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#MOZYHOME COMES WITH COMPUTER PASSWORD#Author Martin Carpella Posted on JAugCategories advocacy, internet Tags advocacy, hacking, internet, security, url-shortening Leave a comment on URL shortening services soon to be under siege? Router default password databaseĪfter quite some time, a new version of my favorite encryption tool is out: TrueCrypt developers have released version 5 of their product, introducing a new killer feature (among others): System Volume Encryption with pre-boot authentification (only Windows 2000/XP/Vista). Being able to manipulate hundred of thousands if not even more vastly distributed and popular URLs to point to a given site could be used for both, generating (lots of?) ad-revenue, or as a new form of DDoS-attack.Īt the moment there seems to be no way around using these services (especially with services like Twitter), but in the medium/long run a solution has to be found if we don’t want to lose lots of valuable information. Given the huge amount of information hidden behind such shortened URLs, and given the popularity and number of these links, especially nowadays on Twitter, these services could see themselves being under permanent siege of hackers/crackers. Today, another threat has come true: hackers have manipulated the URLs of shortening service cli.gs. Yesterday, Jeff Atwood pointed out other issues like commercialization. ![]() Existing MozyHome subscribers continue to receive unlimited storage they’ve already paid for, but will see the new prices take effect on renewals beginning 1 March 2011.I have already written about my opinion about the problems of URL shortening back in 2005. The revised MozyHome pricing goes into effect immediately for new customers. Both Backblaze and CrashPlan continue to offer unlimited storage at costs lower than MozyHome’s new pricing-even without the special discounts. For example, Backblaze offers a 10 percent discount to switchers who use the coupon “byemozy,” while CrashPlan offers a 15 percent discount to Mozy switchers. Competing services wasted no time in exploiting this fact to attract those customers who will inevitably be tempted to switch. However, for most customers, Decho’s carefully crafted explanations are likely to ring hollow, as the bottom line will be that from now on, MozyHome costs more for less. The company also points out that for users with three or more computers, each of which has only a modest amount of data to back up, the new pricing could actually lower their costs. Mozy’s announcement cites rapidly increasing storage needs (for example, high-definition video clips from iPhones) as the impetus for the change, while at the same time insisting that most of their individual users require no more than 50 GB of online backup storage anyway. With either plan, additional computers, and additional 20 GB storage blocks, cost $2 each per month. ![]() Under the new plans, users can choose between 50 GB of storage for backups from a single computer for $5.99 per month, or 125 GB of storage that can be shared by up to three computers for $9.99 per month. ![]() Previously, MozyHome offered unlimited online storage for backups from a single computer for $4.95 per month.
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