Then he had better release that information quickly, because right now he's making people susceptible in believing Congressman Rogers.
My opinion of Snowden has now dropped several notches.
If you want people to think you a hero, do not assist in the promotion of megalomaniacal leaders.
Yep.
You have to wonder, if Dropbox were adding Hillary to the board, would we be getting stories denouncing the choice, or would there be stories about how influential she would be and how nice it is to see a prominent woman named to the board of a tech company.
Ummm, so its not ok for magic to resolve a problem that was caused earlier in the film by ? magic?
Yeah that'll teach Disney!!
She can have a portion of the gross profits from the trailer?.. $0
No one paid for the trailer!!
I see a bit of a problem here.
If she's claiming to be entitled to the money that the trailer for the film made, then she's not going to get any money. The trailer was promotional and no one paid a dime to watch it.
The movie was completely different from the trailer.
You almost suckered me into reading that Scientific American piece, until I noticed it was by Michael Mann. He's out there selling his hockey stick again. He is a fraud, the climate science community would do well to turn it's back on him.
Oh and the feeding the world bit? GMOs will help us be able to feed the world, not keep us from being able to do so. It's sickening to see the anti GMO crowd condemning kids is Asia to blindness because of their fear mongering about golden rice.
Is tech dirt becoming a progressive blog now, or is it still about copyright and patent issues in technology?
Except that the entity that you want to enforce your anti-vax punishments on people it the same government monitoring your communications or violating your rights because of terrorism scares.
It is literally insane to complain against abuse of government power in one area and then plead for it in another!!
The kind of political representatives you would need to pass a "take kids away from parents that don't vaccinate them law" strike me as much the same kinds of politicians that would be fine with a "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear, so we're monitoring all your communications" types of laws too.
My goodness. The breathlessness of the description of this vulnerability.
Any hacker is not the case here. To execute this attack you have to intercept traffic to a website, and spoof its CA certificate (although without correct key information - as that was what wasn't being checked).
Thats not to say that an attack couldn't be carried out by coordinated hackers who had prepared and targeted a public network being used to access a https secured site.
But attacking this vulnerability would not be trivial. Also, once an SSL session is setup with a legit sight, even with this bug, that session would be secure and free from eavesdropping.
The attack for this has to occur at SSL session configuration and handshake time. It is much harder to pull off than it is being claimed to be.
The people fighting the bills in congress are not completely wrong.
A piecemeal approach to "Net Neutrality" will allow the FCC to meddle with the internet, and they may eventually meddle in ways we don't like.
Common carrier for the internet is the only way to go. Regulatory shenanigans prevented it in the past, but now it is long past due.
I am becoming more and more convinced that the folks in charge of the USTR really really need to be put in jail for their egregious violation of the civic duty they are epically failing to adhere to.
Its is being rumored that the Comcast - Time Warner merger deal has nixed a deal the Apple was working on with Time Warner to do these things.
The cable and cell industries abilities to see their customers only as prisoners who are to be given super crappy service and are to be charged exorbitant rates is a truly hideous state of affairs.
Customer Service is truly dead and buried Customer Servants is what these horrible companies want.
And here we are. A post advocating the return of the old days with the "High Priests of Computing" that control the mainframe dictating how everyone should interact with the system.
Sorry, cats out of the bag. You can wish on a star for the power to control the internet (your seriously asking for precisely that) but you aren't going to get it. No one will give it to you (or anyone else for that matter) and the engineering of the internet itself will fight back against trying to get that type of control.
And while I won't call your argument communist, it sure as hell sounds a lot like "we need to control you for your own good" progressive bullshit.
Exactly. If the password your system demands in complicated, then the attack vector for coming at your system quickly becomes attacking the password reset functionality.
But the fact remains. If you left your house unlocked and someone went in and stole your stuff, they are still guilty of a crime and they are still liable to the authorities and to you for that crime.
If someone breaks your "easy" password and does harm to you they still are liable for the damage.
"You were asking for it" does not excuse the criminal of wrongdoing.
A corollary to this is that for comment sites that have my email address and that's it, why do I need a super strong password?
The password strength should be related to the importance of the data and some data just isn't very important.
I sure hope she uses her free speech rights to tell us what they have to tell her after they tell it to her.
Re: the lawyer
I really hope that the lawyer in this case is actually dumb enough to respond to you. That'll be fun to watch.
I love how people think you can force the internet to hide things.
Except that when you ask the internet to hide things, it interprets your request as asking everyone online to shine a 1000Watt spotlight on it.