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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 05:01 AM EDT |
See this story:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-23030009
The cctv shots are spooky :)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: celtic_hackr on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 10:32 AM EDT |
I really get tired of people using term "hacker" whenever they want to
spread Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt and Alienation against any person they want to
isolate from society.
But, the upside, is the term is now being so used and abused, that these trolls
will cause the term to be diluted to the point that people won't care anymore,
and the label may soon become a tag to use to announce oneself as being against
the abuses of an overly zealous government.
Which of course won't return it to it's true meaning. But that is probably a
lost cause. Still, I'm a true believer. Just wish I had the time to go to the
BlackHat convention this year. Lot's of good stuff planned. It's gotten really
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Authored by: celtic_hackr on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 10:38 AM EDT |
Actually PJ, the danger of malware in Android is very high. There's a session
scheduled in the BlackHat convention on just that very subject (I really would
like to attend). It's actually quite trivial. Google's implementation if Linux
has left it very susceptible to attack.
I've been meaning to work on doing a hardened Android release, but I just
haven't the time for hacking like I used to. Too busy chasing after the Almighty
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 11:37 AM EDT |
It is my experience with Opera that the user is given the choice to allow
automatic updates, to inform about available updates, or to not update
automatically at all. I'm not sure which is selected by default and I can't
remember if the automatic option still asks you before installing.
Ironically the android play store will default to automatic updates so any time
I reinstall an Android device I get the updating even when I don't want it.
(I.E. installing the newest version of Opera instead of my backup of the older
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Authored by: dio gratia on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 12:34 PM EDT |
Opinion: Regrettable White House
Intervention on Patent Trolls, IP Watchdog, June 27, 2013.
But
if the intent was to steer the debate toward a balanced approach that would curb
frivolous litigation without imperiling an intellectual-property protection
system so key to nurturing innovation and job protection in this country,
the effort appears to have failed.
Yet we can get an economist
telling us that software patents don't demonstrate these qualities. See A Generation
of Software Patents, James E. Bessen, June 21, 2011.
Abstract:
This report examines changes in the patenting behavior of
the software industry since the 1990s. It finds that most software firms still
do not patent, most software patents are obtained by a few large firms in the
software industry or in other industries, and the risk of litigation from
software patents continues to increase dramatically. Given these findings, it is
hard to conclude that software patents have provided a net social benefit in the
software industry.
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Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 01:06 PM EDT |
"Of the 4 US webmail providers (google/hotmail/yahoo/AOL), only gmail
supports encrypted email transport (TLS)"
It would appear that only Google takes user security seriously. My ISP (the
local cable company) uses Yahoo for email. I have my SMTP configured to use
SSL/TLS, even though it is not supported by my ISP. This worked well, but a few
months ago I started getting warnings that the server's SSL certificate had
expired. I contacted the support desk for my ISP to have them advise Yahoo to
renew the certificate. They refused, telling me I should not be using secure
SMTP (SMTPS). Since I got my Yahoo service through my ISP, I couldn't contact
Yahoo directly about the problem. I then opened a separate Yahoo account and
use it to contact Yahoo support and had the problem fixed in a couple of days.
I then contacted the office of the president for my ISP to complain that they
were telling customers to use an insecure method, even when connecting via
public WiFi. I also pointed out that Yahoo has SSL/TLS as an option for sending
and receiving mail and with Google, it was mandatory. They said they would look
into it, but I haven't heard back and there's no mention of using SSL/TLS on the
support site.
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The following program contains immature subject matter.
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- Who cares? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 04:31 PM EDT
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