I have a jailbroken 6s and I rsync daily (cron job) to backup.

What gets to me more is the choice of how to pronounce the value...

No self-respecting scientist would ever say "one point twenty one". That's "one point two one." Or is 1.201 "one point two hundred and one" and thus more?

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Well, sure, if they've 100% absolutely verified that position, then I guess there's nothing further to discuss.

Except, I guess... http://www.news.com.au/technol...

I believe they did block foreign IPs earlier in the day anyway, but my (limited) understanding is that doing so doesn't really help with DDoS - you still have the traffic banging on your door and need to reject it.

I'd like to know who was actually in charge of load balancing/capacity - ABS or IBM?

Not this year. I'm guessing they regret this decision.

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Suicide Linux; where any typo (as in resulting in command not found) instigates a full 'sudo rm -rf /'. Available as a debian package. https://qntm.org/suicide

Relevant Pictures for Sad Children:

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I'd link to the original, but I'm pretty sure it was deleted in John's mentally unstable rage-quit.

The issue isn't someone cutting the lock - it's bypassing it without your knowledge even after the fact.

When the TSA has the keys, they have access and you acknowledge that (you used a lock you know they can open). When a third party also has the keys, do you acknowledge their access too?

(This argument assumes of course you're not using zippered luggage that can be bypassed and restored with a ballpoint pen).

Now apply the same argument to your iphone. If the guvmint have their own copy that they might install on your device without you knowing, is that okay? What about a rogue party?

I'm still going to guess the $5 wrench (https://xkcd.com/538/) gets used more than whatever is required to fool TouchID in the time it takes me to register that my phone/card is missing and report it as such. I don't *think* I have a network of spies tracking my every move and lifting my prints off of water glasses in order to obtain my hundreds of dollars, but perhaps that's just because they don't *want* me to think that, right?

How do you paranoids ever leave the house?

If I'm suddenly in a position where losing a finger during a mugging is a genuine concern, I'll look into better protecting my hundreds of dollars.

Are there actual documented cases of small-time crooks in a civilized country using fingerprint harvesting off secondary sources to get into a smartphone? Maybe I just live in a country where tinfoil hats aren't so necessary.

Sure, all they need is my fingerprint to access the phone, know which bank I'm with, know that that I'm registered for cardless cash at said bank, my fingerprint again to access the app, and possibly my fingerprint again to request the funds.

But sure, a card and 4 digits is totally more secure.

A version of this is already widely in use in Australia. Log into bank via smartphone, request amount of cash, receive code. Go to that bank's ATM, request cardless cash, enter code, ???, cash! I no longer carry a wallet, just my smartphone with 3-card slimline case containing my ID/drivers licence, public transport RFID card, and credit card. I'm able to slip a $20 in there too for the few remaining places who either don't take credit or charge a fee to do so.

for file in /* ; do scp local remote ; done

Yeah, that one's going to bite you hard.

The sad part is that you even remember this event 20 years later. I bet the guy who booted up the old machine to do what he wanted doesn't.

You rsync without --update (-u)?

If you were expecting your post-transition rsync to be faster then I presume you were doing something like either --ignore-existing or --update, in which case the files wouldn't have been overwritten, right?

What happened?