If a police officer is following a car and it goes onto private property he needs a search warrant (or permission) to follow. I see no reason to give a GPS tracker special dispensation around that issue.
Googles intentions are irrelevant. The moment the NSA shows up with a general warrant (NSL) they will fold and give away everything. And that includes back-dooring the VPN software.
A major issue with security is 'single point of failure', where if you get past a single defense you win everything. Like if you can get past the firewall there is no file protection. To prevent that you have multiple lines of defense, with each line as independent as possible so that breaking through one won't help you get through the next.
You are assuming this is new. It's not. This pre-screening is part of how they make the no fly list. The new part is they are having three groups instead of just two. Those who can't fly, those who are low risk, and everyone else. This will let "important" people opt out of the security theater hassle, while still pretending it makes the country safer.
No fly list: where the government punishes you without you getting a trial, or a lawyer, or seeing the evidence against you, or being told what you are charged with. Are there any sections of the US constitution still followed?
The internet was designed to survive a nuclear war, and the flame war going on because of the NSA surely counts as the next closest thing. Given that most of the "great" achievements of the USA were done by foreigners, I think it's time to import the next generation.
An email system requires the recipient to be able to read the email. That requires them having a valid key.
The simple way is to have each user have a key to give secure communications with the email provider, who decodes the messages then recodes them with the recipients codes for delivery. And that makes a single point of failure, the email provider has all the codes.
If you want obscure trivia about something that most people know nothing about, ask a nerd. Statistically your chance of getting a correct answer from a nerd is the same as the chance of getting a correct answer from a lawyer, within the margin of error of 50%.
Just in time production is the latest rage in manufacturing. You make stuff and ship it just before it's needed. The government better hope there are no cost overruns, it's hard to negotiate the price when finals are due next week.
You are assuming your country is being coerced to follow the domineering USA, but that's just a smoke screen. This is a multi-country partnership, not a dictatorship. The USA might be getting all the blame but all the western countries are in this together, including the spying and suppression of dissent.
The government of china has a vested interest in hurting the economy of the USA (and you), in order to replace them as the (only) super power. They might not care about YOU, but they still wish you harm.
It would be reasonable to assume the reason the NSA is badmouthing Huawei is because they wouldn't spy for the NSA. You play ball by their rules or you don't play at all.
This doesn't mean Huawei isn't spying for china, however. Given the prevalence of state sponsored/ordered spying it is almost certain they do.
So they stop the abuse, once. Now change the system to stop ALL the abuse. Make mandatory generic licensing a requirement of the patent system. And set the royalty rates to prevent abuse (FRAND). This is the only way to allow the inventor to benefit but without holding back civilization by the unreasonable.
The purpose of the H1B visa is to drive down American wages by forcing them to compete for jobs with the third world. The justice department is doing what they are paid/ordered to do.
It's about monetizing their assets. They have all this wonderful data, and the advertisers desperately want to buy access- and the NSA wants a secure source of funding that the revolting serfs can't cut off in retaliation over their "minor" spying scandal.
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The US gov already knows who you've been phoning. They log all phone calls, under a secret NSL (supposedly).
if the browser is properly sandboxed, it doesn't matter what plugins you run. All plugins have issues, it's the job of the browser to deal with them.
If a police officer is following a car and it goes onto private property he needs a search warrant (or permission) to follow. I see no reason to give a GPS tracker special dispensation around that issue.
We have the conservative party. They are a right wing political party roughly equivalent to the Democrats.
Googles intentions are irrelevant. The moment the NSA shows up with a general warrant (NSL) they will fold and give away everything. And that includes back-dooring the VPN software.
A major issue with security is 'single point of failure', where if you get past a single defense you win everything. Like if you can get past the firewall there is no file protection. To prevent that you have multiple lines of defense, with each line as independent as possible so that breaking through one won't help you get through the next.
You are assuming this is new. It's not. This pre-screening is part of how they make the no fly list. The new part is they are having three groups instead of just two. Those who can't fly, those who are low risk, and everyone else. This will let "important" people opt out of the security theater hassle, while still pretending it makes the country safer.
No fly list: where the government punishes you without you getting a trial, or a lawyer, or seeing the evidence against you, or being told what you are charged with. Are there any sections of the US constitution still followed?
The internet was designed to survive a nuclear war, and the flame war going on because of the NSA surely counts as the next closest thing. Given that most of the "great" achievements of the USA were done by foreigners, I think it's time to import the next generation.
An email system requires the recipient to be able to read the email. That requires them having a valid key. The simple way is to have each user have a key to give secure communications with the email provider, who decodes the messages then recodes them with the recipients codes for delivery. And that makes a single point of failure, the email provider has all the codes.
If you want obscure trivia about something that most people know nothing about, ask a nerd. Statistically your chance of getting a correct answer from a nerd is the same as the chance of getting a correct answer from a lawyer, within the margin of error of 50%.
Just in time production is the latest rage in manufacturing. You make stuff and ship it just before it's needed. The government better hope there are no cost overruns, it's hard to negotiate the price when finals are due next week.
Dear Huawei chairman, Open source all your drivers and firmware, And we'll fix it. ftfy.
When japan first made cars the quality was terrible. It is to be expected that early Chinese IT will have poor quality.
You are assuming your country is being coerced to follow the domineering USA, but that's just a smoke screen. This is a multi-country partnership, not a dictatorship. The USA might be getting all the blame but all the western countries are in this together, including the spying and suppression of dissent.
The government of china has a vested interest in hurting the economy of the USA (and you), in order to replace them as the (only) super power. They might not care about YOU, but they still wish you harm.
It would be reasonable to assume the reason the NSA is badmouthing Huawei is because they wouldn't spy for the NSA. You play ball by their rules or you don't play at all. This doesn't mean Huawei isn't spying for china, however. Given the prevalence of state sponsored/ordered spying it is almost certain they do.
So they stop the abuse, once. Now change the system to stop ALL the abuse. Make mandatory generic licensing a requirement of the patent system. And set the royalty rates to prevent abuse (FRAND). This is the only way to allow the inventor to benefit but without holding back civilization by the unreasonable.
Capitalism is the practice of tricking/convincing or forcing people to give you their money. All other aspects are implementation issues.
Embedded systems (only) get replaced when they break.
telling a network tech to choose between a fine for the company (EU) or going to prison (USA) is not going to help.
Factoring primes is easy if you have massive computer arrays or quantum computers. It's reasonable to assume the NSA has both.
The purpose of the H1B visa is to drive down American wages by forcing them to compete for jobs with the third world. The justice department is doing what they are paid/ordered to do.
But what about the NSA scanning your email? Their general warrant from the FISA probably doesn't count as a wiretap warrant.
It's about monetizing their assets. They have all this wonderful data, and the advertisers desperately want to buy access- and the NSA wants a secure source of funding that the revolting serfs can't cut off in retaliation over their "minor" spying scandal.