Please create an account to participate in the Slashdot moderation system

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:FUCK SAKE! It was NEVER anonymous (Score 1) 115

Not sure what the point is. The article is about money laundering, and describes how it's easier to launder digital currencies and how they're controversial because of this.

Bitcoin is at best pseudonymous, each wallet is a pseudonym with a very carefully documented and very public ledger. When the bitcoins are converted to or from hard currency, a trail of that transaction is likely recorded.

Comment Re:SSL? (Score 1) 92

That's an excellent article, thanks.

The fix would require specific changes to the implementation and "...there's a high risk that this would also cause compatibility problems." IMHO, it would be highly misleading to call it an implementation problem that an unforseen encryption weakness could be mitigated with changes to the implementation.

I offer the above to be XKCD1318 compliant.

Comment Re:SSL? (Score 1) 92

POODLE is not an implementation problem. It's a protocol problem.

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-290A

"There is currently no fix for the vulnerability SSL 3.0 itself, as the issue is fundamental to the protocol"

It's an implementation problem if you're speaking abstractly about the application of crypto. But we're talking about "SSL", a protocol.

Comment SSL? (Score 2) 92

"Chapter 4 is particularly interesting in that the author notes that while the cryptography behind SSL and PKI is fundamentally secure,"

Post-POODLE, SSL has been shown fundamentally insecure.

TLS is fine as far as we know.

Comment Re:Bullshit Stats. (Score 1) 496

Went to a Python developers meetup. There were 2 women in a room of 100 people.

Went to an infosec meetup. There were 5% women in a room of 200 people.

Went to a Wordpress developers conference, there were 50% women in attendance of hundreds of people.

They're all tech jobs. Why are women choosing paths that earn less?

Comment Re:Here we go again (Score 4, Insightful) 496

"I wonder what the conclusion of such an article would be?"

That this isn't a site for sociologists or experts in race or gender studies.

If we talked to sociolgists, race or gender study experts, they'd probably have a non-sensationalist, well researched and well reasoned approach to discussing sensitive issues. And they probably wouldn't be happy if people jumped on their communtiy forums and started talking about SATA drivers.

Comment Re:ShirtStorm (Score 1) 337

Those who think that images of women in lingerie are degrading need to visit a therapist. Female sexuality is not degrading.

The shirt is unprofessional. Sexuality is an awkward subject, and bringing it up in the workplace is delicate. Not a subject for t-shirts.

But holy crap I love the response shirt: https://twitter.com/SMLXist/status/532928903778934784/photo/1

Comment How did the Constitution Fail? (Score 2) 450

This can be a warning for other groups.

The Debian constitution looks like nothing more than normal club bureaucracy. Without it, I would expect Debian wouldn't have survived as long as it has.

https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution

Without specific concerns about such a constitution, I'm inclined to not make much of this. People change, projects change, people leave, people join. It doesn't matter how vital the participant, things change.

This is the only hint of what's wrong, I don't see how it has anything to do with the existence of a constitution: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00196.html

No offense to anyone involved... I'm more interested in learning what's wrong with the constitution so that I can avoid similar problems in my own clubs.

Comment Re:Well Written Article (Score 1) 441

"The responses here prove what she was writing about. People here (who very likely resemble her coworkers at Google and other places) have no empathy and no clue about anything outside their little circle, they're social morons."

People here have been called a lot of names. Mysoginists, knuckle-draggers, priviliged, racist, sexist, social morons etc.

They're here to talk about technology and read articles about technology. Many, or most, have had no issue working with people of any colour or gender. They're still called all these names. When they try to defend themselves, they're told they're ignorant.

I'm happy to do whatever is needed to bring women into tech. I've done so for years. They're not coming and it's not clear why.

People listen for a while, and quietly swallow all the insults. But eventually people get sick of being accused of excluding people they've never met for reasons which are pure speculation.

Then *some* of them get ticked off, mouth off, and somebody will jump in to say "OMG, it's all true! Look at the nasty geeks!"

The responses here prove nothing.

She doesn't need proof, her story doesn't speculate much. She's living her life, written her story and is helping the people she feels need help.

Slashdot Top Deals

Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.

Working...