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    Encryption Backdoors For Cops Put Internet Security At Risk

    Yes, strong encryption will make it more difficult for law enforcement to do it's job. But so does the Miranda ruling. And the presumption of innocence. And a whole host of other protections written into the US Constitution and laws. That is one of the prices of freedom. Yes, freedom is not free.
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    In Wake Of Hack, No Federal Background Checks

    Somebody really said the problem is that they didn't have enough money to encrypt their data? Really? The Federal Government is literally rolling in money. There's so much of it they are busy 100% of the time coming up with ways to spend it. It's apparent the person that said this has never...
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    Robots Getting Married In Japan

    This way too stupid, even for [H].
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    America's ISPs Suck, And AT&T Sucks Worst

    At least these people have Internet access. I'm on CenturyLink DSL, and they have oversold the capacity in my area so badly that the switch drops our connection all the time. If I reset the modem I can get it back for a while, but not for long. Sometimes for only 5 minutes. I've called customer...
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    3D Printing 3D Printers With 3D Printers

    The most important parts, the extruder head and the electronics/firmware can't be printed. So no, you didn't print a 3d printer with a 3d printer. This headline is just clickbait.
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    Hi-Tech Car Thieves Use Cheap Jamming Devices To Steal Cars

    That could easily be circumvented by having the repeater take care of the keyfob response too. A better idea, but not fool proof, would be to make them frequency agile. This would add a bit of expense, but would make creating a repeater much more difficult, depending on the sophistication of the...
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    Jeremy Clarkson And Company Moving To Netflix?

    Brilliant!
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    Joke About Hacking Plane Gets Passenger Detained By FBI

    OK, so sidestepping the who issue of whether the authorities did the right thing or not, I noticed that everybody assumes that this guy could actually do what he claims. Usually followed by questions of why this has not been "fixed" yet. But so far I have not seen any evidence that anybody has...
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    Congress Cannot Be Taken Seriously On Cybersecurity

    The only thing congressmen know is how to get themselves elected, and how to enrich themselves at our expense.
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    Funny Video of the Day

    No wonder I don't get invited to these kind of meetings. My answer would be "Hey, retard, your requirements don't make sense!"
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    In-Flight Wi-Fi Is A 'Direct Link' To Hackers

    The flight and entertainment systems do not share a common tcp/ip network, so in that sense they are isolated. However, there is only a single satellite link, which they have to share. There are multiple, overlapping systems in place to ensure that data is properly routed and to prevent leakage...
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    World's Biggest IT Spender: Walmart

    They probably saw the Target debacle and thought if they spent a whole lot of money they could avoid something similar.
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    Cool Video of the Day

    Reality does not exist.
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    Bank Is Replacing Passwords With Your Heartbeat

    Once again, a lot of ignorant ramblings here. I wish people would just STFU when they didn't know what they were talking about. Obviously this would not work if you just recorded the EKG raw, however there are elements of your heartbeat that are unique and would not change with rate. Most would...
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    Sadly This Hard Drive Is Designed For Servers, Not Your Laptop

    You don't know what you are talking about. I've worked on this drive technology specifically. The media, heads, and drive electronics are exactly the same as on their PMR drives. Only the firmware is different. In the lab we could switch the same drive from PMR to SMR and vice versa with a...
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