Just to play devil's advocate, the courts could argue here in the US that brain scans are evidentiary, and not testimony (hence witness against one's self). My guess is they would argue that brain scans are of the same family of evidence as DNA; e.g. it doesn't "testify against you", but is rather physically relevant to the case. I would hope that this would cause outrage, but judging by the number of other things the government has desensitized us to, it wouldn't surprise me.
If Irvine and Bouwmeester's discovery could be used to generate fields that would send the plasma in closed, non-expanding loops and help contain it, 'that would be extremely spectacular,' Bouwmeester says."
Bouwmeester continued by saying that light is, "way cool" and the ability to tie knots with it would be, "totally freaking awesome".
You're missing the point. It's not to control the consumer. The patents are to prevent some third party company from buying the shoes (or sensors, if they found a way) in bulk, attaching them to New Balance shoes, and reselling them on store shelves. It protects Apple from fair competition in the market.
Wouldn't agree with this. We live in a society where privacy is protected (I'm talking about 4th amendment privacy); e.g. we have the right to walk down the street anonymously. Our right to remain anonymous ceases to exist once we've committed a crime - say, stolen from a store on that street. We can have both a reasonable expectation of privacy, and a reasonable expectation that those who are stealing [bandwidth and resources] from us are not entitled to same.
To add one more comment to this, though, it's been inaccurately reported that this process takes an hour to complete. Well, the passcode breaking piece of the demonstration technically takes maybe 15-20 minutes for a trained pro to prepare, but once you've prepared the custom firmware payload, you can re-use it over and over again on different iPhones. The actual payload installation takes only 60 seconds, so someone who came along prepared would be able to break your passcode in 60 seconds - not an hour.
With that said though, you still need to transmit the raw disk image to a desktop machine to access this data. That transfer can easily take 2-3 hours. This means that you're not going to have your personal data hijacked by simply placing the phone down for a moment, but if it were stolen or seized, it's most certainly easy to recover.
I _am_ Jonathan Zdziarski and even I don't understand why this is news.
This was a side note I mentioned the other day, and has been something I've been grousing about for over a year. It's unnecessary, and a bit of a privacy leak that can be exploited by forensic examiners, but hardly news for the reasons already stated in the comments.
The problem here is that with a desktop, you've got a finite amount of time to crack the password, unless you plan on exiting the building with the tower. Physical theft is much more difficult... as is physical access. With PDAs, you can simply toss the thing in your pocket, and have all the time in the world to hack on it later on. Physical access, I would argue, is also easier.
How about a working Bluetooth-based proximity security system that would encrypt/decrypt on the fly, or a *working* remote wipe that actually wipes (unlike Apple's) ?
This has many other flaws. Think for a minute that HTTP request could have been generated by:
1. Spyware that frequently displays porn controlled by a third party "through" your computer.
2. Botnets that frequently pull all kind of information, and/or perform DDoS attacks
3. Any other computer on the same network
4. Any other computer using an open or poorly configured wireless router
5. Going to any other website on the Internet that loaded that URL in a frame or iframe, or used a meta refresh, etc., loading it without the knowledge of the user
6. Anyone who happened to walk by said computer and noticed the screen saver was not locked (e.g. you can't tie the person to the crime, only the computer - or possibly only the network).
7. Web bugs embedded in email, word docs, or other flawed tools that have been known to "call home"
8. Any other machine routing through the source PC, with or without the user's knowledge
9. Any additional software the owner of the PC has loaded, that could malfunction or maliciously load such files
10. File sharing software or other software that can easily misrepresent content causing the user to download it unintentionally.
The only way this would work, in fact, would be if they confiscated the computer and found the evidence in a browser history of some sort, and even then there is still reasonable doubt as to whether the click was intentional or not, and just who performed it.
As much as I love to see a scumbad kiddie porn pervert thrown into jail, this technique is entirely unworthy of any technical merit.
Well, and this is capitalism at its best. Apple wanted to save money by outsourcing their development operation to a country that would cost them pennies on the dollar. They're now starting to see the consequences of that move, in that they're doing business with a country having a long history of black and gray-market ripoffs, stolen technology, and clones, which will end up costing Apple tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in business. I'm not talking about reverse engineering, I'm talking about having schematics and trade secrets stolen as a result of doing business there. If capitalism plays through, Apple will at some point realize what a tragic mistake this was, and move their operation to a more civilized country. If not, at least they'd paid a hefty fine for their mistakes and gotten what they deserve.
Hmm it's kind of funny they gave all the credit for iPhone hacking to HD Moore; especially in light of the fact that the team that has actually worked on all of the iPhone hacks has never heard of him. In fact, the metasploit addition of the iPhone exploit came long after the rest of us had already successfully cracked into the iPhone. The metasploit bug is but one bug in the iPhone's image library which has since been patched; it's relatively useless today. Maybe they should have done a little more homework. They'd have found that it was through the effort of many others (and not HD Moore) that anything has happened on the iPhone at all.
