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Comment Re:True quote (Score 2) 292

Oh look, a tourist, an easy mark, and a rich one as well.

And a streamed video of the thief automatically uploaded and sent to the police with GPS coordinates. Add GPS monitoring and tracking to that app just for fun, and remote disable to make the resale value worthless.

The current prototypes are $1,500. They'll get cheaper and cheaper pretty quick. In a couple of years I can see these easily being $150.

I can also see them used in typical corporate settings. Having the power of Google search, plus access to all company data everywhere will be a "must have".

Comment Re:True quote (Score 5, Insightful) 292

A 3D TV has pretty much one use. I can envision dozens of niche apps for Google Glass without even trying that could make real differences in some areas.

How about Glass for an auto mechanic. Look under the hood of a car and it overlays the wiring diagram, exhaust diagram, part you're looking at with price and local availability, etc. Switch layers on and off with a glance or voice command.

Add a bluetooth ODB2 synced to Glass and you can see real-time engine stats as you are working under the hood. No more having to have a stack of manuals or tweak something and look up at the portable computer to see what change it made. You see the changes as it happens.

Add auto recognition of the make and model, so you don't have to look up which manuals.

Ditto airplane mechanics.

I can also easily imagine augmented reality applications for surgeons, dentists, dermatologists and just about every category of health professional.

How about an app for foreign tourists. Auto translate whatever written material you look at. Read street signs, menus, directions, brochures, etc. Probably an audio version of that as well -- automatically translating what you hear. Maybe subtitles.

Comment Re:FUD, I am a fraid (Score 1) 341

I assume an attacker with physical access to the drive thru a Live session or physical drive removal. I also keep drives encrypted to protect data at rest.

Multiple layers of security are a good thing.

My risk analysis is just that, *MY* risk analysis. I want the OPTION to not use system WLAN accounts and have to activate the wireless network after login.

Comment Re:My password is printed on the side of my router (Score 2) 341

I have two APs.

One for 2.4 GHz b/g/n devices that can't really be upgraded. Older phones, Chromebooks, tablets and my bathroom scale.

The other is for 2.4 GHz/5 GHz 802.11ac devices that HAVE been upgraded and use the extra bandwidth, like for streaming HD video or transferring large files to a server.

I keep them on separate channels.

Comment Re:FUD, I am a fraid (Score 1) 341

On the supplying machine, you usually do not have a choice but allow access to the plain-text password, how else would it be supplied?

By an agent, like KNetworkManager, PGP-agent or GnuPG-agent.

Hence, while you can store it encrypted, that encryption must either be automatically reversible (making it pointless) or protected by an additional password the user enters each time (making the storing pointless).

No. An additional password isn't pointless. It is the purpose behind the operation of gpg-agent, KNetworkManager, Firefox's master password, LastPass and several other programs.

Otherwise they would have understood that Wi-Fi does not do a challenge response authentication with a shared secret, but a plain, one-way password submission. For these, the password does need to be available in plain or things cannot work.

To be pedantic, that is exactly how WPA2-Enterprise works. But almost no one uses that in a home network. You still shouldn't ignore it.

And the password does not need to be STORED in plaintext, which is the point. Like a PGP key, it exists unencrypted only in RAM and is encrypted when stored.

Comment Re:Alternative? (Score 1) 341

In KDE the Wallet acts as a central keyring for all your passwords. You only have to enter the password for the Wallet the first time something needs access and it'll handle it from there.

The first time a program tries to access the Wallet you'll get a "allow / disallow" prompt, but that is it.

If you're bitching about having to enter a password ONCE after logging in then you don't even belong in the discussion.

Comment KNetworkManager (Score 5, Informative) 341

Simple. Stop using Gnome shit.

How can I store passphrases associated with encrypted wireless networks?
The first time KNetworkManager is used, it will try to set up the KDE Wallet (encrypted password storage) to save wireless network passphrases and other passwords. If you choose not to use KWallet, KNetworkManager will store passwords in its configuration files, only readable by the logged in user.

http://old-en.opensuse.org/Projects/KNetworkManager#Wireless_LAN

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