World Conflicts
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American police seem to work only when Israel is challenged
Tech Industry
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Update: Trans Coworker Stealing Breast Milk
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I am starting to think Chinese interviewers currently fail non-Chinese candidates on purpose.
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Asians - what are your thoughts on asian female white male ?
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Feeling bad now that I didn’t switch Job to a FAANG or similar.
On Samsung phones there is this awesome piece of security tech called Secure Folder. It runs an encrypted, partitioned set of Android applications that require an additional pin to access. It's got a hardware level kill switch that destroys the encryption key if the phone is rooted or otherwise compromised to make hacking it hard. You can even run a separate VPN there. So it's really pretty private and secure. EXCEPT... After doing all that cool shit Samsung installed a back door. You can reset the password using your Samsung Account. Which means really Samsung can reset your password, so it's not secure. Samsung can always unlock it. A previous version called Knox didn't have this back door but Samsung deprecated it and forced users to "upgrade". (An even earlier version of Knox had a bunch of security bugs that made it insecure.) Anyway I really like the concept. I put my browser, email, and banking apps in there and then if anyone ever steals my phone they can't get into the important stuff. Also I leave my phone in an easily unlockable configuration knowing that a PIN is still needed to get into my email and such while having easy access to music, camera, etc. (there is an additional camera app in the secure folder if I need to take a sensitive picture). Against theives I trust the Samsung tech to protect my data, but it really bugs me that it's not truly secure, that it is nerfed by that password recovery backdoor. Any alternative?
Actually it's not inconvenient at all. I do unlock my phone with fingerprint, which is really not secure at all. But that's fine for access to basic phone features, camera, music, most photos, calls, etc. I can also hand my phone to someone to make calls, browse, or check out music or photos knowing they can't get into the private area. The only time I need to type a PIN is if I want to access one of the apps in the secure folder, which is all banking related, private photos, email that my password resets go to, etc., and a browser that has saved passwords for some sites. Blind it also in there. For that stuff I don't mind entering a PIN. So actually it's more convenient since I wouldn't feel safe having that stuff only protected by a fingerprint, but this way I can still use a fingerprint for 90 percent of things I do without worrying about that.
This is 2018. If a person doesn’t have their own cell to use, I wouldn’t trust them to use mine. How often are you giving your phone out for people to use out of your sight?
iPhone
iPhone has nothing like it
iPhone is a hackable pile of shit