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  1. Re:If the security is done correcty on DoJ Says Apple's Posture on iPhone Unlocking Is Just Marketing (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    provided some conditions

    That will be difficult, or not possible, with a piece of evidence. Apple cannot possess the phone at any point. Anything sent to, or run on the phone MUST NOT alter any non-volatile storage AT ALL.

    In the end, I'm pretty sure there's nothing of merit on the phone anyway. But, by doing this once, they've been proven to be able to do it AGAIN.

  2. So what exactly makes the sensor "untrustable"? It's not sequencing DNA; it takes a freakin' picture of your finger and "securely" communicates it to the SE. (i.e. a camera accessed via SSL from the SE) I'm pretty sure a fingerprint can be suitably replicated to fool the TouchID system. ('tho I do hope it's not a simple as licking a photocopy...)

  3. Re:Where are the actual details? on Researchers Find Method To Own VoIP Phones, Silently Listen To Any Call · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much all we get from most of these "security experts". At no point do they "take over the phone" and at no point is it, in fact, covert. The phone is clearly in use the whole time. If you were making that skype call with the f'ing phone on your desk, you'd instantly know someone is dicking with it. (as you would also by simply looking at it) Yes, someone can make the phone do, well, what the phone is designed to do via the web api. As for all this OMG-firmware-upload!!!!!11!, the images are signed and THE PHONE WILL REBOOT after being sent the firmware update command.

    This is just more bullshit from internet security trolls hellbent on making every g** d*** thing so freakin' complex to use that we'll have to resort to using The One Password(tm) that can meet their idiotic requirements that's so hard to remember it'll have to be tattooed to the back of your hand. Or use a password manager, because putting all your eggs in one place is SOOOOOOOOOOO secure.

    (Yes, there have been real bugs in VoIP phones that do, in fact, allow covert snooping. Sneak your own app into a Cisco phone that tunnels the mic to wherever; you'd have to watch network to know it's there.)

  4. Re:Congratulations on TP-Link Begins Lockdown of Firmware In Response To FCC · · Score: 1

    No trickery at all... I go to the radio setup page and select "14". It's not my fault [censored -- more than one manufacturer, actually] and Broadcom are idiots. With the regulatory zone set to "US" neither should allow 14. (this is straight out of the US retail box.)

    Yes, to get my Dell/HP laptops to use 14 I have change their zone. (which is just a registry setting in windows)

  5. Re:Where's The Lie? on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS To Have Official Support For ZFS File System (dustinkirkland.com) · · Score: 1

    While true, many (all?) distros let udev screw with interface names, most of them leave the name eth# and remember which was which by MAC. Most important here is how simply an admin could turn that crap off. systemD doesn't use "eth" anymore, and the formerly simple methods of stopping this (lock a file, remove a script, etc.) are no longer that simple. Is it the end of the world, no. But it is still a needless pain in the ass.

  6. Re:Another simple solution on Copyright Professor's Lecture Removed From YouTube Over Sony Content-ID Claim (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    The DMCA doesn't work like that. Youtube MUST make the alleged content unavailable in a timely fashion. (i.e. upon notice) They take it down and pass the infringement notice on to the poster. The poster should be able to file a counter-claim, but youtube's process here can be difficult. (read: you'll need lawyers. you can file a counter-claim, but you'll have to do it through a lawyer, on paper.)

  7. Re:DMCA penalty on Copyright Professor's Lecture Removed From YouTube Over Sony Content-ID Claim (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You need to use paper -- the tried and true method of all things legal. Youtube gets too many crackpots, like you, doing this sort of shit, so they ignore you. Serve an actual from-a-lawyer DMCA notice to youtube (and Sony), and they will act on it. They cannot legally ignore it. I suspect 100% of your takedown requests were complete bunk, and Sony's legal team would toss you into a wood chipper if you actually filed them.

  8. Re:until people get punished for false claims on Copyright Professor's Lecture Removed From YouTube Over Sony Content-ID Claim (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 0

    Have fun trying to punish a PROGRAM. 99.99999999999999999999999% of these issues are the result of automatic scanning and marking. Youtube's content-id marking system is flagging so much crap I doubt Sony employs enough people worldwide to actually check every one.

    What needs to change is the ability for anyone to challenge such claims without the need to have million dollar institutions backing you.

  9. Re:Koeniggsegg is still working on it on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    M1A1 weighs 60+ TON. Your car weighs 1 (2 tops). I don't know about the GM one, but the Toyota one was documented @ 105MPG.

    Modern CVTs and hybrids (even fully electric drive) could make great use of the tech. Of course, we could get there with diesel-electric as well, but the US hates diesel.

  10. HGST makes the most reliable stuff, but the models they were using are no longer available, and they're expensive.

    Seagate is in a dead tie for Worst Shit In The Universe. (esp. when you use the "DM" series DESKTOP drives) They use them because they're dirt cheap, and falling off every truck in NY. Plus, they'll tell you when they're about to die. (i.e. shortly after first power-on. :-))

    The short of it is: when you buy 10,000 drives a year, you care more about price and availability than reliability.

  11. And "spinning rust" (which is a bad analogy as they don't use iron oxide anymore) scales very well... just stack more platters. That's how we did it back in the good old days.

  12. Re:Camshafts control flow timing not firing on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Heh. The timing belt/chain (which connects to several things, the cam being one of them.) The point is, the cam does not fire the spark plug; the ECU fires the spark.

