This doesn't negate the fact that this was their favorite vulnerability. Realistically most intelligence services probably new about this shortly after that commit.
How so was it their "favorite vulnerability"? Is there even a shread of evidence linking them with it? Exploits exist in code - we found a big bad one - great. Many white hats will have looked at the code and not noticed the flaw. That doesn't mean the NSA were using it. I'm not for a moment saying the NSA wouldn't use a similar exploit but there's nothing special about Heartbleed.
OR it should just be impossible to do in the first place. There is absolutely no viable use case for the IMIE code to be on writeable memory. I can see why OEM's are reluctant to burn the ID to a ROM chip. On the massive scale of phone production it's going to push their costs up and slow the production chain but for crying out loud manufactures shouldn't even need to be told to do this.
/still feeling bitter from being robbed at knife point of my phone last year.
Absolutely. You just made my point for me. The problem shall be now a lot of the media will now present this as a milestone to easing public anger over what the public knows. By now the NSA and GCHQ will know the files Snowden has through investigation (police greeting David Miranda with Terrorism laws at Heathrow to make copies of his HDD must have helped) so here comes the game of cat and mouse; possibly until Congress freaks out.
Most schools do this and workplaces, my university in the UK included does as well (hoping that banking sites are whitelisted is probably wishful thinking). I'd be very surprised if you are actually able to get your school to change it's practices in the long run.
In the store. Google made some changes to Webkit a while back to improve Adblock, before Adblock used to still have to download the ads, then block them. Some changes Google made allowed the ads to be blocked before the ads were fetched.
No. It's currently providing free health care to everyone who is within the NHS's remits. The quality of care however is being degraded, for ideological reasons. That is the issue. I'm going to make the assumption, you're not a UK resident (well frankly it's obvious). An ageing population is a minor factor, nothing more. The simple fact is funding has been reduced, and is nowhere near in line with the rate of inflation. Therefore, more is being expected with less capital. Which has created a massive strain on the system. The political will for a proper, well resourced, nationalised health service no longer exists unfortunately.
The NHS is currently underfunded, just now the government in charge would love to abolish the NHS purely for ideological reasons. Since the global recession, politics in the UK has been fought over the issues of, public spending cuts, cost of living, the welfare state, immigration; the NHS has been shunned to the side and because of this has allowed funding to minimized. A (phony) promise was made by the government back in 2009 to protect NHS spending, an increase in spending was in fact claimed but the truth is polarising.
It's privatisation in the back door, under fund it, make it under perform, all of a sudden privatisation becomes an easy argument to make.
Google just need the data which users give away when using Android. All those searches, GPS data, emails, whatever else users are subconsciously giving away so Google can turn every user in to a product to sell to advertisers. As mobile becomes more and more prominent, Google is going to have to have rely more on Android to bring in revenue. Any plans which could negatively effect their market share is completely out of the question.
One day Android will lose its market share and it'll be the first sign in the fall of Google ad business.
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC is selling them. Their profits, believe or not, go right back in to the BBC! Why don't we just start giving away DVD's of the Top Gear while we are at too?
Is there anything real terrorists didn't know before that they know now? It is in the public domain the laws like The Patriot Act means the American government can go to Google and ask for the emails from whatever account they want. Of course they are going be using services out with America and her allies control.
All these leaks have shown is the general public is the real enemy of the state.
No, I know that. It was more to do with the AC comments about Linux gaming through OtherOS being advertised. Which was virtually impossible due to no access to the graphics card and cores being locked down on the CPU.
Really? I never knew it was advertised but I remember trying it out and being instantly bitterly disappointed at how slow it ran. Ridiculous considering the hardware. Then finding out how much was locked away it suddenly made sense.
Any source?
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Holy crap you have to actually compile it yourself! What is the world coming to? You mean hacking isn’t just plugging stuff together?
OK the thing has problems, that’s news. But if compiling is considered hard, well, it’s hard to see you as a nerd.
RTFA. The patches are a mess, don't compile cleanly and the wireless driver is missing. Rendering it an expensive paperweight.
This doesn't negate the fact that this was their favorite vulnerability. Realistically most intelligence services probably new about this shortly after that commit.
How so was it their "favorite vulnerability"? Is there even a shread of evidence linking them with it? Exploits exist in code - we found a big bad one - great. Many white hats will have looked at the code and not noticed the flaw. That doesn't mean the NSA were using it. I'm not for a moment saying the NSA wouldn't use a similar exploit but there's nothing special about Heartbleed.
We all love a bit of conspiracy but it was not intentionally malicious. Simple mistake by some professor.
Maybe the relationship is over and Mercedes is feeling a little bitter?
