* Posts by ozobken

4 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Dec 2015

Driverless cars will make more traffic, say transport boffins

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Did they consider that AVs are likely to be better at using freeways - ie: more able to merge, convoy, etc, which will definitely reduce congestion?

Banking group denied access to iPhones' NFC chips for alt.Apple.Pay

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Re: And this is why we can't have nice things

Except that ApplePay is fully interoperable with Australian "PayPass" standards already, so there is no walled garden at play.

Of course, you can stick an NFC token to anything, but that NFC token doesn't secure access via the phone's fingerprint reader. Having had credit cards stolen before, and had them used for many just-below-floor-limit transactions, I really appreciate the ApplePay - need your fingerprint, or at least your passcode to pay approach.

What should password managers not do? Leak your passwords? What a great idea, LastPass

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Re: The perfect Password

Assuming you can remember all those passphrases for all your different accounts - I assume you're not advocating using the same password everywhere?

Linksys routers vulnerable through CGI scripts

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Except, of course, that Cisco haven't owned Linksys for a couple of years now