Mike Isaac in News on April 30 at 1:57 pm PT
Your future employers could face steep fines if they ask for your Facebook password.
So here’s a plea: if you have anything to do with security in a distro, and think that my kids (replace “my kids” with “sales people on the road” if you think your main customers are businesses) need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings, please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place.
– Linus Torvalds’s rant on Google+ about his negative experience with openSUSE on his MacBook Air, after his daughter was was asked for a root password in order to print from the machine
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Siobhan Gorman, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 14 at 12:45 am PT
For nearly a decade, hackers enjoyed widespread access to the corporate computer network of Nortel Networks Ltd., a once-giant telecommunications firm now fallen on hard times.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 19, 2011 at 12:29 pm PT
Big Blue marks the end of the year by rolling out its crystal ball.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 14, 2011 at 3:51 pm PT
Science fiction makes it possible to have a conversation about the future, Johnson says, by giving us the metaphors we need to figure out what we want and don’t want to happen.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on July 29, 2011 at 2:12 pm PT
You, uh, did know that today is System Administrator Appreciation Day, didn’t you?
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Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 1, 2011 at 1:42 pm PT
Google Inc. said hundreds of users of its email service were tricked into sharing their passwords with “bad actors” based in China, potentially further complicating relations between the Internet giant and the country with the highest number of Internet users.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 28, 2011 at 11:47 am PT
It didn’t take long for Sony to be served with its first lawsuit following the disclosure that its PlayStation Network was hacked. Meanwhile, the number of investigating regulators and outraged U.S. lawmakers is multiplying. Sony’s lawyers are going to be busy.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 26, 2011 at 10:30 am PT
Facebook is rolling out to all its users the security features it added to stop the Tunisian government from accessing citizens’ passwords.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 30, 2010 at 3:32 pm PT
The weaknesses of Gawker’s password system were pointed out clearly in 2008, although nothing was ever done about it. You know how that turned out.
