You guys do realize that the NSC is actually a council, not an agency? In other words, a forum - they sit around and talk and advise the President. The ones who do the snooping are the NSA.
I've had a few different folks who worked on GPS over the years try to explain how it worked and it never made sense to me until just now. Maybe it's just because I drank a margarita but that explanation seemed particularly lucid. Thanks!
Agreed; they make it sound like such a hardship and yet they can't even point to a single instance of a criminal ever actually doing this (plus they name an easy fix in the first few paragraphs of the article). Gee, guys, think how hard it must have been for investigators before iPhones, when they had to actually look for physical evidence and talk to complaining witnesses in order to document crimes.
yeah that sounds like BS to me, I'd like to hear an explanation too. The magnetic explanations people have posted above are far more consistent with what I've heard about data recovery from wiped disks, which all involved hardware -- I've never heard of recovery through software alone, and it doesn't seem plausible. A hex editor would obviously be able to "undelete" data that had been "deleted" in the normal way, but I can't see how it would get to data that had been nulled.
I actually RTFAd, and there's no evidence whatsoever in the article of criminals actually, you know, doing this sort of thing. It's a forensics expert saying that this cell phone feature "could be exploited by lawbreakers." Gee. And he even says it's not a big problem if it actually ever does happen as it's easily countered by any forensics shop: "He added the unit took precautions to guard against the feature being exploited. 'Because we isolate the devices immediately, and never reconnect them to their network, the remote wiping capability does not present us with much of a problem,' he noted." The whole story is pretty empty, a little bit of whining about how new technology is making their jobs tougher, but that's about it.... Welcome to the 21st century.
should be easy for google to do coz all they have to do to get that going is adapt their OS X version to the version that the iPhone uses... oh wait....
It seems to me that one of the rules established in Wheaton v. Peters (1834) would cover this -- Supreme Court opinions are public property, not privately owned and therefore not subject to copyright. Why would laws be different?
I didn't see this information in any earlier post; surely there is a better mod for this message? Then again, it might have been in the article; of course, I didn't read that.
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No Nobel prize for you, Jack! We don't give awards for attempted chemistry, do we? Or punish people for attempted murder! Wait a minute...
A DMCA take-down notice contains a sword statement
En garde!
Perhaps Google could just send some money directly to me.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see this happen, but I'm not sure google would conclude that there's a lot in it for them to do this.
D'oh!
I'll go hand in my Discordian card now.
You guys do realize that the NSC is actually a council, not an agency? In other words, a forum - they sit around and talk and advise the President. The ones who do the snooping are the NSA.
I've had a few different folks who worked on GPS over the years try to explain how it worked and it never made sense to me until just now. Maybe it's just because I drank a margarita but that explanation seemed particularly lucid. Thanks!
Didn't mean to be pedantic, but I don't think there's anything "sad" about paying attention to the meaning of words. But your mileage may vary.
That's an ironic sort of comment.
Ironic does not mean "incorrect."
Well, it's not reparations, but this guy is working on a suit that will set precedents for intergalactic commerce.
Nah, hell is definitely a subdomain of .gov
Apple's was the first (and only, so far) to become a cultural phenomenon
What about the Zune!? Oh, wait...
The proper acronym is VPILF. That may be hard to pronounce now, but it's just a heartbeat away from PILF!
At that point, distribution will take care of itself, though there may be some fallout afterwards. But at least people will see your video....
overtaken by koreans and 13 year old boys
But I thought that in Korea, only old people played MMOs?
Agreed; they make it sound like such a hardship and yet they can't even point to a single instance of a criminal ever actually doing this (plus they name an easy fix in the first few paragraphs of the article). Gee, guys, think how hard it must have been for investigators before iPhones, when they had to actually look for physical evidence and talk to complaining witnesses in order to document crimes.
so a wipe will do nothing to hide things from your company.
Plus it might seem just a little suspicious when you call the admin and ask them to wipe your machine.
Send me a PIN message at 244EB7DA if you need a hand.
I would, but I just wiped all my data and deleted the PIN...
yeah that sounds like BS to me, I'd like to hear an explanation too. The magnetic explanations people have posted above are far more consistent with what I've heard about data recovery from wiped disks, which all involved hardware -- I've never heard of recovery through software alone, and it doesn't seem plausible. A hex editor would obviously be able to "undelete" data that had been "deleted" in the normal way, but I can't see how it would get to data that had been nulled.
I actually RTFAd, and there's no evidence whatsoever in the article of criminals actually, you know, doing this sort of thing. It's a forensics expert saying that this cell phone feature "could be exploited by lawbreakers." Gee. And he even says it's not a big problem if it actually ever does happen as it's easily countered by any forensics shop: "He added the unit took precautions to guard against the feature being exploited. 'Because we isolate the devices immediately, and never reconnect them to their network, the remote wiping capability does not present us with much of a problem,' he noted." The whole story is pretty empty, a little bit of whining about how new technology is making their jobs tougher, but that's about it.... Welcome to the 21st century.
So, in other words, his comment actually conveyed the precise opposite of "irony."
How ironic.
should be easy for google to do coz all they have to do to get that going is adapt their OS X version to the version that the iPhone uses... oh wait....
It seems to me that one of the rules established in Wheaton v. Peters (1834) would cover this -- Supreme Court opinions are public property, not privately owned and therefore not subject to copyright. Why would laws be different?
the summary does warn that they would be "uncomfortable niggles."
I didn't see this information in any earlier post; surely there is a better mod for this message? Then again, it might have been in the article; of course, I didn't read that.
And one of the Japanese guys turns to the guy who came up to them and says "But we are Buddhists!"