Funny you mention that. When I first typed out my post, it did have a similar comment in it: "(Do they even make non bluetooth smart phones anymore?)", but I ended up cutting it out.
I have not seen a smart phone without bluetooth support in a very very long time.

I know there are still basic "dumb" phones that do not include it for price reasons, and yet others that do have it but limited to audio only.
But you need to look at the "$20 or less" types to find such a phone.

Verizon used to have some low end phones with locked down bluetooth, where you had to pay an extra monthly fee for them to enable it for more than audio only use. This was to keep you from using BT to transfer pictures and ring tones to your phone on your own, and make you purchase such things from their store instead.
I haven't been with Verizon in years however, so I truly hope they stopped that practice in this day and age.

Yes, those devices typically show as bluetooth keyboards/HID devices, so are supported on any BT enabled smart phone.

But that doesn't preclude yet another such device, and especially one that doesn't require additional hardware. I hear such hardware addons are rather expensive.

I've found that the mouse with my iPad only gets used for remote desktop and vnc, basically to control systems that are designed for mouse use.

It is pretty funny seeing a mouse cursor on spring board the first time, but not very useful compared to the touch screen.
I've only used the mouse about twice with the notepad app, and honestly both of those times were right after using the mouse/keyboard for remote desktop.

My iPads keyboard is built into its case, so is already with me. The mouse generally stays in my tablet bag (aka man purse)

One annoying issue is you have to select which bluetooth stack to use, either Apples or the jailbroken drivers.
Apples keyboard support is much better, and works in any app with text input. But to use the mouse, you have to flip to the other set of bluetooth drivers, which requires re-pairing the keyboard as well.

Between this annoying flipping between BT stacks, and the fact I have my mouse with me less frequent than the keyboard, I find myself almost never using it.

Activator (with the Apple keyboard drivers) gives you access to all the F-keys and alt-keys for performing actions and running apps. This method is far more flexible and useful.

After finishing up an RDP session, I always flip the bluetooth stack back to Apples, for the slightly less rare occasion I want to turn the keyboard on.

So I too wish Apple would add mouse support in their own bluetooth stack. I just can't see them doing this unfortunately.
It would mean that somewhere some programmer would make an iPad app where the mouse was required for use. Would ruin the sexy image.

Apple as of late does not seem to care about their users needs like in the old days.
They have gone from a company that used to include schematics and firmware source in the manual of their product, to a company that sues someone for posting a patch to their firmware (ie jailbreaks)

However if I was to limit myself to only purchasing from companies I am morally comfortable with, I would not have a single piece of technology in my life. The entire industry just sucks now.

The exact same thing that happens right now. An collision caused by the driver that floored the accelerator. I FAIL to see how you think this is any worse off.

Once you look at all the other improvements, this one neutral issue does not change the fact that it is a huge improvement.

You are claiming x < x when clearly both values are the same.

Wow... Yea, now I feel bad for even comparing this guy to a true security researcher.

This is just not how anyone in this industry acts. You would have to be so stupid to believe this was OK that even booting a computer would be too complex for him, which is clearly not the case.

It's starting to sound like his "registered security company" only existed to provide an excuse for if and when he got caught doing what he knew he shouldn't be doing.

This here is the root of the problem of why his actions were so wrong.

Granted, he shouldn't have been poking around in the first place, but that action (if limited to that) might be able to be forgiven. Everything else he did after the poking around was very much uncalled for and unprofessional behavior.
It would be one thing if he accidentally stumbled over a possible vulnerability, but that is Not what he did.

Example:
"Hello facebook security team.
I was attempting to reach my server at 123.x.x.x port yyyy, and I accidentally 'typoed' the address and entered 124.x.x.x, which appears to be assigned to your network.
Port yyyy is the defacto standard port for service (blah), which is known to have vulnerabilities in recent versions.
While an open port is hardly conclusive, I wanted you to be aware it was open. If you were unaware of that fact, you may wish to check and make sure there are no further problems.

I happen to run a professional security auditing company, and if you have any interest in our services, please feel free to contact me.
Please note we can NOT perform any detailed analysis without a business contract, and signed agreements of permission from you. You will likely require an NDA from us as well. We can speak on details if you choose to contact us.
"

Going any further than that example, such as verifying the open port has a vulnerable service (say a nesus scan or another such tool), let alone exploiting the vulnerability as proof it exists without permission, is not considered good will.

