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Comment Re:Hilarity (Score 1) 434

by tomstockmail (#38020102) Attached to: Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion
>Passowrds != CC info... Then here's the source where they say the Credit Cards were encrypted (I probably should have linked this one). >Q: Was my personal data encrypted? A: All of the data was protected, and access was restricted both physically and through the perimeter and security of the network. The entire credit card table was encrypted and we have no evidence that credit card data was taken. The personal data table, which is a separate data set, was not encrypted, but was, of course, behind a very sophisticated security system that was breached in a malicious attack.

Comment Re:Hilarity (Score 4, Informative) 434

by tomstockmail (#38019050) Attached to: Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion
Then screw heresy, here's the actual source.

One other point to clarify is from this weekend’s press conference. While the passwords that were stored were not “encrypted,” they were transformed using a cryptographic hash function. There is a difference between these two types of security measures which is why we said the passwords had not been encrypted. But I want to be very clear that the passwords were not stored in our database in cleartext form. For a description of the difference between encryption and hashing, follow this link.

Comment Re:good name (Score 1) 161

by tomstockmail (#37936756) Attached to: KDE 3.5 Fork Trinity Releases First Major Update

The fact that the server got overloaded is a testament to how much us KDE4 users hate KDE4 (and how much the KDE developers apparently hate us).

Not all of us hate KDE4, many of us love it so don't walk around like everyone hates it. Plus the Qt+KDE communities are tightly knitted. If you think that Trinity will still be "KDE 3.5" once it's ported to Qt4, you're very wrong. It will be KDE4 with less functionality.
XBox (Games)

Submission + - Xbox Live users suffering hacked accounts, FIFA 11 (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by tomstockmail
tomstockmail writes: Ars Technica has received a number of reports from Xbox Live customers complaining about hacked accounts, unauthorized purchases, and a slow response from Microsoft itself. The pattern is weirdly specific: gamers notice that unauthorized purchases have been made using their credit card information or existing points, and FIFA Soccer 11 or 12 has been played on their account.

Update: Microsoft has sent us the following statement:

“We do not have any evidence the Xbox LIVE service has been compromised. We take the security of our service seriously and work on an ongoing basis to improve it against evolving threats. However, a limited number of members have contacted us regarding unauthorized access to their accounts by outside individuals. We are working with our impacted members directly to resolve any unauthorized changes to their accounts. As always, we highly recommend our members follow the Xbox LIVE Account Security guidance provided at www.xbox.com/security to protect your account."

A thread on Reddit has a few unreliable confirmations:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/lc1jf/xbox_live_users_suffering_hacked_accounts_fifa_11/
Cloud

Submission + - Problems plague iCloud (reuters.com)

Submitted by tripleevenfall
tripleevenfall writes: Apple Inc rolled out its new iCloud service and latest mobile software to a chorus of user complaints this week, after glitches led to email access problems and long delays in installation.

Some users reported losing their email access as Apple formally launched iCloud, an online communications, media storage and backup service, on Wednesday.

"It failed in a very nasty way in that mail sometimes vanished, sometimes appeared then vanished, and often there was a user and/or password-incorrect message plus some rather obscure additional error messages," said David Farber, a professor of engineering and public policy with Carnegie Mellon University.
Ubuntu

Submission + - Unity must go (wordpress.com)

Submitted by
00_NOP
00_NOP writes: "Like many Ubuntu users I hate the "Unity" desktop. Actually, "hate" is not strong enough. It is utterly loathsome, like something produced by a child in kindergarten. It pops up when you don't need it and when you do need something it's difficult to find. So I posted a short blog on how to get rid of it and the traffic keeps on rising as more and more upgraders to Ubuntu 11.10, where Unity is imposed (in 11.04 it was the default choice but a "classic" option was also available), look to get rid of it. So how can we force Mark Shuttleworth and the rest to take notice?"
Hardware

Submission + - Throwable 36-camera ball takes perfect panoramas (extremetech.com)

Submitted by
MrSeb
MrSeb writes: "Jonas Pfeil, a student from the Technical University of Berlin has created a rugged, grapefruit-sized ball that has 36 fixed-focus, 2-megapixel digital camera sensors built in. The user simply throws the ball into the air and photos are simultaneously taken with all 36 cameras to create a full, spherical (360-degree?) panorama of the surrounding scene. The ball itself is made with a 3D printer, and the innards (which includes 36 STM VS6724 CMOS camera sensors, an accelerometer, and two microcontrollers to control the cameras) are adequately padded, so presumably it doesn’t matter if you suck at throwing and catching. You can see from the video below that the ball is too big (but not too heavy) for single-handed use — but considering this is the work of a master’s degree student, it’s safe to assume that the same hardware could be miniaturized into something like a tennis ball — at which point, this ball would probably revolutionize holiday snapshots, wedding photos, and more."
The Courts

Submission + - Look Ma, I'm Getting Arrested! (cnet.com)

Submitted by
robotissues
robotissues writes: "Cnet reviews "I'm Getting Arrested", an Android app that alerts your lawyer, loved ones, etc if you have been arrested peacefully demonstrating. Makes it easy to broadcast a message via SMS in the event all hell breaks loose."

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