"But on at least two dates in July 2003, the suit states, Web logs at Healthcare Advocates indicated that someone at Harding Earley, using the Wayback Machine, made hundreds of rapid-fire requests for the old versions of the Web site. In most cases, the robot.txt blocked the request. But in 92 instances, the suit states, it appears to have failed, allowing access to the archived pages."
If would appear that they did kind of. That seems to be at the heart of the matter. The Internet Archive don't seem to be very surprised that it is happening. I don't think the company doing the suing have much of a case really, but IANAL.
I've worked in the cineworld chain over here in the UK. They are largely a bunch of cheap skates when it came to maintenance and there were never any employee screenings organised.
An awful lot of MS programs require 'Admin' access to run. I tried to run my machine and programs on a user account, but half of the programs I use on regular basis just wouldn't work.
I agree, this is one of the funniest things I've read in a long while.
Also quite insulting if you are a Australian security professional. The article might as well read "Australians can't secure their computer networks, they are all going to get hax0red. On the other had US networks are so much better secured. We are nice and safe over here. When information gets nicked we are going to blame the Australians."
Sounds like a pile of bullsh*t to me.
Shouldn't this story have been posted under the obviously-crap-and-poorly-researched-stories-that- make no-sense dept
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"But on at least two dates in July 2003, the suit states, Web logs at Healthcare Advocates indicated that someone at Harding Earley, using the Wayback Machine, made hundreds of rapid-fire requests for the old versions of the Web site. In most cases, the robot.txt blocked the request. But in 92 instances, the suit states, it appears to have failed, allowing access to the archived pages." If would appear that they did kind of. That seems to be at the heart of the matter. The Internet Archive don't seem to be very surprised that it is happening. I don't think the company doing the suing have much of a case really, but IANAL.
Oh thank god for that. The whole 'my' thing has always bugged the hell out of me.
I've worked in the cineworld chain over here in the UK. They are largely a bunch of cheap skates when it came to maintenance and there were never any employee screenings organised.
An awful lot of MS programs require 'Admin' access to run. I tried to run my machine and programs on a user account, but half of the programs I use on regular basis just wouldn't work.
I agree, this is one of the funniest things I've read in a long while. Also quite insulting if you are a Australian security professional. The article might as well read "Australians can't secure their computer networks, they are all going to get hax0red. On the other had US networks are so much better secured. We are nice and safe over here. When information gets nicked we are going to blame the Australians." Sounds like a pile of bullsh*t to me. Shouldn't this story have been posted under the obviously-crap-and-poorly-researched-stories-that- make no-sense dept
*phew* And touchdown! SpaceShipOne has made it down ok. Now they've got two weeks to do it again.
That had me catching my breath as I was watching it. But he is on the glidepath safely now. Hope he can put it down ok. *fingers crossed*
Yea, like we care about Ireland