That data can be really useful to automatically find illegal lane changes (e.g. overtaking over barrier lines, pushing into queues over lines that indicate that you can't, turning from lanes that it is not allowed)
This seems to be a case of a fraudulent port of the number though... Here the subscriber needs to confirm before a port is allowed to take place.
It also seems to be a password reset token, not a normal 2-factor auth...
(The main way to deal with that, would likely be to send a code/confirmation link to both the user's email and phone) (Chances that both are compromised is much lower...)
This type of attack is quick common in South Africa, where it is called SIM swap fraud.
In most cases, a corrupt employee at a store of the network assists criminals to obtain a new sim for a customer's account. They then use that, with credentials obtained elsewhere (likely phishing) to get into the user's internet banking and transfer money away.
Using push notifications to an app prevents this. Other things that work is to use HOTP or TOTP tokens instead.
They will soon change it if they're losing custom. I also imagine that there was nothing on their site that couldn't be done with html, especially a reservation form...
This is why flash is a horrible technology. It wastes bandwidth and creates inconsistent user-experiences. Video is actually an acceptable use of flash, but several sites, especially ones consisting of product pages, still think that "nice animations" that doesn't work properly on a PC older than a year or sounds that annoys everyone around the user (and probably the user as well) is a good idea...
I like the current situation... Apple makes sure that everyone knows that flash annoys lots of users and my Android device will soon (as soon as Motorola wake up and release FroYo for it...) support it... The result is that I can still use the sites if needed and the amount of sites that needs it gets less..
Cracking WEP can be seen as like this... You indicate that you want someone not to read it, even if you use something that is trivial to bypass.
Hell, they even call it "public" or "open" WiFi.
Google seem to not even have read it, only collected it... Similarly to any potentially "private" things to see on the street that was also collected by the same vehicle...
If you are discussing private information in a public place you can't complain if it gets recorded / overheard...
If I accidentally run over someone with my car because I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing, it doesn't absolve me of the liability - even if that old lady had it coming, er, was jaywalking.
Accidentally overhearing / recording classified information (say, while dictating) on the street is a better analogy...
They accidentally recorded parts of publicly broadcasted data....
It is not much different from a phone recording a conversation in a busy enviroment and being blameed for accidentally recoring parts of other people's conversations that you walked past...
Not if the new car is slower, uses more fuel, is harder to drive and uses more fuel, mostly because of added safety features... (Most of it features protecting drunk pedestrians that walking front of you (DRM))
Eating too much is worse than leaving it over... The food was wasted when it was served, irrespective if it end up being wasted / stored as fat by your body or if it is thrown away. Leaving extra food gives the restaurant a chance to dispose of it in a less wasteful way.
I' running a version of Chrome 6 and Firefox 3.6. A pre-release of IE should be compared to the latest beta/alapha of the other browsers...
All the HTML5 tests I've seen to date runs well on one / two browsers and fail on others.... (Apple's works perfectly on safari, with video / VR / audio failing on Chrome, Opera doing horribly in the typography / image-effect tests and Firefox ion general doing just as bad as Opera, mostly failing in different areas...)
A set of tests / demoes trying to test each of the features of the standard would help a lot to properly asses browser's progress....
Netscape's rewrite might have cost them market-share at the time, but Internet Explorer is back at trying to catch up with Firefox, which might be easier to extend because of that newer codebase...
(And from when I forgot to log in: And WTF is up with the captcha? It doesn't change, even when it is obviously unreadable (A 8 / a / 0 with a line through is hard to make out with 2 guesses))
There is (or at least used to be when I last checked) no group policy support for Firefox. (And probably Opera / Safari / Chrome) Users saving passwords on a potentially insecure system can be a much larger security risk than a insecure browser, especially if they can't install anything because of their profile.
In some places IT hates it when users can play around with settings (probably because of more support issues, etc)...
The risk of IE is also quite low if it is run in a limited profile (if the user has admin access, they would probably ignore the policy and upgrade IE / install something else because of all the broken sites when using IE6)
If you take all versions (and not just the latest versions) of Windows apps it might not be that inaccurate... At least not compared to a 64-bit Vista..
Some really ancient software runs on Wine, that no longer works on Windwos... Windows do however support a whole class of applications that Wine does not (yet): Anything that uses drivers...
I have not heard of a single successful spam prosecution in my country (South Africa), even though spamming is fairly widespread and there is a strict law on the books.
Except that the law basically allows anything as long as you have the option to opt-out.... (Not to mention that the rest of the same law is mostly broken...)
At least opting-out it mostly works... I wish I had that option on my PO Box...
Here in South-Africa, you have the option of buying local only ADSL accounts that range between R130 for 30GB (+-USD0.50/GB) to R19 / GB ($2.50) for a prepaid account.
International ADSL accounts are from R350 for 10GB (USD4.35/GB) to R70 / GB (USD8.70)...
Using some interesting routing tricks it is possible to do a form of least cost routing...
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Google uses the public to update their maps, via the report issue function (and previously Google map maker)
That data can be really useful to automatically find illegal lane changes (e.g. overtaking over barrier lines, pushing into queues over lines that indicate that you can't, turning from lanes that it is not allowed)
This seems to be a case of a fraudulent port of the number though... Here the subscriber needs to confirm before a port is allowed to take place.
It also seems to be a password reset token, not a normal 2-factor auth...
