the_flyswatter - Slashdot User

Comment Thank you Tom Tom (Score 1) 422

by the_flyswatter on Thursday April 28, 2011 @03:37PM (#35967434) Attached to: GPS Maker TomTom Submits Your Speed Data To Police

You've narrowed my choices. I'm in the market for a new GPS, and now I know which brand I will WON'T and will NEVER purchase! Nor will anyone else I know if I have my way! Why do companies think that making it so-called "anonymous" makes it ok to track your every move without consent?

Comment Canada too? (Score 2, Informative) 245

by the_flyswatter on Thursday February 11, 2010 @06:14PM (#31105990) Attached to: European Credit and Debit Card Security Broken

According to http://www.visa.ca/chip/cardholders/emvstandard/index.jsp, the EMV Chip & PIN standard is also used in Canada, not just Europe.

Comment Re:My company went with truecrypt (Score 2, Insightful) 125

by the_flyswatter on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @07:11PM (#24504291) Attached to: Whole Disk Encryption For Vista?

Now if we can just figure out how to prevent them from keeping the password written on a sticky note.

This is exactly why we need two-factor authentication for the encryption to be secure. If the password is too complex/long, it will be written down. If it's too easy/short, the password can be brute forced.

And they WILL write the password down.

Inside the iPhone — 3G, ARM, OS X, 3rd Partyware 318

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 14, 2007 @02:42PM from the informed-speculation dept.

DECS writes "After heading off the top ten myths of the iPhone, Daniel Eran of RoughlyDrafted has written a series of articles looking 'Inside the iPhone,' exploring (1) why Apple didn't target faster 3G networks, (2) a substantiated look at how the iPhone is indeed running OS X (contrary to reports that it isn't), and (3) what it means to users and developers, and how ARM is involved, in Mac OS X, ARM, and iPod OS X, and why the supposedly 'closed' system Apple describes for the iPhone won't preclude third party development."

Financial Responsibility == Terrorism? 1086

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 06, 2006 @09:32PM from the utterly-speechless dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Capital Hill Blue is reporting that recently a retired Texas schoolteacher and his wife had a little run in with the Department of Homeland Security. The crime? Paying down some debt. From the article: 'The balance on their JCPenney Platinum MasterCard had gotten to an unhealthy level. So they sent in a large payment, a check for $6,522. And an alarm went off. A red flag went up. The Soehnges' behavior was found questionable. [...] They were told, as they moved up the managerial ladder at the call center, that the amount they had sent in was much larger than their normal monthly payment. And if the increase hits a certain percentage higher than that normal payment, Homeland Security has to be notified.'"

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