Websites don't advertise that they can see your IP address either. Let alone other information such as you browser and Operating System. You IP isn't "sensitive data" it's used for routing data on the internet. If you don't want anyone to know it then don't connect to them or use a service that is designed for anonymity..
The issue here is that the people being extradited aren't committing crimes. If they did they could be charged, but they aren't so extradition is the only way to lock them up.
Soon we'll be sending all women to Saudi Arabia to have their heads cut off.
It's not Facebook or Twitter that need to react. It's the people who receive the message. I unfollow and unfriend people who post pointless spam, that's the solution. People lose their audience and soon they are worth nothing.
To create fear amongst a population you need to make people feel vulnerable as they go about their daily lives. Blowing up a plane might make people feel unsafe when they travel, but it doesn't effect them for the rest of their lives.
9/11 was successful because people in lower Manhattan were going about their normal everyday lives when the planes hit. The idea that you may not be safe in your daily routine is where the real fear come from. Another way to terrorise the population is to start a sniper killing spree such as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks and make people frightened of being out in public.
I set about trying to change my passwords. Hotmail was easy enough, but as that email address was also used as my iTunes login, I wanted to change that password as well. Except Apple’s changed its password policy since I last changed mine, forcing me to include a capital letter, a number, a set number of characters and a symbol from the Ancient Greek alphabet (I exaggerate only slightly). As my Gmail account was linked to that now compromised Hotmail inbox, I had to change that password too. So I now had three new passwords – all using slightly different systems – swimming round my slightly inebriated brain, and I can’t even remember the name of my news editor when I’m sober. If I’m still able to access my iPhone and Gmail account today, it will be nothing short of miraculous.
I'm curious to know how strong this password, used in multiple places really was.
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Websites don't advertise that they can see your IP address either. Let alone other information such as you browser and Operating System. You IP isn't "sensitive data" it's used for routing data on the internet. If you don't want anyone to know it then don't connect to them or use a service that is designed for anonymity..
Also skype has never been marketed as an Anonymous communications channel.
So where is the expectation to privacy? People don't complain about their normal phone being traceable, why would this be an issue?
The issue here is that the people being extradited aren't committing crimes. If they did they could be charged, but they aren't so extradition is the only way to lock them up.
Soon we'll be sending all women to Saudi Arabia to have their heads cut off.
How do we (Australians) sack our government? They are obviously fucked in the head.
We can't vote in US elections :)
Why would they need to, nobody outside of /. cares about any of the technical specifications.
Not to mention if he were alive he'd have the ultimate opportunity for LULZ at the expense of the US Government.
Its a peer 2 peer network. Why would you expect any form of anonymity?
Skype was never designed to be Tor
It's not Facebook or Twitter that need to react. It's the people who receive the message. I unfollow and unfriend people who post pointless spam, that's the solution. People lose their audience and soon they are worth nothing.
How long will an social site's last when you have a couple of hundred thousand trolls flooding the site with links,...
They seem to be coping just fine at the moment.
Senator Conjob is the champion of Nationwide Internet Censorship.
To create fear amongst a population you need to make people feel vulnerable as they go about their daily lives. Blowing up a plane might make people feel unsafe when they travel, but it doesn't effect them for the rest of their lives.
9/11 was successful because people in lower Manhattan were going about their normal everyday lives when the planes hit. The idea that you may not be safe in your daily routine is where the real fear come from. Another way to terrorise the population is to start a sniper killing spree such as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks and make people frightened of being out in public.
By "cybersecurity issues" they really mean "piracy".
From TFA
I set about trying to change my passwords. Hotmail was easy enough, but as that email address was also used as my iTunes login, I wanted to change that password as well. Except Apple’s changed its password policy since I last changed mine, forcing me to include a capital letter, a number, a set number of characters and a symbol from the Ancient Greek alphabet (I exaggerate only slightly). As my Gmail account was linked to that now compromised Hotmail inbox, I had to change that password too. So I now had three new passwords – all using slightly different systems – swimming round my slightly inebriated brain, and I can’t even remember the name of my news editor when I’m sober. If I’m still able to access my iPhone and Gmail account today, it will be nothing short of miraculous.
I'm curious to know how strong this password, used in multiple places really was.
How is that negligent? If some twat wants to jump in front of my car they should have to pay for the damage they do.
A heard of stampeding elephants would be more original.
I went with hobby.
Collecting adult material?
I know someone who keeps backups on a separate hard drive in the same machine.
Chrome isn't spyware. Of wait you must be a FOSS Hippies.
Yes, anything not open source must be spyware.
You can't solve a non-existent problem.
You mean the update that users never even know about?
There's hardly anything worth discussing here. You're really having the scrape the bottom of the barrel for your arguments here.
So by your logic companies want to be DDoSed.
Why are they calling in the FBI, I wonder?
Wow, good way to burn the competition.
It lists zero for me because ScriptNo blocks it.
If I allow scripting it detects LastPass, Ghostery and ScriptNo.