I'm going to start a consulting firm whose only service is changing passwords. I'll telnet in from home and take my 800-line calls in my pajamas, and for this remarkable service I'll charge $300 each, and call that a discount.
And for a volume discount, I'll personally rap lusers upside the head when they reach $3,000 or more in charges.
/m
Re:Personal Certificates are the answer!
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And if you expanded the concept, it could include some management program to keep track of your real Verisign cert, your "free" certs and anything in between. I think it would be just awesome if someone came up with the "marketing cert". You put whatever personal information you feel comfortable with inside a cert, then the website that wants it can come and get it from you, instead of those @*#&ing forms you have to fill out (which is the prompt for the password issue, anyway)./m
Mistake number one was trusting an ISP to do anything right, and squeezing the time constraints to fit their schedule. If the ISP wants business, they'll do it your way unless they're also a telco.
It seems the farther up you go from net tech, the more the "I don't care about that" mentality blossoms. Your boss worries but has no understanding of what goes into networking, so he somewhat cares. The ISP doesn't worry at all unless you stop payment on the setup-fee check, and their telco provider doesn't know you exist, much less care about your service.
I guess the X-files paraphrase works if you're a sysadmin; TRUST NO-ONE! Always assume that an external entity is going to fsck you and plan on them doing it at the most inopportune time.
Beware the inferences M$ is making here. Basically, a corporation like M$ can release a product called SMS, charge $1000 for it, target its usefulness toward admins and call the entire charade "productivity management software".
Now open source authors can come along and develop something that we can see the source code for, is anti-bloat, but has something of a devious name and does the same thing as SMS. Therefore its intentions are malicious, the program is trojan horse, a virus, blah blah blah.
Never mind that someone with less than good intentions can use either software package to do bad things. I suppose that if you install FreeBSD on a dual-boot computer with its new capability to read NTFS partitions, that is also a "intentional security risk" propagated by the "evil open-source programmers".
I know that the science of polarization doesn't support it, but what if the "stealth screen" were blue instead of white? Then I suppose the USA Today article referring to hiding "your Windows desktop" would have to explain:
Glasses off... blue screen... stealth mode Glasses on... blue screen... normal Windows malfunction.
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I'm going to start a consulting firm whose only service is changing passwords. I'll telnet in from home and take my 800-line calls in my pajamas, and for this remarkable service I'll charge $300 each, and call that a discount.
And for a volume discount, I'll personally rap lusers upside the head when they reach $3,000 or more in charges.
/m
And if you expanded the concept, it could include some management program to keep track of your real Verisign cert, your "free" certs and anything in between. I think it would be just awesome if someone came up with the "marketing cert". You put whatever personal information you feel comfortable with inside a cert, then the website that wants it can come and get it from you, instead of those @*#&ing forms you have to fill out (which is the prompt for the password issue, anyway). /m
Mistake number one was trusting an ISP to do anything right, and squeezing the time constraints to fit their schedule. If the ISP wants business, they'll do it your way unless they're also a telco.
It seems the farther up you go from net tech, the more the "I don't care about that" mentality blossoms. Your boss worries but has no understanding of what goes into networking, so he somewhat cares. The ISP doesn't worry at all unless you stop payment on the setup-fee check, and their telco provider doesn't know you exist, much less care about your service.
I guess the X-files paraphrase works if you're a sysadmin; TRUST NO-ONE! Always assume that an external entity is going to fsck you and plan on them doing it at the most inopportune time.
/m
Beware the inferences M$ is making here. Basically, a corporation like M$ can release a product called SMS, charge $1000 for it, target its usefulness toward admins and call the entire charade "productivity management software".
Now open source authors can come along and develop something that we can see the source code for, is anti-bloat, but has something of a devious name and does the same thing as SMS. Therefore its intentions are malicious, the program is trojan horse, a virus, blah blah blah.
Never mind that someone with less than good intentions can use either software package to do bad things. I suppose that if you install FreeBSD on a dual-boot computer with its new capability to read NTFS partitions, that is also a "intentional security risk" propagated by the "evil open-source programmers".
I know that the science of polarization doesn't support it, but what if the "stealth screen" were blue instead of white? Then I suppose the USA Today article referring to hiding "your Windows desktop" would have to explain:
... blue screen ... stealth mode ... blue screen ... normal Windows malfunction.
Glasses off
Glasses on