(In other words, point a gun at Google's head, and they will extract your key the next time you enter your passphrase.)
If someone points a gun to my head, I'll hand them my PGP keys, passphrases for encrypted media, PIN and online banking credentials, mother's maiden name, car keys, and add on the end "Would you like a receipt with that?"
This isn't to protect against government coersion of the business. It's to protect unauthorised monitoring and tapping of communications. The TLA's are certainly authorised to make these demands; It's their job. The legality of those demands are another question.
What is it about sending email and SMS messages that cause you issues? I've used PDA / smartphone devices since Pocket PC 2002, and they've all been the same; Open the email / SMS app, use the (often questionable) keyboard to enter contact and message details, send the message. It's no different on Android or iOS. On both you can send email and SMS directly from the contact list, or from within other apps via "Share" functionality.
Keyboards on each differ, though. I find the accuracy on the Android keyboard is better, but my girlfriend finds it impossible to use.
Fundamentally, though, I can't see iOS as the better platform for me. If I don't like Apple's keyboard, which I don't, I am stuck with it; It's the Jobs way, or the highway. If I don't like Android's keyboard, I can change it for one of dozens available on the Play Store. That availability of customisation is enough to make me always choose Android devices over iOS. For others, I say the same thing I'd say if they asked about buying a car, or a sofa; Find one you like the look of, give it a go in the store, and if you like both the price and item, get that one. It's purely personal preference.
I was about to ask what a journalist was doing using Hotmail, but then I though:
What is a news organisation IT dept doing in allowing their journalists to use third-party email services? Those are privileged communications, maybe not to the same level as legal or medical documentation, but they're still protected. There must be some kind of due diligence for these things, though.
Ask him what his political affiliation is. Then ask if in 20 years time, presumably taking a state pension, he'd be happy with those then in power having details of his prior political slant, and using that information to decide whether he should continue to be supported by the state. Or eligible to receive healthcare. Or to travel outside of the country.
Point out other historically significant political entities which started with similar data collection on their populace, and how they ended up; I won't name the obvious choices. I'm sure there are a few examples.
Android has one default email app; Email. It supports POP3, IMAP, and Exchange email accounts, and is managed from the Acccounts area in the Android Settings menu. There is also an app for Gmail, but this integrates with Hangouts, G+, Voice Search, and all of the Google services. It's there because it's a Google service, and they are pushing their own product just like any other company does.
Managing accounts on Android is just as easy as on an iPhone; It's exactly the same. It's done this way so permissions to account details can be strictly enforced, meaning there aren't account details lying randomly around the user-accessible storage, ripe for any app with "Read storage" permission to steal.
I had issues rendering SVGs on Pale Moon and went back to FF29. The menu is annoying, yes, but other than that it's pretty familiar. I've certainly not had the same jarring experience as I had testing hardware with Windows 8 ("Ok, don't need to RMA this one, DBAN and install Windows 7"-style testing). I had to look up how to shut down the system online.
Will they provide those people with cost-effective end user devices, too? I'm thinking that a lot of the under-served are 2nd / 3rd world, or extremely rural 1st world. Places where infrastructure of any kind is severely lacking. It would be nice to get these people onto the internet, of course, but I think they might benefit more from electricity first. When you live somewhere where you pay for electricity as per litre of diesel in your geny, I don't think internet access features high on the list of "Things I use electricity for".
If you can put Ubuntu on a tablet, can't you do the same with another Debian distro?
Replicant isn't the solution, though. There is too much profit to be made in the shovelware consumer space to release FOSS drivers and bare OS's for hardware, and not enough nerds (like me) who will pay for that option. Your best lookout for a privacy-enabled phone is Blackphone, but again that's a corporate entity. Profit is the driving force, which means no open-source implementation.
I still have my Nexus 4; I'd have upgraded to a OnePlus One if I hadn't just received a Nexus 7 recently. I make so few voice calls nowadays my Nexus 4 was more an internet device anyway. If I could get SMS on my Nexus 7 (for free) I'd dump my phone altogether.
That isn't the problem. Joe Everyman expected them to be doing this, but don't know why it's A Bad Thing. All they see is "It's to stop the terr'rists / perverts / commies!" and don't see how it can be abused, not by those in power now, but those in the future.
20 years from now, when the bigots finally get a real right-wing guy in power, they'll look back at all this data and say "Ok, fella's; Find me everyone who ever talked to a brown guy and revoke their passport."
This explains why they didn't have wings! Good Ol' L. Ron. Hubbard knowing how "flight" works in zero-G. No wonder he was a sci-fi writer before turning into a...
Well, wouldn't want to get/. into more trouble, would we.:)
It's not about making any connection faster; It's about making all other connections slower.
