This isn't strictly about BYOND or development, but it's something heavy Internet users (like BYOND developers) might want to know about. The article also mentions the wonderful phenomenon of rickrolling. In fact, maybe the article IS a rickroll. You won't know unless you click.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/ isps-error-page.html
May 15 2008, 10:54 am
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Alathon
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Now thats scary.
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I have Verizon, and I've seen that before as well. I never click on anything on that page, though, as it's stupid.
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Alathon wrote:
Now thats scary. yeah, but was the internet very safe in the first place? | |
That's almost as retarded as that thing that Sony did with the walkman.
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Here's some video they made giving some excuses as to why they do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU | |
Oronar wrote:
Here's some video they made giving some excuses as to why they do it. Well played, Oronar. | |
This is bad enough, but what scared me most of all was this:
"Kaminsky, a well-respected security expert, is perhaps best known for cleverly proving that a spyware rootkit Sony included on music CDs infected computers in more than half a million computer networks in 2005." How the hell is Sony still in business after something like that? | |
Their argument was that since most users don't know what a rootkit is, they wouldn't care about having one.
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