What could possibily go wrong!

What is very interesting is that Firefox 4 is now reporting that this slashdot article is a Reported Web Forgery.

How are they protecting anything if the bad people can still access the site directly if they can find it?

If it works anything like Akamai, the site DNS points to cloudflare, which then relays it all back to the origin host.

(Unless they're locking down the origin hosts to only accept requests from cloudflare networks, of course....)

you can not store CCV2 ever, even if encrypted. Read PCI and try again.

I realise people don't read the article, but try the summary, at least. These screens don't offer a solution in terms of energy demands.

Summary is not clear, but he is a Thai Citizen as well as US.

False feeling of safety!

Thanks to ad networks, there are no safe sites on the interwebs.

This has been used in the UK since around 1996/7. You get a random 'audit' every N visits.

>You can prevent spoofing. Even theoretical systems turn out to have flaws, much less implementations.

Linux has similar problems - i.e, Ubuntu can "lag" a firefox release for hours or days behind a general security release.

Did i claim it was perfect? The centralised app store model has the same risks, but they are quantifiably lower than downloading and executing a file on a random website.

Of course, i didn't say otherwise. If you don't trust, don't install.

I realise you're trolling but there are two common malware paths these days: (1) Drive by Downloads - where exploits in things like PDFs, or Flash cause Remote Code Execution on the affected users box, by exploiting flaws in installed software. Hopefully privileged elevation requiriring sudo or UAC will prevent these programs running as admin/root, but often it's just enough that these apps run as a user class. (2) Stupid Users- people who have been trained to download anything from anywhere and just run it. OSX, like Windows, is vulnerable to both, because the software distribution model is totally broken. The app store may help, but i'll still put my trust, for now, in the linux repo model.

My current ubuntu device doesn't even have an optical drive....

Congrads. Does your GF have a key to your house? Because your "perfect system" has a single point of failure- a insider who could cause damage to both causing loss of data. Best not get on her bad side for now, anyway....