I think you misunderstand what "up to date" means...
1. Unless you're positve of the clean & germ-free source, you are making an inherently risky move in installing a Marshmallow ROM or whatever reverse-engineered AOSP clone is floating out there.
2. Speaking of reverse-engineering, taking the ICS 4.0.x drivers and tweaking them to work with Marshmallow does not constitute a good security patching policy.
The updates spoken of here are not merely OS-baked-in ones, but also any actual firmware updates for radio, touchscreen, etc. These are almost never touched by modders and certainly never patched for security reasons.
Full disclosure, I do root & ROM as well, but I accept certain security risks in doing so that I mitigate otherwise.
Spoken like a true armchair referee. The athletes bear no blame, since they'd be competing whether the water were filthy or not. If you insist on feeling at risk from these athletes competing in insanitary conditions, I suggest you direct your misplaced indignation at the Brazilian governing bodies whose responsibility it ACTUALLY IS to maintain public health!
Furthermore, you should be ashamed at your own actions, simultaneously calling the athletes selfish and doing so from an apparent safe geographic and vocational distance.
You've made it abundantly clear that you have no interest in sports in general, let alone have any understanding of the commitments made by anyone even qualifying for the Olympics.
No, that is not how RFID transactions work at all. There's a one-time token system which makes man in middle hijacking very very difficult. Your skimming machine would have to be effectively able scan your card and use your token before you complete the transaction yourself. Tokens also expire very quickly, so the likelihood of your card getting skimmed by RFID is very very low.
I'm not sure why Americans are so honed in on the security of RFID when the internet is literally rampant with PCI compliance problems and exploit fraud. RFID transactions can also be disabled by the card issuer, it's part of the spec. Any carrier who says they can't is lying.
RFID transactions work well and are optional.
Because RSA isn't the only thing going on when you use a PCI-compliant terminal. The bank transaction infrastructure doesn't just handle authentication, but also the actual monetary transaction. RSA is only a small part of the transaction.
Also many vendors, especially large organizations like Target, have their own internal transaction process that must be followed. Many POS backends are ancient pieces of junk running on proprietary software. So while the transaction is approved in 3 or 4 seconds, the terminal application may be waiting for the OK from the local vendor sales/inventory system to mark the transaction as complete.
Encryption/decryption processing is handled by dedicated ASICs in terminals, not "by CPU". And no, the auth is not what is slowing down the transaction. The possibilities are: bank transaction infrastructure or vendor POS transaction infrastructure.
The chip system is not built to benefit the consumer. It was put in place to allow financial institutions to trace transactions by making the unique.
45 seconds is quite a long time wait for a transaction, but that is caused by poor implementation and isn't inherent to the smartcard authentication infrastructure. Takes 2 or 3 seconds at most vendors in Canada. And Europe.
Banks realized a long time ago that it is impossible to completely prevent transaction fraud and card cloning. The smartcard system allows them to much better mitigate against these eventual risks by better delineating liability.
1. mechanical action of swipe vs card insertion is not any kind of issue, or there would be a standard for readers no matter the vendor.
2. chip cards do not address card cloning directly, their infrastructure provides a much better means of authenticating and tracking transactions, thus allowing to mitigate against said cloning by clarifying where liability actually lies.
For instance, NFC payments don't require any kind of pin or user intervention of any kind. However, you can still report a card stolen and have the bank absolve you of charges because of this finer-grained transaction tracking.
Chip and PIN is not just a credit card transaction system, but debit/banking card too. Besides, card-not-present transactions have a completely different PCI requirement and liability system. Why comment if you have no idea what you're talking about?
My household has a Nexus 4, Nexus 5, an LG G2, an LG G4, an iPhone 5 and an iPhone 5S. (Granted, all the Android Phones are LG)
There is no discernible difference in update frequency between any of the Android devices. The Nexus devices enjoy no great improvement in update frequency over those of the non-Nexus LG devices. The iPhones are both prompted for system upgrades at roughly every 4 or 5 months.
App update frequency is determined by app developer in both iOS and Android ecosystems. With both Android and iOS, system updates are rolled up into a single update, late (+3 months from CVE publication if addressing any CVE), and mostly only address system/app stability issues, not security.
At the risk of sounding like a troll, I would ask for some examples or sources showing these "timely updates". Maybe our definitions differ.
How is this any different than for any other manufacturer? You're up shit's creek if you think any of the big manufacturers are sending timely OTA security updates. The response to CVEs for any platform is awful. Even with the ones that actually do something about it, there's a multi-month window where devices/OSes/apps sit unpatched.
If you're worried about security, get a bare ROM with nano gapps and monitor CVE's yourself.
In this time of puking all our personal information including location, wifi passwords, etc. to Google and Apple, you are worrying about a squeaky door when the house is on fire.
Banks do not care unless someone is looking. They will happily house all of your money as long as auditors are satisfied.
Bank motives are universal. Some laws may scrutinize their actions more, but the aim of a bank is to hold and make money. They don't give a shit in GBP, USD or TSH in Zanzibar.
