Voices » Ed Felten http://voices.allthingsd.com from other Web sites Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:30:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Debugging the Zune Blackout http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090113/felten-2/ http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090113/felten-2/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:00:27 +0000 Ed Felten http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=7551 By Ed Felten, Blogger, Freedom to Tinker

On Dec. 31, some models of the Zune, Microsoft’s (MSFT) portable music player, went dark. The devices were unusable until the following day. Failures like this are sometimes caused by complex chains of mishaps, but this particular one is due to a single programming error that is reasonably easy to understand. Let’s take a look.

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]]> http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090113/felten-2/feed/ 0 How Yahoo Could Have Protected Palin's Email http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080923/felten/ http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080923/felten/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:00:51 +0000 Ed Felten http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=4149 By Ed Felten, Blogger, Freedom to Tinker

Last week I criticized Yahoo for their insecure password recovery mechanism that allowed an intruder to take control of Sarah Palin’s email account. Several readers asked me the obvious follow-up question: What should Yahoo have done instead?

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