Posts by Richard 208 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Apr 2007
Years ago, working on an ISP helpdesk, I got a call from someone having problems with their connection.
One of the things was making sure that the password was correct and his was something like "12f*ck34". I phonetically spelled this to him and as an aside said that the passwords were randomly generated.
"That's what I thought" he said, "but my best friend's contains c*nt"
If Adobe had done it as a "send to my printing place" with a defined means by which ANY printer could receive documents via a webservice or however it's done, then it would be a really good idea. Instead, they focused on getting what probably is a tiny amount of money in the grand scheme of things via a stupid tie-in. They're probably going to lose more in terms of lost good will and lost sales than they ever stood to gain, so why did they do it?
It's the Federal Trade Commission, as established by the 4th word of the article.
I would suspect that upon being told that NHS stood for National Health Service, Americans could have a darn good guess as to what it did. It's not like there aren't often analogues to various national institutions.
How many times does this have to happen before it becomes mandatory for encryption of certain data types such as payroll? With programs like TrueCrypt being free and relatively easy to use (certainly easier than payroll programs!) there is really no excuse. If access to that information away from the office is really so important, then so is protecting it!
'In it, the US military warns that the Chinese communists are developing new nuclear weapons, spy satellites, anti-spacecraft laser beams and "information warfare units to develop viruses."'
And meanwhile the US military are doing what? Developing small focussed nukes, spy satellites, Son of Star Wars etc etc.
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