For a regular password that is true for obvious reasons, but I don't believe so for security questions. Making the answer to a security question not even guessable is more secure. Those like the guy in TFA know the great majority of people answer those questions truthfully, probably based on some expectation that the info would have to survive some kind of verification. That is the most likely attack vector, read the article and that is what it says because he looked for common answers to those questions and it worked.
To the replier that said many sites won't take the same answer to more than one question, I have found that to be extremely rare. Most sites, even large bank sites, will even take a textual answer to one that asks for a number like a birth year of a parent, or a number for a favorite vacation spot.
Just a month ago I had to speak to a person in a bank security office and they took me through my security questions. The security office rep laughed when she realized what I had done, said she had never seen that done, and complimented me on my awesomeness for making their security question method many times more secure in my case.
I have a single word that I always use for security question answers. It has nothing to do with any of the questions, so in that respect should be more secure because even someone who knows me well couldn't guess answers and gain access. I don't have to surrender additional personal info on myself or others (mother's maiden name, father's birth year, etc). And I always know the answer, no forgetting.
And someone like the guy from TFA couldn't get any nude pics of me, not that he wouldn't stop at the first.
Do any owners (as in humans) of sites signing up for this personally use Web browsers to consume news and other data? Forcing acknowledgment of an ad view may increase the views per site visitor, but the number of site visitors is going to plummet. It is almost as bad as a paywall, and we have already seen how well that is working out for content owners.
I am glad some portion of the Earth population wants to try moving into space commercially. Tourism will be where the money is so it is a good way to start. Eventually the tourists will want to move to the moon and beyond.
"From now on, though, OpenOffice's development and direction will be decided by a steering committee of developers and national language project managers."
I used The Google to try to find out what that term is, as I have never heard it. Anyone know what they mean by this? How should I be credentialed to become a candidate for the steering committee?
If it isn't pulling, it should be a bulldozer beam if we're keeping the analogies straight.
I can't help but think how loud the Klingons would laugh at us if the Enterprise tried to use this, as there is no air to heat in space like the bulldozer beam needs.
according to some reports. If by chance it does dissipate to a degree that a gulf oil cleanup solution beyond what is already being done isn't necessary, I hereby claim that idea as mine and will await X Prize's communications requesting a destination US bank account.
I should clarify: ALT tags exist for many of the pictures but they aren't useful tags. One is "close". As in close the door? As in close but no cigar? Tagging a pic with "logo" doesn't tell the user what distinguishes it from other logos.
and yet they are collecting comments on establishing more standards that go beyond 508?
Most of the pics aren't tagged, the graphical navigation tabs are useless to a screen reader, and the page is full of popup javascript.
It contains an enbedded alert that may be read off by an interpreter: "Regulations.gov will undergo a scheduled maintenance outage and will be unavailable Saturday September 19, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. (ET)" Thanks for wasting time with last year's outage info.
Come on, can't government provide GOOD examples of accessible resources ESPECIALLY when gathering suggestions for how current rules and regs can be improved?
I always hate to RTFA and burst the naysayer bubbles, but "the training programs are aimed at people who already have health care or IT backgrounds -- not workers from other fields who have no previous experience or training in either discipline." As such I don't think it is dilutive in terms of IT worker salaries... they are taking people would would have been in the IT workforce and steering them to healthcare.
This isn't the old "train the janitor to develop complex systems" move from dot-com era. However the article does not seem to address the possibility of recipients of this training going overseas with the expertise.
A bread pan and some water is all you need; fill, freeze, stack, repeat until you have a house. To recycle, add heat. Freezing water hasn't been patented by Amazon yet, so do it while it is still an open technology.
If Adobe is serious, they should take the position that if Apple is not allowing Flash development for its platforms then it follows that Apple no longer wants such development platforms running on its Macs, and as long as Flash content is not supported on iPhone or iPad then ongoing support and releases will not be available for the entire Creative Suite (of which Flash is a part) on OSX as of the current release. If Apple can exclude a specific product why can't Adobe?
Wouldn't they achieve the same result by carrying game strategy guides? That way kids are actually learning to go to a library to use it for research purposes. Some may not agree that the research topic is worthwhile, but I can't believe those detractors would think video games themselves would hold more research value.
I have inherited projects and do my best to convince management that a pause is needed to document the code. Personally I try to flowchart the functionality and cover a couple of office walls with Visio printouts. Later on I can use such work to add detail and further documentation.
I inherited some code where the developer used names of girlfriends in variable names, it was just dumb and completely unprofessional. I didn't worry so much about keeping track of those, I was more worried about a change in one spot having unintended (and perhaps unknown until too late) consequences. Rather than spend time fixing problems, I thought it best to do some up-front documenting to at least provide a path to successful maintenance.
When I left the project, the manager had a binder of documentation and almost cried.
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For a regular password that is true for obvious reasons, but I don't believe so for security questions. Making the answer to a security question not even guessable is more secure. Those like the guy in TFA know the great majority of people answer those questions truthfully, probably based on some expectation that the info would have to survive some kind of verification. That is the most likely attack vector, read the article and that is what it says because he looked for common answers to those questions and it worked.
To the replier that said many sites won't take the same answer to more than one question, I have found that to be extremely rare. Most sites, even large bank sites, will even take a textual answer to one that asks for a number like a birth year of a parent, or a number for a favorite vacation spot.
