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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: This explains the ultra-high performance of their authentication code.
Actually, you're probably not far from the truth, there.
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Lets not jump to conclusions here, perhaps they invented a new encryption algorithm that uses a replica of the exact same letters, numbers and symbols of the data its trying to encrypt.
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Purloined-letter encryption!
I take back every bad word I ever said about them!
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That algorithm is actually not new. It is called "ASCII encryption" and was originally covered in a patent by William. T. Foxtrot.
Later on, a version coping with foreign character set was also invented by the same author, and patented, i.e. "UTF8 encryption".
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Quote: Renfro said the company planned to alert affected Facebook users, but that no password resets would be required.
“We’ve not found any cases so far in our investigations where someone was looking intentionally for passwords, nor have we found signs of misuse of this data,” Renfro said. “In this situation what we’ve found is these passwords were inadvertently logged but that there was no actual risk that’s come from this. We want to make sure we’re reserving those steps and only force a password change in cases where there’s definitely been signs of abuse.”
Well that's a worrying case of user convenience over security.
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I read a bunch of the commentaries. Aside from the usual political tripe, there were some that wondered why their staff didn't have the competence of a first your CS graduate. I couldn't imagine letting the plaintext password ever leaving the client.
Well - now I feel luckier than ever! Never took a CS course.
Development was fun and a good place to apply common sense. And now, with the realization that outsourcing to foreign lands is an idiot's gambit, I like the perceptible increase in hold-on-to-me hugging from the "top". I do worry about outgrowing common sense - but then, I can get a job a PharceBook.
But - consider who and what this is all about - I don't even think it worth nodding or shaking my head with jaded delight. Maybe I'll try some pity . . . but not today.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I can get a job a PharceBook.
No you can't... in the moment they realize you have common sense, they will bump you as you had the pest.
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?
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Perhaps what the article fails to mention is that those millions of Facebook passwords were stored in a few bytes and mapped by a foreign key to the accounts.
After all "password123" does not require a huge amount of storage space.
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Windows 7 end-of-support notifications to begin appearing on April 18, 2019. That seems like a reasonable need for a software patch
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And if you click the "Leave me the f*** alone!" button, it installs winio.
There is clear precedent for this, Your Honour.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: winiowhineio
FTFY
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That's on my list of top 3 things that annoy me about the web - autoplay audio/video. Other things that annoy me:
0) The overly intrusive cookie policy alerts that block content until you dismis them
1) Sites that ask if they can track me (I want to default the answer to "NO", and not bother showing me the alert at all
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Why not block it until you activate it? Like ActiveX?
Not opening the article, since I don't have unlimited bandwidth.
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The Blackout Day is a Europe wide day of protest, initiated by Wikipedia, but many platforms are joining it. What would be the impact of Article 13? Most platforms would be forced to implement upload filters for copyrigh protected videos, images, photos, other visuals, music, spoken words and text on any user-generated content. The impact on the freedom of speech and the freedom of information would be disastrous.
Protest against Article 13[^]
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pity is... politicians don't understand what is wrong with that and the less that might understand it will very probably ignore it anyways...
and I stop here, because I don't want to mix Soapbox with insider news
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pity is.. politicians EXACTLY DO understand and it's that they want to protect their jobs and remain in power. This is about protecting POWER, NOT protecting copyright.
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adriancs wrote: The impact on the freedom of speech and the freedom of information would be disastrous.
To which I can only say: "F*** you, you plagiarist b@st@rds!"
They're so happy to rake in the advertising revenues thay come from illegally displaying "copyrigh (sic) protected videos, images, photos, other visuals, music, spoken words and text on any user-generated content" that they don't want to stop people uploading it to their sites.
But they also don't want to spend any of that illegally-gained money on paying royalties.
The big statement from the anti-Article-13 brigade is:The plagiarist b@st@rds say: WE WANT TO MAKE MILLIONS OUT OF STOLEN MATERIAL, BUT WE WANT SOMEONE ELSE TO DO THE STEALING FOR US, SO WE CAN PRETEND TO BE GOOD GUYS, AND PRETEND TO CARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE WE'RE STEALING FROM BY PROXY!
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Really? So when CodeProject links to articles like this or people like you and I quote from said articles in postings on this here site, CodeProject should pay a royalty to the article author and/or site-from-which-it-came?
Ridiculous.
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Quoting a few short passages for the point of discussion is known as "fair use".
Basing a money-making enterprise on doing nothing but quoting other people's work is illegal.
The fair use laws already exist, and have done since copyright law was invented.
Taking the p1ss out of those laws to make money-for-nothing is hardly following the intent of the law.
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Does the EU even have fair use? And it's anybody's guess as to how this will be applied in the context of fair use. It's likely the death of fair use, IMHO.
It's my belief that this will hurt copyright holders, rather than help them.
It's also my observation that this is not about copyright, but about power.
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Does the EU even have fair use?
Oh, good God.TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: It's my belief that this will hurt copyright holders, rather than help them.
Then your belief is incorrect.
It is already hurting copyright holders, and has been for some time.
Your googles and "based entirely on advertising impressions, rather than creating content" @rseholes are taking away the advrtising revenues that Belong To the copyright holders.
How would you feel about a site that just cloned CP's content, and raked in advertising money every time someone viewed a page -- people who should have viewed the page on CP, thereby supporting CP with advert impressions.
Theft is theft. Don't try to make excuses for thieves.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Oh, good God.
It was a serious question.
Mark_Wallace wrote: advrtising revenues that Belong To the copyright holders.
So then you'd be ok so long as the Googles and Youtubes and Facebooks of the world didn't have advertising revenue associated with so-called "copyrighted" content?
Nevermind the millions of dollars spent by such sites to build the infrastructure, etc. That's not important at all.  If they have to pay revenues to the copyright holders for the advertising revenue, then they should be able to charge the copyright holders for the costs of providing such exposure to their copyrighted content.
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Organised crime "empires" spends a fortune on training people how to be thugs, sell drugs, etc.
So what they do is OK, is it?
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non sequitur
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