When you stand for something (62)
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People and brands and organizations that stand for something benefit as a result. Standing for something helps you build trust, makes it easier to manage expectations and aids in daily decision making. Standing for something also makes it more fun to do your gig, because you're on a mission, doing something that matters. Of course, there's a cost. You can't get something for nothing. It's frustrating to watch marketers, politicians and individuals fall into the ...
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Margus said:
"To really stand for something, you must make difficult decisions, mostly about what you don't do. We don't ship products like that, we don't stand for employees like that ("you're fired"), we don't fix problems like that.It's so hard to stand up, to not compromise, to give up an account or lose a vote or not tell a journalist what they want to hear."
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Sue said:
Web transparency means eventually fakers get caught. Whatever your company culture is, be proud of it - there is a market for it.
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Grant Shellen said:
Seth Godin urges you to stand for something, and I agree. I've had more professional success and personal satisfaction on those occasions when I've stuck to my guns.
Cyberkriminelle folgen dem Trend (1)
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Kriminelle Hacker greifen neuerdings auf Google Trends zurück, um die populärsten Suchthemen herauszufinden sowie dazugehörige Berichte in eigenen Blogs zu posten und so mehr Opfer anzulocken.
Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap (13)
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stevedcc writes in to tell us about an interview with RMS in The Guardian, in which he gives his views on cloud computing, with a particular focus on user access to data and the sacrifices made for convenience. "'It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign,' he told The Guardian. 'Somebody is saying this is inevitable — and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of ...
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Polina said:
It's a trap!
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Simon said:
Stallman is always interesting.
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JDAL. said:
Cloud computing (or, cloud storage, which is the most obvious cloud computing app) is attractive only when you don't have enough storage space on one of your computers, or if you have piss-poor synchronization utilities. Sync is pretty close to being solved, and storage is already there for 99% of use cases.
Sicherheitsprüfung für elektronische Reisepässe überlistet (1)
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In einem Video eines Sicherheitsspezialisten ist zu sehen, wie ein Pass-Scanner einen nachgemachten ePassport ausliest und die Daten des verstorbenen Elvis Aaron Presley nebst Foto auf dem Bildschirm anzeigt.
Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection -- only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans (92)
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Hey suckers! Did you buy DRM music from Wal*Mart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they're repaying your honesty by taking away your music. Unless you go through a bunch of hoops (that you may never find out about, if you've changed email addresses or if you're not a very technical person), your music will no longer be playable after October 9th. But don't worry, this will never ever happen ...
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puthali said:
lol...nice! :)
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David Michaels said:
This totally sucks!
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lewis said:
To avoid DRM and still be honest use Amazon, Lala, or Napster to buy your music.
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Simon said:
Another epic fail for DRM
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Jandy said:
Reason #2734 that DRM sucks.
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Macky said:
This post is surprisingly biting in its commentary about Wal-mart shutting down its DRM servers. Its bad. I get that. But no credit for moving to a completely DRM-free alternative? Really?
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litford said:
more reason why corporates are stifling music rather than sharing it and making it better.
Firefox 3.0.2 beseitigt Sicherheitslücken [Update] (1)
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Einige der Fehler haben die Entwickler als kritisch eingestuft, da Angreifer darüber eigenen Code in ein System schleusen und starten können.
Educate Your Peers About Net Neutrality: Produce A Radio Show (1)
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If you're passionate about the issue of net neutrality and think MSM hasn't done a good job of covering it, here's your chance to influence the debate: Tell New York City public radio show producers who they should talk to, what they should read, and how they should frame the discussion. WNYC's Brian Lehrer has asked New York City residents to report on the price of groceries in the city's five boroughs, as well as ...
Social Media Security (3)
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I am happy to announce the relaunch of Blogsecurify. I have some more announcements to make. Read on! Blogsecurify will become a division of GNUCITIZEN. Although initially the project was planned to tackle blog-only security issues, today Blogsecurify moves into the more main stream domain - the social media platforms. Therefore, Blogsecurify team will now test and research technologies outside of the blogsphere including things such as wikis, feeds, social networks and all other types ...
Erste größere Attacke gegen deutsche VoIP-Nutzer (1)
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In den Nächten zwischen dem 4. und 10. September gingen bei VoIP-Nutzern Anrufe von der Rufnummer 5199362832664 ein. Der Angriff zielte direkt auf die VoIP-Hardware von Kunden, um vermutlich einen kostenpflichtigen Rückruf der Opfer zu provozieren.
The Two Classes of Airport Contraband (36)
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Airport security found a jar of pasta sauce in my luggage last month. It was a 6-ounce jar, above the limit; the official confiscated it, because allowing it on the airplane with me would have been too dangerous. And to demonstrate how dangerous he really thought that jar was, he blithely tossed it in a nearby bin of similar liquid bottles and sent me on my way. There are two classes of contraband at airport ...
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Dan Stowell said:
"To fix this, airport security has to make a choice. If something is dangerous, treat it as dangerous and treat anyone who tries to bring it on as potentially dangerous. If it's not dangerous, then stop trying to keep it off airplanes. Trying to have it both ways just distracts the screeners from actually making us safer."
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Chris Hitchcock said:
This makes a lot of sense. If you aren't punishing people for bringing liquids on the plane all you are doing to them is causing a mild inconvenience. Maybe at best you'd disrupt any coordinated attack that uses multiple planes and jars of spaghetti sauce.
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mattpovey said:
Security is more complex than confiscating pasta sauces.
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Yves Junqueira said:
Caramba, num é que é mermo.
The Pentagon's World of Warcraft Movie-Plot Threat (7)
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In a presentation that rivals any of my movie-plot threat contest entries, a Pentagon researcher is worried that terrorists might plot using World of Warcraft: In a presentation late last week at the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Conference in Washington, Dr. Dwight Toavs, a professor at the Pentagon-funded National Defense University, gave a bit of a primer on virtual worlds to an audience largely ignorant about what happens in these online spaces. Then ...
Sarah Palins E-Mail-Account wurde gehackt [Update] (1)
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Hacker haben sich Zugang zu einem privaten E-Mail-Account der Vizepräsidentschaftskandidatin verschafft, um nachzuweisen, dass sie Regierungsgeschäfte über private Accounts abwickelt.
Palin's Yahoo email account hacked, contents posted to Wikileaks (4)
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Washington Post reports that Sarah Palin's email account was hacked and her emails posted online. A group of computer hackers said yesterday they accessed a Yahoo! e-mail account of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, publishing some of her private communications to expose what appeared to be her use of a personal account for government business. The hackers posted what they said were personal photos, the contents of several messages, the subject ...
GPS Spoofing (11)
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Interesting: Jon used a desktop computer attached to a GPS satellite simulator to create a fake GPS signal. Portable GPS satellite simulators can fit in the trunk of a car, and are often used for testing. They are available as commercial off-the-shelf products. You can also rent them for less than $1K a week -- peanuts to anyone thinking of hijacking a cargo truck and selling stolen goods. In his first experiments, Jon placed his ...
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Logical Extremes said:
Where are you, really?
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Hein said:
Unsurprising, given how weak real GPS signals are and that the technology is from the 1980s -- no digital signatures on the signals ;-)
Alt Text: Camping Trip Reveals Joys of 'Data Isolation' (6)
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When I told my friends I was going camping, the most common reaction was bafflement. It was as if I had warned them that I was about to pupate. I was actually surprised by the news myself. When I try to remember the events that led to my agreeing to camp out, it's all echoes and shadows. I generally consider soft, insect-free beds to be one of the chief virtues of an industrialized society, just ...
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