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Comment Re:Well (Score 1) 274

His Walesness lives in

...the most expensive city in England, and the rest of the foundation works in the most expensive city in North America.

It seems to me that if everybody in WMF right now moved to Scotland or Ohio, their fundraiser would be done within an hour. That's not exactly the price of buying a programmer a coffee, but if you're a small non-profit with costs of a top website: servers, staff and programs, perhaps it would be a good idea to cut costs where possible. You can read about that in a library or a public park where we can all go to think and learn. If Wikipedia is trying to be relevant, they should take one minute to think about where all their money is going and why. Thank you.

Comment Re:Purpose (Score 2) 37

I'm more interested in how the crackers collected the passwords for the INTERNAL email systems at these companies.

You would be surprised at how many terribly important people use passwords like "p4ssword" or "abcdefg" because they just can't be bothered with anything else. You might even be more surprised at how long some people continue to have access to company systems even after they have been fired.

All it takes is a single mailbox and you can spread through the rest of the company and any company that it has contact with.

Because the crackers would have to, repeatedly, craft emails that were convincing enough to persuade their victims to submit their INTERNAL email passwords to an EXTERNAL site. Without anyone becoming suspicious enough to look into it.

You could always read a better article on the subject, or the original paper it was based on. Most big companies still use a horrible little mailbox program called "Outlook", which frequently loses its connection to the "Exchange" server and then pops up a dialog asking the user to enter their username and password again. I know, it seems crazy, but software like this is still in use today. The target receives an email promising terribly important information either in an attached spreadsheet or at the end of an obfuscated web redirection, opens a document associated with the swiss cheese like office suite which was installed on their computer when they bought it, and because they bypassed the annoying "I can't let you use this file because it came from the Internet" warning long ago, it immediately executes a bit of VB script to pop up a surprisingly familiar window asking for their password. They trust it, like they have been trained to do, and then it's all over.

Comment Re:Be Gentle With Him (Score 1) 452

Not that I disagree with you, but it is horribly ironic that we should find compassion here when organized religion has been at the root of man killing each other for thousands of years now.

And I find it equally ironic that you have used italics when the luminescence of anglerfish is caused by symbiotic bacteria which dwell around the esca.

Comment Re:from TFA he seems to regret a lot more. (Score 1) 151

the MPAA has extremely powerful political connections and can rewrite rules as it sees fit. It can escalate your extradition, exacerbate your arrest, and fleece your civil liberties all under the guise of the free market and "intellectual property" law.

And if not only his in-house legal council but also three outside firms working for him were completely unaware of this, then perhaps they stick to watching re-runs of Matlock and leave the practise of law to the big kids.

Comment Good work there, boys. (Score 4, Insightful) 183

His comments to the House of Commons came after the parliamentary intelligence and security committee concluded that the brutal murder of Rigby could have been prevented if an internet company had passed on an online exchange in which one of the killers expressed "in the most graphic terms" his intention to carry out an Islamist jihadi attack.

It's a good thing that there has never, ever in the history of communication been an incident where anyone expressed in graphic terms their intention to carry out something that they weren't actually going to do.

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