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by sigmar 9y ago
>They were most likely waiting for the Commerce Secretary to pick and vet a replacement. The first two paragraphs of this article seems to suggest this is not the case. >Many small businesses and independent inventors absolutely could
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by sigmar 9y ago
>Now what did she say she'd do versus what she actually did that led to this change under the new administration Well, usually USPTO director changes at the start of a new administration. So the better question is: why was she kept
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by sigmar 9y ago
>We're complaining about traffic shaping by ISPs, while big 5 are shaping it already, deciding what we read, what we can download, and who we mingle with. What? I'm not sure I understand your position, but removing all FCC rule
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by sigmar 9y ago
It is an acronym proposed in 2001: Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
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by sigmar 9y ago
To be clear- the fact that gene therapy is "messy" has been one of the biggest issues holding it back for the past 20 years. This isn't a new concern based on "one study," as Wired seems to frame it. Crispr is just
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by sigmar 9y ago
>The worm reused the meterpreter code which didn't target XP at all Small nitpick- though the worm aspect of WCry does have a lot of issues with targeting WinXP, the meterpreter part of that sentence is a widespread myth that origin
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by sigmar 9y ago
"including the USA" can be read as a qualifying statement that those murders include people in the USA, not necessarily that trans people are murdered on a daily basis in the USA.
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by sigmar 9y ago
>c) NSA recognizes that only State actors have the money or time for this kind of thing, and should invest the money to detect and report exploits because China and Russia are probably doing so. China and Russia are reporting vulnerabili
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by sigmar 9y ago
>then destroy that iOS installer You can't do that in forensic investigations. Everything that is done to the phone needs to be verifiable to prove evidence wasn't planted. And besides, the FBI was more looking to set a precede
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by sigmar 9y ago
I remember early word during this AMT debacle was that there were certain conditions in which AMT could be remotely provisioned. Were those statements false? Is Enabled/unprovisioned completely safe?
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by sigmar 9y ago
There is definitely a "block" feature in WhatsApp (has had it for at least 5 years)
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by sigmar 9y ago
Agreed. Updating the phone being easier won't solve the problem. The problem is a mismatch in incentives. Manufacturers don't have an incentive to update older devices because (1) they don't want to put any resources into las
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by sigmar 9y ago
Not sure but the last comment on the bug report says: "RCE risk should be lowered due to CFG (on platforms where CFG is in effect)." >the index assessment didn't really reflect that google (Natalie?) seems to have found th
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by sigmar 9y ago
> "sophisticated hacking attempts" are nothing more than an excuse for one of their staffers clicking a phishing email? These phishing attempts are definitely very sophisticated. Have you read the Trend Micro report? https:&#x
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by sigmar 9y ago
>the marketing message shouldn't really be relevant my point was that it isn't just marketing, this use-case was a huge part of their thinking while designing the software and offering support to customers. [repeating my commen
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by sigmar 9y ago
You're being obtuse if you think this use-case wasn't a huge part of their thinking while designing the software and offering support to customers. >I asked a FlexiSpy salesperson a simple question: If I wanted to, could I use
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by sigmar 9y ago
>Why exactly is HackerOne drawing a distinction with this software producer? I read the whole article and still miss what the controversy with this producer is. FlexiSpy specifically marketed itself as a tool for spying on your spouse. T
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by sigmar 10y ago
oh, didn't hear it leaked. Just googled it. Man, without having NDAs those guys really screwed themselves.
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by sigmar 10y ago
o.0 Uhhh. I clicked on this thinking it was a spoof/joke. Where did this come from?
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by sigmar 10y ago
>Why would Russia (or any state actor) wikileak these compromises instead of using them against unpatched targets globally? No upside & makes no sense. Huge flaw in this reasoning- the fuzzbunch stuff was patched before it was leaked
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by sigmar 10y ago
A demo without a person within the vehicle is not very impressive. Hope this tech has a future, but not mentioning this fact in the article seems like a mistake.
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by sigmar 10y ago
>only 1 - 2 times a month I have suspected that facebook punishes your visibility if you don't post frequently (like a few times a day). Have you tried posting much more often than two times a month? Try two a day and see if your av
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by sigmar 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos#Controversy
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by sigmar 10y ago
Did the U.S. get away with it? Sort of, maybe? But we _are_ commenting on a wired article about it.
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by sigmar 10y ago
>This hardly makes a case for any country being able to match the US capability and exposed acts of hacking. No one is making that case
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by sigmar 10y ago
I strongly disagree with much of that. Hacking capability is not nearly as specialized as nuclear or ICBM technology. Computer science is taught in almost every university, and knowledge on it can be acquired in many non-formal settings. A
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by sigmar 10y ago
re: 1) Doesn't work on updated windows 7. re: 2) You should reread that link and look at the correction. Microsoft was notified.
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by sigmar 10y ago
All of the vulnerabilities were patched by March. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/04/14/protecti...
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by sigmar 10y ago
>An innovative, new upshot getting sucked up/ blatantly ripped off by an established player with more muscle, money (and in this case - users) to throw at the problem is not a great incentive for entrepreneurs. >Consolidation at
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by sigmar 10y ago
>I was surprised how poorly it ran on my very modern phone What phone and what browser? Ran great in chrome on my mid-range android.

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