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Comment Re:Saying iOS is best is ridiculous (Score 1) 196

Someone I know who seems to be in the know about things said that the Pinephone hardware is way more secure than the Librem 5. He seemed to be implying that the USA has hardware backdoors in some of the stuff used in the Librem 5. Pinephone could theoretically have Chinese hardware backdoors but I'd rather give control of my device to a country that CANNOT exert physical control over my body. Pinephone firmware has been audited pretty heavily though with no backdoors found.

One of the things that sounded cool about the pinephone is that the modem firmware was reverse engineered outside of the United States to make sure it was clean. The modem also runs its own copy of linux fully segmented from the phones main OS (also linux). It connects to the rest of the system through USB when needed.

Comment This is easy (Score 1) 802

"Sorry, your honor, but I have forgotten the decryption password." or, actually, that would be stupid since it would imply they are his. It should be "Sorry, your honor, I never had the encryption password". Unless the FBI has concrete proof he actually decrypted them in the past, they're screwed. Go back to cracking away. I also want to know the encryption that they supposedly cracked. Unless it is junk, it is more than likely that they brute forced the encryption passphrase for that hard drive.

It's disgusting if he has CP, but something something plausible deniability.

It's like the IT worker with no morals who quits in an organization where he held all the passwords and then promptly claims to have forgot them all when the company demands them right after they quit. You cannot prove if they were forgotten or not.

Actually refusing to give them out is grounds for legal action in both instances.
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Submission + - BlackBerry founder abandons ship (yahoo.com)

drdread66 writes: Research In Motion co-founder Jim Balsillie confirms what Slashdotters have suspected for quite some time: RIM (now BlackBerry) is doomed. Reuters reports today that Balsillie dumped his entire stake in BlackBerry at the end of 2012. While it's common to see high-level executives sell some of their shares to gain some liquidity, it's unusual to see them exit their positions completely. This has to be seen as a massive vote of "no confidence" from someone who was on the inside long enough to know what's going on in the company.

Comment Re:Asterisk (Score 1) 445

...has been one of the best things I've learned.

Highly used by companies since it is free so the companies jump on it, then they realize they need someone to maintain it, not just set it up initially (really small businesses can just contract with one of many many SIP providers to make it very easy and not have to worry with their own asterisk install).

Comment Quick Answer: NO (Score 1) 445

Many companies are switching to SIP based IP phones.

There are tons of SIP clients you can run on your PC, and plenty of high grade headsets that work with USB ports (Plantronics as one example that my company uses).

So no, no you do not.

But yes, yes you still need a regular phone #/extension that people can call you on from any regular phone line.

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