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spacefighton Disassembling the Amazon Dash

"Also on the bottom is the small microphone used for setting up the Dash."

Damn... another microphone in your household capable of recording sounds near that device.

spacefighton Nepal earthquake, magnitude 7.3, strikes near Everest

Yes, 5.6 and 6.3 after 7.4.

Source: https://twitter.com/USGSBigQuakes

spacefighton German intelligence agency halts Internet monitoring for NSA

Over VPN - but is that key exchange safe? Is that proprietary crypto system in use at $diplomacy backdoored with a weak RNG?

spacefighton Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their country may have helped

It's not that easy - I think they would need to ask the US military as a whole to leave.

spacefighton Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their country may have helped

If that is true, that member of the SWAT team should come forward. Leak this info well documented to the public.

spacefighton Tesla Energy

Solar power, local wind turbines, , etc. We need to get off the grid and start working on isolated energy systems.

spacefighton Mark Zuckerberg appears on CNBC to discuss a social network (2004) [video]

Good memories. 15y ago I built a social network for our graduation year, 50% signed up ;)

spacefighton The Apple Watch does not play nicely with some tattoos

In other news, the sensor is really something. I wonder if it's possible to identify people uniquely with it.

spacefighton Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

http://store.bq.com/en/ubuntu-edition-e-4-5

No https:// by default. Again, if you market this as towards the nerdy audience: Put _everything_ behind HTTPS. I simply do not want to let others know, what phone I might buy.

Thank you.

spacefighton Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition

http://www.bq.com/gb/game-ubuntu

"Telegram is the most secure way to..." or http://www.bq.com/flexy_templates/game/assets/en/screen-3.pn...

If you market your phone towards nerds, don't bullshit us with crypto marketing.

spacefighton If a Caller Says, 'I Am with the IRS,' He's Not

Great idea - but with with what verification level? admin@domain.tld email verification?

spacefighton “Today we moved into our new Facebook building”

Noise cancelling doesn't work with speech that well. It's way better for steady background noise such as on a small plane if you're the pilot or on a large plane if you're a passenger.

spacefighton Gemalto's findings of its investigations into the alleged hacking of SIM cards

"The attacks against Gemalto only breached its office networks and could not have resulted in a massive theft of SIM encryption keys"

That's what they think...

spacefighton Extracting the SuperFish certificate

They didn't "buy hours" - they didn't really have a defense line there. They cashed in the day they signed the contract with Lenovo.

Someone should sue to see these contracts open in the public.

spacefighton Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers

There is at least one possible solution for the near future: prohibit computer vendor by law to accept money or other compensation for pre-installing _any_ kind of 3rd party software except the bare naked OS.

This shit must stop.

spacefighton Blockstore: A Key-Value Store on Bitcoin

Not the past blockchain - but isn't the future blockchain format subject to changes?

spacefighton Litvinenko post-mortem 'probably most dangerous ever'

Remember Arafat?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/yasser-arafat-probably-poisoned-...

That was most probably a "western" nation state at work too.

spacefighton Litvinenko post-mortem 'probably most dangerous ever'

It's sickening to see what people are able to do to other people.

spacefighton Ask HN: All of you working with Big Data, what is your Data?

Are you really supposed to look at your customers data?

spacefighton Will WhatsApp kill Slack?

What I really don't get with the new WhatsApp web app and the embedded end-to-end encryption is the following: why on earth are they including 3rd party scripts with DOM access?

All online banking sites I use do not do this, for a reason.

spacefighton People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened

"Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person."

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

spacefighton SpaceX CRS-5 Webcast

"During the terminal count engineers observed drift on one of the two thrust vector actuators on the second stage that would likely have caused an automatic abort. Engineers called a hold in order to take a closer look. SpaceX is scrubbed for today and we are now targeting launch on Jan. 9th at 5:09am ET."

spacefighton Google broke telephony for many Nexus users

The full quote should read

"Hi, I don't think anyone from google is even looking at this since we have no resolution, upgrading of priority or even an acknowledgement response."

spacefighton Facebook is the new AOL

"until they offer ISP"

https://internet.org/

Also, in some countries such as Germany, WhatsApp serves as a virtual mobile provider.

https://gigaom.com/2014/04/08/whatsapp-becomes-a-virtual-car...

spacefighton Wifiphisher: Fast automated phishing attacks against WPA networks

I wondered why the deauth in step 1 works, it sure looks like that's one of the shortcomings in WPA and there is just no workaround - except going with WPA2.

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/20219/preventing...

spacefighton HSTS Super Cookies

My point was the subtle difference between automated data clean at end of browsing session and the reported manual action. Nothing else.

spacefighton HSTS Super Cookies

That would somehome indicate to me (without having looked at the code), that this has been implemented like this on purpose.

spacefighton Freedom in your computer and in the net [video]

s/is/is only/

And yes, the mp4 version is not just not linked, it's simply not there: http://c3media.vsos.ethz.ch/congress/2014/h264-hd/

spacefighton Filmmaker says he has uncovered a Nazi underground weapons facility

They might not have had a serious A-bomb program, but they sure had lots of interesting scientific researchers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

"By 1947 this evacuation operation had netted an estimated 1,800 technicians and scientists, along with 3,700 family members. Those with special skills or knowledge were taken to detention and interrogation centers, such as one code-named DUSTBIN,[16] to be held and interrogated, in some cases for months."