* Posts by ckm5

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Silicon Valley now 'illegal' in Europe: Why Schrems vs Facebook is such a biggie

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EU not interested in protecting the people from their gov'ts....

... this is all about making sure the data is easily available to EU gov'ts and that there are jobs for Europeans at large foreign firms.

AVG proved what a joke EU 'privacy' regulations are - all you need is to store your data in the EU, then you can do whatever you want with it, including handing it over to any gov't without due process.

Max Schrems is a fool if he thinks this makes any difference, your data is safer from EU gov'ts if it is in the US (although not safe from the US gov't) - and vice versa (nach).

I'm sure all the EU spy agencies are opening champagne today as Schrems has done something they have not yet managed to do, e.g insure they can always access citizen data. If Schrems thinks that this will stop access to data, well I've got a bridge for sale.

Up next, mandatory data retention..... You know it's right and good for you.

Safe harbour ruling: RELAX, Facebook and Google will be FINE!

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EU privacy rules are all smoke

As AVG proved with their "we can use any of your data for anything" privacy policy, EU rules are just smoke.

They seemed to be designed for both 'full employment' for EU data center engineers and making sure that EU law enforcement has full access to the data.

Privacy is just the excuse they are using to justify this, because, strangely enough, EU citizen data would be safer from EU governments if it was in the US....

Teenage backup biz Code42 gets cash bonanza

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A bit of a worry

As a long standing customer, this is a bit worrisome. Backup is still their primary business and they should focus on making that the best possible (cough, native Mac client, cough). Typically, de-focusing a business means a worse product - we'll see.

Pocket mobe butt dialing clogs up 911 emergency calls, says Google

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Re: How is this possible?

My iPhone 6's screen is so sensitive that I can hover 1/2cm above it and often activate it. I can't even count the number of random dials this has caused. Funny enough, my old 4S never had this problem - still probably the best phone Apple ever made.

Alleged $32m Gemcoin crypto-bucks scam busted by Feds

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Where is Cali?

According to Wikipedia it's Columbia, which doesn't seem right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cali

Bezos' BAN-HAMMER batters Chromecast, Apple TV

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Dropped Prime when they cutoff XBMC

I was a Prime video user until they cutoff XBMC and other HTPC platforms. 2 day shipping is nice, but it's not worth the price of Prime.

Boeing builds British Airways 787 Dreamliner in 4 minutes

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Re: Tail fin

It's a PR stunt and really obvious why when you visit the factory. Def. not CGI unless they have some way of CGIing four planes in an assembly line when you are looking at them 'in real life'. See my reply above for more details.

There are often logos of other 'partner' companies on the planes, as well as country flags. I'm not sure if these are actually painted on, they could be vinyl.

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Re: Nice video.

All the tail fins are pre-painted in airline colors. I know this for a fact as I was at 787 assembly in July*. The reason is crystal clear when you visit - it is a great PR stunt showing off all their customers. The reason for the re-spray is that the white coating is not actually the final 'paint' - it's a UV protection coating/primer for the carbon fiber body....

*If you are ever near Seattle, Washington (and you are even remotely interested in tech), you owe it to yourself to visit Boeing assembly in Everett. It is one of the most impressive things I have ever seen in my life and they give tours seven days a week.

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Last time I flew first on BA from SFO to LHR

... it was an upgrade. And I had a cubical with a footstool for my manservant.... I calculated that I had something like 15 sq ft to myself. There was even a curtain to hide me from the other 'special people'.

The best part by far was that they turned off all the lights basically immediately after takeoff and there are no announcements - in fact, I got the following msg on the screen "In-flight entertainment has been paused for an announcement in another cabin" ;-)

I did lookup the fare after I got home, it was $18,000. This was in 2006-07 IRC. As far as my upgrade, I was flying 150k miles/yr and buying a lot of 'full fare' tickets. On this flight, I paid $4000 for an economy (plus? don't remember) ticket for a 4hr meeting in Cambridge.... I don't think anyone up front ever paid full price for the privilege of sitting there. Most are/were probably poor shlubs like me that traveled too much.

I also seem to recall that BA had 4 classes at the time and the class below 'first' (which you might refer to as 'business') had basically the same seats/configuration as most other airlines 'first' (e.g. partitions, fold flat, large screen, large trays in the armrest etc). 'Economy plus' (or whatever BA called it) used what on other carriers were 'business class' seats. The food on 'first' & 'business' was effectively the same (e.g. very good), and both 'economy' classes got the prison fare.

