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by _djo_ 13y ago
The Gripen NG does not appear to be any less capable than the Super Hornet, with the exception of being single-engined as opposed to dual-engined.
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by _djo_ 13y ago
The article does not source the claim about the Super Hornet being the front-runner, although previous reports have claimed that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff preferred the Super Hornet for political reasons. The part of the sentence t
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Claiming that the NSA scandal is the primary reason for the Saab win is an overly US-centric view. While there's evidence that Boeing's chances were hurt by the NSA revelations, it's not true that Boeing was a clear favourite
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by _djo_ 13y ago
First pictures: https://twitter.com/t_mcconnell/status/407504857587650560 and https://twitter.com/Ndiagaseck/status/407450077847121920 The aircraft are Falco UAVs made by Selex ES, which
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United Nations to start using surveillance drones in the DRC(mg.co.za)
2 points by _djo_ 13y ago|1 comments
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Apple has a fair number of standards-essential patents as well, but they have not been used in a lawsuit to date. These include networking patents (notably zeroconf) and are always made available by Apple via the following statement: In th
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by _djo_ 13y ago
It's new in iOS 7. You'll have to explicitly wipe & reset your iPhone before selling it from now on. So if it works as advertised, stolen iPhones and iPads will only be worth the sum of their parts.
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by _djo_ 13y ago
iOS lets you choose between a 4 digit pin or an alphanumeric password of whatever length you want. The 4 digit pin is meant to be more convenient, but even then most smartphone owners don't use it. The point of TouchID was to have a mo
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by _djo_ 13y ago
'Deep Web' likely refers to their access to the entire Twitter stream, though it's far too buzzword-y. With that said, there can be huge value in aggregating and correlating all social media commentary occurring in a specific
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by _djo_ 13y ago
The N95 had a decidedly subpar user experience. The OS was slow, unstable and clearly long past its use-by date and the available apps were with few exceptions really crappy lowest-common denominator stuff. I say this as a one-time Nokia N9
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Your boss is not your only reporting option, the US Army has a whistleblower option precisely for soldiers to report gross misconduct and crimes without being victimised by their immediate superiors.
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by _djo_ 13y ago
The thumb drives would all have been cloned when first confiscated, which is why the 9 hour detainment was unnecessary and likely intimidation.
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by _djo_ 13y ago
People often forget that Greenwald hasn't had any experience in this kind of security. Snowden and others had to work him through setting up GPG and by his own admission he didn't have any knowledge of encryption or anonymisation
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by _djo_ 13y ago
I agree, it was an abuse of law. But stopping and detaining him temporarily seems justifiable, especially as he is not a journalist, doesn't enjoy any protections other than the ones any normal travellers get and was carrying some of t
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by _djo_ 13y ago
I would have agreed with you before hand, but it turns out that Greenwald and the Guardian were using David Miranda as a data mule: In an e-mail Monday to The Associated Press, Mr. Greenwald said that he needed material from Ms. Poitras
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by _djo_ 13y ago
If that were true they wouldn't need the large data centres they're building. My understanding, from when the references to Azure and Amazon CloudFront (not EC2) were first discovered in iCloud traffic, was that Apple was using Mi
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Blog link: http://blog.uber.com/2013/08/07/howzit-jozi-secret-african-u...
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Uber has launched in South Africa
3 points by _djo_ 13y ago|1 comments
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by _djo_ 13y ago
That's COMINT, or Communications Intelligence, basically the type of intelligence that XKeyscore is part of. It might say HUMINT if the intelligence was collected from human sources. REL TO likely means release to. As I've said be
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Although using Authy's backup service is optional and the app works just fine with local-only storage and no Authy account, which is how I have it set up.
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by _djo_ 13y ago
That might've been 'gardening leave'. When a senior employee with knowledge of company secrets leaves they're often saddled with a restraint of trade agreement that lasts at least a year and sometimes more. Because it wo
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by _djo_ 13y ago
The South African Air Force was flying surveillance UAVs in Angola and Mozambique in the 1970s and 1980s, also achieving the first flights of UAVs in controlled civilian aerospace in 1994 when military UAVs were used to monitor the country&
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by _djo_ 13y ago
To be fair to Boeing, this Honeywell ELT has nothing to do with them and is on thousands of planes. It seems it may just have been an unlucky coincidence that the first fire was on a 787.
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by _djo_ 13y ago
There have been bank account hacks where the perpetrator has had an accomplice inside a cellular service provider who intercepted the SMS and prevented it from being sent to the account-holder's phone while retrieving the code.
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Those of us with the technical understanding to be concerned about security should already be using third-party tools like 1Password, LastPass, etc. I doubt there'll be a massive out flux of those who use those tools to iCloud keychain
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by _djo_ 13y ago
From what I've heard, no. This isn't a Snowden leak, it's the result of a journo sitting on information and having an opportune moment to publish. This isn't the first exposé of the French government's communication
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Exactly, this is what I've been pointing out: Every government with the means to monitor domestic and foreign communications does so and invariably stretches the law in order to achieve it. That's why I've felt the focus on t
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Which was subsequently modified to make it less secure before being added to the project. That tends to dampen one's enthusiasm to contribute.
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by _djo_ 13y ago
I'm hearing conflicting reports. I know Laurie Fialkov of CyberSmart has stated that there aren't any up and running and no live interception happening, but I've heard elsewhere that at least one large one exists. I'd be
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by _djo_ 13y ago
I highly doubt it. The NSA has been tapping undersea cables for decades, there's no reason they'd have suddenly become so sloppy as to cut two cables in the same region. Especially as a cable will be inspected if cut and any surve

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