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Submission + - Apple knew of iCloud brute-force vulnerability since March

Submitted by blottsie on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @01:38PM

blottsie writes: Apple knew as early as March 2014 of a security hole that left the personal data of iCloud users vulnerable, according to leaked emails between the company and a noted security researcher.

In a March 26 email, security researcher Ibrahim Balic tells an Apple official that he’s successfully bypassed a security feature designed to prevent “brute-force” attacks. Balic goes on to explain to Apple that he was able to try over 20,000 passwords combinations on any account.

Comment KeePass (Score 1) 2

by Crayz9000 on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @08:23PM (#47979463) Attached to: How to keep Student's Passwords Secure?

Try KeePass. FOSS. Has been ported/interpreted for pretty much every other platform including iOS. The KeePass files can also be hosted on cloud storage like Google Drive, so the kid won't have to keep their file with them physically.

Comment Funny title, if read too quickly (Score 3, Funny) 35

by Crayz9000 on Friday September 05, 2014 @06:22PM (#47838217) Attached to: Shadowy Tech Brokers Deliver Data To the NSA

Now I'm half expecting Commander Shepard to show up at the NSA seeking information on the Shadow Broker.

Comment Misleading headline (Score 1) 186

by Crayz9000 on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @08:14PM (#47667539) Attached to: Entire South Korean Space Programme Shuts Down As Sole Astronaut Quits

The headline is entirely misleading. South Korea's space program is NOT shutting down. Just the manned portion, as with her departure they have no more astronauts on staff.

Comment Re:Gigawatts per hour (Score 1) 461

by Crayz9000 on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @11:52AM (#47315637) Attached to: Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly

I wish I had mod points to upvote parent. It was almost like the copy writer had just finished watching TNG "True Q" where Data proclaimed that the Enterprise was generating 12.75 billion gigawatts per second, and thought that was a factual representation of energy units.

Comment Re:Lock-in? (Score 2) 589

by Crayz9000 on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @03:45PM (#46932675) Attached to: Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says

Ribbon was driven directly by monitoring how actual users were using the software. There's a fascinating series of blog posts about where it came from and how it developed. And although my initial reaction as a "power user" was similarly sceptical, the fact for me is that most people I know who've tried it came around to preferring it after a short time.

The fact of the matter remains that while the Ribbon is clearly superior to toolbar buttons for organizing shortcuts, it should have never completely replaced the menu system. For the 20% of the time you need to find the one function that isn't immediately obvious on the Ribbon, you spend about 80% of your time hunting fruitlessly for it. If they had simply hidden the original menus with the Alt key -- the same way they did for Internet Explorer and everything else in Windows 7 -- it would have made Office more tolerable.

I won't even get into Word's continued inability to manage any sort of list, or its propensity for fucking up formatting that LibreOffice manages to handle just fine. I have refused to touch Office since 2003, and would rather switch jobs than be forced to use that horrible monstrosity of an office suite.

Comment Re:Efficiency? (Score 3, Interesting) 234

by Crayz9000 on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @09:26PM (#46885957) Attached to: Toyota Describes Combustion Engine That Generates Electricity Directly

Effectively?
Mechanical losses are a major issue with cars, particularly when dealing with power losses through differentials. Friction will quickly make you its bitch, which is why everything must be kept well-lubricated, and even then you have to keep the viscosity to an absolute minimum to avoid fluid load.
A completely electric drivetrain, if done right, can eliminate almost all of the moving parts that contribute to power loss. Electricity, wires, and motors. It doesn't get much simpler than that.

Comment Re:wonder bout... (Score 1) 218

by Crayz9000 on Friday April 18, 2014 @12:48PM (#46788429) Attached to: MIT Designs Tsunami Proof Floating Nuclear Reactor

Water is hydraulic, so even if it's not touching the bottom it's still susceptible to an earthquake that pushes a column of water up.

Where, pray tell, might we find such a thing?

Comment Re:Yeah? (Score 1) 360

by Crayz9000 on Friday April 18, 2014 @12:23PM (#46788199) Attached to: Mercedes Pooh-Poohs Tesla, Says It Has "Limited Potential"

You prove my point. You preferred all those cars over American cars. American cars are just not as well put together as European and Japanese cars. That's why you hardly see any American cars in Europe.

Right, because Opel, Vauxhall and Ford don't sell anything in Europe. Oh, wait.

Comment Re:LibreOffice (Score 2) 285

by Crayz9000 on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:43PM (#46780903) Attached to: Apache OpenOffice Reaches 100 Million Downloads. Now What?

As long as both Apache and The Document Foundation collaborate on future versions of the Open Document Format and ensure their codebases remain feature-equivalent, there's no major downside other than version confusion. On the other hand, I agree that it would be nice to see the codebases re-merge.

Comment Re:What now? 1 billion! (Score 1) 285

by Crayz9000 on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:41PM (#46780873) Attached to: Apache OpenOffice Reaches 100 Million Downloads. Now What?

Pivot tables have been present in the product since at least StarOffice version 5. They were called Data Pilots until recently, when the developers realized that nobody knew a Data Pilot was the same as a Pivot Table. OpenOffice Calc has perhaps 98% of the features of Excel. Most of the confusion results from slightly different function names and other inconsistencies found with Excel (at which point I should mention that no version of Excel is 100% feature-equivalent to another, and every Excel upgrade requires retraining.)

Comment "Crowbar" detected by BICEP? (Score 1) 269

by Crayz9000 on Monday March 17, 2014 @02:08PM (#46508461) Attached to: Big Bang's Smoking Gun Found

Crowbar? BICEP? What's next, the theoretical physicist responsible for the discovery just happens to be named Gordon Freeman?

Comment Re:It still doesn't get the job done (Score 2) 192

by Crayz9000 on Thursday January 30, 2014 @05:39PM (#46114483) Attached to: LibreOffice 4.2 Busts Out GPU Mantle Support and Corporate IT Integration

Regex support in the Find/Replace dialog works in LibreOffice. It took a moment to familiarize myself with their implementation, but it works, and it's more powerful than anything else. Try doing that in MS Office.

Comment Re:Time to root! (Score 1) 324

by Crayz9000 on Friday December 13, 2013 @12:14PM (#45680815) Attached to: Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional

The AOSP has the code for this, and many distros integrated that feature, for example CyanogenMOD.

I can confirm this. CyanogenMod 11 nightlies (Android 4.4.2) contain the AppOps code and the available launcher continues to work.

Comment Re:Why are ISPs in bed with big content? (Score 5, Insightful) 292

by Crayz9000 on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @03:38PM (#42800493) Attached to: Software That Flagged HBO.com For Piracy Will Power U.S. 'Six Strikes' System

It's puzzled me for some time that ISPs are so eager to help with these piracy measures. Can someone explain to my why they are so eager to please when there is no reasonable legal threat against them? (IIUC, the DMCA safe-harbor clauses immunize them.) The same goes for YouTube. Why is Google so eager to go above and beyond the DMCA(*)?

(*) I am aware of Viacom v. Google, but my understanding is the appellate judgment in many ways reaffirms the DMCA safe-harbor provisions.

Easy: Two of the biggest ISPs are also content owners. Time Warner and Comcast.

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