Comment Re:Can't see a reason in the Acceptable Use Policy (Score 1) 528
Right you are, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers and the court decision about the incident
Comment Re:Once again we prove... (Score 1) 376
Isn't that kinda what wikileaks is supposed to be?
T-Mobile G2 'Permaroot' Achieved 262
VValdo writes "After over a month of relentless hacking, genius scotty2 has finally smashed the G2's notorious emmc-read-only-on-boot mechanism, which had been incorrectly characterized in the press as a 'rootkit.' The hack involves several steps — first achieving 'temp root' through a fork bomb exploit, then running a specially crafted kernel module that power-resets the read-only emmc to bring it up in read-write mode. Finally, the bootloader is re-flashed, which permanently removes the read-only on subsequent boots. The whole process is expected to be automated by tomorrow."
Comment Re:Kodos FTW (Score 1) 750
The owls aren't what they seem: http://pages.prodigy.net/fitten/webdoc7.htm
Comment Re:Life imitates Art or Art imitates Life ? (Score 1) 305
Thank you, I was racking my poor caff-deprived brain trying to remember which cyber-punk novel first did this (Burning Chrome? Mona Lisa Overdrive?), I knew it was Gibson and I read it ages ago. Kudos on your recall.
Comment Re:Go figure (Score 1) 277
It isn't even that they are anti-science per se, but more that they are anti-dissemination of truths revealed by science. They aren't stifling the research so much as muzzling the researchers.
Comment Re:More Pictures at BookTwo (Score 1) 96
I'm out of points, some one mod parent up +Insightful
Comment Re:Waste (Score 2, Informative) 553
Just where did you get those salaries? Commuter pilots in the US have been known to start as low as 19,000/year (less than a manager at Taco Bell, accordign to M. Moore).
Comment Re:outrageous (Score 2, Informative) 124
hardly, you are probably too young to remeber ASCII graphics - http://www.google.ca/images?q=ascii+art&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=xXCBTI-PFsufnAft2ZB_&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDYQsAQwAw
but there was porn in the text based interwebz
Comment Well, there is always the secure option. (Score 1) 125
If you want safety and security - use a BlackBerry. Just ask India!
Your Smartphone Is Safer Than Your PC — For Now 125
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Galen Gruman reports on the future of mobile security — one that will see a significant rise in exploits as valuable information increasingly migrates to mobile devices. To date, sandboxing and code-signing have helped make mobile OSes relatively secure, when compared with their desktop brethren. But as devices store more valuable information than email, they will become more enticing to hackers currently breaking into Windows PCs. And the biggest bulls-eye appears to be on Android, in large part because its architecture is most like that of the desktop PC but also because there are so many variants in use — too many for Google or the carriers to patch securely. And as the PDF-jailbreak vulnerability showed, sandboxing has its limits when it comes to securing the browser — the most likely point of entry for exploits not due to the rise of extensions, helper objects, and plug-ins on the mobile Web."
Comment Re:Why mining? (Score 1) 444
use solar sails to "brake" the velocity of the asteroid, dropping it into lunar orbit. The use the same tech to "melt" (smelt) the metals in a solar furnace (concave mirrors are SO useful). Also - grab a big hunk of ice and do the same thing - water is a bitch to boost out of the gravity well.
Comment Re:Same deal USA has (Score 1) 109
BIS servers are run by the service providers, (Rogers, AT&T, Telus, etc) All RIM really runs is the NOC which handles the switching from the BES to the carrier.
Comment Re:Same deal USA has (Score 1) 109
RIM does not have "Magic Keys" the encryption handshake has always, and continues to be, carried out when the HH is activated on the BES. It's like asking for the "master algorithm" to PGP or Trillian - it is in large part random, and has something to do with huge primes.
Comment Re:Why BIS is bad (Score 1) 109
Sorry you are wrong, kinda. BIS ain't BES. BIS service connects you to your Gmail or HOtmail or whatever POP/IMAP account through your service provider.
BES service uses higher encryption, and connects your device via the carrier to your own corporate BlackBerry Server which expands and decrypts the email and forwards it to your messaging server (Exchange, Domino, or GroupWise)or compresses and encrypts from the message server and forwards off to the HH.
At no point is are those messagesx decryptable by RIM or anyone else (without spending way to many CRAY-years per message). There is a header that RIMs NOC uses to determine which carrier to hand off the encrypted data to, and which HH the carrier should send it to.
BlackBerry's are capable of AES and 3DES encryption.
