Even more because simply attaching the phone to a USB port allows complete access to the internal memory and SD card regardless of whether a password is entered.
No, it doesn't. You get access to/sdcard (whether it corresponds to a physical SD card or not), but that's it. You don't get access (even read access) to sandboxed application and system data storage, unless your phone is rooted.
So the obvious answer is that, if you want security, don't root your phone. It should be kinda obvious that if you can do what you want with the phone via USB, so can any application running on your PC.
Even if you're not kernel-rooted chances are (depending on the phone) all the hacker has to do is bypass your lock screen to enable usb debugging and root the phone himself.
I'm not an average number and admittedly hadn't been paying attention to the release schedule changes. So when version 5 all of a sudden popped up I hesitated to upgrade as version 4 was still working fine for my development needs and what not. Had this actually been 4.0.2 I probably wouldn't have hesitated as minor versions generally don't introduce breaking changes.
How do you suppose the phone company knows what cell you're in, so they can route calls to your phone? How do you suppose they get their E911 data?
As long as you have the thing powered on, the phone company know where you are. And if the police want to know, they won't go to your house, hack your computer, and read the log backup. They'll just go to the phone company with a subpoena.
This whole controversy was much ado about nothing. The only thing that was different was that the user had access to the data that "the man" had all along.
Yes because the only people who would be interested in this data are those that already posses a legal method of obtaining it...
I've used Emgu CV (a.NET wrapper for OpenCV) to do similar stuff in the past. Might take more work to get what OpenGazer gives you but it is still an active project.
Isn't the point of a temporary restraining order/seizure warrant to stop an action/take something before a full trial has occurred? Under whose laws should a full trial be held?
Am I naive in believing that ICANN delegates control of the TLDs?
Overall things look nice. Only real complaint is that you removed the "Home" link from the footer. The static top/side bars overcame this missing link (and sucked) but now that is gone as well. Overall minor inconvenience that I now have to scroll to the top of the page to click on the logo.
PS: Sure I could click back but that's not always where I want to go...
Assuming they consider the phone to be a safety device, I can't imagine that happening. A crash of any severity disables the electrical system. The battery is in the front and any metal touching the positive lead or damaging the battery sufficiently or pulling a connection loose will disable the jammer. Also, if phones were a safety device, then they'd make the jammer turn off if the car was in park or the engine was off (and maybe if the speedometer was under 10 mph as well). So having those cutoffs for the jammer fail, but the jammer still work should, with proper engineering, be functionally impossible. But, if you were in a car with a stuck ignition, stuck transmission, stuck throttle, stuck seatbelt, stuck door locks and the car wheels were spinning at 40 mph as the car teeters over a cliff with you unable to make a call to report your situation, then just maybe you'd have a point. Now, find me one case of that, and I'll concede.
You didn't see all the stuck accelerator news stories about the Toyata Prius a while back?:-)
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that radio jammers can't distinguish 911 calls.
That's probably true which is why this solution would have to be something more than a simple radio jammer. Turn the car into a faraday cage and then the only "tower" your phone sees is the repeater broadcasting in your car. Then the repeater allows/disallows calls based on vehicle state and destination number.
I'm over simplifying things and talking out my ass here but there are solutions to do it right:-)
Just pull over, stop the car, and make the call. That's what I did in the "crash through the fence" incident I described.
Works great for that situation where you are in control of everything. However when you are in an accident and the car still thinks you are driving that could be a problem.
Even when my phone is locked I can press 9-1-1-Talk and get connected to help. Hopefully this technology would work in a similar fashion such that emergency calls were always allowed to go through. Imagine the liability law suit that would occur when someone died because they had an accident and the vehicle thought they were still in a "driving" situation and should be blocking the cell phone.
How will the TV shows be handled in countries other than the US. I live in the Netherlands. We will probably get the movies in the movie theaters. I doubt the TV series will broadcast here at the same time as in the US. Usually it takes months if not years for TV shows to appear on TV here. So most likely We will see movie #1, then a long wait of nothing, see movie #2, the first TV series may (or not) start airing here. Then we get movie #3 and then after a long wait.... TV series #2. Point: it will be all out of sync.
Just curious how that will be handled.
Just curious; if you go to nbc.com -> Watch Video do you see localized content (does NBC even exist in your market?) or do you see the same things I do or maybe nothing at all?
I dunno, it's pretty vague (most of the guidelines are).
Why say "media" if it only applies to music?
