The Doctor: You know, since we're talking with mouths, not really an opportunity that comes along very often, I just want to say, you know, you have never been very reliable.
Idris: And you have?
The Doctor: You didn't always take me where I wanted to go.
Idris: No, but I always took you where you needed to go.
We use Lync (well, formerly known as Lync, now re branded as Skype for Business) for our work IM system
The server is constantly locking up/dumping connections and just generally feels quite unreliable... It seems that it's gotten worse ever since they re branded as Skype I don't actually know if that's just my imagination.
Still at least it's not full of ads like a lot of the free IM clients like Yahoo and AIM etc... (yes I know about Pidgin, but there are such serious issues in the LibPurple library I don't know as it's a really good choice)
Ok, so I read the article and my collegues and I use 7-zip quite a bit - so I am trying to figure out if the vulnerability was addressed in the latest release
I see the article was posted on the 11th, and 7-zip's latest builds seems to be v 16.0 which was published on 5/10... but looking at the 7-zip fix history:
All I see is that "some bugs were fixed" - this does not fill me with confidence.
So, I'm just trying to decide if the may 10 update and May 11 release is enough circumstantial evidence to say "ahh v16 fixes this so just update and we're good (assuming we don't have any other tools that bake in vulnerable past 7-zip sdk builds)
My guess is that updating to 16.0 will likely fix this in my directly installed copy of 7-zip.... though I don't like going on hope and circumstantial evidence.
Back when my phone was still reporting it was vulnerable, I took the step of disabling auto downloading of multimedia messages as it was the only way to be sure (Nuke it from Orbit)
I only turned that back on after my phone passed all the known tests... At this point, It's not worth the risk - this whole StageFright thing seems to be just fundamentally bad, so I'm leaving the Auto Download off.
I never once got a multimedia message from someone who wasn't already known to me, but I figure that the slight inconvenience of deciding to download or not is worth the security benefit.
Indeed - if they ever made me use their modem/router, I'd take off the antennas and wrap it in tinfoil... then put in my own router as if it were "my pc" - double NAT would suck but it'd keep the "free access point" from working.
Well, except for the part where we're destroying huge swaths of forests/rain forests and that acidification of the ocean is killing off huge amours of the algae that would normally yum up some extra CO2
Windows XP is now a year and a half past its "completely out of support even for extended support for really big customers who paid us extra for it"... and yet I still regularly run into customers (I do Developer Support for an SDK) who are still stuck using Windows XP because their organization is too cheap to upgrade and/or they feel that XP still works for them.
For many, XP is very much "ain't broke, don't fix it" though from a security standpoint - YES, YES IT IS BROKE - VERY BROKE - DO NOT WANT.
It seems to me that when you're planning to blow yourself up anyway - you're probably not that worried about getting caught after the fact, and there's so much traffic going around that open communications especially if using a simple codewords for obvious trigger phrases (so say "flowers' instead of "bombs" etc...) and very likely the best the intelligence folks will do is read your comms after you've succeeded and have gone to meet your 72 Virgins....
Yeah, my thought exactly -... Guess I need a more Faraday Cage-y Faraday Cage... hmm here's some tinfoil in my kitchen cupboard... that should do nicely....
In all seriousness though yes. I feel like in retrospect, Orwell was an optimist.
Did I miss something? the part where planes are dropping out of the air left and right due to someone's iPhone in the hold?
I think it's one thing to talk about say... shipping a palate or two of LiON batteries in the hold of a passenger airliner? sure, ban it, but I think this is a serious over-reaction to a problem that really is not exactly the most pressing thing threatening us today.
Oh gods please, no... I use Salesforce extensively every day... my company was a small company that got bought by a bigger one - the bigger parent company wanted to push us to Microsoft CRM but we convinced them to leave us alone - we had so many customizations and neat uses of their API that switching would have bene a pain.
Our parent company just announced they were being bought by a bigger company and the bigger company is a Salesforce user - the sales and support people audibly CHEERED at the prospect of getting away from MS CRM and back to SalesForce... and I can see why.
