Posts by David Eddleman 217 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jun 2007
"An even more severe client-side risk comes from a pair of unpatched flaws in the Trillian multi-protocol IM client."
Waitwaitwait, is this *new* news? Trillian's always had tons of bugs, this is nothing new.
Got the notification to patch on the other machine, going to do it here now and see how it works out.
"In unrelated news - wink, wink, nudge, nudge - union group Communication Workers of America released a state-by-state report Monday that showed US internet connection speeds are far behind other industrialized nations."
There's a good reason for that: it's called our government has not put any initiatives forward to wire the country up and promote broadband usage. Hell, in Japan, a 10Mb line is about the equivalent of mediocre-fast dialup here. Know why? Because the government paid to wire the country and give everyone these benefits!
In all honesty, who the hell didn't see this coming? It's like a story I read about on b3ta: Bunch of people get sick at a restaurant, health inspector is called in, finds many problems, restaurant owner /tries to bribe the inspector with free food from the restaurant/.
What surprises me is why other AV vendors aren't jumping in and waving their products, effectively kicking Symantec out of the Chinese market. "Had enough with Norton? Here's a free one-year copy of AVG."
Also, kudos to El Reg for the 'cockroach salad' idea. Marvelous, and made me chortle plenty.
Build your own.
Or, if you need to mass-order, it doesn't really matter what crapware they come with, because you'll be re-imaging the machines en masse anyways.
Ubuntu computers? Don't make me retch, please. Ubuntu is a glorified *nix distro that destroys all of the good commandline work.
And don't get me started on the pretentious Mac users...
"but Voltage reckons the advantage of not requiring the recipient to sign up first will drive greater use of encrypted communications and as long as you trust Voltage then there's no problem."
So what happens when the Voltage server is broken into by cyber-crooks or some kiddie (refer to the security person's adage: "the only completely secure system is one disconnected and buried in concrete")? Does Voltage have to suddenly generate new keys for everyone and inform their entire clientèle that they've been breached?
These guys aren't very keen on security methods, so why should we trust them with crypto (one of the first lines of defense)?
Just an ignorant Bible-thumper ("You know, if I wanted to go to hell.").
I must say, shame on El Reg for letting this homophobic trash called news on their site. Shame on you!
To Mr. Otto Z. Stern (which sounds like a fictitious pseudonym anyways): Hope you come out of the closet just fine! Those who are the most anti-homosexual are invariably deep-closet homosexuals themselves. Well, it would explain why you're using a fake name.
Are you bloody insane? These people aren't troublemakers, they've found a backdoor and have notified people of it, rather than exploit it for their own use.
The culprits here are Intuit, who put the backdoors in there in first place. Administrative-placed backdoors are nothing but bad.
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