Thanks. That was exactly what i suspected that their throttled 3g is not the same speed i get when i switch 4g/lte off on my iphone (which is pretty usable). I get up to 4 mbit/s on 3g.
But at least in Europe (gsm), we used edge before anyone was even talking about 3g. And i know that from time to time i still get both logos on my iphone information bar when i go into the woods - and while internet is totally snappy with 3g logo, its near unusable when EDGE is displayed.
What do you do with few hundred megabytes of *tethering*? Any computer with a modern OS will consume that in the first nanosecond of discovering an internet connection is available.
We are not even talking about encryption as such. We are talking about a phone which consists of encryption plus hardware plus software that makes use of said encryption. I would bet a fortune that this combination will be broken into sooner rather than later.
Well, it might come as a surprise to you, but in real world breaking an encryption does not work by guessing the pin on the third try like in movies. It does not matter if there are 10 digits or 76. Someone will find a way around it given money and time.
Well, yeah. Unbreakable for me and you. But give someone enough time and money and they aren't. Some government agency with enough funds and talent (and motivation). If history has taught us anything - all encryption systems will be broken in due time.
My point was that NO system is unbreakable. Its just the matter of price. In San Bernardino case government also argued with Apple that it is impossible to decrypt - until it suddenly wasn't. I guess someone decided that court case with Apple would be less cost effective.
As we know from the San Bernardino case, it is not an "unbreakable lock". The government just finds it cheaper to throw a man in jail than pay someone to open the iphone.
Yes, true. My iot things talk with my own OpenHAB installation and therefore I do not have that issue. But a generic out of the box behaviour on most of the iot stuff is to phone home as it simply cannot be connected by an app in your phone without forwarding ports etc (which is beyond a normal user's abilities).
TFA is a a question by a person who has no idea how ip networks and client/server/app communication works.
My only point was that we do not need a special IOT isolating appliance, this can all be done with standard firewalls built in most wifi or broadband routers.
This does not need a special product. Any firewall will do, even a random consumer wifi router that has customizable firewall rules. a) assign iot devices certain ip addresses b) block all outgoing traffic from these
I have it done in a bit of more advanced way (VLANs), but thats not strictly necessary.
Who uses an external drive for Time Machine? The only people I know who actually have a regular backup do it over the network either to Time Capsule or some kind of other NAS. I use Synology.
"So far it's been a matter of days since Apple released this computer and again we see a lag of devices." It might be worth mentioning that the USB-C only "New macbook" was introduced a year and a half ago and is on its second iteration already.
I play music in my car via bluetooth. I rarely charge my car. I play music at home with a chromecast. I do not charge that either. I use a wired headset in my office, but it it connected to my computer and I answer the phone through that. All that with a phone that has a 3,5mm jack.
Well, I live on the other side of the planet. I have heard of Melbourne and know roughly where it is. I have never heard of Mildura which is 10x times smaller. Comparing the size of these blunders is like misplacing a toy truck vs a real motor vehicle.
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Facetime is not an open standard.
XMPP/jabber is, but even google whose Talk was originally based on Jabber, is moving away from it with Hangouts.
How do these devices connect to a phone network? Do they have service plans while being refurbished?
Thanks. That was exactly what i suspected that their throttled 3g is not the same speed i get when i switch 4g/lte off on my iphone (which is pretty usable). I get up to 4 mbit/s on 3g.
But at least in Europe (gsm), we used edge before anyone was even talking about 3g. And i know that from time to time i still get both logos on my iphone information bar when i go into the woods - and while internet is totally snappy with 3g logo, its near unusable when EDGE is displayed.
I am not talking about roaming. I was thinking of buying a prepaid sim for the month i spend in US.
3g (at least in Europe) meant 2mbit and up. Edge was 256kbit/s.
Have you actually tried it?
Is their "unlimited 3g tethering" actually at 3g speeds or more like 2g/edge? I will be travelling to the US and need a month of internet.
What do you do with few hundred megabytes of *tethering*? Any computer with a modern OS will consume that in the first nanosecond of discovering an internet connection is available.
We are not even talking about encryption as such.
We are talking about a phone which consists of encryption plus hardware plus software that makes use of said encryption. I would bet a fortune that this combination will be broken into sooner rather than later.
Well, it might come as a surprise to you, but in real world breaking an encryption does not work by guessing the pin on the third try like in movies. It does not matter if there are 10 digits or 76. Someone will find a way around it given money and time.
Well, yeah. Unbreakable for me and you.
But give someone enough time and money and they aren't. Some government agency with enough funds and talent (and motivation). If history has taught us anything - all encryption systems will be broken in due time.
It is in the article. They asked for the code 10 months later.
My point was that NO system is unbreakable. Its just the matter of price. In San Bernardino case government also argued with Apple that it is impossible to decrypt - until it suddenly wasn't. I guess someone decided that court case with Apple would be less cost effective.
As we know from the San Bernardino case, it is not an "unbreakable lock". The government just finds it cheaper to throw a man in jail than pay someone to open the iphone.
Yes, true. My iot things talk with my own OpenHAB installation and therefore I do not have that issue. But a generic out of the box behaviour on most of the iot stuff is to phone home as it simply cannot be connected by an app in your phone without forwarding ports etc (which is beyond a normal user's abilities).
TFA is a a question by a person who has no idea how ip networks and client/server/app communication works.
My only point was that we do not need a special IOT isolating appliance, this can all be done with standard firewalls built in most wifi or broadband routers.
This does not need a special product. Any firewall will do, even a random consumer wifi router that has customizable firewall rules.
a) assign iot devices certain ip addresses
b) block all outgoing traffic from these
I have it done in a bit of more advanced way (VLANs), but thats not strictly necessary.
Also, note that this is the first time you cannot use your iphone headphones with your macbook.
Who uses an external drive for Time Machine? The only people I know who actually have a regular backup do it over the network either to Time Capsule or some kind of other NAS. I use Synology.
"So far it's been a matter of days since Apple released this computer and again we see a lag of devices."
It might be worth mentioning that the USB-C only "New macbook" was introduced a year and a half ago and is on its second iteration already.
At the same time the overheating problem would worsen threefold.
I play music in my car via bluetooth. I rarely charge my car.
I play music at home with a chromecast. I do not charge that either.
I use a wired headset in my office, but it it connected to my computer and I answer the phone through that.
All that with a phone that has a 3,5mm jack.
Hmm. A student has a phone with a dead battery at 09:30? In what universe?
You are talking about android specific forums, etc. I am talking about generel non-tech media. I stand by my statement.
Well, the fact that an ios vulnerability is newsworthy and android one is not, should tell you which is safer.
Well, I live on the other side of the planet. I have heard of Melbourne and know roughly where it is. I have never heard of Mildura which is 10x times smaller. Comparing the size of these blunders is like misplacing a toy truck vs a real motor vehicle.