I'm sure the folks in Portland are friendly, but...
Check out LiveOps, run by Ebay's Maynard Webb. They have U.S. based work at home agents and a system that routes to the best available, and most friendly agent. "Most friendly" sounds like a joke, but it's easy. With 16,000 agents across the country they can match callers based on ANI to like agents. So Boston callers talk to Boston agents, Texas callers talk to Texas agents, etc, etc. Local accent matters.
Here's a quote from this week's Business Week:
Its highly automated system routes calls to some 16,000 home agents--independent contractors, not employees--based on how well they've answered similar calls earlier. Lisa Hammond, a Wichita mother of three, says she's pocketing more money, after factoring in gas and child-care costs, working at home for LiveOps on her own time 15 to 18 hours a week than she did working more than full-time as a Wal-Mart (WMT ) store supervisor. Compared with a conventional call center, says LiveOps CEO Maynard Webb, "this is a more virtual, self-managed ecosystem." http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_34 /b4047426.htm?chan=se
No duh, you can't spoof a cert. But show us what field in the cert includes the ip address for the fqdn listed the cn field? It doesn't exist! Again, how do you ensure the ip address the dns server resolved for www.citibank.com is really the ip address CitiBank.
If anti-phishing solutions included secure dns servers for you to use, that used IP addresses. The problem would be solved. But doesn't happen. Perhaps releasing a hack for the linksys wrt54g to proxy dns and https, would wake up the coffee shop surfers. Until then, enjoy the bliss of your cappuccino foam.
The ssl handshake process compares the dns resolved hostname in the url against the hostname in the cn of the downloaded cert. If you can't trust the dns server provided by your gateway, i.e. because you are using the free wifi access in the airport in Tel Aviv, then it is possible, and highly likely in some locations, that your https traffic is being watched.
The problem is The Press. Particularly publications like InfoWord who just regurgitate press releases. Many reporters don't even install product or try to look under the hood, and even when they do find an issue, they let the product manager off the hook when they hear "it will be fixed in the final release".
When you combine a Culture of Fear that came with 9/11 and Bush administration with the technology void left after the Dot COM bust, we got a lot "security" Lemons. The security market was in the Zone before Web 2.0 took off.
Check out that personal firewall on your desktop. My Point is, the reporter was more interested in the wine at dinner than the security product he wasn't reviewing in the Labs. Sorry, we had to make the revenue target for quarter. Hope it didn't cause you any issues.;)
Hmmm... things that just work... My MacBook drive crashed today, when I reset it after it wouldn't wake from a sleep and I can't repair it without a OS X CD...lame! Fortunately I have a Windows machine in the house.
Symbian is a proven phone OS. OS X/Darwin/BSD isn't. Be careful what you ask for.
Apple will make the iPhone too closed and they are not thinking about the global phone market. A real Skype client for Symbian will be available any day now, which will make Nokia WiFi enabled phones like the N80 and N95 really attractive. Skype is available for OS X, but I'm sure Cingular will want to block Skype calls over WiFi. Apple has no plans VoIP and they don't even support stereo Bluetooth (A2DP).
With the Nokia N95 feature set and ability to unlock, Apple has some catching up to do. Nokia N95 has EDGE, WCDMA, WiFi, Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), 5MP camera with flash, 2GB SD cards, audio player, FM radio, web browser, built-in GPS with maps, etc, etc and a real key pad. The touch screen will not provide feedback, i.e. a car wreck waiting to happen.
Sorry, koolaid kiddies, Apple did not reinvent the phone, they reinvented the iPod.
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A steam console would be a knock punch to sony and finally onlive would have real games.
well it 10 years for the beatles to embrace itunes.
only people who win... and gamestop loses? i guess you think netflix streaming sucks too?
more bandwidth than netflix? lose control? you mean like when ubi servers are down?
What monthly subscription fee? It's free. Did you try it?
iphone doesn't compete with living room game market. It expands the bathroom game market.
Check out LiveOps, run by Ebay's Maynard Webb. They have U.S. based work at home agents and a system that routes to the best available, and most friendly agent. "Most friendly" sounds like a joke, but it's easy. With 16,000 agents across the country they can match callers based on ANI to like agents. So Boston callers talk to Boston agents, Texas callers talk to Texas agents, etc, etc. Local accent matters.
