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Comment Re:Worth it. (Score 1) 733

by p7 on Friday August 22, 2008 @02:37PM (#24709761) Attached to: Firefox SSL-Certificate Debate Rages On

The issue isn't poor security. Using ssl/tls with a self signed certificate is more secure than passing all communications in the clear. With recent news Why One-time Passwords Suck For MITM Attacks one wonders what we are getting by trusting the CAs. Note in the article that a researcher was able to get a certificate for login.live.com so he now has a CA IE will accept. The real security issue is that by making it difficult/expensive for the small web service to get a valid certificate from a CA that both IE and Firefox accept and providing a warning screen that will cause some users to avoid the service, we will get services that use no encryption. Since we all know that a large portion of the web using community use one password for all their services, this makes these sites an easy resource for harvesting credentials.

Submission + - Is interoperable DRM really less secure?

Submitted by Crouch and hold on Thursday February 08, 2007 @04:29PM

Crouch and hold writes: Are closed DRM schemes like FairPlay more secure than interoperable ones? Based on the number of cracks, it doesn't look like it. 'When it comes to DRM, what history actually teaches us is that one approach is no more secure than the other in practice, as they relate to the keeping of secrets. Windows Media DRM has had fewer security breaches than Apple's FairPlay, yet WM DRM is licensed out the wazoo: there are more than a dozen companies with WM DRM licenses. The way things came to be this way are complex and numerous, but none of them have to do with the sharing of secrets..'

Mars Probe May Have Spotted Sojourner Rover 149

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 12, 2007 @01:29PM from the born-free-as-free-as-the-wind-blows dept.

Maggie McKee writes "NASA's eagle-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter may have spotted the tiny, toaster oven-sized Sojourner rover just a few meters away from its companion, the Mars Pathfinder lander. It appears to have crawled there in an attempt to re-establish contact with the lander after the lander had already died. But the pictures aren't clear enough to definitively ID the rover, and it's possible Sojourner simply took off on its own. If it were miraculously still alive after 10 years, it could be 3 kilometers away from Pathfinder — and probably impossible to find, even with MRO."

Submission + - EU Commission Study Finds You'll Save Money Switch

Submitted by

PS3Penguin

on Friday January 12, 2007 @01:27PM

PS3Penguin writes: "Groklaw has a great story about the EU Commission's recent findings .. "Our findings show that, in almost all the cases, a transition toward open source reports of savings on the long term — costs of ownership of the software products." The study can be found here. Also available is the pdf file of the report. Of course .. we all knew that was the case :)"

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