What does "access" mean? Open a stream to and then decode in your application? Or actually decode through the MediaPlayer framework (ie: no non-Apple supplied codecs).
Overall reading through those guidelines were a waste of time for me. Most of them were common sense and the rest were so vague and subjective (I think that was the intention though).
Alas, we'll now get to listen to him rant in court, too.
Only if your Ghost Lab option comes true... Oh and the court decides to start trying ghosts...
The gunman, identified as James Lee, was killed by police following four hours of negotiations but the hostages are all safe, said Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger.
The station's transmitter is located just outside Povarovo, Russia at (...,...), which is about halfway between Zelenograd and Solnechnogorsk and 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Moscow, near the village of Lozhki. The location and callsign were unknown until the first voice broadcast of 1997.
No one believes it, and you're not making us think you have a big dick.
Also - not what I claimed. I claimed condoms break easily, and to be honest it doesn't really have much to do with the size - it's more about adequate lubrication for the full duration.
Oh so now you're not claiming you have a big dick but that you last forever. Your girlfriend must be impressed;-)
Wouldn't it make sense to install traffic lights first? Seems like some order on the road rather than chaos would reduce the accident rate much more than ticketing speeders (who will likely just continue to speed).
Either way there are commercial products available for this application. Sorry I have no links but in southern California red light cameras are all over the place. Our neighbors in Arizona also have "portable" speed cameras that they trailer to locations where speeding is an issue.
you're saying we have crappy GUI webapps, and the reason they are so crappy is because a designer (ie a non-coder) created them and not a programmer.
No, I said "web sites and applications that don't work like they should". The applications in question may be visually stunning but if they don't work reliably then what they look like is a moot point.
If there's one thing I know, its this: Never let a programmer create any form of GUI.
Comes back to my point about using the correct tool for the job. Either way I find an application that reliably performs its intended task but has a horrible UI much more valuable than an application that doesn't perform it's intended task but has a beautiful UI.
In an ideal world, we'd have design separate from the code
Agreed. Not familiar with Flash and it's tools but definitely seen improvement in this realm from Microsoft with WPF/Silverlight/XAML and the Visual Studio/Expression tools. It's far from perfect but definitely a step in the right direction from Winforms:-)
Wake me up when Microsoft comes up with a tool that allows non-coder graphic designers or animators to create entire apps in Silverlight with the same ease that you can with Flash.
The assumption that a non-coder can code an application (using any tool/language/whatever) is exactly why the web is littered with crappy web sites and applications that don't work like they should.
People have skills in particular areas and need to recognize that and know when to ask for help. For instance I have a knack for coding but not graphics/design. So when I'm coding up a new web application I go search for a template/designer/whatever I need to fill the gap in my skill set.
Have you ever seen a shell server compromised by a non-customer? You are talkling about your shitty little ISP experience, not some theoretical possibility, right?
Yes I have. Must be nice to live in a world where the only possibilities are the ones you believe.
Don't even try that shit. Your most prominent statement was the claim that you have observed that Linux servers were compromised more often than Windows server. You backed it with fallacies, spin and your experience that -- if it was true or relevant in the first place -- is in no way applicable for any comparison.
No my most prominent statement was "in my experience" and then I went on to convey that experience.
Sorry my experience is that of the Linux/Windows servers I've had on the internet and the Linux servers being compromised more than my Windows servers.
I know my personal real world experience is really upsetting you but I even gave very clear reasons as to why my experience was such. You want to ignore all that and pretend that I said "Windows is more secure than Linux" or "Windows is easier to maintain than Linux"
If you want to discuss your most idiotic (though less prominent) claim that one has to be "vigilant" to run Linux servers in a secure manner (as opposed to merely implementing well-known sane policies and apply updates when they are released), you are welcome to do it after renouncing your claims of having demonstrated it with your shitty experience running shell servers.
If you want to twist my words into something I didn't say then go right ahead. My point was that unless you are vigilant on security under ANY operating system then you will be less secure than someone else who is.
PS: "...to merely implementing well-known sane policies and apply updates when they are released..." is being vigilant about security. A home user that ignores updates is not being "vigilant" about security.
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Even more because simply attaching the phone to a USB port allows complete access to the internal memory and SD card regardless of whether a password is entered.
No, it doesn't. You get access to /sdcard (whether it corresponds to a physical SD card or not), but that's it. You don't get access (even read access) to sandboxed application and system data storage, unless your phone is rooted.
