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  1. Re:Low power server / clusters? on ARM-Based Servers Coming In 2011 · · Score: 1
  2. Re:What does DNSSEC mean for ISPs that mess wtih D on DNSSEC May Cause Problems On May 5 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    DNS clients that request Authenticated Data will be able to detect that the response is not authentic. So it depends on how the DNS client handles that situation.

    Possibly the ISP could fake there being no DNS servers supporting DNSSEC available and convince the client to accept the un-signed version. I suspect that turning on DNSSEC on all the root servers is specifically designed to stop this though.

  3. Re:Improved driver support on Tom's Hardware On the Current Stable of Office Apps For Linux · · Score: 1

    Printer drivers are most certainly not included in the kernel... for obvious security reasons.

  4. Re:Actually it's security as an import regulation on India, China Try Import Regulations As Security Tools · · Score: 1

    I definitely agree with you, but I'd take it one step farther.

    By issuing this as a security restriction they are completely circumventing the WTO, which would otherwise slap them with export tariffs.

  5. Re:S/MIME trust model on Symantec To Acquire PGP and GuardianEdge · · Score: 1

    They're freely available from comodo and instantssl. http://www.instantssl.com/ssl-certificate-products/free-email-certificate.html http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/free-email-certificate.php

    However they just verify your email address not your identity, but fortunately nobody is going to notice that...

  6. Re:Not bad on Symantec To Acquire PGP and GuardianEdge · · Score: 1

    I just want a nice lock icon in clients inboxes. It makes them feel all warm and fuzzy. :P

  7. Re:S/MIME trust model on Symantec To Acquire PGP and GuardianEdge · · Score: 1

    S/MIME relies entirely on central certificate authorities. Of course in a corporate environment you would create your own certificate authority.

  8. Re:Not bad on Symantec To Acquire PGP and GuardianEdge · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should look up what a signature is...

  9. Re:Not bad on Symantec To Acquire PGP and GuardianEdge · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't be using PGP for email encryption anyways. S/MIME is built into almost all modern email clients. The real reason that email encryption has not caught on is that it is basically impossible to implement it in webmail clients. (although signing is still possible).

  10. Re:This is not an important security article. on Anyone Can Play Big Brother With BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    The only thing even slightly interesting about this is how centralized the trackers actually are.

    But I guess they wouldn't see the private trackers at all.

  11. Re:It should read 'stoopid people hath spoken' on Terry Childs Found Guilty · · Score: 1

    You mean the one that also explicitly states

    All production system-level passwords must be part of the security administered global password management database.

    Not to mention that it clearly states on the cover page

    California Counties “Best Policies” for the Countywide Information Security Program

    If he was smart he would have just said "I don't know the passwords".

  12. Re:Wow on Massive Number of GoDaddy WordPress Blogs Hacked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wordpress the opensource Blogging software, not wordpress.com the hosted blogging provider.

    This attack did not target Google at all. Whoever modded you interesting failed.

  13. Re:Done on IEEE Introduces Mario Level-Generation Competition · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of people in battle.net are cheating, it's kind of ridiculous.

  14. Re:Done on IEEE Introduces Mario Level-Generation Competition · · Score: 0, Troll

    I could find the waypoints and everything of interest instantly in Diablo 2 100% of the time. ;)

  15. Re:Hmmm... on Emulation For Preservation of Digital Artifacts · · Score: 1

    The Gutmann wipe has been overkill for a very long time. Disk density is high enough that a single random pass is enough.

  16. Reverse Engineering? on Hacking Big Brother With Help From Revlon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Harvey's research involves the reverse engineering of OpenCV, which its creators describe as an open-source "library of programming functions for real-time computer vision."

    Oh the reg whatever shall we do with you...

  17. Re:You are clueless if you claim such a thing on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure the Nazis where interested in more than that ya know given how they invaded and conquered most of europe?

  18. Re:Gotta love... on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 1

    The ninth and finnal crusade happened circa 1300. Yeah that's totally recent history. (My bad)

  19. Re:Gotta love... on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 1

    Yeah dude sommething that happened over 600 years ago is totally relevent to a death threat made today against cartoonists.

    Please.

  20. Re:You are clueless if you claim such a thing on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 0

    What? The IRA was night fighting over christianity. They where fighting for independency of northern Ireland. How is that even remotely related?

  21. Re:Gotta love... on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not exactly recent history.

  22. Re:I painfully threw away three P.C.s just this we on True Tales of Tech Hoarding · · Score: 1

    Took out the memory (???? who is going to use the old memory- why did I do that?)

    Old memory can actually be fairly valuable since they don't manufacture it anymore. I recently sold a 64MB DDR SO-DIMM for $25.

  23. Re:easy solution on New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space · · Score: 1

    For our friends in the Uk that would be more like

    1. find the GPS receiver
    2. ???
    3. write a strongly worded letter to Gordon Brown telling him to fuck off
  24. Re:Doesn't necessarily do anything on Anatomy of Linux Kernel Shared Memory · · Score: 1

    Are you serious or are you a troll? The reason not to do a global scan is in the quote I just gave you form the article.

    Although it would be possible for KSM to simply scan all anonymous pages in the system, it would be wasteful of CPU and memory (given the space necessary to manage the page-merging process).

    You don't do a full memory scan because the red-black tree would more than double the memory usage during the scan.

  25. *Yawn* Nothing of Interest Here on SIP Attacks From Amazon EC2 Going Unaddressed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Basically someone used EC2 to launch dictionary attacks against SIP providers. This could have been done from data center or even by a botnet. He's just mad that amazon ignored him.

    This is nothing more than someone rying to improve security through wack-a-mole.