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even durian australians can do it azari, its not very difficult at all.

http://hackaday.com/2014/10/05/badusb-m ... l-screwed/
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noddy wrote:even durian australians can do it azari, its not very difficult at all.

http://hackaday.com/2014/10/05/badusb-m ... l-screwed/
When the second guy started talking I had to end the video lol.

I'm not knowledgeable enough techwise.. do you think this usb vulnerability can be solved? Sounds pretty much like an open door anyone can walk through.
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Parodite wrote:
noddy wrote:even durian australians can do it azari, its not very difficult at all.

http://hackaday.com/2014/10/05/badusb-m ... l-screwed/
When the second guy started talking I had to end the video lol.

I'm not knowledgeable enough techwise.. do you think this usb vulnerability can be solved? Sounds pretty much like an open door anyone can walk through.
its both easy and difficult to fix ;)

simple answer - at the moment you buy whatever brand you want from wherever you want, completely free, perfect capitalism with lots of options and price ranges and brands, the risk is some of those might be dodgy suppliers with evil intentions.

its also nice and durian proof, plug and play, no configurations or learning required from you when you shove it in, the computer just trusts that it is what it says it is and lets it do whatever it wants.

if they start restricting it back to licensed hardware with special techniques to only approved devices and then expect the user to jump through security configurations they could make it safer, but less user friendly, a step backwards!

they will also start making it look more like some of our other less free industries that require strict government licensing to participate, more expensive, less choice and it would still be hackable, just not as easy and you would need to trust the government then aswell, its not like they wouldnt demand the backdoors if they had this level of control over our purchases, something they dont currently have.

the other aspect of this is people you dont trust plugging devices into your computer - not such a big risk for parodite, quite a big risk for the iranian nuclear workstations as they found out - that was a usb hack i believe

if i ran high security place id solder the keyboard and mouse into the system after confirming it was from a trusted supplier then id smash all the other usb ports.
id also not have it on the internet and i would firewall its ability on private network to only the exact protocols it was meant to be doing.

not perfect but pretty good security - the sad part is not many places are doing this, however i suspect the iranian nuclear guys are now :)
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Thanks :) Yep makes sense what you suggest for high value data communication. And the good old ps2 keyboard and mouse without any USB port available or do they suffer from same in principle?
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just as hackable with the same microcontroller chips but less options - a usb device can pretend to be quite alot of different things (anything!) and cause all sorts of havoc, the ps2 ports are only expecting mouse and keyboard.

however, with keyboard you can start up a shell and then pretty much do whatever you like, plus you get to sniff passwords, so its a good device to takeover.

for $10 i can get cute little usb micro board that comes builtin with keyboard,mouse,joystick emulation and i can also load hardrive and camera and other fake usb device code quite simply.

its about the size of an old gumstick, would fit in pretty much any usb device case and noone would know the difference.

they are perfectly legitimate things to have on the market, you use them to build custom controllers for gamers (race and flight simulators) and disabled people , or even just fancy brass hand made keyboards and other such bespoke devices.

im slowly building up a fancy 3d mouse with one at the moment using the 3d movement sensors you get in phones and rc planes.
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Slashdot | Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links

I think that the potential for abuse is obvious.
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Typhoon wrote:Slashdot | Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links

I think that the potential for abuse is obvious.
abuse is one thing, new facts rendering old facts obsolete is another worry.

luckily i find as many sites by word of mouth as i do by google search, as of yet it is not the only entry point on the internet.
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Typhoon wrote:Slashdot | Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links

I think that the potential for abuse is obvious.
That depends. Google does not make much money from anything but commercial sites If they limit the changes to those kinds of sites I think it would be an improvement for all except the spam bots. On the other hand if they apply it to everything Not good. Imagine how something like George Washington cut down a cherry tree and then when asked said "I can not tell a lie I did it"

My guess is that Google's search engine data base rates that as true since so many believe it to be true.

IN other words if Google's search engine knows it is true because it read it on the internet......
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Apple Watch has the potential to be a life-changer


Apple Watch Review: Bliss, but Only After a Steep Learning Curve


It took three days — three long, often confusing and frustrating days — for me to fall for the Apple Watch. But once I fell, I fell hard.

First there was a day to learn the device’s initially complex user interface. Then another to determine how it could best fit it into my life. And still one more to figure out exactly what Apple’s first major new product in five years is trying to do — and, crucially, what it isn’t.

