3) Why are we talking about a 5 or 20 year JAIL sentence? Do they realize how much damage incarcerating people does to society and individual's lives? A felony and 5 year jail sentence can wreck entire lives. How is this appropriate for disrupting drone operation, especially over one's own property
As this is the US you shouldn't be surprised about excessive penalties, that is the norm.
How about all those airliners and other aircraft including low-flying hot air balloons crisscrossing the skies every day, and have done so for at least a century? Are those not trespassing?
Well, then they may have to close US operations, maybe even move out of the country, and lose access to 5% of the world. May hurt a bit, but they'll weather it.
Isn't the conservative view that corporations have similar rights to people, especially when it comes to politics? So presumably many Trump supporters would support Facebook's right to take a political position and support the candidate of their choice.
I'm sure they'll be all for it - as long as Facebook supports the correct candidate.
That said, I'm fine with Facebook (the company) supporting a candidate (but those donations in US politics must end - that's just a form of legalised corruption), I'm not OK with Facebook manipulating their already highly distorted "news feed" to propagate certain political views over others.
How long will it be before facebook users never leave the facebook environment?
Already. I see that happen all the time.
I use Facebook a lot for my business and from the questions I get on my posts it is clear that 1) people don't really read them (or maybe just the first 50 words or so) as the question is answered in the post already, and 2) they never follow links given, only when explicitly prompted to do so.
Don't forget that this DOES make him a REAL American, living the American Dream! He doesn't worry about paying it back, because as soon as he becomes the president he'll just bail himself out as of course by then he's Too Big To Fail!
No Mac fan either, but TFS added "in the pas 15 years". Too lazy to look up the release dates of the products you mention but I think they're mostly if not all pre-iPod, which was the first in a long range of commercial successes for Apple.
without surge pricing you aren't going to find many drivers working at times or places you want to go anywhere. Surge pricing may be annoying but it also attracts far more drivers.
This just shows that the "surged" price is a fair price for the drivers, and that the "regular" fares are too low for most drivers to be economical. That's one of the reasons Uber can be cheaper than taxis: they seriously exploit their drivers, especially at the quiet hours, when demand is low. Driving for Uber at non-surge prices means you can barely cover the cost of your car (gas, maintenance, insurance, etc). It's just that there are too many gullible people that forget their car costs more than the fuel it uses...
That way if someone (say, a terrorist, always sounds good these days) places a roadside bomb, they only have a 2% chance of hitting the correct car, and even less actually killing him (considering the cars are so heavily armed).
I think you use the same argument for this back door as there is to wire taps. Phone companies are required to allow law enforcement to listen in on phone calls. General right to privacy, but with a court order (well, that's how it's supposed to work at least, and how it used to be) law enforcement can gain access.
Now they want this wire tap facility attached to encryption. Following that argument, I don't see how that could be a violation to your constitution.
The technical implementation of such wire tap/back door facility, however, is a whole different discussion.
In contrast, the government is now going up against the three largest companies on the planet Earth (Apple, Google, and Microsoft)—companies that make essentially 100% of the world's smartphones among them.
Don't forget the worldwide #1: Samsung. Alone good for more than 1 in 5 phones. Google and MS are not even in the top-5. Windows Mobile is rather irrelevant and as Samsung and many others (e.g. Cyanogenmod) have proven already Android can be forked and bastardised just fine.
Samsung are big enough that if they want to stay in the US market, they may release a special US version, with back door, and an international version with real security for the other 95% of the world. That failing, there are plenty of other non-US makers of phones, many of whom will be happy to include real security.
It'd probably end up being just another step on the road to irrelevance for US-based smart phone makers.
Maybe instead they should consider firing up those old servers again. There's an obvious and large market for the outdated versions of their game. Should be easy profit for them, as they don't even have to reverse engineer the server software itself.
For example, I've seen engineering bulletin boards ask for the name of a specific type of beam, automotive ones that ask something unique to the marque, etc. so automating a process to gain entry is not practical.