If I stream a Netflix video over a connection from an ISP who hasn't strong-armed them into a paid peering agreement, and packets are dropped until they pay up, it's not any faster once Netflix agree; It's as fast as it should have been before.
the current reserves will only supply about 200 years of energy
How long will fossil fuels last? How much less carbon will be pumped into the atmosphere by reducing fossil fuel usage, supplanting demand with nuclear?
100 years ago we didn't have an electrical distribution grid. 200 years ago we didn't have electric generators (Faraday invented the dynamo in 1831). I'm willing to bet fusion will be old hat before then.
Smart people would be investing in nuclear energy, be it fission or fusion, and increasing the throughput of the grid to support fast charging of electric vehicles.
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The breach happened in February, was discovered two weeks ago (According to Radio 4 last night), and is now being published to everyone. I'd guess that they sat on it for a short while so they could monitor for any strange behaviour (Mass changing of passwords from one network, for example).
I'd like to know why we need to change our passwords, though. Unless they're stored in plaintext, or using a really badly implemented encryption scheme, what's the problem? I expect a company as large as eBay to have competent IT staff who know how about PBKDF2, bcrypt etc.
Oh, wait, now the Blu-Ray and Wii are just sending all my data instead.
Yup. I use my Nexus 7 and Chromecast for smart features, and I was pretty amazed at how well it works. However, All My Data Are Belong To Google. I know I could unlock and flash it with a custom ROM, but it breaks a lot of app compatibility. Kind of defeats the purpose.
I have a TP-Link router between my ISP provided device and my network (Ensures they can't see inside my network, and means I can disable everything on their device and just use it as the border gateway). I've installed DD-WRT onto it which includes various metrics, including bandwidth and data usage monitoring. Last time I looked I used around 150GB pcm, though I had a WoW subscription then and didn't watch much netflix / NowTV.
It's amazing how much free time you have when you're not playing an MMO.
Nothing will be gutted. The working class still believe they can become middle class, the middle class are comfortable, and the upper class don't give a crap about the other two. Nothing will change; Everyone really enjoys circuses, and the bread is actually quite good.
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Enjoy your 50GB Blu-Ray rips. I hope your ISP doesn't have a transit limit and accompanied overage fees.
(In other words, point a gun at Google's head, and they will extract your key the next time you enter your passphrase.)
If someone points a gun to my head, I'll hand them my PGP keys, passphrases for encrypted media, PIN and online banking credentials, mother's maiden name, car keys, and add on the end "Would you like a receipt with that?"
This isn't to protect against government coersion of the business. It's to protect unauthorised monitoring and tapping of communications. The TLA's are certainly authorised to make these demands; It's their job. The legality of those demands are another question.
What is it about sending email and SMS messages that cause you issues? I've used PDA / smartphone devices since Pocket PC 2002, and they've all been the same; Open the email / SMS app, use the (often questionable) keyboard to enter contact and message details, send the message. It's no different on Android or iOS. On both you can send email and SMS directly from the contact list, or from within other apps via "Share" functionality.
Keyboards on each differ, though. I find the accuracy on the Android keyboard is better, but my girlfriend finds it impossible to use.
Fundamentally, though, I can't see iOS as the better platform for me. If I don't like Apple's keyboard, which I don't, I am stuck with it; It's the Jobs way, or the highway. If I don't like Android's keyboard, I can change it for one of dozens available on the Play Store. That availability of customisation is enough to make me always choose Android devices over iOS. For others, I say the same thing I'd say if they asked about buying a car, or a sofa; Find one you like the look of, give it a go in the store, and if you like both the price and item, get that one. It's purely personal preference.
I was about to ask what a journalist was doing using Hotmail, but then I though:
What is a news organisation IT dept doing in allowing their journalists to use third-party email services? Those are privileged communications, maybe not to the same level as legal or medical documentation, but they're still protected. There must be some kind of due diligence for these things, though.
Ask him what his political affiliation is. Then ask if in 20 years time, presumably taking a state pension, he'd be happy with those then in power having details of his prior political slant, and using that information to decide whether he should continue to be supported by the state. Or eligible to receive healthcare. Or to travel outside of the country.
Point out other historically significant political entities which started with similar data collection on their populace, and how they ended up; I won't name the obvious choices. I'm sure there are a few examples.
Android has one default email app; Email. It supports POP3, IMAP, and Exchange email accounts, and is managed from the Acccounts area in the Android Settings menu. There is also an app for Gmail, but this integrates with Hangouts, G+, Voice Search, and all of the Google services. It's there because it's a Google service, and they are pushing their own product just like any other company does.
Managing accounts on Android is just as easy as on an iPhone; It's exactly the same. It's done this way so permissions to account details can be strictly enforced, meaning there aren't account details lying randomly around the user-accessible storage, ripe for any app with "Read storage" permission to steal.
It's why there are no 666MHz parts. Memory, processors, buses... All 667Mhz.
