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  1. Re:Cludge fix? on Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    NFN_NLN was referring to fucking with the cards.

    luvirini pointed out that doesn't fucking matter if the device reading the card checks that it's signed by a trusted key.

    You're referring to fucking with the device reading the cards.

  2. Re:5GHz too late... on Intel Hits 50 Years and Its CPUs Hit 5.0 GHz (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    What’s so special about this processor?
    This processor is Intel’s first 5Ghz out of the box consumer desktop processor, featuring 6 cores and 12 threads, and is unlocked for overclocking*.

    *Altering clock frequency or voltage may damage or reduce the useful life of the processor and other system components, and may reduce system stability and performance. Product warranties may not apply if the processor is operated beyond its specifications. Check with the manufacturers of system and components for additional details.

  3. Re:Oracle already has a 5.0 GHz chip on the market on Intel Hits 50 Years and Its CPUs Hit 5.0 GHz (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    WRONG!

    AMD gave us the FX-9590 with 4.7 GHz base and 5.0 GHz turbo clocks FIVE years ago.

  4. Re:Security, what security? Is that a thing we do? on MyHeritage, a DNA Testing and Ancestry Service, Announces Data Breach of Over 92 Million Account Details (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And to do so you'd need to physically be there, and risk physically getting shot in the fucking gut.

  5. The problem is many times answers are restricted to drop down responses or are tied to actual data about you (like past addresses, phone numbers, etc.).
    Another issue is that these are the things the customer service reps can see if you ever get locked out and need to call them.
    Good luck reading out a random password over the phone. No, BACKslash. It's going from top left to bottom right. No no, that's the grave / backtick.

  6. Re:August 23, 2020 on Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    You're confused. Ford's not on that list. Yet you keep posting as if they are.

  7. Duh on SpaceX Delays Plans To Send Space Tourists To Circle Moon (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can't have the masses finding out the Earth is flat.

  8. Re: Youtube started hiding Secular Talk videos fro on YouTube's Top Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down En Masse (polygon.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's all that non relational database bullshit. They can't give you complete, correct, or consistent results because their data is all in a big, meaningless heap.
    Amazon has the same issue. You can't get a fucking simple price filter working on an Amazon search, for example.

  9. Re:The money is phenomenal on YouTube's Top Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down En Masse (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    You need 50K to 200K views per month to make $100 from advertising revenues.

    You can get dollars per thousand views if you make content advertisers want to advertise on and properly label it.

  10. Re:solar energy~earth magnets=free power for all? on Thailand is New Dumping Ground For World's High-Tech Trash, Police Say (trust.org) · · Score: 1

    why not? no obsoleted greed fear ego based corepirate megasloth backing? cease fire stand down,, that's the spirit.. never any subscription or cover charges.. hum along...

    Stop, thief! No welcome wagon, hello stranger, with that new coffee flavor for you! Offer expires while you wait, operators are standing by!

  11. Re:Mending is better than ending. on Thailand is New Dumping Ground For World's High-Tech Trash, Police Say (trust.org) · · Score: 2

    Recycling is supposed to be the LAST option before dumping/burning shit.

    Reduce
    Reuse
    Recycle

    In that order.

    But what we have now is a bunch of people buying new, new, new all the time, and the "recycling" efforts are nothing more than shipping toxic trash around the globe before dumping it on some poor people.

  12. Re:Moscow Donald and Racist Rosanne's Tweets on Thailand is New Dumping Ground For World's High-Tech Trash, Police Say (trust.org) · · Score: 1

    Donald Trump has been President for 495 days.

    And clowns like you have been screaming about this shit since before the election.

  13. Re:More control for Google? on Google Chrome 67 Released for Windows, Mac, and Linux (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    For a long period of time Google was exploiting vulnerabilities to install Chrome with admin privileges despite the user not having admin privileges or not granting them to the installation process.

  14. Re:Meaningless on Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Are you retarded?

    Wear pants.
    Sit down.
    Look at there the opening to the pocket is.
    Imagine a large phone in that pocket.
    How high does the phone sit? Does it even fit all the way in the pocket? (If you wear women's clothing, such as women's clothing or skinny jeans, it will not.)
    How much tension is the phone placed under when sitting or leaning forward? (If you wear regular men's jeans, it's still quite a bit.)

  15. Q and the red pill army.

  16. IBOR on President Trump Can't Block People On Twitter, Court Rules (knightcolumbia.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The court has ruled Twitter a public forum, and used that basis to protect free speech even though it's owned and operated by a private entity.

