Equifax Web Site Designer Fined $50,000 And Confined To Home Over Insider Trading (zdnet.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A 44-year-old, Georgia-based programmer -- who'd been working at Equifax since 2003 -- has been sentenced to eight months of home confinement and a $50,000 fine for insider trading. Working as Equifax's Production Development Manager of Software Engineering in August of 2017, he'd been asked to create a web site where customers could query a database to see if they were affected by a yet-to-be-announced security breach for a high-profile client. Guessing correctly that it was his own employer's breach, he'd used his wife's brokerage account to purchase $2,166.11 in "put" options betting that Equifax's stock price would tumble -- and when it did, he'd scored a hefty profit of $75,167.68.

"As part of his SEC settlement, he must also forfeit $75,979, the ill-gotten funds, plus interest," ZDNet reports, noting that the transactions "came to light after Equifax started internal investigations into several reported cases of employee insider trading." Another federal complaint also alleges that another Equifax executive avoided $117,000 in losses by selling all $1 million of his stock options -- the same day he'd performed a web search about how Experian's stock was affected by a 2015 security breach, but two weeks before Equifax's breach was announced. That case is still ongoing.

Comments

25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

Seems like he still did ok on his 2K investment.

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[guruevi]

He gets a 50k fine, forfeits all 75k in profits and his boss still hasn't gotten punished.

Re: 25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

Plus interest?

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

Normally scheduled transactions. His lawyer said so. That's the difference.

Re: 25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean the one who is the target of an ongoing criminal investigation?

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

He forfeits 75K in profits AND has a 50K fine. That's not "25K profit", it's a loss of 50K. Also he's sentenced to 8 months home confinement, not a "6 month vacation". I don't know about you, but I generally consider vacations to involve getting outside of my own home.

His boss not being punished is something we can agree is bad, but did you actually read the article before typing your outrage title?

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

If he was a Congressman then insider trading is perfectly legit. Damn the US government is fucking broken!

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

He forfeits $50,000 and six months on home arrest.

I'm sure a lot of innocent people lost money from this hack. Not all, but some..add this guy to the list.

The government is enforcing a rule meant to keep executives from 'throwing the game'.

In this case, the $75,000 he 'stole' is from an investment firm that steals this much every minute in microsecond transactions! Come on! This is a fucking *harsh* punishment for an average joe sort, which this guy seems to be. $2,000 is a very small amount to gamble.....

Its not like he hacked some executives email and then got his brothers best friend to do the transaction for him with €2million he got from that shady work he did for the politicians in Bulgaria last year..and, like a good senior financial executive would have, didn't cover it with other illegal debts...

sucks for him, but not sure I wouldn't have done the same except I'd never work for such a shitty company to begin with.....

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

Normally scheduled transactions. His lawyer said so. That's the difference.

"Oh that sell transaction I schedule just before every quarterly report and have cancelled 16 times in a row, I just so happened to not cancel it this time. No big deal. It's unrelated!"

Clearly not insider trading. Later his wife will fall onto a knife in his hands over and over. He didn't kill her. She tripped 33 times. Not his fault!

Re: 25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

RTFA?

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you read who you were replying to? Did the person that voted this up?

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait a fricking' minute -- the article says he guessed. No crime took place.

He was smart, but he did nothing wrong but profit off of someone's deserved embarrassment.
The banks (some time ago) knew of their wrong-doing before the financial crisis, and no one
was punished. If I were writing software for a company and I guessed that the company would
do very well because of it, damn sure I'd do the same thing (there are contracts which prohibit
the buying of securities, but unless his contract / agreement had that clause, he (should be)
in the clear. It's not insider trading. WTF!!!!

CAP === 'ascetic'

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[ShanghaiBill]

Wait a fricking' minute -- the article says he guessed. No crime took place.

He guessed based on insider information. That is illegal.

He was smart

No he wasn't. If he was smart, he would have covered his tracks. Instead of investing under his own name, or his wife's name, he should have used a more distant relative or a friend that he trusted.

