5 things to note about HTTPS Everywhere

Security extension for Firefox has positive intentions and design specification to enhance online privacy and security but users need to recognize loopholes, security experts say. [read more]

From my view, now is the best time to introduce anonymisation (Anonymity) concept. Although it do helps in protecting privacy and ensure safety and reliable internet acces, it however do have drawback especially to security forensics as it will be difficult to find the sources of threat (if exist).

Nevertheless, it is still a good research and will be the future trend of internet access in terms of security.

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MySQL - Creating a loop in function

I was looking for foreach loop to be used in MySQL database and found a simple article written in MySQL development group. In MySQL, it does not have foreach loop but instead replace in with LOOP.

Based on that, I create my looping function and would like to share with you guys... Check it out the code below :)

DELIMITER $$

DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS `myFunc` $$
CREATE DEFINER=`mydb`@`%` FUNCTION `myFunc`(p_id varchar(15), m_id varchar(2), q_id varchar (2), years varchar(4), r_id varchar(5), d_id varchar(10), s_id varchar(10), cws varchar(10)) RETURNS int(11)
    READS SQL DATA
BEGIN

  DECLARE done INT DEFAULT 0;
  DECLARE jsid VARCHAR(2);
  DECLARE jsd VARCHAR(100);
  DECLARE cur1 CURSOR FOR SELECT job_id, job_desc FROM mydb.t_job_sector where cws like concat(concat('%',job_id),'%');
  DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR NOT FOUND SET done = 1;

  OPEN cur1;

  read_loop: LOOP
    FETCH cur1 INTO jsid, jsd;

    IF done THEN
      LEAVE read_loop;
    END IF;

    IF jsid IS NOT NULL AND jsd IS NOT NULL THEN
      INSERT INTO mydb.t_work_choice VALUES (p_id, jsid, jsd, r_id, d_id, s_id);
    END IF;

  END LOOP;

  CLOSE cur1;

  RETURN 0;
END $$

DELIMITER ;

.... hopes that helps others too....

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