Comment: Re:I'll stick with SpiderOak and TarSnap. (Score 1) 265
Yeah encfs is great for live filesystems, no argument there. I meant for archiving and backups of things offsite, should have clarified.
Comment: I'll stick with SpiderOak and TarSnap. (Score 1) 265
Comment: Re:Is this testing whether the OS is Replicant (Score 1) 123
ha ha very good!
Comment: I'm sure Linus reviews everything. right? (Score 2) 226
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Thud457
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Attached to: How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware
How do we know that the next update on linux is safe?
I thought you said you were going to audit it.
Comment: Re:If it's that important, pay for tapes (Score 1) 936
But punched paper tape is slow and makes a lot of noise.
Comment: Re:Hmmm... (Score 4, Funny) 936
Punched paper tape has better longevity than either floppies or optical media. You just need a really big roll and a lot of time.
Large DDoS Attack Brings WordPress Pingback Abuse Back Into Spotlight 58
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timothy
from the pressure-cooker dept.
from the pressure-cooker dept.
angry tapir writes "Attackers have abused the WordPress pingback feature, which allows sites to cross-reference blog posts, to launch a large-scale, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to researchers from Web security firm Sucuri. The attack involved over 162,000 legitimate WordPress websites being forced to send hundreds of requests per second to a popular WordPress site, preventing access to it for many hours. The attack exploited an issue with the XML-RPC (XML remote procedure call) implementation in WordPress that's used for features like pingback, trackback, remote access from mobile devices and others, and brought back into the spotlight the denial-of-service risks associated with this functionality that have been known since 2007."
Comment: Re:What are these shiny discs you speak of? (Score 1) 249
No offense to you or your coworker, but is there any reason to accept your theory just on your say so?
(And your sig is accurate, btw)
Comment: Re:Can we afford technically incompetent politicia (Score 1) 297
Kathleen Sebelius was put in a politically impossible position. There was zero possibility of the technology supporting the ACA ever working as originally specced. She should have recognized this instantly, but even if she did, what could she have done?
Quit.
I'm sure she's in a financial position where she didn't have to have the income, and if she had any integrity, she would walk. Further, when questioned by the press, she wouldn't give the 'spend more time with my family' canned response, she would be truthful.
She wasn't placed in a position. She sought out the position. As do all politicians.
Comment: Re:Old Man Yells At Cloud (Score 1) 297
'cuz he's a MAVERICK!
He's too busy to learn to computer because he's busy playing with the boys?
Comment: Re:AR15 != battle rifle (Score 1) 117
So the correct answer to this question was the one ESR asked - for who and for what?
That's why I asked him to specify criteria when he answered. IMNSHO, the answer is almost entirely dependent on the criteria, as evidenced by the poster above who mentioned the FNFAL, etc.
Comment: Re:It's not any less safe than cash (Score 1) 226
People are attacking libertarians over it because they don't know the difference between anarchist, minarchist, and libertarian.
Because we don't care about that any more than we care about whether you are in the People's Front of Judea or the Judean People's Front.
Comment: Re: Anonymous cryptocurrency, who to trust? (Score 1) 226
I thought the whole system was based on the fact that most of the individuals with bitcoin holdings were criminals, so that stealing anything would get you killed.
No, you've confused BTC with USD.
Embarrassing Stories Shed Light On US Officials' Technological Ignorance 297
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samzenpus
from the Is-this-thing-on? dept.
from the Is-this-thing-on? dept.
colinneagle writes "Speaking at the SXSW Conference recently, Dr. Peter W. Singer, director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, recalled one U.S. official who was 'about to negotiate cybersecurity with China' asking him to explain what the term 'ISP' (Internet Service Provider) means. This wasn't the only example of this lack of awareness. 'That's like going to negotiate with the Soviets and not knowing what "ICBM" means,' Dr. Singer said. 'And I've had similar experiences with officials from the UK, China and Abu Dhabi.' Similarly, Dr. Singer recalled one account in which Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of the U.S. Homeland Security Department from 2009 to 2013, admitted that she didn't use email 'because she just didn't think it was useful.' 'A Supreme Court justice also told me "I haven't got round to email yet" — and this is someone who will get to vote on everything from net neutrality to the NSA negotiations,' Dr. Singer said."
Comment: Re:Yes they did. (Score 1) 568
> Management says that sales of captured employee personal data probably recover 75-80% of losses
> resultant from stolen company time, and increases shareholder value dramatically.
Wouldn't it be easier, not to mention vastly more profitable, to recover these losses by selling organs harvested from employees? Don't they teach this kind of thing in MBA school?
> resultant from stolen company time, and increases shareholder value dramatically.
Wouldn't it be easier, not to mention vastly more profitable, to recover these losses by selling organs harvested from employees? Don't they teach this kind of thing in MBA school?