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I think the customer got hacked some other way, and the hacker just wrote to the .htaccess file AFTER hacking the site. Probably the .htaccess is a quick and easy way of taking ove…

enjo is absolutely right. I regularly require inspiration in order to solve difficult problems. This inspiration generally never happens when sitting in front of a computer screen …

Just checked my servers, and not infected (but neither even have libkeyutils, so I don't think I'm vulnerable to this). After being burned in the past, I always install iptables an…

Speaking as someone who has actually been suicidal, it does seem pretty clear that he was depressed. From his blog posts it seems that he typically had a lot of stress-related heal…

If you read Aaron's blog, you'll see he posted about his illnesses back in 2007. From his account, it sounds like he suffered from burnout/CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome). I would s…

Twitter uses bcrypt, so in theory this hack should also be nothing to worry about.

My own solution is to have two different passwords for everything - one for banking and credit cards, another for crap like twitter/linkedin. I haven't changed my passwords for yea…

Doesnt seem a great idea. When it gets hacked they get all your passwords.

Yes, I agree...it's just spam. I certainly would never respond to this spammy crap. In fact I now never respond to any company spamming me, because in general they tend to be evil …

And then the employees of startup X would tell the CEO that they should be working for 6 hours a day rather than 16.

Who cares if the html is crufty as long as it works. I use table layouts quite often, and if you look at the source of stackoverflow they use tables too. What I would like to see a…

Yes, I know - that is the whole point of the article. What I meant is that they don't generally have a free team version. It would be better perhaps to have a limited free version …

Not sure this is such a good idea. I operate a similar business and most of our profit comes from educational customers. Universities have massive budgets and a few thousand dollar…

I think this is the crux of the matter...RMS believes that making money from software is somehow evil.

My own experience is the same. Our facebook page has over 2000 likes, our twitter feed has about 360 followers, but we only have 19 people following us on google+ (even though we'v…

Sounds like a paedophile's rationalisation...

Agreed. The issue is that people are getting upset with the police seizing the computers, which would seem to be reasonable in the given situation.

No, not exactly. Perhaps I didn't word it correctly. A crime has been committed using the user's internet connection, so in most civilized countries (i.e. places I would like to li…

It's up to the user to prove that the child porn isn't on his computer. As someone pointed out earlier, you could just download a bunch of child porn with a tor exit node running o…

The big difference is ISPs keep track of users' ip addresses and they give that information to the police when they get a warrant. tor doesn't keep that information, so basically t…

No, you misunderstood. My point is that someone else's child porn is going through your computer when you operate a tor exit node - that isn't the case when you just use encryption…

So you think it's fine to allow someone to use your computer to transfer child porn and other illegal stuff with no consequences? While tor might have some legitimate uses, I think…

It looks like this also requires a server with a wrapper. The difference is that websockify is more efficient.

Doesn't websockify do this better?

I think it is an ego thing, but I wouldn't be too harsh on the OP. I think the whole karma/likes/followers thing is based on a basic human need for recognition and acceptance. Peop…