Re: [FRIAM] Major bug called 'Heartbleed' exposes Internet data

2014-04-10 Thread Barry MacKichan
It is a major PITA. Certificates on affected servers (which include Amazon EC2 Linus servers) may have had their private keys exposed, so certificates have to be reissued with different keys. This is, apparently, a major bottleneck. —Barry On 9 Apr 2014, at 21:23, Owen Densmore wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] Major bug called 'Heartbleed' exposes Internet data

2014-04-10 Thread Owen Densmore
Hi Barry. How would the private keys be exposed? The pub/priv computation is done locally, right? BTW: All node servers are secure due to their ssl config turning off the heartbeat option. NodeWeekly: Node 0.8.x and 0.10.2+ Not Vulnerable to Heartbleed

Re: [FRIAM] Major bug called 'Heartbleed' exposes Internet data

2014-04-10 Thread Owen Densmore
Fairly useful scanner software created to test for vulnerability. https://github.com/musalbas/heartbleed-masstest/blob/master/top1.txt -- Owen On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Hi Barry. How would the private keys be exposed? The pub/priv

Re: [FRIAM] Major bug called 'Heartbleed' exposes Internet data

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Smith
And some fundamental truths about information entropy are even being questioned: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2013/encryption-is-less-secure-than-we-thought-0814 And a new method offered for generating keys which is reputed to not be vulnerable to brute-force attacks, based on coupled

Re: [FRIAM] Major bug called 'Heartbleed' exposes Internet data

2014-04-10 Thread Joshua Thorp
according to https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/heartbleed.html http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/55382/heartbleed-read-only-the-next-64k-and-hyping-the-threat apparently the bug gives access to 64K chunk of ram on the server. The private key might be in that chunk, but

[FRIAM] FYI. - The LastPass Blog: LastPass Now Checks If Your Sites Are Affected by Heartbleed

2014-04-10 Thread Tom Johnson
http://blog.lastpass.com/2014/04/lastpass-now-checks-if-your-sites-are.html?m=1 === Tom Johnson - Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, NM t...@jtjohnson.com.505-473-9646 ===

Re: [FRIAM] Major bug called 'Heartbleed' exposes Internet data

2014-04-10 Thread Barry MacKichan
http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/ has been invaluable. —Barry Our vulnerable servers are all Linux Drupal machines on Amazon's EC2. On 10 Apr 2014, at 10:12, Owen Densmore wrote: Fairly useful scanner software created to test for vulnerability.

Re: [FRIAM] Major bug called 'Heartbleed' exposes Internet data

2014-04-10 Thread Barry MacKichan
Of course, after our certificate is renewed, we will need to revoke our current certificate. See this link for some of the consequences of having millions of certificates revoked at the same time:

Re: [FRIAM] Major bug called 'Heartbleed' exposes Internet data

2014-04-10 Thread Owen Densmore
The follow-on links are pretty good too. -- Owen On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Joshua Thorp jos...@stigmergic.netwrote: according to https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/heartbleed.html

Re: [FRIAM] Major bug called 'Heartbleed' exposes Internet data

2014-04-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 10:20 -0600, Joshua Thorp wrote: according to https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/heartbleed.html http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/55382/heartbleed-read-only-the-next-64k-and-hyping-the-threat apparently the bug gives access to 64K chunk of ram

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Astra Taylor writes: ``Those women who do fight their way into the industry often end up leaving -- their attrition rate is 56%, or double that of men -- and sexism is a big part of what pushes them out. “I no longer touch code because I couldn't deal with the constant dismissing and undermining

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Smith
Marcus - Well observed, as usual. You state: My experience is that, in the world of software engineering, women are often easier to work with then men. Often they have better listening skills and better impulse control -- and so there is less of the Not Invented Here syndrome which plagues so

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Roger Critchlow
So, what's the question here? You think maybe that the predominance of straight white men in technology is innately right? That other genders and races aren't capable of doing the job, so all those white male losers and assholes that we have to deal with are objectively the best people for the

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Steve writes: More than anything, I find that a healthy team can help a new member find resonance with the teams values and habits (work ethic, quality work product, open communication, etc.) while an unhealthy one can undermine an individual's natural instincts or choices. I argue that

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 15:25 -0600, Roger Critchlow wrote: So, what's the question here? [..] Or are you thinking that maybe all those white male losers got their skills and jobs through some sort of structural inequity that tilted the competition in their favor? There's a third possibility,

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Nick Thompson
“But only so many family oriented' people will work 12-16 hour days.” This would seem to be the key. All the value-problems in our society would seem to be summarized in this one assertion. If one grants that women are predisposed by physiology to be more tied to infants that men, and

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Smith
Roger - So, what's the question here? The original (implicit) question was *does* Openness amplify Inequality as a matter of course? My elaborated question in light of both yours and Marcus' response is what the balance might be between: 1. A specific conspiracy by (straight?) white

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 16:22 -0600, Nick Thompson wrote: But if we are to get out of this mess, and if we believe families are important to human individual and collective well-being, we have to find a way to counter the perverse incentives that afflict corporate managers. IMO, lurking in

Re: [FRIAM] FYI. - The LastPass Blog: LastPass Now Checks If Your Sites Are Affected by Heartbleed

2014-04-10 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:27:30AM -0600, Tom Johnson wrote: http://blog.lastpass.com/2014/04/lastpass-now-checks-if-your-sites-are.html?m=1 If your sites are what? -- Prof Russell Standish Phone

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Gary Schiltz
On Apr 10, 2014, at 5:51 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 16:22 -0600, Nick Thompson wrote: IMO, lurking in their minds is: What is this employee's absolute priority? Is it the bottom line of the company or is it taking their kids to school and

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 16:38 -0600, Steve Smith wrote: The original (implicit) question was *does* Openness amplify Inequality as a matter of course? Reading over the essay again, all she seems to notice are abusive misogynistic trolls. I guess if they could be compartmentalized and kept from

Re: [FRIAM] FYI. - The LastPass Blog: LastPass Now Checks If Your Sites Are Affected by Heartbleed

2014-04-10 Thread Tom Johnson
LastPass Now Checks If Your Sites Are Affected by Heartbleed -tj == Tom Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) Twitter: jtjohnson slideshare.net/jtjohnson/presentations

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Merle Lefkoff
In Iceland woman make more than men (working part-time); the gap is only 2.5% in Slovenia. Women are not equally represented in some of the highest paying professions, which accounts for much of the difference Women lost their equal work status 10,000 years ago when the plow was invented. This

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Steve Smith
On 4/10/14 10:47 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: Women lost their equal work status 10,000 years ago when the plow was invented. This is a complicated issue. It will take time. I actually own a primitive plow