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Comment Re:End-to-end encryption (Score 1) 152

Yeah, and anytime this happens you pick up the phone and raise a warning within the organization with its 300,000 machines, of which around 500 have something updated that every day that changes the host key....

Or just press Y?

Also, where did you got the key to begin with? ooh, right. Via a gov owned backbone in some point of the connection.

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The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China 402

snydeq writes "A growing trend faces business executives traveling to China: government or industry spooks stealing data from their laptops and installing spyware. 'While you were out to dinner that first night, someone entered your room (often a nominal hotel staffer), carefully examined the contents of your laptop, and installed spyware on the computer — without your having a clue. The result? Exposure of information, including customer data, product development documentation, countless emails, and other proprietary information of value to competitors and foreign governments. Perhaps even, thanks to the spyware, there's an ongoing infection in your corporate network that continually phones home key secrets for months or years afterward.'"
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Ask Slashdot: Troubling Trend For Open Source Company 451

An anonymous reader writes "I'm one of the original founders of an open source company which offers a popular open source product (millions of downloads) targeted primarily to small businesses. We have been doing this for 10 years now and we fund the development of the open source product with the usual paid support services, custom development and addons, but over the last few years, we've noticed a troubling trend. Companies that have downloaded our product from one of the many free download sites have a question they want answered, so they call our support line. Once we politely explain the situation and that telephone support has a reasonable fee associated with it, more and more of them are becoming seriously irate, to the point of yelling, accusing us of fraud and/or scamming them. For some reason, they think a free product should have free telephone support as well, and if we don't offer free telephone support then it's not really a free product. These same people are then resorting to social media in an attempt to 'spread the word' with the same false accusations, which is starting to take its toll on our reviews, ratings, and in turn our bottom line. Does the Slashdot community have any suggestions on how we can reverse this trend? How do other open source companies handle similar situations?"

Comment Re:yes it can (Score 2) 317

> android is samsung

yeah, because that does not change... as it wasn't HTC a year ago, until samsung showed up with slighter less bad quality phones.

Nokia can totally show up tomorrow with slighter less bad quality phones than samsung and became synonymous with android.

Comment Re:How about idle?? (Score 1) 259

> noise
that's because you put your $3000 parts into a $15 case that you've been reusing for 27 years...

i did that too. until 3 years ago i got an antec case for almost 200, a massive cooler and several high end larger fans, all obscenely priced --- and moved to raid0 instead of 6 :(

it's now totally silent. and i live in a place where it makes 80F and i don't like A/C

Comment snake oil department (Score 1) 144

Not even a snake oil salesman... a snake oil department!

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