"A very obvious tell-tale sign on the phone is all of a sudden your battery life is deteriorating," he said. "You wake up one morning and your battery has been drained then that might indicate that some of the data has been taken off your phone overnight."
*snicker* Quick! Put more data in my phone to charge it back up!
I can see where he's coming from with that though, a smart-smartphone would conserve battery whenever possible by powering down components and so constant active use could drain the battery quicker. But any GOOD malware would only send out data at regular intervals, not all the time, so this would be a useless check. A BAD malware author would learn this pretty quickly after he DDoSs his own servers.
"Kaspersky officials suggest that Android users pay close attention to the services requested by an application at the time of installation"
So yeah. But it hardly makes it not a trojan; by definition trojans masquerade as legitimate apps and this one seems to be no exception. But it doesn't spread or install automatically or give itself privileges the user doesn't grant it, so it's not a big concern. Just another example of users installing that app they MUST have no matter how loudly their anti-virus screams at them about it.
Addendum: Not that getting kids to eat veggies is wrong, but I don't think they'd appreciate finding out that they never actually had to suffer through spinach, at least.
Actually 1 move isn't hard, because there are only 12 possible moves, thus 12^1 = 12 permutations. It does not take much processing power to find one rubik's cube that none of the 12 permutations will solve.
Would be nice to mention that the increases are due to use of search indexing and/or IMAP account synchronization (especially with a large amount of e-mail). They don't do a comparison of what happens when you turn those off which I think would be more useful.
On a side note I was bored with the apparently stagnation of Thunderbird (I couldn't even find a good Aero Glass extension that worked during the 3.1 beta) I tried Windows Live Mail. It was interesting up until the point where it refused to show any mail from one of my accounts and insisted it wasn't failing. At least Thunderbird actually worked...
Switched one of my machines to Linux and am using Evolution which is actually quite nice... the account setup was far more pleasant and simple than Thunderbird or WLM and both my accounts worked fine.
Perhaps it's the opposite problem. Because comp sci classes don't cover anything but the basic basics, schools never need to or never realize their teachers aren't very good at the subject themselves. If the school taught more advanced subjects they would screen out those teachers in job interviews based on questions on the subjects.
My problem with the paragraph is, if they can make a block of hardware that can take over the functionality of another block, why outsource the block in the first place since they already have a block that can do those functions? Answer: they can't make a block of hardware like that, that's why they had to outsource it. Also, they have to make it in house. If they outsource it they can no longer trust it either!
Most of the defenses involve adding a kind of "policing" function to the chip's architecture. For example, one could design a block that would monitor the behavior of other blocks and make sure they fit certain patterns. If another block misbehaves, it would be "quarantined" and the monitoring hardware would take over the now-missing functions.
Yeah, THAT sounds practical. The article author watches/reads too much science fiction.
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Er.... whatever.
So long ago Facebook used to keep permanent logs of entered passwords (at least, failed or off-by-one-letter ones). I wonder what they do now.
Unless you have [url=http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable]Firefox Portable[/url].
You could probably make it do that if you really wanted it to.
Can't he claim this is a parody of Geek Squad cars? IANAL so I dunno how this works.
So now we have reporters who can't find the _ key on their keyboards...
And I wonder how many would write "4+3" as the answer.
Wasn't the main problem that there are still few ISP choices in a lot of places? At least, based on numerous anecdotes I hear.
The Great Typo and Bad Spelling and Grammar Hunt just doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
"A very obvious tell-tale sign on the phone is all of a sudden your battery life is deteriorating," he said. "You wake up one morning and your battery has been drained then that might indicate that some of the data has been taken off your phone overnight."
*snicker* Quick! Put more data in my phone to charge it back up!
I can see where he's coming from with that though, a smart-smartphone would conserve battery whenever possible by powering down components and so constant active use could drain the battery quicker. But any GOOD malware would only send out data at regular intervals, not all the time, so this would be a useless check. A BAD malware author would learn this pretty quickly after he DDoSs his own servers.
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OK I'll just....
...heeeey wait a minute. You almost had me there, but you'll have to try harder than that!
"Kaspersky officials suggest that Android users pay close attention to the services requested by an application at the time of installation"
So yeah. But it hardly makes it not a trojan; by definition trojans masquerade as legitimate apps and this one seems to be no exception. But it doesn't spread or install automatically or give itself privileges the user doesn't grant it, so it's not a big concern. Just another example of users installing that app they MUST have no matter how loudly their anti-virus screams at them about it.
Addendum: Not that getting kids to eat veggies is wrong, but I don't think they'd appreciate finding out that they never actually had to suffer through spinach, at least.
It was wrong.
Watermelon has more iron in it than spinach, and I personally find it far more tasty.
Actually 1 move isn't hard, because there are only 12 possible moves, thus 12^1 = 12 permutations. It does not take much processing power to find one rubik's cube that none of the 12 permutations will solve.
35 "computing years" is not the same as normal years. It's like saying 100 man hours. It can be 35 computers for 1 year, or 7 computers for 5 years.
Solution: Don't do personal stuff on your work account...
...people aren't successfully pulling off this "trick" already?
Would be nice to mention that the increases are due to use of search indexing and/or IMAP account synchronization (especially with a large amount of e-mail). They don't do a comparison of what happens when you turn those off which I think would be more useful.
On a side note I was bored with the apparently stagnation of Thunderbird (I couldn't even find a good Aero Glass extension that worked during the 3.1 beta) I tried Windows Live Mail. It was interesting up until the point where it refused to show any mail from one of my accounts and insisted it wasn't failing. At least Thunderbird actually worked...
Switched one of my machines to Linux and am using Evolution which is actually quite nice... the account setup was far more pleasant and simple than Thunderbird or WLM and both my accounts worked fine.
Perhaps it's the opposite problem. Because comp sci classes don't cover anything but the basic basics, schools never need to or never realize their teachers aren't very good at the subject themselves. If the school taught more advanced subjects they would screen out those teachers in job interviews based on questions on the subjects.
You can take out a mortgage on your home... for some quick cash.
Doesn't make sense to me though since it's still a loan you need to pay back. You don't even get anything from the loan like a new car or house.
A CME happened in a Stargate Atlantis episode too.
http://gateworld.net/atlantis/s3/312.shtml. Useful info links right above the episode banner.
My problem with the paragraph is, if they can make a block of hardware that can take over the functionality of another block, why outsource the block in the first place since they already have a block that can do those functions? Answer: they can't make a block of hardware like that, that's why they had to outsource it. Also, they have to make it in house. If they outsource it they can no longer trust it either!
Yeah, THAT sounds practical. The article author watches/reads too much science fiction.