Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices

Post by joepie91_ » Sat, Jul 19, 2014, 9:09 PM UTC

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Tangent: This is a good site for PDFs, immensely better than scribd. Whenever I click a link in the PDF (for eg. pg 17), the document zoomed in permanently. I cannot find a way to revert back to original zoom, even opening the link again does not help. So whoever is running the site, please look into this bug.

It appears to be a bug in pdf.js (or the PDF format itself): https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/5064 As somebody else mentioned, you can use the arrow/triangle to display the regular viewer toolbar, and zoom out. This is obviously not ideal, but there's not much else that can be done until a fix comes from pdf.js upstream, I suppose.

Post by mseri » Sat, Jul 19, 2014, 10:23 PM UTC

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-$2000 is fairly common. As mentioned below, authors have to pay publication fees. Most journals are for profit and closed-access, though this is starting to change somewhat. Somewhat ironically, being published in these journals is a prerequisite for how researchers actually do get paid: by grants, usually taxpayer funded.

Is it also true that some organisations also pay their employees if they publish papers, I've heard this happens in the security field.

Post by im3w1l » Sun, Jul 20, 2014, 12:48 AM UTC

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Yeah, I've been shocked by how easy it is to get a brand new router and set it up with the same SSID and password and every device I have auto-connects like it's the same thing. If you have the AP password, it's trivial to set up a fake second router in the same vicinity (you don't even have to touch the original one) with a stronger signal and have everyone connect through your gateway. Of course, once you have the…

OSX and I assume iOS does do detection of this. If you connect to an AP that was WPA2 encrypted in the past, and has the same name but no encryption now, it gives you a big scary warning and bails out.

Post by snowwrestler » Sun, Jul 20, 2014, 1:46 AM UTC

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> evolve into the secure consumer device company They don't have this option. They are too big to not cooperate the US law enforcement and intelligence communities. They must cooperate, it's given. There are just way too many pressure points that can be exploited to make them cooperate, even against their will. If they start selling themselves as a secure and trustworthy device manufacturer you can rest assured it's…

I disagree...Apple's size makes it ideal for resistance - the government has been very pro-business for the last decade, and congress has been way too receptive to lobbying groups. If Apple, Google, and a few others really put some muscle into it, they could make a real difference.

Post by wyager » Sun, Jul 20, 2014, 3:47 AM UTC

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I wasn't suggesting that, obviously. I was trying to be helpful and point out that students have free access.

OT: Technically, it is not free access. You (or at public institutions, the general public) paid for your access … in discussions on open access, I often learn that many researchers, scientists etc. are under the impression that they already have open access although the simply get routed around paywalls because they use IP addresses of their paying institutions.