All that said, I don't fly much any more other than for the occasional vacation. With the 9/11 changes & the growth of air travel, it's just too much of cattle experience, not to mention that for overseas travel, the prices from the US seem to have doubled or tripled.

Solar panel spammer hit by UK’s biggest ever nuisance calls fine

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Re: Fine was not big enough to serve as any sort of deterrent

On top of it, the claim that management didn't know the rules is a lie - anyone with the expertise to setup mass auto-dialers will have at least an inkling of rules.

The directors should be held liable, that would put a stop to it.

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Re: A thought...

Phone numbers are trivial to spoof - there is literally no point in doing this, the auto dialer would just be programmed to send a random source number.

Monica Lewinsky lawyer named as first outsider on secret US spy court

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Re: He will be asked for his advice...

That's pretty funny - "NSA constrained by tech"

Technology for processing information is strongly correlated to the amount of information generated. As technology improves, so do the methods for dealing with it. The NSA's job is vastly more difficult these days given the multi-modal & encrypted nature of communications. 30 years ago, not only where there a more limited number of targets, but mostly it was either unencrypted voice over sat or sub-sea cable; or perhaps postal mail. Both of which are relatively trivial to deal with, even if humans have to review the recordings.

Given that it's estimated that each person will generate something like 5Tb of data/year by 2020, I would conjecture that the NSA's data discovery problem is only getting worse, not better. And that doesn't even take into account widespread encryption.

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Legal representation in FISC

A friend of mine was a lawyer working for the FBI who was tasked with representing the defendants before the FISC. I don't know if he was representative of the 'public defenders', but he was an extremely passionate, motivate and 'morally righteous' person who did everything he could do defend his 'clients'.

The major problem was that he was overwhelmed with work. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, he didn't come home for 3 months - it was several weeks before his wife even knew what happened to him (she knew he wasn't dead, but just that he had 'disappeared'). Even years later, I could see the toll the work had on him, made worse by the fact that he just couldn't talk about it.

No matter how you slice it, this is a really, really tough job. Mostly because you can't discuss anything as a way of venting frustration.

Tesla X unfolds its Falcon wings, stumbles belatedly into the light

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Because Tesla never thought of this....

... particularly since Musk doesn't live anywhere near SoCal /s

Penny wise and pound foolish: Server hoarders are energy wasters

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Azure hosting costs off the charts....

Is it just me or do the Azure hosting costs seem off the charts? We are currently looking at Google's Cloud Hosting and an n1 standard (1 CPU, 3.75 g ram, no storage) is $25/mo.... This is roughly inline w/AWS (we've compared pricing recently) pricing.

I don't understand how MSFT can justify $70/mo - that's almost the same price as a dedicated box in a traditional facility....

Japan showcases really, really fast … whoa, WTF was that?!

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Re: Alternatively

Actually, concreting rivers make flooding much, much worse (see what just happened in Japan). In the Netherlands, where the entire country is on a flood plain, they are actively removing concrete (to the point of relocating entire villages) to prevent this from getting worse (cf Room for the River).

It's alive! Farmer hides neglected, dust-clogged server between walls

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US gov't web server....

In 1995-96 I built a site for serving out some aggregate data from a US gov't agency. It was built on Linux and people would upload data to it to be available to the public. I left the government contractor in the late 90's to move out West and the server was still running.

It turns out that it ran for another 10 years, under a desk. It finally died when a maintenance worker pulled the plug and it wouldn't restart. Funny enough, they are still using the same UI I designed in 1995, but it is now running on Windows....

The last post: Building your own mail server, part 2

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Re: Used to run my own mail server 6 or 7 years ago, but stopped

One of the most common attacks I saw the last time I hosted a mail server (and this was years ago) were a huge amount of brute force attacks on IMAP ports. So much so that they were effectively a DoS. And mitigation was not easy as IPs were all over the map. And some of the mitigation I had in place gave me grief when I was in Mexico & was locked out because of an unusual source address....

Also, the amount of inbound spam was an issue, it was somewhere around 30x legitimate mail volumes. Granted, I've had the same email for ~20 years, so that doesn't help.

All-in-all a headache I'd rather not deal with. Sure, I'd have some illusion of privacy & security, but since I view email as the equivalent of sending a postcard, I'm really not sure what the ROI is....

