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Submission + - Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes in FBI's Story (krebsonsecurity.com)

Submitted by wiredog on Friday October 03, 2014 @06:17AM

wiredog writes: From the article by Brian Krebs:
Many in the Internet community have officially called baloney [that's a technical term] on the government’s claims, and these latest apparently contradictory revelations from the government are likely to fuel speculation that the government is trying to explain away some not-so-by-the-book investigative methods.

Comment They're just re-enforcing the Great Firewall (Score 2) 92

by wiredog on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @12:08PM (#48037881) Attached to: China Worried About Terrorist Pigeons

To resist RFC-1149.

Comment Homeland Security Alert Color Burnt Sienna (Score 1) 92

by wiredog on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @12:04PM (#48037825) Attached to: China Worried About Terrorist Pigeons

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Submission + - Consumer Reports Sells Out To Apple (consumerreports.org) 2

Submitted by wiredog on Monday September 29, 2014 @10:22AM

wiredog writes: CR claims that supposedly "unbiased" tests show that " both iPhones seem tougher" than #bendgate would imply and that the 6+ "outperformed the HTC One". CR also claims that "the Note 3's screen splintered and it stopped working."

Comment It's trolls all the way down! (Score 3, Funny) 590

by wiredog on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @11:35AM (#47984073) Attached to: Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan

Couldn't happen to a nicer site.

Comment Define 'food' and 'medicine' (Score 1) 410

by wiredog on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @07:29AM (#47982091) Attached to: To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes

Seriously. States that make this distinction end up maintaining databases of foods and medicines that merchants have to consult.

Comment Re:They Don't Need G+ To Track You Anymore (Score 1) 139

by wiredog on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @12:44PM (#47974975) Attached to: Google Quietly Nixes Mandatory G+ Integration With Gmail

It's called "two factor authentication" and it's only mandatory if you care about security.

Submission + - Apple's "warrant canary" disappears, suggesting new Patriot Act demands (gigaom.com) 3

Submitted by wiredog on Thursday September 18, 2014 @02:07PM

wiredog writes: Interesting in light of their privacy enhancements in ios8.

Comment Re:Licensing issues (Score 1) 97

by wiredog on Thursday September 18, 2014 @07:03AM (#47935047) Attached to: How Flickr Is Courting the Next Generation of Photographers

Flikr has CC licensing. IIRC, you have to opt in to the Getty thing.

Comment Control 4, Crestron and AMX (Score 1) 115

by wiredog on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @12:58PM (#47928761) Attached to: Logitech Aims To Control the Smart Home

Don't appear to make tv/home theater remotes.

Comment Not really a lie (Score 0) 191

by wiredog on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @12:46PM (#47918641) Attached to: Tim Cook Says Apple Can't Read Users' Emails, That iCloud Wasn't Hacked

Apple doesn't run public email servers. At least, I don't think so. Nothing like gmail, anyway. So they aren't transporting your email. Unless they back up your mailbox to iCloud. But iMessage is encrypted, and Apple has stated many times that it can't read that traffic.

Comment Safe deposit box (Score 3, Interesting) 268

by wiredog on Monday September 15, 2014 @01:52PM (#47910917) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes?

External hard drives are cheap. I Have one in the safe deposit box at the bank, one at home, and I rotate them every couple of months. I just do a copy of /Users (on my Mac, /home on Linux, not sure what the WIndows equivalent is) to the hard drive.

Comment Clearly, someone at MS said (Score 1) 330

by wiredog on Monday September 15, 2014 @11:25AM (#47909249) Attached to: Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang For $2.5 Billion

We must not have a Minecraft gap!

Submission + - Canon printer hacked to run Doom video game (bbc.com)

Submitted by wiredog on Monday September 15, 2014 @09:24AM

wiredog writes: From the Beeb, the news that security researcher Michael Jordon has hacked a Canon's Pixma printer to run Doom. He did so by reverse engineering the firmware encryption and uploading via the update interface.

But does it play Barney Doom? And can you get Linux running on the thing?

Comment Re:Doesn't this pretty much kill 4chan? (Score 1) 134

by wiredog on Thursday September 04, 2014 @11:42AM (#47826093) Attached to: After Celebrity Photo Leaks, 4chan Introduces DMCA Policy

What is the legal status for hosting a server with illegal information on it?
If they don't know, then they are not responsible. It's in the DMCA, or possibly the CFAA.

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