Posts by Adam 1

Re: UltraVNC

Do they need to port forward or is it just your end in that configuration?

Re: Obligatory XKCD link

Although that one is probably common now. My approach is to generate a random number for each required credential.

http://xkcd.com/221/

Re: If you're not a terrorist, you have nothing to worry about

To be fair, glitter can be really annoying to get off.

Re: "Lawfully collected"???

> But who made it legal in the UK for a foreign power (the US) to snoop on us without a warrant issued in the UK (and the same applies to every other non-US country)?

Hate to break it to you but UK law has no jurisdictionoutside the UK beyond treaty obligations agreed between the countries. That is why women are allowed to drive in the UK in spite of backwards laws in some other countries that forbid it.

Re: Where's the link to the bigger version of the spaaace pic?

And how many light weeks per pixel is it?

> I wouldn't give a car a shit review because the chap delivered it to me without the keys.

I don't think anyone else here would either, but if they weren't able to give keys to any of the purchasers, that goes a bit further don't you think.

Highly unlikely.

Images posted on Youtwitface tend to be legitimate. It is probably a link to the new Kony 2014 or something

Re: Question

> If this is a prototype, would it be in china?

No. It would be left in a bar somewhere.

Btsync is a pretty good start.

Re: I couldnt see anything patentable about the design at all

BB: It's a keyboard in a draw.

USPTO: Sorry but I'm afraid there is prior art so you can not patent it.

BB: OK, fair enough. Well how about this?

USPTO: What is it?

BB: It's a keyboard draw for a mobile device.

USPTO: BRILLIANT!!!

> No-one can claim the test author isn't knowingly phrasing things in a way that isn't natural to the English language.

Spoken like a true Samsung user ;p

Re: Most dangerous animal in Aus?

> We just write Drop Bear deaths off as "camping/hiking accidents"....

Not to mention the "holiday road toll". Why anyone would voluntarily go on a drive through the country in a soft top or with windows down is just crazy.

Re: Load of rubbish

Or since we are talking android, press power and volume down at the same time.

Re: The real reason

It's been a while since I looked into it, but it used to be the casethat the embeded ios browser couldn't asynchronously render the page. This meant that the same page delivered via safari was much much faster than the samepage embedded inside an app.

Re: Hmm. Setting up a set of dummy data sources to feed to the app?

We could even use Dual_EC_DRBG to generate the longitude/ latitude for fake GPS :)

@AC, it all stems back to who you think their customer is.

I remember the Trustwave CA signing the root certificate for surveillance controversy from a few years back. The only use of a CA is to tell you whether the server you are talking to matches who they claim to be. If that is not what they are doing, then they are failing their job to prevent man in the middle attack.

The difference here is obvious but the reasoning for the outrage is the same. For what purpose does RSA exist if not to provide secure communication between devices? If it knowingly allows this to be compromised, then it is of no value to me.

I have no problem with it offering Dual EC DRBG as an option, but it should have been actively advising against using this since 2007 when the backdoor was found.

Re: Just a moment on camera battery advice

One other thing I didn't want to get in to, or we'd have spent the whole article talking about batteries, is of course that some makers have firmwares that reject third party batteries, so you need to check that first, if you're going to buy extras so you don't waste money buying such a device.

/Fixed

Re: Panic Attack.

Er, that should have been elliptic, as in Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator.

Stupid autocomplete or well played Mr NSA.

Re: FINALLY!!

But can it run Crysis?

Re: But will it help you decrypt Sky Digital

Yes. All you would need is a microphone next to the set top box and a webcam feed from your local sewage works for an hour or so.

Re: Very Nice Mozilla @Adam1

Some functions of Firefox require more than 64KB of addressable memory which rules out a 16 bit address space, but why not try to answer the question?

64 bit processes can do some ops faster like floating point manipulations but it makes other things slower like copying pointers. The main advantage from a browser's point of view is the ability to make use of 2GB RAM which makes a lot of sense when your 25 open tabs are combined in one address space with the 8 plugins also loaded, but if you have already separated it into a process per tab model then you are probably a long way south of 2GB.

Or have I just been trolled by an rf -rm handle not noticing the advocation of threading and missing the irony. If so, well played sir.

Re: The title of the article should be...

Nah it's legit.

If it WAS Siri, it would Shirley have pointed out some nearby coffee house.