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Comment: Re:I don't see need for 1Gps either (Score 1) 338

by frozentier (#46065135) Attached to: Google Fiber Launches In Provo &mdash; and Here's What It Feels Like

If we had proper (bi-directional) home internet connections we wouldn't need large storage devices with us and could simply remotely access our files from home whenever we want to listen to music or transfer a report we've been working on for work/school/etc.

You have NO IDEA how much more dangerous that could potentially be than storing them at a third party site.

Comment: Re:Use the other less popular limb (Score 1) 481

by frozentier (#44919487) Attached to: CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken

Fingerprints are left behind all the time so it would be trivial for someone to obtain.

That depends on the situation. If you find a phone lying on a bus seat and decide you're keeping it, then unless you lift the print from the phone itself you are just shit out of luck. If you don't even know who the phone belongs to, you're not going to be able to get a print. Also if you steal a phone, say out of a woman's open purse, you aren't going to be able to get prints from anywhere other than the phone, either. What are you going to do, find out where she lives, break into her house, find a dirty glass and lift a print from it? It's not like people are going to keep government secrets on their phone. If you do, you're dumb as a box of bricks. Phone security is there to keep credit card numbers from casual thieves in the event that you lose your phone. If the cops or the government have you in custody and are trying to get into your phone, you've got much bigger things to worry about.

Comment: Re:Numbers stations? (Score 2) 371

by frozentier (#44112457) Attached to: FCC Considering Proposal For Encrypted Ham Radio

Does anyone seriously not believe the famous numbers stations as already an ultra-low-throughput form of encrypted transmission? Whether you send the data as electrical bits, RF, carrier pigeons, or a recording of Angelina Jolie saying "zero" and "one" over and over and over really has no relevance to the underlying meaning. Either it already breaks the law, or it doesn't.

Totally true. But I've never heard a numbers station in a ham band. Hams can't just operate everywhere in the shortwave spectrum. There are certain frequency "bands" they can use. The numbers stations aren't within these bands.
