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I tend to have ways to remember passwords, so I never need this, but ok your use case makes sense. Thanks for sharing!
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Politics in this country (U.S. -- especially, if also elsewhere) has been coopted by a... "religious fervor". To our detriment. It appears, at least in the reported news, to have drowned out the rational thought and decision making that are central to an effective political environment.

We have a similar relationship to professional sports teams. For many, it is of paramount importance to "root" for "your team". And... many of these people do not actually play, themselves.

There may be "no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion". But we should all seek and use such thresholds when accepting political opinions.

Just in many professional areas of life, your success or failure will be marked not by blind obeisance but rather by critical thinking.
Right, right, you can tie a second USB together and rig up something like they do with some external drives. It'd be nice if the next devkits shipped with something like that.
To see how incorrect that statement is, look at every other democracy in the world. Only two two-party democracies. Every other democratic country but like Jamaica is 3 parties or greater.
One issue with this is that some sites need to allow iframes from a whitelist of other sites (e.g. facebook apps). I'm working on a solution right now with the Referer header (which points to the container site on initial iframe load). This solution is complicated a little by navigation within the whitelisted iframe, but that should be fixable with cookies (e.g. an "original_referer" cookie).
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This is without doubt a reason for concern.

To be fair to them, however, the security of this platform is comparable [1] to that of many users who are willing to download (and update) arbitrary Greasemonkey scripts and browser plugins to achieve the same thing without ever a glance at the source.

For those of us who might perform such an inspection there is, of course, a difference.

Their comment (from their FAQ page) is:

> Can I trust modified sites with my private information? What about my logins and passwords?

> We care about, and do a great deal to ensure our users’ privacy and security. You can trust our service in the same way you trust your emails with Gmail or files with Dropbox. Trust is at the essence of our platform.

> If you write a Mod yourself, you can be 100% certain it is secured and your data is protected.

> We constantly review Mods that have been created to make sure they are safe to use. If we have even the slightest doubt, the Mod is immediately suspended. In addition, in case of reported abuse, the Mod in question is immediately removed.

[1]: With rather some counterpoints and nuances of course, from lack of SSL cert identity (hell they don't even have HTTPS) to potential compromise of Tomodo's servers at any time.

Edit: Also, supposedly, code sharing and review features are on the way - with the caveat of still having to place some trust in Tomodo, this might allow for more transparency. Similarly, given the nature of the mods, it might even be possible to throw up one's own self-hosted server/service to use Tomodo mods. Should be fun to find out. :)
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I was anticipating this objection, and no, they are not big ideological abstractions. They are not quite concretes, but very, very close.
Why would you assume I eat bigmacs and drink coke? I don't eat fast food unless I'm traveling. My diet consists mostly of rice, vegetables, and lean meat. You're putting up a false dichotomy here, i.e. Soylent vs. Standard North American Diet.
If you dig into it, you're probably looking at a relatively small subset of District Attorney/State Attorneys whose offices handle a high volume of cases.

Look at anyone like a cop, nurse, teacher, CPS worker, etc that works in a highly dysfunctional community, you'll find that some folks get really jaded and start to see things that don't really exist. The things that these people see are horrible and some folks can't cut it. It's hard to unsee the 30-40 active child abuse cases that a Chicago CPS worker deals with every week, and the support structures in the organizations are often nonexistent, which allows bad behavior to take place.

They stop thinking of the people in the community as people and see them as perps. Potentially exonerating evidence is perceived as a speed-bump or excuse.
I believe it was written at Stanford. That caltech site describes how to use it.

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~abh/bbcp
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Decompile the apk with one of a number of tools (apktool, baksmali). Least that would be what I would do.
Pretty sure Google's own lawyers told Samsung the design was too close before it was even released.
Well yes, isn't that basically what 'keeping your integrity' boils down to?

Not all that different than 'If you don't act on your principles, you don't have any principles.'
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Is LowEndBox and actual provider or just a listing service? The two don't even appear similar to me.
Completely off topic to otherwise excellent discussion, but funny how "nihilists" were the first thing he flagged up.

I can't think of nihilists without thinking of The Big Lebowski.
http://assets.sbnation.com/imported_assets/81096/nihilists.j...
> I wonder if Michael Hayden reads any of this?

Probably not, but at least we know that he has it gathered so that if he (or any of his eventual successors) wants to read it later, he (or they) can.
Set up a proxy setup pointed to a squid or whatnot that logs request. Use tcpdump on the router. If you have a rooted Android device you can use tcpdump there, or instrument the HTTP framework code to log requests, or...

