Magic. That's why your not allowed to use them on planes because they think the magic running the phones will interfere with the magic keeping the plane in the air and cause it to fall from the sky./s
That's true but no one would usually call them an ISP. Cellular is not an Internet service it's a phone service that happens to also be able to do Internet like POTS can also happen to do dialup.
Some carriers have started offering dedicated Internet service over LTE like att and verizon but not all do for example tmobile does not have a home Internet option so I wouldn't remotely think they would be called an ISP but they do sell phone service.
In any case saying if someone asked you whose your phone with the appropriate response is not "my ISP is att" they didn't ask who you had Internet at home with they were asking who your cellular carrier was. Now if someone asked you who do you get your Internet through at home "my ISP is att" would be appropriate.
If they can claim the cellcos are ISPs they can claim a heck of a lot of people are covered with broadband that really aren't and sometimes what people call it is all that matters instead of what it actually is. This happens way more often than it should when the gov't is Involved.
Is there a reason you are calling a cellphone company a ISP? Here (in the US) ISP usually stands for Internet service provider. What does your acronym stand for?
You mean that you can use any phone that is able to get a signal to call 911 is somehow a security hole? Well then you've got a pretty big problem because its the law so you can actually do that with any phone from any manufacturer running any os in the United States.
The ping is not really that bad compared to a dsl connection anyway. It's just not as consistent I'd like. This was a speed test from a few hours ago on my grandfathered verizon unlimited LTE line I use for internet at home. http://www.speedtest.net/my-re...
Sure both safes and encryption only delay access one of it's good for a few hours and the other if it's good a few millennia at least.
It's not impossible for apple to make their encryption where they can't break it in a timely fashion (more than a few years). IIRC the encryption itself is already to that point it's just apple's implementations that are breaking namely considering a a 4 digit pin secure and then trying to protect it with a 10 try limit that could work but only if you don't figure out a way to get unlimited tries which just so happens to be way easier than breaking the encryption.
IMHO if apple can still break into it (in a timely fashion) they screwed up some where along the way of making their device secure.
I always figured that since the os and all its background crap are usually still running you could just use a network vulnerability and get clear file system access that way but I haven't heard of anyone doing it that way so apparently it's not that easy.
The big deal over the San Bernardino shooters iPhone wasn't really even about the encryption itself as it was about the weak pin number (I assume or short password) that had been used to protect it the Feds wanted unlimited tries to unlock the iPhone and they knew the password retry delay timer (and retry limit?) was just a software thing that apple could easily bypass. Apple didn't want to set precedent of being forced to make tools for the gov't to use less that become the status quo in the future. Anyhow the gov't found another company that could do it paid them an undisclosed sum unlocked the phone and found nothing.
It charges better if it's turned off. While somewhat true if it's going to be plugged in overnight it hardly makes a difference. Also maybe they don't want to be disturbed by telemarketers in the middle of the night. Or to save power but it's a rather negligible amount.
The iphone uses a secure enclave. It's a one way crypto chip it can be set but it can't be read. To unlock the phone the secure enclave must be queried and you've got 10 tries (if you enabled the wipe option) after which it erases it's stored encryption key for the primary storage.
So even If you had the storage mirrored you would never be able to decrypt it later if it destroyed the keys even if you ended up with the password.
Well that's how it's supposed to work anyway IIUC.
AFAIK no one has discovered a way to recover keys from even an unlocked secure enclave but iirc they have managed to trick the system into forgetting tries so they get an unlimited number of password tries.
The thing I like most about ebay is that there are still a large number of sellers that take pictures of their actual items for the listings while amazon is almost entirely stock photos.
Interesting from my own experience with working with accounts I haven't used in a few years I can only prove I have the password if I try it and it works. What I think or what I know the password is doesn't matter. I know the password is Password123 but at some point I changed it to Fragglerock123 and promptly forgot I did and didn't think to write it down because "I'll remember" Or your mind jumbles the words in between when you set the key and you need to use it and you end up with Rocklobster23.
Sounds like someone's never heard of asymmetric cryptography you can encrypt files without having the ability to decrypt them. Of course that's not usually the type of encryption used to secure entire drives.
Verizon still does not offer a single flip phone with VoLTE support which will get to be a really big deal when they shut off the 2G service they use for voice in 2020.
Ok so the ZTE cymbal works on it but isn't officially supported.
It's not really the vendor's fault that they require paypal it's just that they aren't allowed to accept many other payment methods as per ebay policy.
Imho support for things like amazon payments and google wallet is very long overdue but especially since they "split" from paypal but yet paypal is still deeply integrated and used for verification and such.
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5 years huh?
Relevant xkcd.
https://xkcd.com/678/
Does it have the full dvd complete with unskippable preroll ads and warnings or is it a stripped down copy with just the movie?
I agree with the lemming.
Magic. That's why your not allowed to use them on planes because they think the magic running the phones will interfere with the magic keeping the plane in the air and cause it to fall from the sky. /s
That's true but no one would usually call them an ISP.
Cellular is not an Internet service it's a phone service that happens to also be able to do Internet like POTS can also happen to do dialup.
Some carriers have started offering dedicated Internet service over LTE like att and verizon but not all do for example tmobile does not have a home Internet option so I wouldn't remotely think they would be called an ISP but they do sell phone service.
