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Do you like to read a blog? Every day, before start to work, do you read your favorite one? What do you use to be updated? RSS? Atom?

If yes, your computer could catch a virtual cold, says SPI Dynamics CTO .

Software and services used to download feeds transmitted via the RSS or Atom formats can download and execute JavaScript code buried within the text.

And you are not safe, even if you use trustable services like Bloglines, or readers like Firefox, because web feed could contain a link to another Web site or blog that’s hosting malicious JavaScript. Or maybe a blog might have an area allowing readers to post public comments. Those can also store malicious bits of JavaScript.

The best way to guard against these sorts of attacks would be for blog-reading software and services to re-encode all JavaScript it receives to render it harmless. Creating this filter would not cause feeds to arrive much slower. But until as we know, no blog-reading software or service re-encodes the JavaScript codes.

My comment: Take care! Don’t forget to use a good anti-virus, firewall and anti-spyware!

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Lots of people asked me about this terror fear here in UK. Some people asked me if I still want to live here, if I don’t want to go back to Brazil. They say: “It is dangerous to take a flight, or take the tube…”

Yes, could be dangerous: last year, 7/7, lots of people die in the tube. But, what do you think about violence that we face every day in Brazil? I used to be afraid to go out, the PCC (SP’s mafia), stopping on traffic lights.

No, I’d rather stay here. I can go to a park near home, with my children and I am not afraid. I can stay at home alone and I am not afraid. I can drive with my windows open and I not afraid.

Anyway, there’s no tube here in Cambridge, and our airport is too small…

But, let’s talk about this problem here. 22 were arrested. Who? They didn’t give us names or facts. We hear phrases like that:

“…We think we have the main suspects…”
“…Substantial threat of terrorist attacks…”

In fact, I think people here are not afraid, they are mad with all this unusual stress to travel. Several people are stocked at airports for hours, even days. Flight companies are canceling almost all flights.

Some are lucky and can catch a flight, but there are other problems:

For example, some musicians from Russia can’t travel with their instruments in the cabin. So they will probably have to travel by rail via Paris. Can you imagine that? And they have a contract with the flight company that allows them flight with their instruments in the cabin. They paid for it. ( See complete text here)

What about inspections? Everybody must pass for a body search. Nothing may be carried in pockets.

See the list of forbidden items here.

Next time they will ask us to travel naked.

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