But assuming you have control of your home network and aren't just using a Linksys thing out of the box, just logging into the router and watching traffic is by far the most straightforward.
If you could actually see Wi-Fi, this is what it would look like
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The inexorable march of Atwood Law.
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Its like:

1) Government Employee A uses wire taps, NSA, any evidence finding method at all including inadmissable evidence, illegally aquired evidence, or classified means to collect data

2) Government Employee A anonymously calls Government Employee B and gives them specific actionable tip that Government Employee B is aware is already vetted by a Government Employee and hence is highly reliable

3) Government Employee B uses specific tip to gather further evidence, then using all available evidence sources constructs an alternative 'plausible' but false way that the evidence trail was generated, and presents this to the jury as truth... the prosecutor and judge may or may not be made aware of the true investigation/evidence trail

4) Government officially endorses this method as standard policy
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Rackspace's gross margin is 72.95%[0] and they are (or were) considered 'fat' (look at the margin trend in that chart to see how they have improved)

Some estimate AWS's margins are up around 80% [1]

Competition, low cost hardware, building their own stack, open source etc. mean better pricing for us users

[0] http://ycharts.com/companies/RAX/gross_profit_margin

[1] http://blog.profitbricks.com/the-fake-cloud-price-war/
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> There are certainly objective, measurable facts relevant to any particular question, but political debate rarely focuses on those; it's usually a contest among people pursuing different ends

That is true only for a few set of issues, like abortion, immigration, etc. I'm socialistic-inclined and my neighbors are mostly republicans, I usually start conversations with them by saying "Look, we both want the same thing: we want the greatest amount of people in America to be eating well, being well-educated, living in dignified places... we just disagree on how we can get there". Then we discuss -- and we get along surprisingly well.
Not really. Most offers on LEB and LET are from recognised and proven providers. There are some fly-by-night providers that pop up over summer and disappear, but actually reading the offers on LEB will tell you how long the company has been offering their services for and how often they post deals.

I lurked for less than a day on Lowendtalk and got an idea of the most respected/high quality hosts such as:

BuyVM
ChicagoVPS
Prometeus (and IperWeb)
HTTPZoom
Iniz
Ramnode

I've had a box with most of these (apart from Ramnode which is highly regarded) and i can say i've had an awesome experience.
It's not an overreaction, it's the agenda.
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Ah I sit corrected - but Libby was the one that got the dodgy presidential pardon no?
Yes. The Obama fiasco has been a huge disappointment. I'm interested in ideas about what could have been done differently -- Obama talked a very good game during his candidacy about issues of this sort. The really big indicator he was being dishonest was the post-election flip-flop over unwarranted wiretaps.

Only picking candidates that have a track record of opposition to programs like this would be good, but such candidates are in very short supply. (Feingold is about the only one that comes to mind.)
The downvotes only proves your right.
>passwords [...] are stored in reversible form

Please show me a password manager which does NOT store passwords in a reversible form. Hint: it's not possible.
Are you on XP with IE6 or something? IE uses the Windows credential store nowadays, which requires you to reenter your logon password before it will expose your password....
Obvious troll is obvious?
It just lists offers from actual providers.
Self-serving self promotion: I work for a small little shop that does conference recordings, so If you need help figuring out that side of things, you can shoot me an email at chris at intelliquestmedia dot com.

We're based in the States, but the owner is a Brit. I'm sure he'd jump at an excuse to head back and do some recording in the UK.
Did you have any reason to think that was true, other than what Obama was saying at the time?

You mean, like, his voting record in Congress?
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There are also people that using information coming through "fusion counterterrorism centers" to initiate civil forfeiture cases - having nothing to do with terrorism, but enjoying very little protection for the victim once the word "terrorism" is said.

If NSA total surveillance is used in this manner - imagine the possibilities. You take a large sum of cash out of your bank account - or mention to a friend you're going to do a large purchase this weekend. The surveillance dragnet alerts the local authorities, they stop you for traffic violations, take the cash and the car and any valuable property that is on you and now you face the prospect of very costly and unsure legal battle to get it back - since forfeiture cases have no presumption of innocence and no requirement of criminal conviction, and to invoke terror clauses you only need terror-related investigation going on - and as NSA has recently explained us, literally everything is relevant for terror investigations and thus can be considered "related".

If you think I'm exaggerating, read this:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_...
This is already happening, albeit small scale. Anti-terror information centers are already being used for it. But total surveillance makes this kind of abuse much easier to perpetrate on a scale.