Here's a quote from this week's Business Week:
Its highly automated system routes calls to some 16,000 home agents--independent contractors, not employees--based on how well they've answered similar calls earlier. Lisa Hammond, a Wichita mother of three, says she's pocketing more money, after factoring in gas and child-care costs, working at home for LiveOps on her own time 15 to 18 hours a week than she did working more than full-time as a Wal-Mart (WMT ) store supervisor. Compared with a conventional call center, says LiveOps CEO Maynard Webb, "this is a more virtual, self-managed ecosystem." http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_3
Ignorance bliss, isn't it?
No duh, you can't spoof a cert. But show us what field in the cert includes the ip address for the fqdn listed the cn field? It doesn't exist! Again, how do you ensure the ip address the dns server resolved for www.citibank.com is really the ip address CitiBank.
If anti-phishing solutions included secure dns servers for you to use, that used IP addresses. The problem would be solved. But doesn't happen. Perhaps releasing a hack for the linksys wrt54g to proxy dns and https, would wake up the coffee shop surfers. Until then, enjoy the bliss of your cappuccino foam.
2 factor auth prevents key loggers, but you need your own pc and secure dns to keep it private on the road.
BTW without secure dns, Google Apps is worthless toy for the enterprise. M$ is shaking in their boots.
the way most web sites use ssl is hardly secure.
The ssl handshake process compares the dns resolved hostname in the url against the hostname in the cn of the downloaded cert. If you can't trust the dns server provided by your gateway, i.e. because you are using the free wifi access in the airport in Tel Aviv, then it is possible, and highly likely in some locations, that your https traffic is being watched.
Secure dns, and then ssl might be secure. http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/12/07/1640224.shtml
This happens every day.
. htm.
Check out http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/ChronDataBreaches
Hmmm... so will this pass for two factor authentication for PCI and other security standards?
The problem is The Press. Particularly publications like InfoWord who just regurgitate press releases. Many reporters don't even install product or try to look under the hood, and even when they do find an issue, they let the product manager off the hook when they hear "it will be fixed in the final release".
;)
When you combine a Culture of Fear that came with 9/11 and Bush administration with the technology void left after the Dot COM bust, we got a lot "security" Lemons. The security market was in the Zone before Web 2.0 took off.
Check out that personal firewall on your desktop. My Point is, the reporter was more interested in the wine at dinner than the security product he wasn't reviewing in the Labs. Sorry, we had to make the revenue target for quarter. Hope it didn't cause you any issues.
Agreed!
Lightning is a hack. Without free/busy shared calender support, it is useless for scheduling meetings on Exchange.
IMAP to Exchange sucks. With 800 emails a days, Thunderbird kills the CPU on a Mac. IMAP also drags down the Exchange server.
At a minimum Thunderbird should to implement WebDAV support to Exchange like Entourage.
DOA.
In 2008. Go Omaba!
Hmmm... things that just work... My MacBook drive crashed today, when I reset it after it wouldn't wake from a sleep and I can't repair it without a OS X CD...lame! Fortunately I have a Windows machine in the house.
Symbian is a proven phone OS. OS X/Darwin/BSD isn't. Be careful what you ask for.
Apple will make the iPhone too closed and they are not thinking about the global phone market. A real Skype client for Symbian will be available any day now, which will make Nokia WiFi enabled phones like the N80 and N95 really attractive. Skype is available for OS X, but I'm sure Cingular will want to block Skype calls over WiFi. Apple has no plans VoIP and they don't even support stereo Bluetooth (A2DP). With the Nokia N95 feature set and ability to unlock, Apple has some catching up to do. Nokia N95 has EDGE, WCDMA, WiFi, Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), 5MP camera with flash, 2GB SD cards, audio player, FM radio, web browser, built-in GPS with maps, etc, etc and a real key pad. The touch screen will not provide feedback, i.e. a car wreck waiting to happen. Sorry, koolaid kiddies, Apple did not reinvent the phone, they reinvented the iPod.
When are we going to see GoogleDesktop for the Mac. Spotlight sucks.