  13. Re:Camshafts control flow timing not firing on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    It's ALREADY trivial: just don't fire that injector (and plug)

    (We've done that on our "race car". Piston #3 cracked in half; unplug that injector and get back out there. The car's making ~70hp now, so it's no fun to drive, but it's still turning laps.)

  14. Re:Koeniggsegg is still working on it on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    I just love how it looks like a Honda B18 shoespooned into a Saab wagon.

    And for all the talk of a square cam profile, their system is still not square (nor will it every be.) It takes time to open and close a valve. Their system may be fast, but it isn't perfect. And I seriously doubt it can run diesel or gas in the same engine -- the compression it takes to get diesel to burn causes gas to detonate. The engine has to be designed to burn diesel, and electronically programmed to allow gas (leave the valves open to effectively reduce the stroke) -- and they'll be instantly sued by toyota/lexus because that's how their atkins cycle engines works. Any such design will be less efficient than one specifically designed for gas.

    (We've had engines that can "burn anything" for a long, long time... gas turbine. Toyota built one decades ago; it was loud and sluggish, so they scrapped it. GM did the same thing back in the 70's; recalled and destroyed every one of them. Their fuel efficiency is scary -- over 100mpg. Today, they're only found in main battle tanks.)

  15. Re:Great! Now if only they would make upgrades eas on Cisco ASA Firewall Has a Wormable Problem — And a Million Installs (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    The "AIP SSC" is EOL. NOT the 5505 itself. (yet)

  16. Re:Great! Now if only they would make upgrades eas on Cisco ASA Firewall Has a Wormable Problem — And a Million Installs (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Verify the sha/md5 with the mothership.

  17. Re:Great! Now if only they would make upgrades eas on Cisco ASA Firewall Has a Wormable Problem — And a Million Installs (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Not YET. However, with the introduction of the 5506/5508, it shouldn't be long.

    http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/s...

  18. Re:Emergency Brake? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 1

    BECAUSE. IT. IS.

    Just because you don't know how to use it in an emergency doesn't change that fact. When the hydraulic brakes fail, that physically cabled "park brake" is all you have; and they are tested to ensure they will slow the car, and hold it in place at rest. (it's part of the NC safety inspection procedures.)

  19. Re:Emergency Brake? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 1

    Manual is, in general, "better on gas" as less energy is lost between the engine and transmission (i.e. clutch slippage.) However, modern locking automatics and CVTs make the difference almost unmeasurable. And given how smart the computerized systems can be, a CVT can be more efficient than any human.

  20. Re:Emergency Brake? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 1

    The "emergency" part comes from the physical cabling from that handle/pedal to the brake caliper. Short of the cable breaking (which is RARE), pressing that pedal Will. Activate. The. Brake. (usually, the rear brakes) It will not be to the same effect as the normal brake, but then, it's not designed to panic-stop a car. (it'll gradually slow the car, or hold it in place at rest.)

  21. Re:Oh boy! on Fine Brothers File For Trademark On Word "React" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except that's how it's going to be applied. Use the word react in your youtube title, tags, or description and it'll be yanked! (or FineBros will take your ad money) I understand the business necessity to trademark your work(s), but in the context of youtube, it's merely a means to bully everyone. Even if that's not their intent, it's going to be very hard not to.

    Ask Devinsupertramp how that works.

  22. Re:Encryption aside on OSINT Analysis of Militia Communications, Equipment and Frequencies (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the Baofeng FCC approved?

    No, they are not. And they never will be... (1) due simply to cost, and (2) because they don't meet FCC rules for FRS or GMRS -- removable antennae, excessive power, operates outside the allowed frequency plan, ... If you hold an amateur radio license, they you can legally operate one, but it's up to you to program it correctly.

  23. Re:Wannabe soldiers on OSINT Analysis of Militia Communications, Equipment and Frequencies (wordpress.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    True. But the radios the US military uses don't have to obey any rules of any nation. They sure as shit don't listen to the FCC. Look up the specs on those fancy Harris encrypting radios they have everywhere. (I could go to jail for just holding one of those things. :-))

    First, those chinese radios are, to the letter of the law, illegal in the US -- they violate MANY rules for GMRS and FRS radios; plus, if they're like the ones I have, they arrive with FM transmit enabled. Encryption is absolutely illegal; and the cost and complexity keeps it out of the market.

    (as with all things, the loophole is encrypting things before it gets to the radio. i.e. WEP/WPA/SSL over WiFi, VOIP + TLS, etc. In short, the radio didn't encrypt it.)

  24. Re: wut? on San Francisco's Yellow Cab Files For Bankruptcy (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd have to say that Uber holds all the cards when the time comes to distribute the work.

    No, Uber doesn't. Uber is not telling drivers where to go, who to pick up, and take elsewhere. The Uber driver selects who they want to pick up, and by extension where they go. Questionable fare (poor uber rating) or sketchy neighborhood, don't take it. Uber doesn't assign a driver, the driver picks their fare knowing exactly who they are, where they are, and where they want to go.

  25. Re: Something about eggs and a basket on For Data Centers, Google Likes the Southeast (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually nuclear (and hydro), but the rest is true. In NC/SC, there are vast tracts of former textile mills where there's plenty of cheap land and power.