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How Edward Snowden's Actions Have Impacted Defense Contractors
An anonymous reader writes "A new study sheds light on the attitudes of a very exclusive group of IT and security managers — those employed by U.S. defense contractors — at a time when national cybersecurity is under scrutiny. Most indicated that the Edward Snowden incident has changed their companies' cybersecurity practices: their employees now receive more cybersecurity awareness training, some have re-evaluated employee data access privileges, others have implemented stricter hiring practices. While defense contractors seem to have better security practices in place and are more transparent than many companies in the private sector, they are finding the current cyber threat onslaught just as difficult to deal with."
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On February 5, 2014, Slashdot announced through a javascript popup that they are starting to "move in to" the new Slashdot Beta design.
Slashdot Beta is a trend-following attempt to give Slashdot a fresh look, an approach that has led to less space for text and an abandonment of the traditional Slashdot look. Much worse than that, Slashdot Beta fundamentally breaks the classic Slashdot discussion and moderation system.
If you haven't seen Slashdot Beta already, open this in a new tab. After seeing that, click here to return to classic Slashdot.
We should boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta until Dice abandons the project.
We should boycott slashdot entirely during the week of Feb 10 to Feb 17 as part of the wider slashcott
Moderators - only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta
Commentors - only discuss Beta
http://slashdot.org/recent - Vote up the Fuck Beta stories
Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention.
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The English word fart is one of the oldest words in the English vocabulary.
Rare that you see a genuine, bona-fide traitor these days.
Glad that people are starting to come around to this conclusions, and away from the hero that the self-centered libertarian narcissist precious snowflake that infests Slashdot thinks of him as.
Sorry you idiots, but in the real world, you're not the center of the universe. Your life doesn't revolve around you and your "me! me! me!" views. You actually have limits on your power in life, and the best you can do with your limits in life is to live for others, not for yourself.
You actually have to pay to play in life. Life isn't free, regardless of what you were incorrectly taught by your mistaken idealist parents.
The reason you have to pay to play in life is because there is no power interested in allowing you to live for free. You need to do stuff for others, all the time, to get by in life. This is the minimum.
The Snowdens of the world think of life as being about them, mistakenly thinking you can do "whatever you want" since it's a "free country". We adults know this is an incorrect view, which is why we are strong socialists and work to improve on the power of a central governmental authority.
Complaining in the comments is not enough! This is the person responsible for beta. Contact her directly to lodge your complaints.
Since beta appears not to support links, here is the URL: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alicehill