I can the standards, but some users will use wanna-be browsers developed by people who can't read standards. There's one called IE6 that's quite popular.
The issue with laptops is that bateries tend to get very hot while charging. Specially on laptops that already build up a lot of heat themselves. It's the heat that degrades bateries. So while having it plugged in all the time should be a good thing, the heat can make it a bad thing.
"Any encryption that requires key exchanges to set up the encryption is vulnerable[...]"
As you yourself said: shared keys are a way ISPs can't intercept an encrypted connection. I don't think SSH can be man-in-the-middled if I already have the public key of the server beforehand either. I don't think my ISP can man-in-the-middle my connections to my own XMPP server.
Browsers/IM packages are signed. Saying the ISP modified the ISO of the OS when I downloaded it is just being paranoid.
The point is: it's posible to protect yourself from having the ISP reading your messages quite easily. It's not through facebook.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. OpenSSH, the OpenBSD kernel, and other extremely secure pieces of software are written in C, and are extremely safe. All the securest pieces of software I can think about, are in C or C++.
Flash is unstable and insecure because Adobe is lazy and doesn't care about fixing it (it is too incompetet to do so), and doesn't die just because people and websites keep using it.
Since Google has many "archenemies" (microsoft, facebook, etc), mozilla con just "suggest" to them that they use this technology. I belive there's a greater chance of them adopting it than gmail. Or maybe not.
How would they access these logs without decrypting your disk? If hey had access to the logs, they'd have no need for your key: they already have access.
It really depends on your system. I use full hard drive encryption, when I enter my password, a 1MB partition is unlocked. That partiton contains a list of all the other partitions and their keys. I can create an alternate partition, with an alternate password, and a small script that deletes small sections of the first partition making it irrecoverable.
When I boot my PC, and type in a password, it will attempt to continue booting from either of these both these micro-partitions. If I used the second password, I'd make all the information irrecoverable. Of course, this does mean that I actually DESTROYED evidence.
This isn't a bug in HTML5 per se, but rather in the browser's implementation. The browsers shouldn't fail to re-download if the last attempt was interrupted; it should behave as it would if this were a normal website, or image.
Not for *any type of communication*, but rather, just for one where you're using broken/vulnerable encryption protocols. I don't think it's posible (with current technology), for my ISP to monitor my XMPP or email traffic.
Your point is only valid if you use a third-party email provider. You can avoid this if you don't trust any in particular with your email, and use GPG for encryption if you email someone that uses an untrusted provider.
Your ISP does not see the information you transmit if it's encrypted, or email, chat, etc. Facebook CAN see the messages you send, even if your communication to and from facebook is encrypted.
In Argentina, I did an IT internship for a moderatly ok salary for 25hours a week, being an almost-equal to my coworkers. Doctors do a mandatory 3 year residency, with way over 100 hours a week (sometimes doing ~24h guards), with no pay, ever.
EFL != qt/gtk. There's millon more applications using the latter, that can be simply re-compiled to work on maemo. There's also many more developers that know the latter.
Why do people insist on the browser opening PDFs? Use a browser to browse. Use a PDF viewer to view PDFs. Simple. Don't bloat browsers pretending to have the BROWSERS replace desktop applications.
I agree. Why do we need sandboxes for a format that's just to dislpay text+images? Oh, right, Adobe added javascript and stuff like that, and they're the only ones (that I know of) that support it. I've *never* in my life come across a PDF that lightweight viewers could not display, and I'm sure they're 100% safe, since they, don't run any JS, etc.
Regrettably, LibreOffice is targeted strongly towards MS Office users, and dumps former OO users. Every day, LO tries to imitate more and more MSO behaviours, dumping OO users without caring..
Clear exampes is the *inability* to open PPS files in edit mode. You need to *rename* files in order to open them in edition mode, which is a clear MSO behaviour as I came to learn. This means that if they're in my email or dvd, I need to copy to disk, rename, and then open, when previouly, it was just openable as it was. Also, the menus are very MSO-like, for example, having preferences in the tools menu. I had to google why it was missing to find the preferences menu in LO. Being that I never used MSO, and previouly used OO, I find using LO harder and harder every day, and feel sort of betray. All these bugs *have* been reported, and where closed as DONTCAREABOUTOOUSERS.
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I can the standards, but some users will use wanna-be browsers developed by people who can't read standards. There's one called IE6 that's quite popular.
The issue with laptops is that bateries tend to get very hot while charging. Specially on laptops that already build up a lot of heat themselves. It's the heat that degrades bateries. So while having it plugged in all the time should be a good thing, the heat can make it a bad thing.
"Any encryption that requires key exchanges to set up the encryption is vulnerable[...]"