Nah. Littering is not an issue. People do drive to community mailboxes, but it's just like with the pre-existing ones in rural areas: people just stop by on the way home from work. No one makes a special trip.
I think a kid drew a penis on our mailbox, but it's gone now.
Point taken.
I suppose I'm coming from years of media management that simply wore me down. I enjoy quality as well, but the truth is that I'm the only one in our family who cares. If streaming gives me back hours a week, then streaming it is.
I do suggest you seek out some 4k demos in good av stores, I think there may still be something to impress you. Good luck on your multemedia journey.
Oh, good quote: Variety.com. Why? Why not just quote Netflix itself? https://help.netflix.com/en/no...
First, calm down. No need to get all butthurt about not having access to fiber.
Second: No, I watch on a variety of devices ranging from a 1080P display down to an Android phone.
Third: Video compression has evolved VERY much past 1999 DVD MPEG2 CBR streams. VBR and quantization *alone* are miles ahead of what you're talking about.
Fourth: Video compression used for streaming doesn't work the same way as video file compression. How the file itself is encoded is important, but not as important as how client-server negotiation dynamically changes the stream to suit its current bandwidth conditions.
Fourth: The specs quoted for HD (by netflix or variety) are WAY high. Just look at your bandwidth usage while a 1080 stream is going. No where near 5Mbps, more like 800-900 Kbps. Thats because most movies/shows are not michael Bay explosion festivals with high dynamic range and screen movement.
Even on McDonald's and Startbucks shitty throttled wifi, Netflix is watchable. True, it might be dropping to 720p, but there is NO way McDonalds is providing me with 5Mbps.
I understand the pain of shitty service, but once you discover stuff like Kodi with premium sources to fill in the gaps where Netflix can't help, you'll notice your bandwidth may not be all as bad as you think. I now only maintain a tiny number of movies in my library, and they're only ones I can't really find anywhere to stream.
Haha where do you live that you can't even get HD Netflix?? If your bandwidth is that low, I dare say your contribution to the discussion of content is not very relevant.
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Try again. Literally the first thing on adaway's front page: https://adaway.org/
I think you misunderstand what "up to date" means...
1. Unless you're positve of the clean & germ-free source, you are making an inherently risky move in installing a Marshmallow ROM or whatever reverse-engineered AOSP clone is floating out there.
2. Speaking of reverse-engineering, taking the ICS 4.0.x drivers and tweaking them to work with Marshmallow does not constitute a good security patching policy.
The updates spoken of here are not merely OS-baked-in ones, but also any actual firmware updates for radio, touchscreen, etc. These are almost never touched by modders and certainly never patched for security reasons.
Full disclosure, I do root & ROM as well, but I accept certain security risks in doing so that I mitigate otherwise.
You don't need proof, you need scientific link under reproducible conditions.
Spoken like a true armchair referee. The athletes bear no blame, since they'd be competing whether the water were filthy or not. If you insist on feeling at risk from these athletes competing in insanitary conditions, I suggest you direct your misplaced indignation at the Brazilian governing bodies whose responsibility it ACTUALLY IS to maintain public health!
Furthermore, you should be ashamed at your own actions, simultaneously calling the athletes selfish and doing so from an apparent safe geographic and vocational distance.
You've made it abundantly clear that you have no interest in sports in general, let alone have any understanding of the commitments made by anyone even qualifying for the Olympics.
Go back to 4chan.
No, that is not how RFID transactions work at all. There's a one-time token system which makes man in middle hijacking very very difficult. Your skimming machine would have to be effectively able scan your card and use your token before you complete the transaction yourself. Tokens also expire very quickly, so the likelihood of your card getting skimmed by RFID is very very low. I'm not sure why Americans are so honed in on the security of RFID when the internet is literally rampant with PCI compliance problems and exploit fraud. RFID transactions can also be disabled by the card issuer, it's part of the spec. Any carrier who says they can't is lying. RFID transactions work well and are optional.
No shit, Sherlock.
Dude, aren't you trying to promote your product here?
Because RSA isn't the only thing going on when you use a PCI-compliant terminal. The bank transaction infrastructure doesn't just handle authentication, but also the actual monetary transaction. RSA is only a small part of the transaction.
Also many vendors, especially large organizations like Target, have their own internal transaction process that must be followed. Many POS backends are ancient pieces of junk running on proprietary software. So while the transaction is approved in 3 or 4 seconds, the terminal application may be waiting for the OK from the local vendor sales/inventory system to mark the transaction as complete.
Card issuers can disable NFC transactions on any card. Just ask.
Encryption/decryption processing is handled by dedicated ASICs in terminals, not "by CPU". And no, the auth is not what is slowing down the transaction. The possibilities are: bank transaction infrastructure or vendor POS transaction infrastructure.
The chip system is not built to benefit the consumer. It was put in place to allow financial institutions to trace transactions by making the unique.