As for those being "the few" - if they are so small group, why the "good guys" don't stop them? It looks like many of those maybe wouldn't do it themselves, but they have very little against it being done right next to them and against benefitting from it.
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This document proves that the meme is false and that Apple did not attempt to protect 'rounded corners'.

Apple asserted a design patent that protects the overall appearance of the iPhone - the 'trade dress'. Rounded corners are one of many attributes that describe the appearance of the iPhone. If you copy enough attributes - as the court ruled that Samsung did, you have copied the appearance.

Taking a single element out of context is a lie that Samsung originated, designed to give the appearance that Apple attempted to protect a ridiculously broad concept which the documents show that they did not do.
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"the new zealand developer who discovered this flaw"??? It's just a settings page. I've been using this "flaw" to retrieve saved passwords that I forgot for ages.

Before this feature, I used to have to use auto-fill and then sniff the id of the password field and type javascript:alert(document.getElementById('password').value) in the address bar.

If you have a highly secure password, don't allow your browser to save it. Once your browser has saved it, I don't mind if it's easily accessible instead of complicatedly accessible...
The marketing (you call it hype) is definitely part of the success. You could envision DO becoming a Rackspace but not so with many/all LEB providers.
Thanks for the link, this looks like a fun way to try out LiveScript! :)
>This second aspect is particularly dangerous in that he seeks to incite and provoke the very threat that he spends so much effort warning us about. He ruthlessly exploits our tribalistic, pack-animal ancestry, conjuring up hostile groups where none exist; engineering conflict in a callous game of divide-and-conquer.

I don't understand. In one breath, you're saying such a provocative statement is welcome and even "laudable," but in the next, you're saying it's dangerous.

> although his analysis of the situation is enormously telling

Also, when one is truly "being provocative," you're not allowed to use their statements as evidence to their opinions.

Can we just call a spade a spade and allow his xenophobic, terrified speculations to reflect him, a vestige of the boomer plight that's systematically eating away at the core of this nation?
both ChicagoVPS (for the second time in a year) and Ramnode were hacked a little over a month ago - tons of servers deleted, customer db's dumped online.

I think "sketchy" is a good characterization when a pick of the "best" hosts have severe problems.
Last time I traveled abroad I used Airbnb. When I arrived at the airport, Google Now gave me direction (by rail!) to the apartment I had rented. Spooky.
Agreed.

I was pretty excited to see what this project was about -- then I saw they were asking for $30,000 in funding to build this and wandered off to make a snarky comment on HackerNews. I don't really want to see this kind of stuff here.

Or at the very least, it should have a subject that says something about funding, etc.
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If telcos keep the data, in personally-identifiable format, beyond what's necessary to run their networks, that itself is a problem to be solved.
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I have a great little password manager that doesn't store them reversibly. Sure, sometimes it's hassle to wait a few hours while it brute forces one, and sure, there's a temptation to use shorter passwords to make that step faster... But the increase in cryptographic security makes me feel a lot better.
I got pulled over in Atherton. I was driving a filthy 15 year old Toyota I'd bought for $800. The cop said he'd only pulled me over because "dirty cars are often stolen." I didn't get a ticket since I hadn't done anything wrong, but I really don't think he had reasonable suspicion for that stop. I'm not Hispanic, but he was basically profiling me for driving a poor person's car.
I knew that comment would open a can of worms. One might also argue that the shabby quality of education has a bit to do with it as well.

>I don't quite follow. It's not like there is some naturally occurring flow of newspapers, radio and television broadcasts that discuss with the correct, important issues in an intelligent way,

The ownership of media in the US is not as diverse as you might think. The content is also not (at least IMO) as diverse as it would be absent improper influence.

>and some sort of cabal (the media) has come in and suppressed all that

Would you believe Carl Bernstein if he told you that the CIA had operatives at all levels of major news media outlets within the US, and a history of manipulating the news? http://carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php

If not him, have a look at the Church Committee reports on intelligence activities along the same theme.

Neither is proof that the activities were continued after being caught red-handed, but, it is enough that I would consider naive the notion that the gov't/intel community had completely ceased such activities, as opposed to just being more careful. As far as I am concerned, given the past (the part that is public record) the possibility that the gov't/intel community aren't still successfully manipulating domestic media coverage can't be dismissed without a credible investigation, or credible oversight, or something to that effect. To put it another way, public exposure of NSA activities is being treated by NSA as a threat to their continued operations; and they will use the tools in their arsenal to fight that threat.

