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  1. Re:What's the point? on How Often Should You Change Your Password? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That isn't always true at all.

    If my goal is to use your GMail account for spam then yes, I will change the password. If my goal is to monitor your emails I most certainly will not change the password, and will just log in every day to read your correspondence.

  2. Re:So what's the range on In Florida, a Cell Phone Network With No Need For a Spectrum License · · Score: 3, Informative

    The 900Mhz ISM band is free to use in region 2 (the Americas, Greenland, and part of the Pacific Islands).

  3. Sad on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is kind of sad how obvious the whole "flamewars for ad views" thing has become on this site.

  4. Re:And??? on 'Back To the Mac' Media Event On October 20th · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because the release of the next major version of the second most popular Desktop OS family is news.

    Just like the release of Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7 were news.

  5. Re:Gimme a break! on iPhone 4 Screens Break 82% More Than 3GS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Preferably someone who isn't standing to make a buck from the claim, which rules out the insurance company AND the manufacturer. Maybe someone like Consumer Reports?

  6. Re:A smaller version of the iPad? on 2011, Year of the Tablet? · · Score: 1

    Alternatively blogs have figured out they can drive ad sales and clicks by randomly speculating about products Apple could potentially release.

  7. Re:Impossible? on Left-Handed Gamers Getting Left Behind? · · Score: 1

    Roughly one in ten people on the face of the Earth is left-handed. Affectionately referred to as "Lefties" or "Southpaws", there are those of us who possess a genetic predisposition from the day we're born to use a hand most people out there would forget about if it wasn't for certain activities and personally, it is pretty fun to be unique for the most part.

    He also has an interesting definition of 'unique' - one in ten apparently qualifies. Generally speaking the quality of writing in that article is lacking.

  8. Re:Its not zero day ... on Microsoft Helps Adobe Block PDF Zero-Day Exploit · · Score: 1

    > I mean hell, in the IT world, a couple of examples are "megabyte" which somehow now means 1000^2 bytes now, instead of the 1024^2 that it has meant forever (or as long as I have been alive).

    Which is kind of funny given how the prefix mega had meant 10^6 for a really long time before that, including the telco world and the bits it moved around.

  9. Re:No credibility to this story on New Adobe PDF Zero-Day Under Attack · · Score: 1

    The current reader is under 30MB in size, and while they hide it a little bit you can absolutely download it without their download manager.

  10. Re:Take some time and think on Juror Explains Guilty Vote In Terry Childs Case · · Score: 2, Informative

    >>> If you look for BengalsUF's other posts in that thread you can see that he is the juror interviewed in the article this thread is about.

    Preview, preview, preview. It took out the below link:

    http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1633482&cid=32016846

  11. Re:Take some time and think on Juror Explains Guilty Vote In Terry Childs Case · · Score: 1

    If you look for BengalsUF's other posts in that thread you can see that he is the juror interviewed in the article this thread is about.

  12. Re:Take some time and think on Juror Explains Guilty Vote In Terry Childs Case · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is. But if you work really, really hard you can prevent that. Password recovery doesn't really recover a password, it just circumvents the login process on boot. So he deleted the configuration from NVRAM (permanently stored) and left only the running-config (RAM, deleted on reboot) in place. Recovering the router would have left the router unconfigured. He had backups of the configs, but they were on an encrypted DVD that could only be read on his laptop as it required a passphrase to unlock, and the presence of a specific file, and he refused to make that available. The log servers he placed into locked containers with holes drilled for cable runs.

    And he did some of those things after being asked to hand over the network, so he specifically took action to prevent others from accessing the network.

    You can read up on those in the big Childs thread from the other day, where the same juror being interviewed posted in that thread, and divulged those details.

  13. Re:Costs? on What's Holding Back Encryption? · · Score: 1

    (Oh, and bass-ackward companies like Apple are also holding back encryption. The iPhone can't do Secure Email after all this time? Really, Apple? Really?)

    It does IMAP over SSL, POP3 over SSL, SMTP over SSL and ActiveSync over SSL. What else do you need it to do?

