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Comment TURN OFF MMS (Score 2) 120

or never configure it in the first place to work.

that's your fix.

and slashdot editors: MMS IS NOT SMS SO FUCK YOU SLASHDOT EDITOR. it's not even remotely same technlogy.

mms is vulnurable? duh. how about sharing the image preview vuln(presumably) that's actually used since that has much more to it than just mms. but that mms implementation is exploitable is quite a bit less fatal/interesting than sms vuln.

besides than that I'm pretty fucking sure that 950 million android phones (total androids out there) don't have preview of mms in the notifications bar. only a subset has that feature. but the more interesting and potentially attackable route is through anything else that shows images.

Comment older devices don't get patched.. (Score 1) 120

for iphone 4 as well? I don't think soooo.

anyhow... expect mobile networks to filter these messages in 1.2.3.4....

either that or 400 million phones in use in asia will receive an attack today if the attack really works as described in the blurb (proof of concept that installs something or gtfo).

(if you browse on a mobile from asia you might notice that shitloads of adverts that try to exploit or trick the user into installing sw. even slashdot carries occasionally ads targeted to asia tha will just straight up open another page that will try to fool the user into installing sw and doesn't let the user easily press back. thats without clicking the friggin advert. it's like ad networks do no curating whatsoever of asian targeted ads)

Comment Re: Right ... (Score 0) 117

ART wasn't ready.

it went from experimental to release without fixing the shit found in the experimental to get broken. some of them are "design decisions" true, but still crap from user point of view.

especially when the claimed performance increases are.. well, 50-100% ? nowhere to be benched. "apps start faster" which was never a problem to begin with..

Comment fail2ban works for this? sure about that? (Score 1) 157

you sure about that?

I mean, the point of the entire bug(more like a feature tbh) is that it gets around conventional checks for multiple failures(which is why you wouldn't be able to do this much of bruteforcing on normal connection because you would be banned).

the original blog post is unclear about that.

Comment Re:This Just In (Score 2) 136

he was complaining because without notice the behavior changed and he started missing valid emails from addresses previously he was responding to, partially without rhyme or reason, since he started missing in-between emails and sometimes would get a later email but see that there was mail in the 'thread' that he had missed due to the spam filter.

the point is, gmail changed the spam filter without notice (like starting to mark mail "this would go to spam next week") or whatever.

Comment Re:No! (Score 1) 227

"Out of curiosity, what secure locations can you use your smartphone?"

the oval room.

just think of the possibilities for the next clinton.

also, just about any military base USA has, any donetsk rebel base... of course, you might want to opt to say that any location that allows anyone to have smartphones isn't secure. but that's just the way it is, people have them now and if you can't trust them to not be snapping pictures with 'em phones you can't trust them to not photocopy the shit out of the stuff either.

Comment Re:Valasek and Miller are assholes and should be a (Score 1) 173

to be fair, the "10 miles away" is arbitrary.

"anyone who knows the carâ(TM)s IP address gain access from anywhere in the country. âoeFrom an attackerâ(TM)s perspective, itâ(TM)s a super nice vulnerability,â Miller says."

though, I have to ask, why the car has a public facing IP in the first place? sounds like waste of ip. I assume it's provided cellular provider, which would make most of them sit behind.

still pretty shitty design though.

Comment Re:Phone prepaid credit. (Score 1) 133

well sort of
#123# or some sort ussd code. might change from network to network.

however, one thing is certain, it's only going to show that you're a cheapskate(because of using prepaid)!

also, even if you're not a cheapskate, you're not really going to have more than ten bucks loaded into your prepaid anyways likely.

so.. the whole concept of using your prepaid balance to decide which adverts to show for you seems rather dull.

Comment Re:his music is good.. (Score 2) 574

fm (and am even less) can't be better than a good stream.

that's not what he cares about. he cares about the pono and selling lossless-better-than-cd music through it.

and he's hating that all the internet is calling him a jackass for that, for saying that his magic digital audio player is just another player which it is.

Comment Re:I've got the DVDs waiting to burn .ISOs (Score 1) 172

of course they're going to include traditional windows software in the store.

and it's not really a rumor, since it's been their operating motivation since launching windows 8. of course they went it with ass backwards route, the software they _wanted_ to go into the store _couldn't_ go into the store in the first place(traditional sw).

also why do you think adobe went with a subscription model about the time of windows 8 release? it was a contingency plan and a middle finger to microsoft which was hoping to start getting 30% cuts of 1000$ softwares.

anyways, there will be an iso to download. it's the product key you care about getting anyways.

Comment Re:Valuable and reliable? (Score 1) 37

if it wasn't a valuable resource then the hotels wouldn't have bothered suing them for negative reviews.

anyways, which hotels were those? maybe avoid them. frigg, some hotels have tried to pull off the trick of trying to charge persons for posting negative reviews as well. it's all very sketchy.

If I said that Yotel new york is overpriced here - should Yotel be able to sue slashdot? of course not - that's friggin silly.

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