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Comment vms (Score 1) 132

So YOU'RE the guy --who is running Big-Endian AMD64 !! (*cvs)

Most of what they are ripping out is archaic, un-realistic, or poor implementations platforms. You could argue that hacked-support for too many platforms is part of the reason openssl is in the position its in today - if you can't do it right (or don't have the resources to), don't do it. Name a platform other than VMS, they've ripped out and that you need : )

Comment Re:Doesn't Link to an Article? (Score 1) 409

Anybody notice this story doesn't link to a real article, nor is Curtis Peterson mentioned once on that Forbes page linked to? Its written by a guy named "Ben Kepes", and 'Server Hugger' is only mentioned in the title, thats it.....wtf?

...and apparently no video was to be seen in my browser prior to bitching. Applying self-face-palm....

Submission + - LibreSSL Project Announced

An anonymous reader writes: As some of you may know, OpenBSD team have started cleaning up OpenSSL code base. LibreSSL is primarily developed by the OpenBSD Project, and its first inclusion into an operating system will be in OpenBSD 5.6. In the wake of Heartbleed, OpenBSD group is creating a simpler, cleaner version of the dominant OpenSSL. Theo de Raadt, founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH, tells ZDNet that the project has already removed 90,000 lines of C code and 150,000 lines of content. The project further promises Multi OS support once they have proper funding and the right portability team in place. Please consider donating to support LibreSSL via OpenBSD foundation.

Comment Re:This is the price you pay for "free" (Score 1) 2

perhaps if all the companies making billions off free software were to actually contribute to and fund such open projects, they'd be able to employ the necessary team to find those bugs. if companies don't want to act responsibly about the software they use, then they bear the burden. boohoo.

converse to the argument "this is the price you pay for 'free'", if openssl were a closed development project owned by some company, its certainly possible the same flaw could have existed, except they wouldn't have to tell anyone about it once found -> some hardware might have never gotten fixed, or the bug could have propagated into many more products over many years, the sum-total of that discovery would be far beyond what we are looking at now.

Submission + - Los Angeles Science Teacher suspended over student science fair projects (scpr.org)

An anonymous reader writes: "A high school science teacher at Grand Arts High School in Los Angeles was suspended from the classroom in February, after two of his science fair students turned in projects deemed dangerous by the administrators. " "One project was a marshmallow shooter—which uses air pressure to launch projectiles. The other was an AA battery-powered coil gun—which uses electromagnetism to launch small objects. Similar projects have been honored in past LA County Science Fairs and even demonstrated at the White House."

Submission + - Surgery with a paintbrush

BiancaM writes: A group of chemists has shown the power of nanoparticles for closing and healing surgical wounds. Using no more than a paintbrush they are able to close surgical openings as well as classical techniques such as sutures. However in fragile deap tissues such as liver even more remarkable results were found- normally fatal damage to internal organs is repaired in seconds using a nanopartilce glue. The results show that closing after surgery can be faster and simpler using nanomaterials to glue wounds shut.

Article at:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...

Video:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...

Feed Google News Sci Tech: SpaceX rocket to make Easter delivery of supplies to International Space Station (google.com)


SFGate

SpaceX rocket to make Easter delivery of supplies to International Space Station
Washington Post
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A SpaceX supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday, setting the stage for an Easter morning delivery of much-needed food, space suit and robot parts, and urgent repairs later in the week. Following its...
SpaceX Dragon On Its Way to the ISSPC Magazine
SpaceX rocket blasts off for space stationUSA TODAY
SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket carrying crucial cargo to ISSCNET
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Comment Um, Yeah, a big UMM back at ya (Score 2) 200

If you _re-read_ his post, he is only showing evidence, and claims that Nokia NOT OPERA is a MITM. use of the word "attack" obviously doesnt apply. But it is -extremely clear that Nokia is intercepting and repackaging https traffic. Opera is not, and their privacy policy clearly states that Opera passes HTTPS untouched and only boosts -normal HTTP traffic-

I may be left wondering why you have no concern that a secure https connection you expect to a website is infact, not to that website, but is decrypted -atleast!- once, before being reencrypted to the site you expected. If you are fine with that I wonder what kind of security professional YOU may claim to be.....

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