"Last week, Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, not just authentication."
Unfortunately not available for anyone who has their own domain's email hosted at google:(
Now that usable websites can be created by anybody (mostly because the simplest HTML works best), people who have a career programming websites are a bit stuck.
They can't really advertise being able to create the best types of website (basic HTML) because anyone can do that and most clients are getting along perfectly well with their grandson running the website. Why would anyone pay professionals for that?
So the only reason you'd hire a webdesign professional, is if for some reason you wanted Flash content. Hence the lack of webdesigners using normal, sane techniques. Hence their lack of work. Hence the decrease in their workload as every site they design fails on the iphone or eee or freerunner or ubuntu desktop or flashblocked firefox.
(all browsers should have FlashBlock, it's invaluable at saving your sanity)
So yes, web designers will all use flash. That's because web designers aren't needed anymore to make websites.
1) Most employers want five years of recent, verifiable, full-time, professional experience.
2) Offshore, and guest workers are still much cheaper.
3) Even if an American can manage to get a development job, salaries are going down the toilet.
So FS work won't get you a job at an offshoring low-paying company that wants 5 years experience for a graduate salary? Oh, big loss missing-out on that job... NOT!
Basically it's going to take some ISP or country-wide firewall doing bulk, automated MitM attacks before the idea ever gets any publicity. At the moment, it's just a what-if (= don't worry) for most people since nobody has actually tried to masquerade as their favorite encrypted website before
If you refuse, you refuse. They then can't get to your data.
This really cuts to the core of why encrypting yourself is better than trusting someone to do it for you (or worse, trusting someone to store plaintext data for you) -- someone may be able to get the data (by using fascist tools like the UK's RIP act, or the US' torture methods) but they will never be able to do so without your knowledge and once it's broken you will no longer trust that key.
If only popular email clients would ship with encryption built in, set up by the account creation wizard and turned on by default...
But how do you swap keys?
At this point, it would be nice for some organisation to just start signing PGP keys when you fax them a driving license or something, the equivalent to a CA but for PGP keys which traditionally needed huge effort to figure-out if the key matches the person.
If you're encrypting email yourself then hushmail is just unnecessary. Use fireGPG with gmail and you've already got better privacy than hushmail (i.e. no need to trust their java applications)
plus you get the entertainment of watching google struggle to choose adverts for your "----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----" email
"according to Ofcom, they [anyone who doesn't want to pay for broadband] are excluded from broadband... we all know the next step: the rest of us will be forced to finance broadband for the digitally excluded."
"Possible holes : everyone seems fixated on those ID badges. Precisely what is the security on those? RFID, or is it a magnetic strip?"
so you following groups of people from this IRS office around on their lunch break taking photos of any badges for use in forging them, querying their RFID chips as they walk past, and picking up any lost badges (or worse if you're not law-abiding;) to clone them?
Yet these same banks never publish a PGP key, and never ask you for yours.
Then they refuse to use email for anything because "it's insecure" (wouldn't be if you learnt how to use it) but still *love* SSL which relies on your browser being trustworthy
yet they're perfectly happy to exchange the most confidential of information over a standard phone line with no encryption whatsoever
"There is an argument that global warming has caused deserts to grow, but one also has to consider the effect of desert reclamation (the Soviets were big on this) through irrigation and careful land management."
So... Competition:
In the red corner: neglect and lack of care
In the blue corner: irrigation and "careful land management"
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There was a product called Office, but that trademark didn't stop Sun using OpenOffice.
and by "Office" you mean "Microsoft Office"?
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ohim?ohimnum=E7138225
"Office" on its own seems to be a trademark of MARKANT Handels- und Service GmbH
There already is a very similar software product called "TracksClear". I would imagine that "ClearTracks" will be sufficently confusing.
There was already a product called OpenOffice, but that trademark didn't stop Microsoft using OfficeOpen
"Last week, Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, not just authentication."
Unfortunately not available for anyone who has their own domain's email hosted at google :(
Maybe I could open a shop where every product has approximately the same cost per unit mass, then just charge customers by the kilo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_store
I have explicitly asked my web host provider for either SFTP or FTPS. They basically said that it wasn't possible to provide that on a shared host.
Maybe they were confusing it with HTTPS which can't be run on a shared host?
In the UK it's occasionally seen (although you can't use them if you're buying beer since the machine can't verify age)
Now that usable websites can be created by anybody (mostly because the simplest HTML works best), people who have a career programming websites are a bit stuck.
