http://www.despair.com/frownonthis.html DALLAS, TX - January 2nd, 2001 - In a move that has millions across the Internet community frowning, Despair, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had awarded them a registered trademark for the 'frowny' emoticon which serves as their logo.
At a press conference, Despair's COO, Dr. E.L.Kersten, announced his intentions to sue "anyone and everyone who uses the so-called 'frowny' emoticon, or our trademarked logo, in their written email correspondence. Ever."
Despair filed suit yesterday in a U.S. District Court in Dallas, alleging trademark infringement against over 7 million individual Internet users. The company has requested separate injunctions granted against each. It is believed to be the largest single trademark dispute in history.... Kersten then intoned gravely, "Let our message to trademark violators be clear. Whether you are a 4th grade nothing using your momma's AOL account, or you are Time Magazine's "Man of the Year", we are going to hunt you down, and when we do, we're really going to give you something to:-(® about."
So, if I use false pretense to gain otherwise unauthorized access to a protected resource or service, and I then delete, modify and insert data while utilizing that unauthorized access...
Easy enough to find out. If any internal memo references the mere concept of accuracy being less than perfect... then they know there will be false positives in the mix. At that point, they KNOW a percentage will be baseless.
If you run into the center lane of a 70mph freeway and get hit by a truck, you do NOT blame the truck. If you jump off a building and hit the ground, you do NOT blame the ground. They are always there, and their existence must be expected.
"...A side-by-side review comparing code contained in an upcoming version of Chrome increased the number of secure sockets layer certificates hardcoded in the browser's blacklist by 247. A comment accompanying the additions said: “Bad DigiNotar leaf certificates for non-Google sites.”
Regardless of what's happening now, some reactions were to kill distinct certs. And likely some still are.
There are indicators that the number is a lot more than just 200 certs - some speculate that there were log wipes involved, which means we can expect a very, very large number.
If that's true, it's wonderful that some browsers are blocking a bogus *.google.com cert. It'll be useless, however, if the attackers generated 50,000 OTHER *.google.com certs, along with multiple certs for world+dog.com.
As to the impact of this CA's incompetence, it's pretty evil when you consider that these people will bury you up to your arms and throw rocks at your face. 1. You use firefox, and have addons. 2. I hijack addons.mozilla.org. 3. You fire up firefox, which dutifully checks for updates.
If you simply missed those two extra words when you first read them, then no harm done. But if you don't comprehend why those two extra words are significant... then you really need to not have an opinion on this topic.
...but what sort of insanity could convince HP that they are a software company?
You are SO out to lunch. Honest, the answer is simple.
Both the Android and Apple phone and tablet markets each have a glaring lack of apps that sit in the system tray and preempt whatever you're doing with pop-ups about ink and print jobs.
HP's issue really started with the destruction of their R&D. Remember the days when you'd walk into a lab, and all the nice freq counters and 'scopes and muxers all had HP stickers on em?
Right or wrong, they dropped that stuff like a bad habit and eradicated any aspect of HP's "think tank" culture. Granted, I'm certain that all five of their high-tech customers have missed them - but that signaled the shift toward The Cult of Printer Ink.
For sure. The only way this'd see any enterprise penetration would be with a local license server - you know, like the one we got rid of when NT4 went out of vogue.
If not, all I can say is... FFS, hasn't anyone learned from the Sonicwall stupidity?
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Of course it is. Anything a my six year old nephew can click-through should be completely binding.
http://www.despair.com/frownonthis.html
DALLAS, TX - January 2nd, 2001 - In a move that has millions across the Internet community frowning, Despair, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had awarded them a registered trademark for the 'frowny' emoticon which serves as their logo.
At a press conference, Despair's COO, Dr. E.L.Kersten, announced his intentions to sue "anyone and everyone who uses the so-called 'frowny' emoticon, or our trademarked logo, in their written email correspondence. Ever."
Despair filed suit yesterday in a U.S. District Court in Dallas, alleging trademark infringement against over 7 million individual Internet users. The company has requested separate injunctions granted against each. It is believed to be the largest single trademark dispute in history. ... :-(® about."
Kersten then intoned gravely, "Let our message to trademark violators be clear. Whether you are a 4th grade nothing using your momma's AOL account, or you are Time Magazine's "Man of the Year", we are going to hunt you down, and when we do, we're really going to give you something to
I can see version 1.0 of this product including provisions for Sony.
