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Today's Topics:

1. Question expecting the answer no (john ffitch)
2. Re: Question expecting the answer no (Stuart Ward)
3. Re: Question expecting the answer no (Steve Netting)
4. Security on smartphone compromising desktop (Andrew)
5. Re: Security on smartphone compromising desktop (David Smith)
6. Re: Security on smartphone compromising desktop (Chris Makepeace)
7. Re: Security on smartphone compromising desktop (Alex Butcher)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:20:46 +0100
From: john ffitch <jpff@codemist.co.uk>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [bristol] Question expecting the answer no
Message-ID: <8002-Thu28Aug2014132046+0100-jpff@codemist.co.uk>

Does anyone want a collection of 13 5.25" floppy disks, unused? I hate
sending usable stuff to landfill.

Any while typing, I also have two Compact Flash cards, one 128Mb and
the other 8Mb; were in a camera no longer working.

Oh well, probably landfill
==John ffitch



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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:28:25 +0100
From: Stuart Ward <stuart.ward@bcs.org>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Question expecting the answer no
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take / send them to the computer museum at Bletcley park, They are
restoring lots of old computers and may be able to use them...

-- Stuart Ward M +44 7782325143


On 28 August 2014 13:20, john ffitch <jpff@codemist.co.uk> wrote:

> Does anyone want a collection of 13 5.25" floppy disks, unused? I hate
> sending usable stuff to landfill.
>
> Any while typing, I also have two Compact Flash cards, one 128Mb and
> the other 8Mb; were in a camera no longer working.
>
> Oh well, probably landfill
> ==John ffitch
>
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:55:49 +0100
From: "Steve Netting" <steve@track3.org.uk>
To: "Bristol and Bath Linux User Group" <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Question expecting the answer no
Message-ID:
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Hi John,

I'd take the CF cards. I do a lot of retro computing and they make useful
floppy replacements. However, whilst I'm no longer in Bristol, I'd
happily pay postage.


Steve

> Does anyone want a collection of 13 5.25" floppy disks, unused? I hate
> sending usable stuff to landfill.
>
> Any while typing, I also have two Compact Flash cards, one 128Mb and
> the other 8Mb; were in a camera no longer working.
>
> Oh well, probably landfill
> ==John ffitch
>
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:15:10 +0100
From: Andrew <andrewsoltau@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [bristol] Security on smartphone compromising desktop
Message-ID: <5400368E.1060608@1dtv.com>
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Greetings all

I have stumbled into the new millennium at last, buying myself a
smartphone. I have accepted various things in setup, some with
misgivings. Now I find that a search done on firefox on my debian box is
showing up in google on the smartphone. I don't quite see how this is
happening and I am concerned about the security of my desktop.

Andrew


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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:23:40 +0000
From: David Smith <David.Smith@imgtec.com>
To: "andrew@1dtv.com" <andrew@1dtv.com>, Bristol and Bath Linux User
Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Security on smartphone compromising desktop
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> From: bristol-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:bristol-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Andrew
> I have stumbled into the new millennium at last, buying myself a smartphone. I have accepted various things in setup, some with misgivings. Now I find that a search done on firefox on my debian box is
> showing up in google on the smartphone. I don't quite see how this is happening and I am concerned about the security of my desktop.

If you have logged into your Google account from your smartphone (in particular, to access Google Play (the app store)), then Google will have been able to realise that the two browsers are "owned" by the same person, and therefore they will customise the search results accordingly.



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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:07:46 +0100
From: Chris Makepeace <chris@makepeace.net>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>,
andrew@1dtv.com
Subject: Re: [bristol] Security on smartphone compromising desktop
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Try opening Chrome Settings on your phone and going to Basic - your address
- Services - Sync and file with those. Also, see if Chrome to Mobile does
anything useful.

ChrisM
On 29 Aug 2014 09:18, "Andrew" <andrewsoltau@gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings all
>
> I have stumbled into the new millennium at last, buying myself a
> smartphone. I have accepted various things in setup, some with misgivings.
> Now I find that a search done on firefox on my debian box is showing up in
> google on the smartphone. I don't quite see how this is happening and I am
> concerned about the security of my desktop.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:35:39 +0100 (BST)
From: Alex Butcher <lug@assursys.co.uk>
To: andrew@1dtv.com, Bristol and Bath Linux User Group
<bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Security on smartphone compromising desktop
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, Andrew wrote:

> Greetings all
>
> I have stumbled into the new millennium at last, buying myself a smartphone.
> I have accepted various things in setup, some with misgivings. Now I find
> that a search done on firefox on my debian box is showing up in google on
> the smartphone. I don't quite see how this is happening and I am concerned
> about the security of my desktop.

If you're logged into Google (e.g. for gmail, Play store) in Firefox when
you perform your search (possibly even if you're logged out, but still have
Google cookies in Firefox - I haven't tested exhaustively), then your search
will be associated with that Google account, which presumably is the same
account you've configured as your Android account.

There are far bigger things to worry about...

> Andrew

Best Regards,
Alex



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