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Android Password Data Stored In Plain Text 261

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 24, 2011 @02:41PM from the so-don't-give-people-your-phone dept.

jampola writes "The Hacker News is reporting that Android password data is being stored as plain text in its SQlite database. Hackers News says that 'The password for email accounts is stored into the SQLite DB which in turn stores it on the phone's file system in plain text. Encrypting or at least transforming the password would be desirable.' I'm sure most would agree encrypted password data in at least SHA or MD5 would be kind of a good idea!"

Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It 165

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 06, 2010 @06:30AM from the you-must-become-the-frozen-water dept.

ccktech writes "As reported by NPR and Chemistry world, the journal Science has a paper by David Ehre, Etay Lavert, Meir Lahav, and Igor Lubomirsky [note: abstract online; payment required to read the full paper] of Israel's Weizmann Institute, who have figured out a way to freeze pure water by warming it up. The trick is that pure water has different freezing points depending on the electrical charge of the surface it resides on. They found out that a negatively charged surface causes water to freeze at a lower temperature than a positively charged surface. By putting water on the pyroelectric material Lithium Tantalate, which has a negative charge when cooler but a positive change when warmer; water would remain a liquid down to -17 degrees C., and then freeze when the substrate and water were warmed up and the charge changed to positive, where water freezes at -7 degrees C."

Comment Re:Switzerland (Score 1) 2349

by degola on Wednesday October 25, 2006 @03:50AM (#16573630) Attached to: If Not America, Then Where?

I've to agree - have moved to Switzerland 5 years ago from Germany (so language is only a minor hazzle) and never regretted it. Very high standard of living, great people, low taxes, high wages.

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