I think there are ways around it, not a 100% perfect but at least make their job a lot harder. Services like lavabit were good and it goes to show that they needed to use some nasty legal tactics to make them open up. Those tactics are not available when you use providers in countries like Russia or China. Sure, they can tap the underwater fiber all they want, but I think it still is better than nothing.
The best I have found so far are Yandex from Russia and Netease 163.com from China. 163 is extremely fast if you are in China, but it has some advertising and the interface is all Chinese, so I would suggest the English version of Yandex mail instead at mail.yandex.com.
I'm planning to get a dedicated server with the state telco in Venezuela for precisely this reason. That and also run a Tinyproxy/OpenVPN and figure out WebDAV to have my own Google Drive/SkyDrive, etc. If anybody is interested just write to aclsid at 163.com.
I felt exactly the same way until my girlfriend gave me an iPad mini as a present. I was totally like, I can still do this with my phone, arghh I have to buy the HD version now, etc. But now I'm totally hooked. The way you interface with the device is one of the major reasons, all those crazy finger gestures like using five fingers to close an app, etc. It's what Microsoft wanted Windows 8 to be I believe. Plus I got the 3G version which has been very convenient.
So all in all, I think my devices setup will end up being, a good desktop computer with badass screen, a tablet like the iPad mini or Nexus 7 and a smartphone. No more laptops for me, unless I truly have to start coding on the road or something.
Not to mention that the amazing battery life is something that I really enjoy from e-ink devices. I truly believe that with e-ink devices we are facing the situation of the very good light bulb, it became so good that afterwards nobody wanted to replace it, so the factory had to shut down.
Well I tried technical books on the Nook and the problem is that diagrams, code listings and graphics in general are messed up. Mind you, I have the e-ink version but what I found to be the most effective usage for me was to have the Nook around for the "reading" sections and use the Nook mac app with the book open, so I could Alt-Tab/Cmd-Tab any time while coding, copy and paste, etc. I also have an iPad mini so I ended up getting my technical books in that device and just have the Nook for actual reading. I would guess that the best setup that I coud get for technical books was to have a dual-monitor setup with Nook study opened in one, and whatever code editor in the other.
But as far as the article is concerned, I still believe in e-books since I'm a person who so far, has lived in 3 different countries the past 5 years so it is a major hassle to get paper books and carry those around.
Now if you just want it immediately, tough luck. I would like to see a couple of shows from France and the UK as well, not to mention the new Stephen Chow movie that came out in China in February. So I would just go and pirate those as well?
Because not watching Game of Thrones is a life threatening situation...
When you see something you consider a rip-off you simply just don't buy it, even if it is a good thing. Porsches are awfully overpriced, and that does not give me the right to go and steal one from the nearest dealer. Besides, it's not like you cannot get the episodes from iTunes, or just wait until the whole thing comes out in Blu-ray, DVD.
Does the fact that you are stealing stuff matter at all? There are free GPL alternatives to Microsoft Office. You tell me how are software companies, writers, filmmakers or artists going to survive if everybody copies their stuff for free. Sure there are some industries that are full of crooks but that does not give you the right to become a crook yourself. In China it is so utterly pointless to make people pay for software that the companies developing apps for Android focus on creating addictive games with in-app purchases or making deals with the telcos or manufacturers and their respective app stores. Don't expect to see too many AutoCADs coming out from that model.
There is no doubt that the system is corrupt, but not paying even a dime for anything is corrupt as well. So don't fool yourself, by using those sites you have become the same thief as the music industry executive. Not everybody can go to all concerts and buy the CDs directly from artists, but at least if we try the legal avenues, at some point the actual artist will get even 1 dollar of compensation for your money.
I have been in countries with little copyright protection and guess what happens with their music and film industry? The government kind of have to step in to fund projects, since otherwise the box office is kind of a moot point. So corrupt or not, the free market with some copyright protection still rules in that sense.
