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  1. Re:Bad practice. on Unhashable: Why Fingerprints Are Weaker Security Than Passwords (hackaday.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think Apple just applied for or received a patent on doing this.

    http://9to5mac.com/2015/11/05/iphone-panic-mode-touch-id/

  2. Re:Finance ethics, lol! on DNA Data From California Newborn Blood Samples Stored, Sold To 3rd Parties (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    And elsewhere in the documented "Limited" is defined as meaning "all"

  3. Yes. Request away. I believe it will handled similarly to how the DHS handles requests to be removed from the no-fly list.

  4. Re:George Orwell lacked vision on UK Gov't Can Demand Backdoors, Give Prison Sentences For Disclosing Them (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Big Fork has been very successful at keeping below the radar.

  5. Re:Fundamental right????? on Fast Broadband To Be Classed a Fundamental Right in the UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    children finding guns and killing themselves or someone around them, and legally owned guns used for murder greatly outnumber the number of cases of self-defense.

    self-defense shootings make the news when they happen. and they don't happen very often.

  6. Re:Fundamental right????? on Fast Broadband To Be Classed a Fundamental Right in the UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's s.m.r.t. Knowing that thousands and thousands of people will die each year, for the hope that every once in a while, someone will fluke off and "protect themselves".

  7. Re:First? on WordPress Now Powers 25% of the Web · · Score: 0

    and now we know why the NSA and criminal organizations have pretty much free reign on accessing whatever data they want...

  8. Re:Fundamental right????? on Fast Broadband To Be Classed a Fundamental Right in the UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    and yet, a whole bunch of countries have significantly more strict gun laws, and also have significantly less death and injuries by guns, while not having a corresponding increase in death by other methods.

    but no, the "solution" for the US is always "we need MORE guns"

  9. Re:"Check box on this sheet that you got a warrant on Going Dark Crypto Debate Going Nowhere (threatpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Why do they have to hide it in the US? There is nobody actually watching the system to make sure it is not abused. How much did Snowden download and nobody caught on. Hell, did they even 'catch' any of the people doing loveint or were they all self-reported?

    They aren't even remotely interested in catching people abusing the system.

  10. Re:Like the old viruses on Badly-Coded Ransomware Locks User Files and Throws Away Encryption Key (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes. It's the "erase your files" kind of virus...

  11. Re:Fundamental right????? on Fast Broadband To Be Classed a Fundamental Right in the UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Foxes really upped their game is the US. Now farmers need at least an Uzi to be able to keep them away from the henhouse.

  12. Re:Fundamental right????? on Fast Broadband To Be Classed a Fundamental Right in the UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's more of a "right not to be killed by a gun-bearing lunatic, right not to be killed by finding sometime lying around the house while you are growing up"

  13. Re:Put it on the App Store! on $1 Bid Wins Government Open Source Software Purchasing Experiment (gsa.gov) · · Score: 1

    It would have to be loaded with at least 4 different analytics web sites, be covered in ads, and also be a freemium app.

  14. Re: Same as Jailbreaking iPhones on NSA Uses Vulnerabilities Before It Discloses Them, Keeps Some To Itself (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just a little anal probing. You probably won't even notice...much.

  15. Re:Just what we need to do... on Controversial Company Offers a New Way To Make a Baby (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Not until we get to 9 women and 1 month.

  16. Re:It's called the SECRET service for a reason on MI5 'Secretly Collected Phone Data' For Decade (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    So, MI5 is the SS and MI6 is the SIS...

    The more things change...

  17. Re:The farther left you go, the more you lose on Canada Reinstates Mandatory Census, To Delight of Social Scientists (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 0

    Not anymore. Bill C-51 helpfully included more information sharing between departments. And, unfortunately, everyone is a potential terrorist, so CSIS must individually vet every one of us and imprison everyone who fails the process.

  18. Re:That was quick on Paris Data Center Not Too Noisy, After All (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes, there is a REALLY good reason why the datacenter makes a bunch of noise. It costs a whole bunch of money to reduce the noise.

  19. Re:Ignoring the Elephant in the Room on Apple Wages Battle To Keep App Store Malware-Free (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, they have never claimed to have 'fixed' the problem, because it is a problem that is unlikely to fixed anytime soon in China. What they do claim is that they have taken concrete steps to reduce the likelyhood of it happening, both by paying more money for services and by penalties for contract violations [which supposedly include things like workers hours/conditions/no child labor].

  20. Re:Ignoring the Elephant in the Room on Apple Wages Battle To Keep App Store Malware-Free (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, there a LOT of people who really really want to broadcast their every moment via Facebook. So, people are CHOOSING to give up their privacy in exchange for, well, who knows what they get out of it.

    You don't have to use the built-in Facebook/Twitter/whatever support or use any of the facebook/twitter/instagram apps from their store, if you don't want to.

    And if you don't, I know, this is incredibly hard to believe, but, NONE of your information is sent to Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/whatever.

    I don't have a Facebook account [well, not one I created, supposedly Facebook has helpfully started my account without me, ready and waiting for when I may be too incapacitated by alcohol to understand what I am doing and actually sign up] and I am confident that Apple is not sending data to Facebook from my phone. And now, with iOS9, I can install adblockers to hopefully kill FB's/Twitters/Googles various trackers/"analytics services"/ads to at least slow down how fast they are building my profile.

  21. OMG. You mean I can get high by huffing really cheap ethernet cables. sweet!

  22. Re:revolutionary technology on "Unsecured Memory Card" Prompts Election Fraud Investigation In Georgia (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    How much does the vendor charge to encrypt the connection to the main databases using ROT-26?

  23. Re:Lack of protection on Why the Snowden Situation Shows 'Protected Disclosure' Is Critical (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Except even if he was fully protected, guaranteed his job if he only went through 'proper channels', the other side is that EXACTLY NOTHING WOULD HAVE HAPPENED with what he reported. Everyone above him was fine with what they were doing.

    The only way anything would have changed is by going public, and they will NEVER offer any kind of protection for doing that.

  24. Re:drones on How the FBI Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you are confused over who they represent. hint, it's not who voted for them.

  25. Re:[tips fedora] on Fedora 23 Released (fedoramagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    neither. He's just happy to see you.