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on Saturday January 03 2015, @07:02PM
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from the if-its-good-enough-for-POTUS dept.
From Crackberry:
"Thanksgiving this year was a bad time for Sony Pictures Entertainment, and that's putting it lightly. Hackers known as The Guardians of Peace managed to take over entire portions of their internal systems which led to the theft of a ton of personally identifiable information about Sony Pictures Entertainment employees, movie scripts, information about movie deals, and even full versions of unreleased Sony movies. Because of the hack, Sony had to find new ways to communicate with each other and keep the organization running during that time and as a new report from the WSJ [Subscription required] highlights, they turned to BlackBerry in some cases."
[Ed note: Also see coverage at Marketwatch and CNN Money .]
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Sony Turned to BlackBerry to Continue Working During Hack
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by davester666 on Saturday January 03 2015, @07:31PM
BlackBerry. If you want to be sure nobody hacks your device, be sure nobody else is using ones like it.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 03 2015, @08:58PM
> a new report from the WSJ [Subscription required]
That's not true. A subscription is just one way to get access.
But I use another way.
Spoof the http-referrer header to say http://google.com/ [google.com] with RefControl [mozilla.org]
Automatically delete cookies when you leave the site so it won't remember you next time. Self-Destructing Cookies [mozilla.org]
Those two in combination will get you past 95% of the paywalls out there.
BTW, anyone technical enough to read soylent and who cares about their privacy should already be doing both of those things for all sites, not just paywalls.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 03 2015, @09:51PM
The downside is google will look even bigger to everybody. :-/
If you wish to suppress the referer [sic] header you don't need an extension to do that. Just dive in about:config and tune network.http.sendRefererHeader. [mozillazine.org]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 04 2015, @07:29AM
Suppressing the referrer will reduce your privacy. It makes you stand out. Spoofing it from google makes you blend in.
(Score: 2) by cosurgi on Saturday January 03 2015, @11:15PM
thanks, looks interesting. I will have to check it out.
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(Score: 2) by RamiK on Sunday January 04 2015, @01:29PM
seconded. Thanks.
compiling...
(Score: 1) by idetuxs on Sunday January 04 2015, @02:42PM
I think that the referrers from google could look a little bit more messy than that (sometimes at least). For example, here I searched for SMBC and then clicked the link, the referrer is:
http://www.google.com/search?q=smbc&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1 [google.com]
So don't know when the referrer would be just google.com
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 04 2015, @04:35PM
Sure, but nobody automates referrer verification to that level of detail because it varies by client. They only check for the lowest common denominator which is the hostname.
(Score: 1) by idetuxs on Monday January 05 2015, @06:52PM
Ok, I'll implement it. thanks.
(Score: 1) by idetuxs on Tuesday January 06 2015, @06:45AM
Surprisingly with that setting as default, breaks Duck Duck Go search results, so if you like the ducky duckidy duck, you should create a custom rule for duckduckgo.com allowing referrers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 04 2015, @03:55PM
The article(s) make it out like Sony pulled the BlackBerrys out of a drawer and they still worked. I'm surprised that the BIS/BES was still able to authenticate to their domain (or at least, the mail server) after all of this time.