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Comment Re:Roboticus Superioritis (Score 1) 54

by MathiasRav (#33162406) Attached to: Swinging Robot Excels At Wall-Climbing

I no longer login because I feel that while attacking a company's products is fair game (specifically Apple), having stories singling out their users as "selfish" and unkind is not "news for nerds stuff that matters". Am I an Apple fanboi? Let's just say I've used NIX for decades (yes I'm old) and I'm not talking OS X.

You know, registered users can have signatures.

Comment Useless (Score 1) 150

by MathiasRav (#32350020) Attached to: Secure Communication Comes To Android
Encrypted voice is US only, so that's no good for the rest of the world. Also, searching for TextSecure on Market doesn't yield any results on my Android 1.5 device (although the FAQ claims it works on all versions of Android), though 2.2 is fine. Sending encrypted texts to myself didn't work either, it says "Bad encrypted message..." but that might just be me doing something wrong.
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Microsoft Dynamics GP "Encrypted" Using Caesar Cipher 206

Posted by kdawson from the no-safety-in-numbers dept.
scribblej writes "Many large companies use Microsoft's Dynamics GP product for accounting, and many of these companies use it to store credit card numbers for billing customers. Turns out these numbers (and anything else in GP) are encrypted only by means of a simple substitution cipher. This includes the master system password, which can be easily selected and decrypted from the GP database by any user. Quoting: '[Y]ou DON'T HAVE TO GIVE ACCESS TO THE DYNAMICS DATABASE. What that means is if you create a base user in GP, that user can log into the SQL server and run a select statement on the table containing the "encrypted" GP System password. Not good.'" Update: 05/22 02:57 GMT by T : The original linked post has been revised in a few places; significantly, the following has been added as a correction: "By default, GP gives the user access to the DYNAMICS database but the user CANNOT login to the SQL server using SQL Enterprise Manager."

Comment Re:Please, please, (Score 1) 570

by MathiasRav (#32169384) Attached to: Mozilla Reveals Firefox 4 Plans
The bookmarks I need the most, I put on the bookmarks bar. The bookmarks I don't need as often, I name and access from the address bar (Enter title of bookmark, pick from suggestions), and to back up my bookmarks, it's Ctrl+shift+B, Tools -> Export Bookmarks. All I've ever needed.

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