KookyMan - Slashdot User

Comment Re:TrueCrypt or Wait for On Drive Upgrades (Score 5, Interesting) 468

by KookyMan on Monday February 09, 2009 @03:37PM (#26788357) Attached to: How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything?

In addition, the TrueCrypt user community lately is getting the shaft from the "TrueCrypt Foundation".

Case in point, if you visit their forums, starting about 6 months ago, around the time of release of v6, the forum administrators now delete anything "critical" of TrueCrypt. Basically, your only allowed to discuss the positives of the software, or problems with the intended operation of it. Any "bugs" or "weaknesses" mentioned result in having the thread either locked, more than likely deleted, and if you push an issue, open a second thread on a 'deleted thread' your likely to have your account locked.

5.1a was the last version released before this new policy of "only positives". Not to mention that the forums are already so heavily locked down (No public email addresses to register accounts, no private messages on the board, no threads that are not 'on topic'). Some of us tried (semi-successfully) to have frequent contributors meet over on Wilder's Security forums. (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/) Difficult though since they started deleting our postings since they weren't on topic, and private messages are impossible.

Sadly, as a result of this, I used to heavily endorse TrueCrypt, but I can no longer stand behind them until they let the community get re-involved, for the good and the bad.

Comment Re:Cancel Your Accounts (Score 1) 200

by KookyMan on Sunday January 25, 2009 @12:25PM (#26598605) Attached to: Monster.com Data Stolen, Won't Email Users

I just canceled my account, after individually deleting each section, and replacing undeletable information with 'garbage' data.

One thing I did notice, I recently changed my password (On 17JAN09) and was not prompted to change my password upon login. It makes me wonder when this breach happened, and if anyone will be prompted to change their passwords, or if I had already changed my password after the breach, but prior to the official notification.

Comment Re:This just in... 3 More cut, Not in the Med. (Score 1) 195

by KookyMan on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @04:18PM (#26438659) Attached to: Why the Mediterranean Is the Net's Achilles' Heel

Darnit.. My bad.

I don't know how I got to that article then since I'm usually a bit better screening my news... *Thwaps head.

Ah. Now I know. Bad title + link from an article from today (was about Win 7).... There should be rules against putting 'Breaking' in a title that is static and doesn't disappear after time.

Time to go crawl back in my hole.

Comment This just in... 3 More cut, Not in the Med. (Score 1, Redundant) 195

by KookyMan on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @04:01PM (#26438377) Attached to: Why the Mediterranean Is the Net's Achilles' Heel

Three of four sub-cables connecting Asia-North America have been cut.

This is getting a little crazy, and pardon the tinfoil hat that I'm wearing, how many 'undamaged' cables does this leave?

I think this is really starting to become hard to blame on 'coincidence.'

http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=669

Comment Re:why the redundant "story" in all the tags?? (Score 0, Offtopic) 220

by KookyMan on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @06:43PM (#25289455) Attached to: How Mobile Phones Work Behind the Scenes

New tag system apparently. Mouse over the various tags and you'll see there are three tag types--Top, System, and Type. I'm presuming that since there are more stories submitted than anything, the Story tag will be on almost every entry.

Submission + - Safari 'Carpet Bomb' Attack Code Released (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

CWmike

on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @12:20PM

CWmike writes: "A hacker has posted attack code that exploits critical flaws in the Safari and Internet Explorer Web browsers. Now that there is a public example of the attack code, Safari users running the Windows operating system should be concerned, said Eric Schultze, chief technical officer at Shavlik Technologies LLC. 'This is a bad thing. If you've got Safari, you're in trouble,' he said. Apple has reportedly said that it has no plans to patch the Safari flaw, but Microsoft released a security advisory on the problem on May 30."

Submission + - A Law to Spy Back on Govt. Surveillance Cameras (popularmechanics.com)

Submitted by mattnyc99 on Monday December 17, 2007 @12:33PM

mattnyc99 writes: As the Senate begins debate today on wider new surveillance legislation, Instapundit blogger and University of Tennesee law professor Glenn Reynolds has an interesting op-ed as part of Popular Mechanics' cover story on the looming power of spy cameras in America. He cites numerous court cases to argue that our privacy concerns may be backwards, and that there should be a new law for citizen rights — that if Big Brother can keep an eye on us in public spaces, we ought to be able to look back. From the accompanying podcast: "Realistically I don't think we're going to get much in the way of limits on government and business surveillance. So I think we should be focusing more on making it safe, on making it a double-edged sword. And I'd actually like to see a law..."

