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How can I verify whether my new laptop has been tampered?
7 points by ds9 13y ago|11 comments
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by ds9 13y ago
I'd like to have more control over the Javascript runtime in the browser. Defeating this identification trick is only one of the reasons. Suppose you had a list of options and could selectively disable, for example, monitoring of mous
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by ds9 13y ago
You rightly point out that the idea advocated by ballard, as stated, doesn't distinguish the probably narrower category that he's concerned about. But I think what he meant was probably business data - which is distinguishable fr
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by ds9 13y ago
Maybe one reason for these overstated headlines - "the PC is dying" and similar - is the investor's attitude: if a product or market is not growing then it's dead and must be abandoned immediately. Another reason und
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by ds9 13y ago
The actual title is "Why do we not have enough women programmers?". And I question the premise. The writer does not directly address this point, but an implicit premise is that if the proportion differs much from 50% we should loo
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by ds9 13y ago
Essentially what is claimed is that BT supplies combined modem/routers to subscribers, they are closed to configuration by the subscribers, and trojaned. Further (according to the claims), the firmware will look into your home LAN if y
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by ds9 13y ago
The fact that you asked this question shows what's wrong with the supposed "problem". In the usual presentation, it's a "trick question" because the person presenting it omits the crucial information that the
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by ds9 13y ago
NSA probably knows the trove may include certain info that would be super-embarrasing for the US government, and Snowden or Greenwald allusions to "even bigger" (or similar expressions) items support this possibility. Yet undoub
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by ds9 13y ago
The slow release schedule keeps the info in the news throughout the series. If it were dumped all at once, it would be "forgotten" by mainstream media by the time writers would have time to sort thru it.
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by ds9 13y ago
"Even if you know what you're doing, in the worst case you just need to browse to the wrong URL to get instantly owned without user interaction" You'll have to make a better case. In the exploit in your link, the user wa
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by ds9 13y ago
It's not even a choice for a lot of people. Posters on HN, it seems are generally in IT, middle class, in demand and in many cases even get moving costs paid by a new employer. A large percentage of lower class workers literally can&#x
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by ds9 13y ago
I wondered how they distinguished bots. The only info I found on the study [1], on a quick search, says: "For the purpose of this report we observed 1.45 Billion bot visits, which occurred over a 90 day period. The data was collected f
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Show us a better way than collecting metadata, NSA director says to critics(networkworld.com)
2 points by ds9 13y ago|0 comments
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by ds9 13y ago
"Did you buy that computer?" - "No, I found another one that had Windows 7 instead of 8" - "Oh good deal!" -- overheard in line at a convenience store. Nearby, computer shop advertising on a big sign that you c
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by ds9 13y ago
That seems to me the right kind of solution. Hardware devices from big companies are categorically untrustworthy, because of these companies' history of cooperating with surveillance, their incentives to sell out users, and the inabili
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by ds9 13y ago
Upon reading the headline I too immediately wondered, if the fresh water is sucked out, wouldn't the ocean collapse the roof of the space? Other posters here are saying, replace it with salt water or CO2. The CO2 idea was answered. As
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by ds9 13y ago
Apparently the article or service or whatever is visible only for those who have signed up for Google accounts. Is this so routinely expected now that no one considers it worth mentioning? Maybe it's just something about my browser set
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by ds9 13y ago
Well here is one way it could be implemented, and this would also solve the issue of cost. Imagine it's offset against earnings. That is, if you earn more or less than the benefit amount, you get paid the difference - in one case by th
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by ds9 13y ago
Let's assess the damage. Says the article: "The stakes are potentially enormous, since once data is hijacked, the perpetrator can copy and then comb through any unencrypted data freely" Apparently then, the harm amounts to:
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by ds9 13y ago
The dogs were probably helping the shepherd, not part of the flock as per the problem statement.
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by ds9 13y ago
The grammar does not inspire confidence. And the near-immediate mention of employees being restricted to work activities by employers, before moving on to actual censorship of civil society, doesn't help with taking the page seriously.
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by ds9 13y ago
We don't have to have perfect rules, we just have to go from "crazy over-inclusive and treat all violations alike" to "reasonably targeted and allow for severity of the violation".
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by ds9 13y ago
"Zero tolerance", by normal princicples of interpretation of English, implies "no exceptions to the rules". But that was never what it has meant in practice. The practical meaning, which has caused all the problems, is &
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by ds9 13y ago
What's the code licence? I didn't find any mention of it on the site. If it's closed-source, can it be flashed with something open?
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by ds9 13y ago
The author of the post was importing videos from a vendor. How can she swear to what the contents are? Well, in this case there's a basis for confidence that they're training videos, but she may not have seen them. If you ordered,
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by ds9 13y ago
Exactly, I don't see how it would be practical to work in the software field in any existing society, consistent with ACM's Principle 1. The most salient example is that, to make a living in their occupation in a capitalist count
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by ds9 13y ago
"In some places, 'public interest' can go counter to 'human rights'" Would you give an example of how you think that's possible?
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by ds9 13y ago
anigbrowl "the US Constitution needs amending to create an explicit right to privacy" Actually it shouldn't. U.S. Constitution, Amendment 9: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed
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by ds9 13y ago
Oops, yes I apologize if your post was not face value bad_user.
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by ds9 13y ago
Well I'm glad you are so confident that HM government are going to protect your children with a concept of "extremism" that coincides with your own. And it's too bad you can't monitor or guide your own children&#x27

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