subpar stabilization, no one will use.
Based on what? Have you used any of the apps I've referred to and compared them to the Youtube stabilization?
I have a challenge for you. Tomorrow I will post a video with iPhone 5 stabilization and then post another with YouTube stabilization, and let you pick which one you like best.
Do you accept my challenge?
Samsung selling more Galaxy S3 4.8 inch large screen than all their other brands.
Source?
Passbook:
AND It's been stated people line up snaking the front register at Starbucks. Snaking means hugging the counter, in a line next to register, NOT facing the register ( if they do that the line will force customers to exit the front door or hit the customer's chairs!). For those who don.t believe how easy it is to hack a passbook image, use your 8 megapixel camera and snap a passbook image from 3 feet away (like he said is impossible) at an angle (like you are snaking around the counter). 3 feet away is fourth in line, so it's not like you are being suspicious reading messages in phone. I just tried it, and it is crystal clear at 3 feet. If you use 14MP you can double your distance to 6-7 feet. Hell, if you have a canon 24Mp with optical zoom lens, you can be seated anywhere in Starbucks near the back and capture the code crystal clear. For those in doubt, any 42 or greater inch television requires you to be 4 feet away to take the whole screen. A lowly iPhone 3GS camera can capture all dots (1920x1080) of that TV and each dot is about size of the passbook dots.
I am mentioning this because this is a major security issue. It is fairly easy to capture images of passbook, while NFC has security built in so even if someone gets your code they can't do anything with it (and more difficult to capture as the technology is not common like a camera). It has secret key used and is tied to your device only.
Do you have a source of people getting hacked in this fashion? Lines snaking around before you pay, have no bearing on the angle of your phone while you are at the register paying, nor does it have any bearing on the proximity of the people standing behind you while paying. When you scan the phone, you are standing directly in the line of fire, blocking any photo that could possibly be taken.
We're telling you it's impossible, but you seem to disagree. We've explained how your proposed angles are both technically and logically infeasible, but you think you know better.
Prove it. Show us a single source of this happening to someone. If this were feasible, it would be all over the news, "Apple Passbook hacked!". Do you think there is a major vulnerability in the world's #1 selling smartphone from the world's #1 most profitable smartphone maker...and you're the only one who knows about it?
Furthermore, why do you focus on mobile payment security (especially when Passbook has the same security features), but keep ignoring the posts about NFC allowing the phone to be remotely hacked?
We have shown indisputable proof of the security vulnerabilities of NFC. I have posted a quote from an official RSA page explaining how dangerous NFC is. Fellow poster throAU posted a link showing how hackers at Pwn2Own used NFC to hack into a Galaxy S3.
Quote from the article:
According to Erasmus, the exploit was delivered via NFC, the short-range wireless technology allows the sharing of small payloads of data between an NFC tag and an Android-powered device. The hackers exploited a weakness in the way NFC is implemented in the Galaxy S3 to deliver a malicious file that was automatically opened by the Android document viewer.
Once the file opened, the team exploited a zero-day flaw in the document viewer to launch a code execution attack. A second Android privilege escalation vulnerability, also zero-day, was then used to get full rights on the device.
With escalated rights, the team had access to all the data on the Samsung S3, including the e-mail and SMS databases, the address book, the photo gallery and access to third-party app data.
"We can do anything on the phone with our Trojan running in the background," Erasmus said in an interview after the successful hack. "The user is oblivious to it because NFC allows us to open the malicious document without any user interaction."
Exploit beamed via NFC to hack Samsung Galaxy S3
This source shows how a tiny chip, that can easily be camouflaged and taped to the side of a terminal, can install trojan horse viruses on each phone that gets within range:
The attack works by putting the phone a few centimeters away from a quarter-sized chip, or touching it to another NFC-enabled phone. Code on the attacker-controlled chip or handset is beamed to the target phone over the air, then opens malicious files or webpages that exploit known vulnerabilities in a document reader or browser, or in some cases in the operating system itself.
Android, Nokia smartphone security toppled by Near Field Communication hack
Furthermore, no NFC apps that I can find currently use this security you speak of. Can you show us one? Do you have a source? Passbook has the
exact same capabilities, the technology exists for your card to change after each use, so even if someone gets your code, they can not do anything with it.
And the credit card pic thing is moot. Getting a pic of the card does nothing. Online they need the back 3 security digits. Offline, they would need to reproduce a credit card with stripe and hologram logo, which is way harder than simply using photoshop image on any iPhone. Plus, you can hide credit card in hand while giving, while passbook you need to look at your iphone to select pass, then turn 180 degrees to scanner with bright LCD screaming look at me at the time from facing you to facing scanner.
There are many places online which do not require the 3 security digits. Even if they do, then all you need is two photos, one of the front and one of the back, according to your own statements, this can be done by anyone from anywhere in the store with a DSLR and a zoom lens.
I implore you, accept my stabilization challenge. Find sources to backup your claims of NFC being more secure than Passbook. Find sources to show that bluetooth isn't good enough for, "door opening, room entering light and music on technology" Find sources to backup your claims that the iPhone is showing "lower demand than usual" because the screen is too small and not 1080p.
Simply stating it as fact, does not make it so.