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Submission + - "Hackers" interupt the Zimmerman trial.

Submitted by MouseTheLuckyDog on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @06:35PM

MouseTheLuckyDog writes: Today during the George Zimmerman trial, an ex-professor of George Zimmerman's was allowed to testify via Skype while on vacation. When setting it up the prosecution didn't have the sense to blank the destination account. The result according to the smoking gun was a flood of callers to the desination account resulting in the connection being terminafed and cross examination being done on a cell phone in the wirness box.

Comment Re:Dr. Who's Savior Complex (Score 1) 170

by kaushik on Friday November 16, 2012 @07:55PM (#42008065) Attached to: The New Series of Doctor Who: Fleeing From Format?

I think for the most part, Russel T. Davies did an amazing job telling the stories. He pretty much took the height of the modern-day Dr. Who with him when he and his crew left the show.

Comment Re:Are you doing enough though? (Score 2) 89

by kaushik on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @10:39AM (#40842297) Attached to: Dropbox Confirms Email Addresses Were Pilfered

Companies do try in earnest. I'd be willing to admit that bigger companies probably try a lot harder. Firms like Ebay are constantly training (and retraining) their employees on social engineering, document security, the risks of transferable media (e.g. USB drives), etc.

However, it is practically impossible for a company to put bulletproof safeguards around things like:

+ Laziness (opting for convenience vs. security)
+ Ignorance
+ Malice (intentional compromise of information)
+ Plain old human error

So the question really becomes, when has a company done enough...?

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