For the same reason we pay public servants to write Security Configuration Guidance documents, post YARA rulesets for malware campaigns, etc. It's a public service. I'd call it progress: in years past, data like this was frequently only circulated to select enterprise partners. This product will be directly accessible to the public.

You aren't kidding.

I have an old Gmail account loaded into my IMAP client. Haven't accessed the Gmail web interface in a few years, and even that was just long enough to enable logins with a third-party client. Today I had the misfortune of loading Gmail in a browser and couldn't believe it; it's like they're stuffing a whole operating system onto the page. There was a chat pane, something about phone calls, various widgets that apparently were assimilated from Hangouts, a drop-down menu to switch between standard and Dvorak keyboard layouts... I could barely see the email for all the other bullshit they've cluttered Gmail up with. Sliding or minimizing the various panes didn't put a dent in the CPU load or network traffic they were generating. I really can't see how people put up with that interface for using email every day.

Yep, 3.0.4 came out on August 31. I don't see anything on their website or FTP server about a newer release.

The dev changelog does refer to a version 3.0.5, but the changes listed there don't include fixing this vulnerability.

Never mind that the booster is never in an orbit.

Sure it is! It just happens to be an orbit with a periapsis smaller than the Earth's radius.

Fucking DRM is a whole 'nother problem!

Fuck off, fascist. There's a HUGE FUCKING ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE between a spy agency spying on other countries and it spying on its own citizens.

Not only would I prefer not to see people with negative reputations, but I'd actually prefer to filter on a relative basis in terms of people who are clearly much better than me.

You've got a game theory problem there: why would those better people want to see you?

Why should any random asshat running a website expect to be compensated? It used to be the case -- before the sociopathic marketing droids invaded -- that people put up websites because they wanted to, not because they expected to profit. And the Internet was better that way.

Take off your rose colored glasses for minute. First of all, no-reply emails are a means to notify a customer of something. They are one-way.

I am writing to "notify" you that any business using with this attitude is run by shitty people and deserves to fail. You don't get to dictate what I'm "meant" to do!

Please direct all responses to no-reply@gofuckyourself.com

Sometimes when I have a choice of companies to buy a product from, Ill send an email or fill out the web form asking the same question to multiple companies.

And that's the other asinine thing about bullshit web forms: they force you to send the message to one recipient at a time. As a slightly different example, say I want to write my Congressmen about something. Instead of just writing an email and putting three names in the To: field, now I have to answer a slightly disjoint set of (potentially) invasive questions three times over. It's not that it's hard or even that time-consuming; it's that it's galling because I shouldn't have to jump through hoops like that.

Think about it - if you were running a very large company, would you rather: a) have a catch-all email that runs the gamut of issues, feedback, etc. b) have a way to submit categorized feedback via web forms?

If I were running a very large company, I would want everyone to be forced to just give me their money instead of having to go through the trouble of actually selling something to them in return.

But I wouldn't be entitled to that -- just like how companies are not entitled to be able to dictate communications terms to their customers, either!

Nope. Fuck that class of company too, because it's ultimately the same damn thing. Fundamentally, companies are either willing to engage on the customer's terms... or they aren't. And the latter don't deserve anyone's business.

FlashSessions, now there's something I hadn't thought about in 20 years.

Yes. They already know the email address is active by virtue of the fact that their messages aren't bouncing, and they're already sending me emails. The worst that can happen is they send me more emails. I'll live with the risk.

Yes, exactly. I have the same problem with my Gmail account. Over the years many hundreds of people have mistaken it for their email address, distributed it far and wide, and entered it into all sorts of things. Sometimes I just let it go, especially if a site only sends one "thanks for registering" email. I hit delete and move on. But if the service is a particularly spammy one, I'll use the "forgot password" link, login, change the password, turn off all email-related options, etc.

I used to look for an option to delete the account entirely, but that invariably led to the same people signing back up for the same services again. Occasionally I'll try to do the other guy a favor and tell the sender that they have the wrong address. It usually isn't worth the effort. Someone has a Royal Bank of Scotland account registered to my email and no amount of emailing, filling out their contact form, or tweeting at them ever did any good so I just filtered that domain out.

Not much you can do about people sending random unsolicited communications, though. I've received some really interesting misdirected mail over the years, including some stuff from the European Space Agency, and being cc'd on an NFL player's contract negotiations with a new team.