They can't really advertise being able to create the best types of website (basic HTML) because anyone can do that and most clients are getting along perfectly well with their grandson running the website. Why would anyone pay professionals for that?
So the only reason you'd hire a webdesign professional, is if for some reason you wanted Flash content. Hence the lack of webdesigners using normal, sane techniques. Hence their lack of work. Hence the decrease in their workload as every site they design fails on the iphone or eee or freerunner or ubuntu desktop or flashblocked firefox.
(all browsers should have FlashBlock, it's invaluable at saving your sanity)
So yes, web designers will all use flash. That's because web designers aren't needed anymore to make websites.
1) Most employers want five years of recent, verifiable, full-time, professional experience.
2) Offshore, and guest workers are still much cheaper.
3) Even if an American can manage to get a development job, salaries are going down the toilet.
So FS work won't get you a job at an offshoring low-paying company that wants 5 years experience for a graduate salary? Oh, big loss missing-out on that job... NOT!
only 1/3 are operating a public amenity, and you think that's an "improvement"?!?
Dare to suggest a dumber headline then?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/08/01/virgin_goes_down_on_clients/
Basically it's going to take some ISP or country-wide firewall doing bulk, automated MitM attacks before the idea ever gets any publicity. At the moment, it's just a what-if (= don't worry) for most people since nobody has actually tried to masquerade as their favorite encrypted website before
If you refuse, you refuse. They then can't get to your data.
This really cuts to the core of why encrypting yourself is better than trusting someone to do it for you (or worse, trusting someone to store plaintext data for you) -- someone may be able to get the data (by using fascist tools like the UK's RIP act, or the US' torture methods) but they will never be able to do so without your knowledge and once it's broken you will no longer trust that key.
well, unless your PC is insecure...
with SSL - the encryption is encrypted by your ISP can still see the address of the site you are visiting.
Well, they can see the server/domain name, although not the URL surely (the URL being sent inside HTTP, which is encrypted...)
If only popular email clients would ship with encryption built in, set up by the account creation wizard and turned on by default...
But how do you swap keys?
At this point, it would be nice for some organisation to just start signing PGP keys when you fax them a driving license or something, the equivalent to a CA but for PGP keys which traditionally needed huge effort to figure-out if the key matches the person.
If you're encrypting email yourself then hushmail is just unnecessary. Use fireGPG with gmail and you've already got better privacy than hushmail (i.e. no need to trust their java applications)
plus you get the entertainment of watching google struggle to choose adverts for your "----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----" email
"One could always just turn the link scanner off. It requires the clicking of a button, if thats not to hard?"
Surely it requires getting everyone who might visit your website to click the button, which seems infinitely harder?
not for DVDs, but: http://dansdata.com/gz083.htm
so take a video of your touchscreen voting with cellphone before money is sent
or a photo of your marked ballot paper (where someone in the election hall will verify that you didn't swap it for a fresh one)
Makes this article all the more interesting...
"according to Ofcom, they [anyone who doesn't want to pay for broadband] are excluded from broadband ... we all know the next step: the rest of us will be forced to finance broadband for the digitally excluded."
"Possible holes : everyone seems fixated on those ID badges. Precisely what is the security on those? RFID, or is it a magnetic strip?"
so you following groups of people from this IRS office around on their lunch break taking photos of any badges for use in forging them, querying their RFID chips as they walk past, and picking up any lost badges (or worse if you're not law-abiding ;) to clone them?
Yet these same banks never publish a PGP key, and never ask you for yours.
Then they refuse to use email for anything because "it's insecure" (wouldn't be if you learnt how to use it) but still *love* SSL which relies on your browser being trustworthy
yet they're perfectly happy to exchange the most confidential of information over a standard phone line with no encryption whatsoever
"There is an argument that global warming has caused deserts to grow, but one also has to consider the effect of desert reclamation (the Soviets were big on this) through irrigation and careful land management."
So... Competition:
In the red corner: neglect and lack of care
In the blue corner: irrigation and "careful land management"
Both are to be carried-out by humans.
guess who will win?
saw one with "FSM" recently. driver didn't look like a pirate or ninja
OK, so yesterday evening it was unavailable anywhere, and today afternoon it was sold-out in the UK.
This is starting to look like another EEE...
Article is kinda short on web shop links - anyone know where you can buy this already?