I hate to break it to you but Firefox has a lot of Google integration without you noticing. Take a system like Safebrowsing for instance, Microsoft developed their own thing and so did a lot of antivirus companies. Firefox's solution? Instead of trying to use something like WOT or even some local replicated list a la DNS, they just send your queries to Google in hash form. Ask yourself if Google is so benevolent why don't they allow a service where those queries are done locally?
Also if you do not install something like NoScript or Ghostery, there is a lot of tracking that they don't even care to protect you from. Mozilla should be the people's browsers and they should be at the forefront of the privacy fight. Instead they just take a back seat and let add-ons do the job while they collect the big paycheck from the advertisement companies.
Lol, comodo what? Go back to the hole you came from troll. Today if you are not using Chrome, Firefox or Safari, I hope you can at least say it is because you are using Icecat.
All of those alternate browser fail because of the add-ons. That's the main thing today with browsers since anybody can build a proper browser using Gecko, Webkit or even Trident.
What are you talking about? Because banks like ICBC, Bank of China and Agricultural Bank of China works just fine with other browsers and other operating systems while we are it. ICBC in particular has even more sophosticated security measures than Bank of America.
The problem is that paying for software is so much a foreign concept that for a country this size, Microsoft only managed to sell like a thousand legit copies of Vista. So if you are facing a choice of getting Windows for free with MS Office preinstalled, and all the major apps, why would you bother with Linux.
I got a gaming rig from a technology mall in Xujiahui and when I asked for an original copy of Windows, the vendor apologized since he didn't even know where to find it. This is after he found power surge protection from another store, a Geforce from yet another vendor and even an extra long phillips screwdriver. Then they proceeded to run Norton Ghost from a pen drive and installed Windows 7 with Office, QQ among others.
Commies in China? As you know, all people care here in Shanghai is the bottom line, not even central party politics. So this whole XP China issue is a non-issue really. Chinese could not care less and most places I have been have these slow as molasses computers without even pirated antivirus as I have seen in other developing countries.
I said that because it is easy to understand stuff like this happening in IE. But Google should know better, especially a guy who is in charge of the security of the browser. Now I don't know about the rest of the stuff you said but that's why I mentioned IE in the first place, not having the conversation simple because we know they have a history of making poor security choices.
You can keep the password database in the same machine. If you use a third-party password manager you can also use a key file that you keep in a separate device you carry with you. That way no matter who uses your computer if they don't have both the key file and the password they won't be able to do anything. And closing the session is as easy as closing the password vault software. There are no known tools that can crack algorithms like AES or Twofish which these systems use.
Nothing prevents browser vendors from going the other way around, meaning enhancing the security of these password vaults. It isn't that hard. Using key files and master passwords is a good step in that direction. I agree with you that the functionality should be disabled by default unless the user wants to set it up. That way the user would have to create the extra safety measures and understand what is going on. And this should be included because passwords vaults are the best way to solve a lot of issues like:
-People using simple passwords -People forgetting passwords -Having different passwords for different sites, so if one site gets compromised it doesn't affect the others
The problem is a lot of non-technical users do not know how easy it is for their information to be stolen. So it should be up to the programmer to include some sort of security in a friendly way.
Except that for malware like that to be installed in your machine you either have to be running a really crappy antivirus or you got hit by a truly sophisticated one of a kind attack. And there are tools that prevent malware from doing exactly that, by adding a lot of random keys when the password is being pasted. Locking your computer is something that can help, but if it depends on a person to do it, you can expect that it will fail at some point.
You cannot protect any data even if you lock your OS account. It is very easy to change system passwords, and really ask yourself, if you had important information on a sheet of paper, would you just leave it on a drawer easily accesible by anyone when you are not there or would you just lock it with a key?
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I think there are ways around it, not a 100% perfect but at least make their job a lot harder. Services like lavabit were good and it goes to show that they needed to use some nasty legal tactics to make them open up. Those tactics are not available when you use providers in countries like Russia or China. Sure, they can tap the underwater fiber all they want, but I think it still is better than nothing.
