Van Eck's exploit was used in a pivotal part of the Cryptonomicon that was honestly kind of silly. (MILD SPOILERS) If an adversary can do screen mirroring while you're in a prison they control, it is probably a given that they are also using statistical analysis on the sound made by your keyboard keys and the voltage fluctuations on the plug you're using to power your computer. Or (here's a thought) they could just film you from every angle.
That's cute. What happens when you tap the Menu and look at "All Permissions" ?
Does it find all accounts on your phone? Linking you to any publicly available API data for any of those accounts, plus whatever non-public data Facebook managed to wheedle out of the organization (because, you know, "we're Facebook") Does it view Wi-Fi connections? Which they can cross-reference against anyone else who does have location enabled. Sure, maybe they don't have a GPS lock on you 24/7, but they can still tell where you went. Does it retrieve running apps? You know, to scope out the competition. Or to note down that you have $embarrassing_app running. Or whatever.
Okay, a slight exaggeration then. But there's little technical reason a 3 year old quad core phone with 2GB RAM and supporting OGLES 3 shouldn't receive OS updates, but is now stuck on 5.1.1.
Especially considering that the Nexus 5X has the same amount of RAM... and an Android N Preview image.
I am still waiting on the announcement (one way or the other) that Android N will run on the N5. Comparing the specs, I don't think there's all that much separating it from the N5X. Same RAM. The N5X has 6 CPU cores to 4 for the N5, but a lower clock cycle.
Thanks for being willing to engage with the crowd here. I have two questions about the keynote announcements (as they pertain to Android):
1. The system update doesn't require a password. Is this a security flaw? I'm assuming that your images are signed and that the handset verifies them, but this seems to me to be the exact vulnerability that the FBI tried to get Apple to exploit.
2. Android Instant Apps: What is their permissions behavior? Sure, it sounds cool that I can write some application, and people can visit it by clicking a link, but this sounds a little like remote-exploit central. Can I write an app that does location tracking and sound recording and disguise it as a cat video player or a short-link creator? I'm wary of other people running code on my phone (and all phones back to Jelly Bean) that I did not choose to install. Sure, that happens on web pages, but that's a little bit different.
Perhaps you couldn't charge each car for its "road time" without tracking it, but you could track time spent on the island by monitoring points of entry and exit and charging for the time period the vehicle spends on the island. It can even have variable rates depending on overall island congestion so that permanently garaged cars aren't charged as much for nighttime berthing.
Boehner could have extracted greater concessions from the 2010 debt ceiling fight by wasting a ton more taxpayer money to tinker with the cashflow of almost every federal employee
FTFY. The debt ceiling fight made a bunch of people with work to do stay home and temporarily not get paid, which is a squeeze on some of them in the short run. But the government eventually has to pay its employees their wages unless it wants to declare bankruptcy. So basically, a bunch of work doesn't get done on schedule, a bunch of money is spent paying people for not doing work while they were forced to take off, and all this happens to make a political point about not spending money on stupid shit.
That's some premium-grade irony right there, and Boehner knew it.
I am interested. The only communication I have received from Honda is that I need new airbags, but they are waiting on more inventory to arrive. I would really appreciate not wondering whether my wife is going to be perforated by flying plastic when she drives to and from work.
It was an experiment with ABS and taxi drivers. When they gave ABS systems to the test group, their driving became more aggressive to bring the overall risk of driving in line with their personal risk thresholds.
They're complaining that going from a stressful high school schedule straight to a stressful college schedule is bad, and students should take a break for a year... but now there's this organization who wants those students to have programming (in the generic non-computer sense) in that interstitial year and accredits the programming?
A bit of a leap to suggest that VR will be the Largest Enterprise ever. If it was available now I would not buy it, no real use. I don't play games and I want to get away from the virtual world more than get into it.
I think this is the largest Enterprise so far. We'll have to wait on the formation of Starfleet before we get much bigger.
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Van Eck's exploit was used in a pivotal part of the Cryptonomicon that was honestly kind of silly. (MILD SPOILERS) If an adversary can do screen mirroring while you're in a prison they control, it is probably a given that they are also using statistical analysis on the sound made by your keyboard keys and the voltage fluctuations on the plug you're using to power your computer. Or (here's a thought) they could just film you from every angle.
That's cute. What happens when you tap the Menu and look at "All Permissions" ?
