Exactly. Most countries you just send in a postcard or file taxes online with the tax agency. Only in America do we have lobbyists of unnecessary expensive software to give you "choice" to pay through the nose to support their obsolete industry. Years ago there was an attempt to provide a free service for low-income households, the threshhold was raised in the GWB years. Now Intuit is going for the kill.
We need a free IRS "public option" at the very least, which of course everyone would use, but this law would undo it.
What the hell is Lewis thinking sponsoring this BS?
Doing your taxes doesn't have to be a pain. In many countries around the world, filing taxes is so easy and painless, "tax day" isn't even a thing.
Back in 2005, a little group of California tax experts were talking shop and they figured, we could do that here in the U.S. A lot of people in California get all of their income from their paychecks, and taxes are already withheld from those paychecks. In those cases, California could just fill out the W-2 for the taxpayers, who could check for errors and just send them back in. Easy as 1-2-3. (That was the slogan the state came up with). They named it: ReadyReturn.
there is no network access, no hardware expansion port, and the 30 games cannot be changed.
If you can find one in stock, the ESP32 costs about $9, is the size of a quarter, and also runs a NES emulator and has wifi and bluetooth and a lot more.
I'm (sorta) joking, especially as you'll need more hardware like a screen, controllers, etc. but the video is still pretty cool.
I think it depends on the OEM. There are factors such as whether the device storage is encrypted by default, whether the bootloader is locked by default, what kind of security hardware is available on the SoC and whether it is used, whether exploits are patched, whether there is a continuing roll out for discovered exploits, whether updates are automatically installed w/o authentication, whether the baseband contains known exploits and attack vectors (cough), etc.
So there's no one answer because there's no one Android device and many phone OEMs (and the manufacturers of the underlying hardware platform) may be implementing security to different degrees. Though many of these considerations do have google guidelines and policies in place, some of which may be enforceable via google compatibility tests, there is a wide spectrum of what you can expect from Android generally speaking I think.
You might look to Google's policies and recommendations, and more importantly their Nexus devices themselves as models for what they consider best practices to be. Then there is blackphone and other distros that have security as their primary focus, so they may be good to consider as well.
So, you see-- Snowden has "blood on his hands" for making terrorists aware of encryption, which they knew about for decades, so they could use it, which they didn't. And thank goodness for that, because if they had used encryption, the attacks might have been successful, which they were.
This sounds like the comments of someone obviously blind to the realities of stepping into a hostile crowd alone.
Yes, there is an escalating war against the police. In fact, with one shooting per week in 2015, it is a very dangerous time to be a.. toddler? (checks link) Wow.
In America, more preschoolers are shot dead each year (82 in 2013) than police officers are in the line of duty (27 in 2013), according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FBI.
(1) Companies write TPP and other laws to indemnify themselves and resist modifications to their buggy routers.
(2) FCC makes the problem worse by effectively requiring DRM on routers.
(3) incidence of serious hacks skyrockets as people are unable to update their routers and other network-enabled devices.
(4) legislators react to spike in online crime/tragedies not by undoing (1)-(3) but with "get tough" anti-"hacking" laws that chill research and throw people in jail for minor transgressions, research, clock-building, vulnerability disclosure, security tools, or a anything not understood that politicians and aggressive prosecutors could perceive as "hacking".
(5) The problem gets MUCH MUCH worse as a result. Bright minds are tossed into jail, open research is chilled, and online crime continues to skyrocket.
...except my cable modem does not share storage with my PC. On the other hand, the baseband and Android system (not to mention the device-specific efs/imei stuff and the user data stuff) are all located on the same emmc on many devices. (Hence the ability to "flash a new radio")
Could the baseband access or change data on the Android partitions or the efs data? I'm not sure, but the articles suggest to me that they could.
Also, my cable modem doesn't share memory with my PC either:....the application processor (with Android e.g.) and the baseband processor can share memory, so that an attack and takeover of the baseband stack offers the possibility to attack Android.
The baseband processor (and thus REX OS) has direct access to the phoneâ(TM)s hardware (speakers, microphones), and also seemingly the ability to write to the same memory as the SoC (or application processor).
That's bad.
Also, unlike your cable modem analogy, which communicates to your router via a known network protocol, the baseband communicates with Android in most cases via the involvement of closed-source, mysterious "binary blobs".
So I guess if your cable modem were fused to your computer, sharing a hard drive, with direct access to its memory and peripherals, and communicating to your computer via a mysterious unauditable binary, then maybe your analogy would hold up.
