shut the fuck up... have you even seriously used it yet?

you have to learn a completely new init system - I'll give you that... but you can transport unit files from one system to another and they are very likely to work... you can override specific properties of the default units (try that with init scripts +lol+), you don't have to deal with loads of services writing to syslog and others writing their own logs either in their own subdirectory or in /var/log directly and so on and so forth... there's so much goodness in systemd...

too lazy to learn that new-fangled stuff? maybe you should switch careers away from IT entirely... seriously - get lost.. do something social or artsy or maybe become a truck driver or something... it's people like you who fuck things up because something works slightly differently than they've learned during their enterprise linux 2 certification, who cannot read plain english verbose error messages in logs or at least copy/paste them into google and still state that they know it all better and the fault lies within the stupid software containing stupid bugs a stupid programmer overlooked... you're that kind of guy...

It's not free, it's a pain to administer and many really helpful and good 3rd party add-ons aren't free either (heck, some can be more expensive than the thing itself!). But at the end of the day it can do pretty much anything you could possibly wish for while being simple enough to USE that anyone who used Word before could start out quickly.

Your appeal to authority just shows that you can come up with a citation and that your perspective lacks thinking of your own. You also continue to claim my position was rather extreme, when it's clearly not. I don't say that there's no added risk to storing sensitive things online. I'm just saying that the added risk is rather small if you're "doing it right"(tm) and that your point in ultimate mitigration of known risks (ie. no weighting between risk and use but just "don't do it") is an absolutely nonsense concept in its own because it doesn't work anywhere in real life. You're talking and seeing absolute extremes. I'm not. You obviously don't get that.

Appeal to authority much, eh? It's right that you have to trust the implementation. But then again, you have to (and do) trust many implementations in real life every day. Stuff that could actually KILL you if the implementation was "utter crap (or subtly flawed)". For starters: Think everything you eat, drink and use for transportation. That's why I was talking about making an educated guess.

I would assume that because a company wants to earn money and especially in cloud service providers there is so much competition that they couldn't afford to screw up even once. The least thing they can do to avoid that is to avoid being grossly negligent about security. Especially when their main selling point is the prospect of security.

1. was a rethoric question and answered right away. 2. isn't as obvious as you make it sound... a proper true crypt container isn't easily distinguishable (if at all) from a massive file of just random data 3. and 4. are concerning the "Any random employee, hacker" figure... also: I don't store my bank account credentials anywhere...

besides: it's easier to get access to hundreds or thousands of bank accounts by fishing than by stealing and breaking massive amounts of encrypted data... I didn't say not blindly trusting random people at companies is paranoid, did I? Interesting rethorics on your side...

My main point still stands however: things like lastpass are fine for password storage, sync and transfer if used right because for most attacks on private data and credentials there are more efficient vectors: general, mass scale: fishing and malware via ads work just fine... targeted: well, let's not elaborate in detail about this, but in case of a targeted attack, it's probably any physical, offline vector you could think of...

why this gets moderated Insightful, Interesting and Informative is beyond me... But it shows that slashdotters are now ready for beta becomming release...

parent should have been modded troll or flamebait... or maybe funny if you think it were... or maybe not at all because modding an AC up is pretty pointless...

*sigh* where do you people, who loved how slashdot WAS, go now? I'd like to go there, too

Actually it's a brilliant idea, as long as the encryption is strong enough.

A "normal" person uses '12345 ', 'password' and the name of her dog as passwords. A "normal" person doesn't know and doesn't care about the implications of any of that. However, if you do use "good" passwords, chances are that you're also able to educate yourself enough about encryption to make - at least - an educated guess about the strength of an encryption scheme.

In most companies not "any random employee" can access all data. Not even all company data, let alone customer data. But let's assume the malicious Dropbox admin scans their entire storage for known-weak password databases...
1. how does he know them? by research... something you could do as well before using something 2. how does he identify them? by file extension? by file header? 3. how does he collect the MASSIVE amount of results (we're probably talking tens of terabytes at least)? On an external hard drive or something the like? would there be anything more suspicious for him to do? 4. what does he do with the data then? sell it? no, he has to break it open first... which isn't free either 5. why would he want YOUR data? is it really THAT interesting? and if you've access to valuable bussiness data, so does your manager who probably doesn't care or know as much about password security and is therefor the weaker link and a better target for an attack also: if the government wants your data, especially if you live in the common-wealth, then you're screwed anyway... you won't outsmart the nsa unfortunately