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Re: Used to run my own mail server 6 or 7 years ago, but stopped

I am much more confident in Google's ability to repel attacks than I am in either my own or pretty much anyone commenting on this thread. It's not an opinion, it's been proven out time & time again, from Chinese dissidents to the CEO of CloudFlare or even Lavamail.

As far as Google accessing all my (or your) data - they are already doing so. Pretty much every ad served in every website is driven by Google's backends. Even using ad blockers doesn't really stop tracking unless you are blocking them at the firewall (even then, it's still YOUR firewall...) or you never use a web browser. You may be under the illusion that by using all these blockers you are anonymous, but that's just not the case (c.f. browser fingerprinting).

Besides, as a paying customer of Google's services, I have also explicitly given them permissions to access my data - I'm perfectly OK with that.

As far as attacks, have you never seen automated scans? Because I see thousands of them every day just on my home connection. Zero-day attacks are NOT about specific targeting, they are about automated attacks where the vulnerability is unknown. As soon as you setup a server on the interwebs, is is vulnerable, it will be scanned within the first 5-10 minutes and this will only increase from then on.

Finally, it's not just bugs in the 'mail software' (which is a pretty broad term for some spectacularly crappy software....), but the entire stack, from the hardware all the way to crypto libs. And given that a lot of comments describe webmail setups, it also includes all the HTTP/application vulnerabilities (and probably database ones as well).

The overall point I am trying to make is that, as someone who is hosting anything on the internet, you only have to make a mistake once to have a compromise - automated scans & exploits makes the odds far, far better for the attacker than for you. Personally, it's not really something I want to clean up (BTDT, it was unpleasant).

But, hey, it's your risk, not mine - given the amount of downvotes on my original post, there are clearly a lot of people willing to take that risk.... Good luck to them.

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Used to run my own mail server 6 or 7 years ago, but stopped

At one point, it was getting 15k scans/hr from cracking scripts. Dealing with mail bombs, spam false positives, zero-day hacks etc. was making it a job to maintain.

IMHO, running your own mail server (and believing you are safer that way) is asking for headaches. There are so many more threats these days that it takes a team of people working 24/7 to keep highly vulnerable systems (like mail servers) safe. Never mind the spam and all the other things you should be doing on what is a production server (backups, system upgrades, etc).

Yes, you can probably run a mail server on your own, but other than a few select people who's day job involves doing this sort of thing at an industrial level, you are probably just going to create yet another easy to crack/abuse endpoint on the interwebs....

All my email is now hosted using Google Apps for Domains - I control the domain, Google deals with all the BS. Yes, they are scanning every inbound email, but they are also one of the only companies in the world to have successfully fended off nation-state sponsored hacking. Sure, they are close to TLAs, but to think that any one individual can realistically fend off a determined TLA focused on them is naive - at that point you are probably best off avoiding anything connected....

West's only rare earth mine closes. Yet Chinese monopoly fears are baseless

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Strategic play

The Chinese moves have nothing to do with creating a 'monetary' monopoly - they are all about creating a strategic monopoly. Then they can use their dominance of a small, but critical market, for long-term strategic goals, like technology transfer and market control.

The author missed the point completely by ignoring the strategic ramifications of a defacto monopoly.

Směrť Špionam! BAN Windows 10, it SPIES too much, exclaim Russians

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Re: @Dave 15 They are probably right

Second to the UK? The Netherlands already has one of the highest rates of surveillance of any Western country, I doubt the UK is even close: http://amsterdamherald.com/index.php/allnews-list/306-20120523-one-in-1000-dutch-phones-wiretap-interception-police-evidence-gatherin

Apparently they are fighting with the Italians for top spot: http://history.edri.org/book/export/html/41

Wait, what? TrueCrypt 'decrypted' by FBI to nail doc-stealing sysadmin

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Re: "not go into sleep mode or require screen unlock"

It won't work if you are under surveillance for months, it's not like the FBI is a bunch of morons (well, not always anyway).

The real solution is to have a physical power switch - that way if you suspect something, you just cut the power. Harder to do in a laptop, but not impossible.

Apple chief Cook cooks up rumours after BMW car talks, factory tour

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Re: Would you trust ANY Americans in your factory?

Not only that, but they recently announced it would become their largest factory..... Pretty much all the X vehicles are made there.