45 seconds is quite a long time wait for a transaction, but that is caused by poor implementation and isn't inherent to the smartcard authentication infrastructure. Takes 2 or 3 seconds at most vendors in Canada. And Europe.
Banks realized a long time ago that it is impossible to completely prevent transaction fraud and card cloning. The smartcard system allows them to much better mitigate against these eventual risks by better delineating liability.
I think you misunderstand the chip system.
1. mechanical action of swipe vs card insertion is not any kind of issue, or there would be a standard for readers no matter the vendor.
2. chip cards do not address card cloning directly, their infrastructure provides a much better means of authenticating and tracking transactions, thus allowing to mitigate against said cloning by clarifying where liability actually lies.
For instance, NFC payments don't require any kind of pin or user intervention of any kind. However, you can still report a card stolen and have the bank absolve you of charges because of this finer-grained transaction tracking.
Chip and PIN is not just a credit card transaction system, but debit/banking card too. Besides, card-not-present transactions have a completely different PCI requirement and liability system. Why comment if you have no idea what you're talking about?
Define "timely".
My household has a Nexus 4, Nexus 5, an LG G2, an LG G4, an iPhone 5 and an iPhone 5S. (Granted, all the Android Phones are LG)
There is no discernible difference in update frequency between any of the Android devices. The Nexus devices enjoy no great improvement in update frequency over those of the non-Nexus LG devices. The iPhones are both prompted for system upgrades at roughly every 4 or 5 months.
App update frequency is determined by app developer in both iOS and Android ecosystems. With both Android and iOS, system updates are rolled up into a single update, late (+3 months from CVE publication if addressing any CVE), and mostly only address system/app stability issues, not security.
At the risk of sounding like a troll, I would ask for some examples or sources showing these "timely updates". Maybe our definitions differ.
How is this any different than for any other manufacturer? You're up shit's creek if you think any of the big manufacturers are sending timely OTA security updates. The response to CVEs for any platform is awful. Even with the ones that actually do something about it, there's a multi-month window where devices/OSes/apps sit unpatched.
If you're worried about security, get a bare ROM with nano gapps and monitor CVE's yourself.
In this time of puking all our personal information including location, wifi passwords, etc. to Google and Apple, you are worrying about a squeaky door when the house is on fire.
Banks do not care unless someone is looking. They will happily house all of your money as long as auditors are satisfied.
Bank motives are universal. Some laws may scrutinize their actions more, but the aim of a bank is to hold and make money. They don't give a shit in GBP, USD or TSH in Zanzibar.
Or how does one stop the car from rolling away when parked on an incline?
Nah. Littering is not an issue. People do drive to community mailboxes, but it's just like with the pre-existing ones in rural areas: people just stop by on the way home from work. No one makes a special trip. I think a kid drew a penis on our mailbox, but it's gone now.
Point taken. I suppose I'm coming from years of media management that simply wore me down. I enjoy quality as well, but the truth is that I'm the only one in our family who cares. If streaming gives me back hours a week, then streaming it is. I do suggest you seek out some 4k demos in good av stores, I think there may still be something to impress you. Good luck on your multemedia journey.
Man, you're negative.
Well, I guess if UHD or 4K with 7.4.2 surround is what you crave, than yes, Netflix isn't there yet.
Without meaning offense, may I presume you don't subscribe to Netflix?
Try again. My last 4 phones had stereo speakers. My tablet has stereo speakers.
But even besides this, providers RARELY broadcast in mono audio.
Also: Mono? who broadcasts video with Mono audio???? no one, that's who.
Oh, good quote: Variety.com. Why? Why not just quote Netflix itself? https://help.netflix.com/en/no...
First, calm down. No need to get all butthurt about not having access to fiber. Second: No, I watch on a variety of devices ranging from a 1080P display down to an Android phone. Third: Video compression has evolved VERY much past 1999 DVD MPEG2 CBR streams. VBR and quantization *alone* are miles ahead of what you're talking about. Fourth: Video compression used for streaming doesn't work the same way as video file compression. How the file itself is encoded is important, but not as important as how client-server negotiation dynamically changes the stream to suit its current bandwidth conditions. Fourth: The specs quoted for HD (by netflix or variety) are WAY high. Just look at your bandwidth usage while a 1080 stream is going. No where near 5Mbps, more like 800-900 Kbps. Thats because most movies/shows are not michael Bay explosion festivals with high dynamic range and screen movement.
Even on McDonald's and Startbucks shitty throttled wifi, Netflix is watchable. True, it might be dropping to 720p, but there is NO way McDonalds is providing me with 5Mbps.
I understand the pain of shitty service, but once you discover stuff like Kodi with premium sources to fill in the gaps where Netflix can't help, you'll notice your bandwidth may not be all as bad as you think. I now only maintain a tiny number of movies in my library, and they're only ones I can't really find anywhere to stream.
Haha where do you live that you can't even get HD Netflix?? If your bandwidth is that low, I dare say your contribution to the discussion of content is not very relevant.