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  1. Re:"battery last longer"? on Cloudflare Says Its New VPN Service Won't Slow You Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Using a dedicated chip would help. Manufacturers have in fact included dedicated units in their CPUs for operations like AES encryption, but I’m not sure mobile chips include those.

  2. Re:Apple made a huge mistake here on Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    They did pull out Facebook’s developper certs over this, as well as Google’s. That had no impact over their apps published normally through the App Store, though.

  3. Re: Opioid use ... on Alphabet's 'Verily' Plans to Use Tech To Fight The Opioid Crisis (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I was about to reply the same thing. Interesting you were modded troll...

  4. Re:Removing it is the wrong solution on Apple Removes Useless 'Do Not Track' Feature From Latest Beta Versions of Safari (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    They are stating that this setting can actually be used to track you even more; it’s worse than useless, it is in fact detrimental to privacy. They also said they would step up built-in measures that should make tracking harder, which is definitely better than a useless flag.

  5. A recession will barely affect those at the top.

    Cybersecurity risks hitting their assets, bank accounts, and tax haven shenanigans.

  6. Re:Pepperidge Farms Remembers on US CEOs Are More Worried About Cybersecurity Than a Possible Recession (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You might want to look into the car loans situation.

  7. Bribes. Bribes to politicians to either ignore their flagrant violations of laws and regulations or to make sure same laws are changed.

  8. Re:CCleaner is only needed b/c sloppiness. on Avast Pulls the Latest Version of CCleaner Following Privacy Controversy (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Get rid of the registry? And replace it with what? A rolodex stored in a filing cabinet behind a door with a sign that says “Beware of the tiger”? That’s like suggesting getting rid of a baby because it got a cold.

  9. Most of these came from a massive code review Cisco has been doing through their entire software codebase, which across all their products is truly massive. They found a good number of flaws, and honestly these backdoor accounts mostly look like debugging features left in inadvertently.

  10. I don’t think people do.

    But maybe they search for “duck” in the browser’s address bar expecting it to find DuckDuckGo instead it adds .com and sends them to duck.com which redirects to Google. A bit weird but I can see the issue. And why would Google have bought duck.com for ANY other reason than to screw with DuckDuckGo?

  11. Re:Technically Correct - The Best Kind of Correct on Top US Antitrust Official Uncertain of Need For Four Wireless Carriers (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your objection is nonsensical. It’s impossible to know how many planets exist in the universe, yet I can unequivocally affirm it is not less than four.

    You can be unable to state a number yet be assured it must be bounded in some way.

  12. Re:USA #1 on China Overtakes US For Healthy Lifespan, WHO Data Finds (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Call the OECD rankings fake news?

    The root of many issues in our society is inequality. The solution is wealth-sharing, aka socialism.

    The world needs new a socialist revolution. One problem may be that too many equate socialism with communism. younger people seem more likely to support wealth sharing since they have no wealth, but their voting weight is unbalancingly low right now due to the aging population. When those older people stop voting or die off, I suspect things will right themselves off. If it happens soon enough, it might fix things peacefully. If it takes too long, fascism may take root, dismantle democratic institutions and it will take a revolution and civil war. I’d rather we try to fix inequality earlier rather than get there.

  13. Re:Click-bait title? on Suspicious Event Hijacks Amazon Traffic For 2 hours, Steals Cryptocurrency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    This was not dns hijacking. It’s BGP hijacking. The routing protocol is horribly outdated and has no security at all. No authentication, no validation. We need a new version of BGP that includes some way to authenticate updates and ensure the routes are for addresses the AS number is authoritative for in some way.

  14. Re:Why don't they just do what airlines do on Paradise Papers Expose Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Have name printed on the ticket, require id, and force ticket sellers to reimburse you, minus a reasonable cancellation fee. They can resell your ticket to somone else at face value after.

  15. Re:Why don't they just do what airlines do on Paradise Papers Expose Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, stubhub is owned by eBay. Getmein.com is the resale site owned by Ticketmaster. Doesn’t change your point, of course but still it’s important to be factual.

  16. Re:So what does it DO? on Canada's 'Super Secret Spy Agency' Is Releasing a Malware-Fighting Tool To the Public (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Easy to follow instructions to deploy it:

    https://bitbucket.org/cse-asse...

    Reference manual in PDF:

    https://bitbucket.org/cse-asse...

  17. Re: I'm so confused on Honda Shuts Down Factory After Finding NSA-derived Wcry In Its Networks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Correction: Microsoft made coding errors leading to an exploit. The NSA found the exploit. They left their exploit tool and code on a server that was hacked by somone else (russians?). The Shadow Brokers (russians?) leaked those. Then the north koreans used it in wannacry.

    So you can blame Microsoft, the NSA, Russian Intelligence AND the North Koreans. It's an equal opportunity blame game!

  18. Not for the average Slashdot reader, no. But for most people out there who buy these things, it is.

  19. Ransomware that infects TVs and Mirai botnets are "paranoid nutter scenarios"?

  20. You can't sue them, since the law in most countries accepts EULAs as valid, specifically the so-called "limitations of liability".

    We need legislative changes first, whether you want regulations or not, to make manufacturers liable for security defects in their products.

  21. Re:Not on my channel they aren't on A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are In Decline (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Police violence, rape and autism only appear to have increased recently. The evidence shows they haven't.

    What seems to be happening is that they are reported/accounted/diagnosed better. You hear more about them thanks to new channels. Violence against blacks in many areas of the US (as well as violence against minorities in general worldwide) has been common and stable over the recent past (correcting for the general drop in violence in industrialized countries since the late 70s that many attribute to removal of lead in gasoline). The general media had mostly ignored some of those issues. But they can't do so anymore now because of the prevalence of cell phones (video evidence), citizen reporting (blogs, twitter, facebook, etc) and new ways of organizing movements online.

    Note that I chose those three exemples because of their clear recent increase in reporting and news coverage. For what it's worth (and will do to my karma) I support #BLM, social justice movements and I am convinced vaccines have nothing to do with autism.

  22. Re: Revenge p0rn on Gawker Files For Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Lawsuit (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Gawker is a terrible bottom feeder. But when the next billionaire gets pissed at Slashdot for reporting on how his newfangled techo-marvel is a POS, and forces it into bankruptcy and closure, you might care more.

    This is not about Gawker anymore, this is about a billionaire using his money and influence to destroy someone using the legal system as a proxy.

  23. The zerg are not a bug, they're a feature.

    --
    The Xel'naga.

  24. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist on Volcano Erupts In Southwest Alaska, Sending Ash 20,000 Feet (google.com) · · Score: 0

    She immediately posted on twitter that it was Obama's fault.

    Putin obviously blamed it on gay people.

  25. And then there's filters... on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've had issues a few times with filters on names rejecting mine for supposedly referring to a body part...