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  1. Re:They need to give him a JOB on A 15-Year-Old Convinced Verizon He Was the Head of the CIA (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    He is a hero in the sense he pointed out major flaws in how Verizon handles security and in how the CIA director handles security (iCloud, really?). All companies and governments (can) learn big lessons from this that is worth as much as sending 10000 people to a security course.

  2. Time to sell my old music cassettes on A Global Shortage of Magnetic Tape Leaves Cassette Fans Reeling (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Recently moved and carried a full box of tapes to me new house. Wondered what to do with it. Send me your offers now!

  3. 18 months for being naughty? on Prison Time For Manager Who Hacked Ex-Employer's FTP Server, Email Account (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    Did he cause any damage except make a company feel bad the hard way for having bad security policy?

  4. Use PGP/GPG on White House Officials Tricked By Email Prankster (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    PGP was introduced in 1991. Now it's 2017 and we still don't know how to make sure we are talking to the person we think we are talking to. *weep*

  5. Re:Yes - Wrong Genes means Wrong Health Issues on Can Parents Sue If Their Kid Is Born With the 'Wrong' DNA? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The man and woman in the story might have potential unknown health issues as well. Maybe the kid will now grow up to be healthier than if the man's sperm was used. You don't know it.

  6. Re:Email tie-in on Verizon.net 'Gets Out Of The Email Business' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Get your own domain, create an email address, setup your own server (if you're a nerd) or else just redirect it to whatever webmail you're using these days.

  7. Re:What the fuck on Unpatched Magento Zero Day Leaves 200,000 Merchants Vulnerable (threatpost.com) · · Score: 2

    You're trolling, but ok... RTFS:

    ...the commercial version of the platform, but warns both share the same underlying vulnerable code...

    So even if you pay, you have the same problem.

  8. Centralization on Cloudflare Doesn't Want To Become the 'Piracy Police' (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    There should not be just one company doing the whole internet's caching. Make it an easy target for censoring loving types.

  9. Privacy costs too on People Think Smart Home Tech is Too Expensive (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Smart devices usually don't work without an internet connection and without registering on manufacturer's website. Then they will collect all your usage data.

    Also this makes you dependent on the manufacturer for the rest of the life time of the device.

  10. Re:Great idea! Average wage $385/year on Apple Cracks Down Further On Cobalt Supplier in Congo as Child Labor Persists (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Talk to Apple. They have a $178 billion dollar pile of cash in the bank that is gathering dust. I think that is enough to build a whole school for every kid in Congo. And maybe get some modern mining equipment and mining engineers as well.

  11. In a healthy democracy there shouldn't be such a thing as "secret rules".

    Now that USA has disqualified itself as the world's custodian of democracy and freedom, is there any other country that wants to volunteer for this job?

  12. Re:So that's, what on Apple Is Moving Its Entire International iTunes Business To Ireland (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    And what do these 5500 millionaires actually *do* there exactly? Isn't iTunes like a webshop of digital products?

  13. Re:Is it really a war? on Amid Major Internet Outages, Affected Websites Have Lessons To Learn (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to be centralized. Hierarchical, yes, centralized no. Putting all your eggs in one basket (Dyn) is just not a good idea. People outsource stuff and then stop thinking. People assume that if they outsource to a company, nothing can go wrong. But big companies are bigger targets and when they fall over, the mess is much bigger. So yes, decentralize.

  14. Proportional response right back at you on White House Vows 'Proportional' Response For Russian DNC Hack (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Proportional response for Russia / number of emails stolen by Russia * number of email scoped up by NSA = proportional response for USA

  15. BCP38 on Krebs Warns Source Code Leaked From Massive IoT Botnet Attack (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wouldn't most if not all DDoS attacks be much harder if ISPs implemented BCP38? Of course IoT devices should be secure, but this is a dream as software will always contain bugs. The number of ISPs is much smaller than the number of devices connected to the internet, so blocking spoofed IP traffic is much cheaper solution.

  16. Just stating the obvious, but having control of the DNS servers is really helpful for surveillance.

    DNSSEC is very helpful to combat this.

  17. Re:And thus the Internet of Things collapses on Woman Sues Sex Toy App For Secretly Capturing Sensitive Information (ctvnews.ca) · · Score: 2

    The Internet of Things was my dreams ever since I got on the internet in the late 90s. I dreamed of the possibility to connect everything with open protocols and giving users amazing options to control their electronic gear.

    Finally, the Internet of Things came and it's a mess of proprietary protocols where all devices are not connected with each other, but with centralized databases of the manufacturers. Fail!

    Reasons for this failure:
    - IPv4 address shortage and NAT (intermediate server needed)
    - Silicon Valley greed (big data=big $$$ and everyone trying to get monopoly on their proprietary shit)
    - user ignorance (would not buy if knowing how it works)

    We, consumers, have to demand products that puts the user in control, not the company you bought it from.

  18. Maybe they should also turn on DNSSEC for verisign.com, since they are crucial and into security and all.

  19. Not so many vulnerabilities in pencils and paper.

  20. Re:Anything's better than Tor on MIT Says Their Anonymity Network Is More Secure Than Tor (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    First, Tor would be knowingly aiding and abetting in the distribution and consumption of child pornography.

    Other things that aid or abet child pornography:

    • Computers
    • Cameras
    • Internet
    • Electricity
    • Electrons
    • Math
    • Oxygen
    • Children
    • Child pornographers

    Let's just focus our attention to that last one.

  21. Re:The Register jargon on RSA Keys Can Be Harvested With Microphones (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's British humour (that's British English for humor). I love it. And it's much better website than all other copy-paste tech news sites with 50 ads and 200 trackers.

  22. Re:IPv6 -- Just Say No ! on DistroWatch Finally Adds Support For IPv6 (distrowatch.com) · · Score: 1

    In the Netherlands, 99% of the people have a fixed IPv4 address. For anonymity it doesn't really matter if your IPv4 address is fixed or your IPv6 address is fixed. And in both cases your ISP can both you IP address to a name/address. In any case, IP address != person.

  23. In fact this was network specifically designed for facilitating this that are illegal for good reasons.

    Oh really? Says who?

  24. Re:Nice, but... on LG G5 Gets a High 8/10 Repairability Score (geek.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess because Fairphone 2's screen can be removed even without using tools (and a replacement can be ordered on their website) earns them a higher rating.

  25. Nice, but... on LG G5 Gets a High 8/10 Repairability Score (geek.com) · · Score: 1

    .. it's still not the 10/10 of the Fairphone 2 (spare parts here).

    Anyway, nice to see a small competition heating up on other areas than size or price.