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  1. 1-805-637-7243 Directly to Voice Mail on T-Mobile Website Allowed Hackers to Access Your Account Data With Just Your Phone Number (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "call 1-805-637-7243, otherwise known as the "Voice Mail Back Door number." When you hear the prompt, i.e. "Welcome to the T-Mobile
    messaging center. Please enter the 10-digit number of the person you
    are trying to reach," enter the number. You will then be connected
    directly with that person's voicemail. Press "1" to leave a message,
    leave your message and hang up." http://answers.google.com/answ...

  2. Nov 2001 howstuffworks.com threw up the idea of a 'penny per page' when visiting websites. http://computer.howstuffworks....

    Looks like that day is fast approaching. Washingtonpost.com blocks me as I use a hosts file or ADblocker browser on Cell, so I ignore/avoid them. A Payment Request API will allow them to now pull from a previously setup account. Once it starts, all will be looking at it.

  3. Re:Cost of these parts? on Intel's Just Launched 8th Gen 'Coffee Lake' Processors Bring the Heat To AMD's Ryzen · · Score: 1

    Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see the price of these guys. Any information out there? And what about the cost of motherboards?

    $500 looks to be the base https://www.newegg.com/Product...

  4. Re:Voices from the Hellmouth on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 1

    The Voices from the Hellmouth series seemed like one of the most important stories on /. as enabled the masses of readers to express their own experiences of being bullied or treated by others within school. It seemed to be one of the first articles about us rather than about some technology or company.

    Recall that this story was from back in '99, way before being in IT/computers was cool or mainstream.

    The Los Vegas shooting has me concerned. Now normal people well within the law can be targeted for undue surveillance, cause you never know...

  5. Re:Apple.slashdot.org on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 1

    My one and only accepted story submission turned out to be the launch article for apple.slashdot.org

    My little piece of Slashdot history .... otherwise, my comments have been consistently useless for 20 years now.

    LOL, I'm there as well. My one and only accepted story submission was of a local dam that was leaking, this dam was upstream of the Hanford Nuclear reservation.

    Now well meaning yet useless post are all I have.

  6. The best has always been on /. on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 1

    One of my favorite articles can be found here: DirecTV's Secret War On Hackers - https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
    I've used it in taglines and wherever I could pass it on, and get another chance now : )

  7. Works for the Medical field.

  8. Everybody is failing -Los Vegas shooting on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Swamped by trying to be relevant with rumors alone.

    CNN once reported the gunman fired so many bullets they set off the smoke detector which pin pointed his location. I never heard another report of the smoke detector.
    Searching it one gets 230K results today, down from 800K yesterday. las vegas shooting smoke detectors = https://www.washingtonpost.com...

  9. Re:How many times on Bill Gates Has An Android Phone. Has Microsoft Changed? (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    How many times will Microsoft try (and fail) to make a successful phone before they give up and admit that they suck at making phones?

    They've had about 10 different phone projects in the last few years and they've ALL failed miserably.

    Yet they still get $5+ for every cell phone sold https://www.howtogeek.com/1837...

  10. Re:We need to expand net neutrality on AT&T Seeks Supreme Court Review On Net Neutrality Rule (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What I get for punting. "Edge server" (as mentioned in Net Neutrality) has one result, so used robetx.com for help and a cit. Thanks for the correction.

  11. Re:We need to expand net neutrality on AT&T Seeks Supreme Court Review On Net Neutrality Rule (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    To all Cell towers - make all towers neutral infrastructure, true "unlimited", no slowing, no shaping, no tiers, no caps, no massive customer wallet raping.
    When a "speed" is sold, that speed is "absolute, rock-bottom minimum" 24x7x52 not "up to".
    Any signs of tampering by the ISPs or backbone carriers will ensue a minimum 50k fine

    I read the Net Neutrality paper rule when it was released. Edge servers can throttle network traffic. Better known as BGP's https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...

  12. Local Report of find on A Fourth Gravitational Wave Has Been Detected (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the three are here.

    "The gravitational waves were detected on Aug. 14, first at the Livingston, La., observatory. A few thousandths of a second later, they were detected at the Hanford LIGO and shortly after that at the Virgo observatory." http://www.tri-cityherald.com/...

     

  13. Re:Great Disturbance in the Force on A Fourth Gravitational Wave Has Been Detected (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How about, uh, the last 48 hours.

