TeddyR - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Are 3G networks encrypted? (Score 1) 139

by TeddyR on Sunday February 12, @08:15PM (#39015067) Attached to: Southwest Airlines iPhone App Unencrypted, Vulnerable To Eavesdroppers

Except that now in order to save money, 3G bandwidth, or "conveniance for users" many locations have "automatic free wifi connections" to attwifi/Wayport_Access hotspots (mcdonalds, starbucks, and many airports, etc) for ipad 3g and iphone users. The only recourse is to MANUALLY turn off wifi if you only want 3G

How useful is ipv6 depends on the destination webs-> 0

Submitted by TeddyR on Sunday January 22, @06:20PM

TeddyR writes "IPv6 enabled TOP 1000000 websites as of Jan 8 2012
From the site:
"Here is a list which contains all popular sites (according to Alexa) with an IPv6 address. Out of the 990068 tested websites only 14229 have one or more IPv6 addresses. That is 1.44%.
Out of the 24500 IPv6 addresses 18766 are connectable. That is 76.6%."

Even more shocking is that many of the top ipv6 sites are not the "goto" sites for many users and are not US based sites, showing how far the US must go in order for ipv6 to be useful.

A question for slashdot maintainers: why isnt slashdot.org on the list by now?"
Link to Original Source

Comment: Is it secure from the NSA et al? (Score 3, Interesting) 81

by TeddyR on Friday January 13, @09:21PM (#38694450) Attached to: NSA Releases Security-Enhanced Android

The question is what backdoors have they placed on it. Is it secure from themselves (NSA) and other three letter agencies?

Comment: Re:$8.5 billion for Skype (Score 1) 192

by TeddyR on Friday January 06, @05:17AM (#38607954) Attached to: Microsoft In Talks To Buy Nokia's Smartphone Division?

What nobody here seems to have mentioned is that MS may not be buying Nokia for the obvious reasons: The build phones, they are probably buying it for the IP that it owns. IP that MS may already be paying billions for to incorporate into other tech that they may have or are planning to produce...

Comment: Re:Sure it is (Score 1) 969

by TeddyR on Sunday January 01, @04:15AM (#38554886) Attached to: Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War

$10? The Amercan public will start panicing if gas reaches $6.00/gallon. At $7.00 they will say "well, were no longer in Iraq, just send them over to Iran...."

MagicJack Femtocell Gates Cell Traffic to VoIP 243

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday January 08 2010, @12:54PM
from the someone-is-gonna-love-that dept.

olsmeister writes "MagicJack is demonstrating a femtocell device at CES that will allow any GSM phone (locked or unlocked) to place free phone calls over the internet using VOIP. The device costs $40 and includes free service for 1 year. It supposedly will cover a 3,000 sq ft house."