Works mostly due to obscurity and there being millions of tiny boards out there, a single human intervention and it's completely broken.
It's been a while I've had a ReCAPTCHA to solve, but the stats posted seem much better than my attempts (maybe 30% correct, after numerous reloads to get something I think I can read... so frustrating). Those Indians may get better with practice but those modern day captchas are just getting too hard for normal humans to solve!
Was it a demonstration of the "stupidity" of a firewall doing it's job (why he had to access those sites is not clear from TFS to me, nor what he tried to achieve with it), or the human stupidity of someone not properly preparing a presentation?
That's why I avoid putting anything personal on such services. Only information I intend to be public goes on my Facebook pages, for example.I have to admit to using Google Calendar a lot, though, as it's so darn convenient for sharing calendars with the missus (both of us have quite irregular schedules).
Will there be an article every time the FBI issues a warrant now?
Of course, just like every airplane crash gets media attention. Both events are increasingly rare, even though both air traffic and the FBI are growing fast and out of control. That's why it's newsworthy: it's special, it's shocking, it's just not something that happens every day.
The proper way would of course be to store it encrypted on the servers, and exchange it with the clients in encrypted form only. No unencrypted data ever on the server. The encryption key is getting tricky due to the need to exchange with new clients for the same user, though. It would also have to be stored on that server somehow, protected only by the user's password.
Also I don't really see too much of a problem here. You make too many mistakes (big raid, nothing there at all) and soon enough your word alone isn't good enough. To get warrants that way, you must have built up a reputation, and I expect you'll want to uphold it, if only to keep your job, your income and your livelihood. That alone is generally enough to prevent serious abuse, as long as the rest of the organisation cares about those things as well of course.
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3) Why are we talking about a 5 or 20 year JAIL sentence? Do they realize how much damage incarcerating people does to society and individual's lives? A felony and 5 year jail sentence can wreck entire lives. How is this appropriate for disrupting drone operation, especially over one's own property
As this is the US you shouldn't be surprised about excessive penalties, that is the norm.
How about all those airliners and other aircraft including low-flying hot air balloons crisscrossing the skies every day, and have done so for at least a century? Are those not trespassing?
Well, then they may have to close US operations, maybe even move out of the country, and lose access to 5% of the world. May hurt a bit, but they'll weather it.
Isn't the conservative view that corporations have similar rights to people, especially when it comes to politics? So presumably many Trump supporters would support Facebook's right to take a political position and support the candidate of their choice.
I'm sure they'll be all for it - as long as Facebook supports the correct candidate.
That said, I'm fine with Facebook (the company) supporting a candidate (but those donations in US politics must end - that's just a form of legalised corruption), I'm not OK with Facebook manipulating their already highly distorted "news feed" to propagate certain political views over others.
and a potential boon for Apple as all these customers still using last year's model now have to upgrade to this year's models!
Get a gun, be your own cop. Shoot first, ask questions later, That's the American way, no?
How long will it be before facebook users never leave the facebook environment?
Already. I see that happen all the time.
I use Facebook a lot for my business and from the questions I get on my posts it is clear that 1) people don't really read them (or maybe just the first 50 words or so) as the question is answered in the post already, and 2) they never follow links given, only when explicitly prompted to do so.
dpi means nothing without dimensions: a 300x300 image is 300 dpi when printed an a postage stamp.
He doesn't own anything, other than debt.
Don't forget that this DOES make him a REAL American, living the American Dream! He doesn't worry about paying it back, because as soon as he becomes the president he'll just bail himself out as of course by then he's Too Big To Fail!
No Mac fan either, but TFS added "in the pas 15 years". Too lazy to look up the release dates of the products you mention but I think they're mostly if not all pre-iPod, which was the first in a long range of commercial successes for Apple.
without surge pricing you aren't going to find many drivers working at times or places you want to go anywhere. Surge pricing may be annoying but it also attracts far more drivers.
