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Comment Re:Football Piracy? (Score 2) 48

football is the name of the game. every single country except one calls it football.

what you call football is what every single country except one calls it american football.

Australia and the Republic of Ireland also use soccer to differentiate it from the various other forms of football that exist there, not too different from America.
Fwiw, the word soccer was created at Oxford and still appears occasionally over there, i.e. the TV show SoccerAM

Comment Federation is the right implementation (Score 2) 27

I've been a spamgourmet user for 25 years, and it's been perfect but... Email as designed is fundamentally designed for a friendlier universe and thus easily exploited. To fix this email should deliver ONLY a secure link to its payload that is hosted by the sender. If I send you and email, in your email (or sms or any other delivery protocol) you get a notification: "Fishdan has sent you a message. To read it click fishdan.com/mail?recipient=you@youraddress.com&secretpin=19700101&othersexritything1=foo&othersecuritything2=bar&clientsecurity=&mysecurityclientid=918273123012 etc etc You could even have a thing where if I want to send you a more secure email I require your browser to have a JWT (or whatever) that you only get by answering a second email. Etc etc. Contentlink is evaluated by your email client AND your browser for safety. IF it's an official certification it gets a better trust rating etc. has to match the send of the email and your email reader assigns a trust rating to it that you see when opening the email and again when following the content link.

Submission + - Teens Hacked Boston Subway Cards to Get Infinite Free Ridesâ"and This Time, (wired.com)

UnCivil Liberty writes: Following in the footsteps of three MIT students who were previously gagged from presenting their findings at Defcon 2008 (previous Slashdot coverage here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory... here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2F... and here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F... ), two Bay State teens built on their work in hacking Boston's MBTA CharlieCard system, reverse engineering them and presenting at this year's Defcon without interference.
'the four teens extended other research done by the 2008 hacker team to fully reverse engineer the CharlieCard, the RFID touchless smart cards the MBTA uses today. The hackers can now add any amount of money to one of these cards or invisibly designate it a discounted student card, a senior card, or even an MBTA employee card that gives unlimited free rides. âoeYou name it, we can make it,â says Campbell.'

Comment Re:Where were you....? (Score 1) 126

Where were you when this saga started? I was with a different wife in a different state in a different job in a different religion... basically I was a different person. What about you?

High school, under a different Slashdot UID that I lost the password to and now can't even remember what the username was.
I literally just messaged a friend from high school the link to this story as it was something we used to talk about back when we were teenagers, we are now both almost 40...

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