Mozilla: Unlike FB and Twitter Single Sign-in, Persona Protects User Privacy 81

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @05:53PM from the and-it-has-fiber-and-calcium-and-zero-carbs dept.

tsamsoniw writes "Mozilla today unveiled Persona Beta 2, the newest edition of the organization's open authentication system. The release includes Identity Bridging, which lets user sign in to Persona-supported sites using their existing webmail accounts, starting with Yahoo. Mozilla used the release as an opportunity to bash social sign-in offerings from Facebook and Twitter, which 'conflate the act of signing into a website with sharing access to your social network, and often granting the site permission to publish on your behalf,' said Lloyd Hilaiel, technical lead for Mozilla Persona. He added that they are built in such a way that social providers have full visibility into a user's browsing behavior."

Comment Re:WTF is SCADA then? (Score 3, Informative) 104

by stpere on Monday November 26, 2012 @06:17PM (#42099099) Attached to: Researcher Finds Nearly Two Dozen SCADA Bugs In a Few Hours

Google is your friend, as usual. It's basically a system to monitor and control an industrial site/process remotely (power plant, utilities, etc..).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCADA

Comment Re:Japan had an Earthquake / Tsunami and now this? (Score 1) 260

by stpere on Saturday April 09, 2011 @04:58PM (#35769792) Attached to: 'Anonymous' Plans Sony Boycott On April 16

Hmm, that argument doesn't hold very far IMO.. they could save a lot more money by just withdrawing the lawsuit altogether versus what they are going to lose from this action.

Apple Allegedly Sought Non-Poaching Deal With Palm 181

Posted by kdawson on Friday August 21, 2009 @09:38AM from the hands-off-or-at-least-palms-off dept.

theodp writes "A Bloomberg report that Apple CEO Steve Jobs proposed a possibly illegal truce with Palm against poaching their respective employees is sure to pique the interest of the US Department of Justice, which already is investigating whether Google, Yahoo, Apple, Genentech and other tech companies conspired to keep others from stealing their top talent. 'Your proposal that we agree that neither company will hire the other's employees, regardless of the individual's desires, is not only wrong, it is likely illegal,' former Palm CEO Ed Colligan reportedly told Jobs in August 2007." The article notes that Apple was probably reacting to Palm's hiring of Jon Rubenstein, who had been instrumental in developing the iPod and went on to spearhead the Pre for Palm (and has now become Palm's chairman and CEO). "It's the story about the importance of charismatic engineers," said veteran Silicon Valley forecaster Paul Saffo. "People don't work for Palm. They work for Jon Rubinstein. One has to wonder how Steve Jobs ever let Jon Rubinstein leave."

Comment Re:Free? How do they do the math? (Score 1) 207

by stpere on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @01:28PM (#28531447) Attached to: Most Complete Topographical Map of Earth Complete

Hmm, tax payers already paid for it, no? I know that you can get topographical data from several government agencies already for free (NASA, USGS, etc...)

Comment Re:Time out (Score 4, Insightful) 712

by stpere on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @05:20PM (#28115329) Attached to: Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change

Well, even if we can't reverse the process, there are other good reasons to lower our energy consumption.

Energy isn't free; by polluting less, you often spend less in the long run... It's not only good for the planet, it's good for the economy in general.

Both shouldn't be seen as incompatible things.