Why would you even bother to be on the plane, or buy a ticket?
You know that the airlines will happily ship parcels from airport to airport, and those packages are not screened, right?
THAT is why the entire TSA concept is such an offensive joke.
So, if I use false pretense to gain otherwise unauthorized access to a protected resource or service, and I then delete, modify and insert data while utilizing that unauthorized access...
Easy enough to find out. If any internal memo references the mere concept of accuracy being less than perfect... then they know there will be false positives in the mix. At that point, they KNOW a percentage will be baseless.
And also Castle Smurfenstein.
... with TSA handling more packages per-day than both UPS and FedEx combined, it's no wonder SnailMail is on the ropes.
Because "the hacker" is inevitable. Period.
If you run into the center lane of a 70mph freeway and get hit by a truck, you do NOT blame the truck. If you jump off a building and hit the ground, you do NOT blame the ground. They are always there, and their existence must be expected.
No, I don't think I do.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/30/google_chrome_certificate_blacklist/
"...A side-by-side review comparing code contained in an upcoming version of Chrome increased the number of secure sockets layer certificates hardcoded in the browser's blacklist by 247. A comment accompanying the additions said: “Bad DigiNotar leaf certificates for non-Google sites.”
Regardless of what's happening now, some reactions were to kill distinct certs. And likely some still are.
I fear we may be missing the point. Maybe.
There are indicators that the number is a lot more than just 200 certs - some speculate that there were log wipes involved, which means we can expect a very, very large number.
If that's true, it's wonderful that some browsers are blocking a bogus *.google.com cert. It'll be useless, however, if the attackers generated 50,000 OTHER *.google.com certs, along with multiple certs for world+dog.com.
As to the impact of this CA's incompetence, it's pretty evil when you consider that these people will bury you up to your arms and throw rocks at your face.
1. You use firefox, and have addons.
2. I hijack addons.mozilla.org.
3. You fire up firefox, which dutifully checks for updates.
That CA needs to not exist.
But, but... DNSSEC is webscale!
Shards!
One authoritative source... per domain.
If you simply missed those two extra words when you first read them, then no harm done. But if you don't comprehend why those two extra words are significant... then you really need to not have an opinion on this topic.
but I just had this gut feeling that something bad would happen if I didn't.
> they split HP into 2 companies, HP and Agilent
Translation: they dropped that stuff like a bad habit and eradicated any aspect of HP's "think tank" culture.
Three hours of battery? So you're happy with a craptop that takes 2+ full battery charges to uninstall the crapware from?
On the good side, you have successfully just qualified what your time is worth.
...but what sort of insanity could convince HP that they are a software company?
You are SO out to lunch. Honest, the answer is simple.
Both the Android and Apple phone and tablet markets each have a glaring lack of apps that sit in the system tray and preempt whatever you're doing with pop-ups about ink and print jobs.
HP's issue really started with the destruction of their R&D. Remember the days when you'd walk into a lab, and all the nice freq counters and 'scopes and muxers all had HP stickers on em?
Right or wrong, they dropped that stuff like a bad habit and eradicated any aspect of HP's "think tank" culture. Granted, I'm certain that all five of their high-tech customers have missed them - but that signaled the shift toward The Cult of Printer Ink.
Yes, congressman.
No. By your own premise, virus scanners don't work... clearly, the exploit blew right through and overwrote the boot sector.
A technicality for certain, but "run in the bios" is a nonsense phrase. You most likely mean "as part of the POST"?
Err no, initially all THREE were rectangular, but then... well, "TEN! TEN COMMANDMENTS!"
As long as the resulting NEW myth still allows me to blame my wife for everything, I'll be fine with it.
What are we migrating? We'd be migrating to this cloud crap in the first place.
You're seriously telling me that you can move 240 gigs over a 2meg pipe in 14 hours?
You can migrate 80 users with 500MB to 5GB mailboxes, each, using a 2meg because they're running "cached mode"?
rofl much?
For sure. The only way this'd see any enterprise penetration would be with a local license server - you know, like the one we got rid of when NT4 went out of vogue.
If not, all I can say is... FFS, hasn't anyone learned from the Sonicwall stupidity?