If MS buys it, first it gets re-branded as MS CloudCRM or whatever then they just pillage and destroy it over the long haul and we end up back on MS CRM after they slowly ruin it over a couple years..
I know that's speculation, but DAMNIT, Salesforce is worlds better than MS CRM and I can't think they're buying to do anything other than gobble up a competitor.
Add me as a "me too" - I wanted to just use this name as it's my "Nome de net"... but I ended up making a completely fake account with a 'real sounding name" just so I could use Hangout with some co-workers as our informal "virtual office"
Yeah, I could use my real name, but I wanted to keep any activity strictly not-directly-officially-tied to me or my employer... they've got a social media policy which I just would rather avoid by using a pseudonym.
Ok, so, they want to censor, the best response is for them to feel a strong, immediate Streisand Effect.
I have no interest in tormenting or torrent sites in general, but since they're attempting to silence it, I now really want to know what domain(s) they're trying to cover up.
That's why the browser I use for regular surfing doesn't have Flash, Java, Shockwave, or Silverlight.. and I browse with all scripting turned off and only enable the scripting needed to make the page work IF I trust the site.
If I run into content I want - Netflix, a Youtube video, or some other similar thing, I switch to Chrome where I have those installed.
I really used to look forward to the latest Mac vs PC commercial.... I really didn't change my opinions or buy based on them, but I liked the commercials - they were funny.
That was actual, interesting television that happened to be an Advertisement - but usually I just block them out (skip over them on my TiVo / ff on my Comcast DVR
My biggest interest (once we've determined taht it's not the end of life/technology as we know it) is to determine if we're in for lower latitude Aurora Borealis.
Back when I lived in MA, there was one particularly big CME maybe around 2004-ish (could be +- 1 year) and I remember how beautify the sky was... I actually gasped audibly when I first noticed it.
I'm likely way too far South to see them this time, but I do wonder if some parts of the US won't get a pretty show.
I have quietly suffered a great number of infringements on my privacy, but I draw the line here.
My driving record shows 26+ years with only one ticket ever (and that was 20 years ago, for being 15mph over the limit) and never an accident or claim except for when a tree limb broke my windshield.
There are plenty of insurers our there who would LOVE to have my business as I'm certainly paying in more than they're ever likely to have to pay out for me, thanks.
How is it possible for a person to simply disappear and have their whereabouts listed as "known to law enforcement".
IANAL, but it seems to me that someone with standing should file a writ of Habeas corpus because people should not just disappear like this in a first world country.
I've been very put off by Windows 8, but I kept finding that I needed to support it and test against it so I took the plunge and got a Surface Pro 3 - it's really quite a nice machine. Windows 8 is bearable when using this as a tablet (though I use Classic Shell to put back a real start menu and have disabled that horrid ribbon UI on Windows Explorer)
So far, it's fitting a nice niche: ultra portable small notebook that can work quite well as a tablet and with enough battery life that I can walk away from my desk but have access to my business critical apps.
Visual Studio runs well on it and I can test/troubleshoot win 8 apps.
Basically, it's failing to suck... at least for what I'm using it for. That's pretty high praise from me since I have been such a hater of Win 8... this hardware actually makes it tolerable.
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The Doctor: You know, since we're talking with mouths, not really an opportunity that comes along very often, I just want to say, you know, you have never been very reliable.
Idris: And you have?
The Doctor: You didn't always take me where I wanted to go.
Idris: No, but I always took you where you needed to go.
The Doctor: You did!
PRECISELY!
We use Lync (well, formerly known as Lync, now re branded as Skype for Business) for our work IM system
The server is constantly locking up /dumping connections and just generally feels quite unreliable... It seems that it's gotten worse ever since they re branded as Skype I don't actually know if that's just my imagination.
