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Amazon kills encryption with latest Fire OS update (The Register) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at March 3, 2016, 11:51 pm)

I know Marco Rubio is a lousy politician, but I felt a bit sorry for him in the interviews on Tuesday night. He has no chance of winning, his political career is at least temporarily wrecked, and he's got the burden of going up against a neo-Nazi white supremacist with a foul mouth who's winning. It's kind of a shitty deal.

I empathize because I got kind of a similar deal with RSS . It happens all the time, out at dinner, at a party, a conference, someone says hey do you think RSS is dead? By implication it hurts me more than it hurts them if it is. And that's what I say to them. I don't make any money from RSS. It's never been a business for me. So if it's dead or not, has no effect on my well-being, any more than it affects yours.

Like that.

Marco Rubio won't benefit if Donald Trump isn't President any more than you or I will. He'll get to write a book. And there won't be a nuclear war. There's that too. Rubio will benefit, but that's not really the point. It would be good for all of us if his efforts are successful, and even though his politics suck (as I said at the outset) we all do owe him at least a thank you for trying to prevent a calamity. He'd get a good book deal either way probably, so he doesn't really have to do this.

We haven't completely forgotten manners, have we?

I know Marco Rubio is a lousy politician, but I felt a bit sorry for him in the interviews on Tuesday night. He has no chance of winning, his political career is at least temporarily wrecked, and he's got the burden of going up against a neo-Nazi white supremacist with a foul mouth who's winning. It's kind of a shitty deal.

I empathize because I got kind of a similar deal with RSS . It happens all the time, out at dinner, at a party, a conference, someone says hey do you think RSS is dead? By implication it hurts me more than it hurts them if it is. And that's what I say to them. I don't make any money from RSS. It's never been a business for me. So if it's dead or not, has no effect on my well-being, any more than it affects yours.

Like that.

Marco Rubio won't benefit if Donald Trump isn't President any more than you or I will. He'll get to write a book. And there won't be a nuclear war. There's that too. Rubio will benefit, but that's not really the point. It would be good for all of us if his efforts are successful, and even though his politics suck (as I said at the outset) we all do owe him at least a thank you for trying to prevent a calamity. He'd get a good book deal either way probably, so he doesn't really have to do this.

We haven't completely forgotten manners, have we?

A rare albino whale has been filmed off Mexico's Pacific coast - apparently gliding through the waters with its calf.

itwbennett writes: Cisco Systems has released critical software updates for its Nexus 3000 and 3500 switches to remove a default administrative account with static credentials that could allow remote attackers access to a bash shell with root privileges, meaning that they can fully control the device. The account is created at installation time by the Cisco NX-OS software that runs on these switches and it cannot be changed or deleted without affecting the system's functionality, Cisco said in an advisory. The affected devices are: Cisco Nexus 3000 Series switches running NX-OS 6.0(2)U6(1), 6.0(2)U6(2), 6.0(2)U6(3), 6.0(2)U6(4) and 6.0(2)U6(5) and Cisco Nexus 3500 Platform switches running NX-OS 6.0(2)A6(2), 6.0(2)A6(3), 6.0(2)A6(4), 6.0(2)A6(5) and 6.0(2)A7(1).