The trouble for sites is that it isn't the site itself that you need to trust. It's the ad network the site uses, and as near as I can tell, not a single one of them is trustworthy.
I think that they honestly believe that the only reason people use adblockers is because they don't want to see ads. In that worldview, the DEAL makes a sort of sense.
They trouble is that their belief is wildly wrong.
You can pay $5/mo and get Wired without any ads, and they won't make you turn off your adblocker. That's not so bad, really. If Wired were important to me, I'd pay them just as I pay Techdirt.
Re: Way too much entitlement in this thread - making content takes time and money
"However, way too many people seem to to think that they are entitled to free content."
I don't think I've seen a single comment here making that case.
"People who reject all ads are saying "stop making content.""
Baloney. People who reject all online ads are saying "you're doing the ads wrong". Also, advertising is far from the only way to get paid for content. It's just the easiest, as long as you don't care much about your audience.
All I know is that if a site requires me to disable NoScript to view it, it no longer exists to me.
I would be willing to allow exceptions, except that not a single such site seems to be willing to even begin to meet my minimum requirement: no tracking.
So, 2.5 billion. But technically, that's far too low.
For simplicity, let's ignore that the heart rate increases with exertion and pretend that everyone maintains the average resting human heart rate at all times. This means that my new estimate will still be far too low, but at least within the realm of physical possibility.
The average resting human heart rate for someone in average physical condition is considered to be 60-100BPM, with a skew toward the higher end. Let's call it 80BPM for simplicity. Also, I'll ignore leap days in my calculation for the same reason.
76 * 365 * 24 * 1440 min/hr * 80BPM = 76,695,552,000 beats in a lifetime.
Would the surcharge be higher than the one we're paying for all the extra airport pseudosecurity? When I consider the totality of the expense for that, in the ticket surcharge, reduced service level, additional taxpayer expense, and the ephemeral but real cost in terms of the hassle and humiliation to the passengers, it seems unlikely.
IMHO, the essential problem is that security was not a design goal for TCP/IP in the first place (survivability was the focus instead). All security mechanisms available are effectively "aftermarket add-ons" a/k/a "bags on the side" a/k/a "elegant hacks".
In an ideal world, the entire system would be redesigned with security as one of the goals. But, unfortunately, we don't live in an ideal world.
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Yes, this was my point exactly. Cloning flash chips is not a rarified skill. Anyone can do it with minimal tools.
About the people in that video -- I've been told that the techniques that are generally shared amongst the legit hobbyist community for working with this stuff were pioneered by street vendors just like those. It may be apocryphal, but it seems plausible.
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I should mention that you do have to be more careful about heat than with larger components. I'm probably more paranoid about this than needed, but I've burnt components when first learning to do this. I use a hot iron and never apply it for more than a second at a time, letting the component cool before hitting it again.
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It depends. If the surface mount component is the ball array type, with contacts completely concealed under the chip, then you need to use a reflow oven. Mine is a modified toaster oven.
Otherwise, if you have a fine soldering iron tip, steady hand, and patience, then you can just use a soldering iron. A fine tip iron is still large compared to the lead size, but it works. I can even hand-solder fine wire into those leads.
Desoldering is much, much easier than soldering. I just use desoldering braid for that.
Interesting. I don't know the first thing about traffic laws in Texas, but in my state a city would not prevail with that sort of complaint. It is specifically legal to nose out across the stop line to look for traffic, provided you came to a complete stop behind the line first.
I'm not sure what your point is, as there's no need to have a specific iPhone to test my assertion. Here is what I assert: I, as an amateur, have the skills and capabilities needed to remove a surface mount flash memory chip from a circuit board, copy its contents, and replace it without damaging the device. I have done similar things many times. My assertion has already been tested.
My inference is that since I am capable of it using equipment I have on hand right now, actual trained experts using a real lab should find this simple.
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They trouble is that their belief is wildly wrong.
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The Wired move isn't so bad
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Re: Way too much entitlement in this thread - making content takes time and money
I don't think I've seen a single comment here making that case.
"People who reject all ads are saying "stop making content.""
Baloney. People who reject all online ads are saying "you're doing the ads wrong". Also, advertising is far from the only way to get paid for content. It's just the easiest, as long as you don't care much about your audience.
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I very much like this idea. Make a reasonable effort to find other sources, and when you can't, visually mark the offensive links in some way.
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All I know
I would be willing to allow exceptions, except that not a single such site seems to be willing to even begin to meet my minimum requirement: no tracking.
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Re: Do the math
For simplicity, let's ignore that the heart rate increases with exertion and pretend that everyone maintains the average resting human heart rate at all times. This means that my new estimate will still be far too low, but at least within the realm of physical possibility.
The average resting human heart rate for someone in average physical condition is considered to be 60-100BPM, with a skew toward the higher end. Let's call it 80BPM for simplicity. Also, I'll ignore leap days in my calculation for the same reason.
76 * 365 * 24 * 1440 min/hr * 80BPM = 76,695,552,000 beats in a lifetime.
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Re: This is a layer 3 or layer 4 problem.
IMHO, the essential problem is that security was not a design goal for TCP/IP in the first place (survivability was the focus instead). All security mechanisms available are effectively "aftermarket add-ons" a/k/a "bags on the side" a/k/a "elegant hacks".
In an ideal world, the entire system would be redesigned with security as one of the goals. But, unfortunately, we don't live in an ideal world.
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About the people in that video -- I've been told that the techniques that are generally shared amongst the legit hobbyist community for working with this stuff were pioneered by street vendors just like those. It may be apocryphal, but it seems plausible.
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Otherwise, if you have a fine soldering iron tip, steady hand, and patience, then you can just use a soldering iron. A fine tip iron is still large compared to the lead size, but it works. I can even hand-solder fine wire into those leads.
Desoldering is much, much easier than soldering. I just use desoldering braid for that.
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Sorry, I got confused. You were replying to my comment, so I thought you were talking about my assertion. Carry on.
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My inference is that since I am capable of it using equipment I have on hand right now, actual trained experts using a real lab should find this simple.
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Re: Re: Re: Legal question here
Parallel reconstruction of what? There is no court case that such reconstruction would be used in.
As to their record of protecting methods, etc., yes of course. But what does that have to do with their interest in compelling Apple?
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