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by ge0rg 8y ago
They do have the copyright to the code they wrote, but not to the code they took and changed (Apache Harmony, Linux kernel). They can relicense everything that originated from them, and provide it under a pure commercial license or dual-lic
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Okay then, but Google Search is what paid for Android development, so if you can't tie them together, Android needs to seek other sources of funding. The most obvious one is some sort of licensing fee. A licensing fee would be a vali
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by ge0rg 8y ago
I don't think that replacing Linux under the hood of Android will change anything. Most of Android is licensed under the Apache license, probably due to the alternative Java runtime they took initially from the Apache Foundation. They
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by ge0rg 8y ago
The original post by Pichai is more carefully worded as "you can easily disable or delete them", so it's an inaccurate summary by theverge.
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Maybe the problem with the Google deal is that it's exclusive: if you want to make one device that's Google approved and contains the "highly valued" services, you are disallowed by the compliance contract to make othe
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by ge0rg 8y ago
You might want to indicate that this is a quote from the web site, not a statement of yours. I'd suggest to edit it and to add asterisks around the text to make it render in italics.
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by ge0rg 8y ago
How many hours / days / weeks do you need to give the announcer to produce all that evidence, before considering the action as malicious and undoing the announcement? Proving a business relationship sounds like a multi-day endeavo
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by ge0rg 8y ago
The problems are before and after the TLS tunnel. I've seen a BigCorp load balancer / web firewall log the first 1KB of each HTTP POST body into a permanent archive. A typical login submission is much smaller than that. Also in so
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Don't forget that in some countries, the stork's ID card is required to activate the SIM card before use.
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Voice control isn't friendly either. It often fails to understand what you say, requires significant focus from you to say the exact magic words, and works less well when it's loud outside. On my Android Auto, the voice-activated
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The making of the Cooperative Cloud(open.coop)
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'It stinks': Twitter gets wind of oddly named Trump tariff bill draft(theguardian.com)
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by ge0rg 8y ago
A VPN will not protect you from fingerprinting of your traffic patterns. VPNs just add a fixed overhead to all packets and maybe a bit of fragmentation. A well-positioned attacker with a large database of traffic fingerprints is probably ea
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by ge0rg 8y ago
The attack is a combination of multiple "vulnerabilities": 1. the data link layer is not protected, so an attacker can perform a relay attack (forward the encrypted radio packets between the phone and the actual cell tower). 2. fr
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by ge0rg 8y ago
The very serious data protection issues aside, today's state-of-the-art biometrics are hardly suitable for authentication purposes (does sample X belong to given person Y?). Using them for large-scale identification (find the most
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Interpol rolls out international voice identification database(theintercept.com)
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DFD: Check for Duplicates – Forensics on Printed Documents(dfd.inf.tu-dresden.de)
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by ge0rg 8y ago
This is also true for running arbitrary non-code.
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by ge0rg 8y ago
DCC has been broken in practice for decades due to NAT. If you use a bouncer and have workarounds for the NAT problem in place, your files will still end up on the wrong machine, and then there is the multi client distribution problem. That
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Everything in this post except the personal sentiment could be about any semi-anonymous text based communication medium, be it mailing lists, web forums or any other chat system with group chats / channels. As somebody who has been on
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by ge0rg 8y ago
I wish they would focus on backward compatibility of their IDE instead, every time I upgrade I need to spend several days on SO to figure out how to work around the newest breakage. This is from a part-time developer who doesn't have t
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by ge0rg 8y ago
It is really sad to see that essentially all security issues of IPv4 were inherited, at least on the LAN level. However, besides of the "firewall protection" provided by NAT, which is largely mirrored as "outgoing connections
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by ge0rg 8y ago
It's really cynical that before I can even read this article about the GDPR, TC makes me painfully aware that they - violate my GDPR rights by requiring opt-out from their tracking, instead of opt-in - are going to sell my data to hund
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by ge0rg 8y ago
You are right. The not-quite-RC4 implementation is mentioned in the Talos post, and it is originating from BlackEnergy. Talos is referencing a US-CERT report of APT28/29[0], which links an F-Secure whitepaper on APTs using "crimew
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Feds take aim at potent VPNFilter malware allegedly unleashed by Russia. [..] to counter Russian-engineered malware that has infected hundreds of thousands devices. I'm interested in the evidence for this attribution. Both ars and
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by ge0rg 8y ago
The security levels of most electronics products connected to the Internet, be it IoT or routers, can only be described as criminal negligence. There is no financial incentive for the manufacturers to invest into proper security, and they t
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by ge0rg 8y ago
It's time to admit that we can't fix web security anymore, and that we should just start anew. XSS, SQLi, cross origin flaws, etc. There are just too many vectors for a human developer to make a correct implementation.
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by ge0rg 8y ago
Have a look at reposurgeon for your old-repository-to-git needs.
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by ge0rg 8y ago
"Mom, we need to move downtown, where there are two competing shady ISPs and not just the one we've got here, so we can buy different packages from both to get 95% of the Internet we need."
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Company-wide outages and the tendency to spam “ME TOO”(rachelbythebay.com)
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