The banks (some time ago) knew of their wrong-doing before the financial crisis

No they didn't. They were astoundingly oblivious to the problems with mortgage based securities right up to the collapse.

Some people saw it coming, and made billions shorting MBSes, but they were not "the banks" (other than Goldman).

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

You class traitor, you!

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

He gets a 50k fine, forfeits all 75k in profits and his boss still hasn't gotten punished.

Little people get punished. To get away with it, you need to steal so much that the entire economy crashes. Then they bail you out and you get to keep your billions. That was the lesson of the 2008 financial crises. If you're going to steal, be sure to go big. Little people, like this programmer, make excellent sacrifices so that the real crooks can walk free. There's a lesson for you.

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

And if the President does it then it's not a crime.

Re: 25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

If he was smart, he wouldn't have gotten caught.

Re: 25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

People whom don't obscure their actions enough get caught... most of them do illegal and unethical crap, it's just how well they hide it.

Re: 25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

Keyword there being "ongoing". Funny how the person with the money still has their investigation ongoing, while the pleb with nothing has already been processed through the system.

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[gweihir]

Only small people get punished. If you are rich and powerful, you can nearly destroy the world and nothing is going to happen to you. Laws are just a means to control the masses, they are not for restricting anybody powerful.

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

He gets a 50k fine, forfeits all 75k in profits and his boss still hasn't gotten punished.

Little people get punished. To get away with it, you need to steal so much that the entire economy crashes. Then they bail you out and you get to keep your billions. That was the lesson of the 2008 financial crises. If you're going to steal, be sure to go big. Little people, like this programmer, make excellent sacrifices so that the real crooks can walk free. There's a lesson for you.

Again, this type of posters like to conflate everything to their own best interest. No, the crash in 2008 is NOT from rich people only. It is from both rich and poor people, a lot of them. The rich (bank) tried to kick the can down the road and hope that the problem won't come back to them. The poor (or the stupid) kept being used and thought it was their time to get rich. As a result, at every level of financial companies/corporation feed each other the illusion until the whole thing crashes. Stop pointing fingers to only one group of people but start learning and understanding the causes/factors of why it happened.

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

If the sentence is not harsh enough, then you will see many similar exploitation in the future because the reward is worth the risk! Because there are people in the U.S. that keep thinking that any punishment is too harsh and should be more lenient, that's why the similar situation keeps occurring over and over again. Go figure...

Re:25K profit and a 6 month vacation

[Anonymous Coward]

Why is it that corporations can do illegal things and get a fine that is a fraction of the amount of profit made of said illegal things?

numbnuts

Finally

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally, the guilty part was found and rightly punished. I think we call now sleep better at night.

Re: Finally

[Anonymous Coward]

Except for th executives that stole a lot more money and will get away with no punishment.

Re: Finally

[Anonymous Coward]

Except for th executives that stole a lot more money and will get away with no punishment.

I'm pretty sure the executives will be sleeping just fine now that the "guilty part was found". As long as the search is over of course.

Re: Finally

[Anonymous Coward]

Woosh

give until it stops hurting

[Anonymous Coward]

greed fear ego based endeavors all end the same way? cease fire stand down.. truth+mercy=justice..

ok but what about the CEOs?

[Anonymous Coward]

they'll surely get the REAL pain, right?

Re:ok but what about the CEOs?

[Anonymous Coward]

If I had mod points, I'd mod this +1 funny.

Massive goverment failure

[Anonymous Coward]

Another example of goverment failure but liberal biased Slashdot.Org refuses to admit it. Instead blaming private companies as usual. libtard reality distortion in affect.

Re: Massive goverment failure

[Anonymous Coward]

This comment flagged as right wing political nonsense

Re: Massive goverment failure

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, better silence all non-approved opinions huh, mr orwel? private companies bad, goverment always good and perfect, is that bettr?

