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  1. With my old non-smartphone 133113313122 was a valid emergency number! It would ignore all the wrong digits and see: 133113313122, and 112 is the international emergency number. And this was even with a keypad lock engaged. A good design would reset the dial string on an invalid entry. Instead, it could take hours to finish dialing the emergency number, but it would get dialed in my pocket.

  2. Re: That'll be popular on Jimmy Wales and Former NSA Chief Ridicule Government Plans To Ban Encryption · · Score: 1

    The link you sent didn't say "all banking" - it said transactions of $10,000 or more are reported by the banks, not intercepted. Even the US has similar reporting requirements to the IRS.

    This is about having a tamper-proof connection, safe against crime and anyone else. It's not just the NSA who would benefit from weak encryption.

  3. Re:That'll be popular on Jimmy Wales and Former NSA Chief Ridicule Government Plans To Ban Encryption · · Score: 1

    Maybe I don't know much about mandatory PCI scanning, but for the organization site I handle PCI compliance for, I was forced to remove TLS 1.0 support to get a passing scan already.

  4. That'll be popular on Jimmy Wales and Former NSA Chief Ridicule Government Plans To Ban Encryption · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Break all ability to make payments or move money online.

    At the very least, any cryptography with known security vulnerabilities (such as the NSA wants) would not be PCI compliant. But it's unlikely that any bank would use an older version of TLS or SSL for online banking either.

  5. Re:One word: on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 1

    If my cash is stolen, I don't get it back.

  6. Re:Next time it'll be cash on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 1

    You don't even need to keep your own copy. If they don't have a signed copy showing that you authorized more, they don't have a chance of winning a dispute.

  7. Re:This is why you call your bank before tourism on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 1

    Same amount total, same vendor, within a few minutes. Triggered probably to prevent (accidental) duplicate purchases. Add another item to the second order to make it a different amount and it probably wouldn't have been declined

  8. Re:This is why you call your bank before tourism on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 1

    What we call an ATM? We insert our bank card and enter a PIN. You can use a credit card too if you've set up a PIN and want to pay the exorbitant interest rates for a cash advance. Most people are used to using a PIN for their debit card in stores already. However, I use a credit card equally as often due to rewards programs. As of October 1, we're a Chip and Signature country for credit cards. Any merchant that doesn't have a chip card reader is liable for all fraud. Any card issuer that doesn't issue EMV cards is liable for fraud. However, I've only received one chip card so far and not even my debit card yet.

  9. Re:This is why you call your bank before tourism on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 1

    1. The cards are all EMV. The magstripe can be cloned, but you can't use it in most countries (other than America)

    October 1 has passed. America is now an EMV country. Any merchant who accepts a card by its magstripe that has an EMV chip, they are liable for the fraud. Any bank that still uses magstripe cards are liable before the merchant.

  10. Re:my credit union calls me in seconds. Cashiers s on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 1

    That's also the kind of place someone might buy rims, which are easy to resell if bought fraudulently. And the credit card company only gets the transaction amount - which is a high number from a business you (probably) don't regularly do business.

    Algorithmically, it would be hard to tell if that's legitimate or not and it's just a quick phone call to get the transaction through.

  11. Re: This is why you call your bank before tourism on When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately · · Score: 1

    as the US gets closer to their pin-and-chip deadline.

    Wasn't that October 1st (unless you're a gas station)? Can't get much closer than already happened.

  12. Re:Is it worth doing this in hardware? on Ask Slashdot: Advanced KVM Switch? · · Score: 1

    Because they still want monitor 2 to possibly point to monitor one of another machine. So monitor 1 of any machine has to be routable to either display. If I understand right.

  13. Re:Hmmm.. on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 1

    I don't know...I'd say about 80% of people who have a grandfathered unlimited plan are iPhone users who have been iPhone users from the beginning.

  14. Re:Dumb question here... on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 1

    Yeah - I drove across Kansas into Denver this summer (on Interstate 70). With Ting (on the Sprint network). And I had no cellular data for most of Kansas and almost all of Colorado except for the city itself.

  15. Re:I really like this feature. on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 1

    Unless you want to connect to a wifi island without manually turning this off. Say if you're a computer tech and want to troubleshoot a wireless router that's not getting Internet.

    And wouldn't it be good for it stop working in this case to alert you to the problem? Everyone complaining about hitting data caps as a result of this change would prefer it this way.

    I'm sure it's not based on signal strength alone. Maybe SNR or the ability to route packets at all.

  16. Re:IOS 9 Wifi Problems on iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills · · Score: 1

    There's no reason to turn off SSID broadcast. When the router stops broadcasting SSID, every device that has that AP added will broadcast that SSID around everywhere - even when not near the AP. So...even less secure.

  17. Re:Is it worth doing this in hardware? on Ask Slashdot: Advanced KVM Switch? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you could get a KVM that doesn't have a dummy load on the non-active display. But that's only a small part of the battle.

  18. Re:Is it worth doing this in hardware? on Ask Slashdot: Advanced KVM Switch? · · Score: 1

    Except they're wanting the computer multi-monitor support to drop those monitors as unconnected when they aren't visible (or so I assume). Otherwise you could just use a separate KVM switch for screen 2 and have all the inputs on KVM 1.

  19. Re:America! F-Yeah! on America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses · · Score: 1

    That's IPv6 day 2016! IPv6 addresses are the Mark of the Beast!

  20. Re:Visual Chording Keyboard on 1000-key Emoji Keyboard Is As Crazy As It Sounds · · Score: 1

    It only takes 16 for emoji. 256 modifier combinations is still not quite enough for all the characters defined in Unicode 1.0.1

  21. Re:1000 keys?! on 1000-key Emoji Keyboard Is As Crazy As It Sounds · · Score: 1

    And if you have the Win/CMD modifier key, you can do it in one keyboard. But then you'd have to stick 8 icons on one key. Like a previous poster said, this would work great with an OLED keyboard that would change the keys as you press the modifiers.

  22. Re:Visual Chording Keyboard on 1000-key Emoji Keyboard Is As Crazy As It Sounds · · Score: 1

    CTRL+ALT+WIN/CMD+SHIFT gives 16 chord combinations for each letter key. So you really could.

  23. Re:Slightly more technical on The New Technique That Finds All Known Human Viruses In Your Blood · · Score: 2

    False positives would imply that the replication system somehow managed to spontaneously create recognizable genomes from scratch.

    A "false" positive could also mean that the virus is present, but not replicating at any real level of infection.

  24. Even if the hardware becomes cheap... on The New Technique That Finds All Known Human Viruses In Your Blood · · Score: 1

    They'll still get you with the annual definitions update subscription. Doesn't even have real-time detection - you have to do a full system scan when you suspect a virus.

  25. Myst IV had it on Facebook Finally Delivers On the VRML Dream With Immersive Star Wars Video · · Score: 1

    A free-roaming viewport with live action video overlaid on rendered 3D.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...