Finally reality has caught up with this inflated bubble. The lack of retailers accepting bitcoin as payment method and the horrible scaling issues which rendered micro payments impossible really made BTC a horrible option for what it actually was meant to be used for.
Let just hope that the next big cryptocurrency can be used for anything other then speculation.
Personally I spent my tiny investment a couple of weeks ago. The main SELL signal for me was when Steam stopped accepting BTC.
Well, it actually doesn't, at least not reliably. With the ability to retroactively alter history, you can never be 100% sure that someone didn't sneak a change into the repository without reviewing every line of every diff. Have fun!
I consider this to be really good news, although the Facebook mails might not be the number one prio for applying encryption... besides when used for password recovery.
First it raises awareness about PGP which might cause more people to use PGP to encrypt and sign their emails.
Secondly I hope that more communities (LinkedIn, Twitter etc) follow this and thus raises even more awareness.
No news about supporting Google Chromecast? The discussion on the forum[1] has been dead quite some time. I can see in the git repo that there actually *is* code present (cast.cpp) and I would guess that this would be a really appreciated feature.
Exactly what do you mean is backdoored?
This is a protocol for signing a certificate and anyone can view their proposal: https://github.com/letsencrypt...
Irrelevant.
The "certificate authority that issues free certificates to any website" can actually be one or many of the CAs that is popular today. This is just a new protocol for the way to get a certificate signed by one of these CAs.
So if some CA issues as a cert to the NSA for your domain right now there is nothing here that prevents that CA for doing it when using this new protocol.
9:42 may be good enough for the masses but for the elite only 13:37 will do. [...]
13:37 would be a horrible timestamp to use in US ads. Some people would actually discard the product since it is a 24 hour clock instead of 12 hour AM/PM.
No need. FRA will not just monitor email, sms and telephone traffic -- they will also monitor "normal" surfing. This is a much simpler way to (perhaps) trigger some alarms:
#!/bin/sh
WORDS="bomd nuclear+bomb jihad destroy+the+Swedish+government bomb+assembly+guide kill+Fredrik+Reinfeldt"
for i in $WORDS; do
wget -U 'fittfra' http://www.google.com/search?q=$i
done
The Linux Documentation Project is a really great site with loads of HOWTO's and guides. Really worth checking out if you have a relatively big task to do (eg. setting up a mailserver or such).
If you want help with smaller tasks I would recommend finding a nice channel on freenode (IRC).
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Finally reality has caught up with this inflated bubble. The lack of retailers accepting bitcoin as payment method and the horrible scaling issues which rendered micro payments impossible really made BTC a horrible option for what it actually was meant to be used for. Let just hope that the next big cryptocurrency can be used for anything other then speculation. Personally I spent my tiny investment a couple of weeks ago. The main SELL signal for me was when Steam stopped accepting BTC.
At least they have something to discuss at the conference...
Well, it actually doesn't, at least not reliably. With the ability to retroactively alter history, you can never be 100% sure that someone didn't sneak a change into the repository without reviewing every line of every diff. Have fun!
Yes it does. It's called signed tags.
I consider this to be really good news, although the Facebook mails might not be the number one prio for applying encryption... besides when used for password recovery.
First it raises awareness about PGP which might cause more people to use PGP to encrypt and sign their emails.
Secondly I hope that more communities (LinkedIn, Twitter etc) follow this and thus raises even more awareness.
When will /. implement a similar mechanism?
No news about supporting Google Chromecast? The discussion on the forum[1] has been dead quite some time. I can see in the git repo that there actually *is* code present (cast.cpp) and I would guess that this would be a really appreciated feature.
[1]: https://forum.videolan.org/vie...
Exactly what do you mean is backdoored?
This is a protocol for signing a certificate and anyone can view their proposal: https://github.com/letsencrypt...
Irrelevant.
The "certificate authority that issues free certificates to any website" can actually be one or many of the CAs that is popular today. This is just a new protocol for the way to get a certificate signed by one of these CAs. So if some CA issues as a cert to the NSA for your domain right now there is nothing here that prevents that CA for doing it when using this new protocol.
9:42 may be good enough for the masses but for the elite only 13:37 will do. [...]
13:37 would be a horrible timestamp to use in US ads. Some people would actually discard the product since it is a 24 hour clock instead of 12 hour AM/PM.
No need. FRA will not just monitor email, sms and telephone traffic -- they will also monitor "normal" surfing. This is a much simpler way to (perhaps) trigger some alarms:
#!/bin/sh
WORDS="bomd nuclear+bomb jihad destroy+the+Swedish+government bomb+assembly+guide kill+Fredrik+Reinfeldt"
for i in $WORDS; do
wget -U 'fittfra' http://www.google.com/search?q=$i
done
How advanced is the physics? Can anyone follow the scientific arguments or do I need a Ph.D?
From TFA:
Själv tycker han inte att han handskats ovarsamt med sina inloggningsuppgifter.
Translation:
He don't think he's been careless with his login info.
Hasn't anyone explained to him yet how stupid and careless this was?
I can't remember a day going by without seeing a JavaScript error being thrown in ANY browser.
It hasn't occured to you that those errors might come from terrible JavaScript code on the page?
The Linux Documentation Project is a really great site with loads of HOWTO's and guides. Really worth checking out if you have a relatively big task to do (eg. setting up a mailserver or such).
If you want help with smaller tasks I would recommend finding a nice channel on freenode (IRC).
and a submitter calling his articles funny just reeks of PC Mag employee.
Not just funny but extremly funny.
Why do stories like this even make it to Slashdot anymore?
/.) can feel good with themselves.
So every non-IE user (probably a fairly high percentage of
So now I can scream the answers at my computer instead of the TV! Gotta love technology...
Yeah, but you're supposed to scream the question.
Let's face it, what difference would this list make? Would you bother to read it? And what would you to the companys in the list? Boycott everyone?
:)
I find it easier trying to stay out of the adware itself