And if you're still so blind as to see what the Muslims' strategy is after 9/11, and still think it's "some extremist sect" never wondering why the rest of the Muslims won't come out and condemn them, then you'll never understand that the crusades were a defensive position for the Christians.
So why is this game focused around Christians killing people if they don't convert, when it's the Muslims who are doing the kiling these days? Because the game manufacturer knows that the Muslims will come knocking down doors and slitting throats if they released something like this aimed at them. So instead of applying reality to the real religious freaks, lets go make the Christians look bad for the perversion in some other religion. Oh but Islam is peace, right? That explains why none of them are standing up to condemn the acts of terrorism done by their fellow Muslims, and a few that do get kicked out of the Mosque. Seriously, it's time to get over the crap they've been spewing and see them for who they are, rather than go and make a quick buck discrediting some unrelated faith who is inherently peaceful. Now that you've seen first hand what Muslim zealots are capable of, maybe you understand now why the crusades was a defensive response for Christians. Whoever made this game is a coward.
Which is surprising given his Apple II background, and the amazing 3D that the Free Tools Association pulled off long before 3D gaming. I would have thought for sure he would have predated that but apparently not.
The only thing I remember about the name is that he wrote my all-time favorite Apple II game, Subnodule. Whatever he did after that is meaningless compared to Subnodule.
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Just to play devil's advocate, the courts could argue here in the US that brain scans are evidentiary, and not testimony (hence witness against one's self). My guess is they would argue that brain scans are of the same family of evidence as DNA; e.g. it doesn't "testify against you", but is rather physically relevant to the case. I would hope that this would cause outrage, but judging by the number of other things the government has desensitized us to, it wouldn't surprise me.
If Irvine and Bouwmeester's discovery could be used to generate fields that would send the plasma in closed, non-expanding loops and help contain it, 'that would be extremely spectacular,' Bouwmeester says."
Bouwmeester continued by saying that light is, "way cool" and the ability to tie knots with it would be, "totally freaking awesome".
"a trio of Linux-based devices collectively known as 'the brain.'"
What are we going to do today brain?
The same thing we do every day, pinky. Plan to take over the world.
You're missing the point. It's not to control the consumer. The patents are to prevent some third party company from buying the shoes (or sensors, if they found a way) in bulk, attaching them to New Balance shoes, and reselling them on store shelves. It protects Apple from fair competition in the market.
Perhaps, but this will free up the rest of your LAN by offloading those pesky NetBIOS lookups.
Wouldn't agree with this. We live in a society where privacy is protected (I'm talking about 4th amendment privacy); e.g. we have the right to walk down the street anonymously. Our right to remain anonymous ceases to exist once we've committed a crime - say, stolen from a store on that street. We can have both a reasonable expectation of privacy, and a reasonable expectation that those who are stealing [bandwidth and resources] from us are not entitled to same.
To add one more comment to this, though, it's been inaccurately reported that this process takes an hour to complete. Well, the passcode breaking piece of the demonstration technically takes maybe 15-20 minutes for a trained pro to prepare, but once you've prepared the custom firmware payload, you can re-use it over and over again on different iPhones. The actual payload installation takes only 60 seconds, so someone who came along prepared would be able to break your passcode in 60 seconds - not an hour. With that said though, you still need to transmit the raw disk image to a desktop machine to access this data. That transfer can easily take 2-3 hours. This means that you're not going to have your personal data hijacked by simply placing the phone down for a moment, but if it were stolen or seized, it's most certainly easy to recover.
I _am_ Jonathan Zdziarski and even I don't understand why this is news.
This was a side note I mentioned the other day, and has been something I've been grousing about for over a year. It's unnecessary, and a bit of a privacy leak that can be exploited by forensic examiners, but hardly news for the reasons already stated in the comments.
The problem here is that with a desktop, you've got a finite amount of time to crack the password, unless you plan on exiting the building with the tower. Physical theft is much more difficult... as is physical access. With PDAs, you can simply toss the thing in your pocket, and have all the time in the world to hack on it later on. Physical access, I would argue, is also easier. How about a working Bluetooth-based proximity security system that would encrypt/decrypt on the fly, or a *working* remote wipe that actually wipes (unlike Apple's) ?
> Do you think the passwords execs could remember would help with securing PDAs and smart phones? No, because PDA passwords are easily defeated.
