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  1. Re:How hard is it to find emails? on FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton's Email Server (go.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    And it turns out they "forgot" to add a couple of important keywords that has revealed that a shocking 33% of her secret communications as Secretary of State have been with various members of Nigerian royalty concerning what appear to be corrupt transactions, possibly even money laundering.

  2. Re:does not replace mount on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    The next step will be replacing mount /dev/sdc1 /media/udisk with the new improved systemd command systemctl mount /media/udisk systemd.mount.uuid=CBB6-24F2 (arguments reversed just to be annoying, and made more complex because you should be using GUI tools for that, or just accept the default behavior you meddling fool).

  3. Re:When the only tool you have is a hammer... on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1
    ... everything starts looking like a thumb.

    FTFY.

  4. Re:In before... on IPv6 Achieves 50% Reach On Major US Carriers (worldipv6launch.org) · · Score: 2

    it might finally stop enterprise IT teams and programmers from using IP addresses to access everything

    It doesn't help when enterprise IT teams come up with DNS naming conventions that cryptically encode all the info about an asset into the name, and then apply that naming policy not only to desktops and laptops, but the servers that everyone needs to access, and steadfastly refuse to acknowledge the existence of CNAME records. The IP address is the easiest thing to remember where I work (there are only two 3 digit prefixes to remember for the two sites I deal with day to day, and the servers are all on low 4th digits, though the printers get higher numbers for some reason).

  5. Re:Cool... I guess?? on Mozilla To Add Screenshot Sharing Feature To Firefox Test Pilot Program (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    How is this better than the prtscn button?

    It is easier to remotely exploit via JavaScript.

  6. Re:Cool... I guess?? on Mozilla To Add Screenshot Sharing Feature To Firefox Test Pilot Program (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure there are other neat use cases of interest to the phishing community.

  7. Or to use a real example, like Apple Records suing Apple Computers for trademark infringement, and coming to a settlement that involves both sides agreeing that they will stay out of each others markets (except this agreement didn't happen in Oracle vs Google, the court ruled instead that it was fair use), then at a later stage Apple Computers completely owning the Music business, and ... the court ruled in Apple Computer's favor.

    Trademark is not copyright though, and it isn't really right to use a trademark analogy for a copyright dispute.

  8. Re:I thought Intel already had an ARM license on Intel To Manufacture Rival ARM Chips In Mobile Push · · Score: 1

    a dusty old thing from buying some smaller firm something like 8 years ago.

    It was more than 8 years ago that Intel bought StrongARM and renamed the next generation to XScale. They sold it 10 years ago to Marvell. Because Intel's own architecture was about to wipe ARM off the map ... they finally gave up on that plan earlier this year, so it makes sense for them to now have a renewed interest in ARM.

  9. Then after the case ends, the music industry discovers that half way through the trial you started selling 'format shifting services' commercially...

    Bad analogy. The case here is more like "the music industry discovers that half way through the trial you started format shifting to vinyl as well as CD".

    The court ruled that your format shifting from cassette to CD was fair use, and it being vinyl now doesn't really change the fair use aspect of that.

  10. Re:variety on Wrong Chemical Dumped Into Olympic Pools Made Them Green (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lake Hillier is red; now all we need to do is find some way to transport weird microbes from Australia to Brazil

    Wouldn't it be cheaper just to move the diving board to the shallow end?

  11. Re:Those 15% of independents... on Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Hillary Clinton could be beaten severely by any random republican except Donald Trump

    ...and Ted Cruz, Ben Carlson, Carly Fiorina, Rick Santorum... the Republicans had no shortage of unelectable candidates this time around, which is why Trump managed to float to the top.

  12. Re:How is this a breach of terms? on LinkedIn Suffers Huge Bot Attack That Steals Members' Personal Data (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 2

    You know you can just skip that step...just like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and a bunch of others that ask for access to your contact list just so they can spam them.