This just shows that the "surged" price is a fair price for the drivers, and that the "regular" fares are too low for most drivers to be economical. That's one of the reasons Uber can be cheaper than taxis: they seriously exploit their drivers, especially at the quiet hours, when demand is low. Driving for Uber at non-surge prices means you can barely cover the cost of your car (gas, maintenance, insurance, etc). It's just that there are too many gullible people that forget their car costs more than the fuel it uses...
When an attacker has enough access to your system to switch on your web cam, an unloaded driver won't be too much of a hurdle.
That way if someone (say, a terrorist, always sounds good these days) places a roadside bomb, they only have a 2% chance of hitting the correct car, and even less actually killing him (considering the cars are so heavily armed).
I think you use the same argument for this back door as there is to wire taps. Phone companies are required to allow law enforcement to listen in on phone calls. General right to privacy, but with a court order (well, that's how it's supposed to work at least, and how it used to be) law enforcement can gain access.
Now they want this wire tap facility attached to encryption. Following that argument, I don't see how that could be a violation to your constitution.
The technical implementation of such wire tap/back door facility, however, is a whole different discussion.
In contrast, the government is now going up against the three largest companies on the planet Earth (Apple, Google, and Microsoft)—companies that make essentially 100% of the world's smartphones among them.
Don't forget the worldwide #1: Samsung. Alone good for more than 1 in 5 phones. Google and MS are not even in the top-5. Windows Mobile is rather irrelevant and as Samsung and many others (e.g. Cyanogenmod) have proven already Android can be forked and bastardised just fine.
Samsung are big enough that if they want to stay in the US market, they may release a special US version, with back door, and an international version with real security for the other 95% of the world. That failing, there are plenty of other non-US makers of phones, many of whom will be happy to include real security.
It'd probably end up being just another step on the road to irrelevance for US-based smart phone makers.
Maybe instead they should consider firing up those old servers again. There's an obvious and large market for the outdated versions of their game. Should be easy profit for them, as they don't even have to reverse engineer the server software itself.
For example, I've seen engineering bulletin boards ask for the name of a specific type of beam, automotive ones that ask something unique to the marque, etc. so automating a process to gain entry is not practical.
Works mostly due to obscurity and there being millions of tiny boards out there, a single human intervention and it's completely broken.
Better use the bot.
It's been a while I've had a ReCAPTCHA to solve, but the stats posted seem much better than my attempts (maybe 30% correct, after numerous reloads to get something I think I can read... so frustrating). Those Indians may get better with practice but those modern day captchas are just getting too hard for normal humans to solve!
Was it a demonstration of the "stupidity" of a firewall doing it's job (why he had to access those sites is not clear from TFS to me, nor what he tried to achieve with it), or the human stupidity of someone not properly preparing a presentation?
That's why I avoid putting anything personal on such services. Only information I intend to be public goes on my Facebook pages, for example.I have to admit to using Google Calendar a lot, though, as it's so darn convenient for sharing calendars with the missus (both of us have quite irregular schedules).
Will there be an article every time the FBI issues a warrant now?
Of course, just like every airplane crash gets media attention. Both events are increasingly rare, even though both air traffic and the FBI are growing fast and out of control. That's why it's newsworthy: it's special, it's shocking, it's just not something that happens every day.
The proper way would of course be to store it encrypted on the servers, and exchange it with the clients in encrypted form only. No unencrypted data ever on the server. The encryption key is getting tricky due to the need to exchange with new clients for the same user, though. It would also have to be stored on that server somehow, protected only by the user's password.
How about the "passwords" part? It would be pretty shocking if MS can provide those.
I'll take your word for that.
Also I don't really see too much of a problem here. You make too many mistakes (big raid, nothing there at all) and soon enough your word alone isn't good enough. To get warrants that way, you must have built up a reputation, and I expect you'll want to uphold it, if only to keep your job, your income and your livelihood. That alone is generally enough to prevent serious abuse, as long as the rest of the organisation cares about those things as well of course.
they still can't alter your computer without a very specific court order.
That's why they won't. They'll ask your ISP to disconnect you. Much simpler.