and who says a legit site you've been going to for years can't be hacked and have this code planted within (via an iframe or whatever?), or served by a hacked ad network?
I just wanted to mention I received an update last night on my S3 (international GT-i9300T). It wasn't super large, and it didn't change the OS version #, so I'm not sure if it was a patch for the NFC already pushed out or what it may have related to. Maybe Samsung's website will list it?
"The security researchers used a malicious webpage to send the iPhone 4S’ address book, browsing history, photos, and videos to a server of their choice. It was a drive-by download attack, meaning the user just has to go to the website, but doesn’t have to click (err, tap) on anything to have their data stolen. Furthermore, the site does not crash the browser, so the user is oblivious to losing their data."
Yup, really sounds like it's tethered to me. You folks are getting "jailbreak" and "hacked" completely mixed up somehow....
"The security researchers used a malicious webpage to send the iPhone 4S’ address book, browsing history, photos, and videos to a server of their choice. It was a drive-by download attack, meaning the user just has to go to the website, but doesn’t have to click (err, tap) on anything to have their data stolen. Furthermore, the site does not crash the browser, so the user is oblivious to losing their data."
Yeah, that sounds just like jailbreaking doesn't it?
I just ran it with 6% battery on my international s III.. Got 1875. Now if this is a benchmark that only uses a single core as some have said, you could expect a much larger jump with all 4 core running
My galaxy s is located above (higher up on the phone) the battery next to the SIM slot.. And both are recessed into the phone enough that the slot is even with the battery, making it no thicker with or without this slot. They're located over the main board, so it was sort of free space anyhow
Layers my friend. You just said it yourself without realizing.
This isn't like have 100 locks on the front door. That'd be like having 25 AV apps running on your machine.
This is like instead of having 99 locks, you use two different types (regular lock on the handle and a dead bolt or something along that setup) and then ALSO install bars over the windows.
It's also like having a solid door with lock LOCKED at the top of your steps from the basement, just in case someone forgets to lock the basement door or for whatever reason someone gets in (broken window the squeezed in etc) theres another obstacle to them getting into the main area of the home where you and your family are.
Or to put it another way, this isn't like having 40 fire extinguishers in your kitchen closest, but more like having a few around the house, plus smoke detectors (ion and photo styles or both in one unit) on all levels and in the attic.. And if you have a furnace a carbon monoxide detector in the basement and room above the furnace plus a Heat detector in the area of the furnace etc. (oh and also working with your family on how to get out in such an emergency). (or go all the way and do a sprinkler system)
While the chance of a fire may be small, and it may appear excessive... *should* one occure your ass was prepared and covered and was able to deal with the issue and minimize the damages.
And how many compression utilities are there for Windows? Heck if PK never came along, we'd still be using... Crap I forget now, was it ark? Instead, we got pkzip and pkunzip
Uhhh.. My android phone can play everything I need it to.. Browser wise or not, with only a few video formats requiring a player from the market (for example for http:// streaming)
Now my iPad... It plays most, needs help with http:// streaming just like the android... But flash? Forget about it. That's a no go which my android can play because you an actually download a flash player (adobes). Some things I use/access require flash and the DRM it supports to access the site/video.
I also saw a lot of login attempts coming from China.
At first I just setup fail2ban, which works great (can either ban the IP for a set time or forever). But after having to deal with growing log files, I decided to just use a non-standard port. That helps a ton.
Why leave it at the default and hope no one finally gets in (and worry about reporting the attempts?) instead of taking more proactive actions such as changing the port number, using SSH keys if possible rather than login/password or at least something like fail2ban, etc.
The thing is, if someone *did* get in, they may be good enough to cover their tracks and you may not notice
"Need to go back? Hit the back button. Good luck finding its hiding place on this apple screen, With Android, I can hit it with my eyes closed, which reminds me after staring at a screen for a few seconds that it's time to blink."
Thank you! I'm not the only one! I can't stand when say you're in an app and click something that opens a browser window.. AND THERE'S NO BACK/EXIT BUTTON! The only thing you can do is hit the home button, re-launch the application you *were* using.. etc. At least on my Android phone I can just hit the back button a few times and get back to the application right where I left it.
