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by omh 13y ago
Software incompatibility certainly. But I don't think most people will notice browser compatibility issues if they move to Firefox or Chrome on Linux.
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by omh 13y ago
In that respect it's not much better than just anonymously signing up for gmail via a VPN.
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by omh 13y ago
It seems like it would be relatively easy to perform traffic analysis of this protocol. If you can see the traffic of a reasonable number of nodes (as I'm sure the NSA can) then can't you just watch the messages being inserted and
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by omh 13y ago
They recently released this for the corporate side of things. "Secure Workspace" is a self contained BB-based email app, which connects to the BES stuff on the back end. Looks very nice from a corporate security point of view. But
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by omh 13y ago
I think most people already solved this problem by joining Facebook. Yes, it's obviously not quite the same thing. But it's a central place which (almost) everyone has joined. Many have listed their phone/email details, and i
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by omh 13y ago
This seems to assume that you have the ground area on Earth for the panels. That's true where Musk is working in the US, but not for many smaller countries. Of course I guess it that for those countries it would still be easier to put
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by omh 13y ago
There would be problems with interference from jammers. I've spent time in a hospital overlooking a jail, and I really wouldn't have appreciated my mobile signals being jammed.
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by omh 13y ago
I think that TETRA are very similar to GSM phones, in both the technology and the frequencies. So it would probably be hard to avoid any jammers interfering with them.
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by omh 13y ago
A minor point, but I think Box Plots usually show the median rather than the mean at the centre. It would make sense perhaps to use standard deviations and means for some data, but in cases like this I think quartiles and medians make m
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by omh 13y ago
Then all the NSA knows is which mail server is talking to which mail server Unless they have backdoor access to one of the mail servers themselves (e.g., apparently, gmail). Even without that, knowing "which mail server is talking to
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by omh 13y ago
The corporate systems for this (usually) operate by proxying all HTTP traffic, so any sites which don't play nicely with a HTTP proxy are affected. I've seen "interesting" problems with some more esoteric HTTP 1.1 featur
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by omh 13y ago
The Pirate Bay block was not a law imposed on all ISPs. It was a court order imposed by a judge for a specific case brought by the recording industries against the few largest ISPs individually. Part of the case was basically that the ISPs
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by omh 13y ago
Are you a TalkTalk customer? I'm genuinely surprised that it isn't causing at least minor problems with some sites for more technical users. I manage a virus-scanning web proxy for our company and this is enough to throw up regula
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by omh 13y ago
There's plenty of other cases as well. What about someone who bribes people to vote for them, and can check up on it? Or if your boss tells you who to vote for and threatens to fire you otherwise?
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by omh 13y ago
The Ofcom advice linked to above[1] mentions business use specifically. In short, businesses can only record for some specific purposes (e.g. for regulatory compliance) and they have to adhere to the principles of the data protection act. I
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by omh 13y ago
They may just add the disclaimer because they find it makes customers behave better. I suspect that knowing you're being recorded may reduce the chance of you screaming abuse etc.
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by omh 13y ago
You should be able to limit the account that it's ssh-ing into so that it's just used for the tunnel. Or if you're really paranoid, limit the entire thing to a dedicated virtual machine.
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by omh 13y ago
Major customers with very real needs for security probably aren't running Windows Plenty of big organisations use Windows for almost everything, and certainly don't go around sandboxing it. They manage regular security patches j
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by omh 13y ago
Microsoft will continue to provide baseline support, security patches, and forever Actually they're going to stop providing IE6/7 support and patches in a little under a year.
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by omh 13y ago
The data in the post is household income, so your example would be 50k - somewhere above the 60th percentile.
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by omh 14y ago
The TFL tube and bus data is effectively open now. I think I actually applied, but the URLs don't need any authentication and http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/syndication/16493.... gives you everything you need to query it. I kno
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by omh 14y ago
That means they have a net exposure to the bitcoin price (possibly quite a large one). From their point of view that's not all that desirable.
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Tax man trying to figure out a way to outsmart Google(arstechnica.com)
3 points by omh 14y ago|1 comments
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by omh 14y ago
That's interesting. I was aware of some of the security APIs used in IE9, but in those cases I always thought that it was still essentially a business decision not to provide an XP-compatible version. IE9 is supported on Vista as well as 7
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by omh 14y ago
Perhaps you missed the latter part of my comment. I am a sysadmin at one of those businesses. I can't upgrade Windows but I would look at an upgrade to IE9 tomorrow if it were possible. (In our case we have Chrome and Firefox installed alo
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by omh 14y ago
I'm surprised there isn't more criticism of Microsoft in this article. There's one big reason why IE9 isn't available on XP, and it's commercial rather than technical. Microsoft know that businesses don't have many reasons to upgrade from X
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by omh 14y ago
Their Privacy Policy[1] says that they're a member of the Safe Harbor scheme - which is supposed to provide "equivalent" protection for exported data. It includes the principle that users should have access to their information, albeit with
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by omh 14y ago
As long as you don't need your services to be used by third parties then a private CA is a good option, and in some ways more secure than traditional root CAs.
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by omh 14y ago
How do you handle things the first time? Perhaps you're always under a MITM attack. And what about when you change the certificate deliberately?
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by omh 14y ago
Somewhat related: Damien Katz has a brilliant blog post describing his experiences rewriting the Lotus Notes formula engine, and dealing with the "bugs". http://damienkatz.net/2005/01/formula-engine-rewrite.html

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