Chuck Milam - Slashdot User

Comment Re:for fucks sake people (Score 1) 86

by Chuck Milam on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @02:10PM (#44228159) Attached to: Exposed SSH Key Means US Emergency Alert System Can Be Hacked

All things being relative, this is a government contract/project, so I guess we should feel lucky it wasn't open port 23 telnet with a null password. Therefore, they'll probably get a reward for using that newfangled SSH encryption stuff (circa 1995, but who's keeping score?)

Comment Re:No ethernet... (Score 5, Insightful) 133

by Chuck Milam on Monday May 14, 2012 @01:14PM (#39996585) Attached to: Geekbench Confirms Ivy Bridge MacBook Pro and iMac

The kind that does not allow WiFi for security reasons.

Submission + - MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search

Submitted by

gbulmash

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @11:27PM

gbulmash writes: "In its eagerness to clear sex offenders off its site and publish their identities, MySpace identified an innocent woman as a sex offender. She shares a name and birth month with a sex offender who lives in a neighboring state and that was apparently enough to get MySpace to wrongly brand her and completely ignore her protests."

Submission + - CSS Turns 10 Years Old

Submitted by on Tuesday December 19, 2006 @12:27PM

An anonymous reader writes: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) celebrate their tenth anniversary this week. W3C put together the CSS10 site in recognition of this milestone with a Hall of Fame, essays from the past decade, a gallery and more.

Submission + - MySpace users have stronger passwords than corp...

Submitted by

Ant

on Thursday December 14, 2006 @01:27PM

Ant writes: "This Wired News column reports Bruce Schneier's analysis the data from a successful phishing attack on MySpace and compares the captured user-passwords to an earlier data-set from a corporation. He concludes that MySpace users are better at coming up with good passwords than corporate drones. The article is a great state-of-the-password address, with lots of fun nuggets like "We used to quip that 'password' is the most common password. Now it's 'password1.' Who said users haven't learned anything about security?" ... Seen on Boing Boing."

Submission + - 10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2007

Submitted by mattnyc99 on Thursday December 14, 2006 @01:26PM

mattnyc99 writes: Popular Mechanics has a new list of wide-ranging technology terms it claims will be big in '07. From PRAM to BAN and SmartPills to data clouds, it's a pretty nice summary of upcoming and in-the-works trends across the board (with a podcast embedded). But what's missing? How reliable is the magazine's short-term impact meter for each must-learn term? How do their predictions from a year ago stack up now?

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