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... or you end up with this Christmas tree on display[^] 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That can't be real! Please 'fess up. It looks like all the contributors had eaten glitter. 
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Be careful for what you ask for - you might get it.[^]
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 I recall seeing that, and it must have subconsciously influenced my comment!
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I think who ever came up with this is a legend... tis the season to be merry...
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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someone ... ah ... retentive at least. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Phil.Benson wrote: I think who ever came up with this is a legend gastroenterologist.
FIFY
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Damnit.
Must be the color. I saw that and somehow was immediately reminded of ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) .
Now I can't unsee it.
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That definitely sums up the year 2020.
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Looks like the mall's pretzel shop sponsored the tree. 
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...or the mall's cleaning crew...?
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Damn I just cleaned up one of them from the garden.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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i am daily news subscriber for more than a decade.
i remember daily news as a more productive scenario, filled with more development or technology. sometimes philosophy.
i can't remember exactly when but it must be 5-7 years now that daily news took a turn more like the news on TV. everything about some security somewhere...
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY was a good addition, but that also is a bit vague.
is it just me or you also have that feeling they are pushing this 'billion devices got hacked' story everywhere?
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It could be the news sources that took a turn for the bad from your point of view.
But let's add @Kent-Sharkey to this thread, I'm sure he appreciates constructive criticism.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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i have praised Kent personally a couple of times because i like the funny comments below the links, but i always thought that he only reacts to the news not that he chooses the items.
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That’s an interesting distinction that I’ll have to consider for a while, thank you.
I guess it was that I thought people would want to know stuff about potential hacks and areas to secure. OKdOK, what should I be spending more time highlighting? (And of course, there have to be items for me to post, so there’s never a guarantee of content)
TTFN - Kent
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thanks for your reply.
I guess it was that I thought people would want to know stuff about potential hacks and areas to secure. OKdOK, what should I be spending more time highlighting?
i don't really know.
we exchanged a couple of emails in 2008-9 so i thought to take a peek from 1st to 10th Dec 2009 in the list.
News Items
New cloud-based service steals Wi-Fi passwords
The "Cloud" does have a purpose
Industry News Computerworld 8 Dec 2009
on a quick glance this was the only item compatible to 4 items about security from yesterday, 9 Dec 2020.
i don't mean anything personal, the news all around the globe are served with a high accent on security.
there is nothing i (or maybe anyone else) can do about it.
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Fair enough. Yeah, that's probably too much security these days. I'll try to tone it down and "just play the hits". (Assuming that events give me decent amounts of non-security stuff, of course).
Oh, and thank you (both for this, and for reading the newsletter in the first place)
TTFN - Kent
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thank you. your comments on the news sure shed a light on a rainy day.
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Martin ISDN wrote: is it just me or you also have that feeling they are pushing this 'billion devices got hacked' story everywhere?
Yeah, I know just what you mean.
A billion devices? They're just saying that, downplaying it, to keep us from panicking and continuing on the buying spree.
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I do not share your perceptions of a trend in "Daily News" content.
I think it's as good as ever, and remains a remarkable curated resource !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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But those that should know better, keep getting compromised.
News is that China's "money system" is now laundering Mexican Cartel money.
Bitcoin is a reflection of the state of the world.
And we just dodged a major fascist bullet.
The subtext to all this is the $. That's the news.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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We're all developers here.
Unless you're working in a very niche area, if security isn't already on your mind...are you sure you're doing your job?
No offense intended - I'm just raising a point.
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We're all developers here.
Unless you're working in a very niche area, if security isn't already on your mind...are you sure you're doing your job?
No offense intended - I'm just raising a point.
none taken.
this is just from yesterday's news, 9 Dec:
"Hackers steal software of one of the world's top security companies"
"Research: Millions of smart devices vulnerable to hacking"
"Unfixable Kubernetes security hole means potential man-in-the-middle attacks"
"Lightning does strike twice: If you get hacked once, you'll probably be attacked again within a year"
there is nothing i can do about all of this, except maybe about the last one. and that is also probably...
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I think it has more to do with bringing awareness - typically I'd read such articles and start thinking whether there's anything in them that was mentioned that might apply to me - is my code vulnerable to such things, and if so, what can I do to mitigate them. That sort of thing. If I, as a software developer, took no interest in learning about new attack methods, at one point I'd probably be in for a rude awakening.
And what else is going on anyway in the software world these days? 
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