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by rm-rf 15y ago
The whois for the domain is accurate.
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by rm-rf 15y ago
And just for kicks, they accidentally open up your files to anyone who knows your e-mail address.
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by rm-rf 15y ago
And - To (hopefully) install a shim that lets them install software that lets their help desk help their customer more effectively. If I were trying to support millions of 'ordinary users' and had them calling me every time anything didn't
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by rm-rf 15y ago
Or - as I picked up from some long forgotten blog post: If you need Oracle, you'll know it. If you don't know that you need Oracle, you don't need Oracle. I run MySQL, Oracle SQL Server, hundreds of databases, a couple in the 'many thousand
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by rm-rf 15y ago
Presumably they have. But given the number of times Safari has been remotely exploitable in the past, that's not necessarily reassuring.
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by rm-rf 15y ago
How is this different than Adobe Reader, where the ability to execute code within a document reading application has resulted in world wide exploits of operating systems? If my document reader can execute any code in any language, then any
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by rm-rf 15y ago
So my ebooks can now contain executable root kits. Cool.
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by rm-rf 15y ago
Agreed - I certainly don't see anything that I'd call 'innovation', and there is nothing on any open source desktop that would send me off to my friends and relatives houses to switch them from OS X or Windows.
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by rm-rf 15y ago
How does a retailer using Square manage PCI compliance? Are retailers using Square automatically non-compliant? My understanding is that PCI Council has not approved mobile applications under PA-DSS, and merchants who accept card using soft
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by rm-rf 16y ago
"* Change the SSH port" "Why are you doing this? What will you achieve by it?" Changing the port does not improve security. It does, however: - dramatically reduce the noise associated with the fleet of password guessing bots that hit open
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by rm-rf 16y ago
"Are they also counting the extra downtime" With Windows 7, there should be no more (or less) downtime than any other operating system. "anti-malware packages and so on?" Anti-virus for a large enterprise can be as cheap as $1/desktop/year.
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by rm-rf 16y ago
"Mainly because the enterprise is guaranteed to buy at least a few hundred copies." Or a few thousand, or a few hundred thousand.
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by rm-rf 16y ago
One factor likely at play here is the low cost of licensing MS products under the enterprise/volume licensing agreements. Where I'm at it's costing well under $100/person/year to license Windows, Office, Exchange, SharePoint and a few other
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by rm-rf 16y ago
I've seen single line changes cause data loss, corruption, system outages, remote root exploits... I'm not sure that the number of lines makes the change more or less risky.
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by rm-rf 16y ago
I wouldn't. Replication yes. A logical backup? no.
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by rm-rf 16y ago
Good paper. I've been using hybrid hardware/software load balancers since 2004, and over time I came to different conclusions than the author on load balancing algorithms, SSL offload, layer 3/4 vs. layer 7 load balancing, relative performa
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by rm-rf 16y ago
Because of it's market share? Perhaps.
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by rm-rf 16y ago
I haven't seen any evidence of that. Do you have some data that you can share? One thing that I have noticed is that Mozilla tends to push Firefox fixes out as soon as they are ready, rather than waiting for a monthly patch cycle. For a hom
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by rm-rf 16y ago
And install all it's vulnerabilities on your Mac?
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by rm-rf 16y ago
And then Firefox will announce a zero-day. What will you have gained?
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by rm-rf 16y ago
The more interesting question: Is IE8 significantly worse than the alternatives? I think not. All major browsers on all common operating systems have exploitable vulnerabilities often enough that switching browsers will not solve the proble
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by rm-rf 16y ago
A globally routable v6 network isn't too hard to do at home with tunnelbroker.net and similar services. A Dlink DIR-825 has enough v6 support to hold up it's end of the tunnel and route a /64. Clients (Mac, Windows, Unix's) 'just work'. Tun
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by rm-rf 16y ago
And with that kind of money, they can finally afford to implement secure software development, code review, fuzzing, & vulnerability testing. We'll all be better off when they do.
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by rm-rf 16y ago
Running NoScript and only enabling javascript and flash when needed likely has a similar effect. The advantage, of course is that with Flash installed but disabled, you can enable/disable it as desired and as battery permits.
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by rm-rf 16y ago
My salary is in a database just like this at a newspaper in another state. Big deal. I am a public employee. The public can, does and should know my salary. If they don't think I'm worth it, they (the public) should fire me.
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by rm-rf 16y ago
"Your computer is now stoned."
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by rm-rf 16y ago
The F-Secure Q&A is relatively free from speculation. That's unusual for this particular event.
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by rm-rf 16y ago
On the other hand, when I had to give a hiring recommendation on a key lead technical architect position for a multi-billion dollar organization, I searched usenet for old posts from this person (perfectly legal - I cleared it with general
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by rm-rf 16y ago
>So does that mean you never use email either? No, But it does mean that I use separate e-mail accounts on separate systems for each social realm. My professional, personal and 'internet' presences are divided up between my ISP, GMail,
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by rm-rf 16y ago
I've stayed away simply because of the inevitable overlap between my personal and professional lives. For each online presence, I decide if it will be professional or personal, and then try to make sure they don't overlap. Some things are f

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