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Comment Re:well good for them (Score 3, Insightful) 142

by GroeFaZ on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @10:31AM (#40541477) Attached to: ACTA Rejected By European Parliament

This time it's not political critters developing a shred of common sense, it's political critters channeling civil society's common sense and massive protests. For once, they have worked.

Comment The story's server has a funny name, too (Score 2, Funny) 1397

by GroeFaZ on Monday February 02, 2009 @07:38PM (#26701553) Attached to: Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do?

"Unable to connect to database server"

Comment A modest proposal (Score 4, Funny) 408

by GroeFaZ on Thursday October 02, 2008 @11:41AM (#25233685) Attached to: Now Google's CAPTCHA Is Broken

1. Make the proof for P=NP the new CAPTCHA
2. Wait for crackers to solve it.
3. Profit!!

Submission + - Australia ratifies Kyoto Protocol

Submitted by GroeFaZ on Monday December 03, 2007 @07:02AM

GroeFaZ writes: As the BBC reports, the first political act of the new PM of Australia, Rudd, was to start ratifying the Kyoto Protocol. He was quoted as saying "[Signing the Kyoto Protocol is] a significant step forward in our country's efforts to fight climate change domestically — and with the international community,". That is, the international community without the USA — Australia's ratification made the USA the only industrialized nation to not have signed the Kyoto Protocol.

Using Google To Crack MD5 Passwords 232

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @05:19PM from the secrets-shared-with-the-world dept.

stern writes "A security researcher at Cambridge was trying to figure out the password used by somebody who had hacked his Web site. He tried running a dictionary through the encryption hash function; no dice. Then he pasted the hacker's encrypted password into Google, and voila — there was his answer. Conclusion? Use no password that any other human being has ever used, or is ever likely to use, for any purpose. I think."

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