martinlp - Slashdot User

Comment Re:scoring 71% percent vs. the industry average 92 (Score 1) 274

by martinlp on Thursday April 18, 2013 @04:21AM (#43480507) Attached to: Botched Security Update Cripples Thousands of Computers

as most are not under attack from zero day malware and viri.

this is the second comment that claims that average users are not under attack from zero day threats... I cannot understand how you can back that up. Zero day threats would be my biggest concern.

Comment Re:Need better security (Score 1) 71

by martinlp on Thursday January 17, 2013 @05:42AM (#42614735) Attached to: New Phishing Toolkit Uses Whitelisting To 'Bounce' Non-Victims

The point of the phishing site is to obtain a users credentials, OTP included. OTP's provide another means for authenticating the user to the bank, not the Website to the User.

Submission + - Crimanal action against speed trap tweeter (iol.co.za)

Submitted by martinlp on Saturday September 18, 2010 @04:31AM

martinlp writes: Pigspotter is making big news in South Africa. The traffic authorities in Johanessburg, South Africa are looking at taking legal action against Pigspotter, an individual who is tweeting up to the minute information about speed traps in and around the city. He has recently stopped, stating that his Blackberry is going in for repairs but it may be out of fear of getting prosecuted. The police claim he must be getting inside information and suspect that disgruntled traffic officers may be involved. There is also speculation that it is more than one individual that is tweeting.

Comment ....Profit (Score 1) 65

by martinlp on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @12:44PM (#32100380) Attached to: Japanese Company Turns Diapers Into Energy Source

1. Make lots of babies
2. Buy Diapers for babies
3. Buy SFD system
4. ......
5. Profit

Comment Zero Day Inititive (Score 2, Interesting) 182

by martinlp on Sunday April 11, 2010 @05:10PM (#31811242) Attached to: Why Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Is Painful and Inefficient

why not get these guys to help you. Maybe the vendor will take them seriously.

Comment Re:Funny but true.... (Score 1) 461

by martinlp on Monday April 20, 2009 @04:23PM (#27651787) Attached to: Microsoft Asks Open Source Not to Focus On Price

How is open source a better solution when your only source of troubleshooting is Google?

Google as a troubleshooting resource, is better than 95% of closed source support resources. Once you learn how to use Google you will understand this.

Comment Re:You can get hard passwords (Score 1) 349

by martinlp on Monday October 13, 2008 @01:12AM (#25351411) Attached to: Elcomsoft Claims WPA/WPA2 Cracking Breakthrough

So you are essentially trusting Steve Gibson and his website with you passwords, rather get a utility that generates random passwords locally. I have a spare tin foil hat here if you like?

Submission + - China's first lunar satellite sends back pictures. (yahoo.com)

Submitted by Fantastic Lad on Monday November 26, 2007 @10:29AM

Fantastic Lad writes: BEIJING (Reuters) — Chinese leaders hailed images sent back from the country's first lunar satellite on Monday, saying they showed their nation had thrust itself into the front ranks of global technological powers. China plans to launch its third manned rocket, Shenzhou VII, into space in October 2008 and may send an astronaut on a space walk, a Shanghai paper said. But a space official downplayed plans to put a man on the moon."There are no plans at the moment to send anyone on to the moon. I've heard of foreign reports which say China will put a man on the moon by 2020, but I don't know of such a plan," said Sun Laiyan, head of the China National Space Administration. "Please don't give us any more pressure. But I'm confident one day we'll put an astronaut on the moon," he told a news conference.

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