home all the time and i have tested it by logging in for 120 accounts which included the accounts of all my classmates in my college and it worked like a charm).\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003ELarge developer base and actively developed\u003C/span\u003E:- There are numerous developers all over the world actively maintaining pidgin and squashing bugs whenever they are found. Although, pidgin has a long way to go we are moving ahead by leaps and bounds :). They are soon going to get one more developer!!! Me.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003EFree support\u003C/span\u003E:- Support for pidgin is free. Whenever you have any problem you just have to join the irc network \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022irc://irc.freenode.net/pidgin\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C/a\u003E and \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022irc://irc.freenode.net/pidgin-win32\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C/a\u003E in case of any problems and i am sure you will find somebody to help you out immediately.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003ESharing of profiles over multiple platforms\u003C/span\u003E:- You can share your profile over multiple operating systems effectively having a common configuration over all the systems. You change one configuration and the change is reflected to all the installations. To some this might mean nothing but it is a boon for developers like me who frequently hop between multiple platforms. Although a very convenient feature the documentation for this is very hard to find. Just use the following line to launch the application \u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003Epidgin --config\u003D\u0022\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003Eyour configuration directory\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003E\u0022\u003C/span\u003E.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003EScripting and plugin support\u003C/span\u003E:- Pidgin has native scripting support. You can write scripts in perl and as of version 2.0 in python. Using these scripts you can make pidgin dance to your tunes. There is a plethora of plugins available for pidgin which you can use to extend the functionality of this wonderful messenger.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003EEncryption support\u003C/span\u003E:- Many people know it that using any kind of sensitive infomation while chatting is very dangerous for privacy. With the encryption plugin you can use any kind of information with no worries whatsoever. You can read more about privacy issues \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http://sandeeppro.blogspot.com/2007/04/still-using-ym-aol-or-gtalk-think-again.html\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003EAnonymity support\u003C/span\u003E:- With the \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/\u0022\u003Eoff-the-record messaging plugin\u003C/a\u003E you can hide yourself completely so that the person at the other end doesn\u0027t know where you are chatting from. This is a state of art plugin and i believe it is one of it\u0027s kind and available for pidgin only.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003EFinch\u003C/span\u003E:- Finch is the text base pidgin which can run on many linux and unix variants. It is very easy to use and the best availabe text based messanger out there. Although lots of people love GUIs but believe me this works just fine.\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E\u003Cdiv style\u003D\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003ELike many messengers pidgin has some bugs but i think that it has too many merits which outshine any bug which exists. Just give it a try and i am sure you will love it.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/div\u003E"
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"$t": "\u003Cdiv style\u003D\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003EBefore starting on what are the disadvantages of using these let me give you a brief intro on how the internet works. The internet is a group of small networks which are connected together into the internet. Whenever we send data the data passes through various routers (controlled by different organizations and individuals) to reach the destination.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style\u003D\u0022text-align: center;\u0022\u003E\u003Ca onblur\u003D\u0022try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\u0022 href\u003D\u0022http://lecture.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/%7Eqnakao/images/internet-topology.png\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg fix\u003D\u0022fixed\u0022 src\u003D\u0022http://lecture.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/%7Eqnakao/images/internet-topology.png\u0022 fix\u003D\u0022fixed\u0022 style\u003D\u0022margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\u0022 src\u003D\u0022http://lecture.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/%7Eqnakao/images/internet-topology.png\u0022 alt\u003D\u0022internet topology\u0022 border\u003D\u00220\u0022 height\u003D\u0022479\u0022 /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003EINTERNET TOPOLOGY\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style\u003D\u0022text-align: left;\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cdiv style\u003D\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003E\u003Cdiv style\u003D\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003EThe messengers we use don\u0027t provide any support for encryption. 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"$t": "\u003Cdiv xmlns\u003D\u0022http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\u0022\u003EMany times you want to give away your email address so that people can contact you using it but you can\u0027t give it away because of the fear of spamming. Spammers run spam bots which scan webpages and as soon as they find any email address it is added to the list of addresses to be spammed. As email addresses always contain the \u003Cb\u003E@\u003C/b\u003E symbol finding such addresses is trivial. Listed below are a number ways to hide your email address from these spam bots which can be used effectively to counter such threats.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EReplacing Words\u003C/b\u003E:- The simplest technique to hide your email address is to replace words in your email address with meaningful replacements and adding alternate text so as to confuse the spam bots. This includes replacing \u003Cb\u003E@\u003C/b\u003E with \u003Cb\u003EAT\u003C/b\u003E, \u003Cb\u003E.\u003C/b\u003E with \u003Cb\u003EDOT\u003C/b\u003E and arbitrary space addition. You can also add random meaningful words so that humans who understand their meaning can remove them. A few example using this techniques are\u003C/li\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003Esandeepthepro AT gmail DOT com\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003Esandeepthepro (AT) gmail (DOT) com\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Esandeepthepro_AT_gmai_DOT_com\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Esandeepthepro@\u003Cb\u003E.remove.