Once many of the sites started using pop-under, pop-over, site-flash, blinking ads, ads with sound and in general just plain ruined any web experience they made it almost compulsory to have an adblocker. At first because of lack of bandwidth but nowadays because they make the ads so utterly annoying.
Sadly HTML5 will make it pretty hard to block ads and easy to embed them deep into the site, one of the reasons i think corps all over the net seems to spunk their pants anytime anyone mentions HTML5.
Isnt this a very large gaping security issue? I would assume its much worse than the Android one where you had to trick the user into installing a kernel module manually.
I was always under the impression that nuclear power was a way to get access to knowledge and materials for buildning bombs, not really for electric power. It has never been worth the cost if you calculate the price per Kwh over its lifespan, including waste handling and other often hidden costs.
The US knows this as does the rest of the countries that has nuclear power. I suspect thats one of the reasons the rest of the world scoff at Iran when they say they only want nuclear reactors for generating power.
Microsoft do not have engineering talent nor software talents to pull something like that off, especially not in management. No matter how good of a phone the grunts make, management will kill its potential. It has happened countless of times before and it will happen again.
Xbox is not a success and while now making modest profits it has lots and lots of investments to recoup before giving any payment on the money spent. Its an utter failure up until today and if nothing ground breaking happens it will keep on being a third rate console.
The only way Microsoft could succeed is to break out a mobile team and totally isolate it from any managment and Microsoft itself. Even when they buy an excellent and complete product like Danger they still manages to wipe it off the planet my mismanagement.
Im also not so sure being a top down shop like Apple is good in the long run. Those kinds of companies tend to stiffen up and become stale and slow pretty fast when given enough market share.
As long as the vendors get a grace period or as in some cases forever as a timeframe the incentive to fix the real issue wont go away.
The discussion about full disclosure/responsible disclosure is a side issue to the real questions. Why dont the vendors do proper testing before releasing software? Why do they refrain from fixing bugs they fully know about? Why should researchers take any responsibility for the vendors customers when its obvious the vendors wont think twice about security or Q & A?
Its not like there is any shortage of tools for finding security holes today. Its apparent many of the biggest vendors wont even bother testing their stuff with simple fuzzers.
The reason vendors wont mind releasing bad crap is that they get away with it. If helping the users is the goal information is power. When people start to see just how crappy some products are they can make an informed decision. Then and only then will people start shopping for better alternatives / demand better security.
Right now most people have swallowed the propaganda that todays systems have the best security money can buy when in reality we are not much better of than before. As security has risen from abysmal to crappy so have the hackers. The problem is that the hackers, the real ones, are miles ahead of the security community and the vendors.
I personally never use a Windows computer for banking. I always use an updated Linux computer when i do anything involving money.
Windows + Internet Explorer is proven to be unsecure and not fit for anything that demands security. With Linux you can be unsure about security, with Windows you know its very bad and unsecure by design.
Ofcourse the Taliban wasnt excited in helping the USA without getting something in return. Im very sure the price would have been orders of magnitudes lower that it has been up until today, without any results at all.
Propaganda is not needed, thanks to very good declassifying laws in the US you can learn all about how it operates abroad.
I would think the goal is more in the line of getting the muslim world resources (oil, mining etc) in the hands of US economy and corps. This is war for resources and globalism, not democracy. Democracy is only secondary because it also brings freedom to loot theese countries for foreigners.
After thousands of Afghanis have had their friends, relatives and close family killed by US troops what do you expect? If the current Israel/Palestine politics could make Bin Laden go to such extremes, imagine what a killed sister, son, dad or spouse can drive people towards.
This late in the game its impossible to save the situation. The right choice would have been not attacking Afghanistan and working together with the Taliban to capture Bin Laden. Using Bin Laden as an excuse to expand the US empire wasnt a smart move.
After reading this article i guess 90.000 people will cry out in pain once they get to know their phone. Its far beyond repair unless Microsofts postpone the launch by years.
Just release the discoveries and let the sane companies adapt and start testing their software properly before shipment. Pussyfooting around companies that has no other interest in security other than PR is never going to accomplish anything.
Yes, sorry. Basic rule, it must be a muslim doing it. It must be, because i read about muslim terrorists all day doing what i wrote about above but obviously its only terrorism if done by a muslim. A white male cant be a terrorist, hes a freedom fighter when killing women and children.
"These are certainly acts of violence, but they are not terrorism at all."
Well, even if i agree on that there are still a number of incidents where american white males has attacked government officials/buildings in various ways.
My biggest gripe is that de proportions are all out of order. Throw unlimited funds in stopping muslim terrorism (a very rare thing in the US both historically and in modern times, less rare than presidential killings for eg.) but just dont give a f*ck about thousands of more people killed each year in violence related crimes.
Terrorism is not and has not been a perticularly big threat in the US until one single incident while many more people get killed every day without the government even lifting an eybrow.
"Or has this large growth served us well, exemplified by no successful terrorist acts on US soil since 9/11?"
There has been many successful acts of terrorism in the US. None of them has had any muslims involved. I guess killing school children or turning up at work with an AK47 is just your average American day. Or, if you count number of violently killed americans regardless of perpetrator there hasnt been ANY improvement.
