Saturday, June 21, 2008

Security flaw in delicious.


   I have a delicious account, i had kept auto login feature for it on my office computer.But when i tried to access my delicious account from my home desktop,then i realized that i had forgotten my password.So i thought of changing its password by going to link, i forgot my password, which will send the mail to my email account which i had registered while signing up.
   Its has been long time since i created my delicious account , the email id that i gave was too older one and i use it no more , hence i don't remember the password for it also!!!.Then i got perplexed how to change my password.just browsing through the delicious site, i went to settings of my account(from office computer where it is logged in already).I got shocked when i saw, i can change the email id which i used for registration without prompting for old password.I just changed that email id to my currently using email id.After that i went to forgot password link and gave my account id, which sent a mail to my current id from there i changed mypassword!!!
   It means if we login to our delicious account and left without logging off , then some one can easily change our password.!!!without knowing our old password,which can done by just changing the registered id.

Monday, June 9, 2008

How to browse the web in an efficient way

When i first got my internet connection at mysore, i was jubilant,browsed the web day and night ,after sometime i gone through the phase where exactly i didn't knew what to browse.Then i started thinking how to filter out of informative and interesting thing on the web.I got this idea after many days of browsing.
Each one browses web daily and ends some information in his kitty..To make a note of the all the vital things that he came across ,either he makes a bookmark locally or do it online on sites such as "Del.ic.ious","Google bookmarks".
If he gets some idea out of the things he browsed .He will write a blog entry.
If it is an important news , he diggs it in digg.com.
Your brain might already started thinking , how these all above things helps me to browse web effecient way.The answer to this is feeds and feedreader .We have now feeds available for all of the sites including the bookmarks,blogs and diggs of some one.All just i have to do is to "Subscribe to feeds" of the bookamarks,diggs and blogs of the person you know well in browsing in good things.From his network you can pick some other names.Just make the feed entries of all these things in your feedreaders -GoogleReader or other feed reader softwares.
By just going through the popular bookmarks on each of the famous bookmarking sites(delicious) or just subscribing for the feed, we get lot of useful and interesting information to digest.
Eg. Delicious http://del.icio.us/popular/
http://digg.com/all

At the end of day that's how i get some fruity stuff to browse.
This is what i follow to filter interesting and informative information on the web.
This is what i call lazy and effecient browsing ;)