Exactly...works for me and keeps the nagging away. And while you're at it uninstall the updates that backported the data monitoring from Windows 10 as well.
Good to remember, that Congress just passed new (clearing companies to share any data with the NSA directly without liability) surveillance legislation tucked into the 2015 budget bill:
The way this (and the data uploading with Windows 10) dovetails with the budget spy bill just passed you'd think it was hatched out in a back room - in D.C.. Obviously don't use Windows 10 if possible (you can still get 7 or 8.1 on most systems) and don't use Microsoft's built in encryption option (which Microsoft kneecapped starting with Windows Version 8 by removing the elephant diffusor making it more vulnerable to brute force attacks), there are other options for Windows Encryption.
The DNC doesn't want Sanders to be their candidate any more than the leadership of the GOP desperately doesn't want Trump to be their candidate - cause they both are afraid it would cost them the election at the Presidential and Senate level (and House seats too). Expect the DNC to do anything it can PR wise to help the expected winner to win. JMHO...
Not quite right. This budget bill is getting voted on by both the House and the Senate - to "keep the government running" so nobody is going to veto it - for this little piece.
The president supports all this surveillance legislation - he probably had a hand in getting it rewritten (to the surveillance establishment's desires) and inserted into the Omnibus spending bill in the first place.
I thought it was a good well meaning laugh. If you close your eyes, click this site, imagine a stereotype'd Linux help board based on a Bullentin Board UI design from the 90's....open your eyes and your there. Nothing bad to the folks doing good work there...but it is pretty funny. On purpose maybe?
Amazing the lengths they go through to make it so you can't uninstall their "utility" and HP isn't even on this "bad list". I wonder if that is because this guy just didn't get to them yet? I can understand the PC Vendors wanting it on there - for the consumers that call them and have no clue after they've botched things up...but making it so you can't uninstall it moves into the realm of them thinking its their computer and not mine.
This is the 2nd serious security botch up recently for Dell, the NSA must love them (remember it was outed recently they were installing a root certificate that is easily exploitable):
Whenever I get a new computer I image the drive (as is) so I can restore it (if & when I sell it in the future), have the associated drivers for it already downloaded separately and then nuke the drive from orbit repartitioning and fresh installing the OS...then only installing the hardware device drivers it needs. Even that isn't enough for some PC vendors (remember Lenovo was putting some of its monitoring software in the UEFI BIOS, nice extra feature of UEFI, so it would reinstall itself after you wiped the drive). Crazy.
Dude, that's because the GOP leader of the Intelligence Committee on the Senate, Senator R. Burr (who is actually in power there) would agree with her and is quite deep in the pocket of the Intelligence Agencies as well. There is only one Senator on that committee (Wyden) that actually sees all this monitoring and proposed outlawing of encryption as a bad thing - and that committee proposes the laws in this area that go the general Senate to get voted on and enacted. Party makes no difference...it was the GOP that brought all this upon us with Bush (and why they defend and promote it)...Obama and Co. are just finishing the job.
As for Fascism...the closest thing we have to someone pushing up with that is Trump...he actually has armed groups cheering him on...he is villanizing marginal groups of the population and a big chunk of the U.S. population is cheering him on...it wouldn't take much more for the Brown/Trump Shirts to be around. These dangers can come from anywhere...any party (as can be seen on the Intelligence Committee), whether they're Democrats or Republicans makes no difference. JMHO...
You have to look at her history in particular to understand things. She's is asking for and demanding exactly what the intelligence (NSA/DHS/FBI) want which is the what her subcommittee oversees. And she has done this consistently. Those groups see an opportunity to keep most of the population communicating without privacy here and she's one of the messengers on that committtee (most of the committee is in the pocket of the agencies).
A more interesting question is why. She, herself has been a victim of the CIA hacking her project computers in the Senate, which she was quite upset about....yet she keeps running ahead as a mouthpiece to the intelligence community (the leading GOP person on it is the same) to keep privacy from possibly coming back to U.S. citizen communications like it'd be the end of the world. Hard to square.
Just like the documents showing Microsoft handing over their customers communication data to the NSA...once you've been fingered as a good "partner" with the U.S. intelligence apparatus your shelf life as a company has been time bombed...ignition is just waiting on an alternative supplier that can be reasonably trusted (IMHO this could take some years, but its coming...the market is too big and valuable...if given a true choice nobody wants to buy gear from companies that were shown to be stooges for government snooping).
ULA also has the Delta 4 rocket which uses U.S. designed / made rocket engines. Previously they were letting the 3 core Delta 4 handle the big launches and the single core Atlas 5 handle the smaller launches, but there is no reason they couldn't have bid with a single core Delta 4 if they wanted. Something smells politically fishy with this.
I feel much the same and have the plug-in Classic Toolbar Buttons that almost certainly hooks into the XUL to give me that 3.x look and colors I like - its one of the things that keeps me on Firefox.
It's crazy what the leadership is doing...get rid of their plug