With users complaining after an announcement that the Dropbox Public folder would disappear from new accounts, Dropbox subsequently said that new users would be able to turn the Public folder on if they so wished, and that the Dropbox API would be extended to support developers who wanted to rely on the Public folder. All’s well that ends well.

 

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New submitter UtucXul points out that Richard Stallman has penned a lengthy response to NPR intern Emily White for her post on the organization's site about how she failed to pay for a significant amount of recorded music, acquiring it instead through Kazaa, friends, and CDs owned by the radio station at which she was employed. (We previously discussed musician David Lowery's response; quite different from RMS's, as you might expect.) Stallman wrote, "Copying and sharing recordings was not a mistake, let alone wrong, because sharing is good. It's good to share musical recordings with friends and family; it's good for a radio station to share recordings with the staff, and it's good when strangers share through peer-to-peer networks. The wrong is in the repressive laws that try to block or punish sharing. Sharing ought to be legalized; in the mean time, please do not act ashamed of having shared — that would validate those repressive laws that claim that it is wrong. You did make a mistake when you chose Kazaa as the method of sharing. Kazaa mistreated you (and all its users) by requiring you to run a non-free program on your computer. ... However, that was in the past. It's more important to consider what you're doing now, which includes other mistakes. You're not alone — many others make them too, and that adds up to a big problem for society. The root mistake is treating a marketing buzzword, 'the cloud,' as if it meant something concrete. That term refers to so many things (different ways of using the Internet) that it really has no meaning at all. Marketing uses that term to lead people's attention away from the important questions about any given use of the network, such as, 'What companies would I depend on if I did this, and how? What trouble could they cause me, if they wanted to shaft me, or simply thought that a change in policies would gain them more money?'"

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En 24-årig svensk man har häktats på Cypern, och förhörs av cypriotisk polis då man misstänker att han kan ha haft planer på en attack mot israeliska turister på ön, enligt nyhetsbyrån Reuters.

Ny lag tvingar oberoende demokratikämpar att kalla sig ”utländska agenter”.

Läkarförbundet: ”Det är insiktslöst”.

wiredmikey writes "Following a shutdown of its 'NVIDIA Developer Zone,' earlier this week after the online community for developers had been hacked, the graphics chip maker on Friday also shut down its online store. The group of hackers behind the attack, going by the handle of 'The Apollo Project,' made mention of the claimed compromise in its original post exhibiting its successful attack against the NVIDIA Developer Zone site. While the company has shut down the online store, it has not acknowledged that a successful attack has taken place. 'NVIDIA has suspended operation of the NVIDIA Gear Store (store.nvidia.com) as a precaution, following confirmed attacks on several of our other sites,' read a statement posted on the site posted. The claimed attackers wrote, 'We aren't acting extremely maliciously, we've used this database to target disgusting corporations who deserve to be brought to justice.. and we are getting there, slowly but surely.'"

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Perl extension for dealing with Redmine Rest api.

simple CPAN package extractor

Minst 16 människor skadades när ett elvavåningshus rasade samman i den egyptiska staden Alexandria på lördagen.

On Bastille Day, French president says jobs are his top priority and dubs automaker Peugeot's job cut "unacceptable".

Försvann utanför Åre – har varit borta i veckor.

stoilis sends this quote from an article at Science: "Vaccines aren't supposed to cause disease. But that appears to be what's happening on Australian farms. Scientists have found that two virus strains used to vaccinate chickens there may have recombined to form a virus that is sickening and killing the animals 'This shows that recombination of such strains can happen and people need to think about it,' says Glenn Browning, a veterinary microbiologist at the University of Melbourne, Parkville, in Australia and one of the co-authors on the paper."

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French president says jobs are his priority and dubbed automaker Peugeot's job cut as "unacceptable" on Bastille Day.

User education and awareness is a very generic term that is often used in business today to refer to the process of

'educating' users on the company's internal computer policy. This effort often times addresses company policy, best, practices, security, etc. What I don't see in most of these programs that I have reviewed as part of audits is the 'awareness' portion, and most likely because this takes a bit more effort. most users and many system administrators have yet to recognize this new dynamic. The very statement we are a mid-size company in America, why would anyone in Asia care about our systems, even if they are vulnerable, is a concern.



So my question to all IT Managers out there today is what are we trying to accomplish? with this training effort? In the past my goal was to raise the level of awareness for the users so that they can begin to understand the scale of threats that exist on the Internet today. One website that has a great basic summary of things a user can do to improve the overall security of their computer or computers is the IS site at MIT. This article reflects simple approaches, talking about technical and user practices that will aide tremendously in the overall security effort.



The title of my article today is User Awareness and Education, as opposed to User Education and Awareness, because I believe that user awareness is one of the most effective cybersecurity tools in our arsenal. With awareness usually comes the desire for education, to understand the why.



As an old friend used to say This is where we have to engage the gray matter in our brain.



What say you?





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