Access to these encryption keys do not give governmental agencies only the power to monitor cellular communications, including calls and data, but they also come with additional perks, such as the power of instructing a device to install specific programs.
Spyware could be installed on the SIM card itself, and then it could be used to install additional spy apps on a phone without the user's knowledge, or to retrieve data from it.
Manufacturers can send a binary text message directly to the SIM card, and as long as it's signed with the proper OTA key, the card will install the attached software without question. If those keys were compromised, it would give an attacker carte blanche to install all manner of spyware.
I don't understand. A hundred comments and you're the only one I see who even mentions, let's alone puts due faith in co-writer Lawrence Kasdan.
Kasdan co-wrote "The Empire Strikes Back", co-wrote a movie called "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and wrote other, ehem, minor movies like "The Big Chill", and "The Bodyguard" and "Silverado".
Yeah. The 300Mbps I mentioned was just the max TW is offering and is saying that the modem is good for (at least) that. As you point out, there's capacity for even more bandwidth beyond that.
TW is starting to offer the free quintupling of download speed because they're worried about fiber, IMO.
The maximum speed a DOCSYS modem can achieve is 171/122 Mbit/s (using four channels), just a fraction the 273 Gbit/s (per channel) already reached on fiber.
According to this page, the DOCSYS 3.0 ARRIS/Motorola SB6183 and Netgear C6300 can handle 300 Mbit/s.
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Exactly. Most countries you just send in a postcard or file taxes online with the tax agency. Only in America do we have lobbyists of unnecessary expensive software to give you "choice" to pay through the nose to support their obsolete industry. Years ago there was an attempt to provide a free service for low-income households, the threshhold was raised in the GWB years. Now Intuit is going for the kill.
We need a free IRS "public option" at the very least, which of course everyone would use, but this law would undo it.
What the hell is Lewis thinking sponsoring this BS?
--- Here's the podcast episode. Hit play and enjoy. (I say "enjoy" as in get boiling mad.)
there is no network access, no hardware expansion port, and the 30 games cannot be changed.
If you can find one in stock, the ESP32 costs about $9, is the size of a quarter, and also runs a NES emulator and has wifi and bluetooth and a lot more.
I'm (sorta) joking, especially as you'll need more hardware like a screen, controllers, etc. but the video is still pretty cool.
Tor Browser is a good start.
So is Tails.
Finally, try to keep your facebooking to under 15 minutes.
Ted Cruz is wrong about how free speech is censored on the Internet
--some non-American who wouldn't know what he was talking about.
NPR's Planet Money economics podcast did an episode on this very issue.
I can't find the original full podcast episode, but here's the shorter All Tech Considered version.
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Hah! Look at us losers! We BARELY missed four digits! ;)
If only I hadn't spent those first few months lurking without an account...
Let me know when a Chromebook can actually run software. No, browsing the web, sending mail or writing a letter doesn't count.
This fall.
The long-running zine has also hosted a number of notable articles, including the famed Hacker Manifesto and Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit.
Not to mention an article from 1997 called "The Art of Port Scanning" in which Fyodor introduced a tool called nmap...
I think it depends on the OEM. There are factors such as whether the device storage is encrypted by default, whether the bootloader is locked by default, what kind of security hardware is available on the SoC and whether it is used, whether exploits are patched, whether there is a continuing roll out for discovered exploits, whether updates are automatically installed w/o authentication, whether the baseband contains known exploits and attack vectors (cough), etc.
So there's no one answer because there's no one Android device and many phone OEMs (and the manufacturers of the underlying hardware platform) may be implementing security to different degrees. Though many of these considerations do have google guidelines and policies in place, some of which may be enforceable via google compatibility tests, there is a wide spectrum of what you can expect from Android generally speaking I think.
You might look to Google's policies and recommendations, and more importantly their Nexus devices themselves as models for what they consider best practices to be. Then there is blackphone and other distros that have security as their primary focus, so they may be good to consider as well.
Pac-Man is arguably worse on the platform
I actually came across a homebrew reboot of what could have been accomplished with an 8k cartridge back in the day.
After you watch that demo, check out what the original 2600 pacman creator, Todd Fry, had to say about it.
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This one is probably not low enough to be "cool". if only I hadn't lurked for a few months before finally signing up!! Dammit.
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The logic of authoritarians:
Thanks to Snowden's revelations, terrorists started using unbreakable encryption!!!!!!!
Right. Except they didn't.
That was pre-Snowden. Terrorists didn't know about encryption before that.
Right again. Except they did.
