This just sounds really fishy to me. What's the encryption, A Ceaser cypher? The whole point of modern encryption is that the same input renders wildly different outputs. Their is no pattern to speak of. I'm sorry, I'm just not buying it... (figuratively or literally)

Not only must I concur with your answer, I have to wonder about the initial question. Is this flame bait? This question comes up ever other month and it's always a dog pile of distros based on what that particular user does with it. In my mind, the only thing this initial question will ever answer is, "Why Microsoft is still around". Because Linux users can't get their heads, efforts or money behind 2 or 3 versions and let the rest go. As a community, we are like lobsters in an open bucket. As soon as one of us appears to have a hand hold on rising above and getting out, the rest of us grab them and pull them back down. (...and M$ wins again)

Because we all have non-technical family and friends with smartphones and laptops using the same lame password for everything. This is a simple and elegant solution to help them be more secure without feeling imposed upon by "software for techies". (Don't bitch, I've used Password Safe and KeePass. They're simple, but....) It's better than nothing.

"Form follows function" is a principle associated with modernist architecture and industrial design. [ref. Google search] This is a concept Steve Jobs executed with razor like efficiency during his time at the helm of Apple. Sadly, since his departure, Team Apple has only focused on form alone, to their own detriment. This is their decline. This is their fall from grace. This is what defines those with vision and understanding from mere imitators and corporate shills.
...as you were saying Phil.

I believe you are absolutely correct. The visionary's vision has been exceeded by time and circumstances. Apple is now off the edge of Steve Job's map. While I never was a huge fan of Apple or Job's, I will admit that he had the pulse and vision for consumer grade gizmo(s) and those who buy them. Now we are seeing the fumblings and minor missteps of a company who's arc has peaked and who's future is a down hill coast to mediocrity at best. They are Microsoft as it was 10-12 years ago. The "good" ideas are gone and all that is left is marketing and whatever committee beaten product that lands highest on the wall to which it has been thrown.

Agreed! And if not extinct, it would have at least guaranteed their value never eclipsed $24 billion. M$ would have forced it to tile and slide laterally, on every OS version and re-branded it 3 time till settling on the name "FriendFace".

Exactly! This is a prime example of why computers will eventually take all our jobs...

Remember back in the day when law enforcement abided by laws and followed evidence using people called "detectives" to prevent or solve crimes. No wonder reruns of The Shield, Law and order and all those CSI shows don't make sense to my kids.

Looking better with every headline.

So after the lawyers are done, no movie (scifi or otherwise) will be allowed to have an "automatic" door due to possible lawsuits. Star Wars, Star Trek, Battleship 3.... Nothing.

As has already been said, I've yet to watch a movie with 3D and thought, 2D just wouldn't have cut it. This whole 3D thing is kind of a dead horse and I'm getting really tired of people kicking it. Secondly, you have to know that they will also build this into the next "gotta-have-it" television/monitor. Where does it end? It's high-def 1080p. No it's curved! Better yet, it's back lit. No, 4k! Oh 4K in 3D!! You know, any more I just want to watch a show/movie that the story doesn't suck. I want the story to draw me in so I am mentally engaged with it. NOT, "I'm watching the equivalent of paint drying". They might have used a really fancy paint sprayer, but it's still paint drying.... (Damn! I must be getting old)

AMEN!!

Oh, I agree! Wholeheartedly! That's why I think the default behavior for all browsers should be to block-by-default all but base HTML content.

Click to run should be the standard for all browsers and multimedia plugins. It's just safer that way. (Though advertisers will hate it...)

Is it just me, or does it sound like the employee who left used the same password at his new job as the one he gave to Correa for the laptop? As someone who works in InfoSec, I think I've heard something before about reusing passwords and/or sharing them with others before. (look away Bruce Schneier, look away...)