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GoogleSweep  |  (2005/05/17 11:00)

Robert McGrew just announced an interesting discovery tool called GoogleSweep It does Google queries on a given address space and hopes to find interesting things like web statistics, posts to mailing lists (to harvest usernames, etc) entries in log files and the like. It's written in python, so it's quite hackable too. You can get some really interesting results, especially if you use an IP range that a company uses for it's proxy servers.
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Expect more frequent posts  |  (2005/05/17 10:15)

I started relying on Bloglines to store interesting articles from the various blogs I read, but it's been losing my saved articles lately. Complaints to the admins have generated nothing. Which means it's time to stop trusting other services with stuff I'd like to remember. This is a good thing as I've been feeling guilty about neglecting the blog anyway.
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Raw socket support VS various service packs & hotfixes  |  (2005/05/17 09:50)

Microsoft messed with raw sockets when they released Windows XP and complicated things further with the release of XPSP2 and MS05-019. Robin Keir posted a very verbose discussion of what's changed to NTBugtraq. Read Robin Keir's observations on raw sockets vs various Windows versions
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