Posts by Chris_J

Re: Your observation is flawed

Why do you consider a self signed certificate worthless? I don't see how paying a 3rd party to sign your cert with their trusted root certificate makes things anymore secure, it just means browsers trust them by default.

If you add the self signed cert to your trusted certificates you'll know if someones trying to spoof your host or something funny is going on.

Re: "You really are becoming the replacement Eadon"

Hmm this path and files within feels very *nix like to me: /Windows/System32/drivers/etc

Thats on a Windows 7 system.

Surely if it was a pure in house MS implementation they would lump all that into a central registry?

Re: Pipe(lined?) dream

Bitcoin mining profitability pretty much boils down to the cost of the electricity you use to run whatever hardware your mining on.

People who pay for their 'leccy have moved to FPGA and now ASICS for this reason.

Since its the customers footing the electric bill GPU mining would still have been worth it for the rouge dev had he gotten away with it.

Bitcoin already has this in the form of the blockchain which contains every transaction ever transacted on the network.

Law enforcement don't even need a warrant as its publicly accessible.

Re: Broadband is too cheap!

@Blane, totally agree, I was a happy be* broadband customer for years. Be bent over backwards to try and get the highest speed from my bad line, they spent weeks tweaking profiles to get the best, stable speeds and supported me when using my own router.

Cant Imagine Sky doing that.

@AC, I dont work for EE but rent & colo a few servers and appreciate the cost of bandwidth...

Re: Go with it

Trouble is the FBI's jurisdiction (In its eyes) and other three letter agencies doesn't end at their borders.

I doubt any of the servers were on US soil, to be honest I dont think it matters where the servers are they are still vulnerable to intercept legal or otherwise by Government agencies.

Re: 1337??

A 26 letter alphabet isn't enough these days to express ones prowess or "leetness" so the interwebz have mangled numbers and other characters into a new alphabet to somehow elevate themselves above all the normal people who have agreed to standardise on English (are there other "leetspeaks" which are based on other languages???)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

Re: Hm, I'm not getting it

Advertisers are keen to get in early in emerging markets where big brands are not yet established. Think of washing powder, most westerners think Arial / Persil etc. brands are keen to indoctrinate that into the minds of people in emerging markets too even though people living there may not currently be able to afford your product they may at some point in future and as a brand you want to build that association early before your competitors get a chance to.

Re: Power Brick

Also makes it easier to distribute the same console to 110V and 240V regions. Just package a different power brick with different transformer taps.

Re: So how does it get onto the system?

Agreed but what happens if the repository is compromised as has happened recently with ProFTPd?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/02/proftpd_backdoored/

Then the simple act of updating your system from a supposedly trusted source can infect your system.

Don't get me wrong, I much prefer the centralised Linux way of updating software but we are placing a lot of trust in the repos

Re: you want a ROM with pdroid support compiled etc blah blah blah

In an ideal world that would be nice, unfortunately thats not the case so while you wait for that to happen I will be using Pdroid and my phone wont be leaking any info I dont let it.

The choice is yours, I was just stating that there are options out there to protect your info, now.

I partially agree with you, but...

Facebook are in a similar position to Microsoft in that they have the users and data already. I dont think there will be the mass exodus people are predicting when the next social networking fad comes along as peaople will be reluctant to move their data to it and rebuild connections. Also why would you when everyones already on facebook?

Sounds very similar to MS lock in on software and data formats that has massively helped it keep its dominant position.