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Comment Cheap F-35s! (Score 5, Funny) 395

This is all a conspiracy by the US government. They *say* they got hacked and the designs got stolen, but we all know that sneakilly they've just given them all to the Chinese.

The reason for this is of course obvious: The Chinese can make these things much cheaper! So it's all about savings!

(If you think this might be something with tongues and cheeks, you might possibly be somewhat right)

Comment Re:Or they could just do what we do here in Texas (Score 0) 307

And then someone else sees someone shooting someone and that someone shoots the someone shooting someone else who sees someone shooting someone....

Escalating gunfights are not pretty.

Leaving out the fact that a fair amount of people in a stressed situation have serious problems actually aiming, so any surrounding 'innocents' become accidental targets.

It's not as simple as the NRA makes it sound. Ask any policeman who's been in a similar situation.

Google

Google Implements DNSSEC Validation For Public DNS 101

wiredmikey writes "Google on Tuesday announced that it now fully supports DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) validation on its Google Public DNS resolvers. Previously, the search giant accepted and forwarded DNSSEC-formatted messages but didn't actually perform validation. 'With this new security feature, we can better protect people from DNS-based attacks and make DNS more secure overall by identifying and rejecting invalid responses from DNSSEC-protected domains,' Yunhong Gu, Team Lead, Google Public DNS, wrote in a blog post. According to Gu, about 1/3 of top-level domains have been signed, but most second-level domains remain unsigned. According to NIST, there has been no progress in enabling DNSSEC on 98 percent of all 1,070 industry domains tested as of March 18, 2013. 'Overall, DNSSEC is still at an early stage and we hope that our support will help expedite its deployment,' Gu said."
Facebook

Submission + - Facebook Hacks Points to Much Bigger Threat for Mobile Developers (ibtimes.co.uk)

DavidGilbert99 writes: "Facebook admitted last weekend that it was hacked but assured everyone that no data was compromised. However following some investigation by security firm F-Secure, it seems this could be just the tip of the iceberg and that thousands of mobile app developers without the dedicated security team Facebook has in place could already be compromised.

The vector for the attack was a mobile developer's website, and the malware used likely targeted Apple's Mac OS X rather than Windows. Why? Because MacBook's are the laptop of choice of any discerning Silicon Valley engineer/developer."

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