It is responsible of the poster to not reveal which companies have weaknesses he has discovered.
WARNING! WARNING! You are entering a ethical gray area in which arguments either way have valid points, please give this issue the respect it deserves and don't try to treat this like some cut-and-dry right-or-wrong answer.
I, for one, could put forward the argument that it is the responsibility of the poster to fully disclose to the public, (after first notifying the offenders and waiting a reasonable amount of time), so that those of us who are vulnerable to such a social engineering attack, can know about it and react accordingly.
Facilitating != promoting or encouraging.
A gun facilitates murder, it does not, however, make you any more likely to kill someone (unless they would have otherwise killed you first).
We all know the primary factor for all this here is just good ol fashioned piracy.
You ever try to play a CSS encoded DVD in Linux without violating some ridiculous DMCA BS?
This is Slashdot. Not everybody here uses software the MPAA deems worthy of receiving these vaunted keys.
But we're not talking about printers or straw men, are we? The point is it's not Zonk's fault that you misread a headline that clearly states:
IT: 2012 Olympics Security to be Chosen by Sponsorship
Zonk isn't reading this aloud over a loudspeaker, its typed text. That means you have to use the reading comprehension I know you possess instead of glancing momentarily and pretending it's the editor's fault.
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At one time "the vast majority of experts on the topic believe[d]" that the earth was flat.
WARNING! WARNING! You are entering a ethical gray area in which arguments either way have valid points, please give this issue the respect it deserves and don't try to treat this like some cut-and-dry right-or-wrong answer.
I, for one, could put forward the argument that it is the responsibility of the poster to fully disclose to the public, (after first notifying the offenders and waiting a reasonable amount of time), so that those of us who are vulnerable to such a social engineering attack, can know about it and react accordingly.
Let's not forget,
Both respond most favorably and most immediately to a large caliber bullet to the head.
Facilitating != promoting or encouraging. A gun facilitates murder, it does not, however, make you any more likely to kill someone (unless they would have otherwise killed you first).
... Says Anonymous Coward
I, for one, welcome our new super-cool laser-wielding awesome robotic overlords.
Troll? That's a little unfair
GTalk as in Google Talk?
That is just Jabber, you know.
Just connect to Google.com and enter your username and password, and voila!
Is this another article in need of the 'thievingcunts' tag?
This is Slashdot. Not everybody here uses software the MPAA deems worthy of receiving these vaunted keys.
But we're not talking about printers or straw men, are we? The point is it's not Zonk's fault that you misread a headline that clearly states:
IT: 2012 Olympics Security to be Chosen by Sponsorship
Zonk isn't reading this aloud over a loudspeaker, its typed text. That means you have to use the reading comprehension I know you possess instead of glancing momentarily and pretending it's the editor's fault.
Yes, because it's not like this is some sort of tech or IT news on IT.Slashdot.org
Coincidentally, guess which country on that list will never be sanctioned.
I seriously doubt anyone in the US is in grave danger of having too much freedom.
You can use HTML in these posts, you know, instead of putting /slashes/ you can actually italicize things.
Yes, but will it run lin-
Damn.
Wtf this isn't troll, it's sarcasm.
Mods are asleep today.
*whoosh*
Did you even read his post?
Whose steady finger would you like, and where do you want it?
I walk my virtual dog around Second Life every day you insensitive clod!
requires literally millions of hours You literally didn't do the math there, did you?
You must be new here.
Maybe because without an internal referral URL, your link just redirects to the same thing, hmmm?
I think I heard a big whoosh there somewhere.
Cliche = grammar?