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  1. That's dumb and unrealistic on Snowden Speculates Leak of NSA Spying Tools Is Tied To Russian DNC Hack (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you want the US/NSA to know that you've compromised them? That's stupid. It's more likely that the NSA is selling its own fingerprinted tools as an opportunity...or someone taking advantage of the current climate to take some suckers for a ride.

  2. I was able to use an i3 with a range extender for about two weeks, and it really would work for the majority of my commute. And that's with a 110v socket in my garage, not a fast charger.

    Practically speaking, it would work for most homeowners for daily use.

  3. Not China, because China gave at the offiice on Russia's Rise To Cyberwar Superpower (dailydot.com) · · Score: 0

    The Democrats can't blame their own crappy practices for their problems, so they blame Russia. They can't blame China because China has given Clinton too much money.

  4. Re:Russian VPN != "Works for Russia" on 'DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Reading shit headlines like that always brings home the fact that most reporters are almost completely ignorant about the subject matter at hand, and will generally spew whatever their "sources" tell them, even if the primary article says something completely different.

  5. Russian VPN != "Works for Russia" on 'DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not sure the press is smart enough to understand that use of a Russian VPN means they're working for the Russian government...but I'd expect /. editors to understand at least the basics of, you know, connectivity.

  6. As an aside, this may be the first election where corporations donate more money to the Democrats than to the Republicans.

    That's outside of the money they've already "donated" to the Clintons.

  7. Because money on Facebook Admits Blocking WikiLeaks' DNC Email Links, But Won't Say Why (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Clinton is the corporate candidate this cycle. Why would corporations want to harm the candidate that's fighting for them?

  8. So, if your device is stuck in this state how do you recover your stuff off of it?

  9. Premium rate numbers still exist? on Hacker Uses Premium Rate Calls To Steal From Instagram, Google, Microsoft (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    They're basically banned in the US. Are they still around outside the USA?

  10. Google is already tracking them on In China, Fears That Pokemon Go May Aid Locating Military Bases (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's stupid that the Chinese government is afraid of Pokemon Go since Google/Android is already tracking them.

  11. So Linus, Tabs or Spaces? on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So what is it, tabs or spaces?

  12. An indictment requires criminal intent: NOT on Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    An indictment does not require criminal intent.

  13. Here we go! on Net Neutrality Advocates To FCC: Put the Kibosh On Internet Freebies (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now the "net neutrality" supporters are going to screw everyone with their demands that anything that isn't crappy, lowest-common-denominator service is a rule violation.

  14. It makes a difference because commercial providers are presumably better at InfoSec than the nobody that ran Clinton's email server.

  15. Specifically, Powell et al did NOT run their own server. They used commercial providers like Google and yahoo. I guess Hotmail was just too cheesy.

  16. DRM? My music is DRM-free. on Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does he think that this will be DRM'd? My music is already DRM-free.

  17. Right to repair? on Big Tech Squashes New York's 'Right To Repair' Bill (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Any gearhead should be able to open and fix stuff on their own. It's really not that hard, and you can buy everything everywhere. What's the point?

    The problem with the Fix-it-yourself is when something goes wrong with their fix-it attempt. Are they still going to send it in for service? You bet they are. "Really, I have no idea why all the capacitors are from 2016 when I bought the thing in 2010. And I didn't reflow that solder either."

  18. Shouldn't it be 3000 years? on Alien Contact Unlikely For Another 1,500 Years, Says Study (msn.com) · · Score: 2

    1500 years to get there, 1500 years for the reply?

  19. Net neutrality is not neutral on Tom Wheeler Defeats the Broadband Industry: Net Neutrality Wins In Court (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I know it's popular because the internets want to be free, but I'd ask everyone to actually read the "net neutrality" regulations yourself. It's not about net neutrality per se, it's about something completely different.

    For example, all the peering agreements suddenly come under FCC jurisdiction. Do asymmetric traffic charges count as "favoritism?" Do you even have any understanding of what that means?

    The FCC rule means that everything internet-related comes under their jurisdiction.

    What this means, in short, is your rates will go up...forever.

  20. Good news! The DNC is worth penetrating! on Russian Government Hackers Penetrated DNC, Stole Opposition Research On Donald Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    The silver lining is that the DNC may actually be worth penetrating! If the GRU thinks there may be something valuable in there then maybe the DNC actually does something of value.

  21. This is the Obama administration giving their friends at Apple the UFIA.

  22. There were three tools that everyone used to use:

    1. locksmith, AFAIK the first bit-for-bit copier
    2. crackshot, which would dump your ram to storage. You could reload it into its running state

    There was one more good bit copier, who's name I've forgotten. Oh, Back-it-Up.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  23. The golden days of copy protection on It Took 33 Years To Find the Easter Egg In This Apple II Game (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Copy protection back then was really in its golden age. Off the top of my head I can remember a couple of different schemes:

    1. manipulating the on-disk structures so that certain things couldn't be read. If you did a bit-for-bit copy (via locksimith etc) you wouldn't get a read error for that sector, which meant you were running a pirate copy.

    2. manipulating the track layout so the drive could read the track, but a bit copier couldn't. I'm not sure how they did that, really. Did they write half a track and just join them together?

    3. Self-modifying code. Yeah, this was a common thing: code would decrypt itself while running. This wouldn't prevent a bit-for-bit copy, but it would prevent the hack where you'd just find the copy protection subroutine and modify it to always return true.

    There were doubtless more. Are the old Apple ][ cracking guides still online?

  24. So, are they discriminating against Republicans? on BuzzFeed Ends $1.3M Advertising Deal With RNC Over Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That dumb bakery didn't want to serve gay people. Internet erupts.

    How is this any different?

  25. Well, it's against their ToS. Sounds like someone didn't read the not-so-fine-print.