Comment Re:Cloud? (Score 1) 266
YOW
YOW
Granted, some of you are concerned about people finding out the sites you visit, but what about a real world problem (or two)?
Some time back, there was an attack that threw a phony dialog pop-up saying that your timeout had been expired at your bank site. Combine that with being able to see *what* bank's site (and whether or not you have been at it recently). This could even be injected through a compromised ad-server system or the like. Maybe you don't even have to visit my site. There's some moving parts in there, but things like this, combined with click-happy-and-fill-in-personal-data user syndrome could make for some pretty sophisticated attacks.
From a private organization's perspective (many of whom have private systems, blocked off from the outer world)
I am particular about who I allow to set cookies, but not so much about my history (except that I do wipe it
their new hobbit overlord.
Oh wait! That's North Korea
>>"effort and awareness"
And next, you're going to expect "reason and logic" to prevail too, right!?!?!
And you need an ISSO or some other security expert/chief/scary person to strike fear into them and into having that mindset. I think a Czar sounds scary, don't you?
>>The Democrats aren't much better, but at least they're trying to spend money on people in THIS HEMISPHERE, let alone in this country.
Well, then independent of who let this through (below), Bush's Admin. or the Democratic Congress
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=47976&print=on
http://mediamatters.org/research/200905130010
>>It's at least as secure as your wired ethernet connections to your Windows desktop workstations.
You had me feeling good until you qualified it with the "Windows desktop workstations" part.
Come on! somebody had to say it!
I would say "Wireless=More Attack Surface"
Yes
I was thinking of sampling and using them like Dr. Dre, Vanilla Ice and others. One or two hits and I could retire early. There's gotta be a golden one in there somewhere with all that traffic!
I beg to differ
Well
Also IANAL, but isn't congress not supposed to make laws about interstate commerce?
In reality though,
- taxing from the seller state makes states it less attractive for businesses to do business there.
- From the buyer's side, makes it complicated, because then the business may have to pay/file in every state depending on where
Either way
OK
Most of those apps use mysql on the backend (at least WP and Drupal do
Mod me down for not reading enough or being lazy if you want, but I an still trying to figure out how they include some of these apps without including MySQL
Anyone actually played with it yet?
If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly. -- G.K. Chesterton