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Comment Re:BS (Score 2) 284

by Rosyna (#45836685) Attached to: Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone

Politely, thats crap, ever heard of updates? They, apple/Google/MS all do "updates" that "change"your phone/computer settings without your permission. That activate "features" in your system until you find out about later after some security expert notifies the public about what they did. Even then you have no idea what else has happened, since the companies/the phone/computer/parts/whatever/ even don't know what has been shipped, or refuse to elaborate on what they did, or they have been ordered by the FISA courts to keep quiet about what was added.....

You make a good point. Where are the Android release notes for each release? Where are the security advisories published when they've fixed a vulnerability?

Comment Re:They can't stop unlockers (Score 1) 284

by Rosyna (#45835889) Attached to: Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone

If the attacker has physical access, the crypto key is still based on a PIN and (hopefully) some fixed number related to the hardware. The PIN is easy to guess in an offline attack, and the hardware info is also easily accessible. Therefore, full disk crypto doesn't help here either.

Apple documents how it figures out the encryption keys... you could look that up instead of saying "hopefully". Furthermore, you can't "guess" it in an offline attack easily. Well, if you have six months or so and a robot arm to do it, then maybe. Every time you enter an incorrect PIN, it takes longer and longer before you can attempt a different pin. Going from 0000 to 0010 will take around half a business day. Then it gets worse!

Comment Re:They can't stop unlockers (Score 4, Insightful) 284

by Rosyna (#45835877) Attached to: Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone

Google has removed apps that are banned from the Google Play store from people's devices remotely. Apple has not.

Is an unknown fear in the future somehow better for you to digest than that fear being played out in the past and present? (Apple's "may" versus Google's "has and does and will continue to do")

I still have the "Asian Boobs" apps I downloaded off the App Store on my iPhone even though it has long, long since been removed from App Store. (Yes, it's actually called "Asian Boobs")

Comment Re:Nice (Score 1) 74

by Rosyna (#45788413) Attached to: Apple Fined In Taiwan For iPhone Price Fixing

Where did you get this? The article doesn't mention anything close to this and traditionally Apple has fought to prevent the product from being sold under certain prices because they don't want their products to appear "cheap".

From the carriers that complain they can't make as much profit on an iPhone as they do on other phones? The carriers want to increase the price of the iPhones to consumers to increase their profit margins.

Comment Re:Nice (Score 2, Insightful) 74

by Rosyna (#45787755) Attached to: Apple Fined In Taiwan For iPhone Price Fixing

Price-fixing is artificially keeping a product's cost higher than the product is worth via collusion. Display manufacturers, various entertainment stores (Sam Goody), and memory makers have done this a lot in the past.

The opposite of price-fixing is negotiating a deal so carriers cannot charge a higher price on the iPhone than the iPhone's going rate in that region. Carriers want to carry the iPhone, but they also want to charge much more than the MSRP for the iPhone. Apple says, "You can't do both!"

Basically, the carriers in taiwan want to engage in price-fixing for the iPhone, but the agreement they willingly made with Apple prevents it.
Science

First Hard Evidence for the Process of Cat Domestication 144

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the mittens-will-eat-you-when-you-die dept.
sciencehabit writes "Cats have been part of human society for nearly 10,000 years, but they weren't always string-chasers and lap-sitters. Ancient felines hunted crop-destroying rats and mice for early farmers, and in return we provided food and protection. At least that's what scientists have long speculated. Now, they can back it up. Cat bones unearthed in a 5000-year-old Chinese farming village indicate that the animals consumed rodents and that some may have been cared for by humans. The findings provide the earliest hard evidence of this mutually beneficial relationship between man and cat."

Comment Re:Hemoglobin? Uh. Not quite. (Score 3, Insightful) 107

by Rosyna (#45559897) Attached to: New Fujitsu Laptop Reads Your Palm, For Security

Cut off the hand in such a way as to keep the appendage from bleeding out (think fire-heated axe), and there's still going to be blood (and hemoglobin) in there.

Pretty sure it uses the RF properties of iron when in motion. If it does use IR, then the blood needs to be a different temperature than the skin. Cutting off the hand would cause the blood to cool too much.

Comment Re:Not Secure (Score 1) 107

by Rosyna (#45559887) Attached to: New Fujitsu Laptop Reads Your Palm, For Security

Not unless you can print a picture that will show different levels of reflection to the near-infrared wavelengths.

Actually, you'd just have to print something using a Laser printer (toner contains iron oxide, just like Hemoglobin) and tape it to something, like a copper sheet, to produce a very similar picture to the camera.
Android

CyanogenMod Installer Removed From Google Play Store 255

Posted by timothy from the now-that-sounds-ungrateful-to-me dept.
sfcrazy writes "[Wednesday] Google asked the CM team to voluntarily remove the [CyanogenMod installer] app from the store or they would be forced to remove it administratively. CM team chose to remove the app voluntarily. According to the CyanogenMod team, Google initially said that the app was in violation of Google's Play's developer terms. When the CM team reached out to the Play team, they found that 'though application itself is harmless, and not actually in violation of their Terms of Service, since it 'encourages users to void their warranty', it would not be allowed to remain in the store.'" You can still install manually, though.

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