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Comment: Re:A true story (Score 1) 439

by Megor1 (#39716835) Attached to: Operators: Nokia Would Sell Better With Android

Congrats. You saved $99 for your entire company. Get a cert if you allow data you care about to be exposed to the public Internet. Ever hear of man in the middle? Train your users to purposedly accept self signed certs from their personal devices, it's asking for it.

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

MiTM is easier to perform if you use 'official' certs (from CAs already in browsers/etc) than self-signed ones. Or to rephrase it - you are less safe when using 'official' certs.

You can rollout your own CA, whether it is to use at home, or in Fortune 100 company.

Why are these simple concepts so hard to understand for most people - I will never understand.

So when your self signed certificate private key is compromised how do you revoke it? You can't because it's a self signed certificate.

Comment: Re:This only affects people flagged as abusive (Score 1) 503

I see a problem with that, and it is called contract law. BB's written return policy states nothing about cutting people off from the ability to make returns when they return a certain number of items in a specified time period. While it is legal for a company to sell items as non-returnable, it is required that the policy be known at point of sale. The new, personalized return policy can be implemented for future purchases, but if the person purchased other items prior to being added to the no-return list, BB has no standing to refuse to allow returns of those items.

On their return policy it clearly states "Best Buy reserves the right to deny any return or exchange."

Comment: This only affects people flagged as abusive (Score 4, Informative) 503

If you read the article it says that only people who have a history that indicates possible return abuse are given this type of ban. The service works across multiple stores to find people who use retail stores like free rental places. The article fails to mention what else the guy had been doing. If he has a history of buying and returning items then I see no problem with them cutting him off from abusing their store.

Comment: Give TP Link a try (Score 1) 334

by Megor1 (#38229354) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS?
I have been using linksys E3000/E2000 routers, but recently I have switched to TP-LINK, they are Atheros based and take the usual custom firmwares (DDWRT etc). They are much cheaper than the other brands, the high end model is only $55 (Newegg even had them for less over the weekend) and works much better than my Linksys WRT400n/E3000/E2000 ever did.

Comment: You don't understand what CS is (Score 4, Informative) 364

by Megor1 (#36302798) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS??
"looking for a good computer science curriculum that covers word processing, spreadsheets, databases, intro to programming, intro to operating systems, etc. " This is not computer science (Intro to programming maybe), you are asking for a computer usage course, something that was not even allowed to count to my CS major.

Comment: You don't need a certification to know something (Score 2) 235

by Megor1 (#36077704) Attached to: I Like My IT Budget Tight and My Developers Stupid
This article seems to be about selling you that paper certifications are something you need for your employees. Anyone who has interviewed or worked with many of the people with these certifications knows that they are worthless. My favorite was a MCSE that didn't know how to install a video card driver. What matters is that the people can actually do the work, if they self taught/apprenticed I'll take them anyday over a certification

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