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  1. It's worse than we thought. on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Wrong Comparison on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches · · Score: 1

    Well then you haven't been acquainted with the concept of resistivity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistivity

  3. Re:Why is it taking so long? on Chrome On the Way For Mac and Linux · · Score: 1

    I have to ask; have you ever SEEN tk? But really, all flaming aside this really is a good suggestion if you replace tk with Qt. Tight WebKit integration, cross platform, easy enough, AFAIK they already use it for some projects etc.

  4. Re:Hmm. on Alan Cox Leaves Red Hat · · Score: 1, Informative

    That's odd. I also claim to have talked to him and he said vi was better than emacs.

    It wouldn't surprise me if he decided to work for Intel's obvious troll division.

    Did I just blow your mind?

  5. Article in English on CCC Hackers Break DECT Telephones' Security · · Score: 3, Informative

    With a laptop aufgebohrten [bohren is to drill] card for 23 euros, according to security experts call on the basis of the widely-used standard Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication simply listen.

    Who confidential telephone conversations, you should better not be one of the most popular cordless phones on the basis of the standard DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication) access. As security experts at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress (25C3) in Berlin said, can easily intercept such communications. What is needed is therefore only a aufgebohrte, actually for the Internet telephony imaginary laptop card for 23 euros and a Linux computer. No problems with the interception of long-distance DECT had this device, as very often when an encryption is not activated. But even at the beginning of encrypted information exchange could plug the card base and pretends to disable encryption.

    The approval by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) standard DECT procedure is most widely used for cordless telephones. In addition, the standard in Babyfonen, emergency calls and door-opening systems, cordless EC-card or even in traffic management applications. The number of active DECT terminals in this country alone at 30 million. For the authentication of the base and the associated equipment and for the encryption of data using DECT standard crypto methods.

    The algorithms are used in the devices and will all be wired to the public are kept secret. The network master key is not used to leave. In theory, see that everything from sound, said Erik Tews, one of the researchers involved the discovery of the TU Darmstadt. The practice, however, as various workarounds and attack surfaces.

    After the hackers initially a fairly expensive and high processor performance requirements DECT sniffer had built, they found, according to Andreas fellow students with the ComOnAir card "another beautiful hardware" for the reception of data traffic. After a reverse engineering, the replica of the circuit diagram, the retrieval of Fimware and the AnlÃten some additional lines was scarce after a month of looking, for example, from a house in front of a parked car use sniffer been completed.

    The inventor was quickly noticed led Tews went on to say that sometimes have no authentication or encryption process between the transmitter station and the handset will be activated. Often authenticate the phone only to the network as the GSM cellular standard, although in principle, DECT also the network to the receiving unit as it could identify. For other devices, is a successful authentication, but without encryption. In all these cases, the PCMCIA card with a special Linux driver active discussions track, extract the data on a storage medium and write an audio player such performance can. It should have been possible, in any conversation in such a poorly secured DECT network recorded.

    If the handset is encrypted conversations have had the case not much more difficult, said Tews. Using a modified driver and a script you have the base issue as sniffer and data traffic, thanks to the support VoIP on an Asterisk server, and also redirect you. A breaking of keys had been necessary because when emit a signal that encryption is not supported, to communicate in plain had been converted. "It works on all systems, which we have found here", underlined the Darmstadt researchers vulnerability DECT standard implementations.

    Even when encryption system itself was the first hacker sticking points. According Tews succeeded them, a reverse engineering of the central DECT Standard Authentication Algorithm (DSAA) and its four sub-models to implement. A research report on the project site dedected.org finding implementations and source code for the programming languages Java and C will follow soon. Quite the DSAA is broken so far but not yet.

    On the well kept secret DECT Standard Cipher (DSC) is in accordance with Ralf-Philipp Weinmann of the research team is also still no effective attack. A paten

  6. Re:"Organizer" on Netbooks Popular Enough For a C&D From Psion · · Score: 0

    Next thing you know, they'll sic[sic] their lawyers on folks selling "organizers".

    In case you don't get it I promise it's funny

  7. Re:Languages other than English? on OpenSUSE 11.1 License Changes Examined · · Score: 0

    That doesn't only apply to the constitution but to the whole of the law. The English is only (officially) given as a guide and the law is entirely in Irish. This is interesting because an awful lot of Irish law is copypasta from England's.

  8. Re:Install Ubuntu on Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? · · Score: 0

    should be, but day-to-day usability is, at least in my experience, better than the hog-pog mix of HP printer applets

    I know what a hog is, and I know what a pog is. However this "hog-pog" of which you speak both confuses and intrigues me.

    It does look a little like a hodge-podge but I'm sure if you'd meant that you would have said it.

    Also sorry, I usually only inflict my pedantry on the windows crowd.

  9. Re:Go with latex on Tools & Surprises For a Tech Book Author? · · Score: 0

    And you can go even less wrong with LYX http://www.lyx.org/ the what-you-see-is-what-you-mean latex editor. Don't let the website fool you, this program is excellent and supports everything you want and more. It's also FOSS and Qt4

  10. Re:Tempest in a teapot on Warner Music Pulls Videos Off YouTube · · Score: 0

    Glad your feeling better now.

    Glad his.

    (Even Grammar Nazis have a sense of humour.)

  11. Re:GNAAAR!!!! on How To See In 3D On Your iPhone · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Well I can play quake 2 http://www.leweyg.com/download/SIRD/q2/index.html. Added bonus of no-one having any idea what you're doing.

  12. I counteract this on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 0

    I print all my documents inverted so this will actually cost me more ink!

  13. Re:LUK on Wine Goes 64-Bit With Wine64 · · Score: 0

    no GUI?

  14. Re:A new companion? on Canadians Miss Out On Doctor Who Season Finale · · Score: 0

    I know I'm a troll but this is horrendously misinformative. Catherine Tate is awful. That is an undeniable fact. Check her out on youtube if you're bovva'd. - btw that is her only joke.

  15. Re:ohnoitsroland on A Sixth Region In the Magnetosphere · · Score: -1

    mod parent "ohnoitsrolandpostingaboutohnoitsroland"

  16. Re:just what we need on Google Chrome Is Out of Beta · · Score: -1

    I know I'm only a troll but I think this is an attempt at "brand proliferation" (I'm sure you can link to wikipedia yourselves). Why be only one choice in the market?

  17. Re:doesn't sound too secure yet on Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web · · Score: 0

    I got it.

    Does that mean you didn't?
    If so why do you like it?

  18. Re:Contracts! on Freelance Web Developer Best Practices? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh Santa, you're so wise.

  19. Re:still doing fs on top of RAID :-( on On the State of Linux File Systems · · Score: -1

    excuse me sir, but is your terminal only 40 cols wide?

  20. Re:great... on Entertainment Software Association Following RIAA? · · Score: -1

    how do you get modded up and not me?

  21. Re:great... on Entertainment Software Association Following RIAA? · · Score: -1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suite_(disambiguation)

    For the life of me I can't figure out which one you mean.

  22. Re:Ballmer in court on Ballmer Ordered To Testify In 'Vista Capable' Case · · Score: -1
  23. Re:Simple past tense on Tabula Rasa To Shut Down · · Score: -1

    Here's a tool to help you in your quest to become a pedant: a dictionary

  24. Re:About Time on Misdemeanor Plea Ends Norwich Pornography Case · · Score: -1

    If the above link just shows the name of the site then you have to change the number, or just continue to live a happy life.

  25. Re:Last time the marketing department springs for on Tabula Rasa To Shut Down · · Score: -1

    I think you'll find the word is swum.
    thanks

    hint: +1 pedantry