SEA claims that defacing Microsoft's blog/Twitter is just a distraction. A possible goal could be to leak a huge volume of internal email? They already captured and released one exchange.
Nitpicking, but I wouldn't consider the people they are saving to be anonymous, but strangers. Maybe in the defender's eyes they are just fellow Americans.
Not quite for everyone - if you already had a first degree you had to pay your own fees if you did a second first degree. My wife did a law degree as a second first degree and we had to pay her fees - what was interesting was that the fees varied a lot from university to university. What was really odd was that the best universities were also the cheapest (by a factor of about 10 - from about £400 to £4000 a year).
Also, if you are Scottish and attending a Scottish university tuition fees are still paid by the taxpayer as they did in the old days. (NB I am a Scot and I've never understood how this can be justified).
What I mean is that I find it difficult to justify that kids in Scotland get their fees paid and those in England (and probably elsewhere in the UK) do not.
Coincidentally, I just had a talk with one of our principle developers about Fourier transforms. He's an audio expert and was trying to explain re-sampling and aliasing to me. I understand the high level steps, but the math is all a blur to me. Recently I've been trying to become much stronger in math, as I eventually want to study aerodynamics and astrophysics. So I've been studying calculus (textbook) and dynamics (edx) lately.
Justin Carder from CHS talks periodically about 3rd and Pine even though it's off his 'beat.' That street corner is a mess but it's been a mess for quite a while and it's obvious that stepped-up police presence alone won't address the problems there, or they'd already be fixed.
I would like to see how this turns out considering how miserably the US's Healthcare.gov site has been going. It sounds like the Brazilian govt. is using an internal group (the Federal Data Processing Service [SERPRO]) to do this, while the US sourced the work to a domestic company (CGI Federal.) I've got a gut feeling that Brazil's email system will fare better than our Healthcare.gov site.
I don't know about your healthcare.gov, but it is very difficult to predict the success or failure of a government project around here (i am brazilian).
At one side we have incredibly well done and well managed examples, as our elections voting system. I get embarassed for US everytime I see the news about your elections, with cards and weird stuff.
On the other hand, we have lots of examples of how the government can mess things up, most notably these days are the stadiums and overall infrastructure for World Cup. It is even worse than any pessimist would have predicted.
So... all we can do is wait. The initiative, I think is good, but the outcome.. who knows?
I use the expresso daily, it's not a good platform, lot of limitations! But at least, is a response for the spying. Better than doing nothing!
Hope this investment change expresso in a better way!
Some day, just for fun, I have broken some gov site using expresso. I got full remote code execution (for test, I just uploaded a php file with a phpinfo()). And I'm not a security expert. I think my govern has a lot of work to do to make their email more secure...
A question from someone that'll probably have to start using it soon: Can you back-up your emails in a way where the central IT of your place can't delete them?
