I haven't looked carefully at the rest of the platforms that Yahoo provides, but I believe that at least Yahoo Messenger (when connecting with Pidgin anyway) also sends the same auth credentials in plain text. Not that the overall problem is insignificant (*any* time auth credentials are sent, in any context, they should be encrypted), but worrying only about IMAP is naive in this case. (What about POP? What about all the Y! web platforms?)
Yahoo! POP is SSL encrypted (and only available to pro acount users in any case). Part of the worry for me is Yahoo! doesn't disclose that the connection is unencrypted in the default program, and there is no way to get it to use encryption (the server doesn't even support encryption).
As far as other Yahoo! properties I have no idea.
I guess the question to ask then, is how about GMail? Does anyone know if they are more secure? If so, then perhaps it'd be worth our time to convince some more people to switch for the sake of security.
gmail is more secure, it actually requires SSL to connect to the IMAP & POP servers (Yahoo! doesn't support SSL on its IMAP servers).
Maybe I mis-read the article but it sounds like they "could be required to" which is lame sauce. It makes distance education more expensive which is lamesauce++ . Distance education has the ability to potentially bring college level education to so many, I'm of the opinion that we should avoid placing restrictions on it and encourage it to evolve for the winsauce. education++
It would make sense for it to work with Tuyo mobile, although I haven't tested it.
Looking at howardforums I vaguelly recall there being one or two MVNOs whos sims only work in there phones (I think Net10 & Tracfone but I'm not sure).
So blatantly I have no real need for a phone, why do they all have to be so gaddamn expensive? Its non-carrier subsidized and not produced at the same volumes as some other phones, hence it is a bit more expensive.
I can't afford much more than £5 a month for calls, will the open-ness and WIFI-ness of this phone allow me to say, use my internet (which I already pay for) to make phonecalls? (for free) Yes you can use VoIP if you so desire. If you only have £5 though, your money might be better spent on other things.
What's with the 2.5G? Did n't the Iphone get absolutely slammed for the lack of it, something that British (european) users apparently Have To Have? Given that this is a french phone and not a US thing, surely it would come with the usual standards. Its not french, its from a company called FIC which is in Taiwan. As far as I understand 3G is expensive. You might want to check out this thread on the openmoko mailing list for a bit more of the background.
Also, can I ssh into my computer and restart my webserver, motherfucker???:) Yes you can.
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I haven't looked carefully at the rest of the platforms that Yahoo provides, but I believe that at least Yahoo Messenger (when connecting with Pidgin anyway) also sends the same auth credentials in plain text. Not that the overall problem is insignificant (*any* time auth credentials are sent, in any context, they should be encrypted), but worrying only about IMAP is naive in this case. (What about POP? What about all the Y! web platforms?)
Yahoo! POP is SSL encrypted (and only available to pro acount users in any case). Part of the worry for me is Yahoo! doesn't disclose that the connection is unencrypted in the default program, and there is no way to get it to use encryption (the server doesn't even support encryption). As far as other Yahoo! properties I have no idea.
I guess the question to ask then, is how about GMail? Does anyone know if they are more secure? If so, then perhaps it'd be worth our time to convince some more people to switch for the sake of security.
gmail is more secure, it actually requires SSL to connect to the IMAP & POP servers (Yahoo! doesn't support SSL on its IMAP servers).
Maybe I mis-read the article but it sounds like they "could be required to" which is lame sauce. It makes distance education more expensive which is lamesauce++ . Distance education has the ability to potentially bring college level education to so many, I'm of the opinion that we should avoid placing restrictions on it and encourage it to evolve for the winsauce. education++
Before you send it back check out this thread, it seems like there might be a simple work around.
Most apps toggle to full-screen mode for the win.
Here is the link I was looking for: http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=824482 For the most part it looks like they should work, but *shrugs*
It would make sense for it to work with Tuyo mobile, although I haven't tested it. Looking at howardforums I vaguelly recall there being one or two MVNOs whos sims only work in there phones (I think Net10 & Tracfone but I'm not sure).
Oh sad. Well you can read the post and then you only have to look at one picture.
Take them OF the phone, not WITH the phone!
The phone actually has no camera, so the pictures were taken with a kodak digital camera. I'm not very good at takeing pictures I'll admit.
Did you even listen to the talk? Thats not what she was suggesting.
If you're interested in seeing the graphs of the servers, you can take a look over here. They've got the graphs for most of the servers, along with the core routers of the university. Lets see what slashdot does to it :P.
Also, there seems to be a bunch of shifty hobos sitting in there offices right now :P
I'm not sure if it is bad form to comment on your own story, but here goes anyways :). You can take a look at the scored version of the slashdot RSS feed
here, or del.icio.us or my
(holden's) blog. There is also a really cool widget I've put on the side of my blog which lets people subscribe to only posts of a
certain quality (you can look at it here).