* Posts by mahood

5 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Nov 2012

Flash! Ah-ahhh! WebEx pwned for all of us!

mahood
FAIL

What about their Chrome plugin?

Apparently essential to join a WebEx meeting, and it requests access to every page on every site? Obviously I don't allow it to load!

Surely it can be limited to just WebEx domains?

WordPress admin? Thinking of spending time with the family? Think again

mahood

So what should we use instead?

I have a small personal website that uses WordPress (and a handful of plugins, automatically updated and regularly checked) running just fine. Whenever I hear about another broken plugin I do another check to ensure I'm up to date and hopefully wasn't running that plugin either.

Is there a 'better' solution out there? What's the local opinion on the best way to host a personal site with some interactivity (commenting, etc) with minimal maintenance required? I'm not a target for anyone wanting to attack me personally, but with automated scanners going around I know everyone is to some extent.

I'm aware of sites like Squarespace, Wix & Weebly, where you pay someone else to worry about security and such-like for you... should I just be jumping over there?

Shhhh! Facebook is listening

mahood

Re: No need to turn it off on iOS, unless you deliberately turned it on previously

That explains why when I went to turn it off the option wasn't even there... I must have been asked once, said 'hell no' and so now I can't even enable it. I assume there's a way to try and do something in the app which needs microphone access, which will pop up the prompt again.

I do appreciate how iOS makes every app ask for each permission individually, rather than just 'this app needs all this, you want to run it or what?'

Curiosity finds not-very-Australian-shaped rock on Mars

mahood

Clearly...

it's the Millennium Falcon, and it's all just publicity for the new Star Wars movies.

And by 'clearly', I mean 'not really'.

LOHAN slips BRA over BOOBIES in ballocket backronym buffoonery

mahood
Holmes

Control Of Key Electronics

Or if that's too subtle, Control Of Critical Aeronautical Internal Navigation Electronics