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Comment Re:BlueHammer ot a zero day (Score 1) 67

if it's not patched at the time of release, it's a zero day.

You didn't read your own link. When Microsoft (or the users in general) finds out about the vulnerability, that is day 1. Before that is day zero.

If Microsoft found out about the exploit on the third of April, then that was day one.
Then day two was April 4th.
Day three was April 5th.

Etc. you should be able to do this kind of math.

Comment Re:A small step in the right direction (Score 2) 175

There were only two students who could possibly earn an A in the class no matter how well everyone did. It had a perverse effect of pitting all of us against each other.

It's almost certain that the "perverse effect" was intentional, and some at Harvard want to pit students against each other as a reflection of real world corporate politics (and government politics).

Comment Re:Pinkie-Swearman Key Exchange (Score 3) 83

Well, odds are the people in charge at Instructure are relatively stupid themselves. It's like the old Sherlock Holmes quote: "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself" - the Instructure leadership probably can't fathom how anyone smarter than them could exist.

Given how people keep stupidly paying these ransoms... maybe it's time to criminalize that act.

Comment Re:Significant (Score 1) 26

Apple's driving consumer behavior on the exclusive "blue bubble" while fighting the adoption of good standards always seemed like 90's Microsoft behavior to me.

Well, it wasn't just Apple. Google was cynically playing that tune on repeat for marketing purposes - while not letting anyone on Android who wasn't using Google's own apps to encrypt RCS either.

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