All Things Mac/ Apple
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Yeah, Theo is a hero of freedom in the digital age, no question. I used to run an OpenBSD box primarily as a firewall on an old SPARCstation. pf is ridiculously awesome.
EDIT: Bruce Schneier is another hero of mine…
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^It doesn't work like that, and even if through some whacky reason it does, I really don't care if my fingerprint is on file. It's not like it's usable for anything or impacts my daily life in any way.
But it does impact your civil liberties actually, on precedent… The more of your privacy you shrug your shoulders to regardless of your daily activities the harder it will become to defend your privacy. If its okay for them to swipe finger prints from an app or whatever this is, then is it okay for them to come in your house and install cameras or use your camera of your phone or Bluetooth to monitor your daily activities? Its about principle and making sure our most important liberties stay intact, for without them we are defenseless.
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There could be other implications. If they ever figure out a way to use a lifted fingerprint pattern on the device, your ability to "plead the fifth" could be circumvented. Today the fifth amendment offers protection, you don't have to give your unlock code and theoretically here in the states they can't torture it out of you.
Either way, it is a good convenience feature I will be using. I don't think it compromises my civil liberties in this instance.
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I get that this is off-topic, but while we're on the off-topic topic (:D) of security and privacy and the cloud, a sensationalist, but interesting article (the logic here would have to apply to iCloud backups as well):
http://blogs.computerworld.com/android/22806/google-knows-nearly-every-wi-fi-password-world
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I think we're probably in the tail-end of off topic from Apple, so will leave it all in here, Unless any of you wants to spin into more regular privacy discussions. I'm not interested in chatting about it regularly; too much like my day job.
shoque, IPSEC backdoor was never confirmed/denied, The Snowden Stuff 2 weeks ago pretty much validated it as existing, at least at a point in time.
Bruce Schneier of course is one of the go-to gun, especially on crypto. Below is written by him, and he still says Trust In Math. OpenVPN/AES maybe sound cryptographically, but if the application is leaking keys over the wire…
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance
@tatman, I get the argument, but as a realist, know that is the world we live in. That game is over time to look and move forwards and evolve to the current games.
@MCL, I've been strong-armed by the police to give over my pin number on my iPhone before. Totally not legal, and I fought them on the legality a few times, but the alternative was lawyers and extended time in the dock, failure to cooperate etc etc, all whilst there was nothing to hide. So whilst in theory they can't torture it out of you, they will do everything to get it. (Australian law has a similar clause to the 5th).
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^ Is a great answer on the development of the Secure Enclave and why it's technically sound (said it wouldn't be long before this turned up). [Click close and read first answer - fecking pop ups!]
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I saw that on DF; interesting
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Yeah he certainly has his moments. He's either dead on or way off for me it seems. Usually the former.
I am totally bored by all the recent Nintendo fixation. I couldn't care much less about the topic.
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I fitted a Samsung 256GB SSD into my mid-2012 MBP last night using an OptiBay enclosure. It was a bit scary as there was a tiny screw that just would not budge so I ended up having to really twist the Bluetooth element out of the way to be able to slide the enclosure in to place.
I got away with it though and am now in the process of adding all my programs on to it following a fresh install of Mountain Lion. The obvious performance improvements (boot and load times etc) are already noticeable but i'm really looking forward to having all my sample banks, synth patches and plug-ins on there.
Anyone have any tips/advice for setting it up?
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Congrats, can't go wrong with Samsung SSDs.
You will love how snappy and responsive your Macbook will get.I enabled trimming by using this tool: http://groths.org/trimenabler/TrimEnabler.dmg
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Thanks, i'll bung it on there this evening. The disc included in the box only had Windows utilities software so something like this could be ideal.
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I hate–HATE–iOS 7. All these animations are making me seasick. The color palletes are oversaturated. My phone is running very hot now. And some of the arbitrary changes like removing the familiar way of accessing Spotlight in favor of a weird gesture are adding up to a disaster of an update IMO.
The Sherlock search algorithm went from bad to worse too.. Shit! I'm guessing, since I've had it installed all of 10 mintes, that this is the tip of a shitty iceberg.
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Just came here to post about ios7…. Only thing I can say I like is the home screen and the writing seems sharper. Everything else is ugly. Can anybody really tell me these two pictures are not eyesores?
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Really? Messages just look way to cartoony for me. Really bright and large….
Also imo the grey surrounding the album cover just looks kind of jarring. Doesn't seem to blend that well...
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I hate the signal strength bar but mine reads in dB so I don't have to see it. I suppose I'll just have to cope. I thought Jony Ive had a more spartan aesthetic than this. Oh well.
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I've been using it for almost 3 months now. It was only weird the first few days. Which I would assume was because I was accustomed to the same bubbly design for 6 six years. Looking back at the old design makes me realize how outdated it was. I like how flat it is now.
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I like the flatness. I don't like the neon gradients, the layouts, or the animations. Ymmv….
