Posts by poglad

Raspberry Pi hires former spy gadget-maker who baked devices into surveillance ops

Re: I was on Mastodon as it ahppened

"In my book, that kind of no nonsense approach is very refreshing and a much needed change."

Thanks for your input, Liz. No need to be anonymous next time.

Microsoft warns against SMS, voice calls for multi-factor authentication: Try something that can't be SIM swapped

Re: Usability

Well that sounds really secure...

Radio amateurs fret over G.fast interference

Re: Something people seem to be missing

Well that's the whole reason why small frequency allocations have already been identified for radio amateurs (and for other users) - so that the areas to be avoided are known. There's no need to have another discussion about it. And it's all very well automatically notching out some VHF channel that's active in the locality AFTER having caused interference to it during the learning process, but a lot the most interesting amateur radio activity involves extremely low power signals covering great distances. The chances of any of the local computer equipment noticing any of those activities and notching them out during its learning process seems pretty unlikely to me.

Facebook 'acq-hires' Gowalla brains, shuts service down

Loved Gowalla?

Actually, not many people loved Gowalla any more after their atrocious re-launch a few months back. No doubt Zuckerberg was able to snap them up at a rock-bottom price.