Scoble’s playing with Vista’s security improvements:
Yup, I’m thinking of doing a honeypot computer running Windows Vista. You know, a computer where you visit the absolute worst sites you can find on the Internet and see if you get infected with stuff.
I’ve already visited the sites that my friends got spyware and malware from. So far so good. But, that’s a small set. Anyone have a good up-to-date list of places that put nasty stuff on your computer?
I was going to suggest www.microsoft.com, but he’s already been bit by that bug. ;)
(Seriously, though, while he hasn’t given much in the way of results yet, it’s good that they’re making some progress on this front. Too little too late? We’ll find out when Vista actually debuts.)
“Duty Free (full mix)” by Various Artists from the album Duty Free (full mix) (1999, 1:13:56).
You’d think that he would be able to use the term “honeypot” correctly. In traditional (geek) usage, a honeypot is a computer put onto the network as “bait”, so a when a cr/hacker breaks in, the “good guys”, can hopefully gather enough information about the intruder to find/stop him. Alternatively, it’s used as “bait”, but the “bait” is actually false information, tricking the attacker into thinking they’ve scored sensitive data.
Want a bad surfing trip? Why type in FREE PORN in google and start clicking links. You’ll run into every bad computer trap/virus/pop up ever made and that will be before you see your first set of boobies.