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Researchers on Friedrich-Alexander Universitãt Erlangen-Nürnberg have found a way to bypass an encrypted Android 4.0 phone (specifically on Nexus phones with Android 4.0 installed) for now. Since Google’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich provides a disk encryption feature which of that scrambles user partitions, thus protecting sensitive user information such as contact lists, visited web sites, and photos, directly from RAM.

This is an ease yet tricky method to perform. Why? Encryption is irreversible. The only way to revert to an unencrypted phone is to perform a factory data reset, which may erases all your data.

FROST: Forensic Recovery Of Scrambled Telephones

Yes, that is the acronym of the method here, which by perform cold boot attacks against Android smartphones and retrieve disk encryption keys from RAM, a.k.a your system memory. The unique part is, you should put the phone into a freezer. Cooling the device down under 10 degree Celsius to increases the success of cold boot attacks considerably (as they noted: because RAM contents fade away more slowly if RAM chips are cold).

If you are cool enough to give it a try by any cause happened to your phone, they put the tool set download link too.

image: Courtesy of FAU

Colors of Poliça. She showed me the ghost in her voice. Colors of Poliça. She showed me the ghost in her voice.

Colors of Poliça. She showed me the ghost in her voice.

“Maaf ya, saya belum bisa bantu sekarang, mungkin lain kali, gpp kan?”

Kalimat ini diutarakan oleh seorang teman ketika saya meminta bantuannya. Sangat sopan sikapnya, mungkin dia tidak ingin saya kecewa. Tentu saja saya sedikit kecewa karena dia tidak bisa membantu, dan juga cukup lega karena dia, bagi saya, sangat sopan mengutarakannya.

Satu hal yang mengusik di benak, kenapa dia harus minta maaf.

Dia tidak perlu melakukan itu (kepada saya) karena tidak ada yang salah dengan apa yang dia ucapkan. Kesopanan itu perlu, tapi tidak mutlak. Maksud saya, skenarionya bisa saja seperti ini:

Dia menolak permintaan saya dengan menyelipkan kata ‘maaf’ agar tidak membuat saya kecewa, marah dan sebagainya untuk menghindari muncul rasa bersalah. Kalau akhirnya saya kecewa dan marah karena penolakannya, maka ada yang harus direnungkan kembali: Mengharapkan bantuan orang lain juga harus menerima kemungkinan ditolak kan?

Mungkin dalam pola yang lebih praktis, jika saya adalah dia, kalimat yang akan keluar adalah:

Saya nggak bisa bantu untuk hal itu, ada hal lain yang bisa saya bantu yang berkaitan?”

atau,

Saya nggak bisa bantu.”

Sesimpel itu. Kalimat tersebut (yang jelas tanpa embel-embel) terasa kurang sopan. Namun sebenarnya tidak ada yang kurang sopan dalam kalimat itu.

Bagaimanapun etika memperhalus bahasa untuk kesopanan adalah wujud sisi humanis kita sebagai manusia. Bukan untuk salah dan benar, namun secara personal, bertutur yang sopan pun bisa dilakukan tanpa menyelipkan kata ‘maaf’ yang sejatinya akan ‘berperan’ lebih tepat ketika kita benar-benar telah berbuat/berucap sesuatu yang salah terhadap orang lain.

The exclusive video premiere of her song “Cargo Cult” off her sixth studio album Glow, which she describes as “the sound of a person playing guitar. Whatever additions we made, the fundamental of this record is still one person playing a guitar. That’s who I am.”

Apple is like a house-master whose their guest, the Chrome, have to be struggling in no opt but walking in with covered eyesight and get blinded thus make their steps slowing down and have no idea what stuffs are around inside the house. That is for security sake.

usersillusions:

Apple is the most awarded Design Studio of the first 50 years of D&AD. 

The scent of an Apple product, sourcing the Macbook Pro fragrance.

Greatest Hits is an artistic collaborative group comprising of Melbourne based artists Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer & Simon McGlinn. A few months ago these young artists approached Air Aroma seeking assistance with creation of a unique fragrance for their upcoming art exhibition. The aroma requested for the project was the scent of an Apple product being opened for the first time.

A distinctive scent can be observed when unwrapping a newly purchased Apple product from its packaging. Apple fans will certainly recognize this smell. The scent created for Greatest Hits encompasses the smell of the plastic wrap covering the box, printed ink on the cardboard, the smell of paper and plastic components within the box and of course the aluminum laptop which has come straight from the factory where it was assembled in China.

Caine’s Arcade, Caine who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto part store - is about to have the best day of his life. I awed by his idea to use calculator to check out the Fun Pass, plus he got some fans too. May you willing to know him more at cainesarcade.com

My credit to Juli Crockett for Caines Arcade title and of course the creator Nirvan Mullick

the first mix

simurai:

With the rise of Retina displays people are looking for resolution independent alternatives to PNG icons. Some fell in love with font-icons, some are shouting “SVG”. But I’m sorry, if you’re looking for a silver bullet, I’m afraid it doesn’t exist. Let’s take a closer look at our options:

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