Comment FINRA (Score 1) 50

by PM4RK5 on Thursday February 04, 2010 @04:41AM (#31019950) Attached to: Brokers Get Strict Social Networking Rules

... sounds a lot like Shinra. And we all know well that turned out.

Comment Re:A minor flaw? Tosh. (Score 2, Insightful) 328

by PM4RK5 on Sunday December 16, 2007 @04:02PM (#21719198) Attached to: A Little .Mac Security Flaw

You know the fanboi is well aware of the drivel he spews when he resorts to defending Apple anonymously.

And yet the whole of Slashdot can go ahead bashing Apple without actually investigating the problem. Had anyone actually checked, they'd have noticed that the main .Mac page—which is how one accesses the iDisk interface—has this nifty little logout button, as seen in this screenshot.

But it's more fun to bash Apple unconditionally.

Perhaps it's a minor oversight that the self-contained iDisk interface lacks a logout button, but to say that "there is no way for the average computer user to log-out of their iDIsk on public computers" is patently false. Sure, they have to use the main .Mac page to do it, but you have to open that page to get to your iDisk in the first place. So: it's the user's choice to close that window while working on iDisk (the iDisk interface opens in a second window), and the user's oversight in failing to return there to log out.

Investigative journalism at its best. Cripes.

A Little .Mac Security Flaw 328

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 16, 2007 @04:15AM from the case-for-thumb-drives dept.

deleuth writes "The de facto online connectivity software sold along with many Apple computers, .Mac, has a Web interface through which users can check their 'iDisk' while away from their own computer. However, there is no Log-Out button in this Web interface, so most users just close the browser and walk away... not realizing that their iDisk has been cached by the browser and that anyone who wants to can open up the browser, go back to the link in History, and get into their iDisk completely logged in. From here, files can be downloaded and/or deleted. This seems like a minor security flaw via bad interface design, and podcaster Klaatu (of thebadapples.info) posted this on the discussion.apple.com site, only to have his post removed by Apple. Furthermore, feedback at apple.com/feedback has gone unanswered. The problem remains: there is no way for the average computer user to log-out of their iDisk on public computers. A quick review of any public terminal's browser history could bring up all kinds of interesting things."

Comment Drive does not burn faster, just uses faster media (Score -1, Redundant) 58

by willybur on Wednesday April 02, 2003 @06:02PM (#5647800) Attached to: Apple SuperDrive Gets Faster....For Free

The drive does NOT burn any faster!

To quote the Apple page FAQ:

Will this update enable my 2x SuperDrive to write at a higher speed?

This update enables you to read from and write to the new media, but it does not increase the speed of the drive. In fact, the updated 2x SuperDrive writes to this new media at 1x. So to obtain the highest performance from your 2x SuperDrive, we recommend that you continue using 2x DVD-R media just as you do today.

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