Not that HE is stupid, but that the majority of his fanbase is
I am amazed that you can make such a blanket statement - where are the facts to back this up - your statement only indicates that you are what you accuse others of i.e. stupid and worse ignorant and narrow-minded
Look, what REALLY made Stern popular was the curious balance he had between being married and constantly tempted
Stern has been divorced for 5-6 years and yet the interest in his show has not wained at all - he seems to be able to morph himself when he needs to - I for one am disgusted with the censorship and will subscribe the day he jumps.
Depending upon what is at stake - attackers can be very patient. If you allow users to create their own passwords and don't enforce some complexity requirements, most will chose their name, kid's name, spouse, pet, etc. Give me a few days even with your authentication systems in place and I will guess the password.
Although on the surface this may appear to be true, as applications grow more and more complex, which is inevitable as users demand more and more services from corporate America, the business logic behind them dramatically increases in complexity as well.
The trend in actual successful attacks versus theoretical or practical vulnerabilities is moving from OS and network hacks to more application based hacks - these attacks tend to focus on the business processes behind the applications per se.
A more secure language may assist in securing the actual applications themselves it will do nothing to secure what lays behind under and over the applications.
Until security becomes an integral part of the SDLC more VM based languages are not the solution.
It amazes me that a slashdot reader cannot appreciate the LOTR for what it is - probably the greatest fantasy saga ever written. JRRT was a linguist - he took a language he created from scratch (elvish) and created an entire world around it - a fully original, fleshed out, maybe a bit too much by his son, but brilliant nonetheless, and has inspired several generations.
I am currently reading 'the Hobbit' to my 4.5 year old daughter and she is enthralled, in fact she begs to read it nightly. She can't wait to move on to the next story and we have not even finished this one yet.
So in a nutshell - who gives a shit? - many fans including my kid, who is obviously somewhat more thoughtful and intelligent that your lame anonomous self.
Instead, at your request we can see the latest sequel of the Matrix.
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for a site to be able to be hijacked, the pop-up it would have to be a site already sponsored by Citibank or whoever to start with
Not true - the way it works is if you are running multiple browser windows - the injection comes from the "bad" site not from citi, et al
that said - i am not sure how the "bad" site would entice you to go to citi in the first place
Not that HE is stupid, but that the majority of his fanbase is
I am amazed that you can make such a blanket statement - where are the facts to back this up - your statement only indicates that you are what you accuse others of i.e. stupid and worse ignorant and narrow-minded
Why do you assume that it is Google's responsibility to determine what may or may be "obviously" private.
People need to be responsible for the own actions.
These are our children who are watching these sorts of things.
The movie is rated R - your kids can only see it if YOU take them
Look, what REALLY made Stern popular was the curious balance he had between being married and constantly tempted
Stern has been divorced for 5-6 years and yet the interest in his show has not wained at all - he seems to be able to morph himself when he needs to - I for one am disgusted with the censorship and will subscribe the day he jumps.
Depending upon what is at stake - attackers can be very patient. If you allow users to create their own passwords and don't enforce some complexity requirements, most will chose their name, kid's name, spouse, pet, etc. Give me a few days even with your authentication systems in place and I will guess the password.
The trend in actual successful attacks versus theoretical or practical vulnerabilities is moving from OS and network hacks to more application based hacks - these attacks tend to focus on the business processes behind the applications per se.
A more secure language may assist in securing the actual applications themselves it will do nothing to secure what lays behind under and over the applications.
Until security becomes an integral part of the SDLC more VM based languages are not the solution.
So in a nutshell - who gives a shit? - many fans including my kid, who is obviously somewhat more thoughtful and intelligent that your lame anonomous self.
Instead, at your request we can see the latest sequel of the Matrix.