Actually, I dislike carrying much cash, and I don't want NFC either. I don't want any payment system i can't authorise/use a PIN on at time of sale. I wouldn't walk around with $500 in my wallet for me to lose, I don't want an unauthenticated NFC system either than people can spend without intervention.
Did i claim it was perfect? The centralised app store model has the same risks, but they are quantifiably lower than downloading and executing a file on a random website.
I realise you're trolling but there are two common malware paths these days:
(1) Drive by Downloads - where exploits in things like PDFs, or Flash cause Remote Code Execution on the affected users box, by exploiting flaws in installed software. Hopefully privileged elevation requiriring sudo or UAC will prevent these programs running as admin/root, but often it's just enough that these apps run as a user class.
(2) Stupid Users- people who have been trained to download anything from anywhere and just run it.
OSX, like Windows, is vulnerable to both, because the software distribution model is totally broken. The app store may help, but i'll still put my trust, for now, in the linux repo model.
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If it wipes after 10 invalid attempts anyway, then what does it matter?
Actually, I dislike carrying much cash, and I don't want NFC either. I don't want any payment system i can't authorise/use a PIN on at time of sale. I wouldn't walk around with $500 in my wallet for me to lose, I don't want an unauthenticated NFC system either than people can spend without intervention.
Mainly because handset makes are lying, deceptive bastards who don't maintain devices.
*insert TrueCrypt license debate here*
Oh go on, i'll start it off.
There are some who would argue the license is dangerous.
Dialling premium rate numbers, obviously. Malware apps are totally useless anyway - if they rely on signature-based detection.
Let's just agree to call it totally unvetted functionality that apple didn't have a clue about?
There have been trojans in the iOS store too- for example, unofficial tethering inside flashlight apps...
Password use is going to be interesting. Bet 99% are the same as their PIN for any cards, and the same as a home alarm.
We're not very good at predicting the future anyway: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/PopularMechanics/2-1950/next_fifty_years/xlg_next_fifty_years_06.jpg
Before the tube sites came along, at least.
http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/pronz.txt
What could possibily go wrong!
What is very interesting is that Firefox 4 is now reporting that this slashdot article is a Reported Web Forgery.
How are they protecting anything if the bad people can still access the site directly if they can find it?
If it works anything like Akamai, the site DNS points to cloudflare, which then relays it all back to the origin host.
(Unless they're locking down the origin hosts to only accept requests from cloudflare networks, of course....)
you can not store CCV2 ever, even if encrypted. Read PCI and try again.
I realise people don't read the article, but try the summary, at least. These screens don't offer a solution in terms of energy demands.
Summary is not clear, but he is a Thai Citizen as well as US.
False feeling of safety!
Thanks to ad networks, there are no safe sites on the interwebs.
This has been used in the UK since around 1996/7. You get a random 'audit' every N visits.
>You can prevent spoofing. Even theoretical systems turn out to have flaws, much less implementations.
Linux has similar problems - i.e, Ubuntu can "lag" a firefox release for hours or days behind a general security release.
Did i claim it was perfect? The centralised app store model has the same risks, but they are quantifiably lower than downloading and executing a file on a random website.
Of course, i didn't say otherwise. If you don't trust, don't install.
I realise you're trolling but there are two common malware paths these days: (1) Drive by Downloads - where exploits in things like PDFs, or Flash cause Remote Code Execution on the affected users box, by exploiting flaws in installed software. Hopefully privileged elevation requiriring sudo or UAC will prevent these programs running as admin/root, but often it's just enough that these apps run as a user class. (2) Stupid Users- people who have been trained to download anything from anywhere and just run it. OSX, like Windows, is vulnerable to both, because the software distribution model is totally broken. The app store may help, but i'll still put my trust, for now, in the linux repo model.
My current ubuntu device doesn't even have an optical drive....