These are not "compromised Apple ID credentials"... they are compromised email addresses and passwords for for OTHER mac/apple related websites... so if you're dumb enough to reuse your Apple ID email address and password on those sites they might match up.
Considering that essentially all of the politicians in Russia have fake PhDs ( http://www.slate.com/articles/... ) I would say that it's fairly likely that they have no idea how the Internet or mathematics or economics or really anything works...
You could definitely hand-build a small computer (think Raspberry PI) that is offline that you input the encrypted stream into (either via a camera that looks at your monitor or audio from your speakers or other means) that has a small printout on it that shows the decrypted conversation and allows you to answer back...
There would definitely still be thousands of people involved in making the chips you select... but it would be pretty incredibly difficult to get a backdoor into that system!
Actually, this move makes sense considering Facebook is currently trying to get people to use Messenger to interact with other parts of their life including _banking_:
Facebook probably mines the unencrypted messages to help form an "advertising profile" for you so they can better target ads at you when you're on Facebook.
No doubt on the "cheapest available"... used to buy ENORMOUS stacks of them... 50 or 100 at a time or whatever.
They were crazy unreliable... but hey, what else is a kid supposed to do?:-)
BTW: The same thing went for burnable CDs once they came out. I had HUGE spindles of crappy CDs. Always important to run the "verification" part of the burn process;-)
The analog these days is USB sticks and SD cards... but I'm older and wiser now and employ just a few that are higher end...
The first test in our automated testing process (which reviews every pull request before it's merged) is to test for "sleep"... we completely disallow it to be used... ever!
How did it get this way? Well, I'm sad to say that it was actually my fault. I have a habit when I'm debugging particularly tricky MPI code (we do massively parallel scientific simulation) to use "sleep(pid)" where "pid" is the "processor ID" or "rank" of the current MPI process. I use it to "serialize" print statements so they don't clobber each other. There are definitely other ways to achieve the same thing... but this is quick and dirty while I'm developing.
Unfortunately... I accidentally checked in code with these a couple of times. Running in serial (1 processor) it only causes a 1 second slowdown... but if you're running on 10,000 processors... well... you're going to be waiting a while!
Since it happened twice, "sleep" got the perma-ban by our devs (to save themselves from me!).
Anyway - a little off-topic... let me try to pull it back on topic. Slack was the first distro I ever loaded back in the 90s. I downloaded it to several (20ish?) 3.5" disks at my job (after school job doing tech support at a local ISP)... got them all home and tried to install it and guess what? Yep. One of those disks was corrupted. Took two more tries before I was able to get it going... but my mind was permanently BLOWN once I got it working:-)
Actually - Ford/Chevy/Chrysler do exactly the same thing Apple (may be) doing: they jealously guard the copyright on their official repair schematics. Car repair shops pay a LOT of money to get them... and they are regularly traded illegally online.
If someone had a Youtube channel where they were showing copyright infringing schematics of Ford/Chevy/Chrysler cars the way this guy did for Apple computer schematics... they would be ALL OVER IT trying to shut it down.
Apple doesn't care if you tell people how to fix their computers... just don't spread Apple copyrighted material around to do it...
While I got a chuckle out of your comment I'll just mention that you don't need to be able to get on the network in order to get sensitive corporate information on employee's devices.
People will forward emails to their personal account or upload something to dropbox or just start work correspondence with their personal email. Happens all the time.
The best way to fight against this is to make work machines as useable and user-friendly as possible... so there is less incentive to try to move work onto a personal device. That seems to be the goal here... even if this sounds fairly dubious.
If you read other articles on it you will find that Spotify tried to put a link in their app that would take you to Spotify's website to sign up for a subscription.
That is against the App store rules.
They are free to NOT use Apple to start subscriptions... but they cannot link to another mechanism to do so. The best they are allowed to do is say "You must sign up for a Spotify account before using this application".
Being a science/engineering PhD student I still take a LOT of handwritten notes.
Last year, when it was released, I snatched up the 12.9" iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil. It is truly AWESOME for taking notes!
I use a great app called "Notability" which syncs through iCloud (and backs up in PDF form to Dropbox) so my notes instantly show up on my phone and computers.
It's great in class... and maybe even better as a "lab notebook".
A long time ago when I was doing my masters I actually used one of the first Windows "convertible" tablets for all of my notes. It "worked" but wasn't nearly as nice of an experience as the Apple Pencil and iPad Pro. The Apple Pencil is incredibly accurate and the iPad Pro is essentially the same size as a regular sheet of paper. Really nice tools to work with!
Luckily for Tesla this sounds like it couldn't have been avoided in any way.
