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Submission + - CloudFlare WARP (finally) released (cloudflare.com) 1

tearmeapart writes: CloudFlare is opening WARP and WARP Plus to the general public. WARP is a mobile app for Android and Apple to establish a VPN* to CloudFlare's huge global network. They are promising:
1. No user-identifiable log data to disk;
2. No selling browsing data;
3. No need to provide any personal information
4. Regularly get audited.

Comment TransferWise is not the first (Score 1) 33

The largest bank in Canada, RBC, implemented this a few years ago.

As far as I know, Facebook is just used as a message platform to inform the users of the transfer, so this is not really a big deal.
However, that being stated, most social platforms have better authentication solutions than most banks in the world, which makes me trust some sites more than my own bank.

Comment Another company to die a slow death under Oracle (Score 1) 117

Oracle likely made their calculations, and have determined they can extract plenty of money from the Dyn customers to make the acquisition worth it.
I, for one, will be moving away from Dyn ASAP, after being a satisfied customer for ~15 years.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a reliable and secure DNS?

Discussion at new.ycombinator:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Fi...

Comment The Mother of All Demos (Score 4, Interesting) 124

I believe this is something that should be mandatory for all computer engineering/science students should watch, along with getting a bit of a history lesson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a11JDLBXtPQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61oMy7Tr-bM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNXLK78ZaFo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zz1SwCTCEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dVNxlLYTsQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiJA7_Sw9aM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI8LZKW5Lwk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYDg2wr2QfI

The concepts for the time, in my opinion, are mind blowing. I hope there are some people in this world who are considering some equal mind blowing ideas for these times, although I do not think they could ever get pulled together into one demo like what Doug Engelbart did.

Comment Not again, although this may be the start of more (Score 1) 1

It appears that the front ends of the bank system were attacked (as opposed to the backend servers in the data centers). The frameworks and OSs that are used by three of the top four banks in South Korea are very common, and are used world wide, but it appears that only South Korea has had issues.
The patch to cover the vulnerability and the fix looks like it will have to be manually patched on each machine due to the type of vulnerability. This really sucks, as the banks need to run around people to all of the machines.

Unfortunately, banks have bought into what people/consultants/corporations have told them were secure systems, and money has trumped security. So this is not the only vulnerability out there. This news just proves that multiple security precautions have failed, and I hope certain people get banned from working in the security industry after making all these mistakes.

BSD

Submission + - FreeBSD 9.1 released (freebsd.org)

tearmeapart writes: "The teams at FreeBSD have reached another great achievement with FreeBSD 9.1, with improvements to the already fantastic zfs features, more VM improvements (helping bringing FreeBSD to the next generation of VMs), and improvements in speed to many parts of the network system.
Support FreeBSD via the FreeBSD mall or download/upgrade Freebsd from a mirror. Unforunately, the torrent server is still down due to the previous security incident."

Comment Old news (Score 1) 302

Comment Re:The big fix... (Score 1) 75

BGP is at a layer higher than ip, so whether you are using IPv4 or IPv6 (or any other protocol), it does not matter.

(And yes, i realize that the implementations of BGP often involve sending TCP/IP and UDP/IP packets around, but the point is that switching to IPv6 is not going to change your BGP configuration or BGP tables.)

Comment Re:Go, Renderscript, and Android (Score 1) 316

> IANAL, but on the other hand, if no computer language or library API can enjoy copyright protection, then it appears to me that it doesn't have GPL or Creative Commons protection either (since being required to follow these licences follows from the copyright holder's discretion)...
> Be careful what you wish for google...

IANAL as well, but i believe copyright != license. A license usually involves copyright, but, by definition, the reverse is not true.

However, copyright infringement penalties often have much larger penalties than disobeying a license.
This does not really make logical sense, but as the MAFIAA prioritizes their short term greed over logic and the health of the industry (and US senators and congressmen need MAFIAA's money to get re-elected), it is how the world works.

News

Computing Pioneers Share Their First Tech Memories 99

An anonymous reader writes "Major names from the world of computing and technology such as Vint Cerf, William Gibson, Richard Stallman, Michael Dell and Hermann Hauser have shared their memories on their first computers and what inspired them to get involved with the computer. Highlight's include Cerf recalling his experience with the valve-based US air defense network Sage — as seen in Dr Strangelove — and Acorn co-founder Hauser building an eight bit computer out of marbles and a shoebox."

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