Zaephyr

Well done! Both for the app and seeing the fight through. All of us would be lucky to have people as dedicated as you and your team in our cities.

Airships, particularly rigid airships (Zeppelins), are massive and it's the mass that becomes a problem. The airship is inflated to a state of neutral buoyancy so it floats and can hang in the sky (cool!) but the mass has to be dealt with when you want to start, stop, or change direction. I believe that the Hindenburg required a ground crew of ~200 to control the airship during landing and mooring. It's also a problem in flying in the vicinity of strong storms.

You also have to maintain the neutral buoyancy as you burn fuel. Zeppelins could use diesel but the preference was for 'blau gas' which had a density close to air, and didn't cause the airship to lighten as it was burned. Maintaining buoyancy also complicates using an airship as a freighter; an offsetting load is needed when making a delivery, otherwise you end up venting your lifting gas.

All that said, if I had the money I'd totally blow it building a Zeppelin-style (and size) airship.

FB's security people likely track and have copies of account/password dumps from site breeches. Sort of like Troy Hunt does with haveibeenpwned.com but for their own internal security measures.

Well, he is the author of both.

Your link is a more in depth version of his position. Thx!

Also, business used to have have counter checks available for customers (if they took checks). Basically a standard blank form, sort of like what banks have for withdrawals but were less formal. Sometimes mentioned in 70's TV shows/movies like Columbo.

Given that recent reporting has shown that ads and tracking are the biggest culprits in page load times, AMP appears to be solving an ad/tracking problem more than a web page problem.

He does work in corp sec trying to stop spearphishers who target food processors. I think the point is to educate other IT staff while trying convince MS to provide more security controls for OLE. Glad to see doc on the ShowOLEPackageObj reg key which I was unaware. EMET also helpful.

The author is obviously smart and dedicated - and I’d probably be forced to terminate him. He is an non-supervisory employee, who has not been given administrative access to these computers. He created and deployed a program to other computers without permission that actively thwarted attempts to be shutdown, and modified it get around a GPO that was more than likely pushed out because of what he was doing. This is malware - for a good purpose but still an undesirable application being run without permission.

If the company has decided that computers need to be locked when away from keyboard there will be a policy and procedure for reporting and dealing infractions. This won’t be it. While in this case the program might have been mostly harmless, one never knows when a programming error might spin things out of control. It’s clever, funny to some, but if it accidentally resulted in downtime the stuff the flows downhill would come fast and be unpleasant in some organizations. Plus, annoying your teammates isn’t the best idea long term. I know this may seem harsh, but from my experience organizations with the most need for this security would be the least likely to approve of this method.

The purchase page says that it for non-commercial use; no link to a commercial version. Looks like it is still free in the App Store FWIW.

So... Ad researchers have rebranded Gen Y?? That's kind of funny.

(Also shows how much attention I was paying. I thought there were Boomers, X's, Y's, and Millenials)

The other important points influencing the decision were the amount of time spent examining the hard drive and extensive detail of the search.

"...that wherever the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals eventually draws the precise boundary of a routine border search, or however either Court ultimately defines a forensic – as opposed to a conventional – computer search, this search was qualitatively and quantitatively different from a routine border examination, and therefore, it was unreasonable given the paucity of grounds to suspect that criminal activity was in progress."

No downvote from me however...

If you want email and privacy, you need to encrypt.

Email is as secure like a postcard; at least that is what we use tell the people that wanted to append long email disclaimers.

I think it is hard to say how this will play out. Maybe the author is right and people will care less about their domain name, or it could be become one of several presence items that companies use to reach customers.

For instance, the US toll-free numbers continue to increase (now 6 exchanges) despite the decline of metered toll service and payphones.

An interesting article for both the application of tools ans people to solve a problem and the pictures. I had to go through the article twice because the first time I stopped reading and just enjoyed the photos.

Following Schneier's link to Gigaom it's pretty hard to get the choice to opt out - even if one already knows it exists.