The article made that very clear. But it's not clear to me where these keys are stored - is it on the disk, unprotected, or is it in your encrypted keychain? If the former, it seems to me that - unless you encrypt your computer's hard disk - this means anyone with unfettered access to your computer could get at these keys and thereby get at everything on your iOS device. If the latter, it would be much more difficult to do, even if they otherwise got access to your account.

The guy said he uses this to monitor his kids (which, depending on their age, might be a bit jerky in my opinion). However since he seems like an overzealous parent, I'm wondering if he has his kids' passwords etc., which would be necessary if these keys are in the keychain.

Includes a pizza bagel and a bite size Snickers for dessert!

I was eight. We were glued to the TV at home. Heck, we were glued to the TV at elementary school too! Everyone was in awe of this - anything seemed possible.

And then I remember Apollo 13 - biting my nails, hoping and praying those brave souls were going to make it home.

Back to the present, and wondering if we'll ever get out there again.

I suspect it has more to do with it sounding Islamic / non-American.

If actual editing was still happening, I would agree with you - but my experience as an avid reader tells me publishers stopped doing any significant editing 20-30 years ago.

Will the last person leaving Redmond please turn out the lights?

Get an Arduino and connect it to the circuit controlling the buzzer on the dryer.

Are we violating any of Intellectual Ventures' patents by reading it?

Well, on the other side you have the guys who claim *everything* is caused by climate change, even when people in the field say there's no evidence global warming should have any impact - like, say, with hurricane strength and severity.

And when one points this out, one is branded a "denier". It's like critical thinking goes out the window once someone chooses a position.

Thanks for the pointer; unfortunately (or fortunately, usually!) I don't control the routers. But it might be worth a try to ask campus about enabling it - thanks!

I'm a department web guy / sysadmin. Our department is pretty big - we've got some or all of five different subnets to worry about. Mac (and iOS) use has been increasing a lot over the last four or five years, and we're at the point where managing each one as a one-off no longer makes sense.

It's actually a Bonjour/Zeroconf problem.

There are tools that make this trivially easy, you know.

And on iOS 7, if you're using iCloud Keychain you can look them up in Settings -> Safari -> Saved Passwords (assuming you know your own device's password).

Intelligent people regularly back up their data - including their password key stores.

Well, in the Microsoft Universe it was good advice. The rest of us are ten years past that point, though, and are using password managers.

I only have to remember one password - the rather long one I've used to protect my OS X login keychain. Well, and my login password... so I guess that's two.