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Anyone Can Buy Google Glass April 15 167

Posted by samzenpus from the all-the-better-to-see-you-with dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Starting at 9 a.m. ET on April 15 anyone in the US will be able to buy Google Glass for one day. From the article: 'This is the first time the device has been available to the general public. So far, the face-mounted computers have been sold only to Google "Explorers," the company's name for early adopters. At first only developers could buy Glass, but Google slowly expanded the program to include regular people. Some were hand-picked, others applied to be Explorers through Google contests by sharing what cool projects they would do if they had Glass.'"
Encryption

Obama Says He May Or May Not Let the NSA Exploit the Next Heartbleed 134

Posted by Soulskill from the thanks-for-providing-zero-clarity dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The White House has joined the public debate about Heartbleed. The administration denied any prior knowledge of Heartbleed, and said the NSA should reveal such flaws once discovered. Unfortunately, this statement was hedged. The NSA should reveal these flaws unless 'a clear national security or law enforcement need' exists. Since that can be construed to apply to virtually any situation, we're left with the same dilemma as before: do we take them at their word or not? The use of such an exploit is certainly not without precedent: 'The NSA made use of four "zero day" vulnerabilities in its attack on Iran's nuclear enrichment sites. That operation, code-named "Olympic Games," managed to damage roughly 1,000 Iranian centrifuges, and by some accounts helped drive the country to the negotiating table.' A senior White House official is quoted saying, 'I can't imagine the president — any president — entirely giving up a technology that might enable him some day to take a covert action that could avoid a shooting war.'" Side note: CloudFlare has named several winners in its challenge to prove it was possible to steal private keys using the Heartbleed exploit.

Comment Re:Feel free to do so! Just recognize that your (Score 1) 477

by Desler (#46715347) Attached to: New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails

Then don't bitch when someone else is able to buy a bigger house in a nicer neighborhood with better schools.

I don't. Most of those McMansions are crappily built anyway. And once your dead, who cares?

Or afford better healthcare. (And expecting "free" healthcare is in some ways a form of bitching about others being more successful...)

Again, I don't and neither will the French since they aren't forced to choose between dying and bankruptcy.

Comment Re:Feel free to do so! Just recognize that your (Score 1) 477

by Desler (#46715117) Attached to: New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails

Feel free to do so! Just recognize that your co-workers who are willing to go beyond the strict 9-5 will get all the brownie points and the bigger raise and the better office.

Great for them. I'm sure those things will be great and wonderful after they're dead. Some of us actually think life is much more than money and big offices.
Security

Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation 239

Posted by samzenpus from the protect-ya-neck dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Since the announcement malicious actors have been leaking software library data and using one of the several provided PoC codes to attack the massive amount of services available on the internet. One of the more complicated issues is that the OpenSSL patches were not in-line with the upstream of large Linux flavors. We have had a opportunity to review the behavior of the exploit and have come up with the following IDS signatures to be deployed for detection."

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