Still at least it's not full of ads like a lot of the free IM clients like Yahoo and AIM etc... (yes I know about Pidgin, but there are such serious issues in the LibPurple library I don't know as it's a really good choice)
For folks who aren't terribly computer savvy (So.. theoretically not Slashdot)
Go get "Never 10" freeware from GRC... it uses the officially Microsoft sanctioned means of permanently disabling the whole "Get Windows 10" stuff
https://www.grc.com/never10.ht...
This is a good option for "mom support"
For those willing to muck about in the registry:
Open Regedit, navigate to the following key.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
Important: If that key doesn't exist, you'll need to create it.
Create a DWORD value called DisableOSUpgrade and set it to 1
There's also a good quick and dirty:
http://www.windowsmechanic.com...
Ok, so I read the article and my collegues and I use 7-zip quite a bit - so I am trying to figure out if the vulnerability was addressed in the latest release
I see the article was posted on the 11th, and 7-zip's latest builds seems to be v 16.0 which was published on 5/10 ... but looking at the 7-zip fix history:
http://www.7-zip.org/history.t...
All I see is that "some bugs were fixed" - this does not fill me with confidence.
So, I'm just trying to decide if the may 10 update and May 11 release is enough circumstantial evidence to say "ahh v16 fixes this so just update and we're good (assuming we don't have any other tools that bake in vulnerable past 7-zip sdk builds)
My guess is that updating to 16.0 will likely fix this in my directly installed copy of 7-zip.... though I don't like going on hope and circumstantial evidence.
I don't want it even when it is free.. what on Earth makes them think I'm going to be willing to pay them for it later?
because seriously - the only windows 10 I am going to use is a VM I need to test customer windows 10 specific issues...
Back when my phone was still reporting it was vulnerable, I took the step of disabling auto downloading of multimedia messages as it was the only way to be sure (Nuke it from Orbit)
I only turned that back on after my phone passed all the known tests... At this point, It's not worth the risk - this whole StageFright thing seems to be just fundamentally bad, so I'm leaving the Auto Download off.
I never once got a multimedia message from someone who wasn't already known to me, but I figure that the slight inconvenience of deciding to download or not is worth the security benefit.
"""Well, when is the last time you voted "for" a politician? """
Today. I voted FOR Bernie today... first time in years.
Thanks... good to know. I really need to get off OpenSSL - go with one of the leaner distributions... we all do.
Indeed - if they ever made me use their modem/router, I'd take off the antennas and wrap it in tinfoil... then put in my own router as if it were "my pc" - double NAT would suck but it'd keep the "free access point" from working.
Well, except for the part where we're destroying huge swaths of forests /rain forests and that acidification of the ocean is killing off huge amours of the algae that would normally yum up some extra CO2
S, yes, as a matter of fact, CO2 IS a problem
Windows XP is now a year and a half past its "completely out of support even for extended support for really big customers who paid us extra for it" ... and yet I still regularly run into customers (I do Developer Support for an SDK) who are still stuck using Windows XP because their organization is too cheap to upgrade and/or they feel that XP still works for them.
For many, XP is very much "ain't broke, don't fix it" though from a security standpoint - YES, YES IT IS BROKE - VERY BROKE - DO NOT WANT.
It seems to me that when you're planning to blow yourself up anyway - you're probably not that worried about getting caught after the fact, and there's so much traffic going around that open communications especially if using a simple codewords for obvious trigger phrases (so say "flowers' instead of "bombs" etc...) and very likely the best the intelligence folks will do is read your comms after you've succeeded and have gone to meet your 72 Virgins....
Yeah, my thought exactly - ... Guess I need a more Faraday Cage-y Faraday Cage ... hmm here's some tinfoil in my kitchen cupboard... that should do nicely....
In all seriousness though yes. I feel like in retrospect, Orwell was an optimist.
Did I miss something? the part where planes are dropping out of the air left and right due to someone's iPhone in the hold?
I think it's one thing to talk about say... shipping a palate or two of LiON batteries in the hold of a passenger airliner? sure, ban it, but I think this is a serious over-reaction to a problem that really is not exactly the most pressing thing threatening us today.
