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Comment Not very secretive for a super secretive company (Score 1) 51

by southlander (#60825752) Attached to: Apple Starts Work on Its Own Cellular Modem, Chip Chief Says
This seems to be meant to pressure Qualcomm (stock etc.) more than reality. If true, Apple would simply do it in Apple fashion -- not say an effing word about it until it's ready and then drop it like a bomb on Qualcomm. This seems more intended -- ie. more or less "publicly" announced -- to gain some kind of concessions from Qualcomm.

Comment I can see the lines. (Score 1) 216

Some old person trying to give their email address to the cashier. As aol@www.www. Or someone with folks behind them loudly spelling out lickmyjizz69@gmail.com. Lol. Yeah this seems âoelike a good ideaâ. Instead cashiers will just type in some bullshit and that person will not get the email. But donâ(TM)t let that stop you CA from putting everyone through a lot of trouble to implement YET ONE MORE RULE.
Privacy

LulzSec Document Dump Shows Cops' Fear of iPhones 391

Posted by Soulskill from the sunlight-is-the-best-disinfectant dept.
jfruhlinger writes "People are starting to comb through the details of the law enforcement documents made public by LulzSec. Blogger Kevin Fogarty noticed one interesting trend: The cops seem very anxious about iPhones, particularly apps that would allow encounters with police officers to be recorded. Ironically, the cops seem extremely concerned with protecting their own privacy, but the documents encourage police to examine iPhones during the course of interacting with the public to see what apps they have."
Security

Trust Is For Suckers: Lessons From the RSA Breach 79

Posted by Soulskill from the and-we're-back dept.
wiredmikey writes "Andrew Jaquith has written a great analysis of lessons learned from the recent RSA Cyber Attack, from a customer's perspective. According to Jaquith, in the security industry, 'trust' is a somewhat slippery concept, defined in terms ranging from the cryptographic to the contractual. Bob Blakley, a Gartner analyst and former chief scientist of Tivoli, once infamously wrote that 'Trust is for Suckers.' What he meant is that trust is an emotional thing, a fragile bond whose value transcends prime number multiplication, tokens, drug tests or signatures — and that it is foolish to rely too much on it. Jaquith observed three things about the RSA incident: (1) even the most trusted technologies fail; (2) the incident illustrates what 'risk management' is all about; and (3) customers should always come first."
Communications

US Government Releases DoD Report Critical of NSA 38

Posted by Soulskill from the can-you-hear-me-now dept.
decora writes "Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project has posted a summary of the newly released DoD Inspector General report (PDF) on the NSA's Thinthread and Trailblazer programs. The DoD found that NSA 'disregarded solutions to urgent national security needs' and that 'TRAILBLAZER was poorly executed and overly expensive.' NSA contractors had a 'fear of management reprisal' for cooperating with the DoD audit. The FBI later raided the homes of several people involved with the report, and Thomas Drake faced Espionage Act charges for retaining information related to it. Those charges were dropped two weeks ago. Radack and the GAP represent Drake on whistleblower issues."
Government

Crowdsourcing Analysis of the Palin Email Trove 284

Posted by timothy from the hey-baby-I-love-your-corpus dept.
itwbennett writes "Surely you've got better things to do this weekend than read 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin's email. But just in case you don't, the NY Times is looking for volunteers to help 'identify interesting and newsworthy e-mails, people and events that we may want to highlight.' And, for your easy reference, MSNBC has posted the complete collection online."
Robotics

Mystery Air Crash Black Box Found Sans Memory Part 205

Posted by Soulskill from the curiouser-and-curiouser dept.
coondoggie writes "The ongoing undersea search of the Air France Flight 447 wreckage had yielded one of the key items investigators were looking for this week: the flight data recorder. Unfortunately, their hopes for more information about the crash were set back, as the robot subs scouring the ocean floor retrieved the box only to find its memory part missing."
Government

Does China's Cyber Offense Obscure Woeful Defense? 132

Posted by samzenpus from the paper-cyber-tiger dept.
Gunkerty Jeb writes "The official line in Washington D.C. is that there's a new Cold War brewing, with an ascendant China in the place of the old Soviet Union, and cyberspace as the new theater of war. But work done by an independent security researcher suggests that the Chinese government is woefully unprepared to fend off cyber attacks on its own infrastructure."

Comment In addition to this... (Score 1) 379

by southlander (#35956986) Attached to: Mediacom Using DPI To Hijack Searches, 404 Errors
We use them at work and they are the absolute WORST in terms of reliability. They have not a clue. The support people claim there are no issues even though they drop packets like crazy. Then you get one of the actual techs out on site and talk to them, and they let slip how faulty equipment does not get replaced, etc.

Comment RIM's not looking to overtake Apple/Android (Score 1) 260

by southlander (#35921590) Attached to: RIM BlackBerry PlayBook: Unfinished, Unusable
They are looking to sell to current BlackBerry users. That is possible. Winning vs. iOS and Android is not at this point. Given that, I am not sure why this reviewer had so much trouble using the PlayBook with his BlackBerry. I linked mine up just fine. The bridge has a few issues but mostly works well. Other than that, there is a lot to like about the PlayBook. So I'd say the hyperbole in calling it "un-useable" is not justified. I've used the heck out of mine. The web browser alone does a fantastic job.

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