158249083
submission
t0qer writes:
So I recently got an email that my google free will be going away soon (July 2022), and I'll have to subscribe for $6 @ month per user. My domain is just my family last name, and I have a few accounts for my immediate wife and kids. I'm not really sure if that's worth spending the money on for hosted email. I do use other parts of the suite (Drive, sheets/Docs) but I can happily use other products for that.
Just wondering if any /.'ers are in the same boat and what they're thinking of moving to?
138708706
submission
t0qer writes:
Hello Slashdot,
Given the current state of affairs with elections, why haven't we gone to an open source, PKI based voting system? SSL.com has a pretty interesting piece on using PKI in voting. There's also a github project that leverages PKI and IBM blockchain technology.
Looking all the way back to the 2000 election with Gore, it just seems like paper at this point has outlived its secureness. A closed sourced voting system doesn't really seem like the kind of thing slashdot would really get behind. (As a side note, my very introduction to the world of OSS came from this site) I'm fairly well versed in PKI technology, and quoting this site, it would take traditional computers 300 Trillion years to break RSA-2048 for a single vote. I just don't understand why the US can demand countries it "Democratizes" into using these types of voting systems, but we do not.
100773644
submission
t0qer writes:
In the early days of PC gaming, there was 3 major titles. Doom, Duke Nukem, and Descent. Descent was the first game to have true 3d environments and enemies, whereas Doom/Duke was considered "2.5d" Even though Descent never gained the popularity of Quake or Doom, it's had a dedicated fanbase that has continued playing and updating the game over the last 20 years.
The original programmers got together, and created a "Spiritual Successor" called Overload. Already garnering mostly postive reviews on Steam, the game features the same controls and overall feel of the original Descent, but without the frustration of having to set IRQ, DMA, and port jumpers for your sound blaster.
88564277
submission
t0qer writes:
Hello /. Been a few years since a submission.
I'm the IT director at a MMJ dispensary. The point of sales system we were using last week was hacked. Here is The Boston Globes Coverage on it.
This system was built on Drupal in 2010. I'm guessing the more they modified the drupal core, the more bugfixed versions behind they fell behind (not to mention the rest of the LAMP stack). They've lost all customer data, meaning there was no airgapped, off the net backups. What scares me about this breach is, I have about 30,000 patients in my database alone. If this company has 1000 more customers like me, even half of that is still 15 million people on a list of people that "Smoke pot" potentially floating out there on the net. I guess because we're "Medicinal" it's no better than someone knowing a person takes Xanax for their nerves.
I feel like this company is playing on the ignorance of the general public when it comes to these types of IT security issues. I don't think people get how serious this is.What should I do? Do we still have lawyers on this site? (oldcountrylawyer?)
