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Just had a go: it's great!

Good point. Meh. Assume it's also root pass for SSH on that box?

Or, change the FTP password and email that to the ISP abuse team. Spammer is locked out.

Great post, really enjoyed following the trail along with the author. The sad part is, knowing how useless a lot of ISP's abuse@ emails are, the FTP might never be taken down this way.

Hard to imagine how they arrived at the total cost of €1,400 - what about the hours of work that went into the web app and iPhone app, and all the visual design? Are they calculating their hourly rate as insignificant?

Product looks good, but this €1,400 figure is meaningless.

So true. I have never, ever taken a job I knew how to do (fully). I blagged it, and learned it all on the job.

Just total nonsense which makes no mention of either general inflation or the price-deflation of consumer electronics. My parents saved up to buy my Spectrum when I was a kid. Now, a parent could get a laptop off eBay for $50 and install Linux. Computers are WAY cheaper now than they were then. sigh

I'm not seeing how. This stuff is free, and a torrent would make it easier for users and reduce server load for the site.

Anyone care to leech them all and make a torrent? My corporate firewall won't allow it, or I'd be doing it now. :(

Printing ads on toilet paper could still be a tech business needing many hackers.

Enrolment, ad bidding, printing, logistics, crm, etc etc

I refuse to use Facebook.

Disqus?

Had a hunch this was the case, just needed someone smarter than I to confirm.

How do banks ensure nobody makes a phishing version of their apps?

That is interesting, but surely the client-side cert could just be copied and used in a dummy app?

Mike this is great, thank you. Good angle for me to think on.

Thanks Mathias, great advice.

My first HDD was on a Commodore Amiga and was a mighty 60Mb.

Maybe you could help me with an iOS API build question?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3110572

Good info, thanks.

MySQL it is then. :)

I had thought about MongoDB, but bit worried about its global write lock! Surely that can't be a good idea!?

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/How+does+concurrency+wor...

Or does that only apply if "safe mode" is on, rather than fire-and-forget unverified writes?

I/O Bound - very little other than db write/read operations.

Going to hit the backend every transaction as its very stateful so minimal caching can be possible.

Unknown on growth! Hope for the best, I want to take 1000 r/sec on an EC2 instance.

Ok what's 'helpd' and why does it call Akamai servers?

http://imgur.com/IDc5f

Gotcha - thank you.

Forgive me, genuinely interested - how does 1-bit difference turn microsoft into mic2soft.. ?

> Turns out somebody (most likely an EMC/RSA employee) had uploaded the email and attachment to the Virustotal online scanning service on 19th of March.

Would that be some automated system that sends samples - or would the user have to manually find the .msg file and upload it?

Because I really can't see a generic 'office drone' at EMC uploading every bit of malware that comes into their inbox, especially if they're also likely to open this kind of dodgy-looking email...

Gill Sans is really close (the BBC's brand font incidentally) although when the original was made there were no digital fonts of course.

I have prey too - it's awesome.

Yes - reminds me of how several users would exploit the Bolt.com chat system (back in the day) using upper-case 'I's as lower case 'L's to pose as different users and cause mayhem.

In pursuit of $, I'm afraid.

Works splendidly - 2011 MBP w/Radeon latest FF stable.