Re:Massive goverment failure

[fattmatt]

Thank you ... you are a fine example of right wing NPC.

Re:Massive goverment failure

[Anonymous Coward]

"Government cant do anything right, put us in charge of it & we'll show you what we mean." -GOP

I think youre mistaking conservative inability to do anything right with an overall governmental inability. If you'd try electing responsible literate people from time to time, maybe you'd see better results.

Re:Massive goverment failure

[Anonymous Coward]

Right, lets elect shillary clinton so she can destroy the usas credibility with her incompetents.

Re:Massive goverment failure

[Anonymous Coward]

Credibility?
Wasn't Trump openly laughed at by the other leaders when in Europe?
Trump also lies. And doesn't apologize when called out on it.
Credibility, huh.

So how did Equifax figure it out?

[Anonymous Coward]

What I'm most curious about in this story, is how did Equifax figure out that this guy bought these put options? What kind of access does Equifax have to his wife's brokerage accounts?

Re: So how did Equifax figure it out?

[Anonymous Coward]

The SEC used to handle a lot of high profile takedowns of severe insider trading for hundreds of millions. These days there is generally a lot less of that. So instead they fine-tooth comb all the smaller possibilities of insider trading, fraud, etc.

Wow, talk about swift punishment

[Opportunist]

Guy got 75k out of it and gets arrested and fined 50 grand on top of having to forfeit everything he gotten that way. And confined to his home.

Say, how again were the C-Levels punished whose criminal negligence caused all this to happen in the first place? A couple millions probably. And confined to the home they built with those millions, I guess.

Does the fucking term

[Anonymous Coward]

'sacrificial lamb' ring a bell, omfg.

Re: APK Hosts File Engine for MacOS... apk

[Anonymous Coward]

BULLSHIT.

You password-stealing fuck. You need to type in your admin password to edit your HOSTs in MacOS.

Prove your shit is legit and release the entirety of your source code for review. Digitally sign your binaries and demonstrate build reproducibility or your software can never be trusted.

Aint that America

[Anonymous Coward]

Equifax screws up & releases all our data to the scamming world causing millions (billions?) of dollars in damage to people who arent even really their customers & then attempts to charge us fees to fix the mess that THEY created.... no big deal, business as usual.

Equifax employee steals a few bucks from Wall street... HANG EM!!!

This country

[rojash]

This country is all about Rich CEOs getting away with murder and turning the other way to catch the li'l guys to satisfy the public as it will be splattered all over news sites. Fucking corrupt bastards in the top cop world who control who is culpable. But the idiot reporters will still be after Trump's blood in the news instead of this. Dont expect anything better from this.

Re:This country

[Anonymous Coward]

This country is all about Rich CEOs .... be after Trump's blood in the news

So is Trump not some rich CEO?

Re:This country

[rojash]

Isn't this country all about Trump ??

if we do it, its called insider trading...

[Anonymous Coward]

if congress does it, it is called good business.

The game makers ...

[PPH]

... will not tolerate unauthorized cheats

How robotic can you get?

[Anonymous Coward]

You can't even make up your own damn memes.

No wonder why so many want mommy gov to take care of everything. No free thought of their own.

Guessing correctly?

[Anonymous Coward]

So if he guessed correctly, he was never told who the client was?

small time

[Anonymous Coward]

Should have stolen a lot more then he could have bribed his way out. That's the American way.

Absolute bullshit

[MikeRT]

he'd been asked to create a web site where customers could query a database to see if they were affected by a yet-to-be-announced security breach for a high-profile client.

Unless they told him formally or at the water cooler it was his own employer, it is absolute bullshit to charge him with insider trading. What's next? Going to charge government contractors for doing option trading if they hear a government manager say a huge contract is about to be pulled? This is not what insider trading is supposed to be about, but that doesn't really matter because laws are only for the little guy.

