[Info-vax] Itanium Poulson a game changer

[Paul Sture]

In article <kgals9$gn5$1 at dont-email.me>,
 Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:

> On 2013-02-23 12:29:45 +0000, Paul Sture said:

> 
> > Neil, I believe you just replied to a spammer who has latched onto the 
> > fact that Itanium is a subject discussed here.
> > That address was already in my killfile.
> 
> FWIW...  Could be.  I don't know.  In general, if y'all think it's 
> spam, please remember to expunge the URL in the follow-ups and the 
> replies, as getting the URL distributed is often the goal.  It's also 
> often the case that the newsgroup replies — with the URL — will get 
> past the netnews spam filters, where the original postings will often 
> not.  Which means that newsgroup spammers can intentionally post 
> something outrageous or notable to get folks to flame them, because 
> that more reliably gets their postings past the filters...

Ouch.  I see I have found another corollary to Murphy's rule about 
correcting spelling or grammar on Usenet...
 
> There have been a variety of high-profile "watering-hole web site" 
> security attacks lately, targeting Java users.  Facebook, Apple and 
> Microsoft were all breached via Java zero-day attacks, and the same 
> attacks apparently also involved Twitter and probably some other sites. 
>  There've been security breaches at zendesk and cpanel as well, so 
> there's a whole lot of nasty activity that has the potential to effect 
> other web sites.

I have lately come across a number potentially interesting products, but 
they all require Java, and I am not inclined to install it at the moment.

-- 
Paul Sture