Huh? How would their servers have your Wi-Fi password if they were only collecting information from unprotected (as in people who don't bother to enable any form of security/password on their router) access points?
Microsoft will probably release another patch for that exploit that doesn't cause BSODs sometime in the future.:/
And unless people you don't trust have limited access accounts on your computer, you should be fine anyways, because the offending patch fixes a local privilege escalation issue, not a remote exploit.
But they already have another 802 articles to replace it. We can just give the title to 1,000,001 instead if need be.:) And if that's deleted than 1,000,002 and so on until one that they consider notable is reached.
Then enjoy being shot by the air marshall...or at least being arrested, given sex offender status for peeing in public (I'm dead serious), and have a lot of problems getting employed for the rest of your life along with your reputation being ruined.
And we should be able to see the actual edit itself in the history, unless that gets tampered with...
Which is very easy to do. MediaWiki (the wiki software Wikipedia runs) has a feature that allows privileged users to hide the contents of edits from a page's history.
And since this is/., where everyone brags about their personal machine in their basement, I hope you've never run apt-get update and still run firefox 1.x/2.x (or whatever version was around in 2003).
Firefox!? It was Phoenix/Firebird back then!
God I hope nobody still runs 0.x....
1. Arrest suspected terrorist.
2. Force a chip into his head if he does not already have one.
3. Connect the chip to a device that will show whatever you are thinking on a screen.
4. Interrogate the suspected terrorist, even if he won't talk he will likely be stupid enough to think about the answers they want.
5. ?????
6. Profit!!!!
I can't wait for the day that Congress passes a law to the effect of "If malware causes your computer to do something illegal, you will be held responsible for said illegal activities in court even if you can prove malware was the cause."
Good luck to them with that, considering that Teamprise is written in Java I believe. So I guess to strip Linux support they somehow need to change it so it CAN'T run on any operating system with a JRE, or port the code to.NET or something.
Where does it say that he was a politician? Sounds like he was just an investigator for the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents based on the article/Google.
So this worm is aimed at people are are smart enough to jailbreak an iPhone, but stupid enough not to change a default password. Sounds like a narrow band detection device.
Unfortunately, TFA claims that 26/27 people fail to RTFM and change the default password...at least in the area of the worm's author.
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...because I wasn't born yet.
Huh? How would their servers have your Wi-Fi password if they were only collecting information from unprotected (as in people who don't bother to enable any form of security/password on their router) access points?
Comcast decided to start providing Norton instead of Mcafee to its customers.
Yes, and to boot the site being down for 1 hour will give people incentive to donate thinking it'll stop it from happening again. :D
In other news, there should have been a link that said something like "Return to old Youtube" in the top right area of the page to switch things back.
Microsoft will probably release another patch for that exploit that doesn't cause BSODs sometime in the future. :/
And unless people you don't trust have limited access accounts on your computer, you should be fine anyways, because the offending patch fixes a local privilege escalation issue, not a remote exploit.
Is this wonderful screensaver. >:)
If he was applying for a job to take orders at a McDonalds. ;)
Sadly enough, they could probably pull something like that off if they say something along the lines "It will also check for Child Pornography".
Then the lawyers will be waiting wherever the Soyuz lands.
the RIAA and MPAA cant get them in SPACE!
They will just have an army of lawyers waiting at the runway for them when they come back down to earth.
Or setup AdBlockPlus to block the usual rickroll videos.
I just seriously set my clock ahead an hour...just to see if that was true. It is.
But they already have another 802 articles to replace it. We can just give the title to 1,000,001 instead if need be. :) And if that's deleted than 1,000,002 and so on until one that they consider notable is reached.
Then enjoy being shot by the air marshall...or at least being arrested, given sex offender status for peeing in public (I'm dead serious), and have a lot of problems getting employed for the rest of your life along with your reputation being ruined.
And we should be able to see the actual edit itself in the history, unless that gets tampered with...
Which is very easy to do. MediaWiki (the wiki software Wikipedia runs) has a feature that allows privileged users to hide the contents of edits from a page's history.
Wikipedia is run by the Wikimedia Foundation, which is based in the U.S, so I believe that they are bound by U.S law.
And since this is /., where everyone brags about their personal machine in their basement, I hope you've never run apt-get update and still run firefox 1.x/2.x (or whatever version was around in 2003).
Firefox!? It was Phoenix/Firebird back then! God I hope nobody still runs 0.x....
Until this happens!? :D
1. Arrest suspected terrorist.
2. Force a chip into his head if he does not already have one.
3. Connect the chip to a device that will show whatever you are thinking on a screen.
4. Interrogate the suspected terrorist, even if he won't talk he will likely be stupid enough to think about the answers they want.
5. ?????
6. Profit!!!!
(or make lawmakers force them to)
I can't wait for the day that Congress passes a law to the effect of "If malware causes your computer to do something illegal, you will be held responsible for said illegal activities in court even if you can prove malware was the cause."
Good luck to them with that, considering that Teamprise is written in Java I believe. So I guess to strip Linux support they somehow need to change it so it CAN'T run on any operating system with a JRE, or port the code to .NET or something.
No, we just need to disable Microsoft's access to run /usr/sbin/grantpatent as root in /etc/sudoers. ;)
Where does it say that he was a politician? Sounds like he was just an investigator for the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents based on the article/Google.
So this worm is aimed at people are are smart enough to jailbreak an iPhone, but stupid enough not to change a default password. Sounds like a narrow band detection device.
Unfortunately, TFA claims that 26/27 people fail to RTFM and change the default password...at least in the area of the worm's author.