Re:Absolute bullshit

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought this too, it doesn't seem to merit the same punishment as actual inside trading.
People make guesses like this all the time and most guesses don't pay out. He was an insider who had a possible clue at best, not actual information. Suppose it wasn't equifax that was the subject of the breach, his options would expire worthless like most do and nobody would care.

This isn't like fictional Bill Stearns on Billions who says "I am not uncertain" when he's actually bribed insiders with sacks of cash for information.
This isn't even like Martha Stewart who acted on a tip from her broker that a CEO was selling a boatload of shares without having filed with the SEC. She didn't even know why the CEO was selling. (She went to jail for obstruction actually, not insider trading.)
When does it become not-insider trading? What if you witnessed the pipeline explosion in British Columbia and shorted CCX as soon as you could, but before the news broke? Curious.

Re:Absolute bullshit

[Anonymous Coward]

The SEC said in an indictment that Bonthu realized on his own --based on test data and discussions on internal mailing lists-- that the secretive Project Spart client was, in reality, his employer.

It was more than just a guess.

Re:Absolute bullshit

[squiggleslash]

He apparently pretty much knew based upon the test data he was getting who the "client" was, so it was technically insider trading - he did know.

At the same time... this seems a relatively trivial crime to spend resources on, in an environment in which pretty much everyone knows the causes of the Equifax breach will never lead to punishment. Insider trading, while damaging to the stock market and something that needs to be kept in check, isn't anything like as bad as the fuck up Equifax made which did more than reduce the value of a few pension funds by 0.01%.

Re:Absolute bullshit

[BitterOak]

What's next? Going to charge government contractors for doing option trading if they hear a government manager say a huge contract is about to be pulled? This is not what insider trading is supposed to be about,

Actually, that's exactly what insider trading is supposed to be about. Anytime you make stock market investment decisions (including sometimes, the decision not to buy or sell stock you otherwise would have) based on information that is not available to the general public, not matter how you obtained that information, you have committed insider trading. What did you think it means?

Re:Absolute bullshit

[Anonymous Coward]

he'd been asked to create a web site where customers could query a database to see if they were affected by a yet-to-be-announced security breach for a high-profile client.

Unless they told him formally or at the water cooler it was his own employer, it is absolute bullshit to charge him with insider trading. What's next? Going to charge government contractors for doing option trading if they hear a government manager say a huge contract is about to be pulled? This is not what insider trading is supposed to be about, but that doesn't really matter because laws are only for the little guy.

This is exactly what insider trading is about. The public cant have confidence in the market when people are trading based on inside info that isn’t public.

Is a web development manager considered a little guy in Russia or something?

You poor, stupid merkins

[Anonymous Coward]

Only merkins would stand by while all the greed driven stupidity occurs. No fucking balls to stand up for yourselves. "fuck you I got mine". You and your president deserve each other. Make merka Greedy and Narcissistic Again.

How do they always find the suspect's searches?

[Anonymous Coward]

If they are recording all our searches then Google is violating the GDPR because when you download your data from Google it does NOT include all your searches.

Re:How do they always find the suspect's searches?

[Anonymous Coward]

It most certainly does. Look again.

Re:How do they always find the suspect's searches?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, your logged in searches. I'm assuming this guy didn't search for insider trading advice with his Google account logged in, right?

The little guys cheat a bit...

[ZorinLynx]

The little guys cheat a bit and get stomped on immediately.

Whereas the big bankers and wall street folks steal billions from us and get away scot free every day.

Just shows you how things are stacked. We need change.

Re:The little guys cheat a bit...

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey a few public executions of big bankers might improve moral in this country!

Re: The little guys cheat a bit...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes. Have them drawn and quartered

Re:The little guys cheat a bit...

[Billly Gates]

Yep. Big banks even call clients to get numbers and sell ahead of time. Normal. This guy got busted because he thought he was big but not. The government's job is to protect the real sharks with a revolving door between government, lobbyist, and corporate jobs. If he worked for BOA for example he would not be charged.

