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Comment Re:Loophole closed (Score 1) 236

what google does is not fair game

What google does is not ethical game. Deontology in nowadays big companies is long gone. Basically, the big groups as of today are money machines - their performance assessment is basically the result of the equation Revenue - Charges. Fairness is not involved, Compliance with the law is, because lawsuits are the only thing companies are afraid of, nowadays, i.e. losing a lawsuit = inflate the "Charges" account. Google does what the law allows them to do - they own a large team full of people looking for ways to save money, legally.

Comment Re:Good luck keeping the genie in the bottle (Score 3, Insightful) 215

China holds all the cards

Not all the cards. China is - in some ways - like the uncontrolled and empowering Germany of the early XXth. They're the young new world superpower which doesn't have a superpower-history long enough to feel how dangerous it can be to lack diplomacy and look for trouble every other week. That obnoxious behavior is particularly strong and obvious since a couple of years ago - which is worrying. China is powerful thanks to its economic and commercial ties with most of the rest of the world. Unless there is an international comercial/economic consensus to return China to reason, China will keep growing until it is out of reach.

Submission + - Bitcoin revolution spreads as JPMorgan files patent for 'Virtual Cash' (ibtimes.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: It seems everyone is getting in on the Bitcoin revolution these days; even the corporate fat cats want a piece of the action. Apparently JP Morgan has filed a patent for its own version of Bitcoin, virtual cash, which would allow users to make payments anonymously. The scope for criminality seems endless, but hey, those bankers are all honest, trustworthy types, and you never hear about JPM being embroiled in criminal proceedings, so why worry?

For the full story, go to IBTimes UK:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/529200/20131211/bitcoin-jp-morgan-online-payment-virtual-cash.htm

Submission + - OpenSSH has a new cipher, chacha20-poly1305, from D.J. Bernstein!

ConstantineM writes: Inspired by a recent Google initiative to adopt ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for TLS, OpenSSH developer Damien Miller has added a similar protocol to ssh, chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com, which is based on D. J. Bernstein algorithms that are specifically optimised to provide the highest security at the lowest computational cost, and not require any special hardware at doing so. Some further details are in his blog, and at undeadly. The source code of the protocol is remarkably simple — less than 100 lines of code!

Submission + - Google Is Building Password-Free Locking and Unlocking Into Chrome OS

An anonymous reader writes: Google has a vision for how Chrome OS users will one day be able to lock and unlock their devices, without requiring a password. The Chromium OS team is building support for unlocking and locking devices running the operating system with a new Chrome API called "chrome.screenlockPrivate." Google outlines some use cases: "A platform app may use the USB, NFC, and/or Bluetooth APIs to communicate with a secondary trusted device such as a phone, ring, watch, or badge, thereby allowing that trusted device to serve as an alternative form of authentication for the user."

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