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  1. Re: It's not a problem with 2FA on Known Flaws in Mobile Data Backbone Allow Hackers To Trick 2FA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but that can apply to any second factor that becomes popular. Even SecurID devices.

  2. Re:I wouldn't mind having a land line on Majority of US Households Now Cellphone-Only, Government Says (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    the location has a fairly large error zone

    Especially in an apartment building with multiple floors.

  3. Re:I wouldn't mind having a land line on Majority of US Households Now Cellphone-Only, Government Says (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Faxes are secure while e-mails are not

    They're both equally secure. They both typically go unencrypted from endpoint to endpoint, and you have to trust that the communication backbone itself hasn't been tapped.

  4. Re:Solution to lost phones on Majority of US Households Now Cellphone-Only, Government Says (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1
  5. Re:I still have a landline on Majority of US Households Now Cellphone-Only, Government Says (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, the site accepted the number. Too bad I'll never know if it worked.

    Your phone is ringing. Run! Go find it!

  6. Re:So.. what language will be the lingua franca th on EU Leader Says English Is Losing Importance (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    lingua franca

    Probably a Frankish language, or maybe even French?

  7. Re:what a moron... on EU Leader Says English Is Losing Importance (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    The ones that don't speak Mandarin.

  8. Re:Does the malware affect all android versions? on A New Instance of Android Malware is Discovered Every 10 Seconds, Say Researchers (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    Android only names their OS after sweet foods. Like "Apple" or "Blackberry."

  9. How many people do they employ? on A New Instance of Android Malware is Discovered Every 10 Seconds, Say Researchers (9to5google.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They found one instance of polymorphic malware and are using it to pad their numbers and make them look like they're working harder.

  10. The cost of education doesn't go up proportionally with property values. Not in weird markets like that, especially.

  11. Re:How do you measure distance in space? on California Seeks To Tax Rocket Launches, Which Are Already Taxed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    From a point of reference. Which I assume would be the launch point.

  12. Just wait until they realize they worded this tax rule wrong and they get to tax fireworks launches.

  13. Re:Notice they're all from one party. on Billboards Target Lawmakers Who Voted To Let ISPs Sell User Information (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Doxxing people? Telling someone who their elected representative is is doxxing now? I thought that was public election results.

  14. Good.

  15. Re:not censoring is hate serving? on Cloudflare Helps Serve Up Hate Online: Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that they're referring to the proxy servers and the complaint form that they host as being the property mentioned.

  16. Re:Headline is off topic on How Not to Make a Movie About Tech (theringer.com) · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Ypu... on Cloudflare Helps Serve Up Hate Online: Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I think we have a winner here.

  18. Re:So, they dox anybody who complains on Cloudflare Helps Serve Up Hate Online: Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Otherwise known as forwarding the complaint. They aren't policing content. Calling this "doxxing" is like complaining that Amazon gave your address to UPS.

  19. Re:I guess I'm officially old now. on Managers Should Start Texting Job Candidates, Says Study (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    That just proves desperation - not always a good quality in an employee (or that they spend all day at work surfing Indeed.com).

  20. Re:I guess I'm officially old now. on Managers Should Start Texting Job Candidates, Says Study (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't see any restrictions on the speech API - it's available in 80 languages.
    https://cloud.google.com/speec...

    Google Voice is only one way to get visual Voicemail - iPhone pretty much forced it with every carrier and Android at least makes it an option.

  21. Re:Debian S released on No More FTP At Debian (debian.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    How else would you download Firefox without IE/Edge:

    In Powershell:
    Invoke-WebRequest -OutFile Firefox.exe "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-53.0-SSL&os=win64&lang=en-US"

    But I would rather use Edge than Powershell.

  22. Re:It's not a problem with 2FA on Known Flaws in Mobile Data Backbone Allow Hackers To Trick 2FA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Social engineering hacks can compromise about any second factor you can come up with. Email is a definite bad choice. Google Authenticator pretty much requires a phone on you at all times (as does SMS, of course). And something like SecurID gets ridiculous when you have 20-30 web sites requiring 2FA.

  23. This is Google's Chance on Known Flaws in Mobile Data Backbone Allow Hackers To Trick 2FA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Just wait until Google says this is the excuse to move the entire legacy SMS system to RCS without delay. Though that still would require changing the transport too, because RCS can use SS7.

  24. Re:It's not a problem with 2FA on Known Flaws in Mobile Data Backbone Allow Hackers To Trick 2FA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And if anything, this is a need to move away from SS7 - not SMS.

  25. Re:It's not a problem with 2FA on Known Flaws in Mobile Data Backbone Allow Hackers To Trick 2FA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    SMS isn't even one system. This is a problem with one specific transport.