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It is fairly short range. 9600bps @ about 162MHz doesn't travel much further than the curvature of the earth. If you started jamming it the FCC and the Coast Guard would become interested fairly quickly since they now use this as part of the port security system.

AIS was never designed to be secure, the easiest attack being to just jam the 2 frequencies it uses. But the AIS industry has sold itself as a safety and security device, convincing the government to mandate its carriage on ships in order to protect against terrorism.

This is also helpful - http://docs.python.org/2.7/howto/functional.html

Only if the servers aren't using SMTPS. Which in practice many don't but there really is no reason why that cannot be changed.

My solution is to just go an replace them all. Much faster than trying to track down the one, especially in a 2 story house where the chirp echos and isn't repeated very often.

Fedora 1.4.15 updates built. They could use some testing and karma:

* https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnupg-1.4.15-1.fc18 * https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnupg-1.4.15-1.fc19 * https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnupg-1.4.15-1.fc20

Oh, shucks. I was expecting to see an article on compiling Java to machine code, not bytecode.

The only mention of him on the EFF site is from June. Are they involved at all?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/jeremy-hammond-case-de...

Here's how I handle photo backups:

http://www.brianlane.com/automatic-backup-of-files-to-s3-and...

TODO lists certainly can work. I use 2 levels of lists, a long-term list and daily lists. If a daily item isn't finished in a day I copy it into the next day's log entry at the end of the day. I've been doing it like this for around 7 or 8 years now. I combine this with my daily log (vim text file) to track what I've done and what I should be doing.

I don't use the lists to tell me exactly how to do things, but as a way to track what I to be looking at next. I also have status symbols for items. ! means important, P for when a patch has been sent for review but not pushed upstream and X for complete .

gpg encrypted vim file.

Hey now! I was a kid in the 70's, and I'm a fan of a number of the movies made. Just not this one :)

I don't remember what they predicted, but since I usually like Gene Hackman movies it was likely 3-4 stars. I gave it 2, way too boring for even a 70's movie.

This doesn't really belong on HN. It is a good article, but not tech related in any way.

All the hidden service communication happens inside Tor. No exits are involved.

You are correct that a HS node doesn't have to be a bridge, etc. But it is a good idea to mask the traffic.

The hidden service is a tor node itself and there are no exit nodes involved. As long as there is other traffic passing through the nodes involved an observer can't tell which traffic is for a HS. Maybe :)

Well I'd sure as hell rather see obituaries for SF authors than the stupid 'Site X is down again' notices on HN.

Pohl is part of the old guard SF, his writing has influenced people and technology for decades. If that doesn't deserve the front page then I don't know what does.

"So Good They Can't Ignore You" does a good job of covering this - http://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/145550912...

Right, he has a good reputation. But that shouldn't help -- he can't do anything about what underlies his code on these closed systems.

I have a couple problems with this:

    * Don't trust an OS you can't examine the source for.
    * Don't trust binaries you can't build from source, no matter what OS you run them on.

I wouldn't trust iOS, OSX, Windows or any other closed system with any kind of encryption these days.

It isn't being rude when the power is all on their side. You have no idea what their real motives are or how they will use your conversation. You have no reason to believe anything they tell you. Seems like the safest action is to politely decline.

The official Python docs also have a section on FP.

http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/functional.html

Why are you using the raster charts instead of the S57 vector charts? eg. http://www.charts.noaa.gov/ENCs/ENCs.shtml

Also, if you're interested in AIS support take a look at https://www.github.com/bcl/aisparser/

The wiki is way more useful than the above link.

https://github.com/jckarter/clay/wiki

Maybe. But I wouldn't count on it, and you're better off assuming that you are monitored instead of depending on a server location.

To me the most compelling argument would be seizure laws. If you are one of those people who use the mail server as a data store then it would be worthwhile to have it in a place that would resist attempts to grab the hardware.

I've been a happy customer for several years now. I've had zero problems with them, but I also don't use the web interface for anything other than managing my accounts (one feature is you can easily setup and manage family members accounts).

I don't think that moving outside the US would make any practical difference. Any mail sent to their servers from my regular correspondents would pass through NSA monitored sites as they left the US and I pull everything off using IMAP over SSL anyway so there isn't anything stored there for them to seize.

Your email correspondence, unless encrypted with pgp, really should be considered no different than sending a postcard in the mail. It can be intercepted and copied at any number of points along the way.

Yep.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=localtunnel

I don't understand the article's description of the sandbox vulnerability. On the iPhone app sandboxing is done by iOS, not in the SIM. Does the reporter just not understand, or is there another layer I'm not aware of?

This tweet doesn't tell us anything. I'll upvote when there is more than 112 characters of detail.

My solution is to copy them all to Glacier, I also have local copies, Glacier is only for worst case scenario retrieval. I wrote about the little script I use here: http://www.brianlane.com/automatic-backup-of-files-to-s3-and...