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  1. Re:you have got to be kiddinbg me on How Citigroup Hackers Easily Gained Access · · Score: 1

    Yes, *most* banks will, but the big ones (citi, BoA, HSBC etc) usually have their own. Of them the Chinese one appears to have the best security based o what I've seen.

  2. Re:Huh.. on LulzSec Hacks the US Senate · · Score: 1

    trying to figure out why there were all these unexplained logins from the wan.

  3. Re:My question. on Ask Amir Taaki About Bitcoin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wish I had mod point. Seriously, this bitcoin spam is getting really old.

  4. Re:Structured data makes this easier on Federally-Mandated Medical Coding Gums Up IT Ops · · Score: 1

    simple, run date check, add a leading zero if before set date. If data is modified prompt for new code before saving. Not all old data will have enough information to be moved to the new system but this makes migration pretty simple. Only thing left is correlate old and new code categories which is probably tedious, but should be pretty straight forward.

  5. Re:Hey, we're learning from the market leaders! on Chinese Spying Devices Installed On Hong Kong Cars · · Score: 1

    yep, and if it is that they want to allot it based on particular road usage just get anonymous cellular tower use data and allot it proportionally. The privacy issue is somewhat moot now though, as they can already track you without something specifically installed in your car between cellular gps and high speed cameras (which they are already using instead of toll booths in south florida: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/02/20/cash-less-tolls-have-begun-on-the-florida-turnpike/

  6. real websites use content management systems on Ask Slashdot: Web Site Editing Software For the Long Haul? · · Score: 1

    First, use a cms. You are killing me inside using tools that are essentially 90s technology. Second, edit the cms templates (on a mac) with smultron or if you prefer use Coda. On windows use notepad++

  7. security nightmare on Google's Android Ambitions Go Beyond Mobile · · Score: 1

    Let me be the first to say it: this is a security nightmare waiting to happen.

  8. Re:Can't they tie them down? on Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is that they *can* interlock. Most of these are intermodal shipping containers and have the ability to bolt together with a twist interlock. Unfortunately to save labor and shipping time, the companies moving them often don't bother to put the twist locks in and rely on gravity instead, which works... mostly. This isn't just the cargo shipping business not locking things down either. I've heard tale of freight train operators doing the same thing, which is a scary thought that I'm sure nobody would ever admit to unless they got caught.

  9. Re:Volatility on Friday's Big Swings, Mostly Down, Illustrate Bitcoin Value Volatility · · Score: 1

    ...who got the wrong side of the ladder up their as$...

    Is there a right side of the ladder to get up your ass?

  10. umm... on Computer Glitch Friday Grounded US Airways Flights · · Score: 2, Interesting

    that sucks. No backup paper system in place? Can't they just read what the tickets say such as flight and seat number? They know where the flights are going as most are routine. It seems they should have been able to get *some* flights in the air.

  11. Re:Cool on Siemens Fixes SCADA Flaws · · Score: 1

    This isn't their first opportunity. They've had since May at the least: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/5/prweb8458069.htm

  12. Re:It's pretty simple on State of Alaska Prints Out Palin's E-Mails; Online Distribution 'Impractical' · · Score: 1

    gotta keep the loggers employed.

  13. Re:Phonebook websites on European Pirates Arrested in Massive Police Operation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But you aren't arresting the people using the phone book, you are arresting the people making the phone book. Even if the phone book could potentially be used for bad things, it is the right of the publisher (at least in the U.S.) to make it. It is called free speech. There is a crap ton of print material out there from fringe groups that isn't stopped on this premise, much of it far more dangerous about how to commit crimes and blow stuff up and make dangerous drugs, but we don't arrest the people printing those. We might "ban" the books, but the authors are protected since they claim it is "for entertainment" or "educational." Why isn't the same true for websites cataloguing content. Honestly it reminds me of the case of a college student paper whose editors got in trouble in the 70s because they printed a listing of abortion clinics in other states where it was legal (the state they were in it was not). Eventually the thing got thrown out - it was free speech. The entire idea of spending millions of dollars attacking websites and thought crime is ridiculous no matter how you look at it. We'll be fighting the "war on piracy" forever, just like the "war on terror" and the "war on drugs." Fighting against ideas is like tilting at windmills!

