With the "calculators" they give you here in Belgium, it's not an option.
Except for the initial login, everything you do in your online banking requires you to type in both the amountof the transaction AND a challenge in the calculator, and the challenge is specific to the transaction. The responses is then calculated using both the amount and the challenge
At most, your attack would allow you to get in my online banking once, not to take anything.
Perhaps your carrier removed it from the rom that came out with your device, but mine didn't remove it on my HTC desire, neither did they remove it on my samsung galaxy Ace, or my samsung galaxy tab.
they also make the Nexus line of Google's official phones.
What's odd is that HTC's early phones are all unlocked.
Samsung didn't make the nexus One, HTC did...
The G1 and Eris are both easily hacked, with one-click root apps being openly available on the Android market, and ROM flashing as simple as a reboot.
None of previous HTC phones were "open", except for the dev phones. The G1 was locked, and was only rootable through exploits. It's been that way since HTC delivered its first windows mobile phones years ago.
The facts that those exploits were relatively easy to find did not make the phones "open".
The bootloader signing is only the latest weapon in HTC arsenal, and one that's much harder to defeat, hence the outcry.
If torrent links had been made available on the website, then I'm pretty sure someone who got there before it got slashdotted would have copied them here, allowing slashdotters to discover his music, which is not possible while the website is down
Well, right now, his website is apparently down, so it seems he made the wrong choice?
If he had put up bittorent/ed2k/... links instead of hosting the files himself, he might have avoided death by slashdot.
Your post has nothing to do with what I was saying, but anyway...
You think nothing's wrong with your setup, but you're saying it doesn't work like it does for most people... Think again?
Your ISP might throttle you, maybe you tried torrents with few sources?
Using usenet for downloading is like pulling a truck trailer with a moped. It works, but it was not meant for it. There are tons of protocols made for downloading large binaries, and NNTP is not one of them. (sfv files? Really?)
If it's given for free, then it's better if you get it from a torrent. That way, you don't use (potentially) expensive bandwidth that the artist has to pay.
Cheap content distribution is what p2p is made for.
First of all, it's in euros, not dollars. Big difference.
And then it's only if you are also with them for your cable internet(if you're not it's 50 euros), you're stuck with them for 2 years, only one person in the household may subscribe to the plan.
Also, their "unlimited Internet" is capped at 500mb, their "unlimited voice plan" is capped at 99 different number a month, and the 3G speed is capped at 300kb/s.
Amazing unlimited plan, right?
Right, because most of the money spent on the military ends up defending me... Sure.
I mean, my country is currently engaged in wars in three countries, none of which were started to defend it
And let's not even start talking about the US military spending...
So the only country that matters is the US, and the only part of that country that's important is texas?
Most civilized countries have outlawed death sentences.
Thankfully, I don't live in a country that has the death penalty.
And our daily lives are made possible by the pooling of ressources. I don't have kids, and yet some of my taxes go to school districts.
My neightboor doesn't have a car, and yet some of his taxes pay for the roads I use.
I'm not sick, and yet some of my taxes go to someone who is.
Right now I have a job, and some of my taxes go to someone who doesn't. And when i didn't have a job, that guy was probably paying for my appartment.
That's called living in a community.
Your community happens to have around 300 million members, and mine around 60. Why should your community be reduced to your few friends and family?
So, getting cancer, getting in a car accident where you're not responsible, or getting alzheimer is being careless?
I mean, Why do we support prisonners? Why shouldn't we just kill them? After all, they are sucking up ressources, right?
And yet socialised health care works for many countries...
I've owned a galaxy tab for 5 month now, I know what a tablet can do.
Data entry on a tablet is painful.
A small laptop, or a netbook with the same battery time as an Ipad is MUCH more suited to typing...
Last year, I was at a convention, and some poor woman was tasked with entering attendees emails in an Ipad. Holding the ipad while typing meant typing with a single finger... Really nice, right?
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With the "calculators" they give you here in Belgium, it's not an option.
Except for the initial login, everything you do in your online banking requires you to type in both the amountof the transaction AND a challenge in the calculator, and the challenge is specific to the transaction. The responses is then calculated using both the amount and the challenge
At most, your attack would allow you to get in my online banking once, not to take anything.
Signable bootloader come as a "feature" on most modern chips. It's then up to the phone manufacturer to decide wether they want to sign theirs.
