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Comment Faux: a fair and balanced view of SF (Score 0) 233

all of these completely ignorant comments show you've never even been in San Francisco let alone lived there. you don't know the difference between the Tenderloin and downtown. you don't know that homelessness has been a problem for decades. you don't know that putting "hobos" in jail is the most costly imaginable solution. you don't know that crime is nowhere close to historic highs.

keep getting all of your information from Faux news. no axe to grind there, nosireebob. stay ignorant -- it's easier.

Comment Put some research into email alerting (Score 1) 88

Especially considering that that is where a tremendous amount phishing is instigated. We have the tools to do it with DKIM, SPF and DMARC yet MUA vendors have been pathetically behind the times with some like Thunderbird doing nothing at all, and they are all pretty inconsistent with one another. For alerting, email is a different creature than web stuff since it is usually the initial vector to an attack and often arrives unsolicited unlike the web. We all know that the lock icon is not a panacea, but that doesn't mean it didn't have value especially when TLS was relatively uncommon and ecommerce was new.

Comment How about email authentition results? (Score 1) 52

It's been nearly 20 years since the rise of email authentication standards like DKIM and SPF to combat spam and phishing. Thunderbird does exactly nothing on the UI front which is pretty shameful. Research shows that alerting users has a positive effect but the patchy support in UI's is hindering any positive feedback loop that could help users identify phishing attempts. It's a complete mystery why Mozilla has been so indifferent to one of the most serious security threats that email users face.

Comment Re:I strongly disagree.... (Score 1) 97

the 80's were about getting 32 bit processors. the 68000, the 32000, the 80386 etc. 8088's were very, very early 80's but the 80386 came out pretty soon after. 6502's weren't really serious CPU's back then. they were used in the same way that Z80's were used: more for embedded and those kinds of uses.

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