There will be more... but, like Tesla says, their Auto-pilot system has thus far proven VERY safe. What remains to be seen is how the world reconciles the fact that there will always be outliers...
I'm not advocating this technology... but if you read up on what Alicia Keys is doing at her concerts they are putting phones in little bags that can only be opened after the concert by the staff. That means you can't use your phone _at all_ during a concert.
Technology like this would allow you to use your phone during the concert... just without being able to take pictures.
"Old rules regarding fraud liability still apply to non-chipped cards, by the way."
Yes, but if you swipe a chip card you're liable... so carrying the old "free" reader only is now a liability.
"They have a chip reader that plugs into the 3.5mm as well"
Yes, but it's $30. For only $20 more you can get the new contactless, Bluetooth reader. I'm not sure there's a strong argument for $30 instead of $50 when this is the heart of your business...
Lots of brick and mortar places here (Boston) use Square... and many of them have already upgraded to the new reader.
Just paid for ice cream yesterday using Apple Pay on my Apple Watch at one.
Note that places were going to have to drop the stripe readers anyway once the mandates for chip and pin set in. The new reader does chip and pin and NFC/ApplePay
This completely invalidates the analysis. Colorado is huge and I'm sure there are several small cities way outside of Denver that skew the statistics.
I've used Uber in some small towns (like Idaho Falls, ID) where it was basically just one dude with his old Prius. He just sits at home and waits for Uber to ding and jumps in his car. How much money he's making "per hour" isn't really a relevant metric...
I wasn't arguing that Ethernet doesn't have its merits... Just that only a tiny fraction of the market for a laptop care enough about having an Ethernet jack that it wasn't worth keeping on the machine.
The same goes for 3.5mm. It certainly has its merits... but very few people care. All of the "normal" people will jump up and down on Facebook about how "cool it is that Apple is including Bluetooth headphones in the box!!" and promptly move on with their lives.
Slashdot Mirror
These are not "compromised Apple ID credentials"... they are compromised email addresses and passwords for for OTHER mac/apple related websites... so if you're dumb enough to reuse your Apple ID email address and password on those sites they might match up.
Completely agree! But they're trying to push it for some odd reason...
Considering that essentially all of the politicians in Russia have fake PhDs ( http://www.slate.com/articles/... ) I would say that it's fairly likely that they have no idea how the Internet or mathematics or economics or really anything works...
You could definitely hand-build a small computer (think Raspberry PI) that is offline that you input the encrypted stream into (either via a camera that looks at your monitor or audio from your speakers or other means) that has a small printout on it that shows the decrypted conversation and allows you to answer back...
There would definitely still be thousands of people involved in making the chips you select... but it would be pretty incredibly difficult to get a backdoor into that system!
Actually, this move makes sense considering Facebook is currently trying to get people to use Messenger to interact with other parts of their life including _banking_:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/7...
My guess: advertising.
Facebook probably mines the unencrypted messages to help form an "advertising profile" for you so they can better target ads at you when you're on Facebook.
BTW: Netflix DOES allow you to subscribe in app... using iTunes and giving Apple 30% and everything. You don't see them complaining...
No doubt on the "cheapest available"... used to buy ENORMOUS stacks of them... 50 or 100 at a time or whatever.
They were crazy unreliable... but hey, what else is a kid supposed to do? :-)
BTW: The same thing went for burnable CDs once they came out. I had HUGE spindles of crappy CDs. Always important to run the "verification" part of the burn process ;-)
The analog these days is USB sticks and SD cards... but I'm older and wiser now and employ just a few that are higher end...
Hah! It had a similar effect... but not on purpose!
Thanks for the good link!
lol
The first test in our automated testing process (which reviews every pull request before it's merged) is to test for "sleep"... we completely disallow it to be used... ever!
How did it get this way? Well, I'm sad to say that it was actually my fault. I have a habit when I'm debugging particularly tricky MPI code (we do massively parallel scientific simulation) to use "sleep(pid)" where "pid" is the "processor ID" or "rank" of the current MPI process. I use it to "serialize" print statements so they don't clobber each other. There are definitely other ways to achieve the same thing... but this is quick and dirty while I'm developing.
Unfortunately... I accidentally checked in code with these a couple of times. Running in serial (1 processor) it only causes a 1 second slowdown... but if you're running on 10,000 processors... well... you're going to be waiting a while!
Since it happened twice, "sleep" got the perma-ban by our devs (to save themselves from me!).
Anyway - a little off-topic... let me try to pull it back on topic. Slack was the first distro I ever loaded back in the 90s. I downloaded it to several (20ish?) 3.5" disks at my job (after school job doing tech support at a local ISP)... got them all home and tried to install it and guess what? Yep. One of those disks was corrupted. Took two more tries before I was able to get it going... but my mind was permanently BLOWN once I got it working :-)
Actually - Ford/Chevy/Chrysler do exactly the same thing Apple (may be) doing: they jealously guard the copyright on their official repair schematics. Car repair shops pay a LOT of money to get them... and they are regularly traded illegally online.