Perhaps your carrier removed it from the rom that came out with your device, but mine didn't remove it on my HTC desire, neither did they remove it on my samsung galaxy Ace, or my samsung galaxy tab.
they also make the Nexus line of Google's official phones.
What's odd is that HTC's early phones are all unlocked.
Samsung didn't make the nexus One, HTC did...
The G1 and Eris are both easily hacked, with one-click root apps being openly available on the Android market, and ROM flashing as simple as a reboot.
None of previous HTC phones were "open", except for the dev phones. The G1 was locked, and was only rootable through exploits. It's been that way since HTC delivered its first windows mobile phones years ago.
The facts that those exploits were relatively easy to find did not make the phones "open".
The bootloader signing is only the latest weapon in HTC arsenal, and one that's much harder to defeat, hence the outcry.
Wifi tethering does not require root on recent android devices.
If torrent links had been made available on the website, then I'm pretty sure someone who got there before it got slashdotted would have copied them here, allowing slashdotters to discover his music, which is not possible while the website is down
Well, right now, his website is apparently down, so it seems he made the wrong choice?
If he had put up bittorent/ed2k/... links instead of hosting the files himself, he might have avoided death by slashdot.
Your post has nothing to do with what I was saying, but anyway...
You think nothing's wrong with your setup, but you're saying it doesn't work like it does for most people... Think again?
Your ISP might throttle you, maybe you tried torrents with few sources?
Using usenet for downloading is like pulling a truck trailer with a moped. It works, but it was not meant for it. There are tons of protocols made for downloading large binaries, and NNTP is not one of them. (sfv files? Really?)
If it's given for free, then it's better if you get it from a torrent. That way, you don't use (potentially) expensive bandwidth that the artist has to pay. Cheap content distribution is what p2p is made for.
Right now, 24 euros is about 34 dollars, not the other way around...
First of all, it's in euros, not dollars. Big difference. And then it's only if you are also with them for your cable internet(if you're not it's 50 euros), you're stuck with them for 2 years, only one person in the household may subscribe to the plan. Also, their "unlimited Internet" is capped at 500mb, their "unlimited voice plan" is capped at 99 different number a month, and the 3G speed is capped at 300kb/s. Amazing unlimited plan, right?
Except in this case the number needs to stay valid, otherwise you can't receive a text later on if you want to log in to facebook elsewhere.
Killing without trial is not justice. Even the nazi war criminals got the Nuremberg trial.
People use their feet to code in Morse while being a few days away from death all the time? In what world?
Right, because most of the money spent on the military ends up defending me... Sure.
I mean, my country is currently engaged in wars in three countries, none of which were started to defend it
And let's not even start talking about the US military spending...
In this thread of a conversation on a US centric discussion forum...yes
And here I was, thinking that /. was accessible and used by most of the world...
For some reason, I'd rather save on the money spent on the military than on the money spent on health.
So the only country that matters is the US, and the only part of that country that's important is texas?
Most civilized countries have outlawed death sentences.
{{Citation needed}} for every single one of your points...
Thankfully, I don't live in a country that has the death penalty.
And our daily lives are made possible by the pooling of ressources. I don't have kids, and yet some of my taxes go to school districts.
My neightboor doesn't have a car, and yet some of his taxes pay for the roads I use.
I'm not sick, and yet some of my taxes go to someone who is.
Right now I have a job, and some of my taxes go to someone who doesn't. And when i didn't have a job, that guy was probably paying for my appartment. That's called living in a community.
Your community happens to have around 300 million members, and mine around 60. Why should your community be reduced to your few friends and family?
So, getting cancer, getting in a car accident where you're not responsible, or getting alzheimer is being careless? I mean, Why do we support prisonners? Why shouldn't we just kill them? After all, they are sucking up ressources, right? And yet socialised health care works for many countries...
"You really can't afford that chemotherapy... Too bad, you die!!"
I've owned a galaxy tab for 5 month now, I know what a tablet can do. Data entry on a tablet is painful. A small laptop, or a netbook with the same battery time as an Ipad is MUCH more suited to typing... Last year, I was at a convention, and some poor woman was tasked with entering attendees emails in an Ipad. Holding the ipad while typing meant typing with a single finger... Really nice, right?
What "work" do you do on an Ipad? Watching movies on Itunes?
How fortunate you are to have the only democracy in the world...