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Comment: Bugs will get fixed, the easy way or the hard way. (Score 2) 31

by Kazoo the Clown (#43734043) Attached to: Exploit Sales: the New Disclosure Debate
it's clear that reporting a vulnerability to someone in a position to actually fix it (such as the developer of the software) often doesn't work so well. We've seen severe negative effects as they strive to cover up rather than address the vulnerability, attacking the messenger instead. What better way to escalate a bug and get it fixed, than to sell it to the highest bidder and see it get exploited in the field by bad actors?

Comment: Whether or not (Score 1) 621

Whether or not they are ACTUALLY storing everything is rather moot, since you can't tell when they are and when they're not. It's safest to assume everything is recorded, and that way you'll never be caught by surprise (nobody expects the FBI inquisition!). It's also prudent to assume that any encryption you are using will be cracked within your lifetime. Not that you shouldn't use it mind you, at the very least it might force them to earn their pay.

But why don't we all see if we can get Congress to raise their budget for hard drives by transmitting terabytes of hard to compress random noise to each other as if it were something important? We can prove they're trying to store it if all of a sudden the budget gets raised in the face of massive mounting debt and the sequester...

Comment: Re:Solution is simple (Score 1) 216

by Kazoo the Clown (#43345207) Attached to: FTC Awards $50k In Prizes To Cut Off Exasperating Robocalls
And BTW, the real scandal here is why is this not a standard feature of answering machines by now? This is a relatively easy to implement feature that we should have had for years by now. Why don't we? Because the makers of the devices also make equipment for the phone companies who have no interest in blocking calls, and these powerful companies position allows them to call the shots in home answering machines.

Comment: Solution is simple (Score 1) 216

by Kazoo the Clown (#43345185) Attached to: FTC Awards $50k In Prizes To Cut Off Exasperating Robocalls
Unfortunately, as long as surveys and political calls are exempted from the do-not-call rules, the PERCEPTION will continue to be that these systems, and the laws regarding phone solicitation, don't work. The solution is simple. Incoming calls from non-whitelisted numbers are first asked to enter an extension number, as if it were a business. You then give out your number to people you WANT to call you with an extension number. Incoming calls that don't know allowed numbers just can't get through, and you can have a few valid numbers so that you can categorize your allowed incoming callers as well if you want. Extension number as password. Asterisk can be set up to do this.

Comment: Re:The Fear Factor (Score 2) 293

by Kazoo the Clown (#41835109) Attached to: Empathy Represses Analytic Thought, and Vice Versa
However, it doesn't explain what would suppress both empathy and analytics, something clearly evidenced in this post.

"Laziness" is an easy claim to generalize, but it not always so easily stands up to scrutiny. Other possible explanations are: insufficient education, insufficient opportunity, and to risk being politically incorrect, insufficient IQ. Sufficient ambition may be able to counter some of these in some circumstances, not all. And someone who would think everyone who does not pay taxes is lazy and shiftless could hardly be less analytical.

I only know what I read in the papers. -- Will Rogers

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