wiz31337 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:McCroskey (Score 1) 106

by wiz31337 on Thursday November 05, 2009 @12:57PM (#29996318) Attached to: Facebook and MySpace Backdoors Found, Fixed

I agree, unfortunately there are a lot of people that don't realize this and will click on any and every cool looking app out there.

However, even if your Facebook account is compromised people need to realize that they should only be putting information on their page that they want the whole world to see. If people would just ask themselves one question "Am I ok with my [boss, wife, mom, complete stranger] knowing this" before posting a lot of issues could be avoided.

Comment Re:SMIME (Score 2, Insightful) 243

by wiz31337 on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @10:37AM (#28361391) Attached to: NSA Email Surveillance Pervasive and Ongoing

You're kidding right?
A x.509 certificate will only slow the NSA down a few seconds (if that).

Submission + - Minnesota to block online gambling (kare11.com)

Submitted by wiz31337 on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @12:56PM

wiz31337 writes: Minnesota is working with local ISP to block access to over 200 gambling websites.

Using a 1961 federal law designed to stop illegal gambling, the state has directed 11 telephone and Internet service providers to block nearly 200 gambling Web sites.

Comment Re:Drives (Score 1) 472

by wiz31337 on Thursday March 19, 2009 @10:34AM (#27255537) Attached to: The 100 Degree Data Center

Solid state drives, for the win.

Comment Missing Address (Score 4, Insightful) 168

by wiz31337 on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @04:00PM (#26534745) Attached to: Largest Data Breach Disclosed During Inauguration

"The nature of the [breach] is such that card-not-present transactions are actually quite difficult for the bad guys to do because one piece of information we know they did not get was an address," Baldwin said.

Because as we all know it is impossible to get someone's address by having only their full name and credit card number.

They are trying to down play a very serious incident by disclosing the breach on a day heavily focused on the inauguration. Then they have the nerve to say "don't worry they didn't get your address" as if to say someone smart enough to embed malicious software which gathers credit card numbers is not smart enough to find someone's address. Common!

Submission + - Educause asks Blackboard to drop patent suit

Submitted by toaster-repair on Monday October 30, 2006 @03:18PM

toaster-repair writes: "Inside Higher Ed is reporting that Educause, leaders in higher education, recently sent a very strongly worded letter to Blackboard, encouraging them to drop their patent lawsuit against desire2Learn. They cited the patent as being too broad and hurting the eLearning industry. Blackboard has not replied favorably." An excerpt of Educause's letter expresses the intense anger of customers and eLearning vendors, "Among those who have been most directly involved in the development and evolution of course management systems — customers whom Blackboard has relied upon for ideas and advice — these concerns are most pronounced. Their anger over the law suit is so intense that many are simply not communicating with Blackboard."

Feed News: Nightmare At Twenty-Thousand Feet (penny-arcade.com)

From feed by pennyarcadefeed on Monday October 30, 2006 @03:12PM

Tycho: Recently returning home on a terrifying sky journey, Gabriel tried to explain that he couldn't shut off his game system - couldn't - because the Mana Tree had just released some kind of surge, unleashing monsters upon isle of Illusia. His aircraft's stern women were unmoved, even by the delicacy and imminence of his imaginary plight, because the genuine danger posed by airborne videogames was simply too grave.

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