Most home routers I've dealt with don't enable remote administration by default. Allowing administration from outside one's LAN seems like a more serious problem than using a default password.
For people professing to have clues, I suggest they are lacking any regarding web page design. 5 seconds into trying to scroll their oversized fonts, hideous colours, and centre-justified text, my eyeballs were driven off their site.
This has been going on since before object-oriented programming existed. In Unix, for example, processes have "parents", "children", and can be "killed".
The email point wasnt about the email being plain text as much as them sending his chosen password in plain text, which means they store it in plain text...
They may or may not store his password as plain text. It's possible that the e-mail was generated dynamically when he entered his password in some form, while the password was in memory. They still might have used some kind of hash for permanent storage.
Seriously? Lights? That makes me think of the posers who put lights on their car's wheels.
I'm a fan of mechanical keyboards and intentionally sought one with adjustable backlighting. My Lenovo ThinkPad also features adjustable keyboard backlighting.
Both these keyboards are hugely helpful to me for the simple reason that I often use my computers in low light or darkness. This allows me to limit my exposure to light when working late, and thus avoid disrupting my circadian rhythm due to the effect of light on the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
Here's a tip: If updates are pending but you want to shutdown quickly, don't choose Shutdown. Choose Log Off instead. Then, from the logon screen, you can choose either "Install updates and shutdown", or just "Shutdown".
With FTP acting as fragile as glass in the world of NAT and firewalls...
I've built several NAT firewalls using OpenBSD and pf. They make it very easy to accommodate both FTP clients and servers behind NAT, by providing a simple-to-use ftp-proxy.
What a useless and whinging article! You find remote support frustrating? Some of us recall the days before remote support was an option, having to hop in a car and drive somewhere every time a problem occurred. Remote support is a f*cking godsend. Don't work in support if you can't handle a bit of frustration.
I don't know if those machines are capable of competing for bitcoins, but it might be fun to try. Years ago I used to configure underused computers to do distributed computing stuff like SETI@home. Now there are programs like Folding@home where you can donate resources to medical research.
We already have things like User Account Control that prompt for explicit authorization for potentially detrimental actions. Perhaps systems like SCCM should have an option to require authorization from two people (like turning two keys to launch a nuke) for operations such as wiping out hundreds of computers.
This would not prevent a rogue administrator from wreaking havoc, but it might eliminate the "accident" defense.
For God's sake, there's no reason to damage the paint! These things are stuck on with adhesive, and a suitable solvent is all you need. I've removed things like dealership logos with a rag dipped in gasoline and some gentle prying.
Cook responded that there are many things Apple does because they are right and just, and that a return on investment (ROI) was not the primary consideration on such issues.
Isn't it the law that directors of a public company have a fiduciary duty to make a profit for their investors? Regardless of whether it's morally right or wrong, it seems to me that Cook is admitting here to a breach of his fiduciary duty.
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Most home routers I've dealt with don't enable remote administration by default. Allowing administration from outside one's LAN seems like a more serious problem than using a default password.
For people professing to have clues, I suggest they are lacking any regarding web page design. 5 seconds into trying to scroll their oversized fonts, hideous colours, and centre-justified text, my eyeballs were driven off their site.
This has been going on since before object-oriented programming existed. In Unix, for example, processes have "parents", "children", and can be "killed".
The email point wasnt about the email being plain text as much as them sending his chosen password in plain text, which means they store it in plain text...
They may or may not store his password as plain text. It's possible that the e-mail was generated dynamically when he entered his password in some form, while the password was in memory. They still might have used some kind of hash for permanent storage.
Seriously? Lights? That makes me think of the posers who put lights on their car's wheels.
I'm a fan of mechanical keyboards and intentionally sought one with adjustable backlighting. My Lenovo ThinkPad also features adjustable keyboard backlighting.
Both these keyboards are hugely helpful to me for the simple reason that I often use my computers in low light or darkness. This allows me to limit my exposure to light when working late, and thus avoid disrupting my circadian rhythm due to the effect of light on the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
So, yes, seriously. Lights.
has nothing to do with "poor SSL practices".
FTA:
The preview program... will be available to Skype customers who... are using Windows 8.1 on the desktop or device.
That's a showstopper for me right there.
Nice! I'll have to remember that.
Here's a tip: If updates are pending but you want to shutdown quickly, don't choose Shutdown. Choose Log Off instead. Then, from the logon screen, you can choose either "Install updates and shutdown", or just "Shutdown".
I dunno what video you're talking about, but the video linked from TFA shows exactly what you're describing.
Men sit down to poop, i don't hear them ever argue about who left the seat up, they just check before sitting.
Of course you don't "hear them ever argue". Who do you suppose the man might argue with, given that he would be the one who left the seat up?
With FTP acting as fragile as glass in the world of NAT and firewalls...
I've built several NAT firewalls using OpenBSD and pf. They make it very easy to accommodate both FTP clients and servers behind NAT, by providing a simple-to-use ftp-proxy.
Easy to setup, works like a charm :)
FTA:
What we can say about these organisms is that they do not belong with the bilateria.
When I look at the photos, they seem to have rough bilateral symmetry.
What a useless and whinging article! You find remote support frustrating? Some of us recall the days before remote support was an option, having to hop in a car and drive somewhere every time a problem occurred. Remote support is a f*cking godsend. Don't work in support if you can't handle a bit of frustration.
Actually, real pros use
cat > filename
then type Ctrl-d when done.
Seriously.
I don't know if those machines are capable of competing for bitcoins, but it might be fun to try. Years ago I used to configure underused computers to do distributed computing stuff like SETI@home. Now there are programs like Folding@home where you can donate resources to medical research.
Evidently no Douglas Adams fans around to mod you up.
(If you had RTFA, you too could have stolen that comment).
We already have things like User Account Control that prompt for explicit authorization for potentially detrimental actions. Perhaps systems like SCCM should have an option to require authorization from two people (like turning two keys to launch a nuke) for operations such as wiping out hundreds of computers.
This would not prevent a rogue administrator from wreaking havoc, but it might eliminate the "accident" defense.
Funniest comment I've read in a while :)
I press F1 for help like a naive fool. It helpfully informed me that the setting configures L3 Mode to either mode 5 or mode 7.
This reminds me of the "help" feature in every system BIOS I've ever worked with.
Sure!
For God's sake, there's no reason to damage the paint! These things are stuck on with adhesive, and a suitable solvent is all you need. I've removed things like dealership logos with a rag dipped in gasoline and some gentle prying.
Cook responded that there are many things Apple does because they are right and just, and that a return on investment (ROI) was not the primary consideration on such issues.
Isn't it the law that directors of a public company have a fiduciary duty to make a profit for their investors? Regardless of whether it's morally right or wrong, it seems to me that Cook is admitting here to a breach of his fiduciary duty.
Is this a general method for bypassing EMET protections, or is it only applicable to one specific IE exploit?