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Comment Re:Cool (Score 1) 376

*raises hand*

I run three servers with Debian stable. One has some backports packages (that's my home server), but the other two are plain stable (remote hobby servers). One of those used to have PHP5 installed from some non-stable repository, but with Lenny I could get rid of the extra apt config line.

Of course, it depends what you want your server to do. For me, it's as simple as eg. Apache, MySQL and PHP. You could argue that no "real" server can be that simple, but .. well, it depends on your needs.

I don't think what I do is really that rare.

Comment Re:Not seeing the point (Score 1) 193

How does MITM help in stealing?

The service appears to provide in effect 5 pre-defined accounts (your own), between which you can transfer funds. You can't transfer funds anywhere else.

With a MITM attack, you could alter which account is the source and which is the destination, but you still can't get money transferred outside of those pre-defined accounts. There's potential for someone being a nuisance to you, but not stealing.

I probably wouldn't use this service even if my bank offered it, but it doesn't look like it's the big security hole regarding transfers many commenters seem to think it is.

The other issue is whether you'd want balance information etc. available in this manner. It can't be used directly to harm you either, but I guess it could be valuable to someone eg. for deciding on who or which account to target.

Space

Irish Astronomers Investigate Sky Explosion 157

puroresu writes "Astronomers in Ireland have appealed to the public to contact them with eyewitness accounts of a massive explosion in the sky over the country. From the BBC: 'Astronomy Ireland chairman David Moore said: "So far, reports have been registered by residents in west Cork, Kerry, Cavan and as far north as Donegal, thus suggesting that this spectacular event may have been witnessed by people all over the country. In the past two decades there have been two major explosions in the skies over Ireland. When we investigated these, we were able to conclude that one was a Russian military satellite that exploded over the country, and the other was a rock from space."'"
Cellphones

Mobile Wi-Fi Hot Spot 202

bsharma writes to let us know about a little goodie that we will be able to buy starting May 17: a battery-powered, rechargeable, cellular, Wi-Fi hot spot that you can put in your pocket. "What if you had a personal Wi-Fi bubble, a private hot spot, that followed you everywhere you go? Incredibly, there is such a thing. It's the Novatel MiFi 2200, available from Verizon starting in mid-May ($100 with two-year contract, after rebate). It's a little wisp of a thing, like a triple-thick credit card. It has one power button, one status light and a swappable battery that looks like the one in a cellphone. When you turn on your MiFi and wait 30 seconds, it provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot. ... If you just want to do e-mail and the Web, you pay $40 a month for the service (250 megabytes of data transfer, 10 cents a megabyte above that). If you watch videos and shuttle a lot of big files, opt for the $60 plan (5 gigabytes). And if you don't travel incessantly, the best deal may be the one-day pass: $15 for 24 hours, only when you need it. In that case, the MiFi itself costs $270." The device has its Wi-Fi password printed on the bottom, so you can invite someone to join your network simply by showing it to them.

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