(Note: I have both an Android phone running JellyBean via 3rd party ROM and also an iPad 2... hands down I wish the android phone was a tablet as it's much, much more useful to me. The iPad is nice, but for stuff I do it doesn't cut it. Can't transfer files via Bluetooth off the iPad unless it's to another iDevice, and Android has better utilities for say network management (wireless sniffing etc) vs iPad due to I think Apple doesn't allow/iOS doesn't support that...
There's many devices, maybe not tablets, that have had rounded corners in the past. Reason is, it doesn't poke stuff and is "safer" to a sharp ass corner.
The original Palm's had pretty sharp corners, sucked to get out of your pocket. The later Palms (Pilot 5000 had someone rounded top corners and rounded bottom corners except for the stupid kick out parts.. and also the Palm Zire) had rounded corners.
Blackberry Storm? Rounded corners
T-Mobile sidekick? Rounded corners
HP Tablet PC? Rounded corners.
It just bugs me that people focus on that when rounded corners have been around for ages.
Never said they did:) 3.5" had the slide, 5.25" looked just like the picture I posted (which is labeled as a 5.25" but you're correct, it's a 8" based on the hole being above), but either way 5.25" and 8" didn't have a slide to move and blow the dust out (which was more my point lol)
Anyhow, for others who didn't quite notice the difference between the 8" and the 5.25" in the picture I originally posted the link to, you can tell right away here:
Yes! I remember installing OS/2 Warp on my grand father's old Swan 486 (which sadly ran Windows applications faster than Windows 3.1 did on the same machine...)
That was a ton of floppies + if I recall correctly there were about 7 to 10 more with "Printer Drivers" or something along those lines
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Android
Settings -> NFC off.
Attack vector disabled!
iPhone
Settings -> Browser of.... damn
and who says a legit site you've been going to for years can't be hacked and have this code planted within (via an iframe or whatever?), or served by a hacked ad network?
I just wanted to mention I received an update last night on my S3 (international GT-i9300T). It wasn't super large, and it didn't change the OS version #, so I'm not sure if it was a patch for the NFC already pushed out or what it may have related to. Maybe Samsung's website will list it?
Weird.. on my International Galaxy S III (GT-i9300T) the NFC was disabled by default. Must be something the carriers decide
Again, another person who can't read :)
"The security researchers used a malicious webpage to send the iPhone 4S’ address book, browsing history, photos, and videos to a server of their choice. It was a drive-by download attack, meaning the user just has to go to the website, but doesn’t have to click (err, tap) on anything to have their data stolen. Furthermore, the site does not crash the browser, so the user is oblivious to losing their data."
Yup, really sounds like it's tethered to me. You folks are getting "jailbreak" and "hacked" completely mixed up somehow....
You didn't read the article did you?
"The security researchers used a malicious webpage to send the iPhone 4S’ address book, browsing history, photos, and videos to a server of their choice. It was a drive-by download attack, meaning the user just has to go to the website, but doesn’t have to click (err, tap) on anything to have their data stolen. Furthermore, the site does not crash the browser, so the user is oblivious to losing their data."
Yeah, that sounds just like jailbreaking doesn't it?
Except I've found some things that OpenOffice does/handles better than LibreOffice and vice versa.
I believe they mean more than one "new" model (be it high end or mid line phones) vs Apple and having just one "new" phone.
As I mentioned earlier, I ran it on my quad core sIII at 6% battery and got 1850
I just ran it with 6% battery on my international s III.. Got 1875. Now if this is a benchmark that only uses a single core as some have said, you could expect a much larger jump with all 4 core running
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mjn98Bs2Cg
You mean like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mjn98Bs2Cg
At around 14 seconds...
My galaxy s is located above (higher up on the phone) the battery next to the SIM slot.. And both are recessed into the phone enough that the slot is even with the battery, making it no thicker with or without this slot. They're located over the main board, so it was sort of free space anyhow
Layers my friend. You just said it yourself without realizing.
This isn't like have 100 locks on the front door. That'd be like having 25 AV apps running on your machine.
This is like instead of having 99 locks, you use two different types (regular lock on the handle and a dead bolt or something along that setup) and then ALSO install bars over the windows.
