Comment Re:Unsurprising ... (Score 1) 300
Only Valve can save us now.
Comment Re:Kickstarter skeptics eat your heart out (Score 1) 300
This is good analysis in my opinion.
However, I think the biggest thing folks have overlooked is the most valuable asset facebook owns:
The largest database of human faces on Earth mappable to real people.
Put a tiny video camera on a Rift, shrink the size to a pair of ski goggles and all of a sudden these apps start to make real sense. Look at a person, it facially recognizes them and pulls up all their "like" stats. One might even augment reality to such a point that entire environments could be overlaid with agreed upon conditions.
Q: How many people does it take to create a reality? A: One. But two is better. (P.K. Dick)
Zuckerberg is not an idiot.
The largest database of human faces on Earth mappable to real people.
Put a tiny video camera on a Rift, shrink the size to a pair of ski goggles and all of a sudden these apps start to make real sense. Look at a person, it facially recognizes them and pulls up all their "like" stats. One might even augment reality to such a point that entire environments could be overlaid with agreed upon conditions.
Q: How many people does it take to create a reality? A: One. But two is better. (P.K. Dick)
Zuckerberg is not an idiot.
Submission + - Microsoft Word Zero-Day Used in Targeted Attacks (securityweek.com) 1
wiredmikey writes: Microsoft warned on Monday of a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2014-1761) in Microsoft Word that is being actively exploited in targeted attacks directed at Microsoft Word 2010.
If successfully exploited, an attacker could gain the same user rights as the current user, Microsoft said, noting that users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than accounts with administrative privileges.
“The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted RTF file using an affected version of Microsoft Word, or previews or opens a specially crafted RTF email message in Microsoft Outlook while using Microsoft Word as the email viewer,” Microsoft explained in the advisory.
Microsoft did not share any details on the attacks that leveraged the vulnerability, but did credit Drew Hintz, Shane Huntley, and Matty Pellegrino of the Google Security Team for reporting it to Microsoft.
If successfully exploited, an attacker could gain the same user rights as the current user, Microsoft said, noting that users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than accounts with administrative privileges.
“The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted RTF file using an affected version of Microsoft Word, or previews or opens a specially crafted RTF email message in Microsoft Outlook while using Microsoft Word as the email viewer,” Microsoft explained in the advisory.
Microsoft did not share any details on the attacks that leveraged the vulnerability, but did credit Drew Hintz, Shane Huntley, and Matty Pellegrino of the Google Security Team for reporting it to Microsoft.
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