This has many other flaws. Think for a minute that HTTP request could have been generated by: 1. Spyware that frequently displays porn controlled by a third party "through" your computer. 2. Botnets that frequently pull all kind of information, and/or perform DDoS attacks 3. Any other computer on the same network 4. Any other computer using an open or poorly configured wireless router 5. Going to any other website on the Internet that loaded that URL in a frame or iframe, or used a meta refresh, etc., loading it without the knowledge of the user 6. Anyone who happened to walk by said computer and noticed the screen saver was not locked (e.g. you can't tie the person to the crime, only the computer - or possibly only the network). 7. Web bugs embedded in email, word docs, or other flawed tools that have been known to "call home" 8. Any other machine routing through the source PC, with or without the user's knowledge 9. Any additional software the owner of the PC has loaded, that could malfunction or maliciously load such files 10. File sharing software or other software that can easily misrepresent content causing the user to download it unintentionally. The only way this would work, in fact, would be if they confiscated the computer and found the evidence in a browser history of some sort, and even then there is still reasonable doubt as to whether the click was intentional or not, and just who performed it. As much as I love to see a scumbad kiddie porn pervert thrown into jail, this technique is entirely unworthy of any technical merit.
Well, and this is capitalism at its best. Apple wanted to save money by outsourcing their development operation to a country that would cost them pennies on the dollar. They're now starting to see the consequences of that move, in that they're doing business with a country having a long history of black and gray-market ripoffs, stolen technology, and clones, which will end up costing Apple tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in business. I'm not talking about reverse engineering, I'm talking about having schematics and trade secrets stolen as a result of doing business there. If capitalism plays through, Apple will at some point realize what a tragic mistake this was, and move their operation to a more civilized country. If not, at least they'd paid a hefty fine for their mistakes and gotten what they deserve.
Uh, unlocking perhaps? I saw some stats saying 1 in every 3 is unlocked.
Based on this spreadsheet, Sutton was a hand-counted precinct, so I fail to see what this has to do with Diebold.
Hmm it's kind of funny they gave all the credit for iPhone hacking to HD Moore; especially in light of the fact that the team that has actually worked on all of the iPhone hacks has never heard of him. In fact, the metasploit addition of the iPhone exploit came long after the rest of us had already successfully cracked into the iPhone. The metasploit bug is but one bug in the iPhone's image library which has since been patched; it's relatively useless today. Maybe they should have done a little more homework. They'd have found that it was through the effort of many others (and not HD Moore) that anything has happened on the iPhone at all.
My superbaby beat up your honor student.
And if you're still so blind as to see what the Muslims' strategy is after 9/11, and still think it's "some extremist sect" never wondering why the rest of the Muslims won't come out and condemn them, then you'll never understand that the crusades were a defensive position for the Christians.
So why is this game focused around Christians killing people if they don't convert, when it's the Muslims who are doing the kiling these days? Because the game manufacturer knows that the Muslims will come knocking down doors and slitting throats if they released something like this aimed at them. So instead of applying reality to the real religious freaks, lets go make the Christians look bad for the perversion in some other religion. Oh but Islam is peace, right? That explains why none of them are standing up to condemn the acts of terrorism done by their fellow Muslims, and a few that do get kicked out of the Mosque. Seriously, it's time to get over the crap they've been spewing and see them for who they are, rather than go and make a quick buck discrediting some unrelated faith who is inherently peaceful. Now that you've seen first hand what Muslim zealots are capable of, maybe you understand now why the crusades was a defensive response for Christians. Whoever made this game is a coward.
It was much BETTER...
When will someone step up and be the hero in this story?
/. and flamed everyone, showing what a big sexy stud he is
5. linvir got on
I can plug damn near anything into a Cisco router....
Open source routers and pr0n sounds like a dangerous combination for you then.
Which is surprising given his Apple II background, and the amazing 3D that the Free Tools Association pulled off long before 3D gaming. I would have thought for sure he would have predated that but apparently not.
The only thing I remember about the name is that he wrote my all-time favorite Apple II game, Subnodule. Whatever he did after that is meaningless compared to Subnodule.
When virtual money is real money, it becomes taxable...
I'll take a virtual audit over a real one any day.
This was sent out on an anti-spam list this morning:
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http://www.bluesecurity.com/Announcements/spam.as
"A major spammer had started spamming our members with discouraging
messages in an attempt to demoralize our community. This spammer is
using mailing lists he already owns that may contain addresses of
some community members.
"We have also received complaints from users about spam allegedly
sent from Blue Security promoting our anti-spam solution and our web
site. This is yet another tactic used by some spammers in an attempt
to slander us by sending unsolicited email forged to appear as if it
was sent from Blue Security. Blue Security is an anti-spam company
determined to fight spam and as such never has and never will send
unsolicited email.
"Our answer to those criminals should be one - we will not be
discouraged; We will continue to exercise our right to opt-out of
spam.