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  1. Bluetooth 2.1 and up are pretty good security wise, links are always encrypted and pairing with SSP can also protect you from an MITM attack. (e.g. using numeric comparison or passkey entry is secure from MITM. See the relevant wikipedia page for specifics.)

    Since encryption is required (and usually done in dedicated hardware), there shouldn't be a difference in battery life.

  2. Re:Thanks for the tip! on $500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's no need to Email anyone, Since the funding isn't over he can just cancel his pledge.

  3. Re:Compatibility on Valve Announces Linux-Based SteamOS · · Score: 1

    Well, they claim that you can stream games from a Windows or Mac system, so yes, sort of. Also new ports should probably appear.

  4. Re:There are some problems with it on Anonymous, People's Liberation Front Build Anonymous Data-Sharing Site · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The server operator could modify the javascript it sends to the client, so that the client sends either the key or the plaintext to a place of the operator's choosing.

    That would fall under the same category as MITM in this case. You still need to trust the server (or a server, if you prefer)

    You could move the client side code to a browser addon/extension, but you'd still have the problem of trusting the extension to behave

  5. Re:There are some problems with it on Anonymous, People's Liberation Front Build Anonymous Data-Sharing Site · · Score: 4, Informative

    It runs on ZeroBin, which uses client side javascript to generate a random 256bit AES key, then compress and encrypt the text before sending it to the server. Comments are also compressed and encrypted. The key is never seen by the server, so the server can't decrypt your data.

    It uses the Stanford Javascript Crypto Library for its AES code, and its codebase is available on github.

    The system is vulnerable to an MITM attack, also a server admin may be able to reveal the poster's identity, but not the post's content

  6. Re:Can you guess 2 4 digit numbers? on Attack Tool Released For WPS Setup Flaw · · Score: 1

    Worse than than, you guess 4 digits, then guess 3 (as the last digit is a checksum)

  7. Re:Here's the full details. on Aussie Researcher Cracks OS X Lion Passwords · · Score: 4, Informative

    Even better is the researchers' own blog post

  8. Re:How can they patch this? on Sniffer Hijacks SSL Traffic From Unpatched IPhones · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, you're thinking of SSLstrip which methodically strips HTTPS references. This is a different attack, where the client accepts certificates signed by any certificate that has a valid chain

  9. XScreenSaver has this on Making Old Games Look Good On Modern LCDs? · · Score: 1

    It's called xanalogtv, it's also used by the Pong and Apple2 hacks

  10. Re:Flat screens! on Gaze-Tracking Software Protects Computer Privacy · · Score: 1

    You can get an E-IPS panel, I recently got me a Dell 2209WA screen, was fairly cheap.

  11. Re:GNOME has better on Next Generation T9 Keyboard Technology · · Score: 1

    Do you mean Dasher?

  12. Re:What is this actually referring to? on English Court Allows Patents For "Complex" Software · · Score: 1

    btw, here's the actual patent application.

  13. Re:What is this actually referring to? on English Court Allows Patents For "Complex" Software · · Score: 1

    AFAICT without reading actual patent, they are creating a library with fixed stub functions(eg. a printf() stub that calls _printf()).
    since all external function addresses are now known, there's no need to resolve them by name, etc.

  14. Re:Problem isn't computation... on Google's Obfuscated TCP · · Score: 1

    Strange, I've been using HTTPS over alternate ports in IE for a while now. always worked in IE 5 and up.

  15. Re:SPF + !SRS! on 100 Email Bouncebacks - Welcome to Backscattering · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here's the solution to backscatter:

    1. only relay authorized messages
    2. reject as soon as possible. no bounces.
    3. do not send out virus warnings, spam warnings, challenge-response requests
  16. Re:The paper via ACM on Content-Aware Image Resizing · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Coral Cache" has it also.

  17. Re:Principia Discordia reference on How the Pentagon Got Its Shape · · Score: 1

    Be glad you don't have binary digits.

  18. Re:That's an insightful question on Weakness In Linux Kernel's Binary Format · · Score: 1
    There's another kind of attack, too. A typical sudo configuration only prompts you for a password once then lets you sudo without a password for 5 minutes or so. So imagine a background process that waits for a sudo command to be entered and then issues its own "sudo su" or "sudo sh". Or that skips the waiting and just issues one every five minutes until it gets lucky someday.
    That won't work, sudo knows which pty/tty it was bound to, and only allows access to the same one (by default),
    just try it on your machine, open two terminal windows,
    run a sudo command on one, then see if you can do the same in the other without a password.
  19. Re:As Yoda says on AOL Targets Digg, YouTube With New Netscape Site · · Score: 1

    Which is why I loath TV network news

  20. Re:Powerglove on Some of the Strangest Computer Mice · · Score: 1

    Make it so that it ignores movement and clicks unless you do something?
    like tuck your thumb in, or something

  21. Re:How about "Live USB Key" distros? on 10 Best Security Live CD Distros · · Score: 1

    You can run RIP( (R)ecovery (I)s (P)ossible ) rescue system from a USB key, and you could probably adapt it's instructions to something else
    RIP site

  22. Re:IMMS on Pandora Radio from Music Genome Project · · Score: 2, Informative

    you should try IMMS, I think it does exactly what you want.
    it has no interface other than the player's next/prev and playlist, and is fairly easy to port in case your player isn't supported
    (there's only a small plugin that needs porting, currently supports XMMS and BMP)

  23. Re:Nethack on Loyalists Preserve Past Through Text-Only Games · · Score: 4, Informative

    I prefer SLASH'EM myself, like Nethack but much, much worse.

  24. Re:A fun and safe experiment.... on Singing Mice and Brain Chemistry · · Score: 2, Informative

    My neighbour had one of those ultrasonic dog barking things, it would generate a piercing ringing in my ear whenever any dog in the vicinity barked (and it didn't change the dog's behaviour one iota),
    I found that much more annoying than the barking.

  25. Re:Wishes for the next VIM and why use Vim on Vim 6.4 Released · · Score: 1
    About code pages, file formats, etc take a look at
    • :h 'fenc'
    • :h 'ff'
    • :h ++enc
    about the status/title bar, they're settable, via 'stl' and 'titlestring'