From skevin521 at yahoo.com Wed Aug 17 00:56:07 2011 From: skevin521 at yahoo.com (Solomon K. Chang) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:56:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Lamp-announce] Meeting this Saturday: Supercookies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1313556967.59246.YahooMailNeo@web113602.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Well met, LampSIGgers, There will be a meeting this Saturday, August 20th, at 1:00PM. The topic will be: Supercookies By Solomon Chang Faster than a viral bulletin... More power for your LSOs... Able to leap all browsers in a single bound. Look! Cached on my drive! From a nerd! It's a pain! It's Supercookies! Supercookies are the next evolution in really annoying privacy issues. They act like regular cookies, writing bits of tracking information to your browser, but you'll never know they were there. They are extremely difficult to delete by normal means. They defy clearing your cache. They defy erasing your cookies from your browser preferences. They don't even show up in your cookie list.? In fact, they are COMPLETELY ACCESSIBLE between browsers - a Supercookie written to Firefox can be read from Internet Explorer or Safari on the SAME MACHINE. It doesn't matter what platform you're running... Supercookies can thrive in OS/X, Windows, or Linux.? And, they live on your hard drive for, well, just about forever. Supercookies could have been the 11th plague of Exodus, if the Israelites stuck around Egypt for one more day. Now, at this point, you should have a little angel version of yourself sitting on one shoulder, and a little devil version of yourself on the other shoulder. The angel version of you should be saying, "That's horrible! How could anyone come up with something so evil?" The little devil version of you should be asking, "Ooooh. How can *I* write supercookies into my web apps?" This lecture will appeal to that little devil.? You will learn what you need to get started writing Supercookies, embedding Supercookie code into your HTML, how Supercookies are stored, and best of all, how to get rid of other people's Supercookies from your machine! Solomon Chang is a Senior System and Database Administrator working for Sosbuzz, Inc.. He hates Supercookies, but has gotten very good at writing them.? In fact, he has gotten very good at doing things he hates, just like a congressman does, but will do anything for the right amount of money, just like a congressman does. LAMPSIG meets on the third Saturday of every month, at 1:00PM at the Thom Bradley Center.? The TBC is located at: 5213 Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90019 From skevin521 at yahoo.com Wed Aug 17 02:13:54 2011 From: skevin521 at yahoo.com (Solomon K. Chang) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Lamp-announce] [SGVLUG] Fw: Meeting this Saturday: Supercookies In-Reply-To: <1313557638.7072.YahooMailClassic@web113418.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1313557638.7072.YahooMailClassic@web113418.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1313561634.88383.YahooMailNeo@web113602.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Sorry, Gents, I had a brief lack communication with Jorge, who had already booked this weekend's talk. The topic will NOT be Supercookies, but... Lambdas in PHP 5.3 When: Saturday, August 20, 2011 1:00 PM Where: Tom Bradley Youth and Family Center 5213 West Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90019 213-915-4402 This is a Joint meetup between LAPHP and LAMPsig. PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION One of PHP5.3's terrific features is the ability to use lambdas. But, wait, didn't we already have that with PHP5? What was create_function() about after all? What is the difference between a lambda and a closure or is there any in PHP? Come and explore with me these and other questions in an adventure to discover the truth about lambdas in PHP. The presentation touches on the origins of the lambda and its implementation in PHP5.3. Far greater emphasis is on live code demonstrations of lambdas (and closures, too!) as well as in-depth discussion about the code. ABOUT SHARON LEVY Sharon is a Zend Certified Engineer in PHP5, equally comfortable working with UNIX, Linux or Windows platforms. Her accomplishments in public speaking include dynamic, multi-media presentations at code camps and PHP meetups. She has also presented at SCALE (WIOS) and was the local speaker representing the Los Angeles area at the 2009 Code Works conference. The premier magazine php|architect has published several of her articles whose subjects range from email verification to web-based retrieval, to her latest endeavor regarding PHP's support for lambdas. Writing and public speaking activities compliment her primary focus, providing professional web development services for companies in diverse industries, from startups to the Fortune 500.