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When SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off on Thursday night, it carried humanity’s entire backup plan with it. It was headed to the moon, the world’s ultimate cold-storage unit. I guess that counts as "offsite backup"
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That's just a complete waste of money.
If they want eternal storage, where something will not be touched for millions of years, until someone needs it (which will be never), they can just stick it under my kitchen sink, next to the foot spa and the electric carving knife.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I hope they have also sent how to manual and player for the disk.
Recently I got a cassette as a movie promo material but I don't have a cassette player so it is pretty useless to me.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Probably in IKEA format, so no one will ever get it to work. 
TTFN - Kent
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Anyone finding the data and seeing the video content will undoubtably make the same mistake that we made in interpreting the ancient Egyptian's cultural remains, they will think that we are cat worshippers.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Why don't we just stick a sign on the moon that says "This is as far as we have ever been."
If intelligent life-forms ever see it, at least we might impress them with our honesty. Any attempt to impress them with our knowledge is going to be a bit of a non-starter.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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3000 years in the future:
Historian: Found another one of the "archive" cubes. 20 facebook coins that it does not contain an weird stuff we know they got up to, but yet to prove.
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Since its open-source release on December 3rd 2018, Microsoft SEAL has become one of the world’s most popular homomorphic encryption libraries and has been adopted by security and privacy professionals world-wide in both academia and industry. For all your homogenized milk encryption needs (I may have read that wrong)
My original thought probably wasn't KSS.
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A group of academics have found three new security flaws in 4G and 5G, which they say can be used to intercept phone calls and track the locations of cell phone users. "Mr. Telephone Man, there is something wrong with my line"
I'm sensing a theme forming today
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Who cares?
I have it on good authority that we'll be getting 6G, within a few weeks!
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LMFAO - I'm 6G and I know it.
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Flaws? Or did they just get caught?
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In September of 2018, an anonymous independent security researcher (who we'll call X) noticed that their power company's website was offering to email—not reset!—lost account passwords to forgetful users. Security is Job 0
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What, you mean that someone could order crates full of my electricity to be delivered to their homes!
Sometimes, uber-high security ain't all that necessary -- especially with things like utility companies, who send you snail-mail confirmation of changes.
If hackers get access to the password database, they've already got access to all the other details worth hacking.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: If hackers get access to the password database, they've already got access to all the other details worth hacking.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The article itself already explains why this is serious, but I'm quickly reaching the conclusion you just enjoy trolling stories here.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: The article itself already explains why this is serious
Yes, well, they got it wrong.
Time for a reality check:
0. Get someone's phone number
1. Hack the person's utility account number, somehow
2. Hack the person's e-mail, so that you can receive the plain-text password
3. Hack the person's password for the utility company, so that you can log in to the web interface, clicking through God-only knows how many pages on what is probably not the fastest server in the world
4. Click through several more pages, to ask for the password
5. Log in to the user's e-mail, to receive the password that you already used to log in and request it
6. Repeat steps 0-5 for every single customer of the company
7. Profit by... Um... Well, you've already hacked their e-mail, and you had already hacked their utility account, so so there ain't no profit in requesting the plain-text password
Don't fall for every scare story you read.
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Except that they may reuse the same password for other accounts, such as online banking. As was stated in the article, which evidently you still failed to read properly before this diatribe.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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They also have access to some peoples email, social media accounts and bank accounts.
You would be amazed at how many people use the same password for everything.
Now do you see the problem?
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Academics from Greece have devised a new browser-based attack that can allow hackers to run malicious code inside users' browsers even after users have closed or navigated away from the web page on which they got infected. Anytime you're in a browser, odds are you're running bad code anyway
Once again: *thanks*, security researchers. I suppose it's nicer of you to find them than the "evil hackers", but I sometimes wish you wouldn't.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Once again: *thanks*, security researchers. I suppose it's nicer of you to find them than the "evil hackers", but I sometimes wish you wouldn't.
No kidding!
This "Ooh, let's put all our government funding into finding ways to hack people's computers!" cr@p has to be regulated! It's way out of hand.
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Quote: The difference between the two is that MarioNet can survive after users close the browser tab or move away from the website hosting the malicious code.
Do Chrome and Firefox provide configuration switches to globally disable service workers? Being able to run code indefinitely after the page is closed is a sufficiently stupidly designed anti-feature that I can't believe it's anywhere close to the only case where the api is an incompetently designed cluster![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) and gift to malware authors everywhere. Maybe they'll get it right the third time around, but as it stands breaking every page that uses them feels like a feature not a bug.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Firefox:
Navigate to about:serviceworkers to see what service workers have been registered.
Navigate to about:config. Acknowledge the warning. Search for dom.serviceWorkers.enabled. Toggle it to false.
Navigate to about:serviceworkers again to verify that service workers are not enabled.
Chrome:
Navigate to chrome://serviceworker-internals/ to see what service workers have been registered.
Realise that Chrome doesn't provide any way to block service workers, unless you also block cookies and site data[^] for the site.
Switch to another browser. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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