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It's an option, and the same goes for the "draw a squiggle to unlock" thing some Android phones have.
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Keep in mind that some phones also have the default unlock combination be very simple. Mine was originally just two buttons in sequence, right next to each other, before I changed it. (I never pocket dialed anyone, but somehow it deleted one of my contacts from my pocket, which is what prompted me to change it.)
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I keep my phone in a belt holster; I would never carry it in a pocket. My wife purse-dialed me once or twice before she got an iPhone.
edited 24th Jul '15 7:17:29 AM by Fighteer
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I've never butt-dialed anyone (heh, heh, butt-dialed), but I do occassionally pull it out to find it on the "select a time zone" function or some such.
Chrysler recalls 1.4 million vehicles to prevent hacking.
Sounds like a patch (which can be hacked), not a re-write of the code to make various parts of the vehicle run on different architecture. Or am I wrong about that?
edited 24th Jul '15 9:53:52 AM by speedyboris
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It's also surprisingly easy to unlock phones if you didn't put the aforementioned squiggly lock on them.
Like, my phone gives email alerts and text alerts and stuff, and because I don't have a password, I don't even have to unlock the phone to read them. I can swipe down to my list of alerts, select one, and the phone auto-unlocks and takes me to it.
Also, on the topic of butt-dials not being private, 911 actually is the easiest butt-dial to make, because even a locked phone can call 911. It's a safety feature for emergencies, so you don't have to wrestle with remembering some ridiculous squiggle password while Bob is stabbing you to death.
edited 24th Jul '15 10:56:05 AM by TobiasDrake
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Fiat Chrysler U.S. to recall vehicles to prevent hacking
The announcement on Friday by FCA US LLC, formerly Chrysler Group LLC, was made days after reports that cybersecurity researchers used a wireless connection to turn off a Jeep Cherokee's engine as it drove, increasing concerns about the safety of Internet-enabled vehicles.
The researchers used Fiat Chrysler's (FCAU.N) (FCHA.MI) telematics system to break into a volunteer's Cherokee being driven on the highway and issue commands to the engine, steering and brakes.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Friday it would investigate whether FCA's solution to upgrade software was enough to protect consumers from hackers, although FCA said in its recall announcement that it was unaware of any injuries.
A spokesman for NHTSA said that it was the first recall of vehicles because of concerns about cybersecurity, and experts said they hoped it would send a shock through the auto industry and beyond it.
He said that at present there is a divide in terms of design, in that cars and other products could be accessible from a variety of sources, such as smartphones, as with the Cherokee, or else can be designed to communicate only with a single authenticated server.
Products designed to be accessible by a range of means including smartphones leave a large "attack surface" that is easier to penetrate. But products that communicate only with a single authenticated server allow the company that owns the server to compile a raft of information about the user, increasing privacy concerns, Weaver said.
In terms of vehicles that have that, you're looking at trucks and high-end cars, which can call out assistance if a vehicle breaks down (sometimes without the drivers' permission). GPS trackers, which record location, speed, and driving style are also increasingly becoming more common on company-owned vehicles.
And if you think the US doesn't know the exact location and telemetry of every single recent foreign fighter jet they sell abroad...
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I buttdialed my former manager last week, but then my phone is so old it doesn't have locking features.
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Petition to pardon Edward Snowden rejected by Obama administration
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The White House has rejected a petition to pardon NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, dubbing the former contractor’s revelations about the US government’s surveillance apparatus as “dangerous” and compromising to national security.
Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
“Mr Snowden’s dangerous decision to steal and disclose classified information had severe consequences for the security of our country and the people who work day in and day out to protect it,” Lisa Monaco, Obama’s adviser on homeland security and counter-terrorism, said in a statement.
“If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and – importantly – accept the consequences of his actions.”
“He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers – not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime. Right now, he’s running away from the consequences of his actions.”
The US government filed espionage charges against Snowden shortly after his revelations were made public. He has been living under asylum in Moscow, after fleeing the US for Hong Kong in the wake of the leaks. Civil liberties advocates have argued that Snowden’s actions were courageous and stepped up calls on the Obama administration to grant him clemency.
In their petition to the White House, nearly 168,000 signatories hailed Snowden as “a national hero … [who] should be immediately issued a full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA surveillance programs”.
Monaco said Barack Obama was committed to achieving an appropriate balance between ensuring national security and protecting the privacy rights of American citizens, but underscored the threat posed by the rise of terrorism both overseas and at home.
“We live in a dangerous world. We continue to face grave security threats like terrorism, cyber-attacks, and nuclear proliferation that our intelligence community must have all the lawful tools it needs to address,” she said. “The balance between our security and the civil liberties that our ideals and our constitution require deserves robust debate and those who are willing to engage in it here at home.”
The Obama administration has maintained a hard line on Snowden, even as his revelations prompted the US Congress to approve the most sweeping surveillance reform in decades. Federal lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the USA Freedom Act in June, which effectively ended the federal government’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ phone records by transferring responsibility to private telecom companies.
