What possible motivation would he have for perpetrating a hoax by switching shit out? Eventually, his bullshit will be discovered and his ass is done in physics, and he'd be sued into oblivion by any investors.

My favorite part about this is how it gives the lie to all the xenophobic rationalizations that people in various African nations were contracting Ebola because of $DANGEROUS_TRIBAL_FUNERARY_CEREMONY.

Ebola is transmitted through bodily fluids including sweat and aerosolized saliva (produced by sneezing). Containing bodily fluids in a social context—especially saliva and sweat—is virtually impossible and probably makes Ebola a lot more contagious than the talking heads are letting on.

A Leopard (Mac OS X v.10.5.8) web server (Apache) I admin was defaced a few days after the exploit was announced.

Totally my fault for not immediately securing BASH, but yeah, I'm pretty sure the cgi scripts authored by MovableType (3.x) make calls to /bin/sh.

I do consider MovableType to be competently written. The reality is that the Shellshock vulnerability was something no one was really thinking about and it took many admins and even highly technical groups of people by surprise.*

* Whatever you think of Yahoo! their engineers and admins are highly technical. Shellshock is just a very nasty bug.

I went to a pitch-disguised-as-a-conference for one of Adobe's then-upcoming products (Edge?) and was fairly impressed about Adobe's recommitting to HTML5 authoring and a CSS/JS IDE.

Fast forward two years and many developers still haven't touched these products because they are avoiding Adobe's subscription-based licensing.

Adobe needs radically to change their corporate culture because a significant portion of the developers who would love to use their products are NOT going to start paying rent to even read the content they've created.*

* This sentence is a polite translation of "Adobe can go die in a fire."

The whole domain of computer security is very serious and, well, I'm also wondering what kinds of things do you like to do that's just kid stuff that's not directly related to computing? You know, like riding a bicycle, going on hikes, playing tag (not trying to patronize as these are things I did when I was 8).

(This is the last question I will post in this thread. Thanks for considering.)

What are your thoughts about the US government's efforts (apocryphal and confirmed) to surveil nearly all Internet systems and traffic and how such efforts affect security?

Have you ever been bullied by people your age and, if so, how did you deal with it? (If you don't mind, please share what the matter was.)

Have you ever one-upped an adult who condescended to you or greatly underestimated your technical understanding? What happened?

Is security what you find most interesting in computing, or is there another area that interests you more? If security is what interests you most, what is it about security in particular you like?

I ask because it seems natural (as someone who was your age in the 1970s) that young people would either be interested in development programming (as I was) or games (which I sort of was).

(My apologies if you answered this in your talk, which I'm only just getting around to watching.)

Or maybe you will use your home's wheel-chair accessibility when you are old and infirm, or maybe your loved one will rely on your house's accessibility should he or she become injured. In those cases, your possible medical hardship won't be compounded with worries of how you're going to retrofit your home to the tune of $175,000 or more.

At least, that's my answer.

I don't want to install FaceBook Messenger because it is change for the sake of change, and is worse than what they had before. Now there are two apps that give you a jarring user experience as you get ripped from one to the other, rather than having it integrated like it should be.

Net effect: I no longer use Facebook for messaging, and neither does anyone else I know, Good job on that one.

So don't buy that phone, or don't use Verizon as your carrier.

There are already solutions to that problem without Google exerting legally questionable pressure on OEMs.

So a abusing their position in the market is fine, because you happen to like their products.

How very Slashdot of you.

Meanwhile, companies that are selling and installing solar are getting to utility-scale production. SolarCity should pass 1GW of installed capacity this year, and is accelerating.