Comment Re:I would hope so (Score 1) 80
Exactly. I have no way to tell whether the mail app on my phone uses any kind of encryption.
Comment Video (Score 2) 166
CGP Grey did a nice video on this topic.
Comment How? (Score 1) 17
In single-strain infections, NF1 remains localized, does not spread to the bloodstream or organs and is cleared by the host immune system. NF2, however, produces a toxin that breaks down muscle tissue and allows it to spread to the bloodstream or organs.
In multi-strain infections, the toxin produced by NF2 breaks down the muscle tissue and enables NF1 to travel to the bloodstream or organs where it becomes deadly.
Comment Targeted (Score 2) 53
"Please tell us whether you plan to use this PC for highly sensitive data, so that we may send you one of our 'specially prepared' PCs."
Comment Why me? (Score 1) 102
Why should this be a problem for the owner (to disclose or not) or for the visitor (to visit or not)? Why don't these "smart devices" simply avoid doing anything objectionable?
When guests come over, I don't have to disclose that I have a dildo in my nightstand. But that's because it won't jump out on its own and assault my guests.
Comment No permissions needed for headphones (Score 2) 51
Bluetooth audio is handled through system settings, is separate from apps, and will continue working for apps that you deny permission for.
Ubisoft To Send Cease & Desist Requests To DDoS Services Attacking 'Rainbox Six Siege' Players (zdnet.com) 32
An anonymous reader writes: Ubisoft plans to send cease & desist legal letters to operators of DDoS-for-hire services, also known as DDoS booters or DDoS stressors. The company said it plans on making this step as part of a global action plan to curb DDoS attacks aimed at Rainbox Six Siege multiplayer servers.
The French video game company has been under a wave of DDoS attacks ever since last week when it launched the Operation Ember Rise update for the Rainbow Six Siege game. Along with the update, Ubisoft also performed a reset of multiplayer rankings. Following the reset, multiple players are suspected to have started launching DDoS attacks at the company's servers.
The cheating players have been using the DDoS attacks to trigger server lag and slow down matches. The goal was to annoy opponents, who in many cases would end up disconnecting and receiving a penalty for leaving the match, allowing the player who launched the DDoS attack to gain rank points undeserved. The DDoS attacks have been widespread as several players got wind of the trick and started renting DDoS firepower from online DDoS for-hire sites.
The French video game company has been under a wave of DDoS attacks ever since last week when it launched the Operation Ember Rise update for the Rainbow Six Siege game. Along with the update, Ubisoft also performed a reset of multiplayer rankings. Following the reset, multiple players are suspected to have started launching DDoS attacks at the company's servers.
The cheating players have been using the DDoS attacks to trigger server lag and slow down matches. The goal was to annoy opponents, who in many cases would end up disconnecting and receiving a penalty for leaving the match, allowing the player who launched the DDoS attack to gain rank points undeserved. The DDoS attacks have been widespread as several players got wind of the trick and started renting DDoS firepower from online DDoS for-hire sites.
Comment Re:I would ask (Score 1) 497
The only reason that Hong Kongers only have to deal with tear gas right now is that the police know they don't have weapons. Things would be a lot more nasty if Hong Kongers even had the chance of being armed.
Comment Re:No that is wrong (Score 4, Interesting) 40
Unless you send just an ID of the new message and the app uses an encrypted call to get the data. You do not HAVE to send message text over push notifications, and for that matter even if you did you could leave that encrypted.
The point isn't whether Apple can see the message content. The point is that Apple can see that there is a message being received and that Apple logs that information. Given those logs, you could create clusters of people who get messages at the same and who are presumably in the same group chat. There is probably other information you could datamine from those logs as well. Users of end-to-end encrypted chat apps would like to keep that kind of information private.
Comment Re:Tribalism (Score 1) 237
"People like us do things like this" is a very powerful technique for building tribes and marketing.
Comment Re:Original Source (Score 1) 68
I enjoyed these videos to learn about getting arbitrary read/write access to memory through javascript using the addrof and fakeobj primitives.
Comment Re:Unbelivable (Score 1) 68
Comment Re:Unbelivable (Score 1) 68
After reading the original source linked from here, I retract my previous statement. Improbable, but possible, and fascinating.
Comment Re:Unbelivable (Score 2) 68
I agree. A website was able to download someone's "Gmail database"? That seems improbable.
Also important from the article:
Google said it had reported the security issues to Apple on 1 February. Apple then released an operating system update which fixed the flaws on 7 February.
HBO's 'Chernobyl' is Now the Top-Ranked TV Show of All Time (variety.com) 298
"Chernobyl," HBO's gritty and horrifying retelling of the worst nuclear disaster in human history, has jumped to the No. 1 spot on IMDb's all-time TV rankings just days after the limited series concluded. From a report: As of Tuesday, "Chernobyl" had a 9.7-star (out of 10) average rating from about 140,000 users on the Amazon-owned IMDb site. The five-episode limited series finished its run on HBO Sunday, June 3. For now, that puts the critically acclaimed "Chernobyl" ahead of AMC's "Breaking Bad" (9.5), BBC's "Planet Earth II" (9.5), HBO's "Band of Brothers" (9.5), the original "Planet Earth" (9.4), HBO's "Game of Thrones" (9.3) and HBO's "The Wire" (9.3), according to IMDb's ranking of TV shows. (Fandango's Rotten Tomatoes currently doesn't provide an Audience Score for "Chernobyl.")
Variety TV critic Caroline Framke, in her review of the show, wrote, "Rather than bursting into shocking twists, writer Craig Mazin and director Johan Renck build a steadily creeping unease, allowing the scale of the atrocity to sink in with terrible, fitting gravity." "Chernobyl" dramatizes the story of the April 26, 1986, massive explosion of the nuclear power plant in Ukraise that released radioactive material across Belarus, Russia and Ukraine and as far as Scandinavia and western Europe.
Variety TV critic Caroline Framke, in her review of the show, wrote, "Rather than bursting into shocking twists, writer Craig Mazin and director Johan Renck build a steadily creeping unease, allowing the scale of the atrocity to sink in with terrible, fitting gravity." "Chernobyl" dramatizes the story of the April 26, 1986, massive explosion of the nuclear power plant in Ukraise that released radioactive material across Belarus, Russia and Ukraine and as far as Scandinavia and western Europe.