\u003C/b\u003Egmail.com\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Esandeepthepro (AT) gmail (DOT) com.\u003Cb\u003Eiamnothere\u003C/b\u003E.\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EHTML email obfuscator\u003C/b\u003E: You can use \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http://alicorna.com/obfuscator.html\u0022\u003Ehtml email obfuscator\u003C/a\u003E which obfuscate your email address by converting them in an html encoded form unsuitable to spambots to read.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EJavascript email obfuscator\u003C/b\u003E: As the spambots generally don\u0027t have a javascript engine in them which is present in every browser, decoding content encoded in javascript is impossible for them. You can use an online javascript email obfuscator to encode your email address for this purpose.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EUsing css to hide email\u003C/b\u003E: You can use \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http://mathiasbynens.be/tools/obfuscator\u0022\u003Ecss techinuques\u003C/a\u003E so that your email address is visible correctly to the human but not to the spam bot. For eg: \u003Cb\u003E\u0026lt;style type\u003D\u0022text/css\u0022\u0026gt; .backwards {unicode-bidi:bidi-override; direction: rtl;} \u0026lt;/style\u0026gt; \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u0026lt;span class\u003D\u0022backwards\u0022\u0026gt;moc.liamg@orpehtpeednas\u0026lt;/span\u0026gt;\u003C/b\u003E will appear as \u003Cb\u003Emoc.liamg@orpehtpeednas\u003C/b\u003E to the spam bot while it will apear as \u003Cb\u003Esandeepthepro@gmail.com\u003C/b\u003E to the user\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EUsing images\u003C/b\u003E: There are various services available \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http://services.nexodyne.com/email/\u0022\u003Eonline\u003C/a\u003E which can take your email address and convert them to images. These images can be easily read be human beings and not by bots. You will get something like this \u003Cimg src\u003D\u0022http://services.nexodyne.com/email/icon/XgA7mdb5ZPE8FRG9CA%3D%3D/EoyDqSk%3D/R01haWw%3D/0/image.png\u0022 alt\u003D\u0022Encoded Image\u0022 src\u003D\u0022http://services.nexodyne.com/email/icon/XgA7mdb5ZPE8FRG9CA%3D%3D/EoyDqSk%3D/R01haWw%3D/0/image.png\u0022 /\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EUsing an online contact form\u003C/b\u003E: Now why do you need to display your email address? So that others can contact you. You can register at an \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http://www.contactforms.com/\u0022\u003Eonline contact form\u003C/a\u003E site and publish the link given so that the user can contact you without any hassles. You can contact me \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http://www.contactforms.com/contact.cfm?f\u003D4685\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFlash\u003C/b\u003E: You can also use flash to hide your email address but since i have a personal dislike for flash on a site i am not describing the technique and just mentioned it because i thought that the user should know.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E\u003C/div\u003E"
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"$t": "Microsoft has announced plans to offer a limited version of its Office software suite to schoolchildren in developing countries for the price of $3 per copy. The program has been compared to the One Laptop Per Child initiative in its attempts to modernize nations; however, it may also be viewed as a move for Microsoft to build markets in places that are now looking at alternatives such as Linux.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan id\u003D\u0022intelliTxt\u0022\u003EThrough the program, Microsoft will offer the $3 software suite to qualifying governments that purchase and supply PCs directly to students. The Microsoft Student Education Suite includes a specialized version of Windows XP, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Microsoft Math 3.0, Learning Essentials 2.0 for Microsoft Office, and Windows Live Mail desktop.\u003Cbr /\u003EBut is this really going to work? Lets wait and watch\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/span\u003E"
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"$t": "Firefox is one of the most famous web browsers available today. It is the most extendible browser which is largely due to firefox extensions. Firefox extensions \u0022are small add-ons that add new functionality to Mozilla applications. They can add anything from a toolbar button to a completely new feature. They allow the application to be customized to fit the personal needs of each user if they need additional features, while minimizing the size of the application itself\u0022 (from the official \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Ffirefox%2Fextensions%2F\u0022\u003EFirefox Extensions\u003C/a\u003E site). Here are my picks for the Best Firefox Extensions:\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http%3A%2F%2Famb.vis.ne.jp%2Fmozilla%2Fscrapbook%2F\u0022\u003EScrapbook\u003C/a\u003E: \u0022ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and manage the collection.\u0022 Internet Explorer also has this ability but it doesn\u0027t provide the power which is provided by this extesion. This extension is the best of all firefox extensions available today.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href\u003D\u0022https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60\u0022\u003EWeb Developer\u003C/a\u003E: This extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. A must for budding developers like me.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href\u003D\u0022https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748\u0022\u003EGrease Monkey\u003C/a\u003E: Greasmonkey allows you to execute user scripts depending on the site you visit. There are thousands of scripts available at \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http://userscripts.org/\u0022\u003Euserscripts.org\u003C/a\u003E. Just have a look.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href\u003D\u0022https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1730\u0022\u003EScribfire (Performancing)\u003C/a\u003E: If you are a blogger you got to love this one. No need to visit the site to post. Just click the little icon showing in the status bar. Setup the account and start posting from the browser itself.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href\u003D\u0022https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865\u0022\u003EAdblock Plus\u003C/a\u003E: Adblock Plus in an extension which, as the name suggests filters advertisements from the pages you visit. The filters are updated regularly and it loads the page much faster.