Posts by Rimpel

Re: "Tinge of irony"

Labours policy on encryption: 'For the few not the many'

Re: HTC Sense

look for 'sense flip clock and weather' on the play store...

Re: Or: Netflix ignores periods in addresses.

It does mean that I can't register an email address Vince.H@gmail.com and send phishing emails that tricks the recipient into thinking it is from you.

Re: SMS 2FA shouldn't even count as "security"

@ adrian 4 "you're suggesting passing the authentication secret over the open phone network"

yes, so what - it's a one time secret. If you manage to eavesdrop on that message somehow, how are you then going to enter it into my browser that requested it?

decent seat

wait - who sits down at gigs??? :-)

Re: No surprise

@James 51 >The ECHR will be next.

That's always been the plan. Theresa May made a speech calling for us to withdraw from the ECHR while she was home secretary before the brexit vote had happened and while she was a remainer.

Re: Hash?

It's not just a hash of the file. According to the article in ahem the guardian which has significantly more information than this article, it does use Photo DNA whose ' “hash” matching technology made it possible to identify known illegal images even if someone had altered them'

At least soon facebook will have all of the 'necessary hashtags'.

Re: Cash just in case

Come January all retailers are banned from charging surcharges for using a debit or credit card. Unfortunately this means your 70p chocolate bar will now cost £1 but at least you won't be penalised for using a card...

Re: XKCD

see diceware, it's based around rolling dice to select the words from it's dictionary. www.diceware.com

As suggested by The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2015/03/26/passphrases-can-memorize-attackers-cant-guess/

"The Diceware method is secure even if an attacker knows that you used Diceware to pick your passphrase, knows how many words are in your passphrase and knows the word list you used. The security of Diceware comes from the huge number of combinations that an attacker must search through even with that knowledge . The Diceware word list contains 7776 words, so if you pick a five-word passphrase, there are 7776 x 7776 x 7776 x 7776 x 7776 combinations. That is over 2**64 (2 to the 64 power or 2.6 X 10**19) possibilities. A six word Diceware passphrase confronts an attacker with 2**77 (2 X 10**23) combinations; seven words 2**90 (1.5 X 10**27)."

Re: They're running Norton Antivirus too...

Take a look at the current av tests here. I was using Avast but I got fed up of it's nagware, currently I'm using bitdefender (free)

https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-7/

https://www.av-comparatives.org/

Re: No, it's not settled

Amber, is that you?

Re: Don't forget the female sex toy feature

rounded corners?

Re: Plausible deniability

It can only be detectable if either the communication was using a department issued device or was sent using the departments network.

You seem to be a bit confused talking about message headers and virus checkers. Are you thinking of email, which is not what the article is talking about.

Re: Good job...

I didn't notice as the articles are still using http. However none of my rules include the scheme so I wouldn't have to change them for a switch to https anyway.

As for the images - I just block regmedia.co.uk :-)

Re: Partial article

Frmo the paper it starts from a known card number. 60 guesses gets you the expiry date, a further 1000 to get the cvv.

You don't need to guess the whole address "Different websites perform varying levels of verification on the address field’s numerical digits, ranging from verifying just the numerical digits in the postcode (partial match), to the complete numerical digits in postcode plus the door number".

But 291 of the ~400 sites listed don't validate the address anyway so you would be able to use those sites with just the expiry + cvv.

I'm quite glad I'm accidentally with mastercard.

Re: Android

Does it support text reflow yet? That was the deal breaker for me.

Re: Stupid questions...

"Mr northhants you seem to be attempting to bring a foreign burner phone into the USA. Would you like to follow me to the 'interrogation room'"

Re: "Most watched TV Show"

>I don't believe any of us (other than the householders) would have counted towards the viewing stats.

It's unlikely that any of you actually counted towards the viewing figures - do you realise that they are just estimates based on monitoring a few specific households?

http://www.barb.co.uk/about-us/how-we-do-what-we-do/

Re: Show your working

> It's not like the iCloud is based in a different plane of reality.

no - but it is behind a reality distortion shield

You can disable the speed dial tiles so you just get the one plus, bookmarks and history. Go to settings/start page and uncheck speed dial layout/show add button. I find that unobtrusive enough personally.

I much prefer vivaldi to chrome and they are the only 2 options I have here at work. sllimjet is blocked so that's a non starter.

Re: LastPass and LogMeIn

Did you try keepass as it seems to fit your criteria?. It runs on unix (under wine), integrates with firefox and chrome (using keefox and chromeipass respectively), supports any cloud storage as it is just an encrypted database file, it does have a BB10 app and KeePassDroid is on the amazon app store.

Re: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

I extend that policy to any company I see advertising on the displays installed on the top of london taxis, and I wouldn't use a taxi that has one on top either.

keepass

Not exactly - the built in password generator you refer to is called 'Hex Key - 40-Bit' as per your examples. However the passwords in the article include non-hex letters. So similar, but not the same.

Re: Missed one

There is no point getting to a GnR gig early as Axl will be 3hrs late as usual.

Re: Then again...

But will that still be possible once the switch to monthly rollup bundles is complete? What is the likelihood that the first update contains all recommended kb's including the telemetry?