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Nothing is 100% secure. It's just a question of how secure or, rather, how insecure software actually is.
Kevin
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Well, sure, nothing is 100% secure, but I think we're talking orders of magnitude here. Security is clearly done by committee at Microsoft. How is it that Office can push out an update and then need a patch for a security flaw?
Meh. I freely admit to being obviously disgusted with Microsoft for the past year.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Security is clearly done by committee at Microsoft. How is it that Office can push out an update and then need a patch for a security flaw?
I think over time Microsoft applications have become more secure. But they'll never get to a point that they don't need patching.
But the same applies to web browsers, say. If you look at the release notes for Chromium, etc., they have the same kinds of vulnerabilities. Buffer overruns, use-after-free...
They too almost always need patching after their "major" version releases.
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: Nothing is 100% secure.
Nonsense!
I'm secure in my knowledge of...
...
Ok, you win.
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Science? 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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We at AdGuard put a lot of our effort into protecting people's privacy, and many AdGuard users value our products exactly for this reason. The DNS stands for "Do Not Send ads"
Plus, works on mobile, where you won't have the access.
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In other words, rather than having Cox/Comcast/Spectrum/whatever to know you DNS history, AdGuard will know it. And the evidence that they are trustworthy is non-existent.
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The problem is that unless you're network savvy AND have the gear to accomplish it, you can't bypass the Cox/Comcast/Spectrum/whatever DNS settings because they lock their modems down to prevent you from changing those addresses.
So, in the end, AdGuard is like freedns or googledns. They're only useful if you know exactly how to do it. And this is why I run a redundant Raspberry Pi DNS setup. I have a 3rd that currently isn't running just in case one of the other two go tits-up on me. I'd estimate that I'm getting about 95% fewer ads than before.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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meh. I can't see the advantage of replacing one "secure" DNS server* with another, but I've set it up on a sandboxed machine that I can control via my KVM switch, so I'll run a few mirror tests, over the next few weeks, to see if there's any noticeable difference in what's served.
* [edit] Ouch! I made an automated ATM machine error! [/edit]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 1-Jan-19 2:03am.
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His predictions about computerization were mostly accurate, though some of his forecasts about education and space utilization were overly optimistic. "The Seldon Plan is neither complete nor correct."
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Asimov, like most, if not all, futurists, failed to distinguish between what he thought would happen and what he wanted to happen. (I actually suspect he was mostly writing the latter and it happened to align somewhat with the former.)
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True, he was making money from... Radio Shack? ...someone’s computers around then. So more people becoming computer-literate would have helped his bottom line. So, a case of alignment there.
TTFN - Kent
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WHERE!
IS!
MY!
FLYING!
CAR!
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Did you forget to tie it down again?
Reckon I saw one floating around not 5 minutes back.
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Some of the approved projects include KeePass, 7-zip, VLC Media Player, Drupal, and FileZilla. How will they work fines into this?
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It's used by an incredibly large number of people (even I use it, to change encoding), so it ranks quite high on the threat scale.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I use Notepad++ daily; it's typically open all day. I just don't see it rising to the potential threat level as other items on the list, especially given its pretty stable history.
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Well, it can't hurt to get a few more eyes on it.
OpenSSL was a shocker.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm actually quite impressed by the list of apps they've selected; they're certainly among the most-used open-source apps out there. I'd be surprised if most CP professionals didn't have or use at least half of them, so it can't hurt to have people and companies actively looking for errors and vulnerabilities in them.
Overall, I've got to say that I'm pretty happy with the way the EU "governs" computer issues, compared to every other interfering busybody, legislative and otherwise, in the world.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And people said Richard Stallman was crazy...
Really though I'd be surprised if Google isn't already doing this.
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Hmm. It appears that blogs.windows.com will only allow users of window 10, windows 8, and windows mobile devices to opt out of their data slurping.
Given that this is in breach of European law, I have opted to block the site from my intranet.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That info is a year old...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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