Posts by Neal 5 392 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2009
yep 1 in 6, I'd say this is pretty good considering the number of children using comps at home who don't have the first clue about security.
When I was 12 I didn't have the first idea about a condom, I blame my parents for this. I guess the blind leading the blind.
Ain't no way some redneck fascict inbred is gonna have any clue about conp security, I guess that's why they all work for (insert company here).
I've never read so much old bollox in my life.
Who the fuck believes a bean counter, their only interest is fucking everyone for a penny.
Yes maybe q1 is bad, but by the end of q4 everyone including the bean counters are laughing, IBM,Intel,Dell,HP, and whoever else are all feeling economic impact, ergo so are their customers, it's a chain reaction. If you insist on believing Gartners for your analysis then you deserve all you get. You don't need Gartners to tell you the business is down at the moment, you just need to talk to a real person.
Try going to the pub and talking to the one regular instead of the old ten, no ones has money for extras today, not just fucking IBM.
Get your head outta your arse and into the real world for a fucking change.
"Clearly, US intelligence has advanced to the point now where it can be pretty certain that cyber espionage attacks on its networks have been carried out,"............. spot the oxymoron?
" if not directly by Chinese military then certainly by “Chinese actors”." .............. I'm sure Jackie Chan or any other Chinese actor has recourse to legal action for defamation.
it's nothing for me to get worked up 'bout either. I neither have nor desire/crave any Apple products, so for me just another reason not to waste any money on an unwanted unusable , it just doesn't work gadget.. Someone please give me a job in their marketing department, they obviously need a rocket under them or an injection of leather, I'm not a keen fan on bullshit, if you're not sure where that comes from.
I'll take all the down votes you can give me and some more when I post next,
Cheers.
I have not experienced these problems, I am not an Apple fanboi, but there is a genuine reason why I have not experienced these problems, of WiFi connectivity, overheating but not beyond thermal specifications, inability to get FaceTime to work correctly on LTE, why non HD is less than abysmal, no Siri, weak front facing camera, or why enhanced apps tke 3 times as much space on it.
And I bet you already know what that reason is.
Eh, perhaps ypur comprehension is lacking. Apple is part of the retail market, therefore it's value can never exceed the entire retail sector. Shoddy journalism, even more shoddy commenting, still what else can one expect from ElReg, or it's editors. Perhaps you should try, Apple has the largest market cap in the entire retail sector
not just mediocre journalism, a story with absolutely no relevance at all. how can the market cap of one company be compared against the size of a retail market. le3ts compare apples to apples, what is the market cap of the companies making up the retail market, y bet is that then, apples market cap will appear trifling, much like the useless gadgets they sell.
Equally you could say Yahoo does not confirm story, but that would mean you wouldn't be able to create a shitstom of negative feeling towards Yahoo, as demonstrated by posters above, who may have valid points or not.. All your story is, to tell the truth, a mishmash of rumour and hearsay. I know full well how El reg lets you do this, because it's the PRESS and publish or be damned. However in a fragile economic situation, do you not think it wiser to create confidence rather than negativity?. Translated for the US journo, we don't want rumour, we want the truth, or otherwise, if you've nothing good to say, say nothing.
verify the certificates, yes. Brilliant idea and will perhaps renove the fantasy being created that SSL is broken, when it's plain to see the CA's are the problem, solve that and SSL is not broken.
Dan, obviously still no understanding of SSL, perhaps this link will clear your head a wee bit.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/alunj/archive/2011/10/28/1801861.aspx
but I cannot work out how two companies merging reduce the competition by two, surely it would be just one. So either there were only four companies before the seagate-samsung merger not five, or there is another competitor besides the three mentioned.
Apart from which, I'm sure the WD spinoff will be a bargain basement price, same as all of Honda's water logged cars in Thailand being sent for scrap.
1) The mass killing of everyone of pensionable age.
2) The mass killing of anyone ill.
3) Tthe mass killing of the unemployed
4) Ethnic cleansing of the USA by anyone who feels like it. (won't save the euro, but it will take all the press attention away from the problem)
There's also another branch of thinking that laptops or notebooks won't be around for that long, thanks to tablet devices and more advanced smart phones, also accordingly, the average PC will be accessing the cloud and will need less compute power,the big need for processors being on server farms.
On the other hand, who knows?
Wait for more reference material from ElReg, or possibly start thinking for myself again.
or commentators. doesn't matter. this story is just full of shit, as shown by the authors comments on it. won't happen, shut the fuck up dimwit, go stand in the corner with the big pointed hat with a capital d on it.
El Reg, where has the integrity gone, now you're just publishing speculation and bullshit.
http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304456
and this
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200804/wicked_hack_python_bytecode_tracing.html
and this
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=501844
into the mix, and I personally think you're onto a loser with the whole idea to begin with, even without the bs mentioned above. Life needs to simple to be secure, complexity doesn't equal security.
Novel idea, why hasn't that ever caught on before. Ok not every change is for the better, but if you don't try, you'll never know, all the negatives today will possible be all positives next year. Still, I guess nobody's happy until they've someone or something to slag off.
Taken from https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Testing_for_SSL-TLS_(OWASP-CM-001)
Large number of available cipher suites and quick progress in cryptoanalysis makes judging a SSL server a non-trivial task. These criteria are widely recognised as minimum checklist:
SSLv2, due to known weaknesses in protocol design
Export (EXP) level cipher suites in SSLv3
Cipher suites with symmetric encryption algorithm smaller than 128 bits
X.509 certificates with RSA or DSA key smaller than 1024 bits
X.509 certificates signed using MD5 hash, due to known collision attacks on this hash
TLS Renegotiation vulnerability[1]
While there are known collision attacks on MD5 and known cryptoanalytical attacks on RC4, their specific usage in SSL and TLS doesn't allow these attacks to be practical and SSLv3 or TLSv1 cipher suites using RC4 and MD5 with key lenght of 128 bit is still considered sufficient[2].
The following standards can be used as reference while assessing SSL servers:
NIST SP 800-52 recommends U.S. federal systems to use at least TLS 1.0 with ciphersuites based on RSA or DSA key agreement with ephemeral Diffie-Hellman, 3DES or AES for confidentality and SHA1 for integrity protection. NIST SP 800-52 specifically disallows non-FIPS compliant algorithms like RC4 and MD5. An exception is U.S. federal systems making connections to outside servers, where these algorithms can be used in SSL client mode.
PCI-DSS v1.2 in point 4.1 requires compliant parties to use "strong cryptography" without precisely defining key lengths and algorithms. Common interpretation, partially based on previous versions of the standard, is that at least 128 bit key cipher, no export strength algorithms and no SSLv2 should be used[3].
SSL Server Rating Guide has been proposed to standardize SSL server assessment and currently is in draft version.
SSL Server Database can be used to assess configuration of publicly available SSL servers[4] based on SSL Rating Guide[5]
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