<rant>To be very blunt, Thawte went downhill ever since VeriSign took over. I'm sure things would be different with Mark Shuttleworth still heading the company.</rant>
I also did not receive any official information from Thawte yet about this. I guess they figured we read today's Internet newspapers anyway.
Many of us Thawte WOT Notaries became CAcert ECCP Assurers during the last couple of years. While CAcert.org is a community-driven certificate authority that issues free public key certificates to the public, it still lacks inclusion of its root certificate in most popular browsers. I do however strongly think there is a need for this kind of service, as no communication is ever going to be really safe unless we all use encryption. It is way to easy to spot the important emails nowadays.
I'm must also admit that less people are interested by the technology - and WOT notaries assert less people each year - mainly due to the complexity of PKI implementations in popular email packages.
<product_placement>I hope efforts like the Comodo/DigitalPersona Privacy Manager product to make it easier for people to use PKI, revive the identity security awareness with people.</product_placement>
More info from Thawte's Wikipedia page:
Thawte Notaries have been submitting minimal information to the Gossamer Spider Web of Trust ("GSWoT"; a grass-roots OpenPGP PKI) for safe-keeping in hopes to increase the longevity of their earned trust points. The collaborative effort aims to bind Thawte Notary names and email addresses to their now-existing entry on Thawte's Web of Trust Notary Map. Thawte Notaries from within and without GSWoT are performing the validations. The initiative will bear no fruit if Thawte Notaries fail to find or create a WoT that will recognize their former status as a Thawte Web of Trust Notary. The Thawte Notary EOL List on GSWoT will die in one year's time - on November 16, 2010.
Will I buy the iPhone when it comes to Belgium? Certainly not.
I'm using the iPhone in Belgium... and it's working just fine. (at least firmware 1.0.2) It outperforms (functionality, connectivity & battery) my previous Nokia 6131 and I would certainly not want to part with it!
Are we willing to live in a state (I'm a Belgian) that enforces monitoring our Internet usage? We have clearly chosen the path to take in the last elections (10 June 2007). We didn't vote for communism, hell we didn't even chose for those poor socialist anymore. We choose freedom, liberty, the right to choose...
Let the movie industry go after the copyright infringers, but not at the expense of all people. We do still have rights, it's time we started to remember that!
What you're saying is just plain wrong. It's not because you have nothing to hide, someone has the right to snoop through your unencrypted traffic. Privacy is a primary right of every individual (at least in Europe), encrypting ALL traffic will improve the security of people/businesses that need to hide something. Now an encrypted connection stands out; real secure data should be lost in the bulk of encrypted data. It is your RIGHT to not be monitored. You are INNOCENT of any crime (digital or otherwise) until proven otherwise.
And yet again I'm ashamed being Belgian, luckily I can still be proud being Flemish (Dutch speaking Belgian).
I have serious doubts with these procedings, and question the views of the court's expert on this case. I'm not surprized at all this is happening in Belgium, only worried for what has become possible in this small European country...
I agree with Google's response removing all links to the French & German press in Belgium. Google should tread careful now, because the same court may force them to re-list them now. Weird how the world turns sometimes...
For me personally the removal of "the other" press from Google has no effect. French-speaking media targets another audience, runs different stories and forms quite opposite opinions than the Dutch-speaking one. The latter also being removed from Google News (on request), the Google News page doesn't make sense anymore in Belgium and could as well be stopped entirely. Complete waste of CPU cycles. For Dutch news I use the Netherlands' page, for French the one for France.
Spy++ (comes with Visual Studio and probably other packages) should be able to list the window, even after it disappears and trace it to the owning process. Used it many times to find information about "rogue" dialogs.
Don't the big artists have their own label and take the ITMS $0.70 entirely? Why don't musicians revolt and throw the big four (Universal, SonyBMG, Warner, EMI) out?
slashdor.org: This domain may be for sale by its owner!
Does this practise actually free you from being a domainsquatter? No openly saying you are selling the domain, but saying you 'might" consider selling it? In the long run, I guess we need to have a service detecting the typos, at one point it will be an extension to Firefox... anyone?
PS: I'm a squatter too I guess, owning startrek.org. But I'm not earning a buck with that site (giving away free webmail), and Paramount already has all the other extensions.
I keep saying "I wish we could use Gmail for our business email without having an @gmail.com in there."
You can actually do this today already. The only thing you need is an e-mail forwarding service for you own domainname. You first forward you@domain.com to you@gmail.com, then goto you gmail account settings. Under the option "accounts" (not available in all languages, but US English will do) you add the email address you@domain.com and make it the default for sending new mail (after account verification).
I'm Flemish and I hear about it first on Slashdot. Do you really think this is news? For nerds or other human spieces?
The rant about VB has gone on now for decades, quite frankly we're al fed up about it. Actually, the fine will earn VB those extra few votes they need to gain executive power. The other Flemish politicians are shooting themselves constantly in the foot. And the media (now including Slashdot) are giving them a helping hand!
