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Comment Re:need a kill gesture (Score 2) 145

by zaajats on Thursday May 17, 2012 @12:06PM (#40028819) Attached to: UK Police Roll Out On-the-Spot Mobile Data Extraction System

You can use the pass code erase feature on the iphone. Type ten wrong codes fast and all is gone.

The iPhone makes you wait for a long time after some incorrect attempts, so it's impossible to quickly wipe it like that.

Comment Re:For Facebook and Google+ (Score 1) 284

by zaajats on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @06:27PM (#38079320) Attached to: Google To Allow Location Service Opt-out

amen.

if the Internet was opt-in everything, we'd still be in the stone ages.

Comment Re:Only as secure as the gate-keeper. (Score 1) 280

by zaajats on Thursday July 30, 2009 @03:36PM (#28886653) Attached to: Null Character Hack Allows SSL Spoofing

This isn't really a browser issue.

The browser is going "Show me that this cert is valid for paypal.com" and the CA is going "Here it is, for paypay.com" , at least as far as the browser is concerned.
This is no more a flaw then if the CA just started letting anyone buy certs for paypal.com.

Having multiple CAs (and cheap CAs) is a good thing, but we're only ever secure with ssl as the least secure CA.

As far as I understand, it's more like:

* Browser gets cert for Paypal.com\0.badguy.com from the server

* Browser reads domain from cert, but does so invalidly, and only gets Paypal.com

* etc

Comment Re:Well that's just fantastic (Score 2, Insightful) 150

by zaajats on Friday June 19, 2009 @04:42AM (#28386781) Attached to: iPhone 3.0 Update Delivers Prodigious Patch Batch

Now I'm looking at keeping my Sanza Fuze and Nokia E51. Apple can get fucked.

Your Fuze gets feature-rich updates often?

Point being — I find it somewhat strange that when Apple charges for an update, it's somehow worse than the competitors who don't offer any of the features, free or otherwise.

Comment Re:Well that's just fantastic (Score 3, Informative) 150

by zaajats on Thursday June 18, 2009 @07:19PM (#28382467) Attached to: iPhone 3.0 Update Delivers Prodigious Patch Batch

The upgrade to 3.0 is free.

not for iPod touches.

Comment Re:Well that's just fantastic (Score 1) 150

by zaajats on Thursday June 18, 2009 @05:17PM (#28380817) Attached to: iPhone 3.0 Update Delivers Prodigious Patch Batch

But when are they going to patch these security flaws on my 2.1 ipod? Paying for an update is ridiculous, especially when it fixes critical security flaws. I sure hope apple does the right thing.

Sure, paying for a security update alone is a bit strange, but really — it's only $10 and gives you so much more. Besides, it's not like your iPod has been taken over by viruses due to the bugs.

Comment Re:That would be a new feature (Score 1) 361

by zaajats on Monday June 15, 2009 @10:57AM (#28335299) Attached to: Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

What I meant is that for 99% of the people a *new* file system doesn't create any new value.

e.g. - Time Machine is already an existing feature, improving the back-end by using ZFS is an unimportant change.

Comment Re:That would be a new feature (Score 1) 361

by zaajats on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @04:44AM (#28276763) Attached to: Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

Snow Leopard is about performance and optimization. A new file system would fall under new features.

There are other new features as well. Also, a new file system would be an update to the existing one, no?

(That doesn't mean ZFS will be there)

Comcast Blocks Web Browsing 502

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 07, 2008 @11:16AM from the because-they-can dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team of researchers have found that Comcast has quietly rolled out a new traffic-shaping method, which is interfering with web browsers in addition to p2p traffic. The smoking gun that documents this behavior are network traces collected from Comcast subscribers Internet connections. This evidence shows Comcast is forging packets and blocking connection attempts from web browsers. One has to hope this isn't the congestion management system they are touting as no longer targeting BitTorrent, which they are deploying in reaction to the recent FCC investigations."

Submission + - 35 Different Ways of Looking at Social Networks (socialcomputingmagazine.com)

Submitted by jg21 on Saturday July 07, 2007 @05:04AM

jg21 writes: Social Computing Magazine has just published a list of thirty-five perspectives on online social networking reflecting how protean and difficult to pin down the phenomenon is. It was compiled by Malene Charlotte Larsen, a PhD student at Aalborg University in Denmark, who has been doing research on Danish youngsters and online social networking. She ends with an open request for further perspectives.

[From the article "I must say that I certainly do not agree with all of the mentioned perspectives, but some of them do represent the opinions (or prejudices) I hear when I am out giving lectures to adults."]

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