So the obvious answer is that, if you want security, don't root your phone. It should be kinda obvious that if you can do what you want with the phone via USB, so can any application running on your PC.
Even if you're not kernel-rooted chances are (depending on the phone) all the hacker has to do is bypass your lock screen to enable usb debugging and root the phone himself.
And the article isn't even available. I want my click back :-)
I'm not an average number and admittedly hadn't been paying attention to the release schedule changes. So when version 5 all of a sudden popped up I hesitated to upgrade as version 4 was still working fine for my development needs and what not. Had this actually been 4.0.2 I probably wouldn't have hesitated as minor versions generally don't introduce breaking changes.
Maybe you haven't been following along but this unencrypted data was available on any computer you backed up to.
How do you suppose the phone company knows what cell you're in, so they can route calls to your phone? How do you suppose they get their E911 data?
As long as you have the thing powered on, the phone company know where you are. And if the police want to know, they won't go to your house, hack your computer, and read the log backup. They'll just go to the phone company with a subpoena.
This whole controversy was much ado about nothing. The only thing that was different was that the user had access to the data that "the man" had all along.
Yes because the only people who would be interested in this data are those that already posses a legal method of obtaining it...
The vulnerability exists in Flash Player not Microsoft Word. A Word document is simply the package being used to distribute the payload.
I've used Emgu CV (a .NET wrapper for OpenCV) to do similar stuff in the past. Might take more work to get what OpenGazer gives you but it is still an active project.
Isn't the point of a temporary restraining order/seizure warrant to stop an action/take something before a full trial has occurred? Under whose laws should a full trial be held? Am I naive in believing that ICANN delegates control of the TLDs?
Ok so not really...
Overall things look nice. Only real complaint is that you removed the "Home" link from the footer. The static top/side bars overcame this missing link (and sucked) but now that is gone as well. Overall minor inconvenience that I now have to scroll to the top of the page to click on the logo.
PS: Sure I could click back but that's not always where I want to go...
obviously i meant mandatory if you have a car. try to comment in good faith please
But that's the point. It's your option to have a car and spend your money on the required costs that come with that.
Technically I guess I have the option to quit my job, become a bum and not have to pay for health care...
My assumption is that someone needing a service like this would use *YOUR* credit card details to pay for it ;-)
Do you actually think this is a good idea?
No, not at all :-)
Assuming they consider the phone to be a safety device, I can't imagine that happening. A crash of any severity disables the electrical system. The battery is in the front and any metal touching the positive lead or damaging the battery sufficiently or pulling a connection loose will disable the jammer. Also, if phones were a safety device, then they'd make the jammer turn off if the car was in park or the engine was off (and maybe if the speedometer was under 10 mph as well). So having those cutoffs for the jammer fail, but the jammer still work should, with proper engineering, be functionally impossible. But, if you were in a car with a stuck ignition, stuck transmission, stuck throttle, stuck seatbelt, stuck door locks and the car wheels were spinning at 40 mph as the car teeters over a cliff with you unable to make a call to report your situation, then just maybe you'd have a point. Now, find me one case of that, and I'll concede.
You didn't see all the stuck accelerator news stories about the Toyata Prius a while back? :-)
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that radio jammers can't distinguish 911 calls.
That's probably true which is why this solution would have to be something more than a simple radio jammer. Turn the car into a faraday cage and then the only "tower" your phone sees is the repeater broadcasting in your car. Then the repeater allows/disallows calls based on vehicle state and destination number. I'm over simplifying things and talking out my ass here but there are solutions to do it right :-)
Just pull over, stop the car, and make the call. That's what I did in the "crash through the fence" incident I described.
Works great for that situation where you are in control of everything. However when you are in an accident and the car still thinks you are driving that could be a problem.
Even when my phone is locked I can press 9-1-1-Talk and get connected to help. Hopefully this technology would work in a similar fashion such that emergency calls were always allowed to go through. Imagine the liability law suit that would occur when someone died because they had an accident and the vehicle thought they were still in a "driving" situation and should be blocking the cell phone.
How will the TV shows be handled in countries other than the US. I live in the Netherlands. We will probably get the movies in the movie theaters. I doubt the TV series will broadcast here at the same time as in the US. Usually it takes months if not years for TV shows to appear on TV here. So most likely We will see movie #1, then a long wait of nothing, see movie #2, the first TV series may (or not) start airing here. Then we get movie #3 and then after a long wait .... TV series #2. Point: it will be all out of sync.
