Yes, because we *ALL* know how trustworthy the CA's are. With a self-signed cert, you have direct and immediate control over it. Going through a CA, you're trusting (there's that concept again) that they know what they're doing, that they're not issuing... alternative... certs that you didn't authorize, and that should your cert be compromised, they'll inform you in a timely (if at all) manner.

... Well, we'd love to comply with your potentially-lawful request and EU-search-warrant-equivalent, but in order to comply with your conversation confidentiality and privacy rules, we had to create encryption schemes designed from the very start to be unbreakable because we don't have the keys, nor a way to download them.

Meet live-usage QNX is a modern product: Vykon JACE (You'll find these all over the embedded systems world). http://www.vykon.com/products/...

MacGyver, to be specific.

Just ask your company. Even though they've decided not to continue using and improving that particular project, they gain nothing by withholding the fixes, but could gain developer goodwill (useful in future endeavors) and positive PR (always nice to have) by allowing the patches to at least be submitted upstream, even if they're not ultimately merged.

If your organization is small enough, send screenshots together with the report, or if you have some kind of desktop sharing ability (remote assistance, Lync), take your dev through the process of how to trigger the bug. Just had an issue yesterday where they couldn't reproduce it, so we fired up a screen sharing process, they had me load up the Firefox debug console, and I went through the steps... turned out to be my mouse having a higher dpi than what they were using, so instead of getting floats, my system was handing them doubles.

Surprised I haven't seen this mentioned, but in addition to MSE, Microsoft also offers a second exploit prevention/mitigation tool called EMET http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29851

Apple has at least 20 years of prior art to fall back on here. While it didn't always work exceedingly well, I clearly remember telling the Mac in my high school library's material office (where us helper rats did things like laminate posters for teachers) things like "Marie, run Myst," and a minute later, hearing the opening theme play.

Apple has at least 20 years of prior art to fall back on here. While it didn't always work exceedingly well, I clearly remember telling the Mac in my high school library's material office (where us helper rats did things like laminate posters for teachers) things like "Marie, run Myst," and a minute later, hearing the opening theme play.

Then perhaps you can explain to the assembled crowd why I've had three so-called "TSA Approved" locks cut off my baggage over the last few years.

I see this very early entry to the public Internet is sadly missing from the article. CFN (https://wiki.case.edu/Cleveland_Freenet) provided message boards, IRC, USENet, MUDs/MOOs, and just about every other service provided by the fledgling Internet was there, including email (with gateways to FIDO, CIS, and a few others), to anybody with a modem, for free. The FreePort software was also published under (I believe) a 4-clause BSD license, giving rise to myriad offspring, some of which might still be around (though hopefully not running FreePort anymore).

...or am I the only one around who remembers that totally cheesy, yet elementary schoolkid riveting, post-apocalyptic edutainment show "Tomes and Talismans"

EVE Online trailers in the middle of Battlestar Galactica. Can't target your advertising any better than that.
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