Whilst I agree it is far-fetched, prior to bombs going off in Japan near the end of WW2, I doubt anyone in the public had any idea about the possibility of nuclear weaponry either.
The chances that the US have more advanced tech than we know about is pretty good.
If you're hitting duck duck go, then the link you click? And yeah lead pipe generally wins. Point being, even if you use SSL, the NSA can find the endpoint then they know quite specifically where/who to apply the lead pipe to.
Never heard of Pravda. However, point being: Don't trust ANY single source. News isn't news unless it is confirmed by multiple independent sources, preferably in different countries and on different sides of the political fence. Otherwise it's just spin. the 'facts' that can't be confirmed independently will shake themselves out as spin in alternate directions.
The US does just as bad as Russia does, it's just that your western media spin it differently. Read/watch Russian media as well and get both viewpoints. If you assume that "only the bad guys use propaganda" then you are kidding yourself.
Take what you hear through western media with a pinch of salt - I highly recommend reading/viewing RT as well as western media to get both perspectives. The different spin each side give the same story is interesting and you can bet the truth is maybe there somewhere in the middle.
HTTPS relies on the keys in use not being compromised or broken. It also doesn't do anything for detecting what sites you are looking at, it just encrypts the content. Logs can be subpoenaed from the host once they identify which sites you are hitting anyhow.
Errr.... are you saying that people should not use a browser that meets their needs, because other browsers they don't want will cease development? Write for web standards and IE10 supports it pretty well.
When IE6 came out, it was competing with Netscape 4. I don't think i need to elaborate too much on that, those who were around back then can confirm how not great netscape 4 was.
Thats the million dollar question (what is considered "Strong encryption"), and yes, I'm not suggesting it is easy. Merely that securing your endpoint software is not enough by a long shot.
Agreed with the above. For all the crap I've said about Windows 8, IE10 is actually an acceptable browser. It's not 1999 anymore kids, Microsoft really have pulled their finger out with IE in the last couple of years, and credit to them where credit is due.
When the backbone is compromised, you're pretty much fucked unless you run strong encryption everywhere and obfuscate who you are talking to. Irrespective of whether your browser is open source - if it doesn't do the above, you're boned.
... the snooping is done on your ISP's backbone, and the browser you use makes little difference. Government level snooping is a whole different kettle of fish to bad companies stealing info from you via tracking cookies.
If you target Windows XP and 7 you have over 90 percent of the market. On the Mac if you target the current and previous release, you have the vast majority of the market. still much less fragmented than android.
The Support Package includes static "support libraries" that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or that offer "utility" APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs. The goal is to simplify your development by offering more APIs that you can bundle with your application so you can worry less about platform versions.
Oh neat, i can have every app I install bloated to shit with half an OS worth of support libraries. Sounds like a winner idea to me!
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Whilst I agree it is far-fetched, prior to bombs going off in Japan near the end of WW2, I doubt anyone in the public had any idea about the possibility of nuclear weaponry either.
The chances that the US have more advanced tech than we know about is pretty good.
If you're hitting duck duck go, then the link you click? And yeah lead pipe generally wins. Point being, even if you use SSL, the NSA can find the endpoint then they know quite specifically where/who to apply the lead pipe to.
Uh... guantanamo bay? Aaron Schwartz? the Dotcom raid? Bradley Manning? Julian Assange?
Never heard of Pravda. However, point being: Don't trust ANY single source. News isn't news unless it is confirmed by multiple independent sources, preferably in different countries and on different sides of the political fence. Otherwise it's just spin. the 'facts' that can't be confirmed independently will shake themselves out as spin in alternate directions.
The US does just as bad as Russia does, it's just that your western media spin it differently. Read/watch Russian media as well and get both viewpoints. If you assume that "only the bad guys use propaganda" then you are kidding yourself.
Russia isn't the same old USSR any more.
Take what you hear through western media with a pinch of salt - I highly recommend reading/viewing RT as well as western media to get both perspectives. The different spin each side give the same story is interesting and you can bet the truth is maybe there somewhere in the middle.
HTTPS relies on the keys in use not being compromised or broken. It also doesn't do anything for detecting what sites you are looking at, it just encrypts the content. Logs can be subpoenaed from the host once they identify which sites you are hitting anyhow.
Errr.... are you saying that people should not use a browser that meets their needs, because other browsers they don't want will cease development? Write for web standards and IE10 supports it pretty well.
When IE6 came out, it was competing with Netscape 4. I don't think i need to elaborate too much on that, those who were around back then can confirm how not great netscape 4 was.
Thats the million dollar question (what is considered "Strong encryption"), and yes, I'm not suggesting it is easy. Merely that securing your endpoint software is not enough by a long shot.
If you think the NSA need your browser to phone home to identify you, you're in for a shock when you figure out how the NSA snooping really works.
You're still fucked.
Agreed with the above. For all the crap I've said about Windows 8, IE10 is actually an acceptable browser. It's not 1999 anymore kids, Microsoft really have pulled their finger out with IE in the last couple of years, and credit to them where credit is due.
When the backbone is compromised, you're pretty much fucked unless you run strong encryption everywhere and obfuscate who you are talking to. Irrespective of whether your browser is open source - if it doesn't do the above, you're boned.
land of the free, home of the brave, etc.
... the snooping is done on your ISP's backbone, and the browser you use makes little difference. Government level snooping is a whole different kettle of fish to bad companies stealing info from you via tracking cookies.
sacrifices may be required
If you target Windows XP and 7 you have over 90 percent of the market. On the Mac if you target the current and previous release, you have the vast majority of the market. still much less fragmented than android.
No, most of the people who buy android do so because they can get a cheap crappy handset. the share of high end android devices is pretty small.
Plus: it can also be used for android development.
Also much cheaper secondhand. a 2010 mini will run the latest mac OS and latest iOS development tools.
And... i've run the iOS simulator on a 2007 spec mac mini and it ran fine. iOS does not need a high level mac to develop for.
Or you could... you know... pick up a secondhand 2010 mac mini for about $200 and an iPod touch.
Oh neat, i can have every app I install bloated to shit with half an OS worth of support libraries. Sounds like a winner idea to me!
Oh you haven't seen anything new, it must not exist :)