orbitalinsertion (profile), Nov 30th, 2012 @ 7:11pm
Re: Re: LOL
People value privacy for reasons other than laws or shame. Really. And some people practice privacy to a greater extent just for practice, and because what they do is not anyone else's goddamned business.
orbitalinsertion (profile), Nov 29th, 2012 @ 5:53am
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No, that cannot possibly restore destroyed work. Read it again. Read the instructions.
All this potentially does is to make the program usable again. The program you probably have walked away from in disgust. The program that you cannot trust, so why waste your valuable time using it?
orbitalinsertion (profile), Nov 29th, 2012 @ 5:23am
They certainly chose a ridiculous way to effect the DRM enforcement. As long as it remains as is, the software is essentially useless. You can lose all your work because of (maybe) malware? When almost all code is written to the "good enough" standard (for varying values of "good enough") unintended consequences are to be expected. So, minus one hundred for implementation.
This is why backups are important. And why the types of DRM that make backups difficult or impossible add yet another layer of "don't buy me" to such products.
The company certainly responded reasonably in communication, which is nice, but not so much in practice, which still leaves their product highly suspect.
orbitalinsertion (profile), Nov 24th, 2012 @ 3:59pm
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Doesn't matter if they are the biggest assholes in the world. They didn't do anything to profit from the completely stupid and horrible vulnerability they found.
orbitalinsertion (profile), Nov 24th, 2012 @ 3:56pm
Re: Not sure I have pity...
Hypothesize all you want. What was done wasn't breaking in to anything. No one had to crack a password or change permissions or trawl a raw database. There was no cracking, white or black hatted, involved.
And, seriously, everyone needs to quit equivocating (in bad metaphors, especially) things which are not remotely equivalent, but to which they have similar emotional reactions.
Now, if some actual breaching were involved, you might be able to stretch this into being akin to a B&E. But no, not even close. It's more like dancing naked in your all-glass house and just expecting no one to look. If there is a crime in that situation, is isn't on the part of the onlookers, even if they now specifically visit your neighborhood to see you dance.
orbitalinsertion (profile), Nov 24th, 2012 @ 3:49pm
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Yep. If someone has unprotected directories which they intend to remain hidden, and you simply remove one directory level in a URL exposing the (not intended for access) parent directory, you are a criminal hax0r deserving a flogging, three beatings, and twenty years in prison (maximum security).
orbitalinsertion (profile), Nov 24th, 2012 @ 3:06pm
Re: Hackers != Crackers
That's because some people refuse to be corrected, others are simply lazy or contrary for the sake of being contrary, while others still are intent on using "hacker" with no qualifier (e.g., malicious) for such purposes as they believe it serves their interests.
Queue up all the "language evolves" whingers and the rest of the meta-contrarians with low-quality arguments.
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They're gonna need that one if I'm in a room with their technology in use.
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(other idiots)
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Remember, the effect is to drive buyers to piracy.
Have fun with that.
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All this potentially does is to make the program usable again. The program you probably have walked away from in disgust. The program that you cannot trust, so why waste your valuable time using it?
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This is why backups are important. And why the types of DRM that make backups difficult or impossible add yet another layer of "don't buy me" to such products.
The company certainly responded reasonably in communication, which is nice, but not so much in practice, which still leaves their product highly suspect.
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Re: Security FAIL
For the given data transfer model (are you going to walk the file over to wherever yourself?), that is more secure.
Insecure behavior like adding friends who are not friends to your network is your problem, not the tool's.
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Re: Not sure I have pity...
And, seriously, everyone needs to quit equivocating (in bad metaphors, especially) things which are not remotely equivalent, but to which they have similar emotional reactions.
Now, if some actual breaching were involved, you might be able to stretch this into being akin to a B&E. But no, not even close. It's more like dancing naked in your all-glass house and just expecting no one to look. If there is a crime in that situation, is isn't on the part of the onlookers, even if they now specifically visit your neighborhood to see you dance.
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You noticed they didn't take the five minutes to actually abuse the system for their profit, didn't you?
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Re: Re: Re: Problem?
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Re: Hackers != Crackers
Queue up all the "language evolves" whingers and the rest of the meta-contrarians with low-quality arguments.
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Re: Re: Re: Why not?