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  1. Re:i know i wasn't supposed to read TFA, but... on Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe schools don't pay 200 bucks per device.

    Google has a lease plan for these devices, which means no cost upfront and when one breaks they'll send you a new one.

  2. A most see talk from a couple of years ago on Revealed: What Info the FBI Can Collect With a National Security Letter · · Score: 1
  3. Re: Wait, what? on Rikers Inmates Learn How To Code Without Internet Access (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    All I want to know is if they get a year added to their prison sentence every time they trigger an illegal instruction.

  4. I wish the US would just stop supporting Israel as much as they do.

    But it is useless wishful thinking, because supposedly the Israel lobby is the strongest lobby in the US.

    Here is a documentary from 2007 which talks about this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  5. Re:It killed the wall wart cash cows. on What USB Has Replaced (And What it Hasn't) (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It has nothing to do with Android, it was the EU that did that:

    http://www.engadget.com/2014/0...

    And thus Apple will need to do the same by 2017 ?:

    http://www.geek.com/apple/appl...

  6. Re:FF still leaking? on Mozilla Is Removing Tab Groups and Complete Themes From Firefox (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    No. But I believe some addons can still cause problems, even most of those have been fixed.

  7. Re:If the effort required is too much on Mozilla Is Removing Tab Groups and Complete Themes From Firefox (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    They tried that with other projects nobody came.

    My guess is they are trying to change a bunch of stuff and it is a lot work to transition this over as well.

  8. "proper isolation between tabs"

    That's easy, because for a long long time they tried to transition to it without breaking to many addons and converting some addons.

    There is probably no browser where addons is used as much as with Firefox.

  9. This might be useful only if I could bring my own compiler and could keep the resulting binary and I could install that myself on the hardware (never going to happen).

    Even than, the Cisco products includes hardware with sophisticated packet processing capabilities they could just built it into that.

    Maybe they should first find a way to ship the product in such a way that it can't be tampered with.

  10. Re:30 million lines of code?! on How Cisco Is Trying To Prove It Can Keep NSA Spies Out of Its Gear (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you add enough protocols you'll eventually get there ?

  11. Re:Another example on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 1

    OK.

    But the real question is:
    without 9/11 would the war in Iraq have happened ?

    Because this why I created my comment:
    "Without 9/11 there would probably be no Islamic State"

    I'm not from the US, I don't live in the US. So I wonder if the mindset and believes of the people in the US was such that this lead to the war in Iraq.

  12. Re:Artists, musicians, etc on Apple CEO Tim Cook: "Microsoft Surface Book Tries Too Hard To Do Too Much" (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Soon the same might apply to mobile devices.

    The mobile devices may need attachments or other accessories.

    So far the convergence that people talk about hasn't happened yet though.

    Almost starting to wonder if it will. Even though it seems to be the natural progression.

  13. Re:Another example on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 0

    Maybe I'm wrong but I think you got that backwards.

    Here is my take:

    Islamic State would not exist without the war in Iraq and without al-Qaeda.

    al-Qaeda would not exists without the US training the people in Afghanistan during the conflict with the Russians during the cold war.

    9/11 wouldn't have happened without al-Qaeda.

    So the harder question remains: would the war in Iraq have existed without 9/11 ?

    Wasn't it the torture by the CIA where the claims came from that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction ?

    Would that torture have happened without 9/11 ? Maybe not.

    Anyway, the conclusion in my mind is: it was the cold war where this all all got started.

  14. Re:Go to bars to drink on BadBarcode Attack Forces Host System To Carry Out Commands (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, they used to work like keyboards.

    I don't know if they still do.

    But I remember a talk at a CCC conference in Germany where they took a sixpack of beer and put a different barcode on the bottom (the reason the sixpack is a good target is because it's heavier so cashier doesn't look at the bottom). The barcode instead of adding to the bill did the exact opposite: subtracted from the bill the same amount.

    But to make these kinds of hack work at your local supermarket you first need to know at least a little bit about what systems they use and how the system work.

  15. Re:Artists, musicians, etc on Apple CEO Tim Cook: "Microsoft Surface Book Tries Too Hard To Do Too Much" (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I know this sounds a bit like Clippy but:

    You seem to be talking about Moore's Law, would you like some help with that ?

  16. Re:Internet on China, Russia Try To Hack Australia's Upcoming Submarine Plans · · Score: 1

    Then why don't they use Linux ?

    Linux works just fine.

    It doesn't need to talk to the outside world.

    All it needs for updates is mirror it can contact. The mirror could be internal, getting it's packages from the Internet, logged, etc.

  17. Re:Turnabout is Fair Play on How California Police Are Tracking Your Biometric Data In the Field (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    Then it's time for a new one, run as a Tor hidden service in an other country or something along those lines.

  18. Re:This is only going to become more common on How California Police Are Tracking Your Biometric Data In the Field (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    "People know what a car does and what it is capable of without having to understand how it works..."

    Not for much longer though.

    Really, I think most people were surprised a Tesla could drive on it's own and change lanes on it's own and Tesla will be able to do much more in the future.

    The hardware is already included (although I suspect they want to add more hardware in the next models to make it more capable).

  19. Re:No on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    You are right, the NSA probably already have legal access Amazon:
    https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_...
    https://media.ccc.de/v/27c3-42...

  20. Re:Make a law, you numbnuts on EU Parliament: Citizens' Rights Still Endangered By Mass Surveillance · · Score: 2

    The people that came from countries like Syria actually came to Europe to flee extremism (and war and no jobs and no safety, etc.).

  21. Re:Don't have anything for them to find on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft caved. The architecture of Skype changed when Microsoft bought the company, it's no longer p2p. They are really helpful with providing access to data of former Hotmail.

    But a much bigger problem is the rules in the US (at least for us foreigners, I'm in Europe, they'll probably get the data of the people in the US too):
    https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_...

    The rules talks about remote compute, so my guess is it applies to: VPS, 'Cloud computing'/IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and all those kinds of services.

    My problem is not with my data, I know where my data is and if it's encrypted. I put it there.
    The problem is with companies that have data about me: insurance companies, banks, telecom providers and the 3rd parties they deal with. I do not directly control where they keep my data.

  22. Re:Not really open source on Atom 1.1 Is Out, With Lots of Graphic Improvements (blog.atom.io) · · Score: 1

    My mistake.

  23. So the article says it's 750 keys.

    Why do they have a decryption service ?

    Why do we need to upload files ? Which could be a privacy problem, annoying when dealing with large numbers of files or large files.

    Why not publish the keys ?

    And maybe make a small program to make it easier to decrypts files.

  24. Re:Not really open source on Atom 1.1 Is Out, With Lots of Graphic Improvements (blog.atom.io) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seems your information from 2014 is not relevant any more, supposedly they open sourced all of it in May this year:

    http://blog.atom.io/2014/05/06...

  25. Re:Key Exchange on Fewer IPsec Connections At Risk From Weak Diffie-Hellman (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know why you'd say that applies to IPSEC VPNs:

    - Create your own CA.
    - generate the public/private key on each VPN device/machine
    - send the CSR (public key) to your own CA
    - then create certs for each CSR (a certificate is public key signed by CA)
    - put the CA cert on each VPN device/machine
    - put the certs on each VPN device/machine

    Where is the problem ?