It's enough to get your back up: Eight dual-bay SOHO NAS boxes

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Re: Macs can be problematic

I've had a Thecus, ReadyNAS and Synology - none of them had problems with AFP.

I use the Synology with Time Machine, zero issues.

Of the three, I'd highly recommend the Synology - stay away from Thecus, the software is crap.

In general, all of these use the open source netatalk software - any incompatibility is because the vendor is not upgrading the package. Synology & ReadyNAS both have huge communities which often find & solve issues faster than the vendor. IMHO, the size (and sophistication) of the community is key when shopping for a NAS - Synology, Qnap and ReadyNAS all have huge communities, with lots of people creating hacks to use the boxes in different ways.

HP insists 'we don't have a global dress code' – while deleting one from its website

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Re: Am I the only one thinking that HP *should* have a dress code?

http://theoatmeal.com/pl/minor_differences5/suit

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Re: Not sure what the fuss is about...

I know plenty of companies where the CEO wears board shorts & flip-flops. One CEO I know has even been known to wear a dress shirt, jacket with board shorts & flip-flops to conferences & client meetings.

And the guy who founded Razorfish pitched the AT&T board in a torn sweater....

Not sure what companies you deal with, but it's pretty rare for a Silicon Valley tech firm (except perhaps the ones in defense) to have a dress code of any kind. Pretty much an anathema to geek culture where it is seen as a sign of the end of the world....

Just ONE THOUSAND times BETTER than FLASH! Intel, Micron's amazing claim

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It's core memory all over again!

Or maybe bubble memory.... Certainly seems like an old architecture re-applied to a smaller scale....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_memory

If Microsoft made laptops, it'd make this: HP Spectre x360

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Re: For £1,099 you can have...

The difference between Apple laptops and all others is that, in two years, your Apple laptop will be worth 70% of what you paid for it, while anything else will be worthless.

And that's not really a function of whether you like Apple or not, it's just market dynamics. Even if you are only running Windows, it's a better deal to buy an Apple laptop.

If you buy anything else, you are essentially throwing your money away.....

HP slaps dress code on R&D geeks: Bin that T-shirt, put on this tie

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Re: JustaCLOT " ... dressing well improves the holistic ambiance of a brain....."

I'd much rather have a bunch of sloppy dressing highly creative people who are good at solving difficult problems than a bunch of uniform dressing people incapable of actually solving anything (the 'Soviet grocery store' look as someone upthread says).

Attitudes like yours are exactly why companies like HP are falling behind in the market place - customers are smart enough to know that 'good dresser != effective' and they don't want to pay for your suit. The most creative, successful tech people never, ever conform to how society or your narrow minded-ness thinks they should behave/dress/live. Accommodating those eccentric people is a competitive edge for a lot of businesses (like banks, startups & fast growing tech companies, even the government).

If you don't believe me, just go look up 'Head Bubba', who was the CTO of Credit Suisse for a long time.

The US taxman thinks Microsoft owes billions. Prove it, says Microsoft

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Re: Lets hope they ARE being gutted

Are you serious? Do you realize that your proposal raises taxes in every state? It basically means that quite a lot of people would be paying a significantly higher percentage of their income in taxes than they are now.

Microsoft kills TWO Hacking Team vulns: NOT the worst in this Patch Tues either

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Re: Affording Apple crap

Just buy used, that's what I do. I've recently bought a Macbook Pro for $250 (Core i5, 4gig) and an 11" Macbook Air for $400. Both on Craigslist which is the best place to look, at least where I am. eBay is a crapshoot, sometimes Amazon is cheaper. Be careful of stolen gear on CL - I try to only buy gear with the original packaging since it's unlikely to be stolen.

New Apple gear can be expensive, but it retains it's value, so over the long run you'll waste less money. It's worth checking Apple's online Refurbished store as there are sometimes really good deals (e.g. 30-40% off) on older models with full warranties, esp. for iMacs. If you buy used carefully, you can sometimes get it for cheaper than resale value and breakeven after using it for a while.

I find that ~4 yr old Macbook Pros are particularly cheap, esp. if they have low ram & no SSD. With those upgrades, they are almost as good as newer models.... The original Air is also a good deal as you can replace the HD with an SSD & get much, much better performance/battery life.