In any case saying if someone asked you whose your phone with the appropriate response is not "my ISP is att" they didn't ask who you had Internet at home with they were asking who your cellular carrier was. Now if someone asked you who do you get your Internet through at home "my ISP is att" would be appropriate.
If they can claim the cellcos are ISPs they can claim a heck of a lot of people are covered with broadband that really aren't and sometimes what people call it is all that matters instead of what it actually is. This happens way more often than it should when the gov't is Involved.
Yeah biometrics are convenient but they usually aren't a good idea security wise due to the possibility of permanent compromise.
It's a bad idea legally too as even a four digit pin code has more legal protection than your actual digits do.
Not that a four digit pin should ever be considered secure.
Is there a reason you are calling a cellphone company a ISP?
Here (in the US) ISP usually stands for Internet service provider.
What does your acronym stand for?
You mean like this? http://youtu.be/F3CS9l9VJmE
You mean that you can use any phone that is able to get a signal to call 911 is somehow a security hole?
Well then you've got a pretty big problem because its the law so you can actually do that with any phone from any manufacturer running any os in the United States.
The ping is not really that bad compared to a dsl connection anyway. It's just not as consistent I'd like.
This was a speed test from a few hours ago on my grandfathered verizon unlimited LTE line I use for internet at home.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-re...
Can we move the spell check correction to the context menu option closest to the mouse instead of the one farthest away?
Sure both safes and encryption only delay access one of it's good for a few hours and the other if it's good a few millennia at least.
It's not impossible for apple to make their encryption where they can't break it in a timely fashion (more than a few years). IIRC the encryption itself is already to that point it's just apple's implementations that are breaking namely considering a a 4 digit pin secure and then trying to protect it with a 10 try limit that could work but only if you don't figure out a way to get unlimited tries which just so happens to be way easier than breaking the encryption.
IMHO if apple can still break into it (in a timely fashion) they screwed up some where along the way of making their device secure.
I always figured that since the os and all its background crap are usually still running you could just use a network vulnerability and get clear file system access that way but I haven't heard of anyone doing it that way so apparently it's not that easy.
The big deal over the San Bernardino shooters iPhone wasn't really even about the encryption itself as it was about the weak pin number (I assume or short password) that had been used to protect it the Feds wanted unlimited tries to unlock the iPhone and they knew the password retry delay timer (and retry limit?) was just a software thing that apple could easily bypass. Apple didn't want to set precedent of being forced to make tools for the gov't to use less that become the status quo in the future.
Anyhow the gov't found another company that could do it paid them an undisclosed sum unlocked the phone and found nothing.
It charges better if it's turned off. While somewhat true if it's going to be plugged in overnight it hardly makes a difference.
Also maybe they don't want to be disturbed by telemarketers in the middle of the night.
Or to save power but it's a rather negligible amount.
The iphone uses a secure enclave.
It's a one way crypto chip it can be set but it can't be read.
To unlock the phone the secure enclave must be queried and you've got 10 tries (if you enabled the wipe option) after which it erases it's stored encryption key for the primary storage.
So even If you had the storage mirrored you would never be able to decrypt it later if it destroyed the keys even if you ended up with the password.
Well that's how it's supposed to work anyway IIUC.
AFAIK no one has discovered a way to recover keys from even an unlocked secure enclave but iirc they have managed to trick the system into forgetting tries so they get an unlimited number of password tries.
The device erase if password entered incorrectly x times has been used to limited success by apple with their secure enclave.
They keep finding new ways to break it tho.
The thing I like most about ebay is that there are still a large number of sellers that take pictures of their actual items for the listings while amazon is almost entirely stock photos.
Interesting from my own experience with working with accounts I haven't used in a few years I can only prove I have the password if I try it and it works.
What I think or what I know the password is doesn't matter.
I know the password is Password123 but at some point I changed it to Fragglerock123 and promptly forgot I did and didn't think to write it down because "I'll remember"
Or your mind jumbles the words in between when you set the key and you need to use it and you end up with Rocklobster23.
They get a saw and cut your nice expensive safe open.
What type of phone do you have that doesn't have to be restarted every few days?
How do you implement the timeout assuming the attacker will have possession of the device in question?
Apple has been dealing with something similar with their 10 try then wipe password limitation they keep figuring out new ways to bypass it.
Sounds like someone's never heard of asymmetric cryptography you can encrypt files without having the ability to decrypt them. Of course that's not usually the type of encryption used to secure entire drives.
Verizon still does not offer a single flip phone with VoLTE support which will get to be a really big deal when they shut off the 2G service they use for voice in 2020.
Ok so the ZTE cymbal works on it but isn't officially supported.
It's not really the vendor's fault that they require paypal it's just that they aren't allowed to accept many other payment methods as per ebay policy.
Imho support for things like amazon payments and google wallet is very long overdue but especially since they "split" from paypal but yet paypal is still deeply integrated and used for verification and such.
Complain iirc there's a free month of prime for every time they miss a guaranteed delivery.
With that said most of the time mine are on time or early but I have had things arrive late and once never arrive at all.
On the 2 hour thing is much available or is that just a few select things? It's not available here.
What about the nice new ads that cover half the page?
If I wasn't using adblock before I sure would be now.