As most smartphone batteries can handle that, I suspect problem with the design itself (like battery-unfriendly power regulators or the battery being heated-up by some other device close to it or a general departure from best-practices observed so far) and, and that is what makes this pretty bad, faulty issue identification. It may just be that the batteries are, in principle, fine. Or that the replacement-batteries have the same issue. Or, as you suspect, a mismatch between the battery and its use, and inadequate testing to compound the error.
It may, of course, be also be a decision by "managers" to ignore concerns of engineers and to push this thing, and then the replacements, out the door fast.
It is user-tracking, sure. Anonymous user-tracking though. And if it works per-session, it is an acceptable solution IMO, as you can just restart the Tor-browser before going to a different site. Not great, but a lot better than nothing.
Keep kidding yourself. You are doing the "mad stalker" act now. I just checked whether I should return the favor, but your postings are not interesting enough for that. I am simply going to ignore you now, encouraging a petulant child is never a good idea.
Stalking and deriding are not "fact checking". They are just immature revenge for a bruised ego. Your "usefulness" is just going even wider into the negative this way.
People do not understand that Mathematics is pretty absolute. Well, lets hope some small country somewhere mandates backdoors and a while later they cause a complete collapse of their economy by that. Without a catastrophe to point to, most people are too limited to understand even basic things.
We've had Yahoo creditials stolen, NSA hacks stolen, Blackberry is near bankrupt over its backdoors. The argument FOR backdoors have crumbled, so is it really necessary at this point to defend encryption?
To experts and reasonably well-informed citizens, it is not. To the rest (which is the majority), it still is and Tim Cook is performing a valuable public service with his stance, no matter that it also benefits Apple.
While it sounds extreme, I completely agree. Without that, nothing is going to change. As soon as anybody that did screw up this badly has to prove they followed best practices and had independent review OR ELSE (and the "ELSE" must be personal for senior management), this problem will mostly go away. One model could be IoT devices this insecure must be recalled and the owners compensated generously. Cannot assure that? No way for your trash to get through customs. Yes, regulation is generally not a good idea, but I do not think there is an alternative here.
Makers of FOSS would of course not be affected, only manufacturers using FOSS insecurely.
Actually, making sure you change username and password is their responsibility. The well-established way to do that is that unless you do, the device just displays a page asking you to. So this is indeed a massive screwup on the manufacturer's side.
I fully agree. Just one (minor) correction: The Math does allow backdoors that only work for the "good"/bad guys, but reality does not because it means keeping an encryption key absolutely secret long-term while it is also frequently used. Not even the NSA can apparently manage that. And if it fails, the effects are catastrophic.
I am not quite sure what you are saying. If you are saying we should think of it as engineering, then I fully agree. Programming very much is engineering and it is a hard engineering discipline because it is still in the process of being established. The problem is all those people that do not practice it as an engineering discipline, but as some kind of improvisation art.
Really. Things like assignment instead of comparison is something a reasonably modern C-compiler warns you with high warning settings. And you should definitely use these settings (in fact you should use -Wall or the equivalent), at least when finishing up. And you should fix all warnings:
#> x.c:6:3: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]
Of course, you may want the assignment, so the compiler just asks you to use the slightly more elaborate stance "if ((a=b))" to signal that. This is not the coding dark ages where a C compiler was unable to find such potential problems.
Hahahahaha, funny. The WWW comes from CERN, i.e. it is an entirely European discovery. The US contributed nothing to it. Ethernet is not tied to the Internet, it is a short-haul technology and it is most certainly not a "TCP/IP technology".
Indeed. I think in NK they tell them that the rest of the world is starving and living in concentration camps, etc. The technique of the "Big Lie" works pretty well once some border-conditions are met.
Unfortunately, not always after a longer time. I think you have 3 days or so for a regular cancel, but, depending on country, after that the target bank may pay out the money and in some countries that means you have to get it back from the person that owns the target account. If they are known, that works as well (people are _not_ allowed to spend money they get by a bank transfer out of the blue), but some countries are shoddy with verifying the identity of customers and in e-fraud-cases (and hacked online-banking) people have transferred money, withdrawn it after 3 days and then vanished. If it is not a large sum, then that money is likely gone. On a large sum, the target bank can be obliged to refund the money, because if their failure to identify the customer properly. You may have to sue them though.
But the bottom line is that if you made an honest mistake, you will likely get the money back. If you were defrauded, that is not assured.
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As most smartphone batteries can handle that, I suspect problem with the design itself (like battery-unfriendly power regulators or the battery being heated-up by some other device close to it or a general departure from best-practices observed so far) and, and that is what makes this pretty bad, faulty issue identification. It may just be that the batteries are, in principle, fine. Or that the replacement-batteries have the same issue. Or, as you suspect, a mismatch between the battery and its use, and inadequate testing to compound the error.
