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fleg writes:
"The Guardian is reporting that while the author of The Snowden Files was writing it, paragraphs started self-deleting."
From the article:
By September the book was going well - 30,000 words done. A Christmas deadline loomed. I was writing a chapter on the NSA's close, and largely hidden, relationship with Silicon Valley. I wrote that Snowden's revelations had damaged US tech companies and their bottom line. Something odd happened. The paragraph I had just written began to self-delete. The cursor moved rapidly from the left, gobbling text. I watched my words vanish. When I tried to close my OpenOffice file the keyboard began flashing and bleeping.
[ED Note: Some of author's claims are of course unverifiable, but his insiders view of the early days of the story are interesting even so.]
(Score: 5, Informative) by RamiK on Friday February 21 2014, @07:11AM
This is a VERY common occurrence in some of my work-from-home clients. Their work/private computer has VNC\RDP installed/configured by the IT staff and run at start-up. The passwords are never throttled, often the same across corporate clients, firewall is disabled, no one is there to read the logs and old client versions are not updated even when a critical vulnerability was made known available and a new client was issues.
But the worse is when a retainer IT consultant-firm/service-provider rolls their own clients. These guys NEVER update their clients since that means a recompile and QA, often by a third party developer. And they are servicing large institutions, corporations holding sensitive data...