CIO already arrested, facing multiple charges

[raymorris]

The acting CIO has multiple federal charges. He's already done some jail time, and he's going to prison.

His boss was arrested, facing multiple charges

[raymorris]

The acting CIO, Jun Yung, actually has multiple federal charges. He's already done some jail time, and he's going to prison.

Funny how making shit up that is the opposite of the actual facts gets modded +4. People sure do enjoy being jealous of the boss.

Re:His boss was arrested, facing multiple charges

[Anonymous Coward]

The acting CIO, Jun Yung, actually has multiple federal charges. He's already done some jail time, and he's going to prison.

Citation needed. He's facing insider trading charges too, but that case AFAIK is still pending.

And yet

[quonset]

No one has been held responsible for one of the largest data breaches in this country's history from this same company, nor has the company been fined in the U.S. for the data breach, whereas the fine in the UK was a piddling $500K.

Re:And yet

[Anonymous Coward]

Beat me to it.

This is like fining a cop for parking illegally while he's pulled over to sell crack to high schoolers.

Re:And yet

[MobyDisk]

No one has been held responsible

According to this comment the CIO was held responsible and has received jail time.

Re:And yet

[Anonymous Coward]

I haven't been able to find anything to corroborate that. Most recent news I can see is that he has been indicted but nothing further.

You may not want to take commenters at their word.

So, what are you gonna do about it?

[rsilvergun]

We all complain about this crap, but we also elect the same sorts of folks who allow it. Over and over again. There were plenty of viable primary challengers this time around who refuse corporate PAC money. Most lost. For all the talk nobody shows up to vote, or if they do they vote the incumbent because they want to be safe, stay the course.

Re:So, what are you gonna do about it?

[Anonymous Coward]

We all complain about this crap, but we also elect the same sorts of folks who allow it. Over and over again. There were plenty of viable primary challengers this time around who refuse corporate PAC money. Most lost. For all the talk nobody shows up to vote, or if they do they vote the incumbent because they want to be safe, stay the course.

Don't blame me.

I voted for Kodos.

Re:So, what are you gonna do about it?

[liquid_schwartz]

We all complain about this crap, but we also elect the same sorts of folks who allow it. Over and over again. There were plenty of viable primary challengers this time around who refuse corporate PAC money. Most lost. For all the talk nobody shows up to vote, or if they do they vote the incumbent because they want to be safe, stay the course.

Change often starts at the top. Both Clintons and Trump are both amazingly corrupt. Bernie would have been better but he was kept out by a corrupt Democratic National Party apparatus that had already decided who should be picked. Better luck next time.

Re:So, what are you gonna do about it?

[Billly Gates]

These regulators got hired by Obama. Here is the secret. Both parties are paid by Wall Street and other industries. Only Beto in Texas who is running has not taken any money from a PAC. Sad, but a very real fucking problem.

Trump won't drain the swamp that Obama created as he is the swamp itself. It still happens and he has hired those with an R instead of a D next to their name but really perform the same job and make sure money gets sent to the master on the top. Oh, wait he will prosecute?! Then get a new master as they have the money for sexy campaign commercials that make the opponents un-American on either party until they get someone who will dance to their tune.

This guy had nothing like that so the rules only apply to him.

Re:So, what are you gonna do about it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Bernie would have been better but he was kept out by a shiny new mansion. Bernie Sanders, come on down! You're the next contestant on these silly fucks think you're not playing the game!

FTFY.

This is awesome

[Anonymous Coward]

You've treated people like shit online for at least two decades. It's absolutely beautiful to see you this butthurt as the favor is returned. I'm laughing at you while you sit there and post one angry comment after another.