It was only on Day 4 that I began appreciating the ways in which the elegant $650 computer on my wrist was more than just another screen. By notifying me of digital events as soon as they happened, and letting me act on them instantly, without having to fumble for my phone, the Watch became something like a natural extension of my body — a direct link, in a way that I’ve never felt before, from the digital world to my brain. The effect was so powerful that people who’ve previously commented on my addiction to my smartphone started noticing a change in my behavior; my wife told me that I seemed to be getting lost in my phone less than in the past. She found that a blessing.

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Similarly, the most exciting thing about the Apple Watch isn’t the device itself, but the new tech vistas that may be opened by the first mainstream wearable computer. On-body devices have obvious uses in health care and payments. As the tech analyst Tim Bajarin has written, Apple also seems to be pushing a vision of the Watch as a general-purpose remote control for the real world, a nearly bionic way to open your hotel room, board a plane, call up an Uber or otherwise have the physical world respond to your desires nearly automatically.

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Without a mic, cam or PornHub plug-in I'm not buying one.

Anyone who is familar with Apple knows better than to buy the first generation of any new product. It's always a workout within a race. Apple just uses the first release as a live test, and because of that the second release is often pretty successful. Lisa was followed by Macintosh and Newton by the iPad.

Apple's focus is on integrating the OS/X Unix desktop with the mobile iOS, so I would expect the Apple watch to follow that lead. I think the second generation will have more Google Glass capability, but with centralized monitoring and control.

iWatch = I watch. It's obvious why Apple avoided that name.
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iWatch will only become successful if it would replace the cell-phone, meaning one does not carry a cellphone anymore

If one has to carry a cell phone (and the iWatch), then better get all your info from that cellphone, say from
a "Samsung Note 4" with big display and as powerful as a notebook with all kinds of apps watching video or reading emails and many other goodies

I doubt iWatch can replace the functionality and usefulness of a "Samsung Note 4" or any other cellphone

In that sense, I doubt it would be success

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I could be completely wrong, but it seems like the iPhone disrupted the wristwatch -- much in the same way it disrupted the point-and-shoot camera. That and no contract to hide the price from consumers. And why would you noodle with a postage-stamp sized interface, when you can just reach in your pocket and do it properly?

It *will* probably succeed as a luxury product -- that's probably all Apple is shooting for.
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Yukon Cornelius wrote:I could be completely wrong, but it seems like the iPhone disrupted the wristwatch -- much in the same way it disrupted the point-and-shoot camera. That and no contract to hide the price from consumers. And why would you noodle with a postage-stamp sized interface, when you can just reach in your pocket and do it properly?

It *will* probably succeed as a luxury product -- that's probably all Apple is shooting for.

Agree

and ?

It means better have a "normal watch" on your wrist and a smartphone in you pocket .. you want to do or know something ? ? reach to your pocket, take the phone out .. for sure iWatch will not be the "killer gadget"

On the other hand

Wearable will be very interesting, smart "shirts" or shoes or underwear etc .. that will be the space where killer applications will develop .. have many ideas in this regards , any takers ? ?

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Heracleum Persicum wrote:
Yukon Cornelius wrote:I could be completely wrong, but it seems like the iPhone disrupted the wristwatch -- much in the same way it disrupted the point-and-shoot camera. That and no contract to hide the price from consumers. And why would you noodle with a postage-stamp sized interface, when you can just reach in your pocket and do it properly?

It *will* probably succeed as a luxury product -- that's probably all Apple is shooting for.

Agree

and ?

It means better have a "normal watch" on your wrist and a smartphone in you pocket .. you want to do or know something ? ? reach to your pocket, take the phone out .. for sure iWatch will not be the "killer gadget"

On the other hand

Wearable will be very interesting, smart "shirts" or shoes or underwear etc .. that will be the space where killer applications will develop .. have many ideas in this regards , any takers ? ?

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Remember the Apple Watch will act as a remote video viewfinder and control to an iPhone video camera. My iPhone 6+ camera sticks up out of my breast pocket very nicely. But the key technology is the gathering of biometric data.

I predict smart police badges keyed to gun access. Smart home detention monitors delivering data on client drug usage directly to PO's Smart carcams which will call an ambulance. Security and surveillance coordination systems that do not require large glowing screens. "Marauder's Maps" for labor supervision.

