As an update, CERT even put out an advisory to have folks not expose their management interface: http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-207A. I'd like to suggest taking it a step further. Other management interfaces, such as hypervisors, web control panels, SSH logins, etc. should not be exposed to the Internet.

Yeah. The number of fails necessary to pull off destroying that data was insurmountable.

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@Dominica said:

@alexntg No one here has had anything to say about what he wrote, only how he wrote it. After reading that article, Infoworld has gone down a bit in reputation in my eyes.

InfoWorld definitely isn't on par with QuinnStreet's publications.

What are the chances that they will follow through though?

Things just keep improving.

@scottalanmiller said:

No telling how often that this is attempted against high profile closed-source products and even less information on how often it is successful.

Software companies don't want us to think about that.

It's pretty solid, but I don't like it compared to just using FreeBSD. The web interface brings problems and doesn't really buy you anything. Not like it has additional functionality.

You find the most archaic stuff. Serious trip down memory lane, though.

That has just been waiting to happen, really.

So much for all of my DOS apps.

In the article they act like this impacts a lot of people. That is pretty surprising. I wonder what sixteen bit apps remain in common usage.

Two game sales in one day. You are killing me.

I see that the speculation is that either Intel or AMD will be sourcing the chips.

@Bill-Kindle said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg no kidding. No backups? That's crazy.

But Cloud........

Not having backups leaves them liable for some massive lawsuits. I'd be really surprised if they ever come back. Titsup was a good word for what happened to them.

They did have backups. They were also in AWS and geographically redundant. The attacker deleted the backups as well. The issue is that a proper DR plan would have addressed the issue of what would happen if AWS failed.

This isn't quite "Open Source" in the software sense, but it's truly remarkable; they call it "Cloud based education" but tomato-tomatoe.

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@garak0410 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I was a Kings Quest guy myself.

Same here but before that, I was heavy into Infocom games...I could really envision the environments I was in just by the text. Zork, Deadline, Planetfall....loved them all. I was an Amiga guy by the time the Kings Quest games came out and despite the EGA graphics, I was jealous of my PC friends having games like that. Finally got the later editions of the games but then VGA was surpassing the Amiga and I finally made the jump to the PC.

I played them on Amiga too. But in 1987 the Amiga version was way ahead of the PC options.

While it's pretty, it still doesn't make coffee (i.e. No killer features that make it a must have and unique).
Sure it has a pretty screen and the camera is ok but it still makes phone calls, has sms & email facilities and lets me read the time from the car park (big screen) but so do plenty of other less expensive phones.

Call me cynical but I think it'll end up being just another expensive phone.