So, you see-- Snowden has "blood on his hands" for making terrorists aware of encryption, which they knew about for decades, so they could use it, which they didn't. And thank goodness for that, because if they had used encryption, the attacks might have been successful, which they were.
Got it.
This sounds like the comments of someone obviously blind to the realities of stepping into a hostile crowd alone.
Yes, there is an escalating war against the police. In fact, with one shooting per week in 2015, it is a very dangerous time to be a.. toddler? (checks link) Wow.
--- sketchy source
Well, c'mon, that was back in 2013, before the "Ferguson Effect." What are the more recent statistics--oh...
2015 may be one of the safest years for law enforcement in a quarter century.
So how are these "realities" you speak of any different now than before the new "video scrutiny"?
It happens like this:
(1) Companies write TPP and other laws to indemnify themselves and resist modifications to their buggy routers.
(2) FCC makes the problem worse by effectively requiring DRM on routers.
(3) incidence of serious hacks skyrockets as people are unable to update their routers and other network-enabled devices.
(4) legislators react to spike in online crime/tragedies not by undoing (1)-(3) but with "get tough" anti-"hacking" laws that chill research and throw people in jail for minor transgressions, research, clock-building, vulnerability disclosure, security tools, or a anything not understood that politicians and aggressive prosecutors could perceive as "hacking".
(5) The problem gets MUCH MUCH worse as a result. Bright minds are tossed into jail, open research is chilled, and online crime continues to skyrocket.
(6) GOTO 4.
...except my cable modem does not share storage with my PC. On the other hand, the baseband and Android system (not to mention the device-specific efs/imei stuff and the user data stuff) are all located on the same emmc on many devices. (Hence the ability to "flash a new radio")
Could the baseband access or change data on the Android partitions or the efs data? I'm not sure, but the articles suggest to me that they could.
Also, my cable modem doesn't share memory with my PC either: ....the application processor (with Android e.g.) and the baseband processor can share memory, so that an attack and takeover of the baseband stack offers the possibility to attack Android.
The baseband may have a separate CPU from Android, but it could access peripherals, sensors, etc. As an example:
The baseband processor (and thus REX OS) has direct access to the phoneâ(TM)s hardware (speakers, microphones), and also seemingly the ability to write to the same memory as the SoC (or application processor).
That's bad.
Also, unlike your cable modem analogy, which communicates to your router via a known network protocol, the baseband communicates with Android in most cases via the involvement of closed-source, mysterious "binary blobs".
So I guess if your cable modem were fused to your computer, sharing a hard drive, with direct access to its memory and peripherals, and communicating to your computer via a mysterious unauditable binary, then maybe your analogy would hold up.
I know this is the second, uh, let's-just-say-"story" about Blackphone in four days, but I think it should be noted that the stolen Gemalto keys may have included "OTA keys" that can be used for over-the-air SIM card upgrades:
Access to these encryption keys do not give governmental agencies only the power to monitor cellular communications, including calls and data, but they also come with additional perks, such as the power of instructing a device to install specific programs.
Spyware could be installed on the SIM card itself, and then it could be used to install additional spy apps on a phone without the user's knowledge, or to retrieve data from it.
From the Verge story:
Manufacturers can send a binary text message directly to the SIM card, and as long as it's signed with the proper OTA key, the card will install the attached software without question. If those keys were compromised, it would give an attacker carte blanche to install all manner of spyware.
So apparently it does matter.
I don't understand. A hundred comments and you're the only one I see who even mentions, let's alone puts due faith in co-writer Lawrence Kasdan.
Kasdan co-wrote "The Empire Strikes Back", co-wrote a movie called "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and wrote other, ehem, minor movies like "The Big Chill", and "The Bodyguard" and "Silverado".
He's co-writing this thing.
Compare/Contrast with this article:
"How Google Kills Your App"
Yeah. The 300Mbps I mentioned was just the max TW is offering and is saying that the modem is good for (at least) that. As you point out, there's capacity for even more bandwidth beyond that.
TW is starting to offer the free quintupling of download speed because they're worried about fiber, IMO.
The maximum speed a DOCSYS modem can achieve is 171/122 Mbit/s (using four channels), just a fraction the 273 Gbit/s (per channel) already reached on fiber.
According to this page, the DOCSYS 3.0 ARRIS/Motorola SB6183 and Netgear C6300 can handle 300 Mbit/s.
The SB6183 uses 6 download & 4 upload channels.
only on 14.04... 1.3 is coming, I'm told..
If I'm not mistaken, zram was called compcache or ramzswap and existed on the 2.6.28 kernel back in 2008.
RAMDoubler for Mac, where it started.