Comment Re:If true... (Score 1) 339
Well yes, except that they'll build them Chinese style: by the thousands. I bet 10000 not so stealth jet fighters would beat any one's asse.
Comment Re:and... (Score 4, Insightful) 137
And the blackhat standing by the exit door with a 50$ RFID-reader gets my account as well.
I work at a company who works on the cellphone side of the thing. It's been part of the specs since the first drafts that transfers require a manual validation (press a button) to occur. Did you really think you were the first to think of that.
Comment In companies (Score 1) 388
I especially like their "solution" for illegal downloading from work:
What do company employees risk?
In the case of illegal downloading inside companies, an alternative measure to the ISP subscription cut will be proposed ; that is to say, the installation of digital protections like firewalls on employees workstations in order to block downloads. Although, public places where it's possible to connect to the Internet (public libraries...) will also be concerned and will have to put in place a protection system to prevent illegal downloading from their computers.
(quickly translated by me from http://www.zebulon.fr/actualites/2097-loi-antipiratage-mode-emploi.html)
In the case of illegal downloading inside companies, an alternative measure to the ISP subscription cut will be proposed ; that is to say, the installation of digital protections like firewalls on employees workstations in order to block downloads. Although, public places where it's possible to connect to the Internet (public libraries...) will also be concerned and will have to put in place a protection system to prevent illegal downloading from their computers.
(quickly translated by me from http://www.zebulon.fr/actualites/2097-loi-antipiratage-mode-emploi.html)
1- Put nice sentences together and try to reinvent the wheel
2- Mess up the implementation because you understand nothing to IT
3- ???
4- Blame someoneelse (next government?) for the complete failure!!!
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Submission + - Virus that came Pre-Installed on Maxtor HD 1
kirouac writes: "Security mavens from Kaspersky say they have discovered a nasty virus that came pre-installed on Maxtor external hard drives sold in the Netherlands.
The virus, dubbed Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah, was found on the Maxtor 3200 Personal Storage, according to this press release from Kaspersky (translated from Dutch to English courtesy of FreeTranslation.com).
The company said the virus roots around a computer in search of gaming passwords. The malicious code also rifles through a computer's contents and deletes mp3 files, according to a separate description of the virus, also from Kaspersky.
A spokesman for Seagate, which recently acquired Maxtor, said the company was investigating Kaspersky's findings. "This scenario seems unlikely because the 3200 does not have any software preloaded on the drive so there is not an opportunity for a virus to be loaded," he said. Yes the drive is formatted but I have never heard of a virus that lives in the master boot record.""
