And any user-written spreadsheet files that use Excel's built-in date functions should also make it through the change of century untarnished.

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The trick is typically used for stealing a user's cookies--identifying files stored by his or her browser--or creating fraudulent, data-stealing entry fields on a Web site.

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Thanks to a variety of Android-based devices and their versatile user experience, users can access and share their files via web browser or the Wi-Drive App.

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As a security-tightening measure on individual Linux boxes, Ozancin recommends reviewing security-sensitive files, especially those installed set-UID or set-GID to run with the root user's authority (or equivalent).

CNN: Analysis: Linux security

You don't have to wait for Verizon to roll it out -- just follow the read link and look for the XV6700-related files on UTStarcom's site (user beware, of course, since this hasn't been announced).

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PrettyPark also sends duplicate files of itself to the e-mail addresses listed in the user's Internet address book.

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The new model was peer-to-peer, where every user on the network acts as both a client and a server, sharing files and telling other users where else they can go to get them.

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