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  1. Technical analysis on Apple Fixes Three Zero Days Used In Targeted Attack (onthewire.io) · · Score: 4, Funny
  2. Re: Better go arrest Google execs on US Unveils Charges Against KickassTorrents, Names Two More Defendants (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Agreed. With the right search terms you don't even have to click through to the resulting page, you could just copy the magnet URL directly from the search summary.

  3. Re: Privacy on Apple Patenting a Way To Collect Fingerprints, Photos of Thieves (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is that a legal opinion or a "common sense" one?
    I don't have a clue what the law is on this matter and am genuinely interested.

  4. Re: What are they talking about? on FCC Proposes 5G Cybersecurity Requirements, Asks For Industry Advice (fedscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    :-)
    At least it's not dog whistle click bait.
    And I found the thinking around how the spectrum might be divided and re-prioritised dynamically to be mildly interesting.

  5. Re: What are they talking about? on FCC Proposes 5G Cybersecurity Requirements, Asks For Industry Advice (fedscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a process. They've said they want industry to drive the standards. That requires consultation and review of responses. The document outlines a bunch of high level requirements where those are clear, and poses questions to respondents where it clearly hasn't formed a firm view.
    Basically they have thrown up parts of a straw man and are seeking input.

  6. Relevant section on FCC Proposes 5G Cybersecurity Requirements, Asks For Industry Advice (fedscoop.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    From the relevant Fed page:

    "Ââ30.8 5G Provider Cybersecurity Statement Requirements.

    (a) Statement. Each Upper Microwave Flexible Use Service licensee is required to submit to the Commission a Statement describing its network security plans and related information, which shall be signed by a senior executive within the licensee's organization with personal knowledge of the security plans and practices within the licensee's organization. The Statement must contain, at a minimum, the following elements:
    (1) Security Approach. A high-level, general description of the licensee's approach designed to safeguard the planned network's confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with respect to communications from:
    (i) A device to the licensee's network;
    (ii) One element of the licensee's network to another element on the licensee's network;
    (iii) The licensee's network to another network; and
    (iv) Device to device (with respect to telephone voice and messaging services).
    (2) Cybersecurity Coordination. A high-level, general description of the licensee's anticipated approach to assessing and mitigating cyber risk induced by the presence of multiple participants in the band. This should include the high level approach taken toward ensuring consumer network confidentiality, integrity, and availability security principles, are to be protected in each of the following use cases:
    (i) Communications between a wireless device and the licensee's network;
    (ii) Communications within and between each licensee's network;
    (iii) Communications between mobile devices that are under end-to-end control of the licensee; and
    (iv) Communications between mobile devices that are not under the end-to-end control of the licensee;
    (3) Cybersecurity Standards and Best Practices. A high-level description of relevant cybersecurity standards and practices to be employed, whether industry-recognized or related to some other identifiable approach;
    (4) Participation With Standards Bodies, Industry-Led Organizations. A description of the extent to which the licensee participates with standards bodies or industry-led organizations pursuing the development or maintenance of emerging security standards and/or best practices;
    (5) Other Security Approaches. The high-level identification of any other approaches to security, unique to the services and devices the licensee intends to offer and deploy; and
    (6) Plans With Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations. Plans to incorporate relevant outputs from Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations (ISAOs) as elements of the licensee's security architecture. Plans should include comment on machine-to-machine threat information sharing, and any use of anticipated standards for ISAO-based information sharing.
    (b) Timing. Each Upper Microwave Flexible Use Service licensee shall submit this Statement to the Commission within three years after grant of the license, but no later than six months prior to deployment.
    (c) Definitions. The following definitions apply to this section:
    (i) Confidentiality. The protection of data from unauthorized access and disclosure, both while at rest and in transit.
    (ii) Integrity. The protection against the unauthorized modification or destruction of information.
    (iii) Availability. The accessibility and usability of a network upon demand."

  7. Whoops. Forgot a key factor:

    (PeckingOrderPosition(defendant) - PeckingOrderPosituon(judge))

    where PeckingOrderPosition is zero based (lowest position).

  8. Rate_of_return = f( sum(legal_and_tech _buzzwords) x (networth(judge) - lifetimeincome(judge)) x sum(networth(plaintiffs)) )

  9. Mission accomplished on Activists Call For General Strike On the Tor Network (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Fear, uncertainty and doubt sown.
    Principals divided.
    While focus and energy is diverted to the search for "truth", the real truth is that fewer people will trust their secrets to Tor as a result.
    Mission accomplished.