You attack & impersonate 1st? I destroy you

[Anonymous Coward]

You attack & impersonate 1st? I destroy you as I did on hosts + kernelmode too here https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

* DUMBASS - when will "your kind" EVER LEARN? Tcpip.sys IS in kernelmode & here are settings for resolvers (hosts is one):

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ServiceProvider]
"DnsPriority"=dword:00000006
"HostsPriority"=dword:00000005
"LocalPriority"=dword:00000007
"NetbtPriority"=dword:00000008

(LOWEST IS HIGHEST PRIORITY (& by default iirc, in Windows 7, hosts IS the 1st resolver).

I NEVER SAID DNS itself WAS IN THE KERNEL (hosts as a RESOLVER is for tcpip.sys afaik).

APK

P.S.=> I even pointed to the http.sys movement by MS for IIS to match what APACHE did for better performance & IF Linux isn't doing a KERNELMODE diskcache they're STUPID (faster by far as http.sys is for IIS now) & yes, hosts IS a filter for tcpip.sys

Mr. Impersonator of me: Still sore jew?

[Anonymous Coward]

Mr. Impersonator of me: Still buttsore from an ASS-KICKING I gave you here https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... & https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... + https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... on hosts files, jew?

YES, obviously - lol, your "effete revenge" was DOWNMODS I ran you DRY of as always!

After you tried VAINLY to "downmod" HIDE all of that here & UNDENIABLE https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... LITERALLY (I just reposted to NULLIFY your 'wannabe weapon' NEUTRALIZING it & EXPOSING YOU LOSING to me, lol!).

APK

P.S.=> I love it - especially seeing u REDUCED to TRYING to LIE about me (or LIBEL me) as you IMPERSONATE me (proving you WISH you were me, but you're INFERIOR imitation (& just plain INFERIOR on ALL levels))... apk

RAY MORRIS IS A LYING NAZI FAGGOT CAUGHT DEAD

[Anonymous Coward]

https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12520486&cid=57184660 - RAY MORRIS when we catch your nazi ass we're going to skin you alive for your propaganda FAGGOT.

Re:RAY MORRIS IS A LYING NAZI FAGGOT CAUGHT DEAD

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you really trying to claim that someone is a Nazi because he's against genocide? herpa derpa, maybe you're the real nazi lmao

Quit LYING Jew... apk

[Anonymous Coward]

I DON'T HAVE A MacOS X version! Thanks for MISTAKES YOU MADE vs. me listed below!

APK

P.S.=> Mistakes:

https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (password & *NIX systems I account for vs. your lie)

https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (my code's audited by a security pro @ MALWAREBYTES who HOSTS & RECOMMENDS it)

https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (hosts = native kernelmode resolver filter in Windows - LINUX by diskcache DOES kernelmode cache reference of hosts OR SHOULD https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... & WHY w/ IIS/Apache e.g.)

https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (PUTTING WORDS IN MY MOUTH! I NEVER SAID "dns is in the kernel" hosts AS A RESOLVER is in Windows, Linux partially (diskcache) but SHOULD ALL BE if not)

Hosts = native FASTEST RESOLVER pure kernelmode via IP stack + kernelmode diskcache subsystem (no context switch kernelmode FAST vs. SLOW USERMODE security issue riddled dnscache in Windows https://blogs.msmvps.com/acefe... that's faulty w/ large hosts... apk

Using Insider information for stock trades Illegal

[Anonymous Coward]

The guy had sensitive, stock-moving, insider information. He knew the company stock was going down and bought "put" options to play that knowledge.

If he'd traded in **any** other stock, except his employer's, it wouldn't be illegal, but as an employee with sensitive, non-public, information about a public company, you are required NOT to trade in company stock based on that data.

Key employees get this talk as do all the CxO and Board Members, but someone doing programming may not know these things at a company the size of Equifax. He does now and everyone reading this story should know it too.

He can fight the charges and may get them dropped. Only time will tell. The fact that he guessed right isn't helping his legal situation.

Definitely NOT BS.

Anyone with key information isn't prohibited from buying or selling company stock, but to avoid any appearance of illegal activity, it is common to setup HR-approved scheduled, monthly purchases or monthly selling. There are forms to be filled out. Day trading in the company stock is definitely out.

