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by devx 13y ago
If this is indeed the work of Flexycore, there are some explanations here, although they don't go into a lot of details either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEAz9fRoDmA&list=UUowARqiVYk...
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by devx 13y ago
The description about Feinstein is wrong. She didn't backtrack about anything. She's only pretending to do it, while passing Newspeak bills with backdoors that codify and legalize NSA's mass spying. https://www.eff
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by devx 13y ago
The problem is even chip makers don't support their own devices that long. For example Qualcomm only supported their own chip the Snapdragon S3 only for 18 months, which is why when HTC used it in the HTC One S in 2012, it was already
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by devx 13y ago
With people like the POTUS, the Chief of the Intelligence Committee, and half of Congress backing them, not to mention most of the military industrial complex, who needs "supporters"?
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by devx 13y ago
No, the JDK.
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by devx 13y ago
The Linux kernel 3.10 in Android 4.4 should support "device tree". I wonder if that will make it easier for OEM's to make "master images", at least for their own devices, which should make upgrading their own device
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by devx 13y ago
Hacker News 2 is virtually perfect.
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by devx 13y ago
Some new design stuff, too: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RomanNurik/posts/EURexV9yF32 http://phandroid.com/2013/10/31/android-kit-kat-videos/
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by devx 13y ago
Someone you should tell them about the mother of all security bugs: NSA has full access to their datacenters. They might want to fix that one first, before caring about the tiny little ones. It doesn't look like they are in a hurry to
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by devx 13y ago
Will they use EME/DRM to make them undeleteable, too? http://blog.notevencode.com/posts/html5-eme-is-not-a-drm-sta...
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by devx 13y ago
Good. So what are they going to do about it? 1) join StopWatching.us and start lobbying Congress for real anti-NSA reforms, while creating big public campaigns about it, like they did for SOPA and the ITU reunion 2) start adopting ultra-sec
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Press regulator given approval by the Queen(cityam.com)
1 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
I would even let them get away with that argument, but if they do use that argument, that means they should also be pissed off about these revelations, and realize that NSA has gone fully rogue, and they need to drastically rein in on it. A
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by devx 13y ago
I'm sure their intention was not to be used for nefarious purposes, but that doesn't mean NSA/FBI/Congress won't try to portray it as such. But anyway, I'm starting to get the feeling this issue is taking too m
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by devx 13y ago
On Chrome you can use an extension like iReader to format it nicely: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ireader/ppelffpjgk... Yours does look a little nicer, though. You should make it an extension.
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by devx 13y ago
They mentioned having a "web of trust" to help fight spam. But if you use that, doesn't it mean someone like NSA, who can get everyone's public keys (which I assume is what they're going to use for this, just like f
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by devx 13y ago
Unfortunately, not only do a lot of US citizens still support such practices (I think around 40 percent - as long as they mention "to protect you from terrorists"), but most of the rest who don't agree with the practices,
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by devx 13y ago
Also agreed. It's for the same reason I don't like the name darknet. The FBI was already lobbying Congress and saying the Internet is "going dark", implying that they thought that will scare congress into acting, and g
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by devx 13y ago
Here, Google - show us how much you care about user privacy and security, and join Lavabit and Silent Circle's alliance for the "Dark Mail" protocol: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013&#x2F
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by devx 13y ago
I'm hoping Google ends up buying the ECC patents from Blackberry and then make them public domain or at least say they will allow everyone to use them for free and with no consequences. I know they want to buy some stuff from Blackberr
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by devx 13y ago
Which is exactly why I don't understand why Mozilla would support this, instead of backing VP8? They just end up making MPEG-LA stronger, which is bad news for Daala, too, for whenever it will arrive. For Daala to succeed, MPEG-LA bett
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by devx 13y ago
Wow, this seems like a very backwards move. Just when the truly open source VP8 was set to go in WebRTC, we're opening the discussion about putting h.264 in there again? Why?! This seems like a very short sighted move.
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ACLU: The USA FREEDOM Act is Real Spying Reform(aclu.org)
2 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
Wouldn't that happen anyway if they do that next year?
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by devx 13y ago
> USA is neither for or against something , USA has interests Sure, but his point and the point of the author was that they have been hypocritical about it, and making people believe that they are for certain things, such as democrac
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by devx 13y ago
Doesn't let NSA spy on it anymore? That should save some bandwidth.
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by devx 13y ago
Yeah, unreachable without FTL travel.
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Zombie CISPA bill pushes forward with NSA support(salon.com)
2 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
So maybe Obama needs to stop protecting them, as a first step, and allow real panel reviews and Congress to rein in on them, instead of opposing it as much as possible, and asking politicians like Dianne Feinstein to fighting against limiti
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by devx 13y ago
Yes it does, and PG is allowing everyone to have basically an infinite amount of flagging now. It used to be that if you used it more than 10-20 times (maybe in a period of time), you would have the ability removed.

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