xxx-domain

Porn domain not that sexy: no rush to have .xxx

While their is a huge hype surrounding .xxx domains and companies rushing to buy them to protect their brand, it seems that registration data disagree with this.  My analysis of the 50000 most popular websites in the world shows that only 24% of them actually registered their .xxx domain.

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The death of IE

Identifying Internet Explorer User with a SMB Query

As part of our research on browser private mode that I presents this morning at Usenix Security, I took a look at how Internet Explorer handles SMB (Server Message Block) query. Turns out that because Internet Explorer (IE) processes SMB (Windows file sharing URL) automatically  it is possible to use the SMB protocol to identify the Internet Explorer User with 100% accuracy.

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