Downloading data of any type is Never valid evidence, unless your contract specifically states that is your end goal, as specified by the company!

Standard procedure (after having written permission) is touching a zero byte file of a specific name, and making a log of their locations and c/m-times. That way it is easy for the client to both find all such files, and confirm nothing else was modified after that point in time.

True professionals work only under contract, and have a packet logger sitting between their LAN of pen-test systems, and the network connection to the client. FULL logs are turned over to the client, both as proof of what you did, and more important, what you did not do.

There are plenty of companies out there who will hire a security auditor willingly. Nothing good can come of an unsolicited notice like this, nor doing the work for free ahead of time only to get paid in months of jail time.

Thank you for the update. Such things generally never make the news as big as the initial few announcements.

But as you say, there is still plenty wrong with that raid including the shoot first ask later aspects, so my original point still stands.

Even reading the update, it still seems as fucked up as when initially reported.
They show the father provided the gun, but that no one knew or even suspected that at the time of the raid.
The cop that shot the 7 year old had also in the past threatened children with his weapon, including an infant, and shooting family dogs.
A&E still refuses to release the video evidence of the cover up to anyone.

But my point is that once you are so much as linked to a crime, they will come in guns blazing and figure out the details later.
The feds do take counterfeiting money pretty seriously, as in guns drawn seriously.

Even if this one example wasn't perfect (aka only 3 out of 5 innocent people in the home, instead of 4 out of 5), there are plenty of other examples that are.

If I sold off my printer or tossed it in a dumpster, I would prefer the feds think of that possibility first instead of simply linking the crime to documents I printed on it long in the past, and bust my door down with guns drawn...

The problem comes when you go to sell that printer, and it is then used to print money.
Shoot first, ask later - is now the official policy in this country.

Now all that illegitimate money printed off your old printer is linked to the families names on the birthday cards, your childrens names on the homework, your name and the name of your bank, and likely your address on one of those bank letters as well.
Plenty of evidence linking you to the crime!

Which door exactly do you think the secret service will be kicking in first, and whos faces will the assault riffles be in? Yes, you and your family.

Better hope your wife doesn't ask what is going on, as that is resisting. They shoot first and ask questions later you know.

A similar raid gone bad in Detroit ended up with a flash grenade tossed in a window, and killing a 7 year old child sleeping on a couch. The father was forced to the ground at gunpoint with his face in his own childs pool of blood, for quite some time before they realized it wasn't even the right house.

shoot first, ask questions later, questions such as: is this even the right house, and could ANY possible circumstances mean we have the wrong person.

For your own sake, I hope no criminals purchase your printer, or dig it out of the trash when you are done with it.
Even more reason to go Office Space on it when you are done with it.

Scientologists do not believe in a god or God (or Gods), they believe in Aliens in space ships who's souls lay dormant in earths volcanoes, put there by Xenu long ago during the great space battle. These souls infecting us humans are the reason for our misery and pain.
(No, I am *NOT* kidding or making that up!)

They do not believe in helping others. They believe that if you pay them very large 5-digit sums of money every couple of months, that they will remove these souls from your body, thus ridding you of pain and misery.

That is why most slashdotters hate and despise scientologists.
That and their well documented crimes such as kidnapping, torture, and murder.

If you would like to fix the first line I quoted from you and put in bold, I highly recommend the second link here, or the first to "dip your toes" in this frightening subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology
http://www.xenu.net/

So basically their illegal shenanigans make the global news (including slashdot), and tens to hundreds of thousands of people world wide go clicking links in the article to see the take down notice.

They interpret this as tens to hundreds of thousands of returning pirates, who must have cleared their cache and history!

Now they get to claim the site was WAY more popular in members than it actually was, and some huge conspiracy is going on to keep them hidden and secret.

In their minds, they are not doing anything wrong, and in fact are heros for this action.
So why would anyone be upset at rights violations and want to see if the news stories are true?
That's simply impossible. We are all long time members using the site to download trillions of songs, and we all clear our history daily to avoid getting caught, because their javascriptlet told them so.

It's almost funny in a way