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Comment Passwords at least 14 random chars, nums, symbols. (Score 4, Interesting) 136

A good estimator: https://www.grc.com/haystack.h...

For example: abc123ABC!1234

Search Space Depth (Alphabet): 26+26+10+33 = 95
Search Space Length (Characters): 14 characters
Exact Search Space Size (Count):
(count of all possible passwords with this alphabet size and up to this password's length) 4,928,630,108,082,482,617,642,017,120
Search Space Size (as a power of 10): 4.93 x 1027
Time Required to Exhaustively Search this Password's Space:
Online Attack Scenario: (Assuming one thousand guesses per second) 1.57 thousand trillion centuries
Offline Fast Attack Scenario: (Assuming one hundred billion guesses per second) 15.67 million centuries
Massive Cracking Array Scenario:(Assuming one hundred trillion guesses per second) 15.67 thousand centuries

Comment Re:Cultural sickness. (Score 1) 297

In Sillycon Valley there are still some schools with open fields but DeAnza used to have an open pool my friends and I used to go to all the time in the summer. Now you have to sign your life away or belong to a swim club to use it. They even closed the 10m platform because someone got hurt or died jumping off it.

Bug

Two Critical MySQL Bugs Discovered (infoworld.com) 70

An anonymous reader quotes InfoWorld: Two critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities in MySQL, MariaDB, and PerconaDB can help take control of the whole server, which is very bad for shared environments... Administrators need to check their database versions, as attackers can chain two critical vulnerabilities and completely take over the server hosting the database... The first vulnerability, a privilege escalation/race condition flaw, gives elevated privileges to a local system user with access to a database and allows them to execute arbitrary code as the database system user. This gives an attacker access to all of the databases on the affected server... The privilege escalation/race condition flaw can be chained with another critical vulnerability, a root privilege escalation vulnerability, to further elevate the system level user to gain root on the server.
Space

SpaceX Blast Investigation Suggests Breach in Oxygen Tank's Helium System (reuters.com) 79

Weeks after a SpaceX rocket exploded inexplicably, engineers at Elon Musk's company have traced the flaw to its source. Space today released the initial results of its investigation, in which it says that a breach in helium system in the Falcon 9's liquid oxygen system caused the sudden flare up. From a Reuters report: SpaceX, owned and operated by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, was fueling a Falcon 9 rocket on the launch pad in Florida on Sept. 1 in preparation for a routine test-firing when a bright fireball suddenly emerged around the rocket's upper stage. "At this stage of the investigation, preliminary review of the data and debris suggests that a large breach in the cryogenic helium system of the second stage liquid oxygen tank took place," SpaceX said in a statement posted on its website. No one was hurt in the explosion, which could be heard 30 miles (48 km) away from SpaceX's launch pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The cause of the accident is under investigation.

Comment Re:No religious protection (Score 1) 253

It was actually a donkey but anyway. Islam is defensive and it has a right to be because of these crazy ideas. At least with Christianity you have the New Testament which is reasonably sane.

You could drop Jesus in almost any country in any century and he would bring peace, or try to dying. With Mohamed you'd just have a big perverted mess on your hands.

Comment Re:sigh... (Score 0, Insightful) 253

And much of that is collateral damage, still wrong yes. Also U.S. intervention has only exacerbated the Sunni-Shia strife in the region. The U.S. is guilty yes, but of not understanding political Islam and how it plays a role in the M.E.

Intentions matter, people killing or subjugating others because they are among the dis-believers is part of the ideology as stated in the Quran 9:29.

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