You LOSE again Jew cocksucker... apk

[Anonymous Coward]

Malwarebytes' Steven Burn audited my code & BOTH hosts + RECOMMENDS it forum.hosts-file.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4290 vs. some NO-MIND like YOU that wouldn't know the 1st thing about it!

* I don't GIVE my work away to NO-MINDS like you either ("OpenSORES" code thieves) so you can either copy it to "claim as your own" OR alter it to make a doppleganger malware (which you MORONS threatened before no less like the PITIFUL "ne'er-do-well" DO-NOTHING CHUMPS you are).

That happened to GOOGLE w/ EFast. Not me.

APK

P.S.=> Dozens of REGISTERED /. users (+ 100,000 users worldwide) disagree with YOUR UNIDENTIFIABLE ANONYMOUS Weezil ass https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... as do FACTS on how FILES, even hosts files, cache in KERNELMODE on ANY OS for faster re-access (or does Linux libc calls HIT DISK everytime it accesses HOSTS as a resolver? LOL, if so)... apk

Re: Quit LYING Jew... apk

[Anonymous Coward]

At least you admit to lying about the imminent release of a MacOS version.

c6gunner IMPERSONATING me again?

[Anonymous Coward]

See subject: his FAKEname on a post impersonating me https://linux.slashdot.org/com... & altering /.er's words.

c6gunner tried to mock me 1st https://linux.slashdot.org/com...

So I challenge c6gunner to show he did better work than mine & he CAN'T!

YOU DEMAND PROOF of others here?

"I've yet to see you provide any evidence of that." by c6gunner on Monday March 15, 2010 @10:02PM (#31490942) ?

So now I DEMAND IT OF YOU & YOU FAIL!

c6gunner = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!

* c6gunner's LYING saying I did a MacOS X one - I haven't yet & c6gunner's LYING impersonating me saying hosts work vs. Intel CPU issues (spectre/meltdown).

APK

P.S.=> You say hosts = shit here https://slashdot.org/comments.... ?

FACTS: /.ers & security pros + RESULTS say DIFFERENT:

1st: /.ers https://slashdot.org/comments.... https://slashdot.org/comments.... https://slashdot.org/comments.... https://slashdot.org/comments.... https://slashdot.org/comments.... https://slashdot.org/comments....

2nd: SECURITY PROS https://slashdot.org/comments....

3rd: REAL RESULTS w/ hosts vs. threats https://slashdot.org/comments....

EAT YOUR WORDS!

c6gunner = a liar & impersonator of me

[Anonymous Coward]

c6gunner everyone saw your name on this post as the submitter signing off as me (APK) https://linux.slashdot.org/com... & altering /.er's words!

Why? After you INSULTED me I challenged YOU to show you've done better & YOU RAN since you have not https://linux.slashdot.org/com...

(but you sure insinuated I am a "bad programmer")

Funny so many here LIKE/USE/PRAISE my work (NOT your 'notware', lol).

So you resort to your CHILDISH lies &/or IMPERSONATING ME saying I have a MacOS X model & I DO NOT + that hosts 'cure INTEL spectre/meltdown' WHICH I DO NOT!

(or the download page @ Start64.com WOULD LIST HOSTS STOP Spectre/Meltdown & IT DOES NOT - my PROOF I never state that but I do on ALL ELSE hosts do for users).

APK

P.S.=> Why do you DO it? YOU lie & LOSE vs. ME constantly e.g. https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

Right now yeah

[rsilvergun]

because the Ds at least have a small wing of the party that refuses corporate PAC money. There's gonna be at least 30 of them in the House after the election, maybe 40. I know of no such wing in the GOP. Even Rand Paul seems to be bought and paid for lately, having fallen in line with Trump on the various wars we're fighting (none of which have proper authorization or are even against countries that attacked us).

