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  1. Re: Steve Gibson is a... on New Standard For Website Authentication Proposed: SQRL (Secure QR Login) · · Score: 1

    I also think that the system is overreliant on a person having a smart phone. I often go places without one and am seriously considering getting a dumb phone for private use (weekends and evenings). This system would not work for me or the millions of other people that do not want or do not have one. If a system relies on a phone, how is this better than current systems that send me a OTP on any mobile using basic SMS. It is more complex but not more reliable as the weak link is regarding who has your phone.

  2. Re:Terrible summary on Researchers Show Apple Can Read iMessages · · Score: 1

    " if they had proved that apple can't read the imessages. "

    In any situation, take an image, load said image to clone machine, reset password on interesting account and look as much as you like... Live machine still unaffected.

  3. Free press? on David Cameron Wants the Guardian Investigated Over Snowden Files · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not if they tell the public what the government are doing... Hacking individuals private communication was wrong when a newspaper did it and it is still wrong when the government does it. It is not the Gruaniad that has double standards, it is Cameroon.

  4. Re:NTT in Japan on Broadcasters Petition US Supreme Court In Fight Against Aereo · · Score: 1

    If I provide you with a service, for free, regardless of how, it does not give you the right to resell that service. You are welcome to receive it, you are not welcome to sell it.

  5. Re:Good idea, however on Fight Bicycle Theft With the Open Source Bike Registry · · Score: 3, Funny

    One of my classmates at university went to where he had left his bike and all that was left was the front wheel chained to a post. As he walked off with his front wheel he met someone who had had chained his frame to a post and all that had been stolen was the front wheel...

  6. Re:"hack" on Want To Hijack a Domain? Just Get a Fax Machine · · Score: 1

    One is morally wrong and the other is normal relationship...

  7. Re:Why do we bother with the barbarians? on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 1

    Have you any idea how much it costs to wage war? Do you know who gets those profits? Dick Cheney is always a big winner but the list is nearly all members of GW's friends. It does not matter about the oil, just keep dropping those bombs and those making the decisions will continue to get richer while the plebs die or go bankrupt trying to pay for their healthcare.

  8. Re:Crime on 8 Users of Silk Road Arrested, 'Many More To Come' · · Score: 0

    He has good reason to be worried. The UK will extradite anyone to the US without any questions being asked and all the US has to do is agree not to kill the person. Why didn't they extradite him from the UK?

  9. Re:MShafted on Microsoft: We Offer Up User Data To Law Enforcement 2 Percent of the Time · · Score: 1

    The article does say that 92% of requests are from US sources... Nice to know who is the big brother of this planet...

  10. Re:Piracy rationalizations in 3... 2... 1... on UK MPs: Google Blocks Child Abuse Images, It Should Block Piracy Too · · Score: 1

    So we are not talking about copyright infringement then, OK. End of line. For the rest of those that are talking about copyright infringement my point is valid but for those that are talking about deception I accept that in that regard, as it is not theft, the term is just an oxymoron.

  11. Re:Piracy rationalizations in 3... 2... 1... on UK MPs: Google Blocks Child Abuse Images, It Should Block Piracy Too · · Score: 1

    Use a proxy just to go to Facebook etc. so that the man does not know what people are using a proxy for.

  12. Re:Piracy rationalizations in 3... 2... 1... on UK MPs: Google Blocks Child Abuse Images, It Should Block Piracy Too · · Score: 1

    It is impossible to permanently deprive someone of a service and therefore there cannot be a theft of a service as theft involves the intention to permanently deprive the owner of the said property. That is why it always was a civil action until the people lost control of the country and big business bought the government.

    I would happily stick to a fair market but I am not prepared to keep bending over for those that say I have to just because they can.

  13. Re:XBOX? on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...or how important the non north American market is if you are not Microsoft and given that north America is the smaller market I think that Sony are still on to a winner. Let M$ focus on dear old USA and mop up the rest of the world...

  14. Re:Taliban in Syria on Getting Afghanistan Online · · Score: 1

    I take it that you do not follow what is happening on this world. The US wants to support the rebels in Syria. That consists of the Taliban and Al Qaida. That is this planet. The Taliban is not a phenomena of one area. It has a much wider appeal. I am wasting my time trying to talk logically to some AC school kid who thinks he has an IQ.

  15. Re:What the hell is "left open"? on LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts · · Score: 1

    I accept that you did not read all my post, but no, that would not explain it.

  16. Re:Doesn't make sense on LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts · · Score: 1

    That is basically what I am saying. I do not believe that they are using some insecurity, I think they are just asking another company for your contacts with them in return for the contact list they have.

  17. Re:Fuck class action on LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts · · Score: 1

    Great, where do you plan to take it?

  18. I know that it is not done on /. to RTFA but follow the flow of the discussion at least. You can 'READ' what it says, and they say they will not contact anyone without your permission. That is the contract. You can decline the option of letting them access your contacts, they still will. Then you can change your password to stop them, they still will. Without you permission or your password, that is hacking. I think that collusion is actually more likely as all these companies are address farms and they would all benefit from a sharing scheme.

  19. Re:Fuck class action on LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, you are wrong, no 'all' students, only US students. We don't have that 3rd world stuff in the UK.

  20. Re:Someone didn't read the screen, methinks. on LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts · · Score: 1

    No, they do not even need to know your password. They have your email address as you have to give them one to open the account. With that they will access your contacts even with your password. You can change your password to try and stop them but they will still contact new people that you add to your contacts. I believe that there is collusion going on with Yahoo/Gmail/Hotmail etc.

  21. Re:Doesn't make sense on LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts · · Score: 1

    I think that the various companies collude.

  22. Re:What the hell is "left open"? on LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not quite true. When I opened a Facebook account several years ago, I registered using my Yahoo account. I know how often I have changed my password and there are some specific times when I have changed all my passwords when I have had a virus or a rabid g/f using my computer. Facebook manages to recommend people that have been added to my Yahoo contacts since the password has been changed and they have no legitimate way of knowing who I add. I only use Yahoo for work contacts and use Gmail for my friends but none of my new Gmail contacts get recommended to me. The contacts on Yahoo are not contacts of my friends who are contacts on Gmail. I am absolutely certain that Facebook has access to my Yahoo contacts in the way that these guys are certain that LinkdIn is doing to them. I assume that Yahoo etc. allow this to happen and now I always use throw away address.

  23. Re:Why are nuclear fission systems too heavy? on Without Plutonium, Deep-Space Probe Missions May Sputter Out · · Score: 2

    No, Plutonium is an alpha emitter. When it goes bang it gives off gamma, quite a lot.

  24. Re:Why are nuclear fission systems too heavy? on Without Plutonium, Deep-Space Probe Missions May Sputter Out · · Score: 2

    The safe distance for plutonium before it is being used is that you can hold it in your hand. I have handled Uranium, been there when Plutonium was handled (although not 238). If they transport the reactor into space conventionally and build it up there the only problem is the weight. There are lots of viable options available for consideration, I think that this is just smoke to prepare us for another round of unnecessary weapons building.

  25. Re:Tempting on Getting Afghanistan Online · · Score: 1

    BTW, get your politics right, the Afghanis do not exclude girls, the Taliban do. You know, those guys that the US wants to help turn Syria into a Sharia state.