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  1. Don't use IE on Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install · · Score: 3, Informative

    It seems from the MSDN link this can be avoided by simply not using Internet Explorer, as if you needed another reason not to

  2. Now we get a proper iPlayer app on Adobe Officially Kills New Flash Installations On Android · · Score: 1

    I don't welcome this. I've backed it up to my SD card

    One good thing, however, is that the BBC will have to make an iPlayer app

    "But there's already an iPlayer app!"

    No there isn't. It's just a shortcut to open the browser to BBC iPlayer's site

  3. Re:I don't believe it on DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It · · Score: 1

    But, Unlike Android (when enabled), it doesn't prompt for the key before booting the OS, so it's only partly encrypted. Yes the OS is mounted read only on iOS (as on Android by default) jailbreaking changes this, as does rooting, but you can't if it's fully encrypted

  4. Re:I don't believe it on DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Unlike Android (when enabled), it doesn't prompt for the key before booting the OS, so it's only partly encrypted. Yes the OS is mounted read only on iOS (as on Android by default) jailbreaking changes this, as does rooting, but you can't if it's fully encrypted

  5. Android is still more secure on DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It · · Score: 1

    I hate to be that Android fanboy, but Android has full OS encryption, which is much harder to crack

  6. No exploit on FTC Reportedly Fining Google $22.5 Million Over Safari Privacy Abuse · · Score: 1

    Form what I remember, safari blocks third party cookies by default. Google used a trick to make it accept them that didn't really 'exploit' the software, as it was not really a bug. It's Apple's fault for having a browser with that flaw! You are responsible for code running on your computer. You cannot force a computer to accept a cookie! And sending cookies is not a crime!

  7. Dvorak! on Is It Time To End Our Love Affair With the QWERTY Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Dvorak has been around for years!

  8. Android had it first! on Apple Forces Google To Degrade Android Features · · Score: 1

    I'm sure iOS only got that with Siri, but Android has had it form 1.0!

  9. Haven't they heard of redsn0w on Apple Releases IOS Security Guide · · Score: 1

    Each step of the boot-up process contains components that are cryptographically signed by Apple to ensure integrity, and proceeds only after verifying the chain of trust. This includes the bootloaders, kernel, kernel extensions, and baseband firmware.

    Haven't they heard of redsn01? (although A5 devices are more secure)

  10. SettingsPrivacyAccept Cookies on UK "No Tracking Law" Now In Effect · · Score: 1

    If you care enough to lobby the government, you care nough to be able to find out how to disable cookies on your browser. Do I have to inform users that Apache saves logs?

  11. Sounds Familiar on Microsoft Blocks 3d-Party Browsers In Windows RT, Says Mozilla Counsel · · Score: 1

    It must be like owning an iPad! Also, surely it can only block known browsers

  12. I think the latest issue will be too on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking' · · Score: 1

    I live in the UK and am subscribed. I received it, back in February. It's about penetration testing, not cr/hacking, but the title is sensationalised. The latest issue says 'beat the CIA' and is about security and encryption

  13. Re:Online banking uses outdated crypto on German Court Rules That Clients Responsible For Phishing Losses · · Score: 1

    Many banks in England, like mine, Barclays, use a device that looks like a calculator with a card slot to give you a 1-time password after entering your pin on it

  14. Encryption? on FBI Tries To Force Google To Unlock User's Android Phone · · Score: 1

    So is it encrypted? If not, I'm sure the techies can work around it without Google's help. If it is, then Google can't help anyway

  15. They need a better system on Have Online Comment Sections Become Specious? · · Score: 2

    They only work if you have a vote-based, threaded commenting systems like on here, but the best example is on reddit. Then you can see the best comments easily and reply

  16. Deny that you're a member on Why Making Facebook Private Won't Protect You · · Score: 1

    Say you're not on Facebook. Hide yourself from search, or deactivate your account temporarily

  17. Re:Linux Format is good on Ask Slashdot: Does Europe Have Better Magazines Than the US? · · Score: 1

    PS. it comes with a disc but I only use it as a live CD if I cba to burn a new ubuntu one. All the software on it is free

  18. Linux Format is good on Ask Slashdot: Does Europe Have Better Magazines Than the US? · · Score: 1

    I live in the UK and read Linux Format and the Linux Magazine. Future publishing also do a Mac format and loads on windows obviously

  19. Re:I just live on the edge on Package Signing Comes To Pacman and Arch Linux · · Score: 1

    Next thing I'll be running everything as root! Then I'll be as cool as him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwhq1t7bNt8

  20. I just live on the edge on Package Signing Comes To Pacman and Arch Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    I feel like such a fearless badman for running arch linux before the packages were signed

  21. Finally the product placement stops on Kodak Failing, But Camera Phones Not To Blame · · Score: 1

    Now finally they can stop ruining music videos, and even songs themselves, with their desperate product placement! Now we just need mini to go bankrupt too

  22. Isn't that illegal? on Fujitsu To Develop Vigilante Computer Virus For Japan · · Score: 1

    So it's a self replicating anti-virus that involuntarily heals computers to protect others? Sounds good, but isn't gaining unauthorised access to a computer illegal (At least in the UK and US)? And you'd have to trust the vendor. Maybe the government would give the vendor legal immunity, but then paranoid conspiracy theorists (eg. RMS) would go crazy, and they might have a point for once

  23. Path Dependence on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1
  24. Finally! on How the Year Looked On Slashdot · · Score: 1

    ...A website that runs on GMT, so I can tell when a comment is posted in my local time zone (Britain)!

  25. Re:Lies! on Running Great Britain? There's an App For That! · · Score: 1

    I'm imagining a nuclear weapon control app based on angry birds. Just pull back, and nuke your enemies! Or a strategic military commanding software designed like tower defense