I hadn't heard that for all the North Korea rabble-rousing and misdirection. Were there ever any real postmortem details? I remember seeing plenty of speculation, but none mentioning this attack; if the official report from Mandiant ever came out, it didn't cross my radar.

Especially when they offshore so much of their workforce in order to pay shit wages. Some guy sitting in a boiler room in Colombia has very little connection to his parent company and is outside the jurisdiction of the US. I'd say that gives him more incentive to steal and sell corporate data, or at least less incentive not to, than a happy US-based employee.

I'm pretty sure Prey uses a database of known wifi networks and their locations. For example, the Google Maps cars don't just take pictures, they also record a fingerprint of every 802.11 network they encounter; SSID, coordinates, the router's MAC address. There are public crowdsourced databases that do this, too. If you power up your computer and you're in range of a wireless network that's in one of these databases, Prey will locate you that way.

They can't bump to 38 until the built-in BitTorrent client is finished. 38.0.1 should have a couple of security fixes for that, plus a version of Gimp developed in PDFjs. I believe version 39 is slated to natively run Google Chrome.

Well they claimed Mitnick was capable of starting World War III from a prison cell, so I guess SWATing someone should be easy.

Why would he use an anonymous VOIP service to call the police, only to tell them exactly where he is?

There's a corporate website I worked on that (still, years later) sets a cookie named "Flavor" with a value of "chocolateyChip." It passed code review without objection, so why not? Things like that are harmless and I don't really think they're unprofessional. A lot of companies could probably stand to lighten up a little.

Yes, and Nixon would be considered liberal by modern standards. The Republican party has shifted American politics so far to the hard right that today's mainstream Democrats are barely left-of-center, and they're still railed at for being "socialists."

I've had to interact with a few services that use questions like this for authentication. Invariably, they ask things about me that even I don't know. "What was your monthly payment on the auto financed through GMAC in 1995?" With three close choices like $261.17, $263.41, and $264.28, so I can't ballpark it. Do people really keep records for a car they paid off 15 years ago?

It doesn't spread across the land by floating through the air, but it sure sucks when a fly ash dam breaks.

They appear to have fixed the problem by taking the entire application offline. Brill[i]ant!