What would you do if you were a creditcard company and one of your subcontractors lost the data for 40 million cards to criminals? If your name is MasterCard you'd go: Stop! Or I'll say stop again! Now that's priceless!
I almost shit in my pants and pissed myself when I saw this: "A new Yankee Group report shows the number of vulnerabilities found in security products increasing sharply for the third straight year -- and for the first time surpassing those found in all Microsoft (MSFT) products." -- BusinessWeek Online.
Go on. Install that personal firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-use-your-brain. I dare you, I double dare you, motherfucker. Install that crap now.
There is general consensus among the mongers bunnies that wulffeld is a fucking fucker:
* wulffeld heads towards Tori Amos.
<Liebach> wulffeld, fucker.
<jlouis> wulffeld: fucker
<holsta> wulffeld, disregard everything I said about fixing your mail
problems.
My wife was sick last week and now it's my turn. I always manage to get sick just in time for the weekend where I am supposed to be doing something non-work related to stimulate my mind and body.
In other news, I have been too busy or tired over the past few weeks to touch miracleII - the new host taking over the services of this system. With any luck it won't be much longer.
I came across this quote a while ago by a reporter who was interviewing Angelina Jolie:
"The sexiest woman alive is sitting so close to me that I can read her tattoos. And I would take the time to read them if I were not sitting so close to the sexiest woman alive." (Originally found on http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/entertainment/2925210 but chron.com expire their URLs after a while. Morons.)
I have no idea who voted Jolie the sexiest woman alive. It sure as hell wasn't me.
openrbl.org expired yesterday, resulting in OpenBSD's spamhaus mirror at http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/SBL.cidr.gz to be an invalid whitelist, which resulted in spamd-setup spamming me with errors.
I was wondering why the Blizzard gamemasters never responded to my in-game bug reports - but looking at my procmail log it turns out they did. Except their messages where deleted before reaching my mailbox as they use duplicate message ids:
miracle$ grep -A2 -i "blizzard.com" .procmail.log From WoWtechEU@blizzard.com Wed Feb 02 12:08:33 2005 Subject: Re: EN OtherUpdater/Patch handling Folder: formail -D 8192 msgid.cache 1143 From wowgmeu@blizzard.com Wed Mar 02 09:56:34 2005 Subject: WoW Blizzard Europe - unavailable in-game Folder: formail -D 8192 msgid.cache 1133 From wowgmeu@blizzard.com Mon May 02 21:40:57 2005 Subject: WoW Blizzard Europe - behaviour / harassment report Folder: formail -D 8192 msgid.cache 1153 From WoWtechEU@blizzard.com Mon May 23 10:24:39 2005 Subject: Re: EN Technical Support / Game Issues Folder: formail -D 8192 msgid.cache 1131
Microsoft have been doing what they do best: Disappointing me. A replacement service for Windows Update, dubbed Microsoft Update, was unveiled recently. It combines WU with Office update and some others - so now most desktop users only need to visit one website to get reliability and security fixes for all Microsoft applications.
And that's it. No fancy new features that allow users running as non-admins to manage their patch status. I hate the design of WU/MU which makes me log in as Administrator and manually pick which patches to download and install.
I would let WU/MU install all patches automatically except that would also mean I would run those lame anti-malware and anti-worm tools that Microsoft have deemed to be "high priority."
In other disappointing news, Visual SourceSafe 2005 is almost as big a turd as the former generation was. Indeed, it now supports copy-merge but the UI is still impossible to use and the beta I am testing crashed 4 times in 30 minutes while just messing around.
The offenders of yesterday's copyright violation finally decided to pick up their phone. I briefly explained the situation and then sent them a mail with URLs of where they stole their content. My mail bounced, so let's just say backup112.dk made my shitlist.
Ralle. Someone has been stealing content from sikkerhed-faq.dk - feel my wrath.