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Scott Pack
Scott Pack
00:14
@JeffFerland I've got a buddy at Akamai in Boston. You want me to ask him about openings?
 
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Jeff Ferland
Jeff Ferland
01:25
@ScottPack Yes, please do.
 
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Scott Pack
Scott Pack
11:27
"Don't use your fingers. Take your spoon, and put it in your mouth." is not exactly something I expected to say so regularly.
Tex
Tex
11:40
I hate openid
This chat room recognizes my stackexchange account, but security.stachexchange.com doesn't
wtf?
Scott Pack
Scott Pack
11:57
@Tex That is weird. I usually have more trouble with chat recognizing my login session than any of the main sites.
 
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Iszi
Iszi
14:12
Do we have a FAQ somewhere about malware terminology yet?
Iszi
Iszi
14:49
...is anyone alive in here?
Scott Pack
Scott Pack
No
Thomas Pornin
Thomas Pornin
@Iszi I am (or so I believe)
Jeff Ferland
Jeff Ferland
Je suis mort.
Thomas Pornin
Thomas Pornin
@JeffFerland Pas de chance.
Iszi
Iszi
Comment thread here is TL;DR. What can we do to fix that?
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A: Is the argument really over on SSO?

Jeff FerlandTwo views: Corporate: Whether you have control over all the machines, or at least the central auth server, you're better off with SSO. One place to hire employees, one place to terminate them, one set of credentials they have to worry about. Individual server compromises shouldn't leak credenti...

Thomas Pornin
Thomas Pornin
15:01
@Iszi Convince @Jeff to publish a short summary as an edit to his answer, once the debate is over ?
Iszi
Iszi
Wow. Got a Tumbleweed on SU.
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Q: How do I control what page is opened when I create a new window in Firefox?

IsziCurrently, I have Firefox configured so that my home page loads a few websites in multiple tabs at once on startup. This is because these are websites that I generally like leaving to run in the background while I do some other browsing. However, this becomes an annoyance when I go to open a ne...

firefox-4
Jeff Ferland
Jeff Ferland
15:32
OK, edited the spaghetti
5
Q: Is the argument really over on SSO?

Jack DouglasI got shot down on ServerFault recently for suggesting that SSO can be less secure than having different credentials for each service. What are the arguments against SSO?

authentication sso
Tex
Tex
15:43
@scott-pack It's usually not a problem, but when it is, it's annoying. I can never remember which ID I originally used to sign up to StackOverflow all those years ago
 
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nealmcb
nealmcb
17:41
I wish the SE "active questions" page indicated what kind of change happened on each question. When I see @AviD change a slew all at once I can guess that it is retagging, but I'd like to know, so I don't miss new answers (or accepted answers)
Iszi
Iszi
@nealmcb I wish the view defaulted to "newest" - or that the setting was per-user.
 
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Iszi
Iszi
19:51
Quiet in here. Everybody take the day off or something?
Thomas Pornin
Thomas Pornin
@Iszi Maybe everybody took the day on, rather.
Sometimes work has to take precedence.
Iszi
Iszi
@ThomasPornin Well, I never...
;-)
Scott Pack
Scott Pack
20:19
I'm sorry, @ThomasPornin, I'm not quite sure I follow. I'm a state worker.
 
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nealmcb
nealmcb
21:35
@ScottPack What state? Inactive?
 
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Scott Pack
Scott Pack
22:42
@nealmcb Sounds like you've met civil servants :)

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