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Security Through Obsolescence
dlur writes "This article and this article (both variations of the same article written by roblimo) delve past security through obscurity, into using old, out of date software to secure a site. Maybe it's not always in your best interest to snag the latest kernel? Perhaps think twice before jumping at the chance to buy MS's latest OS."
I claim this first post in the name of all anonymous cowards
If the newest and the greatest is always being hacked, then Linux for Playstation should be dream for hackers. (Tounge very much in cheeck)
We had to destroy the sig to save the sig.
Despite the circumstances, this is actually funny :)
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"We've had an incredible demand. People are not shy," Paul Erik Bergmann, chairman at Horten & Borre taxi firm in south Norway, told Reuters Wednesday.
A sign on the back of the driver's seat reads: "Forgot condom? Ask the driver!" Bergmann said his company's 20 taxis had handed out 300 condoms in two weeks. There are no age limits and no questions asked.
"Some want to have a condom in their pocket just in case. Others need one right away," he said, adding: "They have to wait until they get home."
Jon Hilmar Iversen, health promotion director at the Norwegian health authorities, said taxis were one of several untraditional initiatives to crack down on sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies.
"We want to give easy access to condoms to people where they are when they need it," Iversen said.