The transport itself - most likely not. They wouldn't be spending all kinds of time and effort to break into certificate authorities so that they can generate their own "trusted" certificates for whatever websites that they wish.
The notion that there are "trusted" root certificates is where the problem lies. But I have not seen anyone come up with a workable alternative.
Or maybe lolcats with motivational messages from the CEO?
Seriously - F***erberg is just trying to blow more smoke up the backsides of people on Wall Street and try and convince them that he has a plan for "growth". If they were to admit that they have maxed out the number of people, the stock price would plummet.
that as time goes on, you end up using more and more complicated and advanced tools (oftentimes built out of a multitude of 3rd-party components that get sewn together like a sort of Frankenstein monster). As long as everything works properly everything is fine. But when they stop working for some reason, you have a problem. As a developer, the inner workings of the tools are by design pretty opaque, and yes in *theory* you can download the source and try and debug the thing yourself, but that's an incredibly poor use of ones time.
Well, it can lead to identity theft for one thing which is a huge pain in the neck. It ultimately means that we all pay for it in terms of higher fees for credit cards and also fees being charged to merchants.
You can divide learning Chinese into two parts, really. Learning to speak is one thing. Learning to read and write the characters is quite another.
Personally I didn't find the spoken language all that difficult - I found the sentence structure and the grammar fairly straightforward. Some westerners have difficulty with the tonality - I guess I think of it as being that there are just certain ways you pronounce things. In English you can screw up pronunciation by putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable - using the wrong tone in Chinese is sort of similar.
The written language introduces all sorts of interesting issues, and you have to learn how the characters are classified in order to properly use a Chinese dictionary. All characters have a radical (oftentimes suggestive of meaning) and a phonetic component. Once you learn how to classify the characters, you can sometimes "sound out" a word - sometimes to discover that it is one that you already know but had forgotten what the characters were.
That's true, but there is nothing stopping a USB dongle from using x509 or PKCS#12. Typically any card or token that is also capable of being used for Windows login has these capabilities.
I haven't found enough about this new thing to say how they work yet. The *implication* from Yubikey is that you need a "NEO" version for U2F, and it *sounds* like at least some of these capabilities may be present on that token. I will probably end up ordering one just for grins and giggles, and from there I should be able to query the thing and see whether it really supports x509 and/or PKCS#12.
On newer versions of Windows, a typical application will no longer have permissions to write to HKLM\Software - any per-run gunk should get stored in HKCU instead, and it is a lot less painful to wipe your profile and start from a clean HKCU hive than it is to reinstall all of Windows.
I have long suspected that the problem is simply bad registry fragmentation, but I haven't tested the theory. For what it is worth, there are tools out there that claim to defragment the registry. I suppose they might help.
Years ago, people would joke that "emacs" stood for "Eight megabytes and constantly swapping". At the time, it was meant as an insult. These days, 8Mb is hardly anything.
You say he is not blundering around stupidly, and yet he offered Scotland the opportunity to vote for independence, which I would argue was a monumental blunder right there..
The funny thing is that the other day I took one of the cats into the vet for an exam, and when I went to pay I found that they had a chip card reader, and it worked the way it was supposed to. My the first chip-card transaction in the U.S., and it was at a small mom-and-pop.
I should note that for many months, Home Depot has had chip card readers at their POS terminals, but they are not yet active.
To do that, you would really need to buy two. But I guess the upside is that you would then have the ability to use your apps while taking a phone call.
There is also the question of how good a job they do with encrypting the data. Who at the cloud company would have the ability to decrypt the data? Are there regular security audits by an outside party who can affirm that the things the cloud company claims are in fact accurate?
It gets even more complicated for enterprise users. What happens when an employee leaves the company? How is access controlled to prevent continued access? What about data that you might possess that you might have received under an NDA? How is this controlled so that this information cannot leak to outsiders?
To me, cloud is all smoke and mirrors. Most cloud providers are really targeting consumers by offering a free service so that they can mine data and deliver more advertisements. The old saying is that if you aren't paying for the service, then *you* are the product. If you are cool with all of this, then go at it.
I suppose what you could do is go into a long story about how you know of someone with the same name who was convicted of some crime (something pretty lurid - like having sex with animals), and ask them whether they are related. And then go into this long story about what it was that this person supposedly did.
If we could get a record of the IP addresses from which they attempt the remote connections, one could try and blacklist them. But I suppose once they figured it out, they would move to another ISP.
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They have computers there? Who knew!
The transport itself - most likely not. They wouldn't be spending all kinds of time and effort to break into certificate authorities so that they can generate their own "trusted" certificates for whatever websites that they wish.
The notion that there are "trusted" root certificates is where the problem lies. But I have not seen anyone come up with a workable alternative.
Or maybe lolcats with motivational messages from the CEO?
