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Comment I did (Score 2) 54

Their products are actually very good. This seems to be a case of social engineering, not a technical security breach. Social Enginering is very hard to defend against, since humans are involved. Both high ranking and minimum wage types can be too trusting and / or gullible.

Comment Re:The inherent problem with electronic voting (Score 2) 116

RFID makes it a less likely that a party can print their own ballots. Also, the ballots have two cut-away pieces. The first one is cut off when the voting authority hands you the blank ballot. They keep it. The second one gets cut off just before you place the vote in the urn. They are physically placed one next to each other. They have printed symbols on them which must match up, or they don't let you place the ballot in the urn. This also prevents parties from printing and handing out pre-filled ballots.

Comment Re:The E-Voting is not really an E-Voting System (Score 2) 116

Not entirely true. The system works by printing the ballot and writing the data to a chip on the ballot. When voting is over, all the chips are scanned and the results sent to a central location. The system allows the voter to both read what got printed on the ballot and scan the chip and see the results on-screen again.
There is one machine per voting place (school) that is use to transfer the results from all the voting machines at that school to the central DB. The SSL keys from all of these machines where "found" at a machine controlled by Magic Software Argentina because it was misconfigured.
Most of the source code for the voting machine was also posted anonymously on SourceForge some days ago. It wasn't the latest version according to MSA, but pretty new none the less.

Comment Re: m0n0wall (Score 1) 193

I used m0n0wall for a couple of years and it worked great. The I switched to UNTANGLE for more features and never looked back. It needs a bit more hardware, but not much if it's just a home network.
And if you need even more features, there is a commercial version. The free one will be more than OK for home use.

Comment Nexenta with Napp-it or Solaris Express with Napp- (Score 1) 260

If you don't care about the electricity costs, Illumian, NexentaCore, OpenIndiana or Solaris 11 with Napp-it on top makes a great ZFS file server. If has native CIFS (Windows) file sharing and can share AFS (Apple) and NFS with no problem. ZFS is by far the best file system around, and lets you combine different size drives with no problems. Napp-it turns the whole thing into a web managed appliance.
You can even stream with the minidlna (lightweight), ushare or mediatomb addons! Rock solid and very fast if you give it ample RAM.

Comment Nokia should have partnered with HP (Score 1) 246

HP controls WebOS (ex Palm), which is a great OS in need of a company with the muscle that Nokia has in the mobile market to get it rolling. A deal with HP would have given Nokia access to an OS with a great foundation on which to build. HP is coming out with great tablets and a couple of nice phones, which if they teamed up with Nokia could be Great phones in 6 months or less. I dont know how cash strapped Nokia really is, maybe they needed Microsoft's $$ in a bad way, but I think a deal with HP would have been a lot better in the long run. Windows mobile has a lot of baggage and a really bad rep. No amount of money is going to solve those problems any time soon. WebOS suffers from none of those problems, and has the allure of the new and shiny.

Wireless Networking

Submission + - Wireless HDMI at 1080p, Lag-Free WHDI Tested (hothardware.com) 1

MojoKid writes: "Wireless HDMI technologies have finally come of age. Though there are two camps currently in the market (Intel's WiDi and WHDI), the bottom line is lag-free full HD 1080p wireless HDMI video/audio transmission is now a reality. No longer does an HTPC need to be shoehorned into the confines of the entertainment center. Also, that notebook you have perched on the coffee table just got a major display upgrade. This demo of the Asus WiCast and the briteView HDelight wirless HDMI transmitter kits, shows the technology in action and it's impressive actually. Both of these WHDI-based kits utilize the same family of Amimon WHDI transmitter and receiver chipsets. The technology is capable of full 1080p HD video and Dolby Digital surround sound audio transmissions, over distances of up to 30 feet with less than a millisecond of latency."

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