It may, of course, be also be a decision by "managers" to ignore concerns of engineers and to push this thing, and then the replacements, out the door fast.
Then the risk is not "extremely low". If it where that, they would just sweep their incompetence under the carpet...
Unless it becomes criminal to be so negligent, nothing will change.
Indeed.
I agree. I think they are making an honest and competent attempt to solve the issue for Tor and that is excellent news.
Thanks for the link!
It is user-tracking, sure. Anonymous user-tracking though. And if it works per-session, it is an acceptable solution IMO, as you can just restart the Tor-browser before going to a different site. Not great, but a lot better than nothing.
Nice! ;-)
Ah, no? Use the function you need (transfer the money), pass on any extras that are not needed and that cost extra money?
Keep kidding yourself. You are doing the "mad stalker" act now. I just checked whether I should return the favor, but your postings are not interesting enough for that. I am simply going to ignore you now, encouraging a petulant child is never a good idea.
Stalking and deriding are not "fact checking". They are just immature revenge for a bruised ego. Your "usefulness" is just going even wider into the negative this way.
Pathetic.
At least I will have the satisfaction that you will never amount to anything. Those unable to learn will repeat their mistakes endlessly.
Go away, noob. Stalking does make your credibility even lower. As does trying to deride actual experts.
You can _claim_ to be defending freedom and establish strict control at the same time though. Just look at North Korea. Or the US.
People do not understand that Mathematics is pretty absolute. Well, lets hope some small country somewhere mandates backdoors and a while later they cause a complete collapse of their economy by that. Without a catastrophe to point to, most people are too limited to understand even basic things.
We've had Yahoo creditials stolen, NSA hacks stolen, Blackberry is near bankrupt over its backdoors. The argument FOR backdoors have crumbled, so is it really necessary at this point to defend encryption?
To experts and reasonably well-informed citizens, it is not. To the rest (which is the majority), it still is and Tim Cook is performing a valuable public service with his stance, no matter that it also benefits Apple.
Quite a few experts have been warning about this problem for years. People never listen until something bad happens....
While it sounds extreme, I completely agree. Without that, nothing is going to change. As soon as anybody that did screw up this badly has to prove they followed best practices and had independent review OR ELSE (and the "ELSE" must be personal for senior management), this problem will mostly go away. One model could be IoT devices this insecure must be recalled and the owners compensated generously. Cannot assure that? No way for your trash to get through customs. Yes, regulation is generally not a good idea, but I do not think there is an alternative here.
Makers of FOSS would of course not be affected, only manufacturers using FOSS insecurely.
Actually, making sure you change username and password is their responsibility. The well-established way to do that is that unless you do, the device just displays a page asking you to. So this is indeed a massive screwup on the manufacturer's side.
I fully agree. Just one (minor) correction: The Math does allow backdoors that only work for the "good"/bad guys, but reality does not because it means keeping an encryption key absolutely secret long-term while it is also frequently used. Not even the NSA can apparently manage that. And if it fails, the effects are catastrophic.
I am not quite sure what you are saying. If you are saying we should think of it as engineering, then I fully agree. Programming very much is engineering and it is a hard engineering discipline because it is still in the process of being established. The problem is all those people that do not practice it as an engineering discipline, but as some kind of improvisation art.
Really. Things like assignment instead of comparison is something a reasonably modern C-compiler warns you with high warning settings. And you should definitely use these settings (in fact you should use -Wall or the equivalent), at least when finishing up. And you should fix all warnings:
#> x.c:6:3: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]
Of course, you may want the assignment, so the compiler just asks you to use the slightly more elaborate stance "if ((a=b))" to signal that. This is not the coding dark ages where a C compiler was unable to find such potential problems.
Hahahahaha, funny. The WWW comes from CERN, i.e. it is an entirely European discovery. The US contributed nothing to it. Ethernet is not tied to the Internet, it is a short-haul technology and it is most certainly not a "TCP/IP technology".
When you take into account that a bank transfer costs next to nothing, and all other forms of payment cost more, I do not think you have a point.
Indeed. I think in NK they tell them that the rest of the world is starving and living in concentration camps, etc. The technique of the "Big Lie" works pretty well once some border-conditions are met.
Unfortunately, not always after a longer time. I think you have 3 days or so for a regular cancel, but, depending on country, after that the target bank may pay out the money and in some countries that means you have to get it back from the person that owns the target account. If they are known, that works as well (people are _not_ allowed to spend money they get by a bank transfer out of the blue), but some countries are shoddy with verifying the identity of customers and in e-fraud-cases (and hacked online-banking) people have transferred money, withdrawn it after 3 days and then vanished. If it is not a large sum, then that money is likely gone. On a large sum, the target bank can be obliged to refund the money, because if their failure to identify the customer properly. You may have to sue them though.
But the bottom line is that if you made an honest mistake, you will likely get the money back. If you were defrauded, that is not assured.