Apple took over the graphics market because they had a true operating system with a universal scripting language. Imagine if every Windows user could easily connect functions between every Windows program using MS Basic. This made it very easy for enterprises to automate systems using any software, and the Apple Watch can do the same for biometric data even if it currently needs a seperate transmitter.
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Nonc Hilaire wrote:
Heracleum Persicum wrote:
Yukon Cornelius wrote:I could be completely wrong, but it seems like the iPhone disrupted the wristwatch -- much in the same way it disrupted the point-and-shoot camera. That and no contract to hide the price from consumers. And why would you noodle with a postage-stamp sized interface, when you can just reach in your pocket and do it properly?

It *will* probably succeed as a luxury product -- that's probably all Apple is shooting for.

Agree

and ?

It means better have a "normal watch" on your wrist and a smartphone in you pocket .. you want to do or know something ? ? reach to your pocket, take the phone out .. for sure iWatch will not be the "killer gadget"

On the other hand

Wearable will be very interesting, smart "shirts" or shoes or underwear etc .. that will be the space where killer applications will develop .. have many ideas in this regards , any takers ? ?

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Remember the Apple Watch will act as a remote video viewfinder and control to an iPhone video camera. My iPhone 6+ camera sticks up out of my breast pocket very nicely. But the key technology is the gathering of biometric data.

I predict smart police badges keyed to gun access. Smart home detention monitors delivering data on client drug usage directly to PO's Smart carcams which will call an ambulance. Security and surveillance coordination systems that do not require large glowing screens. "Marauder's Maps" for labor supervision.

Apple took over the graphics market because they had a true operating system with a universal scripting language. Imagine if every Windows user could easily connect functions between every Windows program using MS Basic. This made it very easy for enterprises to automate systems using any software, and the Apple Watch can do the same for biometric data even if it currently needs a seperate transmitter.
I think the Apple watch can mean more. In an internet of things kind of way. Like open your door for you and turn on the lights of your house when you get home. Remind you that you forgot to buy eggs on your way home when you are approaching your favorite grocery store. Tell you when your plants need watered. Or that you forgot to turn off your stove and would you like to turn it off remotely. Mostly the timely reminding of things you need to do. I imagine that is what apple is shooting for. Whether or not it works out will depend on how useful it is and that depends on what it is connected to that can do those things. So apple goes for high end customers that can afford to buy all those things of the internet. If it works eventually the watches will be much cheaper If not Apple has gotten back at least part of the R&D
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Apple to enable iPhone users to block ads

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/c84a647e ... z3ckAcGSBB

Changes planned for iOS 9, the operating system that will be pushed out later this year, include “Content Blocking Safari Extensions”, according to documents shared with app makers this week at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.

“Content blocking gives your extensions a fast and efficient way to block cookies, images, resources, pop-ups and other content,” Apple says in documentation for developers.

Apple believes that privacy and security are among its greatest differentiators against Google’s Android mobile platform, which as the main rival to iOS runs on more than three-quarters of all smartphones sold. Tim Cook, Apple chief executive, last week declared his belief in a “fundamental right to privacy” in a barnstorming speech in Washington DC.
Apple is launching a search engine to destroy Google

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Code: Select all

re.execute("s/destroy/hopefully steal 10% of the market/g")
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noddy wrote:

Code: Select all

re.execute("s/destroy/hopefully steal 10% of the market/g")

noddy, what's this ? .. Zionist again spyin on Iran ? :lol:


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Scientists Have Broken One of the Biggest Limits in Fibre Optic Networks
One of the biggest limitations in ultrafast fibre optic communications is that even optical signals can weaken over long distances, which requires expensive electronic regenerators (repeaters) to be placed along the route to boost the signal. But what if you didn’t need those? Future networks could be both faster and cheaper.
Brilliant.
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Coordinated attack cuts high-capacity fiber optic internet lines for 11th time this year
The FBI is looking into the latest act of vandalism on fiber optic internet lines in California, which took place earlier this week. For the 11th time this year, vandals gained access to high-capacity fiber optic cables and cut them, causing widespread service outages in the San Francisco area. The FBI is calling this a coordinated attack in which three different cables were severed around the same time.
Hmmm.
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Researchers build first working memcomputer prototype
(Tech Xplore)—A combined team of researchers from the University of California and Politecnico di Torino in Italy has built, for the first time, a working memory-crunching computer (memcomputer) prototype. It is capable, the team reports in their paper published in the journal Science Advances, of solving the NP-complete version of the subset sum problem.
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Spenglerman takes a bite of the Apple.

A rare agreement. When it comes to Apple products and environment, count me out.

Acquired a LG G4 mobile phone with Android 5.1 before my current trip. So far, rather pleased with it.
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