chmars

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811.
by chmars 13y ago
Sorry for the typo, 'announcement' should of course be 'equivalent'. It would be interesting to see whether the down vote resulted from English language nazis or Obama fanboys … ;)
812.
by chmars 13y ago
The cryptographic announcement to president Obama's announcement is snake oil. OK, snake oil is probably not recognizable as such for a politician …
813.
by chmars 13y ago
Me too, unique … users of Chrome dev versions are obviously not that common.
814.
by chmars 13y ago
It's good. My result on the other hand: 'Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 3,230,650 tested so far.'
815.
by chmars 13y ago
Snake oil: The user password is stored as plain text in local storage: http://twitpic.com/d7c4a0
816.
by chmars 13y ago
That's reasonable. And while you can get already in trouble for not having stored user data in the past, you cannot really refuse to store user data from now on. Ergo probably this surprise shutdown now … :(
817.
by chmars 13y ago
There's not even the time factor. Western countries at least might theoretically not spy on their own citizens but the exchange data with partners intelligence services. And the US is by far not the only country that mandates surveilla
818.
by chmars 13y ago
There are no countries where you are allowed to go public on surveillance measures applied to your customers, user etc. – at least not before the surveillance has been completed. And while traditional surveillance measures have an end, toda
819.
by chmars 13y ago
The EU has minimum standards for surveillance and most EU member states are clearly American vassals. Even France proved to a vasall in forcing the Bolivian president's aircraft to make an unplanned stopover in Vienna … and even the ne
820.
Frosted Glass Effects — Why I switched to Android after all these years(blog.agoeldi.com)
29 points by chmars 13y ago|17 comments
821.
Seeking Bay Area Colo Space(blog.pinboard.in)
2 points by chmars 13y ago|0 comments
822.
Kansas City Library's Giant Bookshelf(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by chmars 13y ago|0 comments
823.
by chmars 13y ago
'In the Manning case, the prosecution used Manning’s use of a standard, more than 15-year-old Unix program called Wget to collect information, as if it were a dark and nefarious technique. Of course, anyone who has ever called up this
824.
Bradley Manning and the "Hacker Madness" Scare Tactic(slate.com)
2 points by chmars 13y ago|1 comments
825.
Upcoming API Downtime(blog.pinboard.in)
2 points by chmars 13y ago|0 comments
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Beware of Sync Platforms(kssreeram.org)
2 points by chmars 13y ago|0 comments
827.
Why Google Reader died(510.r2.ly)
3 points by chmars 13y ago|0 comments
828.
Your iOS device isn’t as encrypted as you think(zdziarski.com)
8 points by chmars 13y ago|0 comments
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Apple 'Hack': Shooting the Messenger(carpeaqua.com)
2 points by chmars 13y ago|0 comments
830.
by chmars 13y ago
Presentation in French, slides in English. Summary in a newspaper (in French): http://www.tdg.ch/suisse/vote-ligne-peut-facilement-change/s...
831.
Nuit du Hack 2013 (Paris): Swiss e-voting system hacked(youtube.com)
2 points by chmars 13y ago|1 comments
832.
by chmars 13y ago
It's of course NOT legal … I've just reported the video to Google.
833.
by chmars 13y ago
IMAP of course, but not with the default mail app of BlackBerry 10: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6060630 SCNR
834.
by chmars 13y ago
See http://frank.geekheim.de/?p=2379 for the logs.
835.
by chmars 13y ago
Official summary in English: 'When you enter your POP / IMAP e-mail credentials into a Blackberry 10 phone they will be sent to Blackberry without your consent or knowledge. A server with the IP 68.171.232.33 which is in the Resea
836.
by chmars 13y ago
Why should a connection from your mobile to a BlackBerry server be visible in YOUR server logs?
837.
by chmars 13y ago
tl;dr: As soon as you have created a new mail account on a BlackBerry 10 mobile, IMAP and SMTP connections are made to IP 68.171.232.33 using your mail credentials. 68.171.232.33 is part of RIM's network range, the server is located in
838.
by chmars 13y ago
iMessage is in no way NSA-proof: http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/06/can-apple-re... tl;dr: * Apple distributes the encryption keys * Multiple keys can be associated with an account (iPhone, Mac
839.
by chmars 13y ago
Using Ockham's razor, it's in all likelihood probably just an annoying bug for this user or a small number of users …
840.
Skype Doesn't Let You Cancel Pro Services(facebook.com)
2 points by chmars 13y ago|1 comments

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