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If your boss came to you and said the company has decided to move in a direction that compromises user privacy, safety, etc- and you need to start designing and coding this now, what would you do?-wraith808 (September 22, 2015, 08:20 AM)
Depending on my mood at the time, and how it was presented. My reaction would be one or more of the below.
A. Tell him to go f*** himself.
B. Proceed with the project, but quietly code (and leak) a ton of holes in it the size of Montana.
C. Walk out on the spot.
I walked on a job in aircraft years ago, because I didn't like what they were planning to do with product quality. I'd been there 10 years, and had moved (across country) twice for the job.
They said we're doing X.
I said not with my ass you ain't
2 weeks later they realized I wasn't bluffing.-Stoic Joker (September 22, 2015, 11:19 AM)
"Ethics in Technology" or in any other profession for the matter, do not exist in front of "Profit Making"
Look at Doctors, they forget that they should treat a "patient" no matter how poor he/she is.
The Charted Account help to dodge the Govt. laws to save tax.
And it is better not to speak about the Lawyers.
Same way Engineers of IT, Electrical, Civil etc. are used by their Bosses to make profit and a big one. They just work as servant to help some one make profit and in turn earn their livelihood, all over the world.
When one is caught, some clean up is done and then everything is back to one. Same will happen to VW and we will forget about it in few years.
Regards,
Anand-anandcoral (September 22, 2015, 03:26 AM)
Michigan Radio's Tracy Samilton reports for our Newscast unit:
"The German automaker will have to recall about 482,000 Audi and Volkswagen cars with 4-cylinder turbo diesel engines. The issue affects 2009 through 2015 model years.
"The cars have devices that turn emissions controls on during tests and off during normal driving.
"The deception is a serious violation of the Clean Air Act, for which CEO Martin Winterkorn says he is personally deeply sorry, and he promises the company will do whatever is necessary to reverse the damage this has caused. The company faces potentially billions in fines and other costs."
On Friday, the EPA and the California Air Resources Board said that a "defeat device" had allowed diesel Jettas, Beetles and other cars to "emit up to 40 times more pollution" than allowed under U.S. standards.
Saying that Volkswagen has ordered an external investigation of the software exploit that skirted U.S. emissions tests, Winterkorn stated, "We do not and will not tolerate violations of any kind of our internal rules or of the law."
"Using a defeat device in cars to evade clean air standards is illegal and a threat to public health," said Cynthia Giles, assistant administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.
Again, that has nothing to do with the cloud, nor does it have anything to do with sharing passwords with other people. Nor does it have anything to do with LastPass.-Deozaan (September 21, 2015, 04:23 PM)
Oh, so they compare the password managers without comparing their features vs. each other?-Tuxman (September 21, 2015, 04:27 PM)
Promo link: https://www.stickypa...5&utm_content=lp
Promo type:
Giveaway
I'm also not super fond of how you master password seems to be tied to your StickyAccount. They might have implemented in a secure and zero-knowledge way, but it feels a bit odd.-f0dder (September 21, 2015, 12:13 PM)
"Only you know your Master Password. The authentication that takes place when Sticky Password syncs or performs a backup to the cloud (Sticky Password uses Amazon cloud services for our backend services) involves only your StickyID (your email address) and your StickyPass – which is different to your Master Password. For syncing and backing up to the backend servers, only the encrypted database is sent over the Internet, so even if an attacker were lucky enough to catch the communication he wouldn’t be able access the encrypted data inside the DB."
Dashlane servers went down recently and left me unable to access my passwords for most of a day. They don’t have a way to bypass contacting servers and let you use locally saved password archive. Until they fix this, you are out of luck if their servers go down. -Timothy B., PC MAG 2/2015
I'd seen that one and discarded it also for some reason, which was the reason I didn't mention it.-wraith808 (September 18, 2015, 09:52 PM)
He he. When I try to investigate it, my brain cringes at the seeming amount of effort involved in assessing itSource is available though (at least partly Python?).
