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Comment Similar to trying to catch Saddam (Score 4, Informative) 280

The CIA ruined international health organisations' attempts to vaccinate people in Pakistan, and elsewhere, after they faked a health visit to Sadam's compound in order to try to get blood samples from the inhabitants. It failed. When word got out that health helpers and doctors could be CIA agents many people refused to see them. Overall health suffered in those countries, mostly to the harmless elderly, children and incapacitated.

Comment Old Android bugs remain (Score 1) 239

Just yesterday I was hunting for a fix to an annoying Firefox behaviour on Android where the browser reloads tabs every time you switch away from the tab to another tab or to another app. This was reported years ago and yet remains and almost makes Firefox on Android unusable.

Comment Production data in a developer environment!! (Score 1) 38

This bullshit by the staff at a company where they should all know better, and where it's probably regulated and forbidden by law to allow production data in developer environment, is why I quit the IT security industry a year ago. No-one in these companies, or any in fact, gives a damn about good security.

Comment Re: Can we please have this everywhere? (Score 1) 110

You do not want the password stored in clear text anywhere on the device, yet to display it on a screen that's exactly what you have to do. The only time the device should have the clear text password anywhere, even just in memory, is while it's authenticating a new connection and has received the password from the user and is hashing it to compare against the stored value.

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