Somewhat better than Norton is Spinrite. Remember Steve Gibson's hard disk utility? The one that could recover "unrecoverable" errors? Works on floppies too.

This is the best "back in my day" story I've read here in years! ;p

0/10: Troll FAIL.

If it shipped in Chrome, it's code Google distributed. Google-pwn.

Yeah, try parsing the Javascript Google shoves down, then reconsider the issue. While I'm sure one could de-obfuscate it, that they obfuscate it to begin with is a problem. "Do No Evil" my ass. Secrets imply deception.

But yet sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice...

Just to be crystal clear, the issue doesn't require ANY change in error pages. Bad encryption = error page (app doesn't know what/who/where etc.) Good encryption = proceed within the app with your injected and encrypted value.

Yikes.

because we all know how to brew beer, right?

"the researchers say that by varying electric current to a secured computer"...

Um, if they have physical access to the computer (in order to monkey with the power), why would it be considered secure?

All of Hefner's girlfriends begin dying their hair blue.
All of Hefner's girlfriends begin dying their blue hair.

FTFY