Submission + - The government wants your fingerprint to unlock your phone (latimes.com)
There, authorities obtained a search warrant compelling the girlfriend of an alleged Armenian gang member to press her finger against an iPhone that had been seized from a Glendale home. The phone contained Apple's fingerprint identification system for unlocking, and prosecutors wanted access to the data inside it.
It marked a rare time that prosecutors have demanded a person provide a fingerprint to open a computer, but experts expect such cases to become more common as cracking digital security becomes a larger part of law enforcement work.
The Glendale case and others like it are forcing courts to address a basic question: How far can the government go to obtain biometric markers such as fingerprints and hair?
Comment Re:Can't be right (Score 1) 51
Arab men don't look at/for porn. It is forbidden by the dominant religion over there.
Advice: feel free to say it, don't bet anything on it. It's like saying "not a single american drunk anything with alcohol in it during prohibition". FAIL.
Comment Re:Im confused (Score 1) 305
Is 'firefox' a browser or a unit of currency in Italy?
Currency in Italy grows quicker than firefox version number, sadly...
Comment Re:Maybe not trademarked by iCloud Communcations (Score 1) 394
They don't have a TRADEmark, just some mark. I read it also on macrumors.com but I can't find the article now..
That's the (awesome) point: they sue Apple because they have a name and a logo! I think if your business is so tightly connected with your name, you should *at least* bother to trademark it, not just have someone design you a logo (unless you're used to it in USA, I hope not)
Comment Better analysts perhaps? (Score 2) 274
Just stop granting random patents because the people who decide on 'em can't understand what's written in a paper.
Let real tech people judge and - eventually - grant a *limited* patent, but stop giving away things because people can't read a proposal..
Comment Re:Nonsense (Score 1) 577
Mac OS X's future is on high end workstations, targeting the professional and power user markets. Apple's consumer strategy will be centered on iOS.
+1
Don't think they just spent countless man hours to develop a brand new Final Cut suite to throw away it all some weeks later. iOS for the win, but on *lower* devices, the most advanced Unix-based S.O. on *higher* devices. From a certain point of view *everything* is a device.
Comment Re:The article is the summary is the article? (Score 4, Funny) 102
Great - Updated from "http://slashdot.org/olduse.net" to "http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/06/1435259/olduse.net". Much better...
The broken link is half of the 30-year-lag experience.
Comment Learn it. (Score 2) 260
Comment Re:You don't know what you are talking about (Score 1) 224
Comment Re:Porn industry (Score 3, Funny) 116
Maybe it WAS a cube farm and it made porno boring and repetitive...
dunno if it was boring, quite sure it was repetitive
Comment Re:No Plausible Deniability (Score 1) 275
I was under the impression that *anyone* can be Anonymous. If that's the case, Anonymous can't prove that Anonymous didn't do it.
Neither you can prove that Anonymous did it, a txt isn't enough.
Comment Re:Too late for GNOME? (Score 1) 362
Comment Too late for GNOME? (Score 1) 362
Quite interesting, GNOME already have *a lot* of core applications backed by Mono... Who will tell 'em?