Just curious how that will be handled.
Just curious; if you go to nbc.com -> Watch Video do you see localized content (does NBC even exist in your market?) or do you see the same things I do or maybe nothing at all?
I dunno, it's pretty vague (most of the guidelines are).
Why say "media" if it only applies to music?
What does "access" mean? Open a stream to and then decode in your application? Or actually decode through the MediaPlayer framework (ie: no non-Apple supplied codecs).
Overall reading through those guidelines were a waste of time for me. Most of them were common sense and the rest were so vague and subjective (I think that was the intention though).
Alas, we'll now get to listen to him rant in court, too.
Only if your Ghost Lab option comes true... Oh and the court decides to start trying ghosts...
The gunman, identified as James Lee, was killed by police following four hours of negotiations but the hostages are all safe, said Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger.
The station's transmitter is located just outside Povarovo, Russia at (..., ...), which is about halfway between Zelenograd and Solnechnogorsk and 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Moscow, near the village of Lozhki. The location and callsign were unknown until the first voice broadcast of 1997.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76
No one believes it, and you're not making us think you have a big dick.
Also - not what I claimed. I claimed condoms break easily, and to be honest it doesn't really have much to do with the size - it's more about adequate lubrication for the full duration.
Oh so now you're not claiming you have a big dick but that you last forever. Your girlfriend must be impressed ;-)
Wouldn't it make sense to install traffic lights first? Seems like some order on the road rather than chaos would reduce the accident rate much more than ticketing speeders (who will likely just continue to speed). Either way there are commercial products available for this application. Sorry I have no links but in southern California red light cameras are all over the place. Our neighbors in Arizona also have "portable" speed cameras that they trailer to locations where speeding is an issue.
whoa. hold on there.
you're saying we have crappy GUI webapps, and the reason they are so crappy is because a designer (ie a non-coder) created them and not a programmer.
No, I said "web sites and applications that don't work like they should". The applications in question may be visually stunning but if they don't work reliably then what they look like is a moot point.
If there's one thing I know, its this: Never let a programmer create any form of GUI.
Comes back to my point about using the correct tool for the job. Either way I find an application that reliably performs its intended task but has a horrible UI much more valuable than an application that doesn't perform it's intended task but has a beautiful UI.
In an ideal world, we'd have design separate from the code
Agreed. Not familiar with Flash and it's tools but definitely seen improvement in this realm from Microsoft with WPF/Silverlight/XAML and the Visual Studio/Expression tools. It's far from perfect but definitely a step in the right direction from Winforms :-)
Wake me up when Microsoft comes up with a tool that allows non-coder graphic designers or animators to create entire apps in Silverlight with the same ease that you can with Flash.
The assumption that a non-coder can code an application (using any tool/language/whatever) is exactly why the web is littered with crappy web sites and applications that don't work like they should.
People have skills in particular areas and need to recognize that and know when to ask for help. For instance I have a knack for coding but not graphics/design. So when I'm coding up a new web application I go search for a template/designer/whatever I need to fill the gap in my skill set.
Have you ever seen a shell server compromised by a non-customer? You are talkling about your shitty little ISP experience, not some theoretical possibility, right?
Yes I have. Must be nice to live in a world where the only possibilities are the ones you believe.
Don't even try that shit. Your most prominent statement was the claim that you have observed that Linux servers were compromised more often than Windows server. You backed it with fallacies, spin and your experience that -- if it was true or relevant in the first place -- is in no way applicable for any comparison.
No my most prominent statement was "in my experience" and then I went on to convey that experience. Sorry my experience is that of the Linux/Windows servers I've had on the internet and the Linux servers being compromised more than my Windows servers. I know my personal real world experience is really upsetting you but I even gave very clear reasons as to why my experience was such. You want to ignore all that and pretend that I said "Windows is more secure than Linux" or "Windows is easier to maintain than Linux"
If you want to discuss your most idiotic (though less prominent) claim that one has to be "vigilant" to run Linux servers in a secure manner (as opposed to merely implementing well-known sane policies and apply updates when they are released), you are welcome to do it after renouncing your claims of having demonstrated it with your shitty experience running shell servers.
If you want to twist my words into something I didn't say then go right ahead. My point was that unless you are vigilant on security under ANY operating system then you will be less secure than someone else who is.
PS: "...to merely implementing well-known sane policies and apply updates when they are released..." is being vigilant about security. A home user that ignores updates is not being "vigilant" about security.