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Comment Re:Comments should work now. (Score 1, Insightful) 438

by lord_rob the only on (#44467119) Attached to: Home wireless security level?

And you think everyone can crack WPA2 ?
MAC filtering is usually good enough when you live in a small village.
Not everybody is an IT specialist there you know, barely anyone knows what "kismet" mean.
I'm not saying you should MAC address filtering anyway as it's very unsafe and it's a pity to setup, I'm just stating the facts.

Submission + - What if Snowden Gets Hit by a Bus? 1

Submitted by Error27
Error27 writes: Edward Snowden has four laptops full of secret data. There is an implied threat that if he gets hit by a bus, the data will be released. Let's assume the laptops hold very sensitive data including SSL private keys and password files. What are the implications from an IT perspective?

Submission + - Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition Now In Linux Beta 1

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: The Linux beta of the Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition game is now available via Steam. Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition was released for Windows earlier in the year and features the classic Duke Nukem 3D game plus three expansion packs. Megaton Edition features visual enhancements (including OpenGL acceleration), SteamPlay support, and other improvements over the original games. More details on the public beta of Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition for Linux can be found via a thread in Steam Community. To try the game you need to opt to 'Public Beta'. Feedback is highly appreciated.

Submission + - Hidden Microphone found in Ecuadorian Embassy where Julian Assange is holed up (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by dryriver
dryriver writes: A hidden microphone has been found inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is holed up, according to the country's foreign minister. Ricardo Patiño said the device had been discovered a fortnight ago inside the office of the Ecuadorean ambassador, Ana Alban, while he was in the UK to meet Assange and discuss the whistleblower's plight with the British foreign secretary, William Hague. "We regret to inform you that in our embassy in London we have found a hidden microphone," Patiño told a news conference in Quito on Tuesday. "I didn't report this at the time because we didn't want the theme of our visit to London to be confused with this matter," he said. "Furthermore, we first wanted to ascertain with precision the origin of this interception device in the office of our ambassador." He described the discovery of the device as "another instance of a loss of ethics at the international level in relations between governments" and said he would reveal more details as to who might have planted the microphone on Wednesday.

Submission + - LibreOffice Calc Set to Get GPU Powered Boost from AMD (datamation.com)

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: We all know that the open source LibreOffice Calc has been slow — forever and a day. That's soon going to change thanks to a major investment made by AMD into the Document Foundation. AMD is helping LibreOffice developers to re-factor Calc to be more performance and to be able to leverage the full power of GPUs and APUs.

"The reality has been that Calc has not been the fastest spreadsheet in the world," Suse Engineer Michael Meeks admitted. "Quite a large chunk of this refactoring is long overdue, so it's great to have the resources to do the work so that Calc will be a compelling spreadsheet in its own right."

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