  14. Re:The gist of it on Security Service Accidentally Makes Websites 60% Faster · · Score: 1

    Seriously? For your own filtering use X-Forwarded-For (built in to apache) or mod_cloudflare. Logs and filtering are not an issue unless you are incompetent. Cloudflare also only caches static content such as css and images, so there is still a hit for the main request page that you can see in logs and filter against. As for security, use ssl. Sure, they have a solution for ssl too, but you can easily add a record and not run it through their system at all such as secure.website.com. If you are running your passwords in plain text you are screwed anyhow.

  15. Re:Custom HOSTS files can achieve the same on Security Service Accidentally Makes Websites 60% Faster · · Score: 3, Informative

    please mod the parent -1 ignorant. The anonymous solution is for clients, the article is about servers. You all lose your geek membership cards.

  16. Re:Speed up summary on Security Service Accidentally Makes Websites 60% Faster · · Score: 1

    It only helps versus a traditional CDN in the cost arena and versus some CDNs in that it provides protection against spam and hacking.

    The service works by you pointing your nameserver records to them, then use them as a dns provider. client -> dns lookup -> cloudflare Colo A

    Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy cdn by replacing some dns records with their IPs instead of yours, so unless you tell them to not use their servers for a particular record the host is sent them, they check the hosts IP, if it is known to be bad it is presented with a captcha before it can go to the site, they also check for malicious queries such as sql injection etc and deny them. If the requestor and request string are not bad the CDN grabs a copy of the website files, cache static content and pass it on to the client. The next query for the site grabs your site's headers and if unchanged passes static content on to the client from the CDN while passing dynamic content straight through from your server which speeds up the site.

  17. might be good for specialized uses on IPv6-only Hosting Won't Make Sense For Years · · Score: 1

    IPv6 only might still be good for remote servers, for backup etc. where clients don't necessarily want everyone in the world to have access anyway.

  18. Re:I say the oppsite on Microsoft and Nvidia Have Acquisition Pact · · Score: 2

    Ever heard of CAD? What about GPU assisted computing? Physicists, mathematicians, cryptographers, video editors and engineers all need powerful graphics cards, not just gamers and graphics designers.

  19. Re:KVM vs XEN on Linux 3.0 Will Have Full Xen Support · · Score: 1

    I'm not following. Are you are suggesting throwing out all NAT firewalls and connecting everything to the net to reduce the "attack surface" area? I don't know how that will work out for you, but I'm certain you will quickly "understand the threat" on your network. Sure hypothetical bugs might exist that allow this, but hypothetical bugs in quantum computing might allow it to become sentient and take over the stock exchange plunging us into the dark ages as our entire financial system crumbles. I'll take my chances.

  20. Re:Rather selfish on 'Fee-Deduction' Malware On Android Spotted In the Wild · · Score: 1

    There are phones available that come with root already accessible. Geeksphone is one example, future HTC phones will have this when they ship too.

  21. Re:Bill Stuck In Senate Plumbing on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't bet on it. He is one of the only decent senator's we've got in the U.S.

  22. Re:So That's What Slashdot Is Today on Cyanogenmod Puts Users in Control of Permissions · · Score: 1

    Fine. Tell the user why the permissions are needed. Do a get for the author's website, if it doesn't come back with a 200 ok in x number of days then don't let the app run or restrict it with a timer.

  23. Re:So That's What Slashdot Is Today on Cyanogenmod Puts Users in Control of Permissions · · Score: 1

    check for update. If update check returns a value, check internet: if no internet give privileges message. Otherwise sleep.

  24. Re:PDF slashdotted on Upscaling Retro 8-Bit Pixel Art To Vector Graphics · · Score: 1
  25. Re:i guess their computers on US Intelligence Agency to Compile Mountain of Metaphors · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh, I suspect they've had that one down for at least a couple decades. I think the issue is more along the lines of intentional obfuscation like "If things thaw any further the queen's gonna be entering the sunset years and even Lassie won't be able to find that well. I hear the winds of change are callin' Vinny to bring the misses on a fishing trip. Its going to be a fine boat ride all hook, line and 'sink-her.... hahaha'" The combination of mismatched metaphors makes it difficult for a computer to analyze the conversation effectively. While it is easy enough for the computer to flag it as suspicious it might be difficult to categorize in an automated fashion: is it about royalty, fishing, murder, weather, old television reruns or a pointless nonsense conversation?