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  1. Favicons can be used as trackers on Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    I did a quick search to find this, but I had a suspicion that it was possible. https://stackoverflow.com/ques...

  2. No mystery to it on The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims To Run (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If the radio signal stops, then something is seriously wrong. It doesn't take a lot of power and it broadcasts far enough to alert anyone. And because it doesn't broadcast anything specific, it remains up to interpretation with no legal recourse.

  3. AML could be exploited to give away caller location without calling emergency services. What if privacy calling/texting services that used phone numbers had AML unknowingly turned on? Two-factor authentication turned into a location beacon? I think someone figured out a way, and like always, fear is being used to push a hidden agenda. Odd timing for it. By the way, "Despite the existence of legislation to mandate accuracy and reliability targets, no Member State in Europe has set any." -- http://www.eena.org/uploads/ga.... It's a document describing AML in the UK. Honestly, it sounds more like the push for backdoors isn't going so well and once again, Apple is getting shit on, but in a much more clever and relatable way. AML information is sent over plain SMS. Apple doesn't allow automated texting for security reasons. Pardon the pun, but "phoning home" over SMS doesn't sound so great. What they could do is allow phone callers be added to a whitelist temporarily and then allow the caller SMS to text gps location information themselves. This would help filter spam. It's easy to do with Maps. I'm surprised law enforcement hasn't tried gaining easy access to Find My iPhone. Oh wait, they have -_-. Don't be a sucker.

  4. No...you can read the paper here: on Scientists Create DNA-Based Exploit of a Computer System (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Sounds more like a Chrome issue on Browser Extensions Are Undermining Privacy (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone other party would have to do it because the Chromium developers would probably worry about recourse from Google. Also, I'm not so sure if all of Google's Chrome is open source; this makes it harder for security researchers to do their job. Though, I'm sure Google has plenty of their own, not that means anything to a healthy skeptic.

  6. Pitch forks for sale! on Maybe Americans Don't Need Fast Home Internet Service, FCC Suggests (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Get them while they're sharp!

  7. Vinegar, dish soap, and table salt on Monsanto Was Its Own Ghostwriter For Some Safety Reviews (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats all you need, but you need to be really careful with it. It'll kill any small plants that grow and the salt helps prevent plants from growing back. The soap helps it all "stick." It's actually an ancient military tactic to salt the ground of your enemies. We've use it in and along the driveways and it takes a few days to notice, but with this hot weather, maybe not.

  8. Sounds more like a Chrome issue on Browser Extensions Are Undermining Privacy (vortex.com) · · Score: 2

    The title is misleading or there are more idiots out there than I thought. "Why do my privacy add-ons not work right?" Maybe it's because Google, a search engine company, made the browser? You know that web browser, Tor...something or other I think it is, that's based off of Chrome? *sarcasm. Me neither. -_- It would be interesting to see a security comparison between Chrome and Chromium for these privacy add-ons. I'm sure there are plenty convinced a derivative = same, but if that were true, then I guess all us Linux users are nut-cases. Don't answer that. Chrome needs to be renamed to Chrime.

  9. I don't like GNOME anything if I can help it, to be honest. I find myself using nano more than anything for simple text editing. If not TTY, then XFCE and GTK all the way.

  10. Im sure Electron will handle it in snap package form. Excuse the horrible joke, but you know some snot-nosed, millennial developer will think it's a good idea.

  11. The US found a creative way to police space on NASA Is Looking For Someone To Protect Earth From Aliens -- And the Job Pays a Six-Figure Salary (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember, NASA is just as much "government" as the Air Force. China wants to build a station on the moon. As an Planetary Protection Officer, I say that they're not doing it up to "code" and will therefore assume jurisdiction because I say so. Private mining companies are talking about mining asteroids. As an Planetary Protection Officer, I'm going to have to inspect those precious rare metals for "safety." It's going to be expensive and a lot of paper work. It's "not my fault; bureaucracy is to blame." I can't wait for the commission and bullshit government bonuses. Want to go to Mars? I have to go with you and the equipment I take with me to setup while there is none of your damn business. Normal police get $30K average a year. By that logic and taking account of the 120K full time officers in the U.S., will there be about 20-30K Planetary Protection Officers? NASA currently has about 18K employees.

  12. Re: Hipster? on Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    The old fuds version of hipsters was when in the 80s, you had teens and movie stars dressing like they were from the....50s (punk leather and slick hair) and pop stars using the same music formula but with electronics. So....nothing has changed. Literally at all. We're going to have to have a WW3 and then another economic boom to reminisce over to end this shit.

  13. Yes...? He said cloud vendor. Same thing. Kill the desktop and turn everyone into data to be mined while still charging a monthly fee for open source software people voluntarily contribute to make, yet you still have to have your own server to run. Same regime, different platform, and new heard of cattle. Peer pressure and midlife crises as the glue. Developers are getting lazy, cloud vendors keep making it easy to build web apps, and no one is asking questions because there's too much money.