(The main way to deal with that, would likely be to send a code/confirmation link to both the user's email and phone) (Chances that both are compromised is much lower...)
This type of attack is quick common in South Africa, where it is called SIM swap fraud.
In most cases, a corrupt employee at a store of the network assists criminals to obtain a new sim for a customer's account. They then use that, with credentials obtained elsewhere (likely phishing) to get into the user's internet banking and transfer money away.
Using push notifications to an app prevents this. Other things that work is to use HOTP or TOTP tokens instead.
I'm assuming they should be using something using a compiler/interpreter written in C / C++ instead?
They will soon change it if they're losing custom. I also imagine that there was nothing on their site that couldn't be done with html, especially a reservation form...
This is why flash is a horrible technology. It wastes bandwidth and creates inconsistent user-experiences. Video is actually an acceptable use of flash, but several sites, especially ones consisting of product pages, still think that "nice animations" that doesn't work properly on a PC older than a year or sounds that annoys everyone around the user (and probably the user as well) is a good idea...
I like the current situation... Apple makes sure that everyone knows that flash annoys lots of users and my Android device will soon (as soon as Motorola wake up and release FroYo for it...) support it... The result is that I can still use the sites if needed and the amount of sites that needs it gets less..
If you use the SNR it is not that bad.... It is always positive and higher numbers are better...
Cracking WEP can be seen as like this... You indicate that you want someone not to read it, even if you use something that is trivial to bypass.
Hell, they even call it "public" or "open" WiFi.
Google seem to not even have read it, only collected it... Similarly to any potentially "private" things to see on the street that was also collected by the same vehicle...
If you are discussing private information in a public place you can't complain if it gets recorded / overheard...
If I accidentally run over someone with my car because I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing, it doesn't absolve me of the liability - even if that old lady had it coming, er, was jaywalking.
Accidentally overhearing / recording classified information (say, while dictating) on the street is a better analogy...
They accidentally recorded parts of publicly broadcasted data....
It is not much different from a phone recording a conversation in a busy enviroment and being blameed for accidentally recoring parts of other people's conversations that you walked past...
Not if the new car is slower, uses more fuel, is harder to drive and uses more fuel, mostly because of added safety features... (Most of it features protecting drunk pedestrians that walking front of you (DRM))
Eating too much is worse than leaving it over... The food was wasted when it was served, irrespective if it end up being wasted / stored as fat by your body or if it is thrown away. Leaving extra food gives the restaurant a chance to dispose of it in a less wasteful way.
I' running a version of Chrome 6 and Firefox 3.6. A pre-release of IE should be compared to the latest beta/alapha of the other browsers...
All the HTML5 tests I've seen to date runs well on one / two browsers and fail on others.... (Apple's works perfectly on safari, with video / VR / audio failing on Chrome, Opera doing horribly in the typography / image-effect tests and Firefox ion general doing just as bad as Opera, mostly failing in different areas...)
A set of tests / demoes trying to test each of the features of the standard would help a lot to properly asses browser's progress....
To stop selling pirated movies does not free you from liability for copies you sold previously...
Netscape's rewrite might have cost them market-share at the time, but Internet Explorer is back at trying to catch up with Firefox, which might be easier to extend because of that newer codebase...
(And from when I forgot to log in: And WTF is up with the captcha? It doesn't change, even when it is obviously unreadable (A 8 / a / 0 with a line through is hard to make out with 2 guesses))
SD cards in the > 1GB - 4GB range have larger sectors... Not sure if that is visible to the OS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#Standard-SD_cards_.28non-SDHC.29_with_greater_than_1_GB_capacity...
And they pretend to be 512 bytes for "compatibility"... (Unlike CD-ROM / SD card sectors...)
There is (or at least used to be when I last checked) no group policy support for Firefox. (And probably Opera / Safari / Chrome) Users saving passwords on a potentially insecure system can be a much larger security risk than a insecure browser, especially if they can't install anything because of their profile.
In some places IT hates it when users can play around with settings (probably because of more support issues, etc)...
The risk of IE is also quite low if it is run in a limited profile (if the user has admin access, they would probably ignore the policy and upgrade IE / install something else because of all the broken sites when using IE6)
The same under DOS as scroll lock under Linux....
The OpenMoko freerunner has a GPS... Just no decent navigational software that I know of...
The dash.net GPS is based on the Neo1973, but it is only partially open-source....
If you take all versions (and not just the latest versions) of Windows apps it might not be that inaccurate... At least not compared to a 64-bit Vista..
Some really ancient software runs on Wine, that no longer works on Windwos... Windows do however support a whole class of applications that Wine does not (yet): Anything that uses drivers...
Avast have a tendency to nag about harmless software... (Like nmap, mdcrack, etc.)
And download PvPGN...
I have not heard of a single successful spam prosecution in my country (South Africa), even though spamming is fairly widespread and there is a strict law on the books.
Except that the law basically allows anything as long as you have the option to opt-out.... (Not to mention that the rest of the same law is mostly broken...)
At least opting-out it mostly works... I wish I had that option on my PO Box...
Here in South-Africa, you have the option of buying local only ADSL accounts that range between R130 for 30GB (+-USD0.50/GB) to R19 / GB ($2.50) for a prepaid account.
International ADSL accounts are from R350 for 10GB (USD4.35/GB) to R70 / GB (USD8.70)...
Using some interesting routing tricks it is possible to do a form of least cost routing...