@MattSpeller said:

@g.jacobse https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/10622

oh,god.jeeze..dizzy now..
(slumps on floor)

Umm...wow...just wow....

Well that page is even telling people to go to [email protected] - problems abound!

@scottalanmiller said:

Boy a year goes by quickly. This still feels very new. But, when I think about it, this happened mid-way through my time at the hedge fund and I started there in early October, 2013! Can't believe that it is April, 2015 already.

Yeah, this is pretty nuts that so much time has passed already...

Most of the malware comes from people installing apps not from the Play Store or using a rooted phone. The same risk exists using a jailbroken iPhone.

@scottalanmiller said:

@tonyshowoff said:

....the US Navy funded/lead to the creation of Tor, a favourite of drug pushers and child pornographers everywhere.

This could be taken so many ways...

Do drug pushers and pædophiles like to join the navy? Does the navy just get a lot of moral support from these groups? Does the navy support those groups? Do the two physically interact or do they just like each other?

lol, yeah, that part was a joke... or do I have secret information?

I do agree with her point though...

@Carnival-Boy said:

"You really shouldn’t be accessing your banking information or really anything that requires credentials when your on public Wi-Fi."

Why not? Or to put it another way, what are the risks to using HTTPS? How does it fail?

It can only fail if two conditions are met. DNS poisting to move the website, however this would have to be a new website you've never visited before because CA's will not issues the cert for a domain to someone else. Which means the same vulnerability exists when using your home connections. It must be a trusted/known site and be HTTPS.

Thanks, and welcome to MangoLassi!

I know Lavabit closed it's doors a year or so ago because they rather close than continue to give access to government subpoenas.

Great quote from the article: A waterproof safe dropped into the deepest part of the ocean is not as 'secure' as it is useless

You CAN spoof with just about anything. No special tools needed.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@Reid-Cooper said:

That's pretty scary. Makes an argument for just hanging up and not messing with them. This takes it far beyond scamming. This is now threatening and extortion.

Scary but not quite as scary as ISIS using DMCA request to get american's personal information http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2lgot5/terrorists_used_false_dmca_claims_to_get_personal/

Well as the goals of ISIS and of DMCA are both purely to hurt Americans, it makes sense that they would join forces.