The Dems also have some folks who support issues that matter. I want single payer healthcare because I've got friends and family that need medical care and who are in medicine. I want a $15 min wage because I want demand side economics instead of supply side. I want to end the wars and stop selling arms to the Saudis. There's a lot of Dems that won't do that (Pelosi, Schumer, etc) but there are some that will. Again, I don't know of any Republicans that support these policies.

What I do know is they all poll in the mid to high 70s. Given that you'd think both sides would support them, but, well, now we circle back to the real problem, corporate PAC money. You can't serve two masters.

Re:Right now yeah

[liquid_schwartz]

because the Ds at least have a small wing of the party that refuses corporate PAC money. There's gonna be at least 30 of them in the House after the election, maybe 40. I know of no such wing in the GOP. Even Rand Paul seems to be bought and paid for lately, having fallen in line with Trump on the various wars we're fighting (none of which have proper authorization or are even against countries that attacked us). The Dems also have some folks who support issues that matter. I want single payer healthcare because I've got friends and family that need medical care and who are in medicine. I want a $15 min wage because I want demand side economics instead of supply side. I want to end the wars and stop selling arms to the Saudis. There's a lot of Dems that won't do that (Pelosi, Schumer, etc) but there are some that will. Again, I don't know of any Republicans that support these policies. What I do know is they all poll in the mid to high 70s. Given that you'd think both sides would support them, but, well, now we circle back to the real problem, corporate PAC money. You can't serve two masters.

There are lots of issues that poll high yet get ignored. Trade deals are generally unpopular. Illegal immigration is very unpopular, despite the press doing every shady thing they can to drum up support ("undocumented immigrants" for example). Besides, I'm a Christian white male. I won't vote democrat because they literally hate me. I would have made an exception for Bernie though.

Equifax should be illegal

[Anonymous Coward]

Ban data aggregation companies

LMAO @ YOUR CLASSIC FUCKUP

[Anonymous Coward]

HOSTS = a FILE & KERNELMODE diskcaching subsystems CACHE it! Isn't a Linux DISKCACHE kernelmode?

Answer that (stupid IF not).

Windows' tcpip.sys = kernelmode & 4 hosts filter for resolution!

(MS learned on performance 4 IIS (http.sys) vs. Apache as latter performed FASTER. Current versions of IIS moved to kernelmode 4 BETTER performance).

IF Linux isn't doing things THAT way for NAME RESOLUTION via hosts (not just Apache webservers) it ought to be!

FACT: You get better performance via KERNELMODE drivers (more cpu priority, kernelmode DRIVER driven).

* YOU TELLING US libc in Linux constantly RE-ACCESSES DISK for HOSTS - not a kernelmode cached hosts OR Linux's diskcache is NOT in kernelmode here https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... ?

APK

P.S.=> Hosts resolver can also be adjusted in priority in Windows https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... (& it's default 1st in Win7 OR can be adjusted to be (older NT based OS NetBIOS/LanMan 1st as default over IP stack for networking))... apk

stupid and greedy short sellers

[Anonymous Coward]

Idiot, don't fucking short a company you work for. It's pretty much an automatic investigation. I guess he assumed doing a put means he wouldn't have to trade until later as a put option is a kind of agreement or contract. Unfortunately those put options are filed with the SEC, so they knew about it all along.

Idiot has no friends

[aberglas]

Fancy using your own wife's account to short. Surely he must have known some other wives that he could have used? And only $2K with a hot tip like that?

I bet his much smarter managers made a hell of a lot more than that. With no record of whose wives they used.

Re:Using Insider information for stock trades Ille

[PortHaven]

His mistake, he should of put a put on all their stocks. ;-)

Re: Quit LYING Jew... apk

[Anonymous Coward]

The Jews called, they said they don't give a crap about this hosts file debate. Can we keep them out of this please?

So the executive is being investigated ...

[strikethree]

So the executive is being investigated but the peon is already penalized. If the executive is penalized, it is likely that they will be able to avoid at least some of the penalty and profit much more than the peon did.

Nice.