You fancy kids and your Python scripts. Bring me back my Cobalt!

By your standard, Toyota's are far superior to Ferrari's.

I would be interesting to run grep through the source code. Bet you would find lines like:

It *might* be? I think not... Imagine you are at Starbucks drinking coffee, and surfing with your laptop. Does that give the Barista the right to use sslstrip and extract your credit card numbers? Not at all.

You can 'opt out' of this tracking service by turning off your mobile phone. But in this time and day, this solution seems akin to telling people to stop using email to 'opt out' from spam or to stop eating foods to 'opt out' of food poisoning. But even if the management wanted the costumers to be able to opt out, how would they do it? The only way is to tell the system to stop tracking the phones opted out, which means the system will need to start tracking the phones individually (to identify which phones are to be tracked and which are opted out), and by doing that, they enable the system to track *individual* users who have not opted out, making the issue worse for the average consumer who has no idea that these systems exist/how they work.

What decides if one is a celebrity or not? CowBoyNeal is also well known to slashdot, does that make him a celebrity? IMO that law is too vague...

The advantage of "try and guess THIS one!" type password is not only are they hard to guess, but if they are long enough and hashed properly (SHA1 or similiar) they cannot be unercrypted. (Presuming that the decrpyting party does not have access to a super computer). This is due to the fact that these passwords go through a one-way type hash, thus the only way to crack them is having a list of every single possible hash and its key (or generating such a list). So if one has a password that is 27 characters long, an attacker will need to generate a hash for every password from 1 character long to 27 characters long. Example: 1,2 ... 001, 002 .... goalcar, goalcat, goalcau ... and so on.

The power of Android Devices lies here. While these Samsung Nexus S users may not get the official upgrade, users who are tech savvy enough to care will simply install a 4.0 ROM for thier phones. I personally have an OG droid running android 2.3.5.

If the developers who came up with this type of protection think that 48 hours make 4 days, then they have much greater issues than poor document access control.

IHMO, any government/sensitive systems should be completely isolated from the internet. It surprises me that much of the US infrastructure is connected to the internet. Why does the US CoC need internet controlled thermostats? That just opens up vulnerabilities. On another note, why was the thermostat communicating with China? If these attacks were as professional as claimed and went undetected for a year, then you would suspect the "professional" hackers would use a proxy or some sort of onion routing. And the printer printing Chinese characters? Why would a hacker do that? And couldn't any "hacker" (not necessarily Chinese) have the printer print Chinese characters? The US will get its systems secured sooner to later, but if they don't secure it now by their will, they will be *forced* to secure it later.

In unrelated news, piracy of the video game "Syndicate" rose by %1200 in Australia.

Interestingly enough, we could all be made up of antimatter. If after the Big Bang, the amount of anitmatter was greater than matter, we be made (assuming me happened to exist) out of anitmatter, but call the anitmatter "normal matter", and call the real matter "anitmatter".

I am excited to vote for "SELECT * FROM users WH`ERE name = 'a';DROP" TABLE users" !