The Great Barrier Relief – Inside London's heavy metal and concrete defence act

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"largest flood moving flood barrier in the world"

I don't think so. The Dutch have a moving flood barrier that is 9km long - the Oosterscheldekering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oosterscheldekering

Surviving Hurricane Katrina: A sysadmin's epic DR (as in Didn't Realise) odyssey

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Re: I'm very sorry

My question is, what happened after all this? Did you get promoted, a big raise, more budget, more people? Or did you just quit as you'd planned and get a 'better' job?

Feared OpenSSL vulnerability gets patched, forgery issue resolved

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Re: Wet firecracker

I'm not sure I agree - I could see an easy man-in-the-middle against automated systems that rely on cert errors to identify fake end-points. This is particularly bad if you are running VPNs over the 'open' internet between datacenters using OpenSSL as the encryption envelope, like, say, a stock exchange....

You might be able to delay messages just enough to create an 'Office Space' scenario and no one would know.

Welkom in Nederland: Laid-back, chilled, and MONITORING everything

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Not really surprised

This comes as no surprise - it's a place where your neighbors will find you suspicious if you close your curtains. NL already has some of the highest number of wiretaps of any Western country and there are laws on the books making it illegal for more than 3 people to gather....

It's a strange place with a lot of remnants of feudalism - eg. until a few years ago the monarchy appointed all the mayors and because of the lack of a parliamentary majority, the prime minister is generally appointed by the king after a vague, opaque process. The famous Dutch liberalism also masks a deeply conservative country where large chunks of the population make US fundamentalist Christians look like liberals....

It's a place where conformity and uniformism is prized. As the Dutch say, 'if a nail sticks up, you must hammer it down'.

And, before you say 'you don't know what you are talking about', I lived there for years, studied the political & social system as part of my graduate studies and have a Dutch partner who is an NL gov't official... I also started my first company there, I won't even get into the Kafkaesque rules around business and what happens to you if your company every fails...

All that said, it's lovely place to visit, and the Dutch are extremely friendly. But living there is a different story.

Jolla cuts hardware biz loose to concentrate on Sailfish licensing

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"NeXT failed"

Pretty much every OSX & iDevice is a NeXT device.... With 800 million iDevices alone, it's hardly a failure. Even when it was just NeXT, it was still a relative success as it was fairly widely used in high-end computing.

Sure, their original model didn't work long term, but that doesn't equal failure. BeOS would have been a much, much better example.

Migrating from WS2003 to *nix in a month? It ain't happening, folks

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Re: Moving to another version of Windows is not a one month job either

I'm not sure what your point is - pretty much every organization on the planet uses Linux and has for at least 10 years (whether they know it or not is another story...). And for a long time (starting in the early 2000's) a lot of companies kept their Linux & open source usage 'quiet' as it was seen as a competitive advantage....

That said, almost all organizations also use Windows - almost no company has completely banished Windows, even with the most valiant efforts. And that is a quixotic effort at best - I once looked at the ROI of moving Ford Europe desktops to Linux and the re-training costs alone would have tripled the cost of each desktop install vs MSFT licensing...

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Re: Moving to another version of Windows is not a one month job either

Says someone who's never actually done this, obviously. I've been part of several Unix to Unix migrations, and it's non-trivial to say the least.

And, as someone else pointed out, Linux to Linux migrations can be problematic, even within the same distro. All you need is a nice circular dependency to ruin your day, never mind changes like systemd.

All this is manageable when you are dealing with small-ish installations (less than dozen servers), but anything larger than that becomes much, much more complicated, to the point where maintaining old systems is easier than upgrades....

This box beams cafes' Wi-Fi over 4kms so you can surf in obscurity

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Re: Using 900MHz...

Um, no.

900Mhz is used for cordless phones in a LOT of countries. It's unlicensed spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33-centimeter_band#900.C2.A0MHz_cordless_phones

And there are several other bands that are unlicensed in the same spectrum.

Stealing secret crypto-keys from PCs using leaked radio emissions

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Coat

Quick, download some new fonts....

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/softtempest-faq.html

Scientists love MacBooks (true) – but what about you?

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The view from Silicon Valley

Pretty much everyone here uses Macs, largely for the same reasons scientists do - most of the internet & mobile is built on Linux backends, so having a (largely) Unix machine that's usable as an every day computer is important. It also helps that Apple pioneered the long-lasting lightweight relatively powerful laptop.