OR it should just be impossible to do in the first place. There is absolutely no viable use case for the IMIE code to be on writeable memory. I can see why OEM's are reluctant to burn the ID to a ROM chip. On the massive scale of phone production it's going to push their costs up and slow the production chain but for crying out loud manufactures shouldn't even need to be told to do this.
/still feeling bitter from being robbed at knife point of my phone last year.
Mozilla do Google the favour, not the other way around.
NOTHING to do with Canonical at all. Yay for the let's all hate Canonical bandwagon.
Absolutely. You just made my point for me. The problem shall be now a lot of the media will now present this as a milestone to easing public anger over what the public knows. By now the NSA and GCHQ will know the files Snowden has through investigation (police greeting David Miranda with Terrorism laws at Heathrow to make copies of his HDD must have helped) so here comes the game of cat and mouse; possibly until Congress freaks out.
It's the comedy that doesn't stop giving!
Most schools do this and workplaces, my university in the UK included does as well (hoping that banking sites are whitelisted is probably wishful thinking). I'd be very surprised if you are actually able to get your school to change it's practices in the long run.
ChromeOS, GPU acceleration always! Same hardware and drivers but not horribly tied to the Google Cloud? Nope.
Ensuring stability with their own certified hardware to looking at the whole entire Linux ecosystem is like comparing a mouse to an elephant.
Haha, there is certainly no empire left, and while I'd like to put the last nail in the coffin with independence, the point still stands.
Find a global map where the UK isn't enlarged. Land mass doesn't translate to economic power and in turn power in the world.
The whole of the UK is enlarged on almost every map and thus is not in scale with the rest of Europe. My main point though is, who the hell cares?
"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee."
Not cool BBC, not cool.
All fun and games till your forced to hand over the SSL key and then all that encryption is pointless.
This is due to Chrome's webrequest extension API: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/webRequest.html
Thank you for this! Was looking for a reference to it.
In the store. Google made some changes to Webkit a while back to improve Adblock, before Adblock used to still have to download the ads, then block them. Some changes Google made allowed the ads to be blocked before the ads were fetched.
No. It's currently providing free health care to everyone who is within the NHS's remits. The quality of care however is being degraded, for ideological reasons. That is the issue. I'm going to make the assumption, you're not a UK resident (well frankly it's obvious). An ageing population is a minor factor, nothing more. The simple fact is funding has been reduced, and is nowhere near in line with the rate of inflation. Therefore, more is being expected with less capital. Which has created a massive strain on the system. The political will for a proper, well resourced, nationalised health service no longer exists unfortunately.
From what I have heard, UK has been getting a flood of immigrants who want nothing more than to live on the UK's generous welfare system.
The non-productive immigrants are totally draining the system.
I challenge you to find a source for that, I dare you. No, wait, I double dare you! Ironically, immigrants subsides benefits for the rest of the rest of the UK. http://niesr.ac.uk/blog/migrants-benefits-and-public-services-what-does-new-research-evidence-tell-us
The NHS is currently underfunded, just now the government in charge would love to abolish the NHS purely for ideological reasons. Since the global recession, politics in the UK has been fought over the issues of, public spending cuts, cost of living, the welfare state, immigration; the NHS has been shunned to the side and because of this has allowed funding to minimized. A (phony) promise was made by the government back in 2009 to protect NHS spending, an increase in spending was in fact claimed but the truth is polarising.
It's privatisation in the back door, under fund it, make it under perform, all of a sudden privatisation becomes an easy argument to make.
Google just need the data which users give away when using Android. All those searches, GPS data, emails, whatever else users are subconsciously giving away so Google can turn every user in to a product to sell to advertisers. As mobile becomes more and more prominent, Google is going to have to have rely more on Android to bring in revenue. Any plans which could negatively effect their market share is completely out of the question.
One day Android will lose its market share and it'll be the first sign in the fall of Google ad business.
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC is selling them. Their profits, believe or not, go right back in to the BBC! Why don't we just start giving away DVD's of the Top Gear while we are at too?
Is there anything real terrorists didn't know before that they know now? It is in the public domain the laws like The Patriot Act means the American government can go to Google and ask for the emails from whatever account they want. Of course they are going be using services out with America and her allies control. All these leaks have shown is the general public is the real enemy of the state.
No, I know that. It was more to do with the AC comments about Linux gaming through OtherOS being advertised. Which was virtually impossible due to no access to the graphics card and cores being locked down on the CPU.
Really? I never knew it was advertised but I remember trying it out and being instantly bitterly disappointed at how slow it ran. Ridiculous considering the hardware. Then finding out how much was locked away it suddenly made sense. Any source?