    Seriously guyz, to the extent that you're able to divulge, what the hell happened?

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/27/faulty_data_center_takes_out_sourceforge/

    Because we're glad you're back, but we really missed you.

    Yep, I missed /. I submitted theregister.co.uk article it was linked from their wikipedia entry :) Current status Broken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... citation led to the article.

  14. Re:That didn't take long on Apple Releases macOS High Sierra; Ex-NSA Hacker Publishes Zero-Day · · Score: 2

    It seems inevitable that security holes will be in modern systems. We can argue about the why, or how this system is better than that system. But there is seemingly no end to vulnerabilities simply because of the complexities of modern systems. Too many variables, and it only takes one hole in the fence for the raptors to get through.

    Equifax Argentina was hacked by using a very old UNIX method, Admin, Admin
    http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

    But I do agree with you. The way I see it now, nobody is safe from being hacked and this on a personal level. I've come to trust the users online on my system more than any other way. If more than one, well we'll see.

  15. Good reason to disable network for all apps and services you don't explicitly trust.

    When I play a game I'll put it in "Airplane Mode" which blocks all but the built in ADs. When I'm done I'll go into APPS and "force stop" the application before unselecting Airplane Mode. It's extra steps but gives me a feeling of being in control however so slightly.

  16. LineageOS https://forum.xda-developers.c... ? Google and Motorola phones were very good at allowing custom ROMs, till a TOS change.

    Alternately you want the ability to install and edit a HOSTS file.

  17. https://play.google.com/store/... came with a ROM for the Xoom and I've used it every since. It allows key combos like ctrl+C/V and doesn't spy one you.

  18. Your directed here https://adguard.com/en/privacy... from here https://adguard.com/en/privacy... me thinks they may be rewriting it.

  19. Re:Compatibility on Bill Gates Says He's Sorry About Control-Alt-Delete (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason they used that combo in the first place was for compatibility with legacy applications. In legacy Windows, CTRL+ALT+DEL was handled at a low level and could bring up task manager or restart the machine. Applications could not detect the keypress.

    The way they sold it for the NT was the key combo terminated any TSR's (an old DOS term for Terminate and Stay Resident). Only had 640K memory to use, any little bit helped.

  20. Could it just be related to creating and working with a custom ui on the steam website?

    Could be yet I treat them all the same.

    I installed steam on Win10 and it started with the system. Few programs get that honor and disabled with Autoruns, and now starts when I want it running.

  21. I show over 100K post, each a dead end search on Google, Bing, Yahoo Data Retention Doesn't Improve Search Quality, Study Claims (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    As they are being taken out of context. Many websites imported UseNet newsgroups, a popular one was one I frequented.
    Those would be best removed, yet none I regret; other than some of the websites they ended up at.

  22. Re:The requirement to own and renew a domain on Chrome To Force Domains Ending With Dev and Foo To HTTPS Via Preloaded HSTS (ttias.be) · · Score: 2

    The only reason you'd ever have to have a cert signed by a third party CA is if you want strangers to use your services and don't want to require them to install a special cert to do so.

    Or you wish to install programs win10 disallows https://stackoverflow.com/ques...

  23. Anybody have a problem with Wine being used? on 'Bashware' Attacks Exploit Windows 10's Subsystem for Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Under Windows 10 install Linux, load Linux and install Wine = Exploit. Video is now private, I can see why.

  24. Re:Congratulations, idiots on Equifax Says Almost 400,000 Britons Hit In Data Breach (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    By admitting to this, charges can be brought by UK under EU regulations for storing those details. Never mind the class action lawsuit wanting billions in reparation, now those with the power to levy their own fines and decide how large they can be can tear Equifax a new one so wide it can be used as an alternative to the Channel Tunnel.

    It's the way I see it. Europe actually have privacy laws they enforce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... "Controllers from outside the EU, processing data in the EU, will have to follow data protection regulation"

    I was actually glad to see Britons involved for the above reason alone.

  25. Forte Agent is my poison on The Only Safe Email is Text-Only Email (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    I POP3 my Email and Agent won't display HTML pages. I've used Agent since Win95 on, installing it once to D:\ and pulling shorcuts to it on every new install.

    I'm starting to get a lot of Base64 but a webpage and nothing I'd open anyhow, most have a text only entry tacked on to the end just in case.