Submission + - NVIDIA launches 7xx series chipsets (it-review.net)

Submitted by

vEddY

on Monday December 17, 2007 @12:31PM

vEddY writes: "Major benefits of 780i chipset over 680i include: — ESA support — PCI Express v2.0 support — 3x16 PCI Express support, although one of those ports are PCI Express v1 — Penryn support Are those good enough for you to buy them? Only you can answer that question. The fact is that 680i chipsets are still the highest performers on the market so — considering that fact — yeah, 780i is worth the money, as is 750i, the budget-level gaming platform. DDR2 is still much more feasible and OCable then DDR3 so it's a win there, as well. ESA is a HUGE benefit from where we stand, and finally you'll be able to take complete control over your PC from the OS itself. And with Penryn support — highest-performing CPU's on the market — it's a winner. But we're only wondering for how long..."

Submission + - How-to-Make a USB Cooling Fan From a Broken Drive (instructables.com)

Submitted by

DirectedImpact

on Monday November 19, 2007 @07:35AM

DirectedImpact writes: "An easy step to step Tutorial explaining how you can build an "USB Cooling Fan" for your notebook/desktop/whatever from an old or broken cd-rom drive. Enjoy. You can follow that Instructable or just watch the video version."

Submission + - open-source research on brain damage (thebrainproject.org)

Submitted by

Mitch Maltenfort

on Monday November 19, 2007 @07:27AM

Mitch Maltenfort writes: "The father of a 2-year old who suffered traumatic brain injury has started a project aimed at organizing pediatric brain research efforts along open source lines. Of interest to the /. community?"

Submission + - Visual Studio 2008 RTM Available on MSDN (wordpress.com) 1

Submitted by

jakkaj

on Monday November 19, 2007 @07:23AM

jakkaj writes: "The well anticipated release of Visual Studio 2008 RTM is finally available for download for MSDN Subscribers. Originally slated for release in February next year, Microsoft has decided to bring the release forward based on developer feedback. A nice surprise for sure."

Submission + - Dell's First All-In-One PC, XPS One Now on Sale (techluver.com)

Submitted by

Tech.Luver

on Saturday November 17, 2007 @01:15AM

Tech.Luver writes: "Shortly after Michael Dells keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld on Nov 14, Dell has finally start selling brand new addition to its desktop lineup, 20-inch Widescreen Display All-In-One PC XPS One. Dell is offering XPS One in four flavors, configurable with Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, Bluetooth 2.0, 8-in-1 multicard reader, 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO Graphics Card, and a 500GB 7,200 RPM SATA hard drive. Additionally, you can add on a built-in Blu-ray DVD-Burner and a hybrid Analog / Digital TV tuner, starting from $1499, all the way up to $2399. More at Dell. ( http://techluver.com/2007/11/16/dell-xps-one-now-on-sale/ )"

Submission + - Apple's monster meal of updates (itwire.com) 1

Submitted by

WirePosted

on Saturday November 17, 2007 @01:11AM

WirePosted writes: "Security updates for Mac OS X 10.3.9 client and server provide fixes for AppleRAID, bind, CoreFoundation, Flash Player Plug-in, and Foundation. They also incorporate Security Update 2007-007."

Submission + - People Believe NASA Funded As Well As Defense (thespacereview.com)

Submitted by

QuantumG

on Saturday November 17, 2007 @01:10AM

QuantumG writes: "An essay on the Space Review is reporting that in a just-completed study, on average, respondents estimated NASA's allocation of the national budget to be approximately 24% (it's actually closer to 0.58%) and the Department of Defense budget to be approximately 33% (it's actually closer to 21%). In other words, respondents believed NASA's budget approaches that of the Department of Defense, which receives almost 38 times more money. Once informed of the actual allocations, they were almost uniformly surprised. One of the more vocal participants exclaimed, "No wonder we haven't gone anywhere!""

Submission + - Imaging (rice.edu)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @11:50AM

An anonymous reader writes: The single-pixel camera uses a Digital Micromirror device to randomly reflect light onto a ONE-pixel sensor element, then reconstruct the image with a DSP. They also claim that since they compress the data "on-the-fly" and decompress it when they reassemble the image, they need much less bandwidth. Probably will be most useful at first in non-visual areas (like infrared) where the sensors are difficult or expensive to build as arrays. They also seem to think they can make extremely small cameras with a single sensor, but they seem to be forgetting the micromirror device in there! Also, at least at this early stage, the so-called "high resolution" image still looks pretty coarse!

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