Voice / Hangouts is US only. If it was UK, I'd be all over it.
I had issues rendering SVGs on Pale Moon and went back to FF29. The menu is annoying, yes, but other than that it's pretty familiar. I've certainly not had the same jarring experience as I had testing hardware with Windows 8 ("Ok, don't need to RMA this one, DBAN and install Windows 7"-style testing). I had to look up how to shut down the system online.
Will they provide those people with cost-effective end user devices, too? I'm thinking that a lot of the under-served are 2nd / 3rd world, or extremely rural 1st world. Places where infrastructure of any kind is severely lacking. It would be nice to get these people onto the internet, of course, but I think they might benefit more from electricity first. When you live somewhere where you pay for electricity as per litre of diesel in your geny, I don't think internet access features high on the list of "Things I use electricity for".
If you can put Ubuntu on a tablet, can't you do the same with another Debian distro?
Replicant isn't the solution, though. There is too much profit to be made in the shovelware consumer space to release FOSS drivers and bare OS's for hardware, and not enough nerds (like me) who will pay for that option. Your best lookout for a privacy-enabled phone is Blackphone, but again that's a corporate entity. Profit is the driving force, which means no open-source implementation.
I still have my Nexus 4; I'd have upgraded to a OnePlus One if I hadn't just received a Nexus 7 recently. I make so few voice calls nowadays my Nexus 4 was more an internet device anyway. If I could get SMS on my Nexus 7 (for free) I'd dump my phone altogether.
That isn't the problem. Joe Everyman expected them to be doing this, but don't know why it's A Bad Thing. All they see is "It's to stop the terr'rists / perverts / commies!" and don't see how it can be abused, not by those in power now, but those in the future.
20 years from now, when the bigots finally get a real right-wing guy in power, they'll look back at all this data and say "Ok, fella's; Find me everyone who ever talked to a brown guy and revoke their passport."
This explains why they didn't have wings! Good Ol' L. Ron. Hubbard knowing how "flight" works in zero-G. No wonder he was a sci-fi writer before turning into a...
/. into more trouble, would we. :)
Well, wouldn't want to get
It's not about making any connection faster; It's about making all other connections slower.
If I stream a Netflix video over a connection from an ISP who hasn't strong-armed them into a paid peering agreement, and packets are dropped until they pay up, it's not any faster once Netflix agree; It's as fast as it should have been before.
Swap Ghostery for Disconnect. The dev behind Ghostery sells metrics data to advertisers which helps them target their advertising. http://www.businessinsider.com/evidon-sells-ghostery-data-to-advertisers-2013-6
the current reserves will only supply about 200 years of energy
How long will fossil fuels last? How much less carbon will be pumped into the atmosphere by reducing fossil fuel usage, supplanting demand with nuclear?
100 years ago we didn't have an electrical distribution grid. 200 years ago we didn't have electric generators (Faraday invented the dynamo in 1831). I'm willing to bet fusion will be old hat before then.
Hideous. Plaid uniforms.
Smart people would be investing in nuclear energy, be it fission or fusion, and increasing the throughput of the grid to support fast charging of electric vehicles.
The breach happened in February, was discovered two weeks ago (According to Radio 4 last night), and is now being published to everyone. I'd guess that they sat on it for a short while so they could monitor for any strange behaviour (Mass changing of passwords from one network, for example).
I'd like to know why we need to change our passwords, though. Unless they're stored in plaintext, or using a really badly implemented encryption scheme, what's the problem? I expect a company as large as eBay to have competent IT staff who know how about PBKDF2, bcrypt etc.
Oh, wait, now the Blu-Ray and Wii are just sending all my data instead.
Yup. I use my Nexus 7 and Chromecast for smart features, and I was pretty amazed at how well it works. However, All My Data Are Belong To Google. I know I could unlock and flash it with a custom ROM, but it breaks a lot of app compatibility. Kind of defeats the purpose.
I have a TP-Link router between my ISP provided device and my network (Ensures they can't see inside my network, and means I can disable everything on their device and just use it as the border gateway). I've installed DD-WRT onto it which includes various metrics, including bandwidth and data usage monitoring. Last time I looked I used around 150GB pcm, though I had a WoW subscription then and didn't watch much netflix / NowTV.
It's amazing how much free time you have when you're not playing an MMO.
Regular cars don't go 160MPH, and don't weigh 6 tonnes.
Nothing will be gutted. The working class still believe they can become middle class, the middle class are comfortable, and the upper class don't give a crap about the other two. Nothing will change; Everyone really enjoys circuses, and the bread is actually quite good.
"Synergies"? Nope.
"Paradigm"? Absent.
"Holistic approach"? No.
Dude, there isn't a "proactive" in there anywhere.
Now, if you'd have said this was a press release from Pyongyang, I'd have agreed with you.