Just a month ago I had to speak to a person in a bank security office and they took me through my security questions. The security office rep laughed when she realized what I had done, said she had never seen that done, and complimented me on my awesomeness for making their security question method many times more secure in my case.
I have a single word that I always use for security question answers. It has nothing to do with any of the questions, so in that respect should be more secure because even someone who knows me well couldn't guess answers and gain access. I don't have to surrender additional personal info on myself or others (mother's maiden name, father's birth year, etc). And I always know the answer, no forgetting.
And someone like the guy from TFA couldn't get any nude pics of me, not that he wouldn't stop at the first.
I just stapled a piece of orange construction paper to my wall. It never moves off orange.
Seems fair for their side, triple refund plus an apology in the Daily Mail if the victim wants it.
Do any owners (as in humans) of sites signing up for this personally use Web browsers to consume news and other data? Forcing acknowledgment of an ad view may increase the views per site visitor, but the number of site visitors is going to plummet. It is almost as bad as a paywall, and we have already seen how well that is working out for content owners.
Buy a 4:3 display for a development machine?
I am glad some portion of the Earth population wants to try moving into space commercially. Tourism will be where the money is so it is a good way to start. Eventually the tourists will want to move to the moon and beyond.
"From now on, though, OpenOffice's development and direction will be decided by a steering committee of developers and national language project managers."
I used The Google to try to find out what that term is, as I have never heard it. Anyone know what they mean by this? How should I be credentialed to become a candidate for the steering committee?
Really? The HDCP crack must feel so threatened because of Intel threatening it with the DMCA.
More like "Intel Threatens HDCP Crackers With DMCA"
If it isn't pulling, it should be a bulldozer beam if we're keeping the analogies straight.
I can't help but think how loud the Klingons would laugh at us if the Enterprise tried to use this, as there is no air to heat in space like the bulldozer beam needs.
And what the civilian/press airport "security testers" said. Will the press be brought to justice too?
Sa-weet! I'm rich!! It even has a bit of Nigerenglish in it!
according to some reports. If by chance it does dissipate to a degree that a gulf oil cleanup solution beyond what is already being done isn't necessary, I hereby claim that idea as mine and will await X Prize's communications requesting a destination US bank account.
I should clarify: ALT tags exist for many of the pictures but they aren't useful tags. One is "close". As in close the door? As in close but no cigar? Tagging a pic with "logo" doesn't tell the user what distinguishes it from other logos.
and yet they are collecting comments on establishing more standards that go beyond 508?
Most of the pics aren't tagged, the graphical navigation tabs are useless to a screen reader, and the page is full of popup javascript.
It contains an enbedded alert that may be read off by an interpreter: "Regulations.gov will undergo a scheduled maintenance outage and will be unavailable Saturday September 19, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. (ET)" Thanks for wasting time with last year's outage info.
Come on, can't government provide GOOD examples of accessible resources ESPECIALLY when gathering suggestions for how current rules and regs can be improved?
I always hate to RTFA and burst the naysayer bubbles, but "the training programs are aimed at people who already have health care or IT backgrounds -- not workers from other fields who have no previous experience or training in either discipline." As such I don't think it is dilutive in terms of IT worker salaries... they are taking people would would have been in the IT workforce and steering them to healthcare.
This isn't the old "train the janitor to develop complex systems" move from dot-com era. However the article does not seem to address the possibility of recipients of this training going overseas with the expertise.
A bread pan and some water is all you need; fill, freeze, stack, repeat until you have a house. To recycle, add heat. Freezing water hasn't been patented by Amazon yet, so do it while it is still an open technology.
Since this mistake has been present since the original iPhone, this software update will also be available for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G.
Ok, what about my 2G then you insensitive clod?
In response to calls by Russia and the UN for a "cyberwarfare arms limitation treat"
And then we can all dress up as h4x0r3z, maybe call the event Geek-o-Ween.
If Adobe is serious, they should take the position that if Apple is not allowing Flash development for its platforms then it follows that Apple no longer wants such development platforms running on its Macs, and as long as Flash content is not supported on iPhone or iPad then ongoing support and releases will not be available for the entire Creative Suite (of which Flash is a part) on OSX as of the current release. If Apple can exclude a specific product why can't Adobe?
and do a full technical bust-open of the unit before FedExing back to Apple to show they returned it in a reasonable time?
Wouldn't they achieve the same result by carrying game strategy guides? That way kids are actually learning to go to a library to use it for research purposes. Some may not agree that the research topic is worthwhile, but I can't believe those detractors would think video games themselves would hold more research value.
I'm not sure it was so smart deploying a device of that design right off the coast of the country they chose.
All webcams should have masking tape over them, uncover when expressly needed and re-cover when done. Mics too.
I have inherited projects and do my best to convince management that a pause is needed to document the code. Personally I try to flowchart the functionality and cover a couple of office walls with Visio printouts. Later on I can use such work to add detail and further documentation.
I inherited some code where the developer used names of girlfriends in variable names, it was just dumb and completely unprofessional. I didn't worry so much about keeping track of those, I was more worried about a change in one spot having unintended (and perhaps unknown until too late) consequences. Rather than spend time fixing problems, I thought it best to do some up-front documenting to at least provide a path to successful maintenance.
When I left the project, the manager had a binder of documentation and almost cried.