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Comment Re:Business model (Score 1) 90

If you're looking to block access to a given list of domains/host names, Privoxy can be configured to do this and no more. If you're actually looking just to do DNS caching on your grandma's computer, try this from an elevated command prompt:

sc config dnscache start= auto
net start dnscache

Then type out 1000 times: I will not turn off the local DNS caching system.

Comment Digital signatures be damned (Score 1) 7

Despite the fact the linked Windows installer matches the given digital signature and the .exe's integrated digital signature checks out?

Maybe the TrueCrypt developers took all the thanks that we gave them, i.e. nothing but "YOUR CODE QUALITY IS SOMEWHAT UNREADABLE AND USES SOME OLD THINGS!", and have told us to fuck off. Something we rightly deserve.

Submission + - TrueCrypt is dead? What now? 7

Archeron writes: A colleague visited Truecrypt.org today and brought this to my attention. All the links are gone and the front page contains the message:
"The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP." It goes on to list migration instructions. Is this the end for our beloved open source, multi-platform crypto solution? The question is what now? Planned forks? Any recommendations for freely available, open and multi-platform solutions that will allow for moving storage devices from Linux -> Windows -> Mac?

Comment Re:The Linux Foundation is not actually that evil (Score 1) 164

I clicked on the link of the post's submitter, advised them of the error and a link to this thread, and less than three hours from sending the email it was fixed. I don't pretend to understand the politics between /. and the Linux Foundation or yourself, but it might be worth telling /. directly when they make such an error.

Comment Re:There is this button. (Score 1) 184

I do agree that an individual needs to find their own coping strategies for overcoming their problems, but there is another option. If you find that you are searching for a seemingly complex solution to a habit which causes you to drive dangerously: hang up your keys. You're a murderer in disguise every time you pick them up.

Comment Public-facing disclosure (Score 1) 188

The real scandal is how organisations are giving information to their users as to how they are affected and what users should do. Many big-name companies are using very specific phrasing such as "key services were not vulnerable", but no mention of secondary services...sounds like a liar's hiding place to me. There are also far too many who don't understand the problem such as Acronis, the Aus bank etc. Then the likes of Akamai who can't make their mind up. Some irresponsibly down-playing the whole thing and of course, the majority of the rest who haven't said sweet FA. In the middle are the poor people who can't be expected to make informed decisions on what they need to do or how exposed they are.

You thought rfc-ignorant, abuse@ ignoring fuckwits, running their company around the Internet with Flash-only sites was bad? This is what happens when their incompetence starts to actually harm people's online security.

Comment Re:Ulterior motive (Score 0) 208

From the EULA with OneNote that I just downloaded from microsoft.com:

"Under our license we grant you the right to install and run that one copy on one computer (the licensed computer) for use by one person at a time, but only if you comply with all the terms of this agreement."
So I won't be able to share between my devices. I could have sworn this was one of the points of OneNote.

"[A license] ...does not give permission for installation of the software on a server or for use by or through other computers or devices connected to the server over an internal or external network."
I read this as "You cannot sync to any of your devices, any collaborators nor via Sky^W^WOneDrive. I could have sworn this pretty much was /the/ point of OneNote.

"If you have not entered a product key during the time permitted for activation, most features of the software will stop running."
I didn't enter a product key (I was never given the opportunity) so I cannot trust the software to continue functioning.

"If you acquired and downloaded the software online, your proof of license is the genuine Microsoft product key or PIN for the software that you received with your purchase, and your proof of purchase from an authorized electronic supplier of genuine Microsoft software."
I was never given a product key/PIN nor proof of purchase, so I believe I will be committing a criminal offence as I would be using unlicensed software.

I did not accept the terms and did not use the software. Unfortunately, as the uninstaller tried to remove several "SkyDrive" directories, when the installer created "OneDrive" directories, I had to wade around in the system and manually rip out bits of it. Real classy, Microsoft.

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