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UK Aims to Stop Hackers by Banning Tools

In what could be a bad day for United Kingdom pen testers, stress testers, and other systems security folks, the UK is getting ready to ban the creation and distribution of tools that could be used by hackers. This generally unpleasant concept could make it not only impossible to create the next nessus or nmap by anyone in the UK, it could also send them to jail for distributing the tools they make as well. This ought to set back UK computer security by decades.

Review: Wicked Cool Perl Scripts

Order (or just read more about) Wicked Cool Perl Scripts from Amazon.com

A Perl and C# Comparison

A search that I have noticed that has been passed to my site was "perl c# comparison", I would assume that the person that asked this was trying to compare the languages and not how c# and perl perform comparisons.

Is My Perl, CGI, MYSQL Site Obsolete?

That is the question that one person asks in the web programming discussion forum at WebProWorld.

Perl loop causes strange read-only error

Ok, folks: I don't understand this. It must have something to do with anonymous arrays in Perl (no, it doesn't, I realize now), but I don't grok the connection.

Continuation Lines

There's been a long standing Unix convention of breaking long lines with a "\" to make them easier to read.

Google Code Search Ready To Go

Another facet of the search advertising company's creation of an alternative destination for developers should debut online tonight.

Whatever, Perl 6 Is On The Way

Larry Wall's recent State of the Onion address concerned Perl 6 and the concept of being prepared to do "whatever" in the context of the next version of the language.

Yahoo Flashes New Development Center

A Flash Development Center opened on the Yahoo Developer Network with a variety of resources for ActionScript 2 and 3 application builders.

Webmin, Usermin Need Updates

The French Security Incident Response Team (FrSIRT) has reported a pair of vulnerabilities in Webmin and Usermin that could be exploited by remote attackers.