I don't know really. When I look Slashdot articles published 10 years ago, they are the same stuff. Even the same whining of Slashdot jumping the shark has always been there.
PowerShell deserves a mention too. Some people hate it, some people love it.
It is object oriented so the data transfer between processes is more robust. Also all the commands' manual pages come with extensive documentation and lots of great examples. UNIX man pages usually lack examples.
Those videos do not tell what the exact vulnerabilities (or possibly intentional backdoors) in iPhone are. It would be important to know. How do we know that every iPhone user is not carrying a phone that comes with a convenient "welcome, NSA" feature.
What are the particular security vulnerabilities that the DROPOUTJEEP program exploits to install the NSA rootkit? Are those vulnerabilities still hiding in the iOS operating system?
Der Spiegel reported on the NSA’s access to smartphones and, in particular, the iPhone back in September. Today, these reports expand to the NSA’s apparent ability to access just about all your iPhone data through a program called DROPOUTJEEP, according to security researcher Jacob Appelbaum.
The NSA claims a 100% success rate in installing the malware on iPhones. Functionality includes the ability to remotely push/pull files from the device. SMS retrieval, contact list retrieval, voicemail, geolocation, hot mic, camera capture, cell tower location, etc. Command, control and data exfiltration can occur over SMS messaging or a GPRS data connection. All communications with the implant will be covert and encrypted.
It is unknown whether the backdoor was developed in cooperation with Apple, but Appelbaum doubts it. Video of Appelbaum's full speech is included in the article.
That's not a good excuse. We could still make the damage smaller if he can't steal the WiFi password easily. Especially in a business network that can make an important difference.
Come Wednesday, Snowden will be last year's news, and nothing of consequence will change. Meet the new year, same as the old year.
I've been wondering this too. Will Edward Snowden's revelations ever lead to a better system in USA? Usually I just hear Americans pointing fingers at other countries and saying "they are doing it too!". I don't know, maybe it's damn hard to start a revolution to change everything. But some day Snowden runs out of juicy documents to leak. Then things will cool down, people forget the whole issue in a few months and NSA gets to continue doing its same old job without interferences. Right?
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Completely agree. I'm not terribly interested in the jump from 1080p to 4K, but very interested in seeing 60fps content.
Also slap "3D audio" in the description as it was a mono recording duplicated to stereo (with heavily clipping audio).
What do insurance companies say about guard dogs, by the way?
when did this site become the new site for Microsoft uninteresting press releases about their so-called successes ?
An anonymous reader submitted the article, it got voted up in the submissions page and samzenpus liked to publish it. There's no more magic to it.
What kind of article would you like to see?
Cisco Systems' dominance in the enterprise gear should also be discussed more often.
I assume he would be pushing the envelope.
Just add some extra Polish and no one will notice anything.
I don't know really. When I look Slashdot articles published 10 years ago, they are the same stuff. Even the same whining of Slashdot jumping the shark has always been there.
You can always improve the situation by submitting articles. I do that every now and then, and that way get to govern what appears on the front page.
PowerShell deserves a mention too. Some people hate it, some people love it.
It is object oriented so the data transfer between processes is more robust. Also all the commands' manual pages come with extensive documentation and lots of great examples. UNIX man pages usually lack examples.
Name of the ISP please?
Those work a bit slower as they are not in your network.
Those videos do not tell what the exact vulnerabilities (or possibly intentional backdoors) in iPhone are. It would be important to know. How do we know that every iPhone user is not carrying a phone that comes with a convenient "welcome, NSA" feature.
Happy new year!
2014 is an anagram of 1024, so we must be up for something good.
Then we would have X12, Wayland and Mir competing...redundant fragmentation over minor differences.
What are the particular security vulnerabilities that the DROPOUTJEEP program exploits to install the NSA rootkit? Are those vulnerabilities still hiding in the iOS operating system?
Why do you need the source code?
Just slap Microsoft OneNote to your Nexus 7 and be done with it. For your work PC, it comes bundled in MS Office.
Der Spiegel reported on the NSA’s access to smartphones and, in particular, the iPhone back in September. Today, these reports expand to the NSA’s apparent ability to access just about all your iPhone data through a program called DROPOUTJEEP, according to security researcher Jacob Appelbaum.
The NSA claims a 100% success rate in installing the malware on iPhones. Functionality includes the ability to remotely push/pull files from the device. SMS retrieval, contact list retrieval, voicemail, geolocation, hot mic, camera capture, cell tower location, etc. Command, control and data exfiltration can occur over SMS messaging or a GPRS data connection. All communications with the implant will be covert and encrypted.
It is unknown whether the backdoor was developed in cooperation with Apple, but Appelbaum doubts it. Video of Appelbaum's full speech is included in the article.
That's not a good excuse. We could still make the damage smaller if he can't steal the WiFi password easily. Especially in a business network that can make an important difference.
Windows stores the password as an (unencrypted) hex string in the registry.
Just to clarify...
Windows XP stores WiFi passwords unencrypted in registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WZCSVC\Parameters
Windows 6.x stores WiFi passwords in encrypted XML files under hard disk folder %PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\Wlansvc\Profiles\Interfaces
Come Wednesday, Snowden will be last year's news, and nothing of consequence will change. Meet the new year, same as the old year.
I've been wondering this too. Will Edward Snowden's revelations ever lead to a better system in USA? Usually I just hear Americans pointing fingers at other countries and saying "they are doing it too!". I don't know, maybe it's damn hard to start a revolution to change everything. But some day Snowden runs out of juicy documents to leak. Then things will cool down, people forget the whole issue in a few months and NSA gets to continue doing its same old job without interferences. Right?
There was also a recent event in Finland where some wankers pulled out an ATM with a large front loader.
Can the ATM just freely connect to any IP in China?
It's flawed design!
What? Should it be behind multiple hoops in some obscure place so you could have your elitist feeling? ;)