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The add on for Firefox has been designed to provide users with the option of reading deleted versions of web pages.
In essence, the idea behind the project is that the new experimental feature in lets you bypass annoying 404 dead-ends and instead of receiving 404 error messages, the 404 No More feature will instead present webpages from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and replace the missing web pages with archive.org versions before the page before vanished.
Not that it’s perfect of course, old or popular pages are likely to have snapshots available, but Mozilla’s doesn’t work if there’s no central archive for the pages in question, or if the site automatically redirects browsers to another page, or encounters another kind of error.
The message users encounter in cases like this reads:
“This page appears to be missing. View a saved version courtesy of the Wayback Machine.” Users are then given the option to open the internet archive and see an older version of the page, or just go back.
In order to try it out users have to install the Firefox Test Pilot browser plugin in order to access their development features. The 404 no more feature can be turned on or off along with some other experimental features.
The idea behind Test Pilot is that Mozilla thinks it will streamline the process of testing new functionality, features and ideas in Firefox itself, while also opening up the new functions to a wider audience than just dedicated beta users.
One of the best things about using Test Pilot is that users who run into trouble or suffer from compatibility issues can simply turn the offending component off but still use the rest of the browser extension without issues.
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The stage in Las Vegas where Mayhem and its rivals did battle
The competition was the brainchild of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and was setup up by the agency in the hope of encouraging more interest in the design and creation of autonomous security systems.
The anti hacking competition was held in a Vegas casino ball room at the Def Con hacker conference and has quickly been labelled as the “Cyber Grand Challenge.”
The competition itself has actually been running for the last 3 years, and by the time of the conference this year, only 7 competitors were left in the running. In total, the Cyber Grand Challenge ran for just over 8 hours and had 95 individual rounds
Mayhem’s creators are now in line to receive a $2 million prize to continue their work and make their software program more effective and to also make it ready for the ‘real world.’
Thousands of attendees at the conference watched a full on virtual full scale war between competing security programs running on 7 supercomputers as announcers delivered a play by play account of the competition as it happened, and as the event closed, ‘Mayhem’ found itself crowned the provisional winner of the competition.
Not that such competitions are cheap to run. DARPA spent a reported $55 million setting the whole thing up and were keen to highlight the fact it was the first ‘capture-the-flag’ hacking contest played out solely by computers.
DARPA itself were said to be more than pleased and excited about the success and outcome of the Cyber Grand Challenge, stating that the competition had more than met its expectations and had stimulated “development of technologies for automating the process of protecting computer networks against cyber-attacks.”
“I’m blown away by what just happened,” said Mike Walker, the DARPA scientist who set up and oversaw the event. “We’ve had an all-computer hacking tournament.”
Alex Rebert, head of Team Forallsecure, which created Mayhem, said the cash prize would be put towards further development of the program and keeping the small firm behind it going as it grows.
The event was intended to uncover techniques that can find and fix bugs in code far faster than humans can, and from that view point, Walker said the competition had more than proved it was possible.
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