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by ge0rg 15y ago
The worst thing that can happen here is that somebody connects to your wifi. Unless a negligible amount of the 4 million users accidentally reused the password for other services as well. Which probably makes 3.9 million victims. Also, a
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ClockworkMod Tether Alpha: Android Tethering without root(plus.google.com)
2 points by ge0rg 15y ago|0 comments
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by ge0rg 15y ago
And the government would post it... why? <conspiracy theory> To discredit Anonymous and Stratfor at one go. Look at all the negative press this is going to generate about Anonymous. </conspiracy theory>
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by ge0rg 15y ago
I agree with all that you said, and I like the different directions Android-based hard- and software is developing. However, the first thing many people try to do on their Fire, and something well-integrated into CM's installation process i
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by ge0rg 15y ago
My question to you is why all of this should be attributed to Android and not to the open source movement as a whole? Because it takes significant financial effort to push forward a complete smartphone OS with a set of basic apps. Do you
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Open-Source Scala app APRSdroid making money, 2 years review(aprsdroid.org)
2 points by ge0rg 15y ago|0 comments
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by ge0rg 15y ago
Much better. > The War Footage was unpleasant to watch but didn't document anything that wasn't already well known (at least to anyone who paid attention [...]) It generated mass media attention and thus had an impact on previously unin
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by ge0rg 15y ago
I yield to your well-founded argument. P.S: I consider publication of information about war cruelty and international political pressure as benefiting for mankind, ethically good and thus conforming to the "hacker ethics".
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by ge0rg 15y ago
IMO the problem here is that this leak will probably make whistleblowers easily identifiable, thus causing legal actions against "the good ones" (think Bradley Manning). This makes the case more comparable to the cables (which were filtered
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by ge0rg 15y ago
From the discussion here it seems that many hackers do have their amateur radio license. Maybe somebody with enough karma can set up a poll to find out how many? :)
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by ge0rg 15y ago
> It's free and there are no ads; just something I did to give back to the community. This is the spirit that made HAM Radio a success in the first place. I wish more of it would be still present. Out of the same motivation, I have dev
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by ge0rg 15y ago
> The specific terms of this commercial agreement are subject to traditional confidentiality requirements, and we’re not at liberty to disclose them. This sentence lets one think about the importance of openness in the Open Source commu
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by ge0rg 15y ago
And, even worse, Verizon soon has a financial interest in not improving their network capacity.
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by ge0rg 15y ago
TFT + network + Android NFC + Google = targeted ads on vending machines! In version 2.0, you will get a discount for automatically posting your purchase on G+.
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by ge0rg 15y ago
This is interesting in the context of Microsoft patent-trolling companies which deploy Linux (TomTom, Android OEMs). Is it possible these patches introduce more patent mines into the Linux source? Or is there a legal hook to prevent Microso
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Synapse One: the first customizable Android phone?(synapse-phones.com)
2 points by ge0rg 16y ago|0 comments