The best I have found so far are Yandex from Russia and Netease 163.com from China. 163 is extremely fast if you are in China, but it has some advertising and the interface is all Chinese, so I would suggest the English version of Yandex mail instead at mail.yandex.com.
I'm planning to get a dedicated server with the state telco in Venezuela for precisely this reason. That and also run a Tinyproxy/OpenVPN and figure out WebDAV to have my own Google Drive/SkyDrive, etc. If anybody is interested just write to aclsid at 163.com.
I felt exactly the same way until my girlfriend gave me an iPad mini as a present. I was totally like, I can still do this with my phone, arghh I have to buy the HD version now, etc. But now I'm totally hooked. The way you interface with the device is one of the major reasons, all those crazy finger gestures like using five fingers to close an app, etc. It's what Microsoft wanted Windows 8 to be I believe. Plus I got the 3G version which has been very convenient.
So all in all, I think my devices setup will end up being, a good desktop computer with badass screen, a tablet like the iPad mini or Nexus 7 and a smartphone. No more laptops for me, unless I truly have to start coding on the road or something.
Not to mention that the amazing battery life is something that I really enjoy from e-ink devices. I truly believe that with e-ink devices we are facing the situation of the very good light bulb, it became so good that afterwards nobody wanted to replace it, so the factory had to shut down.
Well I tried technical books on the Nook and the problem is that diagrams, code listings and graphics in general are messed up. Mind you, I have the e-ink version but what I found to be the most effective usage for me was to have the Nook around for the "reading" sections and use the Nook mac app with the book open, so I could Alt-Tab/Cmd-Tab any time while coding, copy and paste, etc. I also have an iPad mini so I ended up getting my technical books in that device and just have the Nook for actual reading. I would guess that the best setup that I coud get for technical books was to have a dual-monitor setup with Nook study opened in one, and whatever code editor in the other.
But as far as the article is concerned, I still believe in e-books since I'm a person who so far, has lived in 3 different countries the past 5 years so it is a major hassle to get paper books and carry those around.
Yeah, it is very hard to get overseas
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Now if you just want it immediately, tough luck. I would like to see a couple of shows from France and the UK as well, not to mention the new Stephen Chow movie that came out in China in February. So I would just go and pirate those as well?
Because not watching Game of Thrones is a life threatening situation...
When you see something you consider a rip-off you simply just don't buy it, even if it is a good thing. Porsches are awfully overpriced, and that does not give me the right to go and steal one from the nearest dealer. Besides, it's not like you cannot get the episodes from iTunes, or just wait until the whole thing comes out in Blu-ray, DVD.
Does the fact that you are stealing stuff matter at all? There are free GPL alternatives to Microsoft Office. You tell me how are software companies, writers, filmmakers or artists going to survive if everybody copies their stuff for free. Sure there are some industries that are full of crooks but that does not give you the right to become a crook yourself. In China it is so utterly pointless to make people pay for software that the companies developing apps for Android focus on creating addictive games with in-app purchases or making deals with the telcos or manufacturers and their respective app stores. Don't expect to see too many AutoCADs coming out from that model.
There is no doubt that the system is corrupt, but not paying even a dime for anything is corrupt as well. So don't fool yourself, by using those sites you have become the same thief as the music industry executive. Not everybody can go to all concerts and buy the CDs directly from artists, but at least if we try the legal avenues, at some point the actual artist will get even 1 dollar of compensation for your money.
I have been in countries with little copyright protection and guess what happens with their music and film industry? The government kind of have to step in to fund projects, since otherwise the box office is kind of a moot point. So corrupt or not, the free market with some copyright protection still rules in that sense.
I think Ghostery does a better job and it is a bit user to use.
