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Submission + - Most web security certificates expired today

Submitted by generikz on Sunday March 08, 2009 @04:28PM

generikz writes: Looks like one of the certification bodies made a boo-boo and dropped most of their certificates. As of Sun. March 8th 4:30pm, GMail (expired on 02/05/2009 12:02), Bonanzle (expired on 01/05/2009 16:39) or Paypal (expired on 02/05/2009 18:59) do not have a valid certificate anymore. Unless you allow for an unsecure connection, these websites are off limit until they fix the problem and regenerate new certificates.

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Do Twitter Phishing Scams Herald the End of Microblogs? 301

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 05, 2009 @12:36PM from the sure-why-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Twitter's been hit by a big phishing scam. Culture Crash blogger Dan Tynan says this is the end of Twitter's innocence. Will tweets become like email, with two out of every three just worthless spam?"

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Comment Re:If you're going to live in the US ... (Score 1) 1021

by generikz on Monday July 07, 2008 @08:55PM (#24092657) Attached to: Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer?

I am a French Engineer (so, although I haven't been back to my country for a while, it's still handy) and the French educational system will make sure you study at least 2 more foreign languages plus Greek or Latin optionally.

11 years of German -> never used it, German speak good English

7 years of English -> use it every day

5 years of Japanese -> ended up working between Europe and Japan for years

2 years of Latin -> I liked it for a while but really can't see the added value except teach you a bit of history and high strict grammar rules

Today Mandarin might be a better choice but getting a decent level of Japanese doesn't sound like a bad idea to me.

My Canadian-Vietnamese friend married a Japanese woman, his 2 kids are already speaking English, Vietnamese, French and Japanese at home. They're currently taking Mandarin lessons. They're 6 and 8. The next generation will be scary smart with languages!

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