cgrant - Slashdot User

Comment Why limit yourself, use both... (Score 1) 383

by cgrant on Thursday January 31, 2013 @01:56PM (#42752707) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses?

I've been a believer that we need more than one SMTP address. The username version should be limited to username@domain.local however, since you don't want to expose your usernames to the planet through email addresses. Then also have a first.last@domain.tld for Internet usage. If there are conflicts on the latter, I've been a fan of asking the user what they want.

Email addresses are somewhat personal, even if they're work/university email addresses.

I didn't like my email address at work, so I asked to change it. Standards, be damned!

Comment Try the local ham radio club (Score 5, Insightful) 376

by cgrant on Saturday July 24, 2010 @03:44PM (#33015558) Attached to: Amateur Radio In the Backcountry?

You might try to find a local ham radio club and ask what their experiences in the area are, and specifically where you're going to be hiking.

Comment depends on where the repeater is (Score 5, Informative) 376

by cgrant on Saturday July 24, 2010 @03:38PM (#33015502) Attached to: Amateur Radio In the Backcountry?

Most frequently you're going to be talking to a repeater, so it depends somewhat on where you are in relation to the repeater. Having said that 5-10 watts is a lot of power compared to a cell phone.

KA0ZRW - now in WA

Submission + - Network Solutions Sites Hacked Again (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by CWmike on Monday April 19, 2010 @02:38PM

CWmike writes: A week after Web hosting company Network Solutions dealt with a large-scale infection of WordPress-driven blogs, the company acknowledged that other sites it hosts have been compromised. 'We have received reports that Network Solutions customers are seeing malicious code added to their websites and we are really sorry for this experience,' said pokesman Shashi Bellamkonda in a blog post. 'At this time, since anything we say in public may help the perpetrators, we are unable to provide details.' Securi Security Labs said on Sunday that at least 50 sites hosted by Networks Solutions had been hacked, and that malicious JavaScript injected into those sites was redirecting unsuspecting users to a Ukrainian attack server. The same server was involved in the earlier attacks against Network Solutions-hosted blogs. According to the StopMalvertising blog, the attacks planted a rogue IFRAME on the hacked sites to shunt users to the attack server. That server then launches multiple exploits, including an attack kit of ActiveX exploits and three more leveraging Adobe Reader vulnerabilities, against visiting PCs. Several browsers, including IE8, Chrome and Firefox, display warnings when users are redirected to the attack site.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What's the Best E-Reader? 2

Submitted by jacob1984 on Friday February 12, 2010 @01:04PM

jacob1984 writes: A few years ago there was a question about which e-reader was the best. Since then, the market has been flooded with new additions, many of them more open than others. Have you bought one yet? If so, which one did you find best and why?

Submission + - Porsche Unveils 911 Hybrid With Flywheel Booster (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by MikeChino on Friday February 12, 2010 @12:28PM

MikeChino writes: Porsche has just unveiled its 911 GT3 R Hybrid, a 480 horsepower track vehicle ready to rock the 24-hour Nurburgring race this May. Porsche’s latest supercar will use the same 911 production platform available to consumers today, with a few race-ready features including front-wheel hybrid drive and an innovative flywheel system that stores kinetic energy from braking and then uses it to provide a 160 horsepower burst of speed. The setup is sure to offer an advantage when powering out of turns and passing by other racers.

Submission + - IdeaPad U1 what we wanted the iPad to be (engadget.com)

Submitted by Xanator on Friday February 12, 2010 @12:14PM

Xanator writes: With the announcement of the iPad the Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid appears to go unnoticed, but maybe we ought to pay it more attention, a netbook with a removable screen that turns it into a tablet (swithching OS from Windows 7 to a tablet OS within 3 seconds) looks that it offers what many of us wanted from the iPad, quoting engadget: "When docked, the U1 looks and feels like any other laptop, with an Intel CULV processor and a 128GB SSD running Windows 7 Home Premium. You actually wouldn't know there's a slate hiding in there — until you pull it out and watch it switch to Lenovo's Skylight UI, a process that was smooth and quick for us. Lenovo says the goal is for the full switch to occur in under 3 seconds"

Submission + - Emmerich Plans 'Foundation' As 3-D Epic (mtv.com) 2

Submitted by spuke4000 on Friday February 12, 2010 @12:12PM

spuke4000 writes: Roland Emmerich, the writer/director/producer behind Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012 is planning to adapt Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. The plans include using technology developed for Avatar including 3-D and motion capture technology. When asked about the usage of this technology Emmerich responded, "It has to be done all CG because I would not know how to shoot this thing in real."

Submission + - How to replace FileVault with EncFS (blogspot.com)

Submitted by agoston.horvath on Friday February 12, 2010 @11:29AM

agoston.horvath writes: I've written a HOWTO on replacing MacOS's built-in encryption with the well-known FUSE-based encfs. It worked well for me, and most importantly: it is a lot more handy than what Apple has put together. This is especially useful if you are using a backup solution like Time Machine. Whys, Why nots and step-by-step instructions.

Submission + - European credit and debit card security broken (zdnet.co.uk)

Submitted by Jack Spine on Thursday February 11, 2010 @01:18PM

Jack Spine writes: With nearly a billion users dependent on smart banking credit and debit cards, banks have refused liability for losses where an idenification number has been provided.

But now, the process behind the majority of European credit and debit card transactions is fundamentally broken, according to researchers from Cambridge University.

The researchers have demonstrated a man-in-the-middle attack which fooled a card reader into accepting a number of point-of-sale transactions, even though the cards were not properly authenticated.

The researchers used off-the-shelf components, and a laptop running a Python script, to undermine the two factor authentication process on European credit and debit cards, which is called Chip and PIN.

Comment Cyber warrior...stupid name... (Score 1) 170

by cgrant on Thursday February 04, 2010 @04:52PM (#31026792) Attached to: House Overwhelmingly Passes Cybersecurity Bill

Please people, tell your Washington representatives and senators that the term is stupid and sounds like it came from a 1980's GI Joe cartoon. Lets come up with something else other than using "cyber" and "warrior" to describe a technical, professional, information security job function.

Comment Primary issue is mail list management (Score 1) 384

by cgrant on Sunday January 11, 2009 @05:18AM (#26406115) Attached to: State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm

The primary issue here is the ability for one person to send emails out to large distribtion lists. Exchange (and I'm sure others) have the ability to prevent average users from sending company wide or otherwise very large numbers of emails out. Let only certain people at certain roles in the company to send out company wide emails. Reply-All to a distribution list which you have no access won't get you very far...

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