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by ge0rg 11y ago
your FB friends are supposedly people you know in real life and trust According to the article, this feature is also enabled for group chats, where you converse with people who are not even your FB friends. people working on messenger I
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by ge0rg 11y ago
Wow, -tui is a real game-changer. I've struggled with tools like ddd and nemiver, looking for a sensible UI, and it was there all along!
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by ge0rg 11y ago
Yes, Google removed that feature in Android 4.4, breaking the user experience and not going to fix it again: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62378#c11...
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by ge0rg 11y ago
You are right. The exploit is further complicated by the fact that Android will refuse to install apps outside of Google Play by default. The same effect could probably be reached with an NFC tag in a ring or hidden in your wear, without th
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by ge0rg 12y ago
Implementing this right is surprisingly hard, as the Debian SSL fiasco and the Java/Android's so called SecureRandom RNG have shown. Maybe they were using a defective RNG for the keys as well, so in total there is a very limited n
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by ge0rg 12y ago
1. Zero rating is good for customers. This is probably more complicated. While large companies will have to follow suit and probably buy-in into the ZR deal of large telcos, startups and small buisnesess will essentially be cut off from (
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by ge0rg 12y ago
Not sure about ChatSecure, but xabber provides MUC (group chat) support out of the box, and for yaxim there is a beta APK you can get here: https://yaxim.org/muc The beta's limitations are: * rather broken invitation h
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by ge0rg 12y ago
As funny as it sounds: iMessage. The only crypto-related problem with iMessage's encryption is that Apple controls the key servers. -- http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/27/apple-explains-exactly-how-... Besi
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by ge0rg 12y ago
Except for being almost unusable on smartphones (or barely usable on devices with qwerty keyboards), and bitlbee's arcane syntax for joining MUC chatrooms, this is the exact setup I am using.
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by ge0rg 12y ago
OTR also breaks Message Archive Management (MAM) and Carbons - the two features making multi-client operation any useful, and highlighted in the article. And with MAM, there actually are plain-text logs of your conversations on the server.
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by ge0rg 12y ago
Besides of the ones referenced in the article, there is also ChatSecure [0] for Android and iOS (with a strong focus on security) and Xabber [1] and yaxim [2] for Android (I am the maintainer of yaxim). [0] https://chatsecure.org
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by ge0rg 12y ago
GTalk has broken federation for Hangouts users, and they failed to enable s2s encryption, which is mandatory since February: https://github.com/stpeter/manifesto/blob/master/manifesto.t...
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by ge0rg 12y ago
Unfortunately, this won't improve your security. The client code comes from the server, so you need to trust it anyway. While it is possible to implement OTR or PGP in the client, the server admin could poison the implementation code a
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by ge0rg 12y ago
This is awesome. I've been thinking about a meta-youtube-channel, where you can watch people watch youtube (if anyone has the time, please pull it off!).
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by ge0rg 12y ago
There is a number of IM clients for iOS, that store your credential "in the cloud" (use their own infrastructure to terminate the XMPP connection and route push notifications to their clients). This is not ideal for your privacy,
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by ge0rg 12y ago
There are just too many different proprietary IM protocols, and they are often fast moving targets. You can't keep up with a team of Google engineers tweaking their protocol every day. Have a look at WhatsApp, there was a bunch of effo
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by ge0rg 12y ago
This is an awesome interpretation! The idea for this dates back some years however, the first one I remember is a scanner playing Für Elise [0], and of course there is the Imperial March performed by three floppy drives [1]. There is also a
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by ge0rg 12y ago
recently, attacks against home routers were mounted via malicious iframes pushed to a PC in the LAN. That vector neither requires physical presence nor wifi password cracking, merely CSRF. edit: known since 2008, http://www.techr
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Hacking the Samsung NX300, Part 3: Firmware Mods(op-co.de)
3 points by ge0rg 12y ago|0 comments
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by ge0rg 12y ago
No ads. Instead, an easy-to-use and affordable micropayment system, something like flattr (but with an option for paid-only content), that can be used by Internet users to pay for content, maybe as a part of the ISP subscription. The cynic
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by ge0rg 12y ago
This looks like a pun by the submitter, exchanging "надзор" (supervision/monitoring) with "позор" (shame).
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by ge0rg 12y ago
The point made originally was that Internet filtering is bad for society. The fact that there is not a single mandated filter but a set of different(?) filters at the major ISPs, which do not even have a legal basis, is just making the situ
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by ge0rg 12y ago
I am not so sure about it. Blocking/prohibiting information will only lead to increased interest, and it will never be possible to block all instances of that information. A far superior approach would be better social care for people
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by ge0rg 12y ago
tl;dr: Russian law enforcement required GitHub to block certain content in Russia. GitHub has complied and put up a list of the blocked URLs in this repo. From a short look at the linked/blocked documents, all of them are suicide instr
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Five Airbus $300M A350 Jetliners Flying Together Video/Photo Shoot(petapixel.com)
1 points by ge0rg 12y ago|0 comments
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by ge0rg 12y ago
Time to print our "Y2K38 consultant" business cards! :)
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by ge0rg 12y ago
The problem here was that the box went down by accident due to this bug.
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by ge0rg 12y ago
That might be right, but there are tens of thousands of people who use their personal email and credit card to buy hosting services. You can't assume they all operate Silk Road 2.x
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by ge0rg 12y ago
Just how law enforcement agents were able to locate the Dark Web sites despite their use of the Tor anonymity software remains a looming mystery. Do you happen to have a source for the "personal credit card" and "Tesla for
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by ge0rg 12y ago
I can not see how this is good for consumers, if compared to actual unlimited data. At least T-Mobile Germany is throttling users to 64kbit/s after the cap is reached, which is so slow that you can't use most online services (log

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