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by ge0rg 13y ago
They transmit on very specific frequencies, but they could have wide-band receivers on board, listening to whatever is interesting to the operators (filtering has to be applied because the downlink is limited).
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by ge0rg 13y ago
Speaking as a developer who's app is both on Google Play and on f-droid, I somehow share your feeling about f-droid being "insecure"(x), but consider all of the other points very thin. Crash reports and statistics are great,
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by ge0rg 13y ago
Am I the only one scared by the thought of uploading my whole photo collection to Google's servers? What about creating an offline database of object fingerprints that can classify my pictures without privacy violations?
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by ge0rg 14y ago
Oracle Corporation has taken a public stand against the patentability of software and has forsworn use of its own patents except to counter-sue in infringement claims. Now this is really a great quote from that article!
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by ge0rg 14y ago
First, the website would only be meant for users without the app, so local hosting would not work. Second, it can only be read-only, unless you upload your private key. I think it would provide a window into the social network, kind of "Osc
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by ge0rg 14y ago
Using a nightweb.net http url on the other hand would allow a read-only web access to the service, increasing conversion rates ;)
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by ge0rg 14y ago
You might want to add a status text to the service notification, displaying how far bootstrapping is.. Please make the non-contributing status the default then, or at least ask the user on installation... capped data plans are still the def
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by ge0rg 14y ago
you should define a separate namespace for users/posts, like a subdomain or path, for the app, right now the browser is confused when opening the homepage
459.
by ge0rg 14y ago
Wow, this is just awesome! The app is really polished for an early beta release, especially that hidden markdown feature. Just three things that come to my mind: 1. how long does it take to propagate updates? 2. what is the traffic consumpt
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by ge0rg 14y ago
I am surprised he did not do that from the very beginning... I am reading his monthly newsletter and did not look at the blog too often, but on my own installations I always asked myself, how much of my users privacy I want to give up for s
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by ge0rg 14y ago
Wow, this is something I wished for since the creation of RSS. Somehow, the RSS design failed to provide features that were already there in NNTP, like differential updates and message/reply (post/comment) threading...
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Inserting keylogger code in Android SwiftKey using apktool(android-app-development.ie)
3 points by ge0rg 14y ago|0 comments
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by ge0rg 14y ago
It is a real pity banks are externalizing the fraud risk to merchants, who are not in the position to improve security in a meaningful way. This can really be only possible in a monopolistic environment...
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by ge0rg 14y ago
Except where the TOS forbid giving credentials to other people? If more services implement the "account freeze" policy of Facebook, this might become hard to accomplish as well.
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Musings on the Future of Mobile XMPP(yaxim.org)
3 points by ge0rg 14y ago|0 comments
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by ge0rg 14y ago
Wow, finally a way for us nerds to interact with our cars, besides of hunting undocumented CAN bus commands via OBD2!
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by ge0rg 14y ago
The sender of the file can set it on a timer so that it will automatically “burn”—deleting it from both devices after a set period of, say, seven minutes. This one rings the snake oil alarm bells with me. I wonder if this is due to sloppy
468.
by ge0rg 14y ago
It should be entierly possible to modulate packet radio using the GPIO hack, however you would probably need a real-time kernel extension to ensure proper transmission. Decoding is easily possible on the CPU as well, provided you attach soe
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by ge0rg 14y ago
The problem with smart compilers is indeed how they break existing (naive) code, optimizing away things like "assert(len + 100 > len)" [1] Making a correct overflow check in C/C++ is not just not straightforward, it is overy complicated
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Woman crashes train into house in Sweden(news.yahoo.com)
2 points by ge0rg 14y ago|0 comments
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by ge0rg 14y ago
Indeed. The 'hop' argument is only "true" with IPv6-over-IPv4 tunneling, where the real hops are concealed. Of course, the effect is actually the opposite: you have less efficient routing from source to destination because you have to go th
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by ge0rg 14y ago
The author conveniently left away the most important benefit of HTML5 apps: at least in theory, you only need to write the app once to support multiple platforms. With native, you have to re-implement your whole logic (and redo significant
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by ge0rg 14y ago
According to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2050297 the N10 is an Exynos5 device and thus not compatible anyway. Not sure though if the Google team is reviewing the whole set of patches (and if such a patch would not sli
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by ge0rg 14y ago
The Google Maps API for Android [1] can only be used on Google-certified devices, as it builds on a Google-provided system library. Therefore, none of the apps embedding Google Maps will work out-of-the-box, unless the device manufacturer v
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by ge0rg 14y ago
Indeed. To add insult to injury, Java's handling of SSL trust verification is a complex beast that is hard to get right. To mitigate the problem at least a little, you have to jump through hoops. <shamelessplug>I had to write my own
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by ge0rg 14y ago
The photos in recaptcha are mostly street names and numbers from Google StreetView. Very elegant combination of two ambitious projects.
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Android Hacked via NFC on the Samsung Galaxy S3(thenextweb.com)
58 points by ge0rg 14y ago|21 comments
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by ge0rg 14y ago
Who are these irresponsible network operators that allow spoofed source addresses out of their network? There is at least one legitimate use for "spoofed" IPs... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP Of course this protocol is rarely u
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by ge0rg 14y ago
The security history of WhatsApp is so horrible, it does not seem to make any sense to talk to them. Alone the fact that their app is sending your contact list to their server, without asking you, on every app start, disqualifies the servic
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by ge0rg 14y ago
You can set up your own private XMPP server and use gibberbot, beem or yaxim on android (or any other XMPP client on the platform of your choice). This is the only way to ensure that your communication is really private.

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