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Comment Re: Won the war failed the objectives. (Score 1) 377

People have to remember the crazy amount of CDs magazines gave away and the ISPs loving customized stuff. MS gave them a platform which you can even acquire new subscribers,a readily installable full browser suite with all plugins minus nagging.
Firefox just reached the IE manageability level by recent ESRs.

Submission + - U.S. plans to drop âgay bombsâ(TM) on enemies, Turkish columnist says (ahvalnews.com)

Submitted by Ilgaz
Ilgaz writes: âoeWhen the United States is an enemy of a country and plans to go to war, it plans either to drop a bomb that will change the sexual preferences of that countryâ(TM)s population or one that will kill them all,â wrote Mehmet Barlas in his Monday column for the high-circulation Sabah newspaper.

Submission + - Mastercard forces removal of JihadWatch founder from Patreon (jihadwatch.org)

Submitted by Straif
Straif writes: With the ongoing debates about the right and wrongs of social media platforms banning people with whom they disagree a new player has entered the debate; the institutions that process the financial transactions in the background.

Earlier this week Robert Spencer's (not to be confused with white supremacist Richard Spencer) Patreon account was banned not due to any content linked there (there was only a single video announcing the creation of the account) but due to pressure from Mastercard.

According to Patreon, Roberts account was not in violation of their terms of service but once they were instructed by Mastercard to remove it, they had no choice but to comply.

It's bad enough when you can be kicked off a platform for saying something that they claim is in violation of their ever nebulous TOS but now the transaction processing companies can also ban you for any reason whatsoever.

Submission + - Study: Monolithic OS Design Is Flawed 1

Submitted by Mike Bouma
Mike Bouma writes: As already reported by OSNews.com:
"Our results provide very strong evidence that operatingsystem
structure has a strong effect on security. 96% of critical
Linux exploits would not reach critical severity in a
microkernel-based system, 57% would be reduced to low
severity, the majority of which would be eliminated altogether
if the system was based on a verified microkernel.
Even without verification, a microkernel-based design alone
would completely prevent 29% of exploits.
Given the limited number of documented exploits, we
have to assume our results to have a statistical uncertainty
of about nine percentage points. Taking this into account,
the results remain strong. The conclusion is inevitable: From
the security point of view, the monolithic OS design is
flawed and a root cause of the majority of compromises. It
is time for the world to move to an OS structure appropriate
for 21st century security requirements."

Submission + - Access to Wikipedia blocked in Turkey (turkeypurge.com)

Submitted by stikves
stikves writes: It looks like another major Internet service is blocked in Turkey, hopefully for a short time. Wikipedia is the subject to a latest ban, and unfortunately more details are not available:

Access to Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey as a result of “a provisional administrative order” imposed by the Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK).
The Internet Freedom watchdog, the Turkey Blocks said it has verified restrictions affecting the Wikipedia online encyclopedia in Turkey. “A block affecting all language editions of the website detected at 8:00AM local time Saturday 29 April,” the watchdog said on Saturday.
Turkey Blocks said an administrative blocking order is usually expected to precede a full court blocking order in coming days.
While the reason for the order was unknown early on Saturday, a statement on the BTK’s website said: “After technical analysis and legal consideration based on the Law Nr. 5651, ADMINISTRATION MEASURE has been taken for this website (wikipedia.org) according to Decision Nr. 490.05.01.2017.-182198 dated 29/04/2017 implemented by Information and Communication Technologies Authority.”

Submission + - Wikipedia blocked in Turkey (turkeyblocks.org)

Submitted by Ilgaz
Ilgaz writes: The Turkey Blocks monitoring network has verified restrictions affecting the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia in Turkey. A block affecting all language editions of the website detected at 8:00AM local time Saturday 29 April. The loss of availability is consistent with internet filters used to censor content in the country.

Submission + - A Russian-controlled telecom hijacked 24 Financial Services' Internet Traffic (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On Wednesday, large chunks of network traffic belonging to MasterCard, Visa, and more than two dozen other financial services companies were briefly routed through a Russian government-controlled telecom under unexplained circumstances that renew lingering questions about the trust and reliability of some of the most sensitive Internet communications.

Anomalies in the border gateway protocol—which routes large-scale amounts of traffic among Internet backbones, ISPs, and other large networks—are common and usually the result of human error. While it's possible Wednesday's five- to seven-minute hijack of 36 large network blocks may also have been inadvertent, the high concentration of technology and financial services companies affected made the incident "curious" to engineers at network monitoring service BGPmon. What's more, the way some of the affected networks were redirected indicated their underlying prefixes had been manually inserted into BGP tables, most likely by someone at Rostelecom, the Russian government-controlled telecom that improperly announced ownership of the blocks.

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