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Right-click “protection”? Forget about it

17-Jun-08

It is annoying how some inexperienced webmasters try to “protect” their pages by using a script to disable the secondary mouse button (event.button == 2), thereby preventing e.g. the Open in New Tab and Copy Shortcut context menu items (at least in Microsoft® Internet Explorer 7.0).

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“We are protecting the wrong things”

08-Jun-08

Information security journals are often boring. The typical story these days summarizes a technical, managerial or legal concept, and then lists a recipe of controls that the author thinks should be applied to said concept.
In this light, William C. Boni’s, CISM, guest editorial “Mobility Changes (Almost) Everything!”, in volume 3, 2008 of the Information Systems Control Journal, [...]

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