Comment My HD DVD player and collection... (Score 1) 377
Heh - would have to total all that up... sigh... but it still works!
Comment Re:And that is why.... (Score 1) 599
My 2002 "low tech, no frills, 5-speed manual shift" Dodge Dakota is looking better and better these days. Heh.
Comment Re:Terrible summary (Score 1) 124
The article only mentions the username going in clear.
Might want to double check that...
FTA: "Users’ AppleID passwords also are sent in clear text to the Apple servers."
http://threatpost.com/apple-imessage-open-to-man-in-the-middle-spoofing-attacks/102610
Comment Re:Not quite the full story... (Score 1) 164
Yeah, my bad. An old throw back reference to the good old days.
Comment Re:Not quite the full story... (Score 3, Informative) 164
It needs a specific key. A BES connection is secured by a key-pair that is generated when the BlackBerry is added to the BES. This allows for the 3DES encryption to occur for all communications over the BES connection.
The situation you're talking about applies to BIS where any handset can decrypt the encrypted messages.
This mis-understanding of the differences between BIS and BES lead to a lot of FUD unfortunately.
And you know Apple is keeping an eye on this... cuz India will be coming after them too for access to their iMessage comms, if they have not already done so.
Comment Not quite the full story... (Score 4, Informative) 164
Please, the BES keys have not been handed over... because they can't be...
http://crackberry.com/rim-encryption-keys
BIS != BES.
Comment Re:Didn't April Fools end at noon? (Score 1) 75
True. Clearly EST is the ONLY time zone that matters...
I remember last year they started pouring in a couple of hours before midnight EST.
This year they seemed to lag quite a bit.
Meh. It is what it is.
Comment Didn't April Fools end at noon? (Score 1) 75
I thought this crap ended at noon?
Obama's "ZuneGate" 608
theodp writes "Barack Obama supporters were left shaking their heads after a report surfaced that the president-elect was using a Zune at the gym instead of an iPod. So why would Mac-user Obama be Zune-ing out? Could be one of those special-edition preloaded Zunes that Microsoft bestowed on Democratic National Convention attendees, suggests TechFlash, nixing the idea that the soon-to-be Leader of the Free World would waste time loading Parallels or Boot Camp in OS X just to use a Zune."
Comment Fire up that DMCA Counter Notification... (Score 1) 658
Hopefully the owners of those videos are all aware of this:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca/counter512.pdf
Generate a DMCA Counter Notification to bring the video back, assuming they should not have been taken down.
A Tour of the Google Blacklist 89
WienerPizza writes "Michael Sutton takes us on a tour of the Google blacklist, a list of suspected phishing sites. He finds that eBay, PayPal and Bank of America combined account for 63% of the active phishing sites. Amusingly, he also reveals that Yahoo! has a nasty habit of hosting phishing sites that harvest — you guessed it — Yahoo! credentials!"
iPod Has Nothing To Fear From Slow-Starting Zune 422
narramissic writes, "Looks like Apple's iPod has nothing to fear from Zune this holiday season. In a research note published Tuesday, PiperJaffray senior research analyst Gene Munster writes that 'during its launch week on Nov. 16, Zune held the seventh spot on online retailer Amazon.com's top 10 best-selling MP3 players list, and it fell from that spot to 13 on the list only five days after launch, on Nov. 20.' Even worse, only 8% of retailers surveyed by PiperJaffray recommend the Zune to customers, while 75% recommend Apple's iPod." The article notes Apple's 5-year headstart in the portable player market and Microsoft's stated intention to invest heavily in the Zune over the next several years.
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