Comment Re:Cost must be relative (Score 1) 247
Move out of your town full of poor people in the middle of nowhere where ISPs won't invest in expanding infrastructure.
Comment LOL (Score 1) 1
What a shit company.
Comment Re:Security concerns (Score 1) 351
You're right, of course one of the most secretive and highly funded organizations in the world would disclose their knowledge.
Submission + - SSL at Risk from Insecure Cookies (esecurityplanet.com)
darthcamaro writes: If you've got an SSL secured site but you haven't bothered to set the SECURE flag on your web application server cookies, your SSL isn't worth anything. According to security research firm Qualys, 94 percent of the top 300,00 SSL secured sites aren't using secure cookies. And people wonder why there are so many site breaches...
Comment Re:Akamai? Inktomi? (Score 1) 205
Google runs hundreds of large and varied services, including their own CDN, already. I think they can handle it.
Comment Another misleading story on Slashdot... (Score 1, Funny) 478
The community moderation system here is a failure.
Comment Re:Commercial databases (Score 1) 509
Google also uses MySQL for a lot of things. See http://www.mysql.com/customers/view/?id=555
"Google runs critical business systems with MySQL and InnoDB. The systems require 24x7 operation with minimal downtime. The systems support large OLTP and reporting workloads. We are very happy with the scalability, reliability and manageability of this software."
Google and Facebook have worked on many patches and tools for MySQL, and along with work from Percona, MySQL has come a long way as an extremely fast and scalable server in the last few years.
Comment Re:Session Cookies (Score 2) 49
The session will still be valid on the server after the user closes their browser. There's no way for it to know when a user ends their browsing session. And someone capturing the session cookie could just use it immediately to keep the session active as well.
Comment Re:Permissions aren't 'fine grained' (Score 1) 173
Oh, nevermind. I forgot it uses vfat.
Comment Re:Permissions aren't 'fine grained' (Score 1) 173
There is a mechanism. Every app has its own UID. They can use standard UNIX permissions.
Comment Re:Install a firewall (Score 1) 173
Hacking voicemail systems has nothing to do will the actual mobile phone.
Comment Nothing new (Score 1) 1
There have been Android firewalls for ages.
Submission + - Microsoft, Juniper won't fix dangerous IPv6 hole (networkworld.com)
Julie188 writes: "Security experts are urging Microsoft and Juniper to patch a year-old IPv6 vulnerability so dangerous it can freeze any Windows machine on a LAN in a matter of minutes. The hole is in a technology known as router advertisements, where routers broadcast their IPv6 addresses to help clients find and connect to an IPv6 subnet. Microsoft has downplayed the risk, and refuses to even post a Security Advisory about it, because it says the hole requires a physical connection to the wired LAN. (Experts point out that Microsoft routinely patches less dangerous holes that also require a connection to the LAN.) Juniper says it has delayed a patch because the hole only affects a small number of its products and it wants the IETF to fix the protocol instead. BTW, Linux and Cisco have long ago issued patches. In the past couple of weeks, public disclosure and video demonstrations of how to exploit the vulnerability on Windows have become more available by security professionals trying to get Microsoft to take action."
Submission + - NSA Decodes Extraterrestrial Radio Transmissions (ufodigest.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Fascinating NSA document revealing a cryptographer's efforts to decode extraterrestrial radio transmissions. Makes perfect sense to me that it would be mathematic equations and a periodic "table" — these are universal constants independent of culture and languages.
Comment Re:Keep Up the Pressure (Score 1) 96
Please provide an example of a link that automatically posts a status update without granting it permission to post your stream. If this were possible, it would be patched immediately by Facebook.
