Me too, but that's not quite exactly what I said:

I'd much rather see a version of Firefox that used DuckDuckGo by default (http://ddg.gg)

I mentioned nothing about the current administration.

I was talking about the United States as a whole.

Ergo, the United Conservative Fascist States of America.

Which, I hate to be the one to also tell you there's no such thing as the Easter Bunny, but we *are*.

In most (all?) other western Democracies in the World other than us (including Canada):

Our "progressives" are considered "conservatives" by the rest of the World.

Our "conservatives" are considered "fascists" by the rest of the World.

This is not a red-state/ blue-state/ republican/ democrat issue.

This is fact.

Which makes it even more funny when conservative blowhards banty about the word "socialism" to refer to anything the current administration does.

The United Conservative Fascist States of America

but how is this "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters."

I already read CNN & Google News.

I already knew this.

I did not need to read this on /. .

Re-posting because I forgot to login:

In a perfect World that would work, and Companies would notify their customers of the threat and come up with a game plan to mitigate the vulnerability.

In the real World Companies aren't going to do Jack Schitt unless their hand is forced.

And for me, as the Customer, I'd much rather know that a threat exists so *I* can be proactive and try to mitigate the threat than rely on some Company sitting on a vulnerability for months and years while they devise a patch or hotfix all the while I — the customer — am in the dark, and the bad guys have an opportunity to exploit the vulnerability.

Ethical Disclosure is a fallacy.

If you find a vulnerability, disclose it. Publicly.

And yes, I work in Information Security. Vulnerability Management even. Go figure.

The only thing laws like this will do is force I2P and Freenet to become more popular.

Which — ironically — is a blessing for those that use both of those services as it would make both of those networks more robust and viable.

.I2P

http://www.i2p2.de/

Send me your Email. I've got invites.

gellenburg (gmail).

I wish Diaspora* would change their fucking name so it'd be more appealing to the masses.

Also wishing I had donated my $100 to Michael Chisari and The Appleseed Project over Diaspora* but I didn't know about Appleseed until after I had donated to Diaspora. ::sigh::

Never used a pseudonym on Google+. My issue was never about *me* being able to use one.

So I did the next best thing - I've deleted my Google Profile and have moved on.

Thought I'd never say this, but Bing's search isn't all that bad! (j/k, j/k)

Took you long enough. :-)

Until they reverse their stance on real names, sadly I have no f*cks to give.

+1 +1 +1 +1 +1 for CrashPlan.

I use it on all my machines. Mac, Linux, and Windoze.

I store all my backups locally on one of my Drobos. Backup my parents PC over the net to the same Drobo and also backup remotely to CrashPlan's servers.