Seing threads everywhere and thinking that ones own data is so damn special to anybody that it would be worth the effort of breaking a strong encryption is even more insane

That is as safe as putting "password protected" zip files online, really... if someone want's YOUR specific passwords, it should be easy enough to get someone steal your computer... easier than breaking into servers of big cloud providers... and the encryption on your computer would probably be easier to crack than the encryption of the data in the lastpass cloud for example having something physically near you doesn't make it safer... quite the opposite is the case that said: I go with lastpass... it's as secure as it gets right now... apart from actually memorizing all your passwords... I'd be more paranoid about laced shoes... loose laces pose REAL danger, you know... also it's more likely to get robbed on the streets or run over by a car than someone stealing your passwords from the lastpass servers... however: you can be as paranoid as you want but I hope you use an adblocker or your "my passwords are only stored in the OS's password manager" strategy (or any other strategy apart from having an allways-offline device where you put and read passwords manually) is pretty much useless anyway...

And when you are in the hospital, with your amnesia, they collect there and find out about each other. Maybe even before you realize who they are. They then could as well open the lock without you...

Like those things were reliable. Those consumer grade finger print readers could easily not recognize you for various reasons or be spoofed easily if someone ever gets your fingerprint (which isn't too hard - we leave them everywhere - all the time)...

Yeah, it's commonly known that teachers don't get paid anything as they live on the cozy, warm fealing of pride when they advance culture by educating children. Anyone who says otherwise must clearly be a "goddamaned"[sic!] idiot.

But seriously though: Who voted this informative?

or get ONE super fancy password and just use lastpass

Don't know about the GP but where I live I go to the doctor, when I'm sick. I don't have to worry about the cost. If I get a prescription I'll pay a small amount (€ 5) out of my pocket. I have a regular physician I go to for basic illnesses and first diagnoses, who would send me to a specialist, if needed, like pretty much everyone in my country has. Waiting time, if I go there without having an appointment is about 60-90 minutes. Getting an appointment with a specialist comes with wildly varying waiting times... from getting one the same day to having to wait several months. That mainly depends on how pressing the issue is, how many of this kind of specialists there are in the area. But then again, you're free to choose the specialist you go to, so if you don't want to wait as long you just call them all and use the earliest appointment you can get.

Americans should get that eat-or-be-eaten-free-economy-everything-else-is-communism-trololololol-stick out of their asses... really... and it's not just about public heal care... there are more things America is pretty much underdeveloped... sometimes even EXACTLY as underdeveloped as, say, Suriname, Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Western Samoa and Tonga!

No.

meh... CentOS is not just "very close" to RHEL but in fact the same... they build it out of red hat sources with red hat build configs... basically it's just a recompiled red hat... the only reason I wouldn't use CentOS is that its community (leaders) is somewhat too unstable for my taste... it wasn't that long ago when you couldn't be sure if CentOS would even continue to exist because of internal disputes... that said: there is an alternative: Scientific Linux... it's basically the same as CentOS with some additions to it that all come as optional packages... difference is: it's driven by CERN and the international science community which makes it a pretty safe bet

yeah, it's not like 4100 bitcoins are worth about 1.3 Million USD at the moment with a tendency to increase this value faster than anything else at the moment...

To achieve one and the same goal: Killing germs. It's not the people or cows or whatever, which develop a resistance to antibiotics. It's the germs. And to that end it doesn't matter whether they are killed inside or at the surface of an organism. So yes: antibiotic hand soaps are really a problem, too. I'd say they are even more of a problem than the excessive use of antibiotics in health-care because they are even more abundant and using soap is even more harmless than swallowing a pill, isn't it? Plus: Clever advertising makes more and more people believe they'd actually need it so they stay healthy...

That reminds me: May be funny to see such peoples reaction when someone told them that there are more cells of bacteria and other micro organisms living on and in their bodies than their bodies themselves have :D

If you read carefully you will find that you're reading this into it. I merely dissented from the parents claim that being smart has the intrinsic property of getting along just fine with no probability of a "crummy adolescence".

Yeah, right. Again: Social overachievers wouldn't be such bullies, would they? Uh, yeah, wait a minute: THEY ARE... more often than not even physical ones. Of course they wouldn't be baseless so, right? Right! Because for some of them this is the way to become popular in the first place. Of course THAT is all just games and play. You may not be an idiot but you sure are an ignorant, smug hypocrite. Oh, and a coward one.