If someone had a Youtube channel where they were showing copyright infringing schematics of Ford/Chevy/Chrysler cars the way this guy did for Apple computer schematics... they would be ALL OVER IT trying to shut it down.
Apple doesn't care if you tell people how to fix their computers... just don't spread Apple copyrighted material around to do it...
While I got a chuckle out of your comment I'll just mention that you don't need to be able to get on the network in order to get sensitive corporate information on employee's devices.
People will forward emails to their personal account or upload something to dropbox or just start work correspondence with their personal email. Happens all the time.
The best way to fight against this is to make work machines as useable and user-friendly as possible... so there is less incentive to try to move work onto a personal device. That seems to be the goal here... even if this sounds fairly dubious.
This is wrong.
Spotify tried to submit an update that linked a potential subscriber outside to their website to subscribe. That's against the rules.
BTW: The current Spotify app continues to work just fine (been using it all day).
If you read other articles on it you will find that Spotify tried to put a link in their app that would take you to Spotify's website to sign up for a subscription.
That is against the App store rules.
They are free to NOT use Apple to start subscriptions... but they cannot link to another mechanism to do so. The best they are allowed to do is say "You must sign up for a Spotify account before using this application".
That's what Kindle, etc. do.
Netflix does not get preferential treatment.
If you sign up for Netflix on an iOS device it uses your iTunes account... and they pay the 30% to Apple.
Why do you think it would be different for them?
Being a science/engineering PhD student I still take a LOT of handwritten notes.
Last year, when it was released, I snatched up the 12.9" iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil. It is truly AWESOME for taking notes!
I use a great app called "Notability" which syncs through iCloud (and backs up in PDF form to Dropbox) so my notes instantly show up on my phone and computers.
It's great in class... and maybe even better as a "lab notebook".
A long time ago when I was doing my masters I actually used one of the first Windows "convertible" tablets for all of my notes. It "worked" but wasn't nearly as nice of an experience as the Apple Pencil and iPad Pro. The Apple Pencil is incredibly accurate and the iPad Pro is essentially the same size as a regular sheet of paper. Really nice tools to work with!
It was bound to happen sooner or later.
Luckily for Tesla this sounds like it couldn't have been avoided in any way.
There will be more... but, like Tesla says, their Auto-pilot system has thus far proven VERY safe. What remains to be seen is how the world reconciles the fact that there will always be outliers...
That's because OSX Messages is a simple, purposeful app that works as designed and Skype is a bloated mess...
I'm not advocating this technology... but if you read up on what Alicia Keys is doing at her concerts they are putting phones in little bags that can only be opened after the concert by the staff. That means you can't use your phone _at all_ during a concert.
Technology like this would allow you to use your phone during the concert... just without being able to take pictures.
"Old rules regarding fraud liability still apply to non-chipped cards, by the way."
Yes, but if you swipe a chip card you're liable... so carrying the old "free" reader only is now a liability.
"They have a chip reader that plugs into the 3.5mm as well"
Yes, but it's $30. For only $20 more you can get the new contactless, Bluetooth reader. I'm not sure there's a strong argument for $30 instead of $50 when this is the heart of your business...
You can blame who you like... but that's the reason it's not working...
Lots of brick and mortar places here (Boston) use Square... and many of them have already upgraded to the new reader.
Just paid for ice cream yesterday using Apple Pay on my Apple Watch at one.
Note that places were going to have to drop the stripe readers anyway once the mandates for chip and pin set in. The new reader does chip and pin and NFC/ApplePay
This completely invalidates the analysis. Colorado is huge and I'm sure there are several small cities way outside of Denver that skew the statistics.
I've used Uber in some small towns (like Idaho Falls, ID) where it was basically just one dude with his old Prius. He just sits at home and waits for Uber to ding and jumps in his car. How much money he's making "per hour" isn't really a relevant metric...
I find it hard to believe that anyone that actually "does business" with a square reader would be troubled by a one-time $49 purchase.
Do you stand by the road selling ants for 1 cent each?
I wasn't arguing that Ethernet doesn't have its merits... Just that only a tiny fraction of the market for a laptop care enough about having an Ethernet jack that it wasn't worth keeping on the machine.
The same goes for 3.5mm. It certainly has its merits... but very few people care. All of the "normal" people will jump up and down on Facebook about how "cool it is that Apple is including Bluetooth headphones in the box!!" and promptly move on with their lives.