Google shouldn't blur anything... or blur everything. Why would these Indian government buildings be more precious then my company's or my own home? What's next? Paying Google to blur areas as you see fit? Again, governments and companies are the only ones that can afford this. Ofcourse the intelligence community can buy these coordinates at a premium from their local Google store. Keeps them from spending time searching Google Earth from the blurs.
PS: I never agreed someone to take pictures from my home, by sattelite or other means. Next time someone flies over, think twice when you notice the SA-15 Gauntlet SAM battery in the backyard! (You can buy everything in Russia, didn't you know?)
This must be one of the worst tools ever experienced. First it's kind of a CPU whore; goes on being nothing more then a white page, finally crashes IE... Maybe I should try from within Firefox:-)
To remove the ActiveX: delete the "Measurement Services Client v3.7" file from "C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files".
Definition: An annual computer entertainment and videogame trade show full of busty booth babes, insanely load music, and plenty of games to play until your thumbs bleed. Good fun but hard work for game journalists.
Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. In 1853 the founders purchased a 379-acre tract of land on the shore of Lake Michigan 12 miles north of Chicago. They established a campus and developed the land near it, naming the surrounding town Evanston in honor of one of the University's founders, John Evans. After completing its first building in 1855, Northwestern began classes that fall with two faculty members and 10 students.
I'm a 29 year old (white male) security consultant. My company works for DHS/TSA. I always fly business class between the old continent and the US. Always extra carry-on inspection; always patted down before boarding the aircraft.
Random: bull*!
Slashdot Mirror
I'm a WOT Notary myself since 2002.
<rant>To be very blunt, Thawte went downhill ever since VeriSign took over. I'm sure things would be different with Mark Shuttleworth still heading the company.</rant>
I also did not receive any official information from Thawte yet about this. I guess they figured we read today's Internet newspapers anyway.
Many of us Thawte WOT Notaries became CAcert ECCP Assurers during the last couple of years. While CAcert.org is a community-driven certificate authority that issues free public key certificates to the public, it still lacks inclusion of its root certificate in most popular browsers. I do however strongly think there is a need for this kind of service, as no communication is ever going to be really safe unless we all use encryption. It is way to easy to spot the important emails nowadays.
I'm must also admit that less people are interested by the technology - and WOT notaries assert less people each year - mainly due to the complexity of PKI implementations in popular email packages.
<product_placement>I hope efforts like the Comodo/DigitalPersona Privacy Manager product to make it easier for people to use PKI, revive the identity security awareness with people.</product_placement>
More info from Thawte's Wikipedia page:
Thawte Notaries have been submitting minimal information to the Gossamer Spider Web of Trust ("GSWoT"; a grass-roots OpenPGP PKI) for safe-keeping in hopes to increase the longevity of their earned trust points. The collaborative effort aims to bind Thawte Notary names and email addresses to their now-existing entry on Thawte's Web of Trust Notary Map. Thawte Notaries from within and without GSWoT are performing the validations. The initiative will bear no fruit if Thawte Notaries fail to find or create a WoT that will recognize their former status as a Thawte Web of Trust Notary. The Thawte Notary EOL List on GSWoT will die in one year's time - on November 16, 2010.
Will I buy the iPhone when it comes to Belgium? Certainly not.
I'm using the iPhone in Belgium... and it's working just fine. (at least firmware 1.0.2) It outperforms (functionality, connectivity & battery) my previous Nokia 6131 and I would certainly not want to part with it!
There is an even bigger issue here:
Are we willing to live in a state (I'm a Belgian) that enforces monitoring our Internet usage? We have clearly chosen the path to take in the last elections (10 June 2007). We didn't vote for communism, hell we didn't even chose for those poor socialist anymore. We choose freedom, liberty, the right to choose...
Let the movie industry go after the copyright infringers, but not at the expense of all people. We do still have rights, it's time we started to remember that!
What you're saying is just plain wrong. It's not because you have nothing to hide, someone has the right to snoop through your unencrypted traffic. Privacy is a primary right of every individual (at least in Europe), encrypting ALL traffic will improve the security of people/businesses that need to hide something. Now an encrypted connection stands out; real secure data should be lost in the bulk of encrypted data. It is your RIGHT to not be monitored. You are INNOCENT of any crime (digital or otherwise) until proven otherwise.
And yet again I'm ashamed being Belgian, luckily I can still be proud being Flemish (Dutch speaking Belgian).
I have serious doubts with these procedings, and question the views of the court's expert on this case. I'm not surprized at all this is happening in Belgium, only worried for what has become possible in this small European country...
I agree with Google's response removing all links to the French & German press in Belgium. Google should tread careful now, because the same court may force them to re-list them now. Weird how the world turns sometimes...
