“Last year, we announced that beginning with the release of Windows 10, all new Windows 10 kernel mode drivers must be submitted to the Windows Hardware Developer Center Dashboard portal to be digitally signed by Microsoft,” reads a MSDN blog post. “However, due to technical and ecosystem readiness issues, this was not enforced by Windows Code Integrity and remained only a policy statement. Starting with new installations of Windows 10, version 1607, the previously defined driver signing rules will be enforced by the Operating System, and Windows 10, version 1607 will not load any new kernel mode drivers which are not signed by the Dev Portal.”

Slashdot reader mikejuk quotes a report from i-programmer.info which argues “the control of what software users can run on their machines is becoming ever tighter,” and compares Microsoft’s proposal to an XKCD cartoon:

Before you start to panic about backward compatibility with existing drivers the lockdown is only going to be enforced on new installations of Windows 10. If you simply upgrade an existing system then the OS will take over the drivers that are already installed… Only new installations, i.e. installing all drivers from scratch, will enforce the new rules from Windows 10 version 1607… Be warned, if you need to do a fresh install of Windows 10 in the future you might find that your existing drivers are rejected.

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Source: Slashdot – All Windows 10 Kernel Mode Drivers Must Be Digitally Signed By Microsoft

An anonymous reader quotes Vice:I always feel a little dirty when I look at leaked footage of any kind, but rarely so much as when I brought up Pornhub yesterday to check out a video featuring the hyped space exploration game No Man’s Sky… I had to go to Pornhub, as this corner of the web was the only place I’d been able to find the footage after it’d been yanked off of DailyMotion, YouTube, and almost every other video hosting site…

The PornHub video shows 21 minutes of footage with awful resolution, and none of it’s particularly exciting to watch (which may say something about the game)…

On July 7, when the game was ready to ship, No Man’s Sky creator Sean Murray posted on Twitter “I’m so incredibly proud of this tiny team. 4 years of emotions,” then addressed the leaked footage on Friday, tweeting “We’ve spent years filling No Man’s Sky with surprises. You’ve spent years waiting. Please don’t spoil it for yourself…” A later Twitter post added “Take a break from reading about it, and picking vids apart. You can experience for yourself so soon.”

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Source: Slashdot – Chased Off of YouTube, Leaked ‘No Man’s Sky’ Footage Runs to Pornhub

It’s easy to pontificate about the best security practices — but the real test is what we do with our own money. Long-time Slashdot reader Keybounce writes:

So, like most of you, I recently got a new credit card with a chip in it. I was not worried about that — I know the chips are harder to copy and counterfeit. But I recently discovered that the card is also a radio card — swiping it near the screen caused an message to show up on the reader. In this case, it told me to use the chip reader instead, but this means it has an active radio signal, and could be “hacked” — stolen by someone with the right device.

How can I prevent this? Is there anything I can do that will disable the radio signal and still leave the chip functioning?
At least 200 million RFID credit cards were in circulation by 2012, even though their signals could be easily intercepted, prompting the introduction of RFID-blocking wallets and sleeves. But what’s the alternative? A recent article in Quartz argued that America’s transition to chip cards has been an utter disaster (since the banks dispensed with PIN numbers altogether and now validate with only an electronic signature). Is the answer to just use a mobile wallet like Apple Pay or Android Pay — or to always pay with cash?
So leave your own answer in the the comments. How are you keeping your own credit card secure?

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Source: Slashdot – Ask Slashdot: How Do You Keep Your Credit Card Secure?

Firefox’s voice and videoconferencing add-on was described as “the first global communications system built directly into a browser” — but things change. An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: An entry on Mozilla’s issue tracker opened on July 17 reveals ongoing efforts from Mozilla engineers to remove the Hello system add-on from default Firefox installations starting with version 49, set for public release on September 13, 2016. Mozilla added Hello to Firefox in version 34, released on December 1, 2014, and from the beginning, it was part of the browser’s core code, but was moved in December 2015 into a separate add-on, one that came pre-installed with Firefox, making Hello its first ever system add-on. Mozilla plans to remove Hello from the codebases of Firefox Beta 49, Firefox Developer Edition 50, and Firefox Nightly 51. Based on the currently available information, the deadline for the Hello code removal operations is for this Monday, August 1, after which the first Firefox builds with no Hello integration will be available for testing, and will ship out in the fall with the stable release.

The article suggests this may have been a space-saving measure, “since Mozilla is focused on rebuilding Firefox’s code from scratch to keep up with speedier competitors like Chrome, Opera, and Vivaldi.”

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Source: Slashdot – Mozilla To Remove Hello In Firefox 49