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Comment Scope Creep! (Score 0) 288

by trghpy on Monday June 20, 2011 @08:12PM (#36507662) Attached to: Where Is Firefox OS?

The Firefox project is to make a good web browser and not get side tracked.

You want a firefox OS? Install Linux Bios with firefox and log into an EyeOS server. Done.

The fact that Google couldn't think of a name to differentiate Chrome OS disappoints me.

Comment bytehoard (Score 0) 482

by trghpy on Thursday June 16, 2011 @12:54PM (#36464850) Attached to: Open Source Alternative To Dropbox?

Look into bytehoard on sourceforge.
It's a dead project but does what you need.

Submission + - US can conduct warrantless searches of computers (computerworld.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun on Friday April 08, 2011 @12:09PM

suraj.sun writes: U.S. can conduct warrantless searches of computers seized at borders, appeals court rules:

Laptop computers and other digital devices carried into the U.S. may be seized from travelers without a warrant and sent to a secondary site for forensic inspection, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled last week. The ruling is the second in less than a year that allows the U.S. government to conduct warrantless, offsite searches of digital devices seized at the country's borders.

A federal court in Michigan last May issued a similar ruling in a case challenging the constitutionality of the warrantless seizure of a computer at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Several other courts, including the Ninth Circuit itself, have ruled that warrantless, suspicion-less searches of laptops and other digital devices can take place at U.S. border locations.

ComputerWorld: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215554/U.S._can_conduct_offsite_searches_of_computers_seized_at_borders_court_rules

Comment Lecture from the school of hard knocks (Score 0) 123

by trghpy on Friday December 03, 2010 @04:42PM (#34436810) Attached to: Schneier Recommends Nuclear-Style Cyberwar Hotlines, Treaties

I have the feeling this will end up being better in theory than implementation.

Journal Journal: One Too Many 2

Journal by Sloppy on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @06:39PM

I have a password written on a post-it note underneath my keyboard. Decades went by without this ever having happened, but now I have one of these. [rationalize]And I'm keeping the post-it, because it'll probably be months or years before I ever need that password again, so there's just no chance I'll be able to remember it (it's actually a pretty well-made password).[/rationalize] OTOH, I suppose I could just throw it away and then the next time I need it, ask someone for it agai

Submission + - Jailtime For Jailbreaking Phones

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @04:37PM

An anonymous reader writes: Remember how the Librarian of Congress announced that jailbreaking your phone was legal and not a violation of the DMCA? Yeah, well, tell that to Mohamad Majed, who has already spent over a year in jail and has now been pressured into pleading guilty to criminal DMCA violations for jailbreaking phones for use on other carriers.

Submission + - Moscow's bid to blow up Wikileaks (thedailybeast.com) 1

Submitted by mark72005 on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @04:11PM

mark72005 writes: National-security officials say that the National Security Agency, the U.S. government's eavesdropping agency, has already picked up tell-tale electronic evidence that WikiLeaks is under close surveillance by the Russian FSB, that country's domestic spy network, out of fear in Moscow that WikiLeaks is prepared to release damaging personal information about Kremlin leaders. "We may not have been able to stop WikiLeaks so far, and it's been frustrating," a U.S. law-enforcement official tells The Daily Beast. "The Russians play by different rules."

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