For me personally the removal of "the other" press from Google has no effect. French-speaking media targets another audience, runs different stories and forms quite opposite opinions than the Dutch-speaking one. The latter also being removed from Google News (on request), the Google News page doesn't make sense anymore in Belgium and could as well be stopped entirely. Complete waste of CPU cycles. For Dutch news I use the Netherlands' page, for French the one for France.
my 0.02
MirrorDot - Solving the Slashdot Effect:0 12b347741f14cf2/index.html
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/8683271eb1a7b9c4
Spy++ (comes with Visual Studio and probably other packages) should be able to list the window, even after it disappears and trace it to the owning process. Used it many times to find information about "rogue" dialogs.
Don't the big artists have their own label and take the ITMS $0.70 entirely? Why don't musicians revolt and throw the big four (Universal, SonyBMG, Warner, EMI) out?
Mono runs on a real OS, no? Oh yeah, but then it's not real .NET, is it?
slashdor.org: This domain may be for sale by its owner! Does this practise actually free you from being a domainsquatter? No openly saying you are selling the domain, but saying you 'might" consider selling it? In the long run, I guess we need to have a service detecting the typos, at one point it will be an extension to Firefox... anyone? PS: I'm a squatter too I guess, owning startrek.org. But I'm not earning a buck with that site (giving away free webmail), and Paramount already has all the other extensions.
If you joke about it, please do so with knowledge (or lookup correct naming!).
:-)
The UAV used by the US Air Force is called Predator .
And if the technology is Russian, you don't shave, the technology shaves you: A4 Vision
How else can you still RTFA?
c 58ef2009982/index.html
http://mirrordot.org/stories/7557de839a5ddfdc3c7c
I keep saying "I wish we could use Gmail for our business email without having an @gmail.com in there."
You can actually do this today already. The only thing you need is an e-mail forwarding service for you own domainname. You first forward you@domain.com to you@gmail.com, then goto you gmail account settings. Under the option "accounts" (not available in all languages, but US English will do) you add the email address you@domain.com and make it the default for sending new mail (after account verification).
Technical Explanation (Wikipedia says this doesn't exist anymore :) )
w ww.cryptonym.com/hottopics/msft-nsa/msft-nsa.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20000302035403/http://
I briefly browsed around the browser's website, and was please to see it still holds an archive of most Netscape releases since 4.7x
j sp
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/archive.
I'm Flemish and I hear about it first on Slashdot. Do you really think this is news? For nerds or other human spieces?
The rant about VB has gone on now for decades, quite frankly we're al fed up about it. Actually, the fine will earn VB those extra few votes they need to gain executive power. The other Flemish politicians are shooting themselves constantly in the foot. And the media (now including Slashdot) are giving them a helping hand!
BTW: I never voted VB, yet.
Google shouldn't blur anything... or blur everything. Why would these Indian government buildings be more precious then my company's or my own home? What's next? Paying Google to blur areas as you see fit? Again, governments and companies are the only ones that can afford this. Ofcourse the intelligence community can buy these coordinates at a premium from their local Google store. Keeps them from spending time searching Google Earth from the blurs. PS: I never agreed someone to take pictures from my home, by sattelite or other means. Next time someone flies over, think twice when you notice the SA-15 Gauntlet SAM battery in the backyard! (You can buy everything in Russia, didn't you know?)
If the kid doesn't have the money, neither his/her parents, you don't have a car anymore! Try to avoid accidents at ALL cost!!!
This must be one of the worst tools ever experienced. First it's kind of a CPU whore; goes on being nothing more then a white page, finally crashes IE... Maybe I should try from within Firefox :-)
To remove the ActiveX: delete the "Measurement Services Client v3.7" file from "C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files".
The E3 definition found on the net exactly matches the concerns voiced in the article. The article is stating the obvious.
Definition: An annual computer entertainment and videogame trade show full of busty booth babes, insanely load music, and plenty of games to play until your thumbs bleed. Good fun but hard work for game journalists.
For all non-US readers, form deep down in their website:
(http://www.northwestern.edu/
Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. In 1853 the founders purchased a 379-acre tract of land on the shore of Lake Michigan 12 miles north of Chicago. They established a campus and developed the land near it, naming the surrounding town Evanston in honor of one of the University's founders, John Evans. After completing its first building in 1855, Northwestern began classes that fall with two faculty members and 10 students.
More on http://www.northwestern.edu/about/facts/
I'm a 29 year old (white male) security consultant. My company works for DHS/TSA. I always fly business class between the old continent and the US. Always extra carry-on inspection; always patted down before boarding the aircraft. Random: bull*!
Are you sure it wasn't the following?
Confirmation Dialogue
Do you really wish to buy $251 million worth of SCOX?
[OK] [CANCEL]
When do they start pushing this security updates to me? Or manage to inform me when I first open my browser, not when I browse to the /. website??