I hate to break it to you but Firefox has a lot of Google integration without you noticing. Take a system like Safebrowsing for instance, Microsoft developed their own thing and so did a lot of antivirus companies. Firefox's solution? Instead of trying to use something like WOT or even some local replicated list a la DNS, they just send your queries to Google in hash form. Ask yourself if Google is so benevolent why don't they allow a service where those queries are done locally?
Also if you do not install something like NoScript or Ghostery, there is a lot of tracking that they don't even care to protect you from. Mozilla should be the people's browsers and they should be at the forefront of the privacy fight. Instead they just take a back seat and let add-ons do the job while they collect the big paycheck from the advertisement companies.
Lol, comodo what? Go back to the hole you came from troll. Today if you are not using Chrome, Firefox or Safari, I hope you can at least say it is because you are using Icecat.
All of those alternate browser fail because of the add-ons. That's the main thing today with browsers since anybody can build a proper browser using Gecko, Webkit or even Trident.
A lot of students can actually get by without even buying a computer even if you are studying computer science, since there is always the lab.
Not going to happen. People couldn't care less about Linux here. I have seen way more interest in stuff like that in Europe and alaton America though.
What are you talking about? Because banks like ICBC, Bank of China and Agricultural Bank of China works just fine with other browsers and other operating systems while we are it. ICBC in particular has even more sophosticated security measures than Bank of America.
The problem is that paying for software is so much a foreign concept that for a country this size, Microsoft only managed to sell like a thousand legit copies of Vista. So if you are facing a choice of getting Windows for free with MS Office preinstalled, and all the major apps, why would you bother with Linux.
I got a gaming rig from a technology mall in Xujiahui and when I asked for an original copy of Windows, the vendor apologized since he didn't even know where to find it. This is after he found power surge protection from another store, a Geforce from yet another vendor and even an extra long phillips screwdriver. Then they proceeded to run Norton Ghost from a pen drive and installed Windows 7 with Office, QQ among others.
The Navy was replacing DU with tungsten last I checked.
Commies in China? As you know, all people care here in Shanghai is the bottom line, not even central party politics. So this whole XP China issue is a non-issue really. Chinese could not care less and most places I have been have these slow as molasses computers without even pirated antivirus as I have seen in other developing countries.
I said that because it is easy to understand stuff like this happening in IE. But Google should know better, especially a guy who is in charge of the security of the browser. Now I don't know about the rest of the stuff you said but that's why I mentioned IE in the first place, not having the conversation simple because we know they have a history of making poor security choices.
You can keep the password database in the same machine. If you use a third-party password manager you can also use a key file that you keep in a separate device you carry with you. That way no matter who uses your computer if they don't have both the key file and the password they won't be able to do anything. And closing the session is as easy as closing the password vault software. There are no known tools that can crack algorithms like AES or Twofish which these systems use.
Nothing prevents browser vendors from going the other way around, meaning enhancing the security of these password vaults. It isn't that hard. Using key files and master passwords is a good step in that direction. I agree with you that the functionality should be disabled by default unless the user wants to set it up. That way the user would have to create the extra safety measures and understand what is going on. And this should be included because passwords vaults are the best way to solve a lot of issues like:
-People using simple passwords
-People forgetting passwords
-Having different passwords for different sites, so if one site gets compromised it doesn't affect the others
The problem is a lot of non-technical users do not know how easy it is for their information to be stolen. So it should be up to the programmer to include some sort of security in a friendly way.
Except that for malware like that to be installed in your machine you either have to be running a really crappy antivirus or you got hit by a truly sophisticated one of a kind attack. And there are tools that prevent malware from doing exactly that, by adding a lot of random keys when the password is being pasted. Locking your computer is something that can help, but if it depends on a person to do it, you can expect that it will fail at some point.
You cannot protect any data even if you lock your OS account. It is very easy to change system passwords, and really ask yourself, if you had important information on a sheet of paper, would you just leave it on a drawer easily accesible by anyone when you are not there or would you just lock it with a key?
Not all browsers do it like this. Firefox has an option to set a master password.