Best kept TYPO3 secret: WAF
The security team long time ago promised to release a ruleset for a Web Application Firewall (WAF) based on Apache's mod_security. Some are still waiting for an official announcement after the conference talk at T3CON07. And some have heard about it on todays talk at T3CON08.
Internet service provider Alice unsolicitedly acts as content provider
Since a few days, the Internet service provider Alice (Hansenet / Telecom Italia) abuses my DSL connection by showing unsolicited advertisements. I cannot accept this behavior.
Thoughts about classifying objects in a digitalized world
While reading for my thesis, I found some interesting articles about order and hierarchies in the web. One central issue in a digitalized world is the question of how to classify objects.
Fixing locale problems for dates in TYPO3
Sometimes, localization of dates in TYPO3 seems not to work as expected. Of course it does, but finding the right configuration can be puzzling and time consuming. One reason can be the confusing variety of locale declarations.
Security issue in TYPO3 Extension Secure Directory (kw_secdir)
Today, the TYPO3 security team released a collective security bulletin. Since I am the author of one extension which was listed in the bulletin (kw_secdir), I'd like to comment this a little bit. Especially the severity of "high" sounds evil, but it's IMHO less dangerous than some might think.
About this site
At the moment, T3node is a TYPO3 blog by Steffen Müller. Beside TYPO3, technical and nontechnical topics about free software and the internet are discussed.
This blog is also a personal survey about what motivates me to write this blog and what issues are worth writing. Statistically, my motivation to do this is probably to
1. express myself
2. connect with other people
3. share knowledge with other people
All contents are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence.