The president and a majority of lawmakers on Capitol Hill have nonetheless maintained that Snowden must be prosecuted for violating the law.
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Tuesday said Snowden was “absolutely” a traitor and accused the former intelligence contractor of putting American men and women in uniform at risk.
Rubio, a senator from Florida and staunch defender of the USA Patriot Act, said Snowden’s releases were “the most devastating release of information.”
“We know for a fact that there are enemies of the United States today who have changed the way they communicate specifically based on the information he has released. If Mr Snowden had concerns about US intelligence programs, there were multiple different proper channels that he could have raised them. He didn’t have to go to the Chinese or the Russians and turn over troves of important, valuable American information,” Rubio said at a national security forum in South Carolina.
“And here’s the bottom line, you may agree or disagree with our intelligence programs, but the fact is that today there are men and women in American uniforms, who are in danger, in danger, because of the information that he has released.” Some of the leaks, he added, were “flat out inaccurate and flat out lies”.
“They are not true … And much of that information he has manipulated to turn himself into this heroic figure,” Rubio said. “He is without a doubt, not just a traitor, but the information that he’s delivered has had a devastating impact on our intelligence collections. And I can tell you we know less about our adversaries today than we need to know or should have known because of the information he released. He’s done terrible damage to this country. And put the lives of real Americans at danger because of it.”
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Can't real blame Obama on this, I lost all sympathy for Snowden when he started leaking completely normal espionage shit just to stay relevant.
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I'd argue that you can't really blame Snowden either - he's quite literally at Russia's mercy by this point, and it's virtually guaranteed that Putin and friends would be interested in what he's got on his laptop. The leaks compromising Western espionage services may have well been sent out by him under threats that his visa would be revoked if he refused to cooperate.
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I don't think he actually has the data on his person anymore, I believe he gave it all to people out there so that he wouldn't be a single point of weakness.
Also I just find him rather stupid for how it all started, he had this shit planned out well enough that he was in Hong Kong when it all broke, he then bounced from country to country before trying to get to South America and getting stranded in Russia. How bloody hard would it have been for him to just get to South America instead of Hong Kong for when it all broke?
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Yeah, what kinda idiot tries to just go through Russia while holding classified information on American spy networks and expects to actually leave?
Oh really when?
What he did wasn't espionage. It was whistle blowing. He released classified information in order to blow that whistle, but he did it because he was trying to help his country, not hurt it.
I'm gonna take a guess and say that him going to HK was a way of not blowing the whistle 'too early' (and ensuring some temporary back-up from the HK administration), in order to get all the leaks he wanted out through his safe connections (Greenwald, Poitras, MacAskill and Gellman). Going directly to South America would've ruined his plans, at least partially.
It wasnt until President Morales plane was diverted because the US thought he was onboard that Snowden realized he wouldnt be able to fly from Russia to Latin America.
A procrastination in of itself
How does revealing that Britain spies on Argentina whistle blowing? PRISM was whistle blowing, but that's just standard intelligence shit and not stuff he shodul be revealing.
edited 28th Jul '15 3:38:08 PM by Silasw
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I was referring precisely to PRISM (as well as some of the stuff the GCHQ has done internally). I can agree with you that releasing the stuff about Argentina was just pointless and a bit harmful.
Yes, that is what we know publically. Hence why I began my post with 'I'm gonna take a guess'. Because we can only guess at why he decided to have such an 'elaborate' (for lack of a better word) plan.
edited 28th Jul '15 3:40:19 PM by Quag15
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I missed an arrow, my comment wasn't aimed at you.
Ah, ok. I striked it out.
Do you have a link for that I could read?
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Researchers mount successful attacks against Tor network—and show how to prevent them: "With 2.5 million daily users, the Tor network is the world's most popular system for protecting Internet users' anonymity. For more than a decade, people living under repressive regimes have used Tor to conceal their Web-browsing habits from electronic surveillance, and websites hosting content that's been deemed subversive have used it to hide the locations of their servers.
Researchers at MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have now demonstrated a vulnerability in Tor's design. At the Usenix Security Symposium this summer, they show that an adversary could infer a hidden server's location, or the source of the information reaching a given Tor user, by analyzing the traffic patterns of encrypted data passing through a single computer in the all-volunteer Tor network.
Fortunately, the same paper also proposes defenses, which representatives of the Tor project say they are evaluating for possible inclusion in future versions of the Tor software."
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Argies are so arrogant you do not need a spy network on them. Just say near one of them "I bet the Argentines don't know anything about the British!" and they will proceed to tell them everything
Also, about Snowden, there is the "good intentions pave the road to hell" thing, but he did bring attention to the abuses of the patriot act. Would the patriot act have been active for longer if he had not done that?
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
A procrastination in of itself
Honestly having someone regularly check the wikipedia article on the Argentinian navy would give plenty of warning, since the Argentinian navy is currently such a mess it might not be able to reach the Falklands.
How do you "buttdial" anyway? Don't most (all?) modern phones require you to enter a passcode before you can even enter phone numbers?
Not like it applies to me. I don't carry my dumbphone in my pants pocket.