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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Most secure mobile OS? 1

Submitted by Lexta on Monday March 26, 2012 @09:12AM

Lexta writes: So I'm contemplating my next smartphone purchase and I've been a little put off by all of the security exploits posted on Slashdot over the last few months, particularly for Android. E.g. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/02/1829237/security-vulnerabilities-on-htc-android-devices
So I wanted to ask Slashdot, whats the most secure stock standard (not jail broken) mobile OS?

Comment One word (Score 1) 524

by Lexta on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @09:02AM (#37385886) Attached to: $300M To Save 6 Milliseconds

Co-location
Someone forgot to do their market research...

Submission + - Open Source attempt to crack GSM encryption (ieee.org)

Submitted by Lexta on Friday December 04, 2009 @07:48PM

Lexta writes: "Karsten Nohl, chief research scientist with H4RDW4RE, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based security research firm, is mounting what could be the most ambitious attempt yet to compromise the GSM phone system". The intended approach is to create and open source project to spread the computation of a giant look up table across more than 80 machines. Interestingly they've openly stated that nVidia's CUDA technology will be used to execute parallel elements of the problem on GPU's as well.

Comment Re:Depends on Your Interest (Score 1) 372

by Lexta on Sunday March 29, 2009 @01:18PM (#27380159) Attached to: Best Grad Program For a Computer Science Major?

Couldn't agree more on the fact that your interests decide where you should end up. However, how are you supposed to know what you like until you've gone out and done it???

My advice, get as many internships as humanly possible. I really mean humanly possible; apply for them all! Try and get yourself into a department that does something that you really enjoy, get involved in their work and really take your successes & failures to heart.

Once you have established this use your masters degree to move yourself forward in that organization/role. The number of people I have heard of who have done highly specialized masters in CS before working and now cannot find work is quite frightening.

An even bigger plus is if your employer knows that you are passionate about your work you might end up at an EXTEMELY competitive university for masters rather than just a relatively competitive one.

Good Luck

Amateur Astronomer Grabs Amazing ISS Picture 80

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @09:59PM from the good-focus dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "Ralf Vandebergh is an amateur astronomer, and using a simple telescope with a video camera attached to it, he took an incredibly detailed picture of the International Space Station. You can easily see the recently-installed truss and solar panels, as well as the Space Shuttle Discovery docked to the station."

Google Voice Fixes Security Flaw, Almost 55

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @09:47PM from the almost-got-it-that-time dept.

gardel writes "Google appears to have fixed a significant security hole in its two-week-old Voice calling service though some vulnerabilities remain. Until about 7pm PDT Tuesday, an unauthorized party could use a SIP device to spoof a phone number attached to a Google Voice account to call the Google Voice number, giviing the spoofer access to greetings and voicemail, and the ability to make outbound calls, including expensive international calls. Though spoofing via SIP is no longer possible, continued existence of some vulnerability was still apparent Tuesday night. Voxilla was able to set the caller ID of a PBX extension to a mobile number attached to Google Voice account and call in, using a business VoIP trunk, to gain access."

Comment Surely there's money in this? (Score 2, Insightful) 102

by Lexta on Monday January 26, 2009 @07:39PM (#26615087) Attached to: A.I. and Robotics Take Another Wobbly Step Forward

As an undergraduate Computer Engineer who intends to major in AI I would be really interested in knowing if anyone knew whether the companies mentioned in this article (Google, Walmart etc...) actually do hire people with a specialization in AI? And if so how do u get recognized?? Or is it all just copied and pasted from researchers who work in all the Universities they mentioned?
I guess the root of my question is, by pursuing AI are you pushing yourself into becoming an academic for the rest of your life?

Comment Re:Start with getting a visa (Score 1) 298

by Lexta on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @01:08AM (#24564227) Attached to: IT Internship In the US For a Foreigner?

Hey thats easy. Talk to your home university, apply to go on exchange to a USA university to do course work for 6 months or whatever. Get the USA university to sponsor your J-1. Then on your J-1 application apply for the two month extension at the end of your coursework and use this time to go do your internship. How good is that, an exchange Uni and an internship on your resume in one hit!

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