Also, most of consumer tech these days is driven by mobile and, at least in terms of 3rd party developer revenue, Apple dominates. If you want to develop for iOS, you pretty much need to use a Mac.

The side effect of all this adoption is that a lot of really, really good applications are only available on OSX. True, they tend to veer towards creatives (Sketch, FinalCut, etc), but it's also the case that most mobile consumer apps also start out iOS....

Finally, if you need to run several operating systems including OSX, you pretty much don't have another choice. And you do get the benefit of extremely high resale values.....

I'm not really sure what IT people have against Macs - it seems to be that they cause fewer user headaches, so less support burden. And, for whatever reason, they seem to get less infected by bad crap (again, lower support burden), the hardware is usually better quality and it retains it's value/usability for a longer period of time.

Me, I'm pretty agnostic - use an iMac every day, but I also have a Toshiba laptop running mostly Linux Mint but sometimes Win7 , several iDevices, several Android devices and at least 3 Linux machines running constantly in my house.

Open source? HP Enterprise will be all-in, post split, says CTO

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Re: He has experience.

He actually used to be in charge of all open source at HP and has supported & worked with a very large number of open source projects, communities & efforts since around 2001. Maybe because he's a suit he's not your cup of tea, but he has been at the forefront of HP's open source for decades. He also wrote a book about how large organizations should participate in open source and how open source centric tech businesses should be structured.

So, yeah, lots of experience, probably more than most people who read el reg. And probably more than any other high-level exec at old skool tech companies.

And, no, I don't work for HP - I used to do a lot of work bridging between the open source community & large companies, so I know more than a little something about the people who actually did real work.

Blu-ray region locks popped by hardware hacker

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Re: And they wonder why we pirate?

You can put your head in the sand all you want, but the reality is that people will keep downloading free content until the content providers decide to sell them what they want at a fair price. This is EXACTLY what happened with music. The pirates delivered exactly what people wanted and won all the market share - at least until the music industry Apple delivered most of what people want wanted.

The same thing needs to happen with film/video, but it likely will never because one 'rights holder' can demand 'upfronts' in exchange for agreeing to an 'internet release'. For most studios, this puts them in an impossible position of having to shell out potentially lots of $$$ without knowing what the return might be. And agreeing to one upfront would open the floodgate for every rights holder to demand the same. Because most film/video content has a LOT of rights holders (often every single performer retains non-specified/unforeseen rights to their performance), if there is even one holdout, it doesn't get released.

What studios really should do is publish a list of people who are blocking 'internet releases'. That might actually shame people into agreeing to workable terms..... I would note that this is much, much less of an issue with post-internet content since that distribution medium is already included in the rights licensing these days.

TL;DR - it's easy to blame the 'pirates', but the actual problem is with rights holders demanding upfront compensation. That's what is driving underground sharing.

'Millions' of routers open to absurdly outdated NetUSB hijack

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There is a workaround

Just don't use a NetGear device....

$19 billion made from dumped e-waste every year, says UN

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Re: Cost of unmaking

Funny enough, the cost of unmaking is included in the price in California (and a couple of other places according to Wikipedia), at least for electronics. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Waste_Recycling_Fee#California

However, I'm not sure that is actually working as it was intended. My guess is the waste still winds up in China.

And given the recent abuse of container recycling (http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2015/05/07/california-busts-14m-scheme-to-bring-recycling-from-arizona), it's probably being abused as well....

Playing by stealth: Twelve gaming headsets to plonk on your noggin

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Re: Glasses

Try the Nakamichi's I mentioned above. I wear glasses, they are perfectly comfortable.

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Re: Rather inconsistent on the reviews but still a decent read...

I have a Nakamichi bluetooth headset which is excellent and was less than US$70. Very comfortable, I often wear it for hours and the battery lasts for at least 5 days (I leave it on all the time, even if nothing is playing through it....). Doesn't look particularly sexy, but after trying a dozen wireless headsets, this was the best.

Close encounter: Apple Macs invade the business world

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Funny enough....

NextStep had really, really good enterprise tools (for the time). They were just dropped from OSX somehow.

I remember that you could set a huge amount of configs in directory, down to stuff like homepage URL. And because it was inherently Unix, you had desktop portability to any machine. It was pretty cool in the mid-90s...

You’ll be the coolest guy in IT if you ain't got your ID

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Re: That's why you get to know the security people

Who is RSM? I don't think I'd recognize him either....

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