You'd think people would figure out not to attach everything to the internet. Why the card readers needed to be connected to anything but an internal network (with no internet connection to that) is a bad security model to begin with.
Will they ever learn?
So you think they were able to access card readers, and NOT plant a 3g device on the same network?
Other than lies, lies and more damn lies, what else can NSA come up with ?
No matter how slick or how polished their lies be, NSA's lies are still LIES.
NSA has betrayed America.
NSA has betrayed the Constitution.
NSA is a rogue organization within the government of the United States of America.
And yet I have a feeling you're completely behind Ladar Levison - who's entire business model was built upon a lie, and is now exploiting Snowden and his own incompetence for more money.
I was skeptical about our nation in the past, but this entire episode has revealed to me the full breadth of lies, deceit, and gullibility of our nation.
We're you asked for a password for accessing the data? If not, then you really shouldn't be surprised. What did you think it was doing? It can't meaningfully encrypt it without a key.
A session ID would tell the server you were already, or previously, authenticated. It's up to the server to determine if you are still authenticated between browser sessions.
Saving the password, encrypted or not, is not necessary.
Of course, we're assuming the researcher didn't check the "save password' box, and then go 'OMG! My password is in clear text but the site is HTTPS!'. If that were true, then he's a moron. I hope they peer review their releases.
It's like a Trial by Fire combined with forced capitulation. Like when a (real) hurricane strikes and (justified) conservative concerns about welfare are overridden by the (relatively) immediate need for support.
My company prides itself on an office environment that follows a modern design aesthetic: open floor plan, bold colors on the walls, cool lamps in the corners.
My lame company only prides itself on stupid shit like making good products and pleasing its customers.
Right. What stock should I be selling?
And the pun in the last sentence of the Slashdot summary is why there are not more.
Why do you say that? She's kinda hot.
It is also completely wrong.
No it isn't. It is only partially wrong. AHDH is a real disorder. My brother suffered from. I know it when I see it. I regularly volunteer to help out in my son's elementary school classroom for two hours every Friday morning. I know all his classmates, and work with all of them regularly. They are all normal kids. None of them are even close to ADHD. Yet, since I started working with them, several of the boys have been put on medication. That is insane. But I can see how it happens. Shoving pills into the kids makes the teacher's job easier. The parents are happy because they can continue to let the kid sit in front of the TV and munch potato chips, which is much easier than being a responsible parent. And the doctor is guaranteed a steady income stream. All the incentives are in the wrong direction.
And those parents don't know what they're getting their kids into. Years from now, even after they discover they were sold a load of bullshit, they'll find out that all those 'psych rejects' who are now teachers have been busily inspecting their children's files and will be treating them decisively different from the rest of the students.
They'll be lucky if one of them slips up and lets the parents know that's happening. Though you can be sure it'll be discussed in the teacher's lounge.
While I agree with your point, I have to also agree with a few of the points Gartner's analyst made. Ever try to implement OpenStack? Some things are okay (Virtual Machines), but other things are horribly convoluted (Virtual Routing). Version upgrades break previous functionality, and documentation is lacking so finding what actually broken requires lots of time and effort. Waiting for the documentation to catch up is fine until you need a feature or bug fix in the latest version.
I'm not claiming that it's horrible mind you, but rather pointing out that it needs some time to mature. Gartner's opinion does not mention the fact that OpenSource products like this can do very well (Apache, Linux, MariaDB/MySQL). At the same time, enough OpenSource projects fall off the Earth to have some concerns.
"A lie is best placed between two truths."
Gartner always makes some valid points. They are masters of manipulation.
While it sounds like you're well-informed, the majority of their followers are not and I would go so far as to say those people, even when reading the details presented within, rarely truly understand the content.
Keep in mind, the cost of the pharmaceutical company's studys used to verify the accuracy of the test and gain FDA approval likely pushes the cost-per-test up quite a bit.
FTFY. Preclinical, phase 1, phase 2, and phase 3 at a minimum
And then of course there needs to be someone licensed in reading the results, and prescribing a treatment.
My foot is killing me from gout, but I'm not dropping $200 for a doctors visit to get $10 in meds.
The article mentions "Dark Friday" but links to a wiki page called "Black Friday". What is that about?
Many people refused to support the shopping event "Black Friday" on the grounds that it is racist towards people of other skin tones. The politically correct term is "Dark Friday", which is on the eve of "Darkie Weekend" during which most people don't have to work and can just laze about on their porches like monkies.
ROFL. That's most appropriate explanation I've ever seen.
It's not murder because you aren't requiring or forcing anyone to consume the poison. Under libertarian principles, without that act of force there's no crime. There may be contract and reputation issues, but those are meant to be resolved by the market.
To promote a government ban is to go against libertarian principles. So why call yourself (himself) a libertarian? "I'm a libertarian, except when I don't like something. Then I'm a happy to adopt statist solutions." Why not just accept that you (AC) are not actually a libertarian?
I consider myself Liberatrian, and I am well aware there are variations and non-absolutes to every belief system.
My problem here is the arrogant assumption that we're correct now, while we were 'correct' when we said butter=death in the 70s.
The best advice we have now is that artificial TransFats (in the current form) are bad. So to prevent any future issues with supply, or the letter of the law in the case where a future method of creating artificial 'TransFat' is found to be beneficial, I think the best solution is an additional tax with an expiration that can easily be renewed.
> reliable UDP protocol You want a reliable *unreliable* datagram protocol protocol? Sounds like something guaranteed to fail. Everyone tries to reinvent TCP. Almost always they make something significantly worse. This is no exception.
I once worked at a company that made Parking Meters - and accepted credit cards at them. They sent their data over https, and had random issues with timeouts.
It turns out they would format their data in (very descriptive) XML, and discovered an excessively large file combined with an SSL handshake over crappy 2g connection took too long to transfer the data (it didn't help the programmers 'forgot' they hardcoded a timeout, so if the comms was just slow, it would throw a generic error and they blamed Apache for it).
In any case, the offshore dev team's solution was to create a UDP client/server protocol of their own.
It was working nicely when I left, and was PCI Compliant, but at that point we had no way to reliably monitor communications from the perspective of the meter because we (SysAdmins in charge of the backend systems) would have had to write proprietary code from non-existing documentation just to replicate what used to be a simple HTTP POST.
Some things look great, but aren't thought out all the way
Sounds like a thinly disguised milliatary dictatorship to me.
Agreed! It's not unlike the elderly dictatorship of only allowing adults to vote.
"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen
