Many of you wrote in to agree with me that the W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences might be a far cry from an antidote to privacy woes.

Article on deep packet inspection firewalls and their efficacy against worms and other malicious traffic.

Article explaining some common port 80 attacks and the products available to combat them.

Head to head review of six software based web application firewalls.

Gearhead review.

A comparison of Allaire ColdFusion and Microsoft Active Server Pages. (Thomas Powell / Network World)

How traffic shapers are used to prevent Napster and similar bandwidth hogs from overwhelming campus and corporate networks.

John Morency of Network World Fusion talks about the rapid growth and increasing potential of ASPs.

The introduction of outsourced Web-based shared resource business applications has returned us to the bygone days of service bureaus and time-sharing.

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