* FetLife flopped PCI. It accepted credit cards itself. It still accepts ACH payments itself. Those behind it could not be bothered to take security seriously.
It is unfortunate that people who downvote comments actually do not have an iota of clue about the topic which the comment about sendmail clearly illustrates.
Bugs in BGP implementation kill internet in real-time. To a point where in certain cases it would be needed to literally power off all the affected routers at the same time globally after isolating the bad actor and disconnecting it.
Yes. It currently runs over 70% of global internet and considering all kinds of error conditions that show up on the global internet the code is extremely stable.
But we, the United States, are more concerned about getting rid of Assad than we are about fighting ISIS, which is why we even train and arm some of the less ISIS-ish ISIS groups that fight Assad.
Lets ask a very simple question -
- given the choice "comply or go to jail" would you comply?
- would your wife approve of your "I don't care, throw me in jail?" when she no longer has access to your funds because they got frozen and rent is due?
- how about kids? Do you think she would approve of how it would affect their life?
I see the smartest people in the room do not know the difference between society journals and regular journals.
It is actually very simple. If it is a society journal then the copyright is owned by a society and the society decides what they want to do. Some of them outsource production to publishers by paying publishers money. The others do it all themselves. Over last 10 years most of smaller society journals went away because contrary to popular but highly delusional belief turning the manuscript into a readable paper is a rather expensive process and most of the society journals cannot afford it.
So instead they simply sell the copyrights to the likes of T&F, Springer, etc. EICs get to continue to dabble with deciding who gets accepted and someone else gets to do the unsexy part of making sure that 3/4 of the content has not been lifted from websites or other papers.
Most of the publishers have different level of open access policies, some of which are pay $X thousand dollars (i.e. production costs at the publishers scale which are an order of magnitude smaller than for the society which has no scale ) and the content is available for free to anyone all the way to "pay $X per article"