As you yourself said: shared keys are a way ISPs can't intercept an encrypted connection. I don't think SSH can be man-in-the-middled if I already have the public key of the server beforehand either.
I don't think my ISP can man-in-the-middle my connections to my own XMPP server.
Browsers/IM packages are signed. Saying the ISP modified the ISO of the OS when I downloaded it is just being paranoid.
The point is: it's posible to protect yourself from having the ISP reading your messages quite easily. It's not through facebook.
Why is this downvoted? There's a very valid point being made here: flash needs to be dropped once and for all.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
OpenSSH, the OpenBSD kernel, and other extremely secure pieces of software are written in C, and are extremely safe. All the securest pieces of software I can think about, are in C or C++.
Flash is unstable and insecure because Adobe is lazy and doesn't care about fixing it (it is too incompetet to do so), and doesn't die just because people and websites keep using it.
Or libnotify on *nix. Most *nixapps use this to show standardized notifications, and mozilla just caught up the last year or so.
Which are the other standards for web push tecnologies?
Since Google has many "archenemies" (microsoft, facebook, etc), mozilla con just "suggest" to them that they use this technology. I belive there's a greater chance of them adopting it than gmail.
Or maybe not.
Why would you have the container in some sort of media that stores access/write times?
How would they access these logs without decrypting your disk? If hey had access to the logs, they'd have no need for your key: they already have access.
It really depends on your system. I use full hard drive encryption, when I enter my password, a 1MB partition is unlocked. That partiton contains a list of all the other partitions and their keys.
I can create an alternate partition, with an alternate password, and a small script that deletes small sections of the first partition making it irrecoverable.
When I boot my PC, and type in a password, it will attempt to continue booting from either of these both these micro-partitions. If I used the second password, I'd make all the information irrecoverable.
Of course, this does mean that I actually DESTROYED evidence.
This isn't a bug in HTML5 per se, but rather in the browser's implementation. The browsers shouldn't fail to re-download if the last attempt was interrupted; it should behave as it would if this were a normal website, or image.
I'm not saying "don't use", I'm say "IF you don't use it".
You can also use applications, like minitube and stuff as well. No flash involved.
Not for *any type of communication*, but rather, just for one where you're using broken/vulnerable encryption protocols. I don't think it's posible (with current technology), for my ISP to monitor my XMPP or email traffic.
Your point is only valid if you use a third-party email provider. You can avoid this if you don't trust any in particular with your email, and use GPG for encryption if you email someone that uses an untrusted provider.
Your ISP does not see the information you transmit if it's encrypted, or email, chat, etc.
Facebook CAN see the messages you send, even if your communication to and from facebook is encrypted.
In Argentina, I did an IT internship for a moderatly ok salary for 25hours a week, being an almost-equal to my coworkers.
Doctors do a mandatory 3 year residency, with way over 100 hours a week (sometimes doing ~24h guards), with no pay, ever.
It must suck to work in IT wherever you live.
EFL != qt/gtk.
There's millon more applications using the latter, that can be simply re-compiled to work on maemo.
There's also many more developers that know the latter.
Facebook needs to sell ads, and credits for those silly flash games people pay for.
To do this in the EU, they need to comply with EU law.
Why do people insist on the browser opening PDFs?
Use a browser to browse.
Use a PDF viewer to view PDFs.
Simple. Don't bloat browsers pretending to have the BROWSERS replace desktop applications.
Not using flash is far safer, and isn't needed unless your workplace *forces* you to use flash, or you use youtube too much.
I agree. Why do we need sandboxes for a format that's just to dislpay text+images?
Oh, right, Adobe added javascript and stuff like that, and they're the only ones (that I know of) that support it.
I've *never* in my life come across a PDF that lightweight viewers could not display, and I'm sure they're 100% safe, since they, don't run any JS, etc.
Offsite employee? Lots of huge companies have lots of work-at-home employees. (I've work for a mayor software company that prefered this).
Regrettably, LibreOffice is targeted strongly towards MS Office users, and dumps former OO users.
Every day, LO tries to imitate more and more MSO behaviours, dumping OO users without caring..
Clear exampes is the *inability* to open PPS files in edit mode. You need to *rename* files in order to open them in edition mode, which is a clear MSO behaviour as I came to learn. This means that if they're in my email or dvd, I need to copy to disk, rename, and then open, when previouly, it was just openable as it was. Also, the menus are very MSO-like, for example, having preferences in the tools menu. I had to google why it was missing to find the preferences menu in LO. Being that I never used MSO, and previouly used OO, I find using LO harder and harder every day, and feel sort of betray. All these bugs *have* been reported, and where closed as DONTCAREABOUTOOUSERS.