Thursday, March 11, 2010
 
 

Jaago India

Now that’s something sensible. Everyone knows that turnouts in election is really poor and what we get later, no secret either. Hope this ad will have some effect. Jaago re!

Jaago Re

 

Email Security Issue with mybloglog

Recently I stumbled at my own profile at mybloglog and noticed something weird. The public profile has option for vCard/hCard  which was added recently in mybloglog. Going good so far until I noticed my email id in vCard.

I realized that I hadn’t logged in to Yahoo! account and viewing my own public profile as other user would. I wondered why it is showing my email id to everyone? Normally I never set my email id to be visible by other users apart from my contacts.

I did a quick check ( login to mybloglog -> My Accounts -> Email ) and yeah, it was set to be visible only for my contacts. Still, It was appearing in public profile. Looks like welcoming the spammers :D

I decided to contact support team ( well, I had no other options! ). Submitted my concern on 6th July at 11.18 EST and waited for the support team to contact back.
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Suspicious Income Tax Dept Website

Update ( 8th July, 9.15 PM IST) : IT Dept. Website is no longer marked with warning in google results.  Things looks good now!

Today I googled for I.T Dept URL ( Well, It’s july and almost every one is rushing to submit final tax assessment to Income Tax Department. So, am I ) and my search query gave me the result I wanted. But to my horror, with warning from Google.

“This site may harm your computer”.

If you don’t trust me, Here’s the screenshot,

Income Tax Dept.

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Firefox 3 – Quick Review

I just downloaded firefox 3 ( If you have not downloaded it yet, go, download it first ) and installed it. The upgradation task from firefox 2 to firefox 3 went smoothly.  However, the installer did disabled all my extensions for not being compatible with Firefox 3 release and firebug 1.5 is one among them.  Well, some of the nice feature you can find are as,

1) Smart Address locater:

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