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NBC News Confuses the World About Cyber-Security
Nerval's Lobster writes "In a video report posted Feb. 4, NBC News reporter Richard Engel, with the help of a security analyst, two fresh laptops, a new cell phone, and a fake identity, pretended to go online with the technical naiveté of a Neanderthal housepet. (Engel's video blog is here.) Almost as soon as he turned on the phone in the Sochi airport, Engel reported hackers snooping around, testing the security of the machines. Engel's story didn't explain whether 'snooping around' meant someone was port-scanning his device in particular with the intention of cracking its security and prying out its secrets, no matter how much effort it took, or if the 'snooping' was other WiFi devices looking for access points and trying automatically to connect with those that were unprotected. Judging from the rest of his story, it was more likely the latter. Engel also reported hackers snooping around a honeypot set up by his security consultant which, as Gartner analyst Paul Proctor also pointed out in a blog posting, is like leaving the honey open and complaining when it attracts flies. When you try to communicate with anything, it also tries to communicate with you; that's how networked computers work: They communicate with each other. None of the 'hacks' or intrusions Engel created or sought out for himself have anything to do with Russia or Sochi, however; those 'hacks' he experienced could have happened in any Starbucks in the country, and does almost every day, Proctor wrote. That's why there is antivirus software for phones and laptops. It's why every expert, document, video, audio clip or even game that has anything at all to do with cybersecurity makes sure to mention you should never open attachments from spam email, or in email from people you don't know, and you should set up your browser to keep random web sites from downloading and installing anything they want on your computer. But keep up the fear-mongering."
Dice Holdings Shows Internet How to Royally Screw Up Website Without Being Hacked
FTFY
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
is just a marketing ploy, like New Coke.
- In Soviet Korea, only old people loose all their bases to Natalie Portman's petrified hot grits overlords.
Slashdot Beta confuses the world.
I mean, how could Slashdot Beta be such a steaming pile of shit for half a year and still be expected to be rolled out? Was Dice hacked by Russian malware? Are the pipes not like trucks? Is Natalie Portman planning to blow up the House of Lords?
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
They'll swear off computers forever.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
This is off topic, but I was getting a warning at the top of Slashdot that classic is going to be going away soon (looks like in 2 months).
How many readers are going to leave if the overlords cut off slashdot classic completely?
I've now got some moderator points to burn. I've checked out the Beta and I agree it's mostly BAD, but it does have a few interesting features. If they can fix the many problems I could deal with it. So, I'll be moderating all posts with constructive criticism. Or not. Who knows.
To be fair, they're less shit than beta.
It's time to renounce slashdot beta and promise it will not be back. No more doublespeak.
idk, hijacking the back button is pretty low even compared to beta.