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  1. PGP on Brazil Announces Secure Email To Counter US Spying · · Score: 1

    Let's hope that they use PGP or S/MIME and that this motivates other ISPs to roll it out as well. This would hopefully motivate GMail to at least make it compatible in some way. (I mean checking signatures etc)

  2. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    The problem with throwing out the Constitution and starting over (which is something that even Thomas Jefferson advocated for every generation) is that in this political climate, a lot of good things would be thrown out and bad things enshrined. You think Freedom of Religion would stay in the Constitution unchanged when the Tea Party insists that Muslim Americans and atheists don't deserve the same rights? How about press freedom? How about second amendment, which needs modifying; do you think politicians will make it easier to get a gun or harder? For that reason, it's very hard to change without opening a Pandora's Box of politician tampering.

  3. Re:Not a "fact check" on Meet the Guy Who Fact-Checks Stephen King On Stephen King · · Score: 2

    I did write "" (the unequal sign), does slashdot not process symbols?

    Fine, Continuity checking != "Fact checking"

  4. Not a "fact check" on Meet the Guy Who Fact-Checks Stephen King On Stephen King · · Score: 1

    Continuity checking "Fact checking"

  5. Re:Snowden beware on New Snowden Revelation: Terrorists Attempting To Infiltrate CIA · · Score: 1

    " If they try and label him a terrorist, zero US citizens are going to buy it so that would just cheapen the word."

    Not according to the talking heads on all the news channels. Considering how many people hate Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, an awful lot of people will trust the government's word yet again.

  6. Re:the cloud is dead on Lockbox Aims To NSA-Proof the Cloud · · Score: 1

    The NSA couldn't shut down PGP (though they did try unsuccessfully to restrict the public's access to it), and Snowden said it's still secure.

  7. PGP on Lockbox Aims To NSA-Proof the Cloud · · Score: 1

    We already have PGP, which is open-sourced. Will this be better and easier to use?

  8. Re:Should be prosecuted for negligence... on UK High Court Gives OK To Investigation of Data Siezed From David Miranda · · Score: 1

    To be fair, not every password is a simple word or phrase. If it's a randomly-generated password, you need to store it. I agree that having it on paper and not in some sort of encrypted keychain is an extremely bad idea, and I'm surprised that the Greenwald/Miranda/Poitras team made such a huge mistake.

  9. Re: Not a security flaw on Tesla Model S REST API Authentication Flaws · · Score: 1

    That's something OAuth already addresses (which is why twitter and Facebook use it). When you log in via the portal page, it gives the third party app a token rather than letting them see your password. The token can be revoked at any time from your permissions page or the company can blacklist that app. Tesla's implementation shares the password with the third party apps AND the token can't be revoked early.

  10. Re: Not a security flaw on Tesla Model S REST API Authentication Flaws · · Score: 1

    OR someone to log into a dodgy third party site, OR someone to crack a third party site and get all the tokens

  11. Excessive? on Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 Years · · Score: 1

    Considering how there are US soldiers convicted of murdering Afghans and Iraqis who still got lesser sentences, how did Manning get more years in prison than them?

  12. Re: The system worked on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 1

    An old report from a conservative group. As I've said, I've been to many mosques and none have such literature. My mosque is disgusted by such stuff and so is the community. After this article came out, many mosques looked on their library shelves and threw away such dusty publications. They have no relevance to our community not reflect any American Muslim views.

    Don't take my word for it, go visit a mosque for yourself.

  13. Re: The system worked on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 1

    Boston could not have been prevented by the Muslim community. Dhohar never really attended any mosques, and his older brother didn't share his ideas with anyone at the mosque. You'll recall the only witness accounts at the mosque of his being there state he was thrown out of one for yelling and distrusting the sermon. (It was a sermon on how we Muslims should act more like Marting Luther King Jr.) The leader, Imam Suhaib Webb, threw his full support behind the Boston police.

    Again, we're talking about the American Muslim community, which doesn't tolerate Wahhabism. I've been to dozens of mosques in a number of states and have yet to see any Wahhabism. The American Muslim community is a patriotic bunch.

  14. Re:The system worked on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 1

    You're an ignorant and bigoted idiot because FBI Director Robert Mueller has credited the American Muslim community with helping catch the bad guys; over 60% of all terrorism arrests since 2001 came about by tips from the Muslim community. Wahabi literature isn't "widely available," you obviously haven't been to a single mosque and are just engaging in ignorant fearmongering.

  15. One name on Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) · · Score: 2

    PGP. It's good enough for WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden and good enough for me

  16. Re:It's not about you specifically on What Features Does iOS 7 Need? · · Score: 1

    You have to be pretty dumb to install malware on Android

    And yet almost a million Android users have.

  17. Re:Itunes, not even remotely good. on iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years · · Score: 1

    Charging an iPad over a PC's USB outlets is quite slow, their wall adaptor is a higher voltage and faster.

  18. Re:why does your phone need software running on yo on iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years · · Score: 4, Informative

    The service runs in the background and launches iTunes when the phone is plugged in. It's quite handy.

  19. Re:Backups on Siri Keeps Your Data For Two Years · · Score: 0

    Well, considering how the DEA is complaining that they can't read encrypted iMessages, and Apple got rid of google maps as default partly because google kept demanding more personallly identifying user data, I don't think we should assume Apple always rolls over on stuff like this.

  20. Re:IF..... on Napster: the Day the Music Was Set Free · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, the recording industry has never been more profitable. Yes, they screwed themselves over for the long run, but they don't notice it

  21. Re:Why is there a wi-fi crisis? on Carmakers Oppose Opening Up 5GHZ Spectrum Space For Unlicensed Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Dropbox certainly has LAN support, check preferences. Perhaps your network isn't configured in such a way that they can see one another.

  22. Re:iFirstPost on Woz Says iPhone Features Are 'Behind' · · Score: 1

    Yeah and my horse costs so much less than a car. Isn't that a bad analogy?

  23. Bill Gates on Facebook Test Will Let You Message Strangers For $1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Someone copied Bill Gates' 1995 book "The Road Ahead," where he predicted charging fees to the senders.

  24. Re:Bullshit on Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas · · Score: 1

    Egypt has chosen to keep its border closed because Israel begged them to.

  25. Re:Easy on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 0

    2 states voted to decriminalize it. It's still illegal under federal law though.