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  1. Re:idiots on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    But that costs money

  2. Hey wait a minute on WikiLeaks Dump Reveals CIA Malware That Can Sabotage User Software (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... this raises the possibility that Windows might actually be a functional and performant piece of work, one that has been unfairly maligned over the years due to the CIA's actions!

  3. Re:My PC is safe it seems on Keylogger Found in Audio Driver of HP Laptops, Says Report (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You're doing it wrong, you need to quote the path there:

    $ ls -l "C:\windows\system32\mictray64.exe"
    ls: cannot access C:\windows\system32\mictray64.exe: No such file or directory

  4. No, it is not even fantasy to have a "destroy everything" password. Even a rookie investigator knows to make a copy first. If you provide self-destruct keys it'll be blatantly obvious.

  5. Not clever enough on AT&T Is Adding a Spam Filter For Phone Calls (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They should shadow-block them! If you block them it gives the spammers feedback that the number they're using is burned and they will cycle onward to more numbers. If you shadow-block them instead and hang up after a "typical" number of seconds it'll make it much harder for them to know if they've reached an actual person or are being spambinned.

  6. Re:After reading this, i started wondering... on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    > And seriously, who the hell is gonna hack your mobile phone?

    I really hope you're never put in charge of anything important.

  7. Can we can bring him out of retirement and put him back in charge?

  8. Re: Um on Thanks To Encryption, UK Efforts To Block Torrent Sites Are Pointless (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That doesn't seem right....the SNI is not encrypted. They can block based on SNI, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  9. Re:I've said it before, and I'll say it again: on L.A. Hospital Pays Off Ransomware Thieves To Reclaim Its Network (google.com) · · Score: 2
  10. So what are you going to do about the ones that don't demand an internet connection because they use the cell networks?

  11. Re:If a person doesn't already see this point.... on US Encryption Ban Would Only Send the Market Overseas (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    > What I believe is more effective at convincing them ...... The net effect is that the law enforcement has *more* work to do

    And therefore requires *more* funding and consequently usurps *more* power. Maybe this is not the most effective approach.

  12. Re:Something seems fishy on New Linux Trojan Can Spy on Users by Taking Screenshots and Recording Audio (drweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Where does it say that ccXXXXXX.exe is a windows binary?

    You can rename linux binaries to have a .exe prefix and they still run

  13. > Along with the ability of screenshot taking, the Trojan has the AbAudioCapture special class to record sound and save it with the name of aa-%d-%s.aat in the WAV format. However, in fact, this feature is not used anywhere.

    That's an entertaining thought but it looks like they didn't get it working at all

  14. Red Hat #2 on AT&T Chooses Ubuntu Linux Instead of Microsoft Windows (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Canonical will provide continued engineering support too.

    Looks like Canonical found its business model.

  15. Re:Beware of BlackBerry shills on Police Say They Can Crack BlackBerry PGP Encrypted Email (sophos.com) · · Score: 2

    Indeed. "We don't protect your privacy" is not a selling point in 2016.

  16. Re:Sounds Like You're Making a Classic Type III Er on Ask Slashdot: Best (or Better) Ways To Archive Email? · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you've made a Category 6C blunder by providing a solution to a different problem.

    Nobody has the time to sift through two decades of emails and pick out the important things. Even if they did, the custom database thing to put them in will definitely not be cross platform, necessitating keeping a copy of the original mess of mbox/tar/etc files around to dig through.

  17. Re:Seems pretty lame on In Kazakhstan, the Internet Backdoors You (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    No need to, it enforced itself. They simply MITM all TLS traffic, and then the peons have three choices:

    Choice 1) you install the certificate, your traffic is snooped

    Choice 2) you don't install the certificate, your browser throws up certificate warnings, you accept them, your traffic is snooped

    Choice 2) you don't install the certificate, your browser throws up certificate warnings, you don't accept them, no traffic to snoop

  18. Drumming up new business on Keep Two Bank Accounts To Beat Cyber Attacks, Says Bank of England Adviser (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    What does it cost for a bank account in the UK? Are they pursuing collecting two monthy fees from each consumer?

  19. What about consumers? on BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns (blackberry.com) · · Score: 1

    So privacy for business, but not for us plebs? http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

  20. Searches using Google run through HTTPS. So, how exactly is the ISP to record those searches?

  21. PCIe is great and all, but when are we going to get one of these that fits into a DIMM socket?

  22. Re:Biometrics is just silly on The Payments World Really Wants To Know Who You Are (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because the alternatives also have tolerances and can be defeated, and after risk managing it, it's cheaper

  23. Re:Yet another company that does not need to exist on Groupon Is Closing Operations In 7 Countries, Laying Off 1,100 · · Score: 1

    > Just how did a simplistic business like GroupOn ever come to have thousands of employees?

    For the same reason multi-level marketing companies persist, despite being a terrible deal. They keep finding businesses who buy into their marketing and take a big loss for a vague promise of increased future profits.

  24. Re:Meh on Apple's 16GB IPhone 6S Is a Serious Strategic Mistake · · Score: 2

    > Seriously I see a 16 gig class 10 card on alibaba for $1 in bulk

    Those are actually borderline useless 128MB microsd cards with the filesystem tweaked [1] to show up as 16 or 64GB

    [1] http://www.ebay.com/gds/All-Ab...

  25. Re:Windows update forcing me to 10 on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 0

    Why do you keep taking the abuse? Stockholm syndrome?

    It's free to switch to a less user hostile software system