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I don't think it's possible for something to be the 'most unique'.
I had this same phone, in the post iPhone era we tend to forget that smartphones did exist and some of them were actually pretty fantastic devices. From the 600 I upgraded to the 700w and that was probably my favorite phone of all time.
Totally agree, i sometimes reminisce about the good ol' days with my Nokia N70 i bought in 2005. Here's some memorable achievements: - I watched most of the world cup 2006 games live streamed over 3G. -I used to frequently use google maps which without GPS would use cell towers triangulate my position within a couple hundred meter radius. - Used it as a wireless AP -And even uploaded videos to youtube. When i first h…
iPhone really fixed that one thing but at the time I was outraged (outraged!) that to get that smooth UI performance I'd have to give up 3rd party apps, 3G, MMS, GPS, (shitty by today's standards) video calling, copy/paste, task switching, and even the ability to change my wallpaper or ringtone!
Kind of amusing today with the relative parity between mobile OSes and the abundance of models to choose from but at the time I just remember being so frustrated with how no single company seemed capable of putting everything into one device. Still, those Treos and PPCs laid the groundwork for the insanely capable and useable devices many of us carry in our pockets today.
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Are you sure that the agencies you speak of are not able to do this anyway? Even the Hong Kong Post Office has a place among the trusted CA's supplied by most vendors: not really necessary for everyone on the planet, I'd think. If even just one of those trusted CAs would or has become compromised, all bets are off. Which has already happened in the past anyway. So, how you defend "SSL everywhere".. I don't buy it. I…
> A false sense of being secure does seem much worse than knowing that most of the stuff you do is actually insecure to begin with. It may feel so, but it certainly isn't. Some security (against anyone but the top 0.X% of "bad guys") is certainly better than no security (random script kiddie in your coffee shop injecting 0-days from exploit-db straight to your browser). And regarding the hopelessness of SSL/TLS - the…
I used a Palm treo up until about 3 years ago, and used to browse HN quite often. My treo was modified and upgraded I should say :) beleive it or not, some poor soul actually stole it, probably not knowing it would be worth more on ebay as an obscure item than at a pawn shop.
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In addition to thwarting state-sponsored attacks mentioned by geofft, HTTPS also prevents ISPs and hotels from injecting ads[1,2]. And using HTTPS even for logged-out users prevents an attacker from sslstripping[3] the link to the login page, which is good because even the most careful users won't always notice when a login page is suddenly served over an insecure connection. As a user of HN, I appreciate these secur…
This doesn't completely stop sslstripping. It does mitigate the possibility of link rewriting. However, unless you directly access the site via HTTPS, there would have to be a redirect to the secure version, which can still be hijacked.
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This doesn't completely stop sslstripping. It does mitigate the possibility of link rewriting. However, unless you directly access the site via HTTPS, there would have to be a redirect to the secure version, which can still be hijacked.
True, but HSTS (which HN uses) solves that problem on all but the first visit.
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Yeah. How many users (not power users) actually type https:// into address bar? To my knowledge, if you don't include the protocol, browser default to HTTP.
Not on Hacker News (and many other sites) with a modern browser. The first time you visit http://news.ycombinator.com , it will redirect to https:// , and you're correct, if the first time you visit happens to be the time you are MITM'd, this is a weak point. However, after the first visit, your browser learns through HSTS (the Strict-Transport-Security header) that accessing news.ycombinator.com without TLS is not s…
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The problem isn't gaining meanings; it's losing them. If unique becomes a synonym for unusual, then we no longer have a word that means unique. I think these battles are worth fighting. As does Weird Al: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGWiTvYZR_w
I don't know why Weird Al thought that was necessary, but this supposed less vs fewer "rule" does not describe actual modern or historical usage. Self-appointed grammarians can choose to stick to whatever usage they like, but going around with stickers and marker pens only makes them look like pedantic bores.
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Safari doesn't do that out of the box. Something with an extension?
Actually, in safari, you can double-click on a link to highlight it, and the right-click menu has options "Go To Address" and "Go To Address in new tab". Quite useful.
Subject: XXXX Case #XXXXXX : Priority changed to Customer Down Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 03:17:47 -0700 From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
CC: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
* Case Priority change * Case Priority has recently been changed to: Customer Down
Case Details:: Case #: XXXXXXXX Company: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Contact Name: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Status: New Category: Support System - Support Accounts
Subject: My name is spelled XXXXXXXX
Apparently, the customer could not function if their name was spelled wrong...