I don't think it "isn't worth the cost" but I do think it "isn't quite as beneficial"
Is there something bad about raising the standard of living, or providing access to information? Not at all. Is that better than stamping out a deadly disease? Not necessarily, but if the access to information lets those affected manage their own care better (or not get sick to begin with) then it gets very hard to judge.
Well here's an example. It takes (because I configured it) a computer similar to mine 10 seconds to try a password. Good luck doing a brute force with that kind of thing!
There's also far more features built in. URL fields, notes fields, expiration handling, password generators, automatic locking when your session locks or after a timeout, etc.
If all you do is save passwords for website yes, there's not much to gain here. But it's useful for far more than that.
Finally.. what if you want to use Chrome, want to store your password somewhere, but don't want to rely on Chrome's gimpy storage mechanism?
Use autotype (on a computer) if possible. I find it -easier- though to use the copy/paste functionality on Android than it would have been to type in the password itself. I used keepass for months before I tried autotype. It seems to work quite nicely.
You are right about the one-password-to-steal bit, but isn't that still true if you use the same (or similar) passwords everywhere because you can't remember them all otherwise?
I have seen (it was a long time ago) a device that had some kind of light-collector on the top of the screen, that worked like those little plastic light-guides used for LEDs. The end result was that the brighter the ambient light, the brighter the screen.
If they don't have something like that on this, I don't know why the hell not - if only to save power by reducing the requirements for screen backlighting!
The CA cannot decrypt data encrypted with a key they signed. All they can do is sign the public key - the private key remains in the control of whoever runs the server using it.
Granted, a CA could (by policy) require you to give them the key... but my response to them would consist of my saying "eat shit and die."
Among several foreign software packages on the tablet is a Korean version of 'Angry Birds.' The game's maker, Rovio, didn't respond to requests for comment on its inclusion in a North Korean tablet.
That's because it's counterfeit, you fool! Look at the photo. It's clearly a hackjob. Pay particular attention to the failure to properly use an alpha channel around elements on the screen.
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I don't think it "isn't worth the cost" but I do think it "isn't quite as beneficial"
Is there something bad about raising the standard of living, or providing access to information? Not at all. Is that better than stamping out a deadly disease? Not necessarily, but if the access to information lets those affected manage their own care better (or not get sick to begin with) then it gets very hard to judge.
How about you fix what you can?
Well here's an example. It takes (because I configured it) a computer similar to mine 10 seconds to try a password. Good luck doing a brute force with that kind of thing!
There's also far more features built in. URL fields, notes fields, expiration handling, password generators, automatic locking when your session locks or after a timeout, etc.
If all you do is save passwords for website yes, there's not much to gain here. But it's useful for far more than that.
Finally.. what if you want to use Chrome, want to store your password somewhere, but don't want to rely on Chrome's gimpy storage mechanism?
I don't see what Obama has to do with the NSA lying to congress, and the judiciary not doing a damn thing about it.
Use autotype (on a computer) if possible. I find it -easier- though to use the copy/paste functionality on Android than it would have been to type in the password itself. I used keepass for months before I tried autotype. It seems to work quite nicely.
You are right about the one-password-to-steal bit, but isn't that still true if you use the same (or similar) passwords everywhere because you can't remember them all otherwise?
I wouldn't call this a crutch...
I wouldn't use this to hunt deer but you might have some luck with varmints.
I have seen (it was a long time ago) a device that had some kind of light-collector on the top of the screen, that worked like those little plastic light-guides used for LEDs. The end result was that the brighter the ambient light, the brighter the screen.
If they don't have something like that on this, I don't know why the hell not - if only to save power by reducing the requirements for screen backlighting!
That is why we should have these built into phones, instead of this lame alert system.
If you're in range of the transmitter, you're close enough to be affected.
My ham radio can scan these silently, and sound an alarm when an EAS tone is detected. It would be trivial for a phone to do this, too.
You seem to fail to grasp the difference between how things work in reality vs how they are "supposed" to work.
The world has always been stupid. It's just gotten worse recently.
You honestly didn't see that coming? We lost the hacker vs cracker argument, and we'll soon lose the activist vs terrorist one too.
Let's see how you look at 68 years of age... assuming you manage to live that long!
Oh, so the Civil War (and as Psion mentioned, the Battle of Athens) never happened?
Based on your use of "wingers" I can only assume you live in the UK. Learn a bit about a country before you make generalizations about it, please.
At which points heads will begin to roll.
... gives the government endless opportunities to erode freedoms.
I wouldn't consider a sledgehammer whacking large chunks off as "erosion."
So do I, but that doesn't give them carte blanche rights to stomp my privacy into the mud to do so.
That's because they said the magic words: "child porn."
I don't know what is worse, child porn or the extremes these jackasses go in pursuit of it.
They already did that, and it did not turn out for the better.
You're supposed to go to https://encrypted.google.com/ - you're using the wrong subdomain.
Go to https://encrypted.google.com/ and it should stay SSL, even when not logged in.
The CA cannot decrypt data encrypted with a key they signed. All they can do is sign the public key - the private key remains in the control of whoever runs the server using it.
Granted, a CA could (by policy) require you to give them the key... but my response to them would consist of my saying "eat shit and die."
The "trust us" defense isn't good enough
It's not, because we are unsatisfied.
But it is enough, because what do they even need a defense for? What threat must they defend themselves from?
The one written into the Second Amendment.
Among several foreign software packages on the tablet is a Korean version of 'Angry Birds.' The game's maker, Rovio, didn't respond to requests for comment on its inclusion in a North Korean tablet.
That's because it's counterfeit, you fool! Look at the photo. It's clearly a hackjob. Pay particular attention to the failure to properly use an alpha channel around elements on the screen.
I am very surprised.