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  1. Re:My Heart and my head on Twitter Will Hand Over Data On the User Who Sent a Seizure-Inducing Tweet To a Journalist (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, it was a flashing GIF that said, 'you deserve a seizure'. This was a deliberate attack.

    http://cdn2.ubergizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/twitter-seizure.jpg

  2. Re: Supply and Demand - where is the demand? on New Smart Guns Will Have Fingerprint Readers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is it greater or less than the trauma of what would have happened otherwise? An extreme example, but I'm pretty sure every rape victim would rather live with the effects of killing their assailant rather than of the rape they would have committed.

  3. Re:CS should _not_ be taught to teenagers on Code.org Disses Wolfram Language, Touts Apple's Swift Playgrounds (edsurge.com) · · Score: 2

    Computers run the world, so they do need to understand how they work in a general way. To do this I they should give students a general understanding of logical structures and how computer programs work. Knowing a particular language, or making that the focus, won't do most of them any good.

  4. Re:Time to update firewalls. on How SSL/TLS Encryption Hides Malware (cso.com.au) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, if there was a device that could real time (or even near time) decrypt the traffic for inspection, it would negate the point of having it encrypted in the first place. The only way to inspect SSL/TLS traffic is with a MITM design with a trusted certificate on the client machines.

  5. Re:Really? on Tesla: Model X Accident Caused By Driver Error, Not Autopilot (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the bigger point is that the car wasn't in autopilot mode at the time. I don't think the drivers are realizing that they can check and call them on their bullshit.

  6. Re: Institute an intellectal property tax on IBM Has Been Awarded An Average Of 24 Patents Per Day So Far In 2016 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That seems like a lot, and then you realize that IBM is on pace for 8,760 patents this year. Something is broken.

  7. Re:how do they get a rip? on DVD Release Delays Boost Piracy and Hurt Sales, Study Shows (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Sometimes it's from the factory making them for the US. So the torrent sites have the real products well in advance of anyone being able to buy it.

  8. Re:Possible translation: on Apple CEO Tim Cook: I'd Require All Children To Start Coding In 4th Grade (thehill.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He seems a lot like Balmer to me. Milking their existing product lines and introducing new products that just follow the competition.

  9. Well, if you want to secure mobile devices you go with a mobile device management solution which would put your corporate cert on their phone and force it to use the proxy. It'd also help protect them when they're not on the corporate WiFi.

  10. Except if you're scanning your company machines, you can do exactly what the OP said Blue Coat should have done. Issue your own cert, and make all your workstations trust it.

  11. Re:Refuse to transfer knowledge on IT Employees At EmblemHealth Fight To Save Jobs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Other companies have made the severance package dependent on helping with the transition. They probably only need a few key people to break ranks and it all falls apart.

  12. Re: Fascinating on Hacker's Account of How He Took Down Hacking Team's Servers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You may want to read the write up. Windows had nothing to do with this hack. He created his own 0day against an internet facing appliance. He doesn't name it, but that his follow-up step was to install some additional Unix utilities, we know it was a *nix box. Then he found that their iSCSI network wasn't properly segmented away from the user network, and there was no authentication configured. That's a human error.

  13. Re:Fascinating on Hacker's Account of How He Took Down Hacking Team's Servers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seems like this was a hard shell, gooey center setup. So once he got in, he found the mis-configured iSCSI, and then the game was over.

    Really drives home that you need layers in place to block/detect lateral movement.

  14. Re:Three words on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This. A replica is not a backup.

  15. Re:When Mr. Trump says fraud and waste .... on TSA Paid $1.4 Million For Randomizer App That Chooses Left Or Right (geek.com) · · Score: 2

    Except this is America, and the TSA seems to pick from the bottom of the barrel, so your plan would just result in extra 'screening' for all the hot chicks? If you think that's absurd, see how good a job they did picking who to run through the body scanners.

  16. Re:Heartbleed on Putin's Internet Czar Wants To Ban Windows On Government PCs · · Score: 1

    Heartbleed was a mistake and got missed for years. Imagine how hard it would be to find something that was built to be hidden?

  17. Re:So it's reversable at home? on German Carpenter's Testicluar Valve Could Mean An On/Off Switch For Sperm · · Score: 1

    She can't stop me, but if it negatively impacts her desire to have sex, it defeats the purpose.

  18. Re:So it's reversable at home? on German Carpenter's Testicluar Valve Could Mean An On/Off Switch For Sperm · · Score: 1

    Way to generalize. I wanted to shut down the babymakers, wife wants none of it. We don't want more kids, but something in her is bothered by the idea of having sex with a sterile man.

  19. Re:I get the concern, but .... on Can High-Tech Academia Survive Silicon Valley's Talent Binge? · · Score: 1

    I think you're confusing the undergrad and graduate parts of the house. These professors probably are doing research and then teaching and advising graduate students. Graduate school is more about independent thought than the hear and repeat of the undergraduate experience.

  20. Re:"You were wrong and here's our evidence." on Ex-Ashley Madison CTO Threatens Libel Suit Against Journalist · · Score: 1

    Even if we accept the bullshit hand waving that way he said isn't what he meant, I'm not sure that drawing a lot of attention to e-mails where you admit to criminal activity is smart.

  21. Re:marketing speak: "customer experience" on Windows Telemetry Rolls Out · · Score: 1

    I think they need to be crystal clear about what they're collecting, when, and provide a way to really opt out. That said, CEIP is how they learn what people are doing with the OS. What program do they use, what control panel apps do they run, what settings do they change, how do they use the start menu. CEIP data is where they decided that no one used the start menu, so it was OK to trash it. Of course, all of us power users turning those features off meant they had a really bad sample population.

  22. Re:Info from the actual article on Windows Telemetry Rolls Out · · Score: 1

    I'd bet that most of the people just clicked next during the install question about the CEIP, since the default is yes. They didn't know what it did and now are upset about it, even though they still don't know what it does.

  23. Re:Back to Firefox on YouTube Reportedly Bypassing Ad Blockers On Google Chrome · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We see Google in so many places that most people don't know that (financially) they're an ad company. All of the other businesses feed back into their money making line of business.

  24. Re:List of privacy violations on Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard · · Score: 1

    Does that bridge come with Wireshark logs or just a tinfoil hat?

  25. Re:RTFA? on Ask Slashdot: Can You Disable Windows 10's Privacy-Invading Features? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not sure if none is in the GUI, but it is in Group Policy. Telemetry None is an enterprise edition only setting.