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  1. Re:Sounds great! on USB 'Dead Drops' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    kudos to the person who will find them all and format to ext4 file system.

  2. Re:Cool on USB 'Dead Drops' · · Score: 3, Funny

    But then a taxi came by and said 'hey, a free passerby'.
    I invite continuation

  3. Re:Steve Jobs laughs derisively on Intel, Toshiba, Samsung To Form Chip Alliance · · Score: 1

    They should throw in a software company for a more potent mixture.

  4. Re:Remind me on How Not To Design a Protocol · · Score: 1

    Having the "Herding Firesheep" story fresh in my mind, I meant the wifi vulnerability. :)
    After reading the blog post I would guess /. uses (insecure) httponly cookies, but that the cookie settings of each individual account is what determines whether the cookie wifi spy tools can obtain will be useful.

  5. Remind me on How Not To Design a Protocol · · Score: 1

    Are slashdot accounts with auto-login also vulnerable?

  6. Re:From TFA: "my fly had been wide open" on Herding Firesheep In NYC — Do Users Care? · · Score: 1

    What they don't want you to know is that Firesheep is Starbuck's latest marketing tool, aimed at attracting geeks to their coffee shops.

  7. Re:Some people don't care on Herding Firesheep In NYC — Do Users Care? · · Score: 1

    We are only allowed to see the second message he send to his victims, but from the imprecise language in that it is clear that he does not want them to shut down right away. A better message would have included the words "hacking" and "open access wireless". Gary then wants us to belive that on the way home he thought up some conclusion about ordinary people being sluggish about security, when he in fact was very sluggish in the way he explained the threat to his victims.

  8. Re:Some people don't care on Herding Firesheep In NYC — Do Users Care? · · Score: 1

    It is not as simple as locking the doors though. The site he forwarded the victims to does not even explain the VPN abbreviation.

  9. Re:This game will suck. on Diablo 3 Hands-On · · Score: 1

    Will it be possible to make macros/helper-programs/addons/mods as it is for WoW? If so, that might alleviate some clicking