  13. Re:Wow - the original article is poorly written. on Myths Persist About Running Public Wi-Fi in the UK (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are no actual requirements. Just a bunch of companies claiming that there are, and by the way, they can sell you a package that takes care of all their claimed requirements for a nice premium over the price of the router and bandwidth you need to provide the actual service, and collect your users' data for their own marketing purposes (ie, for sale to spammers) to boot.

  14. Re:He didn't "build" anything on Online Fame Distracts 9th-Grader Who Built That Clock Mistaken For A Bomb (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    If what you say is true, it is quite concerning that his father had such confidence that such actions would spark a racially motivated incident.

  15. Re:No Sharing Allowed on Galaxy Note 7 Iris Scanner Explained (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    Or you set your car's Bluetooth as a trusted device, so your phone stays unlocked in the car.

  16. The results reveal that young adults aged between 20 and 24 and born in the 1990s were more than twice as likely to report that they had had no sexual partners since the age of 18 than young adults of the same age born in the 1960s.

    Well, they obviously lying about their age, so chances are they are less than truthful about their sex lives as well.

  17. Re:Why aren't they getting sued? on Mr. Robot 'Plugs' uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Speak for yourself. I'm only half a dangerous criminal, and only when I'm not taking my meds.

  18. Re:Why aren't they getting sued? on Mr. Robot 'Plugs' uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    At least it makes me feel less guilty about my method of watching the series.

  19. There were at least two distinct exploits, and the second one was still exploitable after the first quick patches (hence the last "more quick patches" in my list)

  20. Re:And yet... on Android Stagefright Bug Required 115 Patches, Millions Still At Risk (eweek.com) · · Score: 2, Informative
    The 115 is an alarmist figure. I've looked through some of the patches, and it seems what happened was:
    1. Quick patch to MMS to mitigate the attack vector that was publicized
    2. Quick patch to Stagefright library to avoid the vulnerability
    3. Many patches to Stagefright to redesign the handling of media files completely
    4. More quick patches to various components as more vectors to the original stagefright exploit were found

    So only a handful of the patches are needed to avoid the exploits. The rest are general cleanup and redesign in response to the problems triggering a rethink about how to handle media from unknown sources.

  21. Are you sure that the vulnerability is not still there? The bulk of the problems were in the media parsing libraries. MMS was just the publicized vector by which the vulnerabilities could be exploited remotely. It doesn't mean there weren't other vectors, especially when you start factoring in third party applications which most likely use the same libraries.

  22. Re:They don't make disasters like they used to on The Chip Card Transition In the US Has Been a Disaster (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It hides the marketing information from us, while sending it to Apple instead. And they don't have as good a track record on handling it appropriately as we do, and never will.

    Let's get real here. No company has a good track record on handling personal data appropriately. Appropriately means forgetting it immediately. The relevant data for marketing is how well your products are selling to an anonymized audience. If you can't gather that info because "Apple Pay", then you are doing something wrong.

  23. Re:What's the big problem? on The Chip Card Transition In the US Has Been a Disaster (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The NFC is in the same chip as the contact smartcard these days. My bank requested me to change my card "for security reasons" just recently. I was shocked when they gave me a contactless card, and the first transaction I made came up "No signature required". Security reasons indeed (not that the signature is ever checked). This card is semi-transparent, and if you hold it up to the light, there is nothing visible - everything (including somehow the NFC antenna) is contained within the contact area of the card.

  24. Re:The answer to malvertising on Malvertising Campaign Infected Thousands of Users Per Day For More Than a Year (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a bit like saying the answer to rape is condoms. Don't look down on the victims who weren't geek enough to know about Ad blockers.

  25. Re:The answer to malvertising on Malvertising Campaign Infected Thousands of Users Per Day For More Than a Year (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't work because they use the "common carrier" defense, as there is no law making them responsible. That is why we need such a law, so that they cannot wash their hands of this and pass the buck to anonymous criminals outside the reach of countries with effective legal systems.