I created a certificate through them a while back, for testing something; I forget what. I had forgotten about them until I got an email on the 16th:
This mail is intended for the person who owns a digital certificate issued by the StartSSLâ Certification Authority (http://www.startssl.com/).
The client certificate for _______@gmail.com and serial number XXXXX (YYYYY) is about to expire within the next two weeks. Please log into the StartSSL Control Panel at https://www.startssl.com/?app=12 and get a new certificate for this purpose. Failing to update your client certificate might result in the loss of your account.
Should you have lost the client certificate which was previously issued to you, please register once again - login without the client certificate installed into your browser will not work in that case.
-- Best Regards StartCom Ltd. StartSSLâ Certification Authority
Not sure offhand whether my certificate is legitimately expiring (don't recall the details on it; it was for a one-shot test of something), or whether this is some sort of phishing attempt. The email was sent on 16 Jun at 5:34pm - after startssl went down.
Yes. I haven't been to a movie theater in almost 10 years, because all of them within a reasonable distance played damned advertising crap (aside from previews of other movies) before the movie.
This place in Austin sounds great. I doubt they'll be opening a franchise in NH any time soon, though:-(.
I think my first post to Usenet was in 1985, to rec.arts.sf.written, from a Unix system at college.
After college I had my Amiga on a dialup UUCP connection to a machine which was off of decvax. It was always disappointing to go down to the basement in the morning, where my computer (in fine nerd tradition) was located) and find that the connection had failed for whatever reason. Sending email that way was certainly not much faster than 'snail mail', if your Zoom modem wasn't all that reliable...
Yeah, that's what a lot of the posts here are missing. A reasonably hard-to-guess password of moderate complexity is fine as long as login attempts are detected and the user notified.
What the article is about, though, is using GPUs to quickly generate hashes of passwords. For that to be useful, the bad guys have to have obtained a copy of the hashed passwords to compare against. It's only useful against a site that's been compromised to some extent. There's nothing the user can do to prevent that. Best thing is to simply not re-use passwords across different sites.
I don't remember there being anything in "Neuromancer" that couldn't be updated to today's technology without any problems, but I don't have much faith in Hollywood's ability to make it appealing to 'Joe Sixpack' (always the highest priority) while still remaining appealing to geek types.
I was working at KMart back then, and I believe it was a mail-in rebate which dropped the price effectively to -$5. When the store doors opened that Sunday morning, there was a stampeded to the back of the store. I think we only had 5 or 6 in stock at that point. I wasn't too impressed with the machines, so didn't bother getting one for myself - I was an Atari 800 snob in those days.
And probably for some I can't think of, but the premise to the original joke was a single application that would replace the OS/etc, and emacs has its built-in Lisp, so no other languages necessary.
I think it's be interesting if the machine could throw various types of pitches - sliders, curveballs,knuckleballs, etc. That would probably require a more handlike gripper.
Using emacs as your single all-in-one OS/UI/programming environment would also mean programming solely in Lisp, so he'd have to mutate his brain to think in parentheses:-).
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No, he said "The Police".
I've been parked in front of this "DO NOT PASS" road sign for almost 3 weeks now...
I created a certificate through them a while back, for testing something; I forget what. I had forgotten about them until I got an email on the 16th:
This mail is intended for the person who owns a digital certificate issued by the StartSSLâ Certification Authority (http://www.startssl.com/).
The client certificate for _______@gmail.com and serial number XXXXX (YYYYY) is about to expire within the next two weeks. Please log into the StartSSL Control Panel at https://www.startssl.com/?app=12 and get a new certificate for this purpose. Failing to update your client certificate might result in the loss of your account.
Should you have lost the client certificate which was previously issued to you, please register once again - login without the client certificate installed into your browser will not work in that case.
-- Best Regards StartCom Ltd. StartSSLâ Certification Authority
Not sure offhand whether my certificate is legitimately expiring (don't recall the details on it; it was for a one-shot test of something), or whether this is some sort of phishing attempt. The email was sent on 16 Jun at 5:34pm - after startssl went down.
For full credit, please re-phrase in the form of an 'In Soviet Russia ..." joke.
Yes. I haven't been to a movie theater in almost 10 years, because all of them within a reasonable distance played damned advertising crap (aside from previews of other movies) before the movie.
This place in Austin sounds great. I doubt they'll be opening a franchise in NH any time soon, though :-(.
I think my first post to Usenet was in 1985, to rec.arts.sf.written, from a Unix system at college.
After college I had my Amiga on a dialup UUCP connection to a machine which was off of decvax. It was always disappointing to go down to the basement in the morning, where my computer (in fine nerd tradition) was located) and find that the connection had failed for whatever reason. Sending email that way was certainly not much faster than 'snail mail', if your Zoom modem wasn't all that reliable...
Yeah, that's what a lot of the posts here are missing. A reasonably hard-to-guess password of moderate complexity is fine as long as login attempts are detected and the user notified.
What the article is about, though, is using GPUs to quickly generate hashes of passwords. For that to be useful, the bad guys have to have obtained a copy of the hashed passwords to compare against. It's only useful against a site that's been compromised to some extent. There's nothing the user can do to prevent that. Best thing is to simply not re-use passwords across different sites.
Erisian Fnord Front?
let's just hope they don't use it for ill, intentionally or otherwise.
No, that would be iio.com.
In the summary's defense, "1943" is italicized.
I agree with the first post (for once): This kind of article is what brought me to Slashdot.
I was lamenting this, not acting as though it were something new.
And "True Names", by Vernor Vinge.
I don't remember there being anything in "Neuromancer" that couldn't be updated to today's technology without any problems, but I don't have much faith in Hollywood's ability to make it appealing to 'Joe Sixpack' (always the highest priority) while still remaining appealing to geek types.
Ah wah tafu lyam.
Or "The Jupiter Theft"
I remember "A Pail of Air" - yes, fun to read.
I was working at KMart back then, and I believe it was a mail-in rebate which dropped the price effectively to -$5. When the store doors opened that Sunday morning, there was a stampeded to the back of the store. I think we only had 5 or 6 in stock at that point. I wasn't too impressed with the machines, so didn't bother getting one for myself - I was an Atari 800 snob in those days.
The Shadow out of Slashdot. Nicely done.
On the internet, the 12 year old crime-fighting girls are really 40 year old crime-fighting men.
Orphans of the Sky
'Case', not 'Hiro'. Wrong author :-).
Also, I think it was the 'Eastern Seaboard Fusion Authority'.
You are educated stupid if you deny 4 equal 24-hour days per rotation of Earth. 96-hour Cubic Days debunk 1-day as witchcraft.
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are customers/employees/acquirable competitors.
And probably for some I can't think of, but the premise to the original joke was a single application that would replace the OS/etc, and emacs has its built-in Lisp, so no other languages necessary.
I think it's be interesting if the machine could throw various types of pitches - sliders, curveballs,knuckleballs, etc. That would probably require a more handlike gripper.
Using emacs as your single all-in-one OS/UI/programming environment would also mean programming solely in Lisp, so he'd have to mutate his brain to think in parentheses :-).
He said 'trusty', so I assume it's a pretty good pigeon.