Get the fuck out of town. I have seriously never heard that before. I'm the only person I know in meatspace who uses it, and I've been told to my virtual face more than once that I will not get coded for, so suck it up (thanks, Gawker, love you lots...).
Pretty cool except for the part where I was really terrified and now my knees are all dizzy.
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§ ita § - Sep 20, 2012 8:29:21 am PDT #20992 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tommyrot - Sep 20, 2012 8:36:24 am PDT #20993 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Moments after updating iOS on my iPhone and iPad, I read that many people upgrading are losing WiFi on their devices. No problems for me, though.
And I read the other day that Virgin Mobile accounts are pretty easy to hack. They use the phone number as the user ID and a 6-digit PIN for a password. Problem is, they allow unlimited, rapid guesses of the PIN, so anyone who knows a Virgin phone # can hack the account in about a day with a script.
So far, Virgin is refusing to do anything about it.
Typo Boy - Sep 20, 2012 8:36:47 am PDT #20994 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I use opera on my dying oomputer. Chrome works better on my netbook.
Gudanov - Sep 20, 2012 8:46:22 am PDT #20995 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Get the fuck out of town. I have seriously never heard that before.
Well, I'm developing for devices rather than computers. Opera fares better there.
megan walker - Sep 20, 2012 11:13:57 am PDT #20996 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
And I read the other day that Virgin Mobile accounts are pretty easy to hack. They use the phone number as the user ID and a 6-digit PIN for a password. Problem is, they allow unlimited, rapid guesses of the PIN, so anyone who knows a Virgin phone # can hack the account in about a day with a script.
And that gets you what exactly? I'm just wondering why someone would bother.
tommyrot - Sep 20, 2012 12:17:59 pm PDT #20997 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
And that gets you what exactly? I'm just wondering why someone would bother.
Complete access to the person's account. You can view history of calls made and received, view texts, order a new phone that will be charged to the credit card on file....
§ ita § - Sep 20, 2012 1:05:38 pm PDT #20998 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Can you see pictures? That's the cool hack.
Consuela - Sep 20, 2012 1:43:11 pm PDT #20999 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Complete access to the person's account.
Which could probably be leveraged into a complete takeover of all someone's accounts. At least, that's what happened to that tech journalist last month. Someone got into his cellphone account, IIRC, and from there into his Amazon account, and then Gmail, then Apple, and from there it was all over--he lost everything in the cloud and everything on his MacBook and iPad, which they wiped remotely.
And all they really wanted was his Twitter handle.
I forget the exact chain of connections, but Amazon claims they've blocked the loophole the hackers used.
le nubian - Sep 20, 2012 2:46:15 pm PDT #21000 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
'Suela,
they got his apple id and amazon id and the rest is history.
Rob - Sep 20, 2012 2:51:01 pm PDT #21001 of 25501
There's also ab: [link]