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  1. Re:Contents of the 200TB proof on Computer Generates Largest Math Proof Ever At 200TB of Data (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    You can use less than and greater than signs if you HTML-escape them, eg: "&lt;" (<) and "&gt;" (>).

  2. Confused on The Pirate Bay Sails Back To Its .ORG Domain (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If piratebay.se was seized, then how is it redirecting to piratebay.org?

  3. Re:Another example of the rich buying elections on Uber and Lyft Spend $8.2 Million To Lose Fingerprint Election, Vow To Leave Austin (examiner.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, you've drawn the opposite of the correct conclusion. This demonstrates that no matter how much money you plough into a campaign, it's the votes that really matter.

  4. Re:I wonder what their political bent happens to b on A Small Group of Journalists Control and Decide What Should Trend On Facebook (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you mean Natchitoches?

  5. Re:Examining the certificate on The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More · · Score: 1

    I'm not disagreeing with you. But posting the key in the content would make people look there instead of at the real key.

    A real solution is probably something automatic like Perspectives.

    Of course, there's also key-pinning, which can help a lot.

  6. Re:Examining the certificate on The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More · · Score: 1

    Posting the key would be extremely counterproductive, then. They should get the key from their browser.

  7. Re:Examining the certificate on The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More · · Score: 3, Informative

    How exactly is verifying a site's identity by relying on the site itself, via the same channel, any better than zero authentication at all?

  8. Examining the certificate on The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When connecting to Slashdot, I'm now cryptographically guaranteed to be talking to (drumroll please) Dice Holdings, Inc!

    So... are we being MitM'd by Dice, trying to get their old property back?

  9. Re:Colour me unsurprised. on Airport Experiment Shows That People Recklessly Connect To Any Free Wi-Fi Spot (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    HTTPS doesn't fall apart with a man in the middle. It's end-to-end. It's specifically designed to detect that kind of tampering.

  10. Re:Not like chrome. on Opera Founder Opens Up About New Vivaldi Browser (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Nope. Opera was its own thing.

  11. Re:Wait... on Google Will Soon Let You Know By Default When Websites Are Unencrypted (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    What we've learned is that not all HTTPS are created equal. There could be insecure ciphers, mixed content, insecure signatures, vulnerabilities, what have you. Just looking for the "s" isn't enough. It's a very good thing that the browsers, which can look at all the factors, are giving better hints about whether a connection is trustworthy.

  12. Re:Not Sure What the HTTPS Hooplah is all about on Google Will Soon Let You Know By Default When Websites Are Unencrypted (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    DNSSEC doesn't provide any encryption. It's not for secrecy; it's for authenticating DNS information.

  13. Re: I've wondered the same thing about hard drives on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    The solution is full-disk encryption.

  14. What exactly is the law/rule? on Legal Loophole Offers Volkswagen Criminal Immunity · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If the rulebook says "When we plug in our testing machine, your car needs to be emitting X, Y and Z", then they were totally within the rules.

  15. Re:Katrina & A Datacenter/ISP on What Hurricane Sandy Taught IT About Disaster Preparedness · · Score: 2
  16. Re:Fuck Lenovo on Lenovo Installed Software On Laptops That Persisted After Complete Wipes · · Score: 0

    Gross. :-(

  17. Re:Fuck Lenovo on Lenovo Installed Software On Laptops That Persisted After Complete Wipes · · Score: 1, Informative

    All these issues have been with the "consumer"-grade cheap laptops which have always been garbage, right? I don't think any of them have happened on Thinkpads.

  18. Re:itwbennett? on How To Make Money As an Independent Developer · · Score: 1

    It's not Haselton. He would have written about 10 times as much, with the word "I" being by far the most common.

  19. Re:Samsung may promise on Samsung To Push Monthly Over-the-Air Security Updates For Android · · Score: 1

    Just buy the unlocked international version of the phone you want.

  20. Re:Do you think it happens only in tech? on Tech's Enduring Great-Man Myth · · Score: 1

    I would say that "only" definitely applies to "in tech".

  21. Re:Trusted certificate owners on OpenSSL Patches Critical Certificate Forgery Bug · · Score: 1

    Does 1.0.1e-2+deb7u16 qualify?

  22. Re:yeah yeah on RFC 7568 Deprecates SSLv3 As Insecure · · Score: 2

    Would you prefer they pretend such devices aren't broken? It's not like they're waving a wand and making them all disappear anyway.

  23. Re:Good god. on Missing Files Blamed For Deadly A400M Crash · · Score: -1, Troll

    You mean, people accidentally mashing both pedals at the same time?

  24. Re:Clean room implementation? on US Justice Department Urges Supreme Court Not To Take Up Google v. Oracle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can they make Compaq's reverse engineering of IBM's BIOS illegal retroactively, and take back much of the PC revolution?

  25. Re:Soverign debt on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sovereign debt denominated in a country's own fiat currency (the US situation) is VERY different from sovereign debt denominated in some other currency (the Greek situation).