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Comment Re:Damn, I've been lettting my new baby watch TV (Score 2) 210

by Securityemo (#37760000) Attached to: Doctors Recommend Against TV For Kids Under 2
You are perhaps right, but I have ADD and I am both introspective and attached to long-term goals which I have no qualms about following. However, without stimulant medication I simply can't keep long enough threads of thought to (say) study (or even play videogames well) and the medication does nothing about the high-level executive dysfunction causing me to have a really low intuitive ability to break down tasks into pieces leading to sometimes rather slapstick behaviour (think "absent-minded professor").

You and other posters make it sound like it's some sort of problem put upon me by my surroundings, but I haven't had any greater exposure to strong or varied stimuli than my siblings or friends, none of which have my problems. And my personality isn't of the kind that readily gives in to petty societial demands either.

It's possible that what you're describing is a general attitude in society rather than the actual medical condition, but the two shouldn't be confused.

Comment Just new cards, not new readers apparently (Score 1) 44

by Securityemo (#37669730) Attached to: German Researchers Crack Mifare RFID Encryption
From the manufacturer's response:

To ensure that customers and partners receive products with the best performance and security NXP constantly improves its MIFARE portfolio with the concept of evolving platforms. While the underlying product hardware is upgraded in terms of its performance and security, we keep next generation products functionally backwards compatible to ensure that the infrastructure can adopt the new product evolution without major upgrades. In this way, our customers can take advantage of the new technology with minimum or no additional investment into their infrastructure. The benefits of this approach become apparent now, allowing our customers to migrate quickly and easily to MIFARE DESFire EV1, introduced in 2008 as the successor of MF3ICD40. The MIFARE DESFire EV1 is Common Criteria EAL 4+ certified and the research group at the Bochum University failed when attacking the card with non-invasive side-channel attacks.

As planned, NXP will discontinue the MIFARE DESFire MF3ICD40 as of December 31, 2011, and we recommend that our customers and partners migrate to MIFARE DESFire EV1 for existing and new systems.

This would at least seem to indicate that the customers can just purchase new cards.

Comment Re:Slashdotters unite to attack whoever dares to a (Score 1) 1799

by Securityemo (#37669286) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests?
"We" don't do anything. Slashdot is the equivalent of an online watercooler - not a very good breeding ground for "getting things done". If I'd hazard a guess, the only way anyone could recruit support from here would be to start some sort of constructive project that can be grasped intellectually (that is, the less abstract socioemotional "hippy bullshit" the better) and that to a rational geeky mind seems to have a reasonable chance of success, and get an article posted about it detailing the specifics in the most straightforward manner possible.

Comment Re:This just makes sense (Score 1) 1345

by Securityemo (#37551808) Attached to: Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly
My view is that no objective morality exists outside of the functions of the human brain, even though that isn't relevant most of the time since we to a larger or smaller degree share this functioning with others. This isn't to be confused with moral nihilism; I still act upon my moral convictions like any other person. And yes, Charles Mansons brain evidently "just works that way", since he did the things he did. Whether he lacks anything I would regard as morality, thus making his actions truly amoral, or he has a morality that is "weak" or just very far from mine in functioning I cannot tell.

Comment Re:There already is one, the sectera (Score 1) 172

by Securityemo (#37527030) Attached to: The NSA Wants Its Own Smartphone
Exactly my point; as long as you can delay cracking the password on the auth key to well beyond the time required to remove access privileges from the key the system should be safe in a practical sense. A remote wipe wouldn't be neccessary since it would be obviously unsafe for the phone to store or cache information - you could defeat remote wipe by putting the phone in a signal-proof container and taking it somewhere safe to view the data on it.

Comment Re:There already is one, the sectera (Score 1) 172

by Securityemo (#37526346) Attached to: The NSA Wants Its Own Smartphone
Maybe you could program a stealthy mechanism to have the phone send a "help, my user is having a gun to his head" message, like entering and leaving a set of menus in a certain order?

More likely it'l be forgotten or stolen, ovbiously, but if it contains no information but a password-encrypted VPN or authentication key by itself and the password is of proper length it should be practically safe anyway? And the data it has access to is presumably really, really limited and segregated?

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