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  1. Re:Google iPhone app on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 1

    If that EULA was anything like this, then deleting the application makes no difference.
    It's perpetual, irrevocable , (from the EULA), so you're still stuck with having agreed to it.

  2. Re:Unfortunately not on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 1

    But both GPL and LGPL only cover distribution of the source code - neither have any bearing upon what the finished product can (or can't) be used for. I know that GPL 3 includes restrictions on its use in certain circumstances, but I'm not sure hoe far reaching those restrictions can be made with respect to finished product.

  3. Re:A disgrace on BBC Profiles Extradited Cracker Gary McKinnon · · Score: 1

    Except that you don't generally have to be a citizen of a country to live, work and pay taxes there.

  4. Re:least of their problems on Changing Customers Password Without Consent · · Score: 1

    You're quite probably correct - I only have knowledge of how this works from the customer point-of-view.
    In these cases using hashes would be pointless, as the entire password would be required giving the operator that information - this method being more "secure".
    A method whereby the customer was asked for three, and had to get at least two of them correct may be more secure from the customers standpoint, as the operator wouldn't know which of the three (if any) didn't fit the password. (I could be wrong, I'm no cryptographer or statistician).

  5. Re:plaintext passwords on Changing Customers Password Without Consent · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's called "an off-site backup".

  6. Re:least of their problems on Changing Customers Password Without Consent · · Score: 2, Informative

    Telephone banking. Customer rings and gets asked "What's the 3rd letter of you password?". Usually get asked for two randomly selected characters in your password, plus other details, such as random digits from a customer code which is chosen by the bank when telephone banking is setup for the customer.

  7. Re:Fun fun fud on The Internet's Biggest Security Hole Revealed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So it's encrypted between the server and your box. What about the other side of the server?

  8. Re:I used to feel sorry for Britain on UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage · · Score: 1

    And *more* right-wing than Margaret Thatcher's government.
    There is no longer (and hasn't been for quite some time now) a socialist option in Britain.

  9. Re:Save the Franchise? on LucasArts Embargoes "Clone Wars" Reviews · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously trying to compare Star Wars with the Iliad or the Odyssey?
    literary perspective - oh please, give me a break.

  10. Re:a 10. net on Google Using DoubleClick Tracking Cookies · · Score: 1

    It is routeable, that's why you can use the addresses on a private network.
    However, addresses in the following ranges are defined by RFC 1918 to be discarded by routers on the internet.
    10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
    172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
    192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255

    As far as I'm aware there is no "do not request this host" address.

  11. Already implemented by gringotts. on Let Your Theme Song be Your Password · · Score: 1

    This is already implemented in the gringotts package. [Link to homepage seems broken).
    Although I haven't investigated, it may be possible to reduce the number of files to use in an attack by studying file system access times.

  12. Re:Sue the webcam maker on IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software · · Score: 1

    RTFA

    "One of the new problems was that the computer's built-in camera light came on every time she was near the machine."

  13. Re:Sue the webcam maker on IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software · · Score: 1

    One of the new problems was that the computer's built-in camera light came on every time she was near the machine.

    RTFA. And I own a webcam which doesn't have a light.

  14. Re:Society's priorities on The War Against Virtual Beer Pong · · Score: 1

    Kind of assuming that real-life behaviour automatically follows from in-game behaviour.

  15. Re:Very Interesting Privacy Policy on New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 1

    Your link returns a 404. How do they return results if they have no idea of the IP address of the querying host?

  16. Re:Pwned on 2008 Pwnie Award Nominees Announced · · Score: 1

    OMG PWNED LOL !!!

  17. Re:ICQ is still around? Wow on ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients · · Score: 2, Funny

    Injury.

  18. Re:ICQ is still around? Wow on ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients · · Score: 2, Funny

    You got to college, yet you are incapable of spelling shed?
    There's no fucking hope.

  19. Re:Idiot on Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel · · Score: 1

    What would be needed is one law along the lines of "driving without paying due attention or when voluntarily incapacitated".

    Well, the UK has "driving without due care and attention". I'm sure most other countries have an equivalent.

  20. Re:Net Worth... on Man Selling His Life On eBay · · Score: 2, Informative

    Obviously the buyer is a guy with completely different skillsets. Obviously this guy does some sort of skilled job that requires some sort of degree if he can afford a house, a car, and a jet ski. I mean a construction worker and a cashier is not going to own his own jet ski.

    The clue's in the article :

    " Joy Jones, who co-owns the rug store in Perth where Mr Usher worked as a shop assistant, said she supported the auction idea.
    Her company is offering the successful bidder a two-week trial, which could be extended for three months and then become permanent. "
  21. Re:PGP on How Would You Prefer To Send Sensitive Data? · · Score: 5, Informative

    From DSA-1571-1 :
    Affected keys include SSH keys, OpenVPN keys, DNSSEC keys, and key material for use in X.509 certificates and session keys used in SSL/TLS connections. Keys generated with GnuPG or GNUTLS are not affected, though.

  22. Re:What about other countries? on Facebook Agrees To User Safety Plan · · Score: 1
    I know, I was replying to Anonymous Coward who said :

    They need something to keep Kangaroos out of their social networks.
  23. Re:What about other countries? on Facebook Agrees To User Safety Plan · · Score: 1

    That'd be Australia.

  24. Re:Get gmail on Corporate Email Etiquette - Dead or Alive? · · Score: 1

    It you're using Firefox then FireGPG could be what you're looking for.

  25. Re:Backup tapes get recyled ALL THE TIME on White House Tape Recycling Possibly Erased Emails · · Score: 1

    From the article :

    Although the White House said in the filing that its practice of recording over the tapes ceased after October 2003, it added that even some e-mails transmitted through the end of 2005 might not have been fully preserved. "At this stage, this office does not know" whether additional e-mails are missing, said the affidavit filed minutes before a court-ordered deadline of midnight Tuesday night by Theresa Payton, chief information officer in the White House Office of Administration.

    which rather implies that there was no archiving procedure in place.