It's also like having a solid door with lock LOCKED at the top of your steps from the basement, just in case someone forgets to lock the basement door or for whatever reason someone gets in (broken window the squeezed in etc) theres another obstacle to them getting into the main area of the home where you and your family are.
Or to put it another way, this isn't like having 40 fire extinguishers in your kitchen closest, but more like having a few around the house, plus smoke detectors (ion and photo styles or both in one unit) on all levels and in the attic.. And if you have a furnace a carbon monoxide detector in the basement and room above the furnace plus a Heat detector in the area of the furnace etc. (oh and also working with your family on how to get out in such an emergency). (or go all the way and do a sprinkler system)
While the chance of a fire may be small, and it may appear excessive... *should* one occure your ass was prepared and covered and was able to deal with the issue and minimize the damages.
And how many compression utilities are there for Windows? Heck if PK never came along, we'd still be using... Crap I forget now, was it ark?
Instead, we got pkzip and pkunzip
Uhhh.. My android phone can play everything I need it to.. Browser wise or not, with only a few video formats requiring a player from the market (for example for http:// streaming)
Now my iPad... It plays most, needs help with http:// streaming just like the android... But flash? Forget about it. That's a no go which my android can play because you an actually download a flash player (adobes). Some things I use/access require flash and the DRM it supports to access the site/video.
Just wanted to correct you a bit
I also saw a lot of login attempts coming from China.
At first I just setup fail2ban, which works great (can either ban the IP for a set time or forever). But after having to deal with growing log files, I decided to just use a non-standard port. That helps a ton.
Why leave it at the default and hope no one finally gets in (and worry about reporting the attempts?) instead of taking more proactive actions such as changing the port number, using SSH keys if possible rather than login/password or at least something like fail2ban, etc.
The thing is, if someone *did* get in, they may be good enough to cover their tracks and you may not notice
You sir, are correct:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_release_history
No worries, China will lend it to them...
"Need to go back? Hit the back button. Good luck finding its hiding place on this apple screen, With Android, I can hit it with my eyes closed, which reminds me after staring at a screen for a few seconds that it's time to blink."
Thank you! I'm not the only one! I can't stand when say you're in an app and click something that opens a browser window.. AND THERE'S NO BACK/EXIT BUTTON! The only thing you can do is hit the home button, re-launch the application you *were* using.. etc. At least on my Android phone I can just hit the back button a few times and get back to the application right where I left it.
(Note: I have both an Android phone running JellyBean via 3rd party ROM and also an iPad 2... hands down I wish the android phone was a tablet as it's much, much more useful to me. The iPad is nice, but for stuff I do it doesn't cut it. Can't transfer files via Bluetooth off the iPad unless it's to another iDevice, and Android has better utilities for say network management (wireless sniffing etc) vs iPad due to I think Apple doesn't allow/iOS doesn't support that...
There's many devices, maybe not tablets, that have had rounded corners in the past. Reason is, it doesn't poke stuff and is "safer" to a sharp ass corner.
The original Palm's had pretty sharp corners, sucked to get out of your pocket. The later Palms (Pilot 5000 had someone rounded top corners and rounded bottom corners except for the stupid kick out parts.. and also the Palm Zire) had rounded corners.
Blackberry Storm? Rounded corners
T-Mobile sidekick? Rounded corners
HP Tablet PC? Rounded corners.
It just bugs me that people focus on that when rounded corners have been around for ages.
Never said they did :)
3.5" had the slide, 5.25" looked just like the picture I posted (which is labeled as a 5.25" but you're correct, it's a 8" based on the hole being above), but either way 5.25" and 8" didn't have a slide to move and blow the dust out (which was more my point lol)
Anyhow, for others who didn't quite notice the difference between the 8" and the 5.25" in the picture I originally posted the link to, you can tell right away here:
5.25" has the hole on the right, 8" has it above
http://www.designboom.com/history/floppydisk/01.gif
damn... my memory is bad! I guess it was v3.x, not v2.x as v3.x was the version labeled as "Warp"
Comment just to add that was OS/2 Warp v2.x
Yes! I remember installing OS/2 Warp on my grand father's old Swan 486 (which sadly ran Windows applications faster than Windows 3.1 did on the same machine...)
That was a ton of floppies + if I recall correctly there were about 7 to 10 more with "Printer Drivers" or something along those lines