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  1. Re:invite-only on Music Torrent Site What.CD Has Been Shut Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    > Why the hell should it be obvious?
    Ask many non-members, who knew it.

  2. Re:Legalize noncommercial infringement on Music Torrent Site What.CD Has Been Shut Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And this would stop, because ad driven sites would not have a chance, if everyone could host a site without much risk. What.cd was only big, because it is a risky business.

  3. Re:invite-only on Music Torrent Site What.CD Has Been Shut Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would the cop need an invite? Don't you think it's obvious what what.cd is? And if they don't find evidence, they can still return the server. A raid does not mean you have full evidence. If you had, you would not need to raid, but jail the owner right away.

  4. Re:I hope so on Music Torrent Site What.CD Has Been Shut Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not every raid is: People with big weapons come in and take your servers, while you piss yourself.

    Some are more like "Shut down your stuff, unplug it and box it for us, we need to have a closer look later.

  5. More than enough on Stephen Hawking: We Might Have 1,000 Years Left on Earth (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Who cares about what's in 1000 years? Seriously, we will see that much change until then. Maybe technology, maybe back to the stone age ... but nothing will be like today.

    And possibly we will all live in a computer and nobody cares about earth climate and similiar stuff.

  6. Re:If Debian were only main on Red Hat Announces Fedora Will Support MP3 Playback (fedoraproject.org) · · Score: 1

    yeah, but non-free is still mostly patent free. And free of other serious violations. You still don't get libdvdcss without debian multimedia.
    Non-Free is more like "Licence says it's okay to distribute it, but we only put in main what's free", while debian multimedia and others are like "if they would sue, we would need to stop this, let's see how long we can provide this repo".

  7. Be careful, what you say on Microsoft Says Windows 10 Version 1607 is The Most Secure Windows Ever (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    Be careful, what you say.

    MS said XP is the best windows ever. Then nobody wanted any further windows, because everyone already had the best windows ever.
    When this win 10 build is the most secure ever, you should never upgrade after you got it, if you want to be secure.

  8. erm ... debian is the most careful project with copyrights and software patents. If something looks like it might have seen something which was in contact with proprietary code, they will not accept it.

  9. Even my debian has mp3 playback.

  10. Re: pick one: convenience, privacy on Fake Fingerprint Stickers Let You Access a Protected Phone While Wearing Gloves (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Because IT IS by obscurity. The hardware is a black box, which i need to trust, while i have very little reason to do so.

    You have two options:
    - Make it secure in software. Everyone can verify this. Example: Key-Stretching, which is implemented in software still slows down brute-force attacks very good.
    - Make it secure in hardware (example: apple secure enclave). It can be secure, you can publish the specs openly. But the actual part in my iphone is a black box. I do not know, if it matches a given spec. And when somebody finds out, that the spec isn't secure, i cannot "just update" it.

    Okay, there is another factor, that apple may publish their crypto, but only runs signed binaries, which means that even their software-crypto can only be checked by reverse engineering and not by building the crucial parts from source.

    Related: Never trust a "self encrypting hard disk". Too much which can be insecure, too little trust. Use a safe software encryption.

  11. Re: pick one: convenience, privacy on Fake Fingerprint Stickers Let You Access a Protected Phone While Wearing Gloves (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is a black box to you, but very transparent to apple.

  12. Those stickers sound useful, as they are the only safe way (when available without gloves) to use a fingerprint scanner. You leave your fingerprint everywhere and cannot change it. So it's useless as pass code. But you can buy new stickers, if you want to change your "fingerprint" login.

  13. Easy solution on Google Hits Back at EU Claim Over Android Abuses (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Easy solution: If the bundling really has technical reasons, they should just allow unbundling for every company, which gets the playstore to work without the other apps without sueing them. Ooops, alterantive ROMs already do this with their inofficial gapps-packages.

  14. The important difference is ... on Telco CEO: Consumers Have 'Double Standards' Over Data Privacy (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The important difference is ... the free decision.

    I can post my full CV here, if i want it. And i still expect slashdot not to publish my mail address.
    Just because *I* decide to publish one thing, that doesn't mean OTHERS may decide to publish other (in their opinion less important) things about me.

    It's MY data. So i can do whatever i want with it. You cannot.

  15. Airgap the PCs used for chess. Don't communicate online about your strategies (OTOH, if you're the best chess player, you can talk about your success strategy and others still won't beat you. Skill is not about having an unique secret.)

  16. Re: The NSA on Nvidia Adds Telemetry To Latest Drivers (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    Such Bullshit. Low IDs are getting as much modded as everyone else.

  17. Re:And why is it fake? on Teenagers In Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites To Earn Money (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    And why is a website fake, just because it uses "content generation" to attract people? You're mislead, if you think modern websites care about their users and that they get the best content. They care about their advertisers and that they get the best users. A social network isn't interested in getting you networked, it's interested in serving you ads. Some news sites declared in court, that news are their vehicle to get users to see ads.
    There are very little idealist sites, which have a mission. Most just want money. And then it's the same if macedonian or american people host a website with pro trump content. Both just want money by having a website for a popular topic.

  18. And why is it fake? on Teenagers In Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites To Earn Money (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    Most of the web works this way nowadays. Just have a look at sites like buzzfeed. 20 Facts about fake sites you didn't know, no. 13 is a fake itself!
    There is no interest in the content, there is interest in users clicking ads. That's why the basically fuck with users, deploy malw^W anti-adblock scripts, spy on the user and so on instead of just providing good content.

  19. So i can use it to pirate netflix? on New Software Remembers Everything Your Computer Has Ever Displayed (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess it isn't such an photographic memory, but more an index, isn't it? So it may remember the netflix url, but when netflix is gone, the movie is gone as well.

  20. Nobody expects the french inquisition.

  21. Because MS could never transfer such data in the encrypted connection, which is used to pull updates. Never.

  22. Just use a default route, which doesn't route to the internet.
    Then install a proxy on a device in the LAN, which has correct internet access.
    Next configure single programs to use the proxy on the LAN-device.

    MS will start reading your firefox' settings to detect proxysettings for working internet access. Skype already does (on linux at least).

  23. Counterfeit money on Meet VoCore2 Lite, a $4 Coin-Sized, Open Source Linux Computer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    There is no such thing like a $4 coin.

  24. Re:Use Android, root and XPrivacy on Serious Hacks Possible Through Inaudible Ultrasound (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    i see some stockholm syndrome.
    Keep your iphone and think you're secure. I do not see how to help you, if you don't want to accept help.

  25. Re:Use Android, root and XPrivacy on Serious Hacks Possible Through Inaudible Ultrasound (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Jup, so first replace your iphone with an android phone. The time where the apple rights system was superior are gone with android 6.0 anyway and stuff like XPrivacy and AFWall are effective in controlling all your apps (even system apps, if you dare).