Does it find all accounts on your phone? Linking you to any publicly available API data for any of those accounts, plus whatever non-public data Facebook managed to wheedle out of the organization (because, you know, "we're Facebook")
Does it view Wi-Fi connections? Which they can cross-reference against anyone else who does have location enabled. Sure, maybe they don't have a GPS lock on you 24/7, but they can still tell where you went.
Does it retrieve running apps? You know, to scope out the competition. Or to note down that you have $embarrassing_app running. Or whatever.
And I'd be surprised if it stopped there.
Okay, a slight exaggeration then. But there's little technical reason a 3 year old quad core phone with 2GB RAM and supporting OGLES 3 shouldn't receive OS updates, but is now stuck on 5.1.1.
Especially considering that the Nexus 5X has the same amount of RAM... and an Android N Preview image.
I'll jump on the call with you.
I am still waiting on the announcement (one way or the other) that Android N will run on the N5. Comparing the specs, I don't think there's all that much separating it from the N5X. Same RAM. The N5X has 6 CPU cores to 4 for the N5, but a lower clock cycle.
Thanks for being willing to engage with the crowd here. I have two questions about the keynote announcements (as they pertain to Android):
1. The system update doesn't require a password. Is this a security flaw? I'm assuming that your images are signed and that the handset verifies them, but this seems to me to be the exact vulnerability that the FBI tried to get Apple to exploit.
2. Android Instant Apps: What is their permissions behavior? Sure, it sounds cool that I can write some application, and people can visit it by clicking a link, but this sounds a little like remote-exploit central. Can I write an app that does location tracking and sound recording and disguise it as a cat video player or a short-link creator? I'm wary of other people running code on my phone (and all phones back to Jelly Bean) that I did not choose to install. Sure, that happens on web pages, but that's a little bit different.
I'm confident that 1.21 gigawatts would "corrupt your mind" in fairly short order.
"More" was one of his inputs and "Less" was the other.
Facebook does things to alienate their users all the time. The problem is that the users complain about it on Facebook instead of leaving.
Perhaps you couldn't charge each car for its "road time" without tracking it, but you could track time spent on the island by monitoring points of entry and exit and charging for the time period the vehicle spends on the island. It can even have variable rates depending on overall island congestion so that permanently garaged cars aren't charged as much for nighttime berthing.
Our first step in creating Jedi-killers---if they do not have the Force, the Jedi cannot detect them.
I jest, but I would not be surprised to discover that this is the actual plot of a crummy expanded universe novella.
There used to be a "book rate" that was subsidised for book shipping. It may have been discontinued.
They're opening themselves up to parenthetical injection! DROP SENTENCE WHERE 1=1) --
Frankly you deserve it.
Boehner could have extracted greater concessions from the 2010 debt ceiling fight by wasting a ton more taxpayer money to tinker with the cashflow of almost every federal employee
FTFY. The debt ceiling fight made a bunch of people with work to do stay home and temporarily not get paid, which is a squeeze on some of them in the short run. But the government eventually has to pay its employees their wages unless it wants to declare bankruptcy. So basically, a bunch of work doesn't get done on schedule, a bunch of money is spent paying people for not doing work while they were forced to take off, and all this happens to make a political point about not spending money on stupid shit.
That's some premium-grade irony right there, and Boehner knew it.
I am interested. The only communication I have received from Honda is that I need new airbags, but they are waiting on more inventory to arrive. I would really appreciate not wondering whether my wife is going to be perforated by flying plastic when she drives to and from work.
It was an experiment with ABS and taxi drivers. When they gave ABS systems to the test group, their driving became more aggressive to bring the overall risk of driving in line with their personal risk thresholds.
They're complaining that going from a stressful high school schedule straight to a stressful college schedule is bad, and students should take a break for a year... but now there's this organization who wants those students to have programming (in the generic non-computer sense) in that interstitial year and accredits the programming?
First they need to research Environmental Economics
Right, and searching your car should only require a warrant if it's locked in your garage.
I call it "Robopperazzi"
Do you pay them overtime?
omfg... THIS
You echo a complaint about "kids" with phrasing that puts you in their cohort: I can't tell if the irony is intended or accidental.
Pitch it to the Sunlight Foundation. I think they'd give you a grant and a lot of better-structured data to start with.
A bit of a leap to suggest that VR will be the Largest Enterprise ever. If it was available now I would not buy it, no real use. I don't play games and I want to get away from the virtual world more than get into it.
I think this is the largest Enterprise so far. We'll have to wait on the formation of Starfleet before we get much bigger.