@Iszi yeah this is a newer car thing, but this is likely the start of a series of problems, there's more and more routes into car networks these days.. e.g DAB
@Iszi yeah pretty much. kinda hoping that legislation that's mentioned turns out to be good and gets into action quickly, as it doesn't sound like the industry on it's own will sort this...
this theory was a combination of cost cutting (use same Internet connection for diagnostics and entertainment) and/or mis-configuration (not restricting access to the 3G connection properly)
@RoryAlsop yeah I almost got myself into re-reading from Jones' first appearance then stopped myself, when I realised quite how long that would take me....
@RоryMcCune Happens to plenty of people every day. Would have been nice if they'd asked or checked his disposition before doing so though - driving uphill ain't exactly the best place to have your car die.
I'm in the market for a new phone, and was wondering which modles/operating systems are the best to protect privacy/security. I don't use social media, so won't have Facebook/Twitter,etc. I am fairly diligent about keeping my info. private (i.e. for my browser, I have adblock, ghostery, do not t...
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I'm not sure I agree with @RоryMcCune with Cyanogen Mod not being Google. I feel like it's hard to not have Google involved in Android. But I see where he's going with it. Google doesn't have any control over their source code.
@raz What's really fun are the ones that nobody seems to understand but you, because they're so horribly worded and you alone spent about 20 minutes figuring it out.
And at that point you get really close to changing the actual meaning of the question.
So, do you spend an hour doing the re-write just to risk the asker saying "WTF? That's not what I meant!" or do you just close it as "Nobody gets what you're saying but me - fix that."?
@raz One of these days, there's going to be a scientific journal published which includes a paper on the medical benefits of ingesting bovine fecal matter.
@RоryMcCune Google Play Services is installed on any Android 4.0+ based OS. I've written Android apps that use it, and my OnePlus run them just fine. Google Play Services are necessary for almost any Google API that is used by most apps.
@raz - yep, on all my android phones I need to install a gapps version if I want use Google stuff. You don't need to, but I use a lot of Google stuff so...
@RoryAlsop Yeah that's true, now that I think about it I was putting nightly builds of CM on my phone and didn't have any google apps. At the time though, Google Play would crash on Lollipop
@etherealflux It's just going to turn into speculation on why a certain organization does X Y or Z. They could be asking about Microsoft and it would still be off-topic for this forum.
I feel like this would be the worst malware to come across, taking out small websites and maybe a few large sites as well. How do people protect against it?
yeah , exactly...Veracrypt enhanced a few things over truecrypt
i don't know why truecrypt suddenly
stopped to be supported, and i don't like that...still veracrypt is still supported and maintained while truecrypt is not anymore...
@ton.yeung i haven't audited their code, but i'm sure that at least some independent people have looked at the code, do you audit the code of every open-source software you use?
@ton.yeung It's not like the TrueCrypt team has been extremely forthcoming about their code or development process, or like they requested the audit. The TrueCrypt audit was entirely community-driven, and they had a fair amount of difficulty doing their work despite even having occasional contact with someone who claimed to be a developer.
i even consider most of software options for full disk encryption quite weak if you ask me...i would rather use something like www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/tresor TreVisor to run disk encryption runs transparently for the guest OS.
if you are so worried about flaws or vulnerabilities on truecrypt or veracrypt then i would go this way
@ton.yeung Oh, no. The audit was certainly worthwhile. But after the audit, when TrueCrypt was no longer maintained and other developers made forks to fix problems that were discovered in the audit, TrueCrypt ceased to be so.
@ton.yeung With the existence TrueCrypt forks, which have patched issues discovered in the audit, there's no longer any point in holding on to TrueCrypt.
yeah that's what i'm saying, veracrypt is just a fork from truecrypt with a few fixes, is not like they rewritten the entire code and this make easier to other people to audit the forks...i'm don't have know-how to audit code sadly but i still trust veracrypt for it's purposes...wouldn't use it for full disk encryption although
1. Stay on TrueCrypt for now. 2. Put together your own team of crack crypto researchers and secure coders. 3. Fund their research into [fork of choice] for a year or so. 4. If the audit results are favorable, switch after it is concluded. If not, repeat step 3 until a favorable product is found. 5. Repeat steps 1-4 ad infinitum (in step 1, s/TrueCrypt/[fork of choice]).
@Freedom Just because there are no known vulnerabilities doesn't mean there aren't some nasty things hiding in there just ready to chew everyone's head off.
And don't ask me how far I trust the Classic Shell developers.
'Cause there it is, right there: Unless you're checking for code audits of every piece of software that goes on your computer, and you fully trust the auditors, you never know what you're running that might be sending all your data to [insert TLA or hostile country of choice here] - WDE be damned.
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@CodesInChaos I actually tend to decompile .NET code for which I have the source code -- because the original source code is in VB.NET but the decompiler produces C#.
@Iszi Can we even trust gcc? There was that one wicked clever self-propagating compiler that inserted a backdoor when it compiled the Linux kernel and inserted its own malicious code when it noticed it was compiling itself.
@etherealflux See, unless you're a butterfly programmer - or know and wholly trust an auditor who is - there's really no way to tell what code is going to be safe to run for any given purpose.
@Iszi I really like it for games and movies. It's on a swivel mount. Readability is just fine. I can see pixels, but they are probably 0.05mm x 0.05mm in size.
I have 3 Samsungs now on my desk and two are years old now
@Gilles - I'm with @etherealflux on the keyboards. My preferred typing keyboard is old IBM. Admittedly I don't use that at work, or gaming... As others would object
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I feel like this would be the worst malware to come across, taking out small websites and maybe a few large sites as well. How do people protect against it?
If a comment is posted from a Google account on a blog hosted in Blogger.com, can the IP address of the person who has commented be traced by the blog owner?
