jppiiroinen - Slashdot User

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Who do you trust your long term data? (globenewswire.com) 1

Submitted by jppiiroinen on Friday February 06, 2015 @05:10AM

jppiiroinen writes: A Finnish based company F-Secure Oyj has sold its cloud storage business Younited to a US company (Synchronoss Technologies, Inc) which has speculated NSA connections ([1], [2]). Earlier they used in their public announcements arguments equal to "trust us, your data will be safe".

I know that it is obvious that the F-Secure realized that competing against the big players, such as Google and DropBox, might not make any sense.

However it makes me wonder:
Who do you trust your data?
And who really owns it?
What about in 3-6 years from now?
How should I make sure that I retain access to data today from 20 years from now?

I am sure that I have a lot of floppies and old IDE disks from 90s around here, but no means to access them, and some of the CD/DVD's has gone bad as well. And now at the time of the SSD disks, there is no physical data writing which might make the data recovery impossible to be done.

Submission + - Nokia paid millions of euros for stolen signing keys

Submitted by jppiiroinen on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @03:00PM

jppiiroinen writes: I find it very odd that back in the days 2007-2008 when Nokia had a huge market share with Symbian devices, that they did not disclose the information that somebody had stolen their encryption keys. Being a listed company after all. They did even ended up paying millions of euros and the local Finnish police manage to fail to investigate who was behind it.

The blackmailer had gotten hold of the Symbian encryption key used for signing. The code is a few kilobytes in size. Had the key been leaked Nokia would not have been able to ensure that the phones accept only applications approved by the company.

Submission + - North Korea threatens U.S. with preemptive nuclear strike (reuters.com)

Submitted by jppiiroinen on Thursday March 07, 2013 @07:05AM

jppiiroinen writes: "North Korea threatened the United States on Thursday with a preemptive nuclear strike, raising the level of rhetoric while the U.N. Security Council considers new sanctions against the reclusive country."

Submission + - Ubuntu Touch Port-a-thon (ubuntu.com)

Submitted by jppiiroinen on Friday February 22, 2013 @07:45PM

jppiiroinen writes: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has released the developer preview images for 4 different devices and a SDK Alpha on 21st day. Now two days after it seems that the community has kicked in and the Devices list is growing by the minute on their Ubuntu Touch Port-a-thon.

Submission + - Nokia closed application store in China for N9

Submitted by jppiiroinen on Thursday December 13, 2012 @06:51AM

jppiiroinen writes: It seems that Nokia is slowly killing existing applications for their Linux based N9 mobile phone which are available thru their store. As a developer who has published paid (and free) apps, it looks like that after their final blow of killing the support for paid applications in China, where the main revenue came from, there is not any means to make money, and no reason to maintain apps anymore. What this means also for the end-users; no premium apps, like Angry Birds.

There was no heads-up or anything, just a single email without any means to make a complain.

Nokia, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

Submission + - Torvalds is not happy with NVIDIA support for Linux (youtube.com)

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jppiiroinen

on Sunday June 17, 2012 @04:02AM

jppiiroinen writes: "As Linus Torvalds received the Millennium prize last week for his work on Linux operating system. He was already in Finland, so the Aalto University arranged a talk session with him. During the Q&A a person asks why the NVIDIA does not play well with Linux. Torvalds explained shortly that NVIDIA has been one of the worst companies to work with Linux project, and which makes it even worse that NVIDIA ships a high number of chips for Android devices which uses Linux inside. Torvalds even summarized that to "Nvidia, f*** you!" in a playful manner.

What has been your experience on NVIDIA drivers with Linux?"

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