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Certificate reputation(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by gabbo 13y ago|0 comments
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The End of Brand Loyalty(newyorker.com)
3 points by gabbo 13y ago|0 comments
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Can Namecoin Obsolete ICANN (and More)?(theumlaut.com)
10 points by gabbo 13y ago|0 comments
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Is this the year of Windows 8 tablets?(hal2020.com)
1 points by gabbo 13y ago|1 comments
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by gabbo 13y ago
Doesn't seem like it: > New and existing T-Mobile customers who are on a post-paid plan are eligible for the new international plan, which kicks off on October 31
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T-Mobile to offer free unlimited international data, texts(news.cnet.com)
384 points by gabbo 13y ago|172 comments
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Apparently, Microsoft takes this Office 365 support thing seriously(zdnet.com)
2 points by gabbo 14y ago|0 comments
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Altera to Use Intel as Manufacturer for Programmable Chips(bloomberg.com)
4 points by gabbo 14y ago|0 comments
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by gabbo 14y ago
If this outage is solely caused by an expired SSL certificate then this is really bad. It makes Azure look like amateur hour (even though it's definitely not). This may be acceptable for a smaller operation, but not Microsoft's cloud platfo
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Updated Office 365 login UI - Microsoft account remains separate(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by gabbo 14y ago|0 comments
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Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft(allthingsd.com)
357 points by gabbo 14y ago|221 comments
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Honduras to build private cities with their own police, laws, government, taxes(abcnews.go.com)
1 points by gabbo 14y ago|0 comments
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"It's not going to be okay" - Microsoft manager on getting a bad review/rank(blogs.msdn.com)
4 points by gabbo 14y ago|2 comments
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A Shocking Chart on Vaccination(theatlantic.com)
2 points by gabbo 15y ago|0 comments
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by gabbo 15y ago
I installed this on a Hyper-V VM - everything went pretty quickly except after install, the first time I tried to log in it sat there a while. I shut it down (cleanly) then it booted up fine the next time. Everything pretty much works now,
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by gabbo 15y ago
This is very cool, but when running it on Chrome 13 beta it was extremely choppy and basically locked up my PC. It took 2 minutes to move my mouse to the "close tab" button.
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by gabbo 15y ago
> As an analogy, it's like taking a "basics of the web" course, and instead of the expected lessons on HTML and CSS, you learn to write a web server and a web browser. Funny you mention this - when I was an undergrad, the first complex
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by gabbo 15y ago
I assume you're being sarcastic, right? Microsoft has offered this for years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Foundation_Server
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by gabbo 15y ago
This is exactly what I thought. An amazingly cheap way to launder pirated music. Not that it really changes the legality...
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by gabbo 15y ago
I almost entirely agree, the difference is minimal (especially if a support agent can easily recover it, that's a pretty low bar). Encrypting passwords and keeping the key in an offline (or hardware-protected), highly secure location helps
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by gabbo 15y ago
Leak? Your comment only really makes sense if you trust all current and future Newegg employees to (1) never make mistakes with security impact (2) be completely incorruptible. This article strikes down (1) almost by definition.
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by gabbo 15y ago
They obviously don't store a one-way hash if they just regurgitated it to you, but is this really enough information to conclude the password is stored in plaintext? This just means the password is easily convertible to plaintext - either
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by gabbo 15y ago
I'm not really trying to refute the broader point you're making, but Passport existed long before OAuth. Late 90s I think. They're only trying to do the same thing in the most superficial way. Passport was Microsoft's attempt to do single
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by gabbo 15y ago
Open protocols? Does Skype use any? I'm genuinely curious, I thought it was completely proprietary.
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by gabbo 16y ago
I don't think that's what the Bloomberg article meant. They're talking about how Google funnels 88% of its non-US revenue (which totals $12.5B) through its Dublin subsidiary to reduce their tax burden. Their total 2009 revenue was much hi
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by gabbo 16y ago
> So how are they supposed to get your data from your bank if they can't login to it? Like I said, there's no requirement for credentials to be STORED in plaintext. They just need to be readily convertible to plaintext when they pull yo
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by gabbo 16y ago
I'm sorry but you're really not (a) paranoid enough and (b) thinking defensively (c) accepting the reality that users will make poor security decisions (d) recognizing that a service should do everything in their power to mitigate threats t
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by gabbo 16y ago
By far the worst example I can think of here is Yodlee, the bank aggregator. Their product, Moneycenter, has this convenient "feature" which lets you display your bank password in plaintext! It's unthinkable that someone you trust with you
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by gabbo 16y ago
Am I the only one to expect the guy who compromised a CA and generated a number of very high-value certs to use one of those certs to sign his message?
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by gabbo 16y ago
Beyond DOS/Windows batch files which are terrible but indeed a language, my first "real" language was Turing ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_(programming_language) ). It was mainly used in Canadian high schools - at least it was whe

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