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href\u003D\u0022https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/77\u0022\u003ESage\u003C/a\u003E: Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It allows you to read feeds right in your browser.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href\u003D\u0022https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722\u0022\u003ENo Script\u003C/a\u003E: This extension allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site, and guards the \u0022trust boundaries\u0022 against cross-site scripting attacks (XSS). Such a preemptive approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality...\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href\u003D\u0022https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/220\u0022\u003EFlashgot\u003C/a\u003E: Download one link, selected links or all the links of a page together at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers. Supported download tools are dozens, see http://flashgot.net for details. This extension offers also a Build Gallery functionality which helps to collect in a single page serial movies and images scattered on several pages, for easy and fast \u0022download all\u0022.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href\u003D\u0022https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122\u0022\u003ETab Mix Plus\u003C/a\u003E: Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox\u0027s tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href\u003D\u0022https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2110\u0022\u003EMinimize To Tray\u003C/a\u003E: Minimizes Mozilla windows into the system tray. Also includes a right clickable tray icon menu to further load only the windows you want visible. MinimizeToTray\u0027s extension options allow you to configure your desired behavior. The three options are:\u003C/li\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAlways minimize to the tray instead of to the taskbar.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMinimize to tray on close.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERequire a double click to restore from the tray.\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E\u003C/ol\u003EThere are ofcourse extensions which i have left or forgot to mention. Please leave comments and i would update the list as soon as possible.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold;\u0022\u003E\u003C/span\u003E"
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"$t": "\u003Cdiv class\u003D\u0022entry\u0022\u003E \u003Cdiv class\u003D\u0022snap_preview\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI have already told you the basic of web-proxies. You can read it \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http://sandeeppro.blogspot.com/2007/04/surf-orkut-through-web-proxies-part-1.html\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C/a\u003E. These proxies are only helpful in hiding the actual website.\u003C/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003ECompared to the security threats they pose. I think not accessing that website is far better than accessing it.\u003C/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EHey, what security threats? I have been using these websites for years and nothing has happened. So, you wan’t to know the security threats these sites pose. Ok, will name two of the most dangerous ones.\u003C/p\u003E \u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe purpose of a secure connection is to help people keep there sensitive information(passwords/logins…) hidden. But as i have already told you the information to and from these websites is completely unencrypted standard html format so any time you login using these proxies a person somewhere in the world can intercept your data and steal that information.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe owners of these websites are not that innocent as many people might think. They might be keeping logs and any personal information that you are sending to them might get logged in these logs which is again hazardous as the website owner can look into his logs anytime and get each and every information about you. This is i think the most serious issue.\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ol\u003E \u003Cp\u003ESo, do i suggest you to stop using these proxies? Yes, infact i do. But, to all those to whom accessing the website is more important than keeping personal information personal i suggest that atleast change your password from somewhere you can directly access the website, after you have accessed the website using a web-proxy.\u003C/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003E Any comments and suggestions will be most helpful.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style\u003D\u0022font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\u0022\u003ENote\u003C/span\u003E: I will be writing another article to tell you the easiest and the most sure shot way of accessing these websites from workplace in a secure manner. Hopefully that will be done by tommorow :)\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/p\u003E \u003C/div\u003E \u003C/div\u003E"
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"$t": "\u003Cdiv class\u003D\u0022entry\u0022\u003E \u003Cdiv class\u003D\u0022snap_preview\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecently i have seen that many people who can’t access websites like orkut and myspace using direct connection/\u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server\u0022 title\u003D\u0022Proxies\u0022\u003Eproxies\u003C/a\u003E due to ISP restrictions, access it using web-proxies like cooltunnel.com and ghostproxy.com thinking that the data that comes from that site is encrypted, that is why the ISP can’t block it. (this i got from a person when i talked to him)\u003C/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003ELet me tell you that the data that comes from those sites is not at all encrypted and the ISPs block sites generally using an Access Control List(ACL). Whenever a user requests a website from a \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_%28telecommunications%29\u0022 title\u003D\u0022Gateways\u0022\u003Egateway\u003C/a\u003E/proxy that request is matched for hit within the ACL and if a match is found an error response is sent back. So, the data from the web-server to your machine is not checked at all (most of the times) only the website name is checked.\u003C/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EAlso, the data from your computer to these web-proxies is not encrypted as most of these websites(free) don’t allow \u003Ca href\u003D\u0022http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https\u0022 title\u003D\u0022Https\u0022\u003Esecure connections\u003C/a\u003E.\u003C/p\u003E \u003Cp\u003EOk! I got it. So, what does it signify? Don’t worry. I will be following it up with another article tomorrow to tell you what it signifies.\u003C/p\u003E \u003C/div\u003E \u003C/div\u003E"
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