  14. Re:Spotty 3G on T-Mobile? on Nexus One Owners Report Spotty 3G Signals On T-Mobile · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoops - reading comprehension fail. Big time.

  15. Re:Spotty 3G on T-Mobile? on Nexus One Owners Report Spotty 3G Signals On T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    You're kidding, right?

    http://www.cellularmaps.com/3g_compare.shtml

    AT&T's 3G coverage is horrible compared to Verizon. T-Mobile's 3G coverage is horrible compared to AT&T.

  16. Re:OpenGL and the rant about marketing on Why You Should Use OpenGL and Not DirectX · · Score: 1

    Not quite. Iris GL is from 1982 and turned into OpenGL in 1992. DirectX was first released in 1995. So OpenGL is older than DirectX but not by a decade.

  17. Re:I am not surprised on Android Phone Demand Up 250%, iPhone Down · · Score: 1

    The reload button in the URL bar turns into a stop button during page load. Works exactly as you'd expect from browser - if the new page has loaded far enough that it's ready to display something you'll have to go back. If it hasn't you're still on the original page.

  18. Re:Misleading title on INTERPOL Granted Diplomatic Immunity In the US · · Score: 1

    INTERPOL doesn't have agents. INTERPOL organizes cooperation between local police forces of member states.

  19. Re:Her Majesty's Secret Service.... on INTERPOL Granted Diplomatic Immunity In the US · · Score: 1

    No, it just keeps their records from being seized and they don't have to pay some taxes/duties. The privileges granted to them have absolutely nothing to do with immunity from the law, or having a license to kill.

  20. Re:About time to arm ourselves on INTERPOL Granted Diplomatic Immunity In the US · · Score: 5, Informative

    These are the additional privileges granted to Interpol:

      Section 2(c), which provided officials immunity from their property and assets being searched and confiscated; including their archives;
      the portions of Section 2(d) and Section 3 relating to customs duties and federal internal-revenue importation taxes;
      Section 4, dealing with federal taxes;
      Section 5, dealing with Social Security; and
      Section 6, dealing with property taxes.

    That's it. How exactly does that make you less sovereign?

  21. Re:This is just plain stupid on DC Sues AT&T For Unclaimed Phone Minutes · · Score: 1

    Yes, there's laws against burning money.

    http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/17/333

  22. Re:Is the newest version deployed everywhere? on GSM Decryption Published · · Score: 3, Insightful

    KASUMI has a 128-bit key. The weakness is in the design of the algorithm, just like weaknesses have been found in 256-bit AES.

    The "64-bit blocks" part of KASUMI is that it works eight bytes of data at a time. It has nothing to do with the strength of the algorithm, but how much data it bites off to chew on at any one time.

    In addition, they "didn't roll their own" and shouldn't have "just used AES". KASUMI was designed by the Security Algorithms Group of Experts, part of the European counterpart to NIST.

  23. Re:I'm in a good place with Amazon..... on The Secret Lives of Amazon's Elves · · Score: 1

    That assumes only one individual per household is earning income.

  24. Re:Does this remind anyone of... on Google In Talks To Buy Yelp · · Score: 1

    I'm not that much into cell phones either, but I wouldn't go as far as calling them useless.

  25. Re:It's the expensive places that still charge for on US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January · · Score: 2, Informative

    By blocking ports and protocols related to VPN. Blocking all outbound tcp/1723 as well as GRE will block most PPTP traffic, blocking all outbound udp/4500, udp/500, ESP and AH will block most IPSec traffic, blocking all outbound udp/1701 will block most L2TP traffic just in case it isn't secured by IPSec in the first place. Decent firewalls can inspect HTTP traffic and make sure you're not using it to tunnel traffic. HTTPS traffic can be dropped once the connection has passed more traffic than you think could reasonably be a webpage, and so on.

    Can you find some way around those rules if you know what you're doing? Sure. But it's not particularly hard to make sure 99% of all users you're going to come across are not going to be able to use VPN without significant outside help.