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  1. Re:Hypothetical... on Minnesota School Issues iPad 2 To Every Student · · Score: 1

    As mentioned many like to view the cams offered in the 'free' educational tools and seem to have a free legal pass in keeping recordings too.
    As for " then there could be very personal data" many consumer level operating systems seem to keep deep hidden longterm 'backup or 'sync' databases.
    A simple remove, clear, restore ect requested in a browser may not touch shared OS level data. Play loud music when working, cover the cam and know someone is always watching, like a Soviet hotel.

  2. Re:black hats on Police Using Apple iOS Tracking Data For Forensics · · Score: 1

    With http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center where city, state, taskforces, federal, military, intelligence and corporate spt and start seems to be blurred.
    As for purposeful back doors, crypto history is full of NSA and GCHQ efforts to ensure certain devices are enjoyed by all.

  3. Re:Who are the 3rd parties? on Army Develops Android-Based Framework For Battlefield Ops · · Score: 1

    http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229401646
    The NSA is hinting at "... Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, so developers can write apps that get shared and can run database queries across agencies."
    Dont worry the "security wrapper" and private clouds will keep it all safe.

  4. Re:home routers on IPv6 Traffic Remains Minuscule · · Score: 2

    re: How many ISPs have rolled out IPv6 to the masses?
    Read what one Australian isp is doing http://ipv6.internode.on.net/

  5. Re:Full Phone Encryption? on Michigan Police Could Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops · · Score: 1

    If it was really well done, traces of an encrypted file system could be detected. A message displayed, details stored and something injected?
    Send you on your way, and your pw is collected. Some time later, your phone is taken from you as part of new "random" issue needing a short time in a cell with your phone kept safe until your release.

  6. Re:So who do I buy drives from now? on Samsung HD Unit Bought By Seagate · · Score: 1

    WD enterprise line (5-year support) with sandforce/intel SSD's for booting.
    Then add more ssd's as price drops or speed needs go way up.

  7. Re:Better late than never.. on Robots Enter Fukushima Reactor Building · · Score: 1
  8. Re:So BASIC, C, and Lisp are all related? on All Languages Linked To Common Source · · Score: 2

    Sorry, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse wrote a high-level programming language called "Plan Calculus"

  9. Re:So BASIC, C, and Lisp are all related? on All Languages Linked To Common Source · · Score: 1
  10. Re:whats not fair on RIM Co-CEO Cries 'No Fair' On Security Question · · Score: 1

    Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom are all part of Echelon (well most of the time ;) ) so the US has been part of their telco systems for generations.

  11. Re:Legitimate question on RIM Co-CEO Cries 'No Fair' On Security Question · · Score: 1

    If in Canada, NSA is a given. You dont get to be a teclo without the NSA. Local/federal police is a given with a court finding/letter.
    As for India/Middle East, their signals Intelligence would like the same. Processing power, storage is very very cheap and any gov can do very complex databases now.
    Your average telco is now stuck between expanding sales and reality of when signals intelligence meets a dissidents door, their disappearance and skilled local and international press recalling the 'brand' who helped.
    leaders - either tame/know its all been recorded or waiting for a drone/press story.
    celebrities - face simple press hacking, or the skill of an ex signals Intelligence for hire.
    teenagers - legal school issued cam/mic spyware/remote laptop is a real issue.

  12. Re:In US on Russia Backs Down On Skype, Gmail Ban · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The US is so free you thoughtcrime yourself out in blogs, emails, phonecalls, web 2.0 ect. The urge to spread the message, find others, share and build is very powerful. If you do use encryption, the trail is even more clear and task force/federal interest builds.
    The only thing that makes people really sit up is old court cases where they see the use of hardware and software to get around any level of encryption.
    Russia seems to have learned this, spread the tools, understand the web 2.0/free tools, then go hunting.

  13. Re:Nonsensical question on What If America Had Beaten the Soviets Into Space? · · Score: 1

    Yes the Germans in Soviet Union and USA would have had to work bit harder and things would have balanced out again.
    Something wonderful about knowing you will go home early if you work extra hard. Or never have to worry about going home again.

  14. Re:This has sadly happened... on What Happens If You Get Sucked Out of a Plane? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_5390 the left windscreen failed at 17300 feet and the captain was sucked 1/2 out.

  15. Re:PJ doesn't exist. on Groklaw Declares Victory, No More Articles · · Score: 1

    So the legal department version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15 would be a Linux_Lawyer45 like ?
    Let the interactive legal content flow :)

  16. Re:That would be interesting on Wozniak: I Would Consider Returning To Apple · · Score: 1

    3. Apple gets real TRIM for all supported SSD. (based on his past interest in the disc/storage areas)

  17. Re:First Post ? on New Gasoline Engine Prototype Claims 3X Current Engine Efficiency · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "shock wave that ignites the compressed air and fuel to transmit energy." Sounds like a V1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_(flying_bomb)#Power_plant.
    German tech is alive again for the next generation of US scientists. Back to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Turbine_Car soon :)

  18. Re:That's not the good link! on Appeals Court Affirms Warrantless Computer Searches · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Nokia who? on Nokia Confirms Symbian Is No Longer Open Source · · Score: 1

    They made tyres, paper and had some telco interests.

  20. Re:Gender? on Pandora App Sends Private Data To Advertisers · · Score: 1

    All the better to target ads at you my dear!

  21. Re:It's not a power of 2 on Intel Unveils 10-Core Xeon Processors · · Score: 1

    Dont worry, video encoding will just use any number of cores found. Your average game will use one core to keep the port to current generation of consoles simple.

  22. Re:The NSA was running at 600mhz in 1950 on Intel Unveils 10-Core Xeon Processors · · Score: 1

    "high speed electronic static storage in the amount of 1,024 words. The word size was 36 bits instead of ATLAS I's 24, two address logic instead of one, more sophisticated instruction code, and the basis of all computing today, input-output program controlled instructions. Having two-address logic instead of one was very powerful for computers of this age. The new instruction codes included another first, a 'repeat' instruction, some arithmetic instructions, a scaling factor ability, and index jumping capability. " The NSA, then like now wanted to find data, numbers... then voices.

  23. Re:The NSA was running at 600mhz in 1950 on Intel Unveils 10-Core Xeon Processors · · Score: 3, Informative

    Have a read of what the NSA had in the 1950's and 60's at: Read up on ATLAS, ABEL http://www.governmentattic.org/3docs/NSA-HGPEDC_1964.pdf

  24. Re:What's the difference between AM3 and AM3+ on AMD Bulldozer Will Bring Socket Shift To PCs · · Score: 1

    So the new gen chips work as shipped, vs a hack to make them work with older gen hardware?
    http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s-First-Bulldozer-FX-Processors-to-Be-Released-on-June-11-190041.shtml

  25. Re:OMG. How very little has changed in 28 years. on A Multitasking GUI, Circa 1982 · · Score: 1

    Yes it show how Apple and MS went down to cheap junk hardware and milked generations to get us back to Unix like protections.
    20 years of gui and networking bug hunts and we have Unix back and think we are in the future.