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You would have a point if the exploit were more serious, and looked harder to fix than it does. As is, this is a phishing type variant that it’s not at all clear gatekeeper was eve…

Good thing, since America has had a variety of socialist policies in place since before anyone currently alive was born and continues to.

Maybe your experience is “another interesting perspective worth writing about or considering” and not a refutation of the author’s experience and her conclusions about what it mean…

Socrates “knows that he knows nothing” and spends his time trying to refute that. He looks for knowledge earnestly but usually doesn’t find it. Socrates is less devil’s advocate, m…

we grit our teeth and "believe" that anyone traceably affected got an email directly from the company or something :D (that said, google main page vulnerable to xss is kind of like…

it is of course just a matter of time for either of the companies you mentioned to "be hacked" (obviously it's happened countless times with Microsoft, both the OS and their cloud …

as i replied in the comment below, the goal isn't "absolute porn free paradise," it's "keep our current control working." sound shortsighted to you? it is. it's also the easiest th…

this is getting really boring and repetitive, but you didn't give a "cheaper" solution, you gave an administratively more expensive solution (change files on machines rather than b…

the DNS filtering works on chrome. yes, people can bypass it, but it doesn't even work on firefox, so they remove firefox. this isn't rocket science, and you're being foolishly con…

of course it's possible to do so. but DNS filtering works for most users, and is much easier to centrally manage on a budget (in terms of time / people / money) than browser settin…

firefox messes up their DNS filtering, chrome doesn't. so they remove firefox and enforce chrome. if you see that as a slippery slope, you're imagining it. they probably 1) have a …

amusingly, putting enough safeguards in place that kids would do this would actually be providing some good education for kids on the path to hacking.

yeah, they're saying just route to the porn site through the custom hosts file.

no, using the nuclear option of removing the browser outright when others work is the smart, efficient option that someone who actually works in IT with limited resources would (an…

"Don't do that. A job interview is a structured process designed to let you consistently evaluate multiple candidates. If you are asking each candidate different questions, that's …

having caught his program on 13 several times, i would venture to assert that your association is about as apt one as could be. i associate rick steves with sick days, nick stellin…

i gave you the benefit of the doubt when i read your earlier comment, but this doubledown shows you're extremely naive / have no experience with the space. you realize there are en…

IT or cybersecurity both benefit from CS (cybersecurity especially, since that's basically just CS/IT + read the news / some sec feeds + basic risk assessment and management). the …

always unfortunate when not only 1) is the article title a clickbait "provocative question," but 2) the question has an obvious answer.

there's a gulf as big as the ocean between acceptance and explanation. we have good reason to assume that consciousness (whatever it is) depends on the physical. great, but what is…

nature of consciousness is the biggest one IMO, precisely because it doesn't appear to be captured by "nature of existence." we have good physical/mathematical models on hand re: c…

there's also of course the possibility that uber violated the CFAA if someone exfiltrated data from waymo, though the distinctions re: access without autorization and access that e…

in what fantasy world is chess.com more "serious" than the ICC? the one where attracting a couple super GMs to play promotional tournaments is more "serious" than having thousands …

best way to learn vim: (optional) first, go thru vimtutor (just type vimtutor in your shell and press enter). second, get a vim cheat sheet (google). finally (most important), code…

(: these aren't the droids you're looking for. taking down the internet (or specific pockets of it) via BGP is not a question of method, it's a question of access. BGP hijacking ca…