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byL4t3r4lu5
2014 @08:25AM
(#47414477)
Attached to: Watch Dogs Graphics and Gameplay: PC Vs. Xbox One, With Surprising Results
Really? Games published by Ubi (Watch Dogs) and EA (Titanfall) didn't live up to their hype?
I am Jack's total lack of surprise.
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byL4t3r4lu5
2014 @04:52AM
(#47413693)
Attached to: Avast Buys 20 Used Phones, Recovers 40,000 Deleted Photos
Well no, it doesn't. You've contradicted yourself. What iOS does is delete the encryption key, as you stated, which renders the data inaccessible without recovering the key. The data is still entirely intact; Just really, really hard to recover :)
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byL4t3r4lu5
14 @08:49AM
(#47399099)
Attached to: New Zealand ISP's Anti-Geoblocking Service Makes Waves
What's betting rights holders go nuclear and mandate NZ IP block blacklisting or they'll pull their content from the streaming services?
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byL4t3r4lu5
14 @07:54AM
(#47398695)
Attached to: TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes
My snark detector needs retuning.
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byL4t3r4lu5
14 @07:50AM
(#47398671)
Attached to: TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes
Certainly there are so vanishingly few legitimate reasons a persons phone would be discharged...
Certainly there are far fewer reasons a person would want to go to the USA anymore. Or, rather, people value their dignity more than US culture; That you continue to have a tourism industry is beyond belief. Further, with Germany setting the standard for tearing US businesses out of their public infrastructure I'd be surprised if the US continues be a player in international business for much longer.
Anyway, to answer your question about why my phone would be discharged, it's because I'm forced to wait for three hours in the damn departure lounge because getting through security takes an age. I pass the time by browsing the internet, listening to music, watching streaming video... On my phone.
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byL4t3r4lu5
14 @02:44AM
(#47397811)
Attached to: New Single Board Computer Lets You Swap Out the CPU and Memory
I have my pi running a Tor relay 24/7 (not an exit node; I'm not suicidal).
Because fuck the NSA.
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byL4t3r4lu5
14 @07:27AM
(#47382849)
Attached to: Study: People Would Rather Be Shocked Than Be Alone With Their Thoughts
Perchance, does your gastric repository conceal a recently masticated pulp of wood fibers, previously incarnated as a tome of alphabetised antonyms and synonyms?
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byL4t3r4lu5
14 @05:15AM
(#47382455)
Attached to: Use of Encryption Foiled the Cops a Record 9 Times In 2013
Your "burn safe" is vulnerable to denial of service. Say you lose the key, or the keypad is damaged; How do you get your documents? What if someone just hits it with a hammer until the system is activated, just to piss you off?
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byL4t3r4lu5
14 @05:09AM
(#47382417)
Attached to: Use of Encryption Foiled the Cops a Record 9 Times In 2013
This only applies for the US, where anything they say "... can be used against them..." Sworn testimony, or evidence given under caution or arrest, in the UK for example,
can be used by both prosecution and defense.
Still, you're definitely supposed to talk to a legal representative prior to talking to Police in any jurisdiction.
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byL4t3r4lu5
14 @04:47AM
(#47382353)
Attached to: Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails
Email could be secure, but PGP is still too complex for the average user. Key pair generation and storage within AD / Exchange during account creation might help with this in the enterprise, but there needs to be an easy key management scheme for the SME as well. You'd think it would be baked in by now. Public key sharing could be as easy as automatically attaching a small XML formatted file when emailing a new contact, parsed seamlessly by the recipients email server / client.
Someone with programming knowledge get on it.
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byL4t3r4lu5
14 @03:28AM
(#47382143)
Attached to: Austrian Tor Exit Node Operator Found Guilty As an Accomplice
You're absolutely right.
Now, if we were talking about wearing a balaclava while driving...
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byL4t3r4lu5
14 @03:21AM
(#47382115)
Attached to: Austrian Tor Exit Node Operator Found Guilty As an Accomplice
By allowing that jackass tailgating you to pass, you are an accomplice to his speeding.
Pick up that can.
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byL4t3r4lu5
2014 @04:13AM
(#47374569)
Attached to: Amazon Sues After Ex-Worker Takes Google Job
This will likely end in their favour; You have no contract, you can be fired at will.
Then again, I hear that there's parts of the US where this can happen anyway. Boggles the mind...
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byL4t3r4lu5
2014 @08:10AM
(#47367833)
Attached to: Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature
Not having five highways intersecting at one point would also solve the problem.
Check out Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham, UK for a nightmare of a road design if you're not a local, and that's two "highways" (motorways) and two major roads (A-road). I can't imagine what your five highway junction looks like.
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byL4t3r4lu5
2014 @07:59AM
(#47367749)
Attached to: Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature
Without even reading the article I can grok that this is about vehicle-vehicle collisions increasing, by the fact that vehicle-pedestrian collisions are excluded by being the reason for the safety system in the first place.
This is almost certainly about cars charging out into intersections to "beat the timer" and losing control, or cars stopping safely when they should, only to be rear-ended by some knob who looks at the timer and thinks the guy in front will try and the race the lights.
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