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Comment Re:Of course (Score 1) 362

This is simply false. The link in the opening gives the actual text of the proposed law:

" Article 19. Speed Limiter Technology

28170. As used in this article, “intelligent speed limiter system” means an integrated vehicle system that uses, at minimum, the GPS location of the vehicle compared with a database of posted speed limits, to determine the speed limit, and electronically limits the speed of the vehicle to prevent the driver from exceeding the speed limit by more than 10 miles per hour."

Comment Simple Explanation (Score 1) 61

626 IP addresses is a minuscule % of all computers running Windows (what do you think, 10s of billions?), yet the fact that these computers consistently use the wrong domain suggests there's something different about those computers: likely they had bad RAM (or bad cache). If that's the case then the severity of such an attack must be compared to the severity of having bad RAM to begin with, e.g. writing bad data to random places on your hard drive. ECC RAM should fix this problem, though that's rare on desktops; a simpler solution would be to simply use SSL for everything and solve the entire problem completely. But either way it's a rare problem. It's an interesting study, but limited practical application. It'd be a lot more interesting if they got a radiation source and cranked it up to simulate long periods of time/many systems running in parallel. Then they could measure what the probability of this occurring is and determine if it's worth trying to solve or just ignore.

Comment Re: It uses the Handoff framework (Score 1) 202

It doesn't "automatically sync" it. Like many other things involving Handoff, it sets a promise. It tells devices in close proximity that there is data available.

Said data isn't actually transferred until used. This significantly reduces the amount of bandwidth (and thus power) involved when no other device actually cares about the Handoff data being advertised.

Comment Re: It uses the Handoff framework (Score 2) 202

Again, why aren't you using Family Sharing? There's zero reason to be sharing your iCloud account. Especially since it gives everyone access to to things like email.

It also seems you need to read up on Handoff. The range of Handoff is about 10 meters (33 feet). All devices must be in this range for Handoff to work.

Handoff (which was added in iOS 8 and Mac OS X 10.10) also shares which webpage you are viewing and which apps you are using to devices logged in with the same Apple ID and in that range. So you have no legitimate reason to suddenly complain about the Universal Clipboard all of a sudden.

If you don't like the security of Handoff due to ignorance, then disable Handoff on your devices. Hell, if one specific shared device must be logged in with the same Apple ID (because you don't know better), then disable Handoff solely on that device.

Comment Re: Cert signed by central private authority = cr (Score 5, Informative) 61

The Transmission app uses the Sparkle Software Update mechanism. Sparkle uses certificate pinning to prevent exactly this type of attack. The auto-updater will not permit an application to be updated if the update is signed by a different entity.

So this malware only affected people that manually downloaded the app from the Transmission website.

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