Posts by Ian Damage

Son of state lawmaker charged with Palin email hack

Handcuffs AND shakles?

Shows how much of a meance to society this guy was.

Catholic priests cane YouTube over blasphemous vids

Community Guidelines?

"We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view. But we don't permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity). "

So that means, by their own reasoning, every single video spouting the alleged "benefits" of any religion MUST be taken down, because religious fundimentalism, as a whole, attacks and demeans human intelligence. They attack aetheists, agnostics, and anyone else who dares to believe in a flavour of insanity which they do not share.

Multiple religious authorities attack and rape children, and then cover it all up. This is an assault on the law, and on common decency.

So, they complain that a few people wanted their Soylent Green cookie take-away instead of eat-in. Big deal. He's your god. They're your rules. You go burn in hell.

Martian Head: Because aManfromMars makes about as much sense as any other religious diatribe.

French boffin: Mac Pros emit toxic fumes

toxic fumes?

explains gthe drooling by the fanbois then

Apple NDA kills Jesus Phone gospels

"accidentally" upload them to wikileaks

that'll screw em.

Apple seeks iPhone reverse engineering expert

@ Chad H

[quote]

On a device like a phone, which we need to just plain work, without any risk of malware, a closed system can prevent such problems.[/quote]

Funnily, this is the same stance Microshaft takes. On a PC , an OS just needs to run. Shame Windows doesnt.

Took a "hacker" by the name of Linus to help deliver a stable operating system to the desktop. Thanks to him, and his mates who do not belong to a closed shop environment, I now have a desktop PC that works.

So what's the easiest box to hack - Vista, Ubuntu or OS X?

Not exactly a balanced contest...

Few problems as I see it..

1) Different hardware in each lappy. There may be a vuln available in one particular laptop that isnt available in the other 2. BIOS, manufacturer drivers etc

2) This is a test of stable OS. I dont know anything about OSX, but Windows you cant just "install the OS", where you can with any form of linux. When does it stop being a test of OS, and more a test of "which 3rd party dev writes the shittiest code?"

3) Last year it was won by hacking an application, Quicktime. This year, the Vista box could be hacked via Quicktime, or the Mac box hacked via Office for Mac. Do you honestly think Microsoft would spend as much time on stability/security on a product for a competitor compared to one for their own market. Think Apple would return the favour?

Mine the tartan trenchcoat with "Cyncial Prick" on the back.

Bitlocker hack is easily prevented, Microsoft says

Misses the point completely

"I would posit that the opportunistic laptop thief is somewhat unlikely to carry a separate laptop on which they will have installed tools that allow them to reconstruct cryptographic keys - or for that matter have a can of compressed air handy."

Anyone who is going to be performing this sort of procedure, would be coming more from the industrial/business espionage angle, than an opportunistic thief.

This will not rule out the possibility that an opportunist might carry around these sorts of tools to maximise his potential income from any swiped lappy.