> so they could force toddlers and tiaras down their throats.

If you have a monopoly/oligopoly/cartel in a market, you can feed your customers pretty much anything, and still make a living.
I'm not trying to outclass anyone, I'm simply not sure that this is the right solution and so far I'm fully convinced by what he said. I'm sure he's way smarter than I and I'm probably missing something. Take everything I say as it is: a comment on the internet.

This being said, security through obscurity is never an optimal solution, but again going back to my "safe" analogy (not unbreakable, just hard to break). If a hacker wants to change the password, it takes a few clicks to locate a site where the user could be logged in. Then the clicks required to get a new password. Add the delay of email reception and so on... It takes more time and effort to do that than just click "show me all the passwords" and take a photo with a smartphone. Plus doing so will give you 1 password only.

About the keyboard presses count, let's say I use both mouse and keyboard.

ctrl+, (shortcut to settings)
click to advanced
click to manage
click show

It's 4 operations. In my opinion, it's way shorter to do that and get ALL the passwords of a given user than try to change the Facebook password. Again, and I'm really stressing this out, it's not about making an unbreakable system. It's just making it a bit harder to break.
If you know the 'hint' is 50% likely to be true, and the 'hint' is specific enough to check this person at this time, in this place, and the 'hint' provider and the 'hint' acceptor are all working for the same government and are aware of this fact...

then how does this differ from the government just using whatever means it wants to collect whatever evidence it wants and pretending that it didnt?
>They are employing the same tools used by hackers to spy on United States citizens without probable cause or warrant.

Correction: They're employing the same hackers.
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This Inc. article (and the quoted NYT article) describes the initial scene very well. It started as a friends and family word-of-mouth viral loop that got into one particular SoCal high school of a founder's cousin and then quickly propagated to other SoCal high schools big time (3,000 to 30,000 DAU in a month) as a way for passing notes. They hired a community manager after they hit a critical mass. http://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/real-origins-of-snapcha...
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A lot of security issues start at one seemingly innocuous little toehold and then use, abuse, and combine the hell out of it to do surprising and obviously-undesirable things with it. That's what I find so beautiful about this sort of hack.
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It's both. The news isn't pushing a particular agenda, they'll take anything that pushes people's buttons and grabs their eyeballs, whether it's this or another missing white girl.
You sound like an angry OS X / iOS developer trying to make a name for himself. This is old news, and I find it odd how you've decided to focus all of the attention on Chrome even though other browsers operate in a similar way. And frankly, if you’re dumb enough to let someone use your computer, after you've knowingly saved your passwords on it, you deserved to get hacked. Operating system profiles should be common knowledge by now.
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That was the most interesting thing I've read in a while.
I think the data in question is more likely to be feature usage statistics of the sort that show that when a browser does has a master password option, something less than 2% of users set it, and half of those unset it after they realize they're going to be prompted for it over and over and over all day.
For the right-hand rule, a vile insult: take the cross-product of the thumb and forefinger of your right hand and rotate on it.

Look, Joshua Foer says that emotional imagery is more likely to stick...
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Saying that evolutions answers where we come from is a little like traveling to another country, and when a local asks "where did you come from?" answering "the airport".
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People weren't aware of this already? I thought it was just a (bad) feature.
If Chrome uses "whatever encrypted storage the system provides" why aren't the credentials stored in the OSX keychain or the Windows Credential Manager, where the user has to re-enter their login password to see them...
> Transparency first involves coming clean. Not a little bit at a time, not only when you have to, but complete disclosure about everything.

I have this uneasy feeling that they will fight this as long as they can. I'm not sure true transparency will ever happen, without drastic measures.

Their strategy will probably be:

1) Wait for the end of the revelations

2) Assess the level of public outrage

3) Make the cheapest concessions possible (a bit like Ms Merkel recently canceling the old "spying pact" that was never used)
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The biggest benefit I see for identifying frequently-visited locations is that it provides a shortcut for the system to narrow your location down much more accurately without relying on the full GPS+WiFi location-based tracking.

WiFi network + frequent location can probably put you at your house, your office, or your bus stop almost instantaneously (with corrections coming as GPS updates), meaning that using location-based services like Find my iPhone, map routing, or (my most frequent use case) nearest bus stops and their times, can be accomplished much faster and with less battery life.

Likewise, a poor GPS location + frequent locations can narrow you down much faster even with WiFi turned off.

As long as this data is stored only on my phone and not provided wholesale to applications, I'm fine with it; otherwise, it's concerning.