  14. Re:Those thing are not supposed to be secure on Researchers Discover Critical Security Flaws Found In Nuke Plant Radiation Monitors (securityweek.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't think any medical device will be secure as we want them to be as long as they keep using Windows and Ethernet cables/Wifi for everything. Most offices in general don't even use USB cables for anything anymore, arguing that it is faster. Maybe, but when things break, now you got to hunt through a network to figure it out, risking breaking more things. Hope this posts; using w3m this time .

  15. Re: I thought I was going to have a long read ahea on Researchers Discover Critical Security Flaws Found In Nuke Plant Radiation Monitors (securityweek.com) · · Score: 2

    No wait, it's page 8 in the PDF. My bad.

  16. I thought I was going to have a long read ahead of on Researchers Discover Critical Security Flaws Found In Nuke Plant Radiation Monitors (securityweek.com) · · Score: 2

    That was until I saw "Microsoft Windows" mentioned on page 10.

  17. But a Pi and make your own on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Avoid Routers With Locked Firmware? · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Response on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey · · Score: 1

    You mentioned latex; I like to use Lyx as a wysiwyg editor for it. Makes everything look professional. The only down side is that installing Lyx usually pulls about 1GB worth of packages.

  19. Re:Request for Ubuntu 18 on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey · · Score: 1

    I would kill to have a systemd-free version of Xubuntu.

  20. Re:Autoremove old kernels from /boot on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey · · Score: 1

    The problem is that you can go to http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kern... and download the latest kernel for Ubuntu but may cause problems so you would want to have a working kernel to fall back on.

  21. Suggested Software on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey · · Score: 1
    • Web Browser: Firefox+w3m
      • I suggested w3m as well because you can change the user agent to mobile Safari and then set the external web browser short cut to "mpv -ytdl --vo=opengl --ao=alsa" (install mpv) and it will play the mobile formats (mp4, etc.) that youtube-dl supports, even in TTY environment.
    • Email Client: Thunderbird
      • But you need to include Enigmail and Lightning by default
    • Terminal: xfce4-terminal + tmux
    • IDE: Geany
    • File manager: Thunar
      • Thunar is very light and fast, but also has lots of ways to customize. I have no idea why anyone likes Nautilus or Nemo; if logging in and using 1GB+ of RAM at start is okay with you, score one for GNOME or Unity; Pantheon is pretty bad about it too.
    • Basic Text Editor: Gedit
    • IRC/Messaging Client: Hexchat, irssi
    • PDF Reader: Evince
    • Office Suite: LibreOffice
    • Calendar: gxul-ext-lightning
    • Video Player: mpv+youtube-dl
      • mpv is much better than mplayer or VLC and is very easy to use. To open a URL, you just type "mpv https://..../" and youtube-dl will usually do the rest for you, including streaming sites like Twitch. The support list is here: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-.... You will get the most bang per buck this way.
    • Music Player: Clementine
    • Photo Viewer: Viewnior, Shotwell
    • Screen recording: gtk-recordmydesktop

    If software isn't available as a .deb, but as source code or .rpm, please don't make a snap for it. Snaps feel too much like "closing" open source software and dangerously close to having Ubuntu creating its own version of Windows exe's; actually, that's exactly what it is.

  22. Re: Reasons why I don't like the Internet of Thing on Flaw In IoT Security Cameras Leaves Millions of Devices Open To Hackers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    But think of the children! Trackers for everyone! Biometric scanners all around! All hail Facefarm. Big Brother loves you. People I don't want to understand or acknowledge are all "terrorists" because differences and the potential of being wrong is terrifying. IoT vulnerabilities aren't bugs, but features for sheeple that need to feel like guardian angels exist and that the "1984" that millenials joke about is someone else's fault and is inevitable. People in the tech world like to think that their niche is all good and that black hats are something else unrelated to them. So, we "good people" imagine that the only ones watching are intelligence agencies or white hats, deluding ourselves and tolerating IoT vulnerabilities. The companies that make them only care about money and seem to have zero responsibility for them. Most consumers aren't even aware at all. Just wait until quantum cloud computing and AI becomes a normal thing; it's going to be a Theresa May wet dream.

  23. Re: Make your phone 'transparent' on Texting On the Move Makes You Walk Weird, Study Finds (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They have this already, but you need to be jailbroken on iOS.

  24. Re: Higher step, exaggerated...zombie walk? on Texting On the Move Makes You Walk Weird, Study Finds (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    When a zombie texts while walking, it actually corrects his steps.

  25. We should start writing to congressmen about Linux on US Senators Seek Military Ban on Kaspersky Lab Products Amid FBI Probe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Out of all the things to bitch about, I feel like to get actual work done, there are certain things we need to get past, and Micro$oft products in government offices is one of them.