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

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

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

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.
Patents

Motorola Patent Uses Neck Tattoo As Microphone 51

nk497 writes "A Motorola Mobility patent application proposes using an 'electronic skin tattoo' as a smartphone microphone and wireless transceiver. The temporary tattoo would also include a 'power supply configured to receive energizing signals from a personal area network,' according to the filing with the US Patent and Trademark Office. It would be applied to 'a throat region of a body' — otherwise known as the neck. Motorola thinks the technology would be ideal for noisy environments, such as large stadiums and busy streets, or in emergency situations."
Security

Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government 510

An anonymous reader writes "Paedophiles may escape detection because highly-classified material about Britain's surveillance capabilities have been published by the Guardian newspaper, the UK government has claimed. A senior Whitehall official said data stolen by Edward Snowden, a former contractor to the US National Security Agency, could be exploited by child abusers and other cyber criminals. It could also put lives at risk by disclosing secrets to terrorists, insurgents and hostile foreign governments, he said."

Comment Re:Give it up. (Score 5, Informative) 200

Indeed. Mostly give up the idea of having the host encrypt files for you. You never know if they have a backdoor of some sort. Find/write software (I use Arq) to encrypt files and then send the encrypted files to a host like Amazon S3. It's really the only way for the host to have the "zero-knowledge" you desire.

Comment Re:Shame about intel mac pros (Score 4, Informative) 134

Current versions of Mac OS X require 64-bit EFI. The original Mac Pros only had 32-bit EFI. Mountain Lion does not have a 32-bit kernel and will not load 32-bit drivers in kernel space (kexts). If you replace the graphics card in the original Mac Pro with one that has a 64-bit driver, you can install Mountain Lion on the original MacPro1,1.

See http://www.jabbawok.net/?p=47 for instructions.

Comment Re:Good old Oracle/Java (Score 2, Interesting) 82

I don't see what this has to do with Oracle/Java politics.

Google had/has absolutely no idea what the "correct" list of cipher order was/is. Google copied the order from OpenSSL. Google removed dependency on OpenSSL. Google copied from another source, which happened to be Java.

The ultimate choice may have been done for compatibility with websites not supporting TLS 1.2 but it was not done for compatibility with Java.

Comment Usable Fingerprint data? (Score 4, Interesting) 303

Aside from the fact the government and many institutions (like Banking in the US) already have your fingerprint...

Is there any evidence at all that the fingerprint data store in the A7 is even usable outside of iOS? There's no reason at all to store a raw image of the fingerprint. How would you recreate the fingerprint to make it usable to someone?

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