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• This guy is an attorney, what the he*l does he know? Amazon and the lot keep tabs on customer activity like this, and immediately suspend and investigate internal issues... and the public attack vector is quite small because of how services are obscured through their internal NAT with all services except 1 (SSH on UNIX, RDP on Windows) on each instance a default setting.
  
  Real crime organizations would pool a cluster of PS3 units together to perform distributed guessing of plausible credit card and account numbers, which they use a mule to move around the data like drugs. You ever seen Johnny Mnemonic? It's not quite there yet, at least not literally, but you get the point. Get your head out of the cloud, and stay on the ground where all the roaches really are. In reply to: "Prosecutor: Cloud computing is security's frontier"

  July 11, 2009

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• In respect to internet standards, Chrome and Safari 4 are the top contenders. While I'm sure that Firefox 4 is also planning on making sure it passes the ACID4 test and is compliant with draft CSS3 and HTML5 specifications, currently Chrome is the most viable browser to test these features with. Personally speaking, it's always important to keep a neutral stance on which browser to support, granted the vendors behind them also keep up the end of their bargain.
  
  It'll be a strange 2009 when further permeation of the Web 2.0 craze continues to push complexity and increase demands on the server infrastructure, but it is in the best hope that there are still those out there who in the interest of accessibility and fairness to make sure their goals are met with the bare minimal subset of these features to keep management reasonable and compatibility at top priority. In reply to: "Google reveals Chrome extensions plan"

  December 2, 2008

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• http://us.deviantptr.net/sunspider-javascript-benchmark.html (slightly dated, but has chrome)
  
  Due to the massive scale and wear it puts on my unit, I will rerun in about 6 months time. (Around Feb 09) I've noted which tests couldn't produce results (Opera 9.27 omits data, perhaps incomplete support, and a few Linux tests wouldn't run)
  
  Windows XP -
  Chrome 0.2
  Firefox 2/3
  Internet Explorer 7/8
  Opera 9.27/9.5
  Safari 3/4
  
  Vista32 -
  Firefox 2/3
  Internet Explorer 7/8
  Opera 9.27/9.5
  Safari 3/4
  
  Vista64 -
  Firefox 2/3
  Internet Explorer 7/8
  Opera 9.27/9.5
  Safari 3/4
  
  Linux (Ubuntu) -
  Firefox 2/3
  Konqueror 3.5
  Opera 9.27/9.5
  
  Mac OS X (Leopard) -
  Camino 1/2
  Firefox 2/3
  Opera 9.27/9.5
  Safari 3/4
  
  OpenSolaris B90 -
  Firefox 2/3
  Opera 9.27/9.5 In reply to: "Newer Chrome, Firefox show speed improvements"

  October 18, 2008

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• Not quite, sorry.
  
  http://a.weaponofmassdestruction.us/sunspider-javascript-benchmark.html
  
  I did this test using the Webkit's official benchmark, just added Chrome (XP) to the list. Safari 4 developer preview on Vista x64 is the fastest Windows browser, and Safari 4 is the fastest on Mac OS X. (Leopard) Safari 4 developer preview on Mac OS X is the fastest browser of any platform with a cool 2129ms, with Safari 4 developer preview on Windows x64 SP1 pushing 2716ms.
  
  I'm a nobody, you shouldn't trust big guys. Take a look for yourself, thanks! In reply to: "Speed test: Google Chrome beats Firefox, IE, Safari"

  September 3, 2008

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