The 9/11 was the odd happening, a break of the routine and not something that happens or has happened historically. Now take it like a biatch US people, defend being taken up the poop chute:D
"Seems pretty clear that this was a targeted attack. (Launched by Competitor, former employee, etc)"
Yes, and those are the people i want my systems shielded and secured from. When the exploits trickle down to spammers and scammers its already much to late and patching wont help. Right now Microsofts security efforts are about limiting global outbreaks at best. Bugs wont get patched until "enough?!" people are affected. If you use Windows/Sharepoint/Exchange and store any sensitive information on them your fucked by default.
Funniest comment ever on slashdot or im just wired wrong. The mix of precise logic and reasoning and dripping wet irony makes my screen full of coffee.:D
Anyone who have viewed the millions of youtube videos of stupid drivers aren't surprised. Some people aren't fit to handle something like a car. Im often surprised by some people who drives like they cant keep two lines of thoughts at the same time. As soon as something unknown happens they panic and crash randomly instead of getting ready to break hard.
Toyota is very sensitive and nice about this. I guess they dont want to embarrass their customers but hey, somewhere you need to draw the line.
Ehh, people crash all over the world all the time. People panic and press the wrong pedal, turn the wrong way, overtake trucks at very bad places and generally drives like assholes. Being able to blame someone, anyone for their incompetence behind the wheel is a godsend.
You sir are talking about script kiddies, spammers and other not so skilled criminals. Im talking about corporate spies, govt spies and economic criminals. They sure as heck do not need to wait for a patch to reverse engineer.
Im much more worried about people who wants my information than some random spammer that wants my cpu and bandwidth.
The real bad guys most certainly knows about these security issues long before they becomes common knowledge. Responsible would be Microsoft patching their stuff as soon as they learn about an exploit instead of waiting for the known ones to be spread in the wild.
Responsible disclosure is just Microsofts way of trying to get people to shut up about their crappy security. If Microsoft was the least interested in security they would care more about real security than UAC (put the blame on the user) and playing statistics by making more secure products, hiding patches and grouping patches etc.
I dont know but i think Prince has gotten the internet all backwards. The internet is the network connecting stuff. Much stuff will disappear into history but i seriously doubt the internet itself going anywhere soon.
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Once many of the sites started using pop-under, pop-over, site-flash, blinking ads, ads with sound and in general just plain ruined any web experience they made it almost compulsory to have an adblocker. At first because of lack of bandwidth but nowadays because they make the ads so utterly annoying.
Sadly HTML5 will make it pretty hard to block ads and easy to embed them deep into the site, one of the reasons i think corps all over the net seems to spunk their pants anytime anyone mentions HTML5.
Isnt this a very large gaping security issue? I would assume its much worse than the Android one where you had to trick the user into installing a kernel module manually.
I was always under the impression that nuclear power was a way to get access to knowledge and materials for buildning bombs, not really for electric power. It has never been worth the cost if you calculate the price per Kwh over its lifespan, including waste handling and other often hidden costs.
The US knows this as does the rest of the countries that has nuclear power. I suspect thats one of the reasons the rest of the world scoff at Iran when they say they only want nuclear reactors for generating power.
Microsoft do not have engineering talent nor software talents to pull something like that off, especially not in management. No matter how good of a phone the grunts make, management will kill its potential. It has happened countless of times before and it will happen again.
Xbox is not a success and while now making modest profits it has lots and lots of investments to recoup before giving any payment on the money spent. Its an utter failure up until today and if nothing ground breaking happens it will keep on being a third rate console.
The only way Microsoft could succeed is to break out a mobile team and totally isolate it from any managment and Microsoft itself. Even when they buy an excellent and complete product like Danger they still manages to wipe it off the planet my mismanagement.
Im also not so sure being a top down shop like Apple is good in the long run. Those kinds of companies tend to stiffen up and become stale and slow pretty fast when given enough market share.
As long as the vendors get a grace period or as in some cases forever as a timeframe the incentive to fix the real issue wont go away.
The discussion about full disclosure/responsible disclosure is a side issue to the real questions. Why dont the vendors do proper testing before releasing software? Why do they refrain from fixing bugs they fully know about? Why should researchers take any responsibility for the vendors customers when its obvious the vendors wont think twice about security or Q & A?
Its not like there is any shortage of tools for finding security holes today. Its apparent many of the biggest vendors wont even bother testing their stuff with simple fuzzers.
The reason vendors wont mind releasing bad crap is that they get away with it. If helping the users is the goal information is power. When people start to see just how crappy some products are they can make an informed decision. Then and only then will people start shopping for better alternatives / demand better security.
Right now most people have swallowed the propaganda that todays systems have the best security money can buy when in reality we are not much better of than before. As security has risen from abysmal to crappy so have the hackers. The problem is that the hackers, the real ones, are miles ahead of the security community and the vendors.
Why is this marked troll? Im dead serious in what i say because of my experiences from the last 10 years as a sysadmin.
I personally never use a Windows computer for banking. I always use an updated Linux computer when i do anything involving money.
