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by omh 14y ago
In what way?
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by omh 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that solves the Firesheep problem With most WiFi encryption (basically except WPA2 Enterprise, which won't be in use in cafés) you can still receive the traffic as long as you see the initial handshake for the device conne
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by omh 14y ago
"Includes all desktops, netbooks, notebooks and pads" Out of the 21 million "PCs" for Apple in this list, 17 million are iPads. So Apple really sold 4 million PCs compared to HP's 13 million. Definitely an interesting trend but nowhere near
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by omh 14y ago
According to RIM, the device key is used to encrypt all messages. The device tells the corporate server its key and the corporate server encrypts every message before it is sent. There is no common key between the telco and handset for the
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by omh 14y ago
They could of course have some code on the device which reports this back, or failing that something which lets them force an update to the OS to add this functionality. But if they haven't put either of those in place already then it's too
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by omh 14y ago
Could they land it in Mexico or Canada instead?
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by omh 14y ago
If your underwater fibre goes down for 10 minutes would international espionage really be the first thing that comes to mind?
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by omh 14y ago
It also provides a number of additional channels over IP
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by omh 14y ago
They have a maximum length requirement. That's a red flag which suggests they are just storing it plaintext.
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by omh 14y ago
Poor security is just as dangerous as these, the only thing missing is the malicious intent. Really? This password storage isn't great, but using tesco.com is hardly the same as visiting a malware or phishing site. Unless/until Tesco have
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by omh 14y ago
they seriously have vans that drive around scanning to see if you're watching television on a physical TV There's been some debate about whether these vans truly did any "detection". It may actually have been an elaborate bluff. Most of t
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by omh 14y ago
A Tesco store manager has a lot of responsibility and is likely a well-paid, long-running member of staff. If they investigated something like this then I'd be surprised if head office looked upon it negatively.
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by omh 14y ago
The mention of an iPhone suggests a more elaborate version of the old "sticker" scam. With a suitable smartphone app you could dynamically generate the appropriate barcode on screen, with a set discount (say, 50%). Then just hold your phone
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by omh 14y ago
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if the 'red' number was related to the weight of the item as this would be needed for the self-checkout tills. The original barcode (which is still present as part of the discounted code) should allow the til
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by omh 14y ago
Is there a technical reason why Akamai don't support this yet? It seems that it would be in their interests to improve this. Both for a better experience for users and lower latencies from their point of view. Or is it just that they're big
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by omh 14y ago
But for a corporate environment the image comes from the IT department, not from Dell.
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by omh 14y ago
This article is about Microsoft, I don't think there are examples of Google doing this. (Although there have been similar things in the past). If you want to move away from gmail, who would you move to? I suspect that almost all services wi
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by omh 14y ago
Absolutely. I don't mean to suggest that nobody should ever use cloud services. But you should be aware that things like this happen, and that there are policies which let them happen. Dropbox might not be interested in blocking pirated con
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by omh 14y ago
Google drive also includes a link to their Program Policies: https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans... This prohibits publishing "Violence", "Hate speech" and "Sexually explicit material", amongst other things. I'd g
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by omh 14y ago
Imagine if Gmail didn't allow you to send "certain" images to someone else. From the Gmail policies (at https://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/program_policies.h... ) : users may not: Send, upload, distribute or disseminate or o
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by omh 14y ago
Welcome to the cloud. If you work or play in space owned by someone else (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, whoever) then you have to realise that they can do almost anything they want. If this starts happening too regularly then consumers might s
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by omh 14y ago
Contrary to the article, Skype didn't previously use supernodes for traffic between NATed clients. They were just used for NAT hole punching and then the traffic was direct between the clients. It is possible that after receiving a wiretap
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by omh 14y ago
Or perhaps after giving the key to the main volume the police will insist that you give them the key to the hidden volume. If you deny that there is a hidden volume then they'll just say that you're refusing to decrypt and prosecute you any
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by omh 14y ago
Several years ago, Blackberry was the only way to get reasonably secure email on remote devices. Lots of companies standardised on that, and have kept going because it's the easy option and it still works. It's been possible to get mail/cal
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by omh 14y ago
A lot of what's going on here is the time spent investigating what works, deciding what to support and documenting everything. That might not be literally "lock-in", but there's always a significant cost to move.
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by omh 14y ago
Exactly. If the answer is "Thunderbird is alive for about another year" then we may as well start looking for replacements now.
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by omh 14y ago
In theory a separate company who's core competency is running IT systems should be less likely to mess this up, not more so. That's true. Rather than "Don't outsource" the warning should be "Don't fire all the existing staff who understan
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by omh 14y ago
Or perhaps: "Don't outsource all of your IT ops team or you might end up like RBS/Ulster Bank" If you're an IT guy then that one is perhaps a more important battle to win.
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by omh 14y ago
The point about high-availability platforms is that your customer won't go "Oh, the Internet is having troubles again". They'll probably call you, or perhaps start losing money at an eye-watering rate.
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by omh 14y ago
As a small company, using CloudFlare as a cloud-based CDN/firewall/DDoS protection looks very attractive. The thing that has stopped me from trying it is that you have to move your whole DNS to them though, and they have had downtime for DN

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