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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.
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Patent Infringement Suit Includes Linking URLs In an Email 124

An anonymous reader points out a report at Groklaw about another new lawsuit from patent firm Intellectual Ventures against Motorola Mobility (they have an earlier patent suit against Motorola underway already). The suit seeks damages from alleged infringement of seven patents, most of which involve wireless communications and Motorola's use of Android. One of the patents, US5790793, is "A method and system for sending and receiving Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) in electronic mail over the Internet." Intellectual Ventures' complaint (PDF) says Motorola product that implement MMS violate this patent. PJ at Groklaw thinks this is another patent attack on Android: "And guess where IV got these patents? Not directly from the USPTO. I'll give you a big hint. Some of them, from what I'm seeing, are from working companies. Don't they call that privateering, when active companies outsource their patents to trolls to do their dirty work? Why yes. Yes, they do. Can you guess one company in this picture? Someone helping Microsoft in its anti-competitive attack on Android and Linux, you say? Yes, one of the companies that seems to have transferred two patents to IV for its holy quest is Nokia, Microsoft's 'partner in crime', as I like to think of them. I know. You are shocked, shocked to know that patents are being used anti-competitively in a court of law."

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.
Blackberry

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).

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