Oh gods please, no... I use Salesforce extensively every day... my company was a small company that got bought by a bigger one - the bigger parent company wanted to push us to Microsoft CRM but we convinced them to leave us alone - we had so many customizations and neat uses of their API that switching would have bene a pain.
Our parent company just announced they were being bought by a bigger company and the bigger company is a Salesforce user - the sales and support people audibly CHEERED at the prospect of getting away from MS CRM and back to SalesForce... and I can see why.
If MS buys it, first it gets re-branded as MS CloudCRM or whatever then they just pillage and destroy it over the long haul and we end up back on MS CRM after they slowly ruin it over a couple years..
I know that's speculation, but DAMNIT, Salesforce is worlds better than MS CRM and I can't think they're buying to do anything other than gobble up a competitor.
Add me as a "me too" - I wanted to just use this name as it's my "Nome de net"... but I ended up making a completely fake account with a 'real sounding name" just so I could use Hangout with some co-workers as our informal "virtual office"
Yeah, I could use my real name, but I wanted to keep any activity strictly not-directly-officially-tied to me or my employer... they've got a social media policy which I just would rather avoid by using a pseudonym.
Ok, so, they want to censor, the best response is for them to feel a strong, immediate Streisand Effect.
I have no interest in tormenting or torrent sites in general, but since they're attempting to silence it, I now really want to know what domain(s) they're trying to cover up.
That may just have been the bestest thing I ever read this week. thank you!
~pinky to lips~
every time you encrypt a file, I will kill a kitten~
Muwhaa haha hahaaaaaaa!!!
I totally agree...
That's why the browser I use for regular surfing doesn't have Flash, Java, Shockwave, or Silverlight.. and I browse with all scripting turned off and only enable the scripting needed to make the page work IF I trust the site.
If I run into content I want - Netflix, a Youtube video, or some other similar thing, I switch to Chrome where I have those installed.
I really used to look forward to the latest Mac vs PC commercial.... I really didn't change my opinions or buy based on them, but I liked the commercials - they were funny.
Also, there was that one for a car company ... Cog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
That was actual, interesting television that happened to be an Advertisement - but usually I just block them out (skip over them on my TiVo / ff on my Comcast DVR
My biggest interest (once we've determined taht it's not the end of life/technology as we know it) is to determine if we're in for lower latitude Aurora Borealis.
Back when I lived in MA, there was one particularly big CME maybe around 2004-ish (could be +- 1 year) and I remember how beautify the sky was... I actually gasped audibly when I first noticed it.
I'm likely way too far South to see them this time, but I do wonder if some parts of the US won't get a pretty show.
Simply put, NO, I will not do this.
I have quietly suffered a great number of infringements on my privacy, but I draw the line here.
My driving record shows 26+ years with only one ticket ever (and that was 20 years ago, for being 15mph over the limit) and never an accident or claim except for when a tree limb broke my windshield.
There are plenty of insurers our there who would LOVE to have my business as I'm certainly paying in more than they're ever likely to have to pay out for me, thanks.
Seriously, where is he now?
How is it possible for a person to simply disappear and have their whereabouts listed as "known to law enforcement".
IANAL, but it seems to me that someone with standing should file a writ of Habeas corpus because people should not just disappear like this in a first world country.
I've been very put off by Windows 8, but I kept finding that I needed to support it and test against it so I took the plunge and got a Surface Pro 3 - it's really quite a nice machine. Windows 8 is bearable when using this as a tablet (though I use Classic Shell to put back a real start menu and have disabled that horrid ribbon UI on Windows Explorer)
So far, it's fitting a nice niche: ultra portable small notebook that can work quite well as a tablet and with enough battery life that I can walk away from my desk but have access to my business critical apps.
Visual Studio runs well on it and I can test/troubleshoot win 8 apps.
Basically, it's failing to suck... at least for what I'm using it for. That's pretty high praise from me since I have been such a hater of Win 8... this hardware actually makes it tolerable.