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Comment Re: Crappy standard (Score 2) 302

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus#Durability

"The newer Micro-USB receptacles are designed for up to 10,000 cycles of insertion and removal between the receptacle and plug, compared to 1500 for the standard USB and 5000 for the Mini-USB receptacle. This is accomplished by adding a locking device and by moving the leaf-spring connector from the jack to the plug, so that the most-stressed part is on the cable side of the connection. This change was made so that the connector on the less expensive cable would bear the most wear instead of the more expensive micro-USB device."

Comment Re:Isn't spamhaus (Score 1) 295

To have record SBL68370 (92.241.160.0/19) removed from the SBL, the Abuse/Security representative of RIPE (or the Internet Service Provider responsible for supplying connectivity to 92.241.160.0/19) needs to contact the SBL Team by email (use this link) to explain how the spam problem has been terminated (we need to know exactly how the issue has been dealt with and that this spam problem is fully terminated). If the spam problem that caused this listing has been terminated we will normally remove the listing from the SBL without delay.

They don't mention payment on their site.

Comment Re:Passwords are a failure (Score 1) 236

LastPass is pretty good.

It supports IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari on Windows, Mac and Linux, synchronizing the passwords between them.

It uses a master password by default, but you can use an on screen keyboard and generate one time master passwords to protect against keyloggers on untrusted machines. You can additionally use Token Grid Authentication for multifactor security (like the copy protection on old games where you had to enter specific stuff from the manual to prove you own the game).

The premium version ($12 per year) also supports iPhone, Blackberry WinMobile, Android, Symbian, WebOS and Dolphin/Firefox mobile browsers.
Additionally it can use USB flash drives or a dedicated USB token as an added factor.

I use long, unique randomly generated passwords for every online account I have (Except my main email account, that has a really long and complicated password that I know. So if all my computers, my backups and the LastPass servers explode, I can still reset every single password :).

They also recently acquired Xmarks, a browser bookmark/history/settings synchronization service.

(I'm not affiliated with them, just really like the service.)

Comment Re:This means one thing: PLAINTEXT PASSWORDS! (Score 1) 209

At some point in Gawker's history, they switched to bcrypt hashes. The only problem is that people don't change their passwords a lot, so anyone who signed up before the change probably just had the old crypt(3) hash.

Why would you need co change the password for a hash algorithm change?

Use separate DB columns for the old and new hashes.

Modify your login code to:
If a new password hash exists for the account compare the password with that. Login if it matches.
If a new hash doesn't exist, but the old hash does, compare the password with that. If it matches, calculate the new hash for the password and store it. Remove the old hash from the DB and login.

After the active users migrate over to the new hash you can send an email to the unused accounts explaining that they need to reset their passwords because of a security update. Remove the column containing the old hashes and remove the second part of the login code changes.

People who use the site often wouldn't notice a thing.

Comment Re:Imperial - Metric (Score 1) 250

That reasoning only works if your country doesn't (fully) use the metric system.

Why should I care what the half of 2,54 is? Nothing around here is measured in multiples of 2,54 cm. (Okay, water pipes are. And tires. And screens. And disk drives.)

A 2 by 4 would be 5 cm by 10 cm.

Half of 1 meter is 5 dm half of that is 25 cm half of that is 125 mm. And if you want to be precise, half of that is 62500 um :P

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