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Comment And your password is? (Score 1) 504

Interviewer: And finally, could you give me your facebook and twitter usernames and passwords please. Correct response: Ah, a trick question to see if I'm security aware. Of course I won't give you my passwords - if I was happy to give out my passwords to anyone who asked for them you would never recruit me because you wouldn't be able to trust me with a password for your corporate computer systems.

Comment We can neither confirm nor deny ... (Score 5, Informative) 157

Occasionally, when in the name of security, someone says "we can neither confirm nor deny x", x isn't happening (for whatever value of "happening" is appropriate to x). In this case, given the US attitude to jurisdiction the reality may be quite simple. Any data or communications processed on or passed through any system that is owned, operated, managed or otherwise controlled by any US entity or subsidiary thereof may be arbitrarily hoovered up by the NSA or other similar agencies. They will then analyse it however they wish for whatever purpose they want. This can happen regardless of what connections are known to exist between the US authorities and any individual provider. Attempting to discover the scope and extent of those connections may thus be a pointless exercise. The same thing probably happens in many other countries too.
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Submission + - UK Crimestoppers Faux Pas

realitycheckplease writes: Crimestoppers UK tweeted about this scam warning this morning. http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/fraud/types-of-fraud/common-scams/postal-scam-email-from-parcel-delivery-service-65455465 — it's a 6 year old scam that was closed down by a UK telephone regular in 2005 (see http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/News-And-Events/News/2009/10/Postal-scam-chain-email-2009.aspx) but about which warnings have continued to circulate. Instead of checking their facts and perhaps putting out an alert that this is an old scam, this quango that acts alongside UK law enforcement is presenting this as a current scam that people need to be aware of. Is propagating such outdated scam warnings on what is often seen as an official law enforcement related website any different to retweeting false tweets about public disorder or terrorist incidents?

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