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Comment Re:Takes responsibility? (Score 1) 50

by Occams Razor on Friday November 01, 2024 @04:04AM (#64911139) Attached to: Dropbox is Laying Off 20% of Its Staff

This is ALWAYS my question in these situations.
Sometimes there's less responsibility but... Drew is the founder, he's the one who has been fucking it up since the beginning.
He's the one who just wanted to create a company that was like when he was in college but couldn't manage to actually realize why that wouldn't work. He should have been chief scientist or possibly CTO. He should never have been CEO. He's more interested in people liking him than he is in doing the hard work of being a leader. That's why there was always money for the TuckShop (world class free restaurant in the company's building) but there wasn't anything like leadership training or management training. I was a technical IC and I was shocked at how TPMs felt they had to justify their value to me when we met.

All the things that have gone wrong with Dropbox fall to failures of leadership.

Comment I've paid enough (Score 1) 242

by Occams Razor on Saturday May 06, 2023 @03:56PM (#63502611) Attached to: Unionized Apple Store Workers Want You To Start Tipping Them

I'm a strong union supporter. This is possibly the worst idea I've ever heard. If they want a share of the profits then negotiate a share from Apple. It isn't my job to pay more.

Misconfigured Open DNS Resolvers Key To Massive DDoS Attacks 179

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday March 28, 2013 @04:29PM from the check-your-sources dept.

msm1267 writes with an excerpt From Threat Post: "While the big traffic numbers and the spat between Spamhaus and illicit webhost Cyberbunker are grabbing big headlines, the underlying and percolating issue at play here has to do with the open DNS resolvers being used to DDoS the spam-fighters from Switzerland. Open resolvers do not authenticate a packet-sender's IP address before a DNS reply is sent back. Therefore, an attacker that is able to spoof a victim's IP address can have a DNS request bombard the victim with a 100-to-1 ratio of traffic coming back to them versus what was requested. DNS amplification attacks such as these have been used lately by hacktivists, extortionists and blacklisted webhosts to great success." Running an open DNS resolver isn't itself always a problem, but it looks like people are enabling neither source address verification nor rate limiting.

A Nude Awakening — the TSA and Privacy 728

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 06, 2010 @06:08PM from the keep-it-above-the-waist dept.

DIplomatic writes "The Oklahoma Daily has a well-written editorial about the current state of airport security. Though the subject has overly-commented on, this article is well worth the read. Quoting: 'The risk of a terrorist attack is so infinitesimal and its impact so relatively insignificant that it doesn't make rational sense to accept the suspension of liberty for the sake of avoiding a statistical anomaly. There's no purpose in security if it debases the very life it intends to protect, yet the forced choice one has to make between privacy and travel does just that. If you want to travel, you have a choice between low-tech fondling or high-tech pornography; the choice, therefore, to relegate your fundamental rights in exchange for a plane ticket. Not only does this paradigm presume that one's right to privacy is variable contingent on the government's discretion and only respected in places that the government doesn't care to look — but it also ignores that the fundamental right to travel has consistently been upheld by the Supreme Court. If we have both the right to privacy and the right to travel, then TSA's newest procedures cannot conceivably be considered legal. The TSA's regulations blatantly compromise the former at the expense of the latter, and as time goes on we will soon forget what it meant to have those rights.'"

Malware Could Grab Data From Stock iPhones 127

Posted by timothy on Friday December 04, 2009 @02:20AM from the swamp-of-bog-standard dept.

Ardisson writes "Swiss iPhone developer Nicolas Seriot presented last night a talk on iPhone Privacy in Geneva. He showed how a malicious application could harvest personal data on a non-jailbroken iPhone (PDF) and without using private APIs. It turns out that the email accounts, the keyboard cache content and the WiFi connection logs are fully accessible. The talk puts up several recommendations. There is also a demo project on github."

Surveillance Cameras Get Smarter 186

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 26, 2007 @06:05PM from the walk-without-rhythm-and-you-won't-attract-the-one dept.

kog777 writes to mention that the IB Times is taking a look at where surveillance camera technology is headed. Soon researchers tell us that cameras will be available that not only record, but are able to interpret what they see. "The advancements have already been put to work. For example, cameras in Chicago and Washington can detect gunshots and alert police. Baltimore installed cameras that can play a recorded message and snap pictures of graffiti sprayers or illegal dumpers. In the commercial market, the gaming industry uses camera systems that can detect facial features, according to Bordes. Casinos use their vast banks of security cameras to hunt cheating gamblers who have been flagged before."

New Sub Dives To Crushing Depths 245

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 26, 2007 @03:11PM from the deeper-and-longer dept.

University of Washington Scientists are reporting that they have a new autonomous underwater vehicle that increases both the attainable depth and duration of deployment over current submersibles. Weighing in at just under 140 pounds, the "Deepglider" is able to stay out to sea for up to a year and hit depths of almost 9,000 feet. "Deepglider opens up new research possibilities for oceanographers studying global climate change. The glider's first trip revealed unexpected warming of water near the ocean floor, and scientists are interested in studying whether the temperatures are related to global warming."

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