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  1. Re:Taking on the impossible on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well he is at least following it:
    https://www.schneier.com/blog/...

  2. All your files are belong to us on Firefox Send Lets You Share 1GB Files With No Strings Attached (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    According to their Terms of Service:

    By uploading content, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use your content in connection with the provision of the Services

  3. coerce /krs/
    verb
    persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats.

  4. Re:Quickly disable Face/Touch ID on FBI Forced Suspect To Unlock His iPhone X Through Face ID (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    For andriod Pie, hold power button, then click lockdown

  5. Why does an android emulator need to install a kernel module?

  6. Morpheus: We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky.

  7. Here is BuzzFeed article listing more information on how they arrived at their numbers
    https://www.buzzfeed.com/jsvin...

  8. Re:Ubuntu 16.04 on Linux Kernel 4.6 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Kernel Mainline. Use at your own risk.
    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kern...

    I would bet this will end up in the proposed soon and land in the official repositories in a few weeks. The LTS usually get new kernels as they are released, but you have to select the appropriate LTS kernel meta-packages.

  9. Re:This /. summary the most carefully proofread ev on Study Says People Who Continually Point Out Typos Are 'Jerks' · · Score: 1

    Depends on your feelings towards the oxford comma. I personally prefer the Walken comma:
    http://imgur.com/gallery/l4vGY...

  10. The linked ACLU article has some very large inaccuracies. While the "file system key" is indeed stored in "effaceable storage" and can be read out, it does no good. The key itself is encrypted with device specific data. Please see: http://www.darthnull.org/2014/... (this is for iOS 8, but similar to 9). Getting the encrypted key is fairly useless as only that specific cpu can decrypt it.

  11. Fuzzy Hashing, Extractors and Vaults on Unhashable: Why Fingerprints Are Weaker Security Than Passwords (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    This is an area that has seen quite a bit of research and there are ways to hash fingerprints. I little google searching led to Fuzzy Extractors which create a cryptographic key from biometric data and Fuzzy Vaults that store fingerprints in a secure way.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/tec...
    https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/0...

  12. Re:XEN PV mode is dead on Xen Patches 7-Year-Old Bug That Shattered Hypervisor Security (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That may be the case for cloud deployment. However, there are other very important areas that PVs are being used. For example: qubes, a security focused Linux distribution https://www.qubes-os.org/.

    In addition, there is actually a full spectrum between PV and HVM: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_P.... Very few use straight HVM, generally it is HVM + PV Drivers. Linux on Xen ends up using PVHVM. The sweet spot for Open Sources OS under Xen is PVH.

  13. I remember Netflix used to do this when a streamed video did not play correctly. When a movie wouldn't play the first time, or it dropped in the middle, I would get an email crediting my account for small amount. Of course, this was when they were just rolling out the streaming; now that they are established I don't receive these anymore.

  14. Re:No. Give the control to the users on AdBlock Plus To Introduce Independent Board To Oversee Acceptable Ads Program · · Score: 2

    I have had the privilege to block slashdot ads for ages. I never do.

    I used to do this too, until ads from Slashdot took up a full CPU and a third of my memory. I would love to support Slashdot ads, but they have to behave.

  15. Morgan Stanley Pleads Guilty? on Morgan Stanley Employee Pleads Guilty In Data Breach Case · · Score: 1

    I read "Morgan Stanley Pleads Guilty " and got hopeful they finally got prosecuted. I guess no such luck....

  16. Re:Why the 4th amendment no longer works on What Congress' New Email-privacy Bill Means For Your Inbox · · Score: 1

    Like Hillary did?

  17. Fake on An Epic View of the Moon In Earth's Orbital Embrace · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Proof we didn't go to the moon or Pluto. #nasafake

    Seriously, does anyone else think it looks really fake?

  18. Diversity in abram's Star Trek? on J.J. Abrams On "Star Wars" Cast's Racial and Sexual Diversity · · Score: 1

    Abrams took a historically progressive series and gutted its diversity. Changing khan to a white man and neither film come close to passing the bechdel test. It's sad how horribly he treated the core tenants of Star Trek. What make you think he will do anything different in Star Wars. He make films to sell to the masses.

  19. Re:Linux version? on Unreal Engine 4 Is Now Free · · Score: 1

    Yes. A quick google search indicates there are two ways to get running on linux:

    Cross-compile your game from the windows tools
    Natively compile all tools in linux.

    https://wiki.unrealengine.com/...

  20. Questable Testing procedures on Major Retailers Accused of Selling Fraudulent Herbal Supplements · · Score: 1

    Looks like they used some questionable testing procedures and the New York AG may be a little premature:

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/da...

  21. Florescent too! on FDA Wants To Release Millions of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In Florida · · Score: 1

    According to their website, the mosquitoes are also florescent!
    http://www.oxitec.com/oxitec-v...

  22. Re:Don't worry, they can only see inside the homes on Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes · · Score: 0

    RADAR: (RA)dio (D)etection (A)nd (R)anging

  23. Re:Sad, regrettable and probably inevitable. on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crashes · · Score: 3, Informative

    Spaceport America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceport_America) is one of these "space ports" in my area. While I don't think this was a good investment for the local governments, it is operational and launching rockets. Virgin Galactic is the main company but there are several others. This includes SpaceX who is doing testing here (Their main spaceport will be in Texas).