It is now officially the day before Christmas and it appears someone has been rather naughty. Or would that be just plain dumb?

Some time ago, I became engaged in a rather interesting discussion with... lets just call them a neophyte where JavaScript is concerned. In any event, my contention at the time was, JavaScript can be used to deliver malicious code due to its tight coupling with the DOM.

On Sunday, August 6, 2006, news broke in the blogsphere that AOL had released customer search data.^[1] The (since removed) press release^[2] from their research page^[3] notes in part:

Last weekend, the HOPE Number Six was held in the Big Apple. The HOPE convention--the east coast version of the Vegas hackers convention, defcon--was founded by Eric Gorden Corley, who goes by the nym, Emanuel Goldstein, after Orwell's 1984 cult classic.