Comment Double speak (Score 5, Insightful) 21
There is no way to balance mass surveillance with "privacy, security, and the freedom that we enjoy in this country"
Comment Re:Meanwhile in Michigan... (Score 1) 117
The above writeup mentioned New England, Los Angeles and Utah. The first two are both exclusively Democrat run, and Utah is more purple these days.
It specifically mentioned New Hampshire, which has a very strong libertarian streak in comparison to it's New England neighbors and certainly isn't "exclusively Democrat run"
Comment Consistent strategy from the administration (Score 5, Interesting) 121
If you rewind back to COVID he wanted to limit testing so that there would be less positive cases reported. Same here with pollution.
Comment Obligatory (Score 1) 75
{S Goodbye
Comment Re:Why would CBP need to buy access? (Score 1) 100
They should have access to this data by law, for free.
There are restrictions in place on data they collect, data they purchase do not have the same protections.
Comment Missing the larger point (Score 1) 100
Many replies here that DHS either already has or should have this data miss that data purchased is not subject to the same restrictions and protections as data they collect.
Comment Re:Football Piracy? (Score 2) 48
football is the name of the game. every single country except one calls it football.
what you call football is what every single country except one calls it american football.
Australia and the Republic of Ireland also use soccer to differentiate it from the various other forms of football that exist there, not too different from America.
Fwiw, the word soccer was created at Oxford and still appears occasionally over there, i.e. the TV show SoccerAM
Comment Re:regional? solution is obvious (Score 1) 201
New England should move to Atlantic Time with Nova Scotia and the Canadian maritimes
Comment Federation is the right implementation (Score 2) 27
I've been a spamgourmet user for 25 years, and it's been perfect but...
Email as designed is fundamentally designed for a friendlier universe and thus easily exploited. To fix this email should deliver ONLY a secure link to its payload that is hosted by the sender. If I send you and email, in your email (or sms or any other delivery protocol) you get a notification: "Fishdan has sent you a message. To read it click fishdan.com/mail?recipient=you@youraddress.com&secretpin=19700101&othersexritything1=foo&othersecuritything2=bar&clientsecurity=&mysecurityclientid=918273123012
etc etc
You could even have a thing where if I want to send you a more secure email I require your browser to have a JWT (or whatever) that you only get by answering a second email. Etc etc. Contentlink is evaluated by your email client AND your browser for safety. IF it's an official certification it gets a better trust rating etc. has to match the send of the email and your email reader assigns a trust rating to it that you see when opening the email and again when following the content link.
Comment In memoriam (Score 1) 16
{S Goodbye
Comment Re: I don't understand (Score 1) 1605
Trump's mother was an immigrant, you roaster
Comment Re:civil libertarians. (Score 1) 37
Uncivil ones, as well
Submission + - Teens Hacked Boston Subway Cards to Get Infinite Free Ridesâ"and This Time, (wired.com)
UnCivil Liberty writes: Following in the footsteps of three MIT students who were previously gagged from presenting their findings at Defcon 2008 (previous Slashdot coverage here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory... here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2F... and here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F... ), two Bay State teens built on their work in hacking Boston's MBTA CharlieCard system, reverse engineering them and presenting at this year's Defcon without interference.
'the four teens extended other research done by the 2008 hacker team to fully reverse engineer the CharlieCard, the RFID touchless smart cards the MBTA uses today. The hackers can now add any amount of money to one of these cards or invisibly designate it a discounted student card, a senior card, or even an MBTA employee card that gives unlimited free rides. âoeYou name it, we can make it,â says Campbell.'
'the four teens extended other research done by the 2008 hacker team to fully reverse engineer the CharlieCard, the RFID touchless smart cards the MBTA uses today. The hackers can now add any amount of money to one of these cards or invisibly designate it a discounted student card, a senior card, or even an MBTA employee card that gives unlimited free rides. âoeYou name it, we can make it,â says Campbell.'
Comment Re: How does CNET still exist? (Score 1) 48
How does Slashdot still exist ðY
Comment Re:lasted almost as long as the internet itself (Score 1) 40
Old school
