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Fake Name Generator 13 years ago

Finnish names were very good. Only thing that was a little off was the car models, which seemed very US centric. Car models have lot of regional variants (big differences in naming US vs EU vs Asia)

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On Hacking MicroSD Cards 13 years ago

So, could this mean that one could theoretically wire a MicroSD card directly into ethernet plug and with some voodoo harness PoE to create an ethernet plug with busybox on it?

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I know none of my passwords 13 years ago

Here's I work with free Keepass:

1) setup your password store up with a strong password and a key file

2) keep your keyfile on your local machine and a backup on usb etc, not cloud

3) now you can backup your db into cloud eg. spideroak, dropbox

4) on your other machine (work laptop, mobile, ..) copy in the key file, sync the db from the cloud

Now, you have a password manager that works on all of your devices - syncing automatically, safely.

This works for me. I know where the db is at (which cloud provider) and can be sure it's inaccessible without the key file + password. Any thoughts?

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GCHQ report on 'Mullenize' program to 'stain' anonymous electronic traffic 13 years ago

"[redacted] mechanism that leverages GCHQ's huge passive SIGINT access to deliver CNE payloads to targets."

It doesn't sound very passive, if they are delivering content to target machines trough this. If we are discussing "evercookie", this would mean they could have capability to modify http traffic and inject "evercookie code" into it. If they do have capability todo this, it would sound more feasible than actually owning the target machines and using rootkits/malware to deliver things.

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Don't trust me: I might be a spook 13 years ago

ah, but it's plausible cperciva is connected to a suspected terrorist and might be using the magazine stand in the dentists waiting room for dead drops..

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OpenBR – An open face recognition/biometry library 13 years ago

Not too paranoid, considering the front page of this project says "OpenBR is a collaborative research project started by The MITRE Corporation". What is MITRE?

http://www.mitre.org/work/hs_sedi/ : Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute—or HS SEDI ...

http://www.mitre.org/work/intel.html : Just about all of MITRE's engineering and science disciplines are involved with improving our sponsors' intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) activities.

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Poll: Do you encrypt your email? 13 years ago

I'd like to, but it's too much trouble and noone else doesn't so it's pointless..

To echo some of the comments here, I think the main factors making this (PGP, GPG usage) unfeasible at the moment is:

1) Too hard for casual users (=others don't use it)

2) PGP/GPG is ridiculously difficult when using webmail or mobile email clients.

3) Your email usabiliy suffers. With this I'm referring to your ability to search your emails. Once you are using encryption, you can't find anything in it, unless the email is decrypted and saved plain in your email storage.

The usability part is actually forgotten quite a few times in discussion, but I think it's a big problem. If you opt to decrypt and save it, this would be ok, if it happens on your client (local db), but not stored remotely (eg. webmail/imap box). This problem comes with a whole lot of issues attached.

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Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper 13 years ago

you can adjust the limit at which point it alerts you. You can set when the alert will go off area that have below 80km/h speed and those with speed over 80km/h. Mine is set to ping on 15km/h+ on the slower areas and 18km/h+over on the higher.

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Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper 13 years ago

Long time ago I had an old Windows phone, HTC Diamond and some other wierd pda/phone type thing that was awful. Since that I went "Android" - I've used HTC Hero, Desire, Xperia Arc and Xperia S. Now I'm using Lumia 920 I got from my workplace.

I used to think that Google Maps was great, but after using Nokia's HERE maps I have to say, HERE is better. Not sure if it's the hardware, but first of all it's A LOT faster than Google Maps ever was. Secondly, HERE maps work offline (altough I just heard Google is finally enabling this with their maps).

Without wanting to sound like fanboy, the 920 is a great phone: it just works. The UX is better than in android, mainly because different apps all follow same guidelines on how to implement UI navigation/actions.

On the android phones I had, most of the time it was "free for all" with the UX as different manufacturers and devs implemented their own ideas on how nav/actions should work.

Other things I can say about 920: battery time is great, wifi (and wifi sharing) work flawlessly, sound quality is great both ways and the _camera_ is best I ever used in a mobile phone. It just puts all other mobile phones to shame.

I'm looking forwards to 1020 and hope to get one when they are available.

Only bad thing I can say is the Windows store and apps. I miss quite a few apps I used on my android phones. It's a shame so many devs only focus on apple/android.

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The NSA slide you haven’t seen 13 years ago

With "Upstream" mentioned in the slide, it doesn't matter what company you use. As long as your data goes trough a cable that's monitored, everything is owned.

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Prism Break 13 years ago

With systems like Tempora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora in place and the main goal of intelligence organizations (probably around the whole world) being to "know all information", the only way to be safe from losing your secrets is not to disclose them in any electronic form on the net. Simple as that.

And with your "secrets", I mean any piece of information you don't want them to know: email, websites you visit, mobile phone calls (and locations)...

Since Echelon/PRISM/Tempora/etc is practically public knowledge at this point, I would imagine that most "real terrorists" have also deduced the above facts and are living by them, making the whole exercise a fishing expedition paid with regular Joe's privacy and tax money...

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