Hassle, and amusment.

[pecunium]

Well, this is annoying.

I hope the lack of the drop menu on the banner bar for LJ isn't the result of updating Firefox.

But I saw this cutline below a photograph and had to share.

Robert J. Stein Jr. agreed to plead guilty to paying bribes and kickbacks to U.S. authorities to obtain construction contracts

Just gotta love the NYT.

Comments

[xopher-vh.livejournal.com]

That's quite a chain of 'to' clauses, isn't it? And at least one of them is ambiguous in scope.

[luna-the-cat.livejournal.com]

I think the lack of drop menu on LJ may be the result of changes LJ has made in the way they handle Javascript, which they have made as a result of getting hacked. About 900,000 LJ profiles were ostensibly compromised through Javascript security holes. They may have simply removed some functionality where the holes couldn't be patched.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

No, it was a function of how one of my extensions was interacting with Javascript. Several things were bolloxed.

I know more than I want to about the entire security mess, not the least of which is that LJ did things in a way which made those who had every reason to think themselves safe, less safe, because of how they addressed the password issue.

When the details came out I recalled some of the conversations I had about the password changes and the responses I got, which were perfectly valid, if there was no compromise, and foolish if there was.

Since there was, and LJ didn't bother to tell people, those people (myself almost among them) who had perfectly secure passwords, from a structural point of view, and so didn't change them, were vulnerable (or not; the details of the attacks are vague and it may be that someone who didn't have a password which couldn't be socially engineered was safe, from all but an expensive brute force attack).

TK

[luna-the-cat.livejournal.com]

Ah, you know all about it, then. Or at least more than I did.

Thanks for filling in some gaps, there. From all that I've heard, it sounds like LJ pretty much dropped the ball on this one.