I was one of those kids, school was boring and slow, finished the school library within year, got into arguments with teachers. Was not allowed to skip years, it was a drag, I skipped school and did other stuff. They did tried to forbid me to do high school exams because my school grades were low (missed a lot of tests and would drag down their stats). Did the exam anyways and had the second highest score of the country.
Not every kid is the same, there needs to be a place for kids that are (far) ahead.
Three feature requests:
1) Make it possible to disable the playlist feature completely.
2) Make it possible to start it a second time with another video concurrently.
3) Make it possible to use a list of regex on subtitles, to filter out SDH and other stuff I don't need.
Maybe I should have said for MacOS, it does not show that option (also not in the advanced options). The ability to play videos in sync side-by side would be perfect to visually compare encoding quality.
It is incomprehensible that there are still NAS devices being sold without ECC support.
Synology took a step in the right direction to offer prosumer devices with ECC but it is not really advertised as such. It is actually difficult to find which do have ECC and which ones don't.
>Synology took a step in the right direction to offer prosumer devices with ECC
I just look it up because if it was true it would have been news to me. Synology have been known to be stingy with Hardware Spec. But none of what I called Prosumer, the Plus Series have ECC memory by default. And there are "Value" and "J" Series below that.
Edit: Only two model from the new xx21 series using AMD Ryzen V has ECC memory by default.
We had to build our own copy protection after dongles were hacked and too fussy. Weak bits were copyable using the CopyIIPC option board.
So what we resorted to is using a needle scratching the inner most tracks of the floppy on random locations. Writing those tracks with a pattern and record where the pattern was broken. While executing the program it did write that track and read that track, the locations where the pattern was broken (two tracks, begin and end) was the key that was used to decrypt some parts of the further into the program.
To my knowledge it was never hacked and every disk was unique, we kept the keys for each customer (was part of the serial) so if it was hacked we could trace it to the leaker.
The Apollo app has gotten so good that I'm starting to worry they'll purchase it and neuter it or shut it down, just like they did the Alien Blue app a few years ago.
I even use a browser extension to make sure that 100% of the time old.reddit.com is being shown, even when linked from another site or when I have deleted my cookies.
Also, don't forget to make sure to flash each eeprom with different MAC address otherwise you will have some fun to figure out why you have 50% packet loss.
I wonder how practical it would be to add something like a limeSDR/USRP/HackRF to a tinycheck to be able to at least detect this. I doubt it would be affordable for most individuals but I could see cost justification for orgs.
If you don’t want to change SIM cards, you cold go to 2G and easily create a fake base station and disable 3G/4G on the phone. For 4G, it‘s a bit more tricky as you need to do a relay attack (https://alter-attack.net/) and even then only do some DNS redirection if you know what host is being looked up, or some fingerprinting based on the size of the traffic.
Of course, you can also just check if the phone sends something by looking at the RF energy or even build an uplink decoder, but I doubt that this is very useful information by itself for this use case.
Finally, what I propose instead, is to use a private LTE network, which you can create using a SDR and srsLTE and some programmable SIM cards, which you need to insert into the phone. This way, it‘s easily possible to view any traffic leaving the phone on any connection. Plus, srsLTE has been shown to work on Raspberry Pi as well (I think).
This one will buffer (to a certain extent) and only flush when cellular is on and cellular traffic is already occurring. When cellular is on but cellular data is disabled there is still cellular data traffic at OS level, I expect more advanced spyware will travel with that data-stream. Also that indicator and a switch is just software, if you have full control over the OS, you can change that.
When cellular data is disabled (assuming it really is, not just faked to the user), then the corresponding radio bearers for user plane data habe not been established, thus no data-stream can travel with it. You can only communicate with the eNb and MME in this stage, and even this isn’t exposed directly to the OS but embedded in the Chipset.
My assumption has always been that a clean phone in airplane mode but with WiFi enabled would not use the cellular radios at all. In that mode would a cell tower still be in communication with the phone at some level?
Not directly, as the flight mode really prevents any radio communication (it takes a bit to shut down as it sends a NAS Detach Request first and waits for a reply for a few seconds).
However, there is also WiFi Calling - in that sense, your phone establishes some connection with the cell network. However, I don‘t think any user data may travel on this bearer, but there might be some edge case where this is possible.
Certain BYOD email suites use https encapsulation of another protocol (also using TLS) to ensure that the data can go through firewalls that do MITM attacks on clients for security reasons. Bluecoat do this for example.
I believe they also certificate pin the tunneled protocol.
Well not easily, because once the outer TLS has been set up, you can‘t see the contents of the second TLS handshake. You could maybe deduce it via packet sizes and timings, but certainly not pretty easily.
"WD Red HDDs have for many years reliably powered home and small business NAS systems" Yes, the non SMR ones."
You are misleading the consumer and should have called it WD Pink, because the SMR drives are a totally different product.
"If you have purchased a WD Red drive, please call our customer care if you are experiencing performance or any other technical issues. We will have options for you. We are here to help."
Other than refunding or providing a replacement non-SMR drive without extra cost to the consumer are the only options.
Not every kid is the same, there needs to be a place for kids that are (far) ahead.