Windows + Internet Explorer is proven to be unsecure and not fit for anything that demands security. With Linux you can be unsure about security, with Windows you know its very bad and unsecure by design.
Ofcourse the Taliban wasnt excited in helping the USA without getting something in return. Im very sure the price would have been orders of magnitudes lower that it has been up until today, without any results at all.
Propaganda is not needed, thanks to very good declassifying laws in the US you can learn all about how it operates abroad.
I would think the goal is more in the line of getting the muslim world resources (oil, mining etc) in the hands of US economy and corps. This is war for resources and globalism, not democracy. Democracy is only secondary because it also brings freedom to loot theese countries for foreigners.
After thousands of Afghanis have had their friends, relatives and close family killed by US troops what do you expect? If the current Israel/Palestine politics could make Bin Laden go to such extremes, imagine what a killed sister, son, dad or spouse can drive people towards.
This late in the game its impossible to save the situation. The right choice would have been not attacking Afghanistan and working together with the Taliban to capture Bin Laden. Using Bin Laden as an excuse to expand the US empire wasnt a smart move.
I cant really imagine why anyone wanting to work on hybrid cars would look at GM. You dont copy crap, you go for the market leader.
It doesnt matter if you call it biased. The facts are still the same, Windows Mobile 7 is dead just as the Kin. A big waste of money for no gain.
After reading this article i guess 90.000 people will cry out in pain once they get to know their phone. Its far beyond repair unless Microsofts postpone the launch by years.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/windows-phone-7-dont-bother-disaster-211?page=0,0
Just release the discoveries and let the sane companies adapt and start testing their software properly before shipment. Pussyfooting around companies that has no other interest in security other than PR is never going to accomplish anything.
Yes, sorry. Basic rule, it must be a muslim doing it. It must be, because i read about muslim terrorists all day doing what i wrote about above but obviously its only terrorism if done by a muslim. A white male cant be a terrorist, hes a freedom fighter when killing women and children.
"These are certainly acts of violence, but they are not terrorism at all."
Well, even if i agree on that there are still a number of incidents where american white males has attacked government officials/buildings in various ways.
My biggest gripe is that de proportions are all out of order. Throw unlimited funds in stopping muslim terrorism (a very rare thing in the US both historically and in modern times, less rare than presidential killings for eg.) but just dont give a f*ck about thousands of more people killed each year in violence related crimes.
Terrorism is not and has not been a perticularly big threat in the US until one single incident while many more people get killed every day without the government even lifting an eybrow.
"Or has this large growth served us well, exemplified by no successful terrorist acts on US soil since 9/11?"
There has been many successful acts of terrorism in the US. None of them has had any muslims involved. I guess killing school children or turning up at work with an AK47 is just your average American day. Or, if you count number of violently killed americans regardless of perpetrator there hasnt been ANY improvement.
The 9/11 was the odd happening, a break of the routine and not something that happens or has happened historically. Now take it like a biatch US people, defend being taken up the poop chute :D
"Seems pretty clear that this was a targeted attack. (Launched by Competitor, former employee, etc)"
Yes, and those are the people i want my systems shielded and secured from. When the exploits trickle down to spammers and scammers its already much to late and patching wont help. Right now Microsofts security efforts are about limiting global outbreaks at best. Bugs wont get patched until "enough?!" people are affected. If you use Windows/Sharepoint/Exchange and store any sensitive information on them your fucked by default.
vlm, i love you!
Funniest comment ever on slashdot or im just wired wrong. The mix of precise logic and reasoning and dripping wet irony makes my screen full of coffee. :D
Anyone who have viewed the millions of youtube videos of stupid drivers aren't surprised. Some people aren't fit to handle something like a car. Im often surprised by some people who drives like they cant keep two lines of thoughts at the same time. As soon as something unknown happens they panic and crash randomly instead of getting ready to break hard.
Toyota is very sensitive and nice about this. I guess they dont want to embarrass their customers but hey, somewhere you need to draw the line.
Ehh, people crash all over the world all the time. People panic and press the wrong pedal, turn the wrong way, overtake trucks at very bad places and generally drives like assholes. Being able to blame someone, anyone for their incompetence behind the wheel is a godsend.
You sir are talking about script kiddies, spammers and other not so skilled criminals. Im talking about corporate spies, govt spies and economic criminals. They sure as heck do not need to wait for a patch to reverse engineer.
Im much more worried about people who wants my information than some random spammer that wants my cpu and bandwidth.
The real bad guys most certainly knows about these security issues long before they becomes common knowledge. Responsible would be Microsoft patching their stuff as soon as they learn about an exploit instead of waiting for the known ones to be spread in the wild.
Responsible disclosure is just Microsofts way of trying to get people to shut up about their crappy security. If Microsoft was the least interested in security they would care more about real security than UAC (put the blame on the user) and playing statistics by making more secure products, hiding patches and grouping patches etc.
I dont know but i think Prince has gotten the internet all backwards. The internet is the network connecting stuff. Much stuff will disappear into history but i seriously doubt the internet itself going anywhere soon.
When you try to be the world police, it kind of gets harder if youre a criminal yourself.