  10. Pretty much this.
    I've kept a Windows VM around for years to run two applications: eTax (Australian) and Visio. eTax is now web-based and Crossover/Wine supports Visio to a 95% level. It's probably time to ditch the VM.

  11. Mission accomplished on Group Wants To Shut Down Tor For a Day On September 1 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Fear, uncertainty and doubt sown.
    Principals divided.
    While focus and energy is diverted to the search for "truth", the real truth is that fewer people will trust their secrets to Tor as a result.
    Mission accomplished.

  12. Re: BBQ prior art on Flaming 'Blue Whirl' Could Be Used In Fuel Spill Cleanup (sciencenews.org) · · Score: 1

    memoir => memory

    Bloody autocorrect.

  13. BBQ prior art on Flaming 'Blue Whirl' Could Be Used In Fuel Spill Cleanup (sciencenews.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "They surrounded the blaze with a cylindrical structure that funneled air into the flame to create a vortex with a height of about 60 centimeters."

    My earliest memoir of my dad barbecuing includes him using an empty olive-oil can to create precisely the conditions described though with different fuel and resulting in a red whirl.

  14. Re:Many on Slashdot can say, "I told you so" on Cisco Patches 'ExtraBacon' Zero-day Exploit Leaked By NSA Hackers (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    "...For how long has well crafted disinformation over some time been acted on by the US without been noticed..."

    Since the first Iraq war? Earlier?

  15. Re:A little basic network security is gonna help h on Cisco Patches 'ExtraBacon' Zero-day Exploit Leaked By NSA Hackers (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    SNMP doesn't have to be exposed on a public interface just an internal one, perhaps less secured, that the black hats have already compromised.

  16. Re: Nothing but the name on New Nokia Smartphones and Tablets Are Coming in Late 2016: Company Executive (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot Digital Equipment Corp and Commodore Business Machines.

  17. Three card monte on DOJ Official Tells 100 Federal Judges To Use Tor (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "Our helpful DoJ tech will install Tor on your laptop your honour."

  18. Re: Canada gets screwed by the AGW scam on Canada's Energy Superpower Status Threatened As World Shifts Off Fossil Fuel (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "...Fossil fuels have enabled civilization to progress more in the last 150 years or so they've been in use, than in all of man's history..."

    A similar assertion could have been made for slavery. However that's not a valid reason alone to keep it.

  19. Re: Maybe they just don't like the shows? on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    So you and the parent are contending that men are too pissweak to say "honey, I'm not a huge fan of sex and the city. I'll just snuggle up next to you and watch game of thrones on my ipad", and then, having been "forced" to watch a show they didn't want to (oh, the humanity!) bother to wait till the show is done and their s.o has left the building in order to angrily (but secretly - we don't want to piss her off!) type a terrible review.

    Sheesh! How passive-aggressive can you get?

  20. You're all fucked on US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Wow. Just wow.

    Speaking as a non-American I used to believe that "America is fucked therefore Americans are fucked."
    Reading this thread however I'm now convinced that "Americans are fucked therefore America is fucked."

  21. Re: unless you're on the very young side of "teen" on Snowden Predicts Global iPhone Hack, Records Song (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    An analysis of the number and distribution of ACs posting by article type could be interesting.

  22. Re:iOS testing much? on The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More · · Score: 1

    Almost forgot.
    Try https://m.slashdot.org/ ...
    Page loads to a blank screen.

  23. iOS testing much? on The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More · · Score: 1

    Are you fucking kidding me?

    Crank up http://m.slashdot.org./ I'm not logged in. Ok, log in. Apparently I put in the wrong (saved) password. Wtf, I'll change it anyway. Reset password (reset page from desktop site with a hover asking me "mobile?", try that and what reset page?). So anyway, reset password. I'm logged in on the desktop site. Switching to mobile view. Oops. Not logged in. Try and log in. "Wrong password". On a hunch I switch back to desktop site. I'm logged in!
    Switch to mobile site. Not logged in. Switch to desktop, log off and log in - sweet. Switch to mobile - pa-pow - can't log in.

    Seriously, what the actual fuck.

  24. Re: Duh. Because God made it on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2

    "I would call you silly for anthropomorphising God"

    âoeSo God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.â
    https://www.kingjamesbibleonli...

  25. Re:Mostly because our food is shit. on CDC: Americans Getting Heavier, Average Woman Weighs As Much As 1960s Man · · Score: 2

    Correction: I believe highly processed food is more shit-coated sugar than sugar-coated shit.