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All it would take is someone who knows what they are doing to go check real quick. report back whether or not the phone is throwing out information or not.

are we crowd sourcing intelligence tasks now?

do I detect some Apple employees/shareholders in here? I think the (CIQ)video made pretty clear the fact that YOU CANT TURN IT OFF and that THERE IS NO OPT IN/OUT button because you would have to be digging around like a technophile to find it in the first place. I would not be at all surprised if Apple uses something like this. Wireshark anyone?

lol thank you. I'm luvin it. "For no reason I know, works of philosophy are compromised by even a typo in the introduction, but in science you can open with a golden shower anecdote and no one notices. Oh well. To the experiments."

I think Lifehacker had a spin of the story in which the author linked the firefox APP to the IE ICON and said if you wanted to be really sneaky you could just rename Firefox to IE Explorer.

... and they want $20 million for our work that they don't want. poor Wikipedia

download link http://mac.github.com/

should have shipped with custom password. Assuming the sysadmin could read.

I feel your pain; and wrote about it: http://danielmillsap.com/blog/culture/cultural-artifacts-in-...

I applaud the author's use of detailed documentation and the ability and willingness to dig deeper into the technical side of what he believes to be the problem. As soon as I had installed the Firefox addon Noscript I began to notice the facebook scripts put in place on many sites having nothing to do with Facebook. Their real interest is not in being nice by providing you with a free service, but in using data aggregated by its large user base in order to find patterns - and to sell that information to the highest bidder. Pretty soon advertisers and governments will know more about you than you do yourself.

From http://www.nsc.liu.se/~nixon/sshprobes.html "So, to more precisely describe what we have found: a small subset of the ssh logins from Chinese IPs to two of our systems are preceded by one or two connections from unrelated Chinese IP addresses, in which opaque binary data is thrown at sshd." "My hypothesis is that just over a year ago, a new function in the firewall went into limited beta test, where a sample of outgoing ssh connections from China is carefully selected for secondary screening.""For the selected ssh connections, the target system is probed from one or two IP addresses under the control of the Chinese government. These may be otherwise innocent addresses that are spoofed at the level of the great firewall, or they may be actual computers under remote control by the government - I have no way to tell.""In some cases, the legitimate ssh connections are unsuccessful; they appear to be interrupted. This may be a result of the firewall deciding the target system to be unsuitable and injecting RST packets into the TCP stream to kill it.

The last few weeks, the frequency of the probing has increased. This might mean the beta test period is nearing its end, and that this function is about to become more widely deployed."

I found the link interesting and am glad it was posted on here. If not the content itself, then certainly the ensuing conversation is relevant to HN. The fact that sexuality is so taboo in our culture yet motivates humans at the most basic level is fascinating. Others question why this link and not others get so much attention, which is another HN relevant issue. Maybe more people saw it at the same time and the sudden influx of upvotes sent it on its way.

I thought OSX firmware password could be bypassed by resetting PRAM. If true then does this invalidate their argument in FAQ about the thief reformatting the HD?

Is this when they slip in another bill that does something even worse? While we are inundated with the news of this bill?

I first admired OSX because of its simplicity and the way it kind of just knew what I wanted to do and started me on the journey that way. Lion was a step backward. defaults were no longer what I would find convenient. Constantly asking me if I want to open windows upon logon even though I always uncheck the box so it should know by now. The reverse scrolling which makes it a pain to use any other system after getting used to reverse direction. I'm starting to like Linux Mint more and more.

ALESSANDRO ACQUISTI gave a cool talk at the 2011 BlackHat presenting his research findings which indicate that by taking a picture of your face, that picture can be correlated with your facebook profile, which can be used to take simply your birthday, and using that information, using a computer to guess your social security number with significant accuracy compared to random. here is video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZQ7Th9L5ss

unlimited: adj- without limits or bounds

I'm throwing mine at the concrete at high velocity, then spray painting a middle-finger gesture next to the debris.

a review tailored for the more advanced technical user. More than just ads and re-sputtering of key-word marketing propaganda. A real user shares real user-experience. I'd like to know if the battery life indeed got better with recharge cycles or not. Why so many complaints about the battery life with ios 5? Doesn't iCloud backing up have something to do with it or no?

I thought it was because of the SuperBowl advertisement for their new hot lady.

I second that

It could also be the pace at which the information is conveyed. The lovely information is dished out at such a fast pace that students who would like to absorb the info at a deeper and more intuitive level are left behind while the equation-memorizers win even though they would not be able to describe WHY something is so. Secondly, science has become so compartmentalized that students with a "big picture" view of what science can do get turned off by classes that start off by focusing on microscopic aspect of some part of science.

WikiLeaks has been dead for a long time. Ever since the release involving the video of helicopter firing on the people below, someone out there got serious and decided to take Assange down by discrediting him and by diverting the focus away from information and toward the rape charges. Assange was probably given some "offer" he could not refuse and the rest is all for show.

best quote ever = "Reddit, known for its anger over everything..."

This site almost broke my noscript plugin with its thousands of facebook this and scorecard research thats.

After seeing what it was, part of me was thinking "is this a spoof site pretending to be real?" while another part was thinking "this is too well written to be a joke." I wonder why they chose to file for the patent right when they were getting bad press for it. Maybe they were hoping it would go unnoticed and filed after discovery so noone else could scoop it up?

get off the computer and read a book.

1) Force yourself into a position where doing your work will seem better than the alternative. Since you are at home, it is automatic for you to surf the internet. If you were working some part-time job where the other alternative would be to chit chat with the 30 year old ladies about their ex-husband, you would naturally adapt and find a way to do something more interesting to you (your work?)

2) Try using a program like VitaminR, http://www.publicspace.net/Vitamin-R/ which acts as a timer to keep you focused. You might find that working becomes a sort of game, and you will be less tempted to abort your work because you can see that you only have 5 min to go.

It's amazing how the FBI can study how each person uses a language, in order to develop a theory on intelligence,social status, etc.