    This means that, just like businesses, parks, universities, etc. that are generally open to the public, Twitter, Facebook, etc. must not discriminate, must respect free speech rights, etc.

    This is a win for the people trying to make that "Internet Bill of Rights" happen.

  17. Re: It's an outrage on Amazon Is Banning People For Making Too Many Returns (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have had them explain that it is 2 day shipping, it doesn't include the time it takes to ship out?!? And estimated delivery is not always accurate. Or the lack of tracking info means it will get to me tomorrow?!?

    Yet the final checkout page says "Guaranteed Deliver By...". Screenshot it every time.

  18. Re:Good on Amazon Is Banning People For Making Too Many Returns (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The DVD issues were a result of them attempting to ship the discs through an unstable wormhole.

  19. Re:If they didn't break up big banks on Advocacy Groups Call for the FTC To Break Up Facebook (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course he did - the CIA's check cleared.

  20. Re: crypto-coins? on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And the AC above you pointed out exactly that.

    Block generation is safe. Your wallets are not.
    Of course, they can simply change the algorithm protecting the transactions, and thus your wallet's balance.

  21. Re:crypto-coins? on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In an ideal situation they aren't "negotiated", but are established over a secure channel in advance.

    Using an insecure medium to perform secure communications is absurd.
    Attempting the secure that medium with math that has not been proven to be "one way" (hint - it's fucking not, no useful function is) is equally absurd.

  22. Re:crypto-coins? on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL you're agreeing with the AC, you clown.

  23. Re:Unlock at trusted place also stopped working on Popular 'Gboard' Keyboard App Has Had a Broken Spell Checker For Months · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yup. Android is fucking shit through and through.

  24. Point-to-point is still a fixed route unless you're moving the endpoints constantly.

  25. We're not telling anyone to do any more work or telling anyone to change any practices. What we are doing is trying to roll back the stupid suggestion that an encrypted channel implies complete trust. It was a broken suggestion to the users and has nothing to do with the trusted authorities.

    We should be focusing on indications of proper EV certificates rather than confusing users.

    EV certs require CAs to do more work. Hint: They won't. They'll do the bare minimum, and eventually less than that, just as they did for standard certs.

    I think what you are upset about is that the CAs are a note arbiter of good character.

    I'm not quite sure what you mean by this, but what I'm upset with is the fact that CAs exist, are "trusted" by browsers, and do nothing to earn that trust. To the contrary, they have shown they are completely untrustworthy. Even with a trustworthy CA, a state actor can compromise them without anyone else knowing. The entire concept of having an authority you defer your trust decisions to is foolish from the start.

    There have been very few cases of certificates miss issued or trust problems with CAs.

    You haven't been paying attention. How many major certs were revoked in the past 5 years? How many CAs were reprimanded?

    The fact that these issues where CAs have been miss trusted have been dealt with quickly and efficiently through revocation processes is a testament to just how well it has worked.

    The standard revocation process doesn't work. CRL's simply aren't used in most cases. The typical revocation process for an end user is for Chrome, Firefox, Windows, or Java to issue an update that revokes a bad cert. These updates aren't published promptly enough to handle the situation nor are the guaranteed to be installed by users in a timely fashion.

    Even when Google gets their panties in a twist over a bad CA, the action isn't immediate. If the problem is found on day 0, (and is known to have started X days prior), Google announces ahead of time that they'll be blacklisting certain certs in the future, then more certs, then all certs from that CA issued prior to a cutoff date.

    That's ridiculous. If you know a CA has fucked up, you need to IMMEDIATELY blacklist all of their certs. Yes, sites will show as having invalid certs. Too fucking bad. Further, I would never trust that CA again. For trust to be automatic it must be absolute. You can't absolutely repair trust that was previously broken.

    Are we talking about security or theater? The current situation is theater. The proposed "solutions" are more theater.

    Or maybe everything will work fine and you can stop running around flapping your undersized wings shouting the sky is falling.

    Like how it worked fine in the first place? Why do we need CRLs at all? Why are we moving to EV certs? Answer: CAs are trash.

    However that doesn't stop someone issuing a DV certificate to www.paiypal.com and really it shouldn't.

    That has nothing to do with anything.

    Actually it has been precisely about that since 2005.

    No, it hasn't. You can get a cert today without proving who you are to anyone. It's harder to buy time at the batting cages than it is to get a "trusted" CA to issue you a cert.