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Comment Re:And... iOS6 (Score 2) 198

It is indeed. The difference is your average Joe is fairly likely to know now that he shouldn't click on a link from an unknown address, or his email AV will have sanitized it first. Even if he keeps NFC turned off most of the time (which is not the default) he'll still have to turn it on to, for example, pay for something, and I think that's when it will be most dangerous.

Comment Re:And... iOS6 (Score 2) 198

The idea being that it's ok to have an insecure wireless interface on your smartphone as long as you don't have to be *too* close to it for it to work?

NFC stations are not usually on other people, they're in stores and random other places that entice you to use it. A hacked or augmented genuine NFC reader could be made to steal your data, for example.

Comment Private prosecution (Score 1) 195

UK "justice" is pretty messed up - a private entity can prosecute individuals.

Ars has a great article about how FACT put the owner of SurfTheChannel behind bars for four years. Maybe this is why UKNova are complying with these idiots.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/private-justice-how-hollywood-money-put-a-brit-behind-bars

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