Seriously - F***erberg is just trying to blow more smoke up the backsides of people on Wall Street and try and convince them that he has a plan for "growth". If they were to admit that they have maxed out the number of people, the stock price would plummet.
that as time goes on, you end up using more and more complicated and advanced tools (oftentimes built out of a multitude of 3rd-party components that get sewn together like a sort of Frankenstein monster). As long as everything works properly everything is fine. But when they stop working for some reason, you have a problem. As a developer, the inner workings of the tools are by design pretty opaque, and yes in *theory* you can download the source and try and debug the thing yourself, but that's an incredibly poor use of ones time.
You can keep telling yourself that, but nobody is buying it.
Well, it can lead to identity theft for one thing which is a huge pain in the neck. It ultimately means that we all pay for it in terms of higher fees for credit cards and also fees being charged to merchants.
The reports are that the cloud provider part of the business is losing stunning amounts of money.
You can divide learning Chinese into two parts, really. Learning to speak is one thing. Learning to read and write the characters is quite another.
Personally I didn't find the spoken language all that difficult - I found the sentence structure and the grammar fairly straightforward. Some westerners have difficulty with the tonality - I guess I think of it as being that there are just certain ways you pronounce things. In English you can screw up pronunciation by putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable - using the wrong tone in Chinese is sort of similar.
The written language introduces all sorts of interesting issues, and you have to learn how the characters are classified in order to properly use a Chinese dictionary. All characters have a radical (oftentimes suggestive of meaning) and a phonetic component. Once you learn how to classify the characters, you can sometimes "sound out" a word - sometimes to discover that it is one that you already know but had forgotten what the characters were.
That's true, but there is nothing stopping a USB dongle from using x509 or PKCS#12. Typically any card or token that is also capable of being used for Windows login has these capabilities.
I haven't found enough about this new thing to say how they work yet. The *implication* from Yubikey is that you need a "NEO" version for U2F, and it *sounds* like at least some of these capabilities may be present on that token. I will probably end up ordering one just for grins and giggles, and from there I should be able to query the thing and see whether it really supports x509 and/or PKCS#12.
Hand me the Windows 10 installation CD, and I will go and get a hammer.
were much greater threats to the internet.
But then there would be the inevitable Spinal Tap jokes.
On newer versions of Windows, a typical application will no longer have permissions to write to HKLM\Software - any per-run gunk should get stored in HKCU instead, and it is a lot less painful to wipe your profile and start from a clean HKCU hive than it is to reinstall all of Windows.
I have long suspected that the problem is simply bad registry fragmentation, but I haven't tested the theory. For what it is worth, there are tools out there that claim to defragment the registry. I suppose they might help.
Years ago, people would joke that "emacs" stood for "Eight megabytes and constantly swapping". At the time, it was meant as an insult. These days, 8Mb is hardly anything.
You say he is not blundering around stupidly, and yet he offered Scotland the opportunity to vote for independence, which I would argue was a monumental blunder right there..
The funny thing is that the other day I took one of the cats into the vet for an exam, and when I went to pay I found that they had a chip card reader, and it worked the way it was supposed to. My the first chip-card transaction in the U.S., and it was at a small mom-and-pop.
I should note that for many months, Home Depot has had chip card readers at their POS terminals, but they are not yet active.
that schizophrenia itself has a bit of a split personality.
To do that, you would really need to buy two. But I guess the upside is that you would then have the ability to use your apps while taking a phone call.
I was hoping for a Maxwell Smart style shoe phone myself.
There is also the question of how good a job they do with encrypting the data. Who at the cloud company would have the ability to decrypt the data? Are there regular security audits by an outside party who can affirm that the things the cloud company claims are in fact accurate?
It gets even more complicated for enterprise users. What happens when an employee leaves the company? How is access controlled to prevent continued access? What about data that you might possess that you might have received under an NDA? How is this controlled so that this information cannot leak to outsiders?
To me, cloud is all smoke and mirrors. Most cloud providers are really targeting consumers by offering a free service so that they can mine data and deliver more advertisements. The old saying is that if you aren't paying for the service, then *you* are the product. If you are cool with all of this, then go at it.
I suppose what you could do is go into a long story about how you know of someone with the same name who was convicted of some crime (something pretty lurid - like having sex with animals), and ask them whether they are related. And then go into this long story about what it was that this person supposedly did.
If we could get a record of the IP addresses from which they attempt the remote connections, one could try and blacklist them. But I suppose once they figured it out, they would move to another ISP.
Tell them that the only way you will pay is if they take Bitcoins. Hmm, they might actually take that. Maybe Dogecoins instead.
I never get these calls, so I miss out on the fun. Just as well - I am pretty busy, so I don't have a lot of time for hijinks..
The legislators were mainly interested in getting a price break from Microsoft, and they found a way to do it.