Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Saturday afternoon paranoia

2010-07-04 Thread Anton Piatek
On 3 July 2010 17:17, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: One [1] suggests that USB hardware can be used as a Trojan horse to steal your data. It's possible. Though there are probably easier ways to steal data. I was wondering about this - but what device would it have to

Re: [Hampshire] Lucid network manager

2010-07-04 Thread Rob Malpass
From: hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Jan Henkins Sent: 03 July 2010 19:45 To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Lucid network manager Thanks for your advice but I'm afraid one of the commands doesn't

[Hampshire] suggest a laptop

2010-07-04 Thread pavithran
I am looking for a light weight laptop which is powerfull and also is supported in GNU/linux ( hopes for all free drivers) It would be nice if the laptop could run compiz + openoffice+ firefox( 10 tabs +gmail) without any delays . Regards, Pavithran -- pavithran sakamuri -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] Lucid network manager

2010-07-04 Thread Chris Dennis
On 04/07/10 10:06, Rob Malpass wrote: *From:* hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] *On Behalf Of *Jan Henkins *Sent:* 03 July 2010 19:45 *To:* Hampshire LUG Discussion List *Subject:* Re: [Hampshire] Lucid network manager Thanks for your advice

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Saturday afternoon paranoia

2010-07-04 Thread Victor Churchill
interesting to see the range of opinions in the NS articles' comments, regarding the 'rights and wrongs' of the reaearch being disclosed. On 04/07/2010, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: On 3 July 2010 17:17, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.net wrote: One [1] suggests that USB

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Saturday afternoon paranoia

2010-07-04 Thread Vic
One [1] suggests that USB hardware can be used as a Trojan horse to steal your data. I don't know if this is flawed research or flawed reporting, but the article leaves a very misleading impression. The researcher has correctly identified that there is an explicit trust relationship between