-ewemoa (September 19, 2015, 01:42 AM)
@f0dder: if you're interested in Sticky Password. Premium, it's fairly often on Bits du Jour, and appears so now:Thanks, it's tempting - even if it's still a pretty steep price for a password manager.-rjbull (September 19, 2015, 04:21 PM)
Also, I tried installing it on OSX, but it claims the StickyPassword for my account is wrong... even though I can login to the StickyAccount just fine from that system in a webbrowser. Not very confidence inspiring! I'm also not super fond of how you master password seems to be tied to your StickyAccount. They might have implemented in a secure and zero-knowledge way, but it feels a bit odd.-f0dder (September 21, 2015, 12:13 PM)
well i never played magic the gathering, though i have watched some of it being played -- and from watching i know it can get quite complicated.
there has been a rebellion against the "collectible" aspect of card games, as seen in magic the gathering, and most new deck builders do not follow this path.
instead there are fixed card sets that everyone can by for affordable prices and there aren't these super rare expensive cards, etc.
I was really into Magic The Gathering for several years (1993-1996). Still own quite a few custom-built decks. The problem I have with MTG is that there is power-bloat in successive card sets when compared to earlier card sets. They let things get a bit out of control in that area.-kyrathaba (September 21, 2015, 10:25 AM)
Amazing what 1st ed black lotus and other cards were going for at the time. Opportunistic? Who... me? Nah... just a poor college student. 
- look inside his spoiler.The spoiler just shows the start menu, and gives some inkling on a few that might have been obscure, but not all.-Curt (September 21, 2015, 01:19 AM)
Put bluntly, "Oh Hai Brand New Browser. How did you know I was downloading medical files last week? And it's a nice crispy list now. So where are you sending that list that you gloriously refuse to tell me?"
"Ssssh. It's Convenient!"-TaoPhoenix (September 19, 2015, 11:31 PM)
So my guess is it just reads the history of whatever Windows or another (installed, non-private) browser has already done.-4wd (September 19, 2015, 11:09 PM)
Does she like Solitaire?-Arizona Hot (September 18, 2015, 10:55 PM)
You mean "Klondike/Canfield".
As I have been amiably advising while visiting some local Chinese kids, "Klondike" is not "Solitaire". Solitaire is a *category*. "Klondike" is the most famous variant in that class.
But when her eyes get tired, buy her a twin deck of cards and teach her how to play German Spider. That's also ... Solitaire! And it has such a stunning different feel that she might like a break from stuff. Just make sure it's a big table!
If anyone actually cares, we can branch a thread out. This was just to niggle that "the game Bill Gates put on MS Windows" is a "class violation" or something : )-TaoPhoenix (September 19, 2015, 11:37 PM)
fyi: Forum upgraded to v2.0.11.What's new ?-mouser (September 18, 2015, 10:26 PM)-anandcoral (September 19, 2015, 10:36 AM)
Just to be clear, MS Office 365 is installed and runs locally on your PC, and you don't need to save anything in the cloud.-dr_andus (September 20, 2015, 08:54 AM)
I wasn't talking about deleting anything. I was talking about the fact that if you installed it, and it immediately had this list, it just culled it from your OS. It didn't cultivate this list itself. It was just revealing what was there.-wraith808 (September 18, 2015, 03:50 PM)
I could be wrong, but I think the point Tao was trying to make is not where this list came from or why the list was there, but why would a browser have access to the last 15 days activity on his PC? For what purpose did the developer program this 'feature'?
I, for one, do not see why a browser would need to keep track of any of my activities other than browsing & download history. If a web browser is keeping track of what videos I watch, what Word documents I open, and what files I copy to what directories then that browser needs to be uninstalled. I have never used SlimJet and if this is not the kind of activity Tao means then please ignore my ramblings.-Innuendo (September 19, 2015, 05:59 PM)
Another one that was also on panzer's list that looked worth checking out was WAPT but I haven't done so yet.-ewemoa (September 18, 2015, 06:29 PM)
If it immediately had it, then it retrieved it from your local machine, not what it was personally collecting, no? So the information is there, and it just accessed it. So even after you uninstalled, it's still there.
Just food for thought.-wraith808 (September 18, 2015, 09:25 AM)
I was a bit unclear, I meant it didn't delete anything, but now it has a list of stuff which roughly looked to be recently added files. So I have to assume that list of files is floating around out there. Nothing the end of the world, but I can see if it was allowed to stay it would get more and more. So I presume for example it doesn't have today's info. But boring web browsers shouldn't be doing that.
But I can see if someone had a juicy file name, that can drift into bait for ransomware, which we just saw recently in a couple of articles.-TaoPhoenix (September 18, 2015, 09:46 AM)