Even if the bank had absolutely NO windows machines, and no Microsoft products anywhere - their database can be compromised by malware loaded on an external, non-bank-owned machine. Anywhere a login/password combination is stored is a potential data breach.
It is the fact that they allow database access from an external, insecure site that is the issue - not which operating system is in use.
Attorneys, police, and judges are always going to try and do questionable things. The international root of the internet should not be so beholden to the US government, Move it to Switzerland, and put in place clear rules about what does and what does not constitute valid cause for removing a domain.
They also routinely process payments for the legal defense funds of accused criminals, and for the appeals of convicted criminals.
How about someone set up a donation account for the legal defense fund for Julian Assange? Then the bank would have nothing to complain about, and I'm pretty sure that Julan could use the money to pay his lawyers right now.
And once the DVDs arrive in the mail..... fire up your Windows laptop. Last time I checked a standard Linux distro can't even play a commercial DVD. You need to install from various quasi-legal web sites, or download and compile a bunch of software yourself.
Maybe the Linux fanboys should fix that first, before complaining about others.
According to the level 80 shaman that lives in my basement, Blizzard has basically slashdotted themselves - there are *so* many people trying to play that their servers are basically non-responsive. Players on the WOW forums are suggesting that people open 16 games simultaneously (in windowed mode), and then start to play whichever one responds first - which, of course, makes the entire scenario 16x worse.
Write-access-only for USB devices could only be done via a software patch. So they are still vulnerable to:
emailing
ftp/etc
burning a CD (like the current WikiLeaks was done)
booting linux from a thumb drive and doing what you want
and I'm sure many more.
Last time I was at the Pentagon, all of their USB ports were physically disabled - either via breaking the socket with a pair of pliers, or by filling the socket with hot glue. What happened to that mandate?
The pages are all just HTML. They distribute via ssh. So why just look for Unix servers, when they're really just in need of web-accessible disk space?
I'm no Windows fanboy, but a Windows server would do equally well.
It is surprising, watching the entire WikiLeaks controversy, how quickly American corporations discard the concepts and ideals of the American constitution.
So basically EveryDNS is admitting that their servers are underpowered, and instead of beefing them up, they will kick off any customer who has significant traffic. What a great advertising campaign!
Well, no. Wiping someone's personal data without their consent may be a crime. The person in question accepted the potential data loss when she configured her phone to connect to the corporate exchange server.
If wiping data was unilaterally illegal, the 'format' program would be banned, as would most install disks.
Maybe 5% of business could use a barcode input. A much larger percentage - probably over 90% - needs some form of text input, but handwriting on a tablet isn't fast enough. Those on-screen keyboards are impossible to use accurately for any significant data input. How about they add a real keyboard to the tablet instead??
That mechanism was actually put there for driver developers - so that you can do the normal compile/debug cycle without having to sign each and every developer build.
This sounds like it makes things less secure - but in one way it actually makes things *more* secure. If every developer had the ability to securely sign code, it would be easy for one rogue developer to secretly sign nasty code and release it in the wild. If the signing key is only in the hands of one build engineer, and only lives on one machine in the corporation, there will be less correctly-signed-but-malicious modules out there.
(Of course, the mechanism was badly implemented - you should never be able to run unsigned modules on a consumer build of Windows. The bypass should only be possible in a developer Windows install, which is only available to registered developers).
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What do you consider Steam? It isn't physical media, and it isn't the Apple app store either.
Steam probably sells a sizeable percentage of all video games right now, and is steadily increasing it's market share.
Even if the bank had absolutely NO windows machines, and no Microsoft products anywhere - their database can be compromised by malware loaded on an external, non-bank-owned machine. Anywhere a login/password combination is stored is a potential data breach.
It is the fact that they allow database access from an external, insecure site that is the issue - not which operating system is in use.
Even a single consumer hard drive is a terabyte of storage.... how many servers at any cost have a terabyte of RAM?
Isn't the real root problem here ICANN?
Attorneys, police, and judges are always going to try and do questionable things. The international root of the internet should not be so beholden to the US government, Move it to Switzerland, and put in place clear rules about what does and what does not constitute valid cause for removing a domain.
Or follow Peter Sunde's suggestion, and move it all to p2p.
They also routinely process payments for the legal defense funds of accused criminals, and for the appeals of convicted criminals.
How about someone set up a donation account for the legal defense fund for Julian Assange? Then the bank would have nothing to complain about, and I'm pretty sure that Julan could use the money to pay his lawyers right now.
So when the carriers implement true 4G, the marketeers are sure to call it 5G.
And once the DVDs arrive in the mail..... fire up your Windows laptop. Last time I checked a standard Linux distro can't even play a commercial DVD. You need to install from various quasi-legal web sites, or download and compile a bunch of software yourself.
Maybe the Linux fanboys should fix that first, before complaining about others.
The US does seem to be having a hard time enforcing laws against false advertising.
4G is not really 4G, broadband is not really broadband, and if I remember correctly a 56kb modem only went 53kb max.
How do you differentiate a DDoS attack from the usual slashdotting of a web site?
So, where does the letter go for all of those bankrupt companies? Silicon Valley post offices must have a large pile of undeliverable ones.
Maybe that's the final legacy of dead startups: their IPV4 address block is worth more than the company ever was.
According to the level 80 shaman that lives in my basement, Blizzard has basically slashdotted themselves - there are *so* many people trying to play that their servers are basically non-responsive. Players on the WOW forums are suggesting that people open 16 games simultaneously (in windowed mode), and then start to play whichever one responds first - which, of course, makes the entire scenario 16x worse.
The bad news: initially available only at BestBuy.
How does Google rationalize selling at BestBuy with their "don't be evil" policy??
and I'm sure many more.
Last time I was at the Pentagon, all of their USB ports were physically disabled - either via breaking the socket with a pair of pliers, or by filling the socket with hot glue. What happened to that mandate?
The pages are all just HTML. They distribute via ssh. So why just look for Unix servers, when they're really just in need of web-accessible disk space?
I'm no Windows fanboy, but a Windows server would do equally well.
It is surprising, watching the entire WikiLeaks controversy, how quickly American corporations discard the concepts and ideals of the American constitution.
So basically EveryDNS is admitting that their servers are underpowered, and instead of beefing them up, they will kick off any customer who has significant traffic. What a great advertising campaign!
Isn't GM losing money on all of their cars? Isn't that why they needed a massive government bailout??
If you can't make money on the product you've been selling for years, what makes you think you'll make money on something new?
Well, no. Wiping someone's personal data without their consent may be a crime. The person in question accepted the potential data loss when she configured her phone to connect to the corporate exchange server.
If wiping data was unilaterally illegal, the 'format' program would be banned, as would most install disks.
Maybe 5% of business could use a barcode input. A much larger percentage - probably over 90% - needs some form of text input, but handwriting on a tablet isn't fast enough. Those on-screen keyboards are impossible to use accurately for any significant data input. How about they add a real keyboard to the tablet instead??
That mechanism was actually put there for driver developers - so that you can do the normal compile/debug cycle without having to sign each and every developer build.
This sounds like it makes things less secure - but in one way it actually makes things *more* secure. If every developer had the ability to securely sign code, it would be easy for one rogue developer to secretly sign nasty code and release it in the wild. If the signing key is only in the hands of one build engineer, and only lives on one machine in the corporation, there will be less correctly-signed-but-malicious modules out there.
(Of course, the mechanism was badly implemented - you should never be able to run unsigned modules on a consumer build of Windows. The bypass should only be possible in a developer Windows install, which is only available to registered developers).
The Chinese would hardly need to partner with anyone. All they need to do is to purchase one airliner and copy it.
If poster thinks that .NET is a language, they have some deeper issues about understanding the basic concepts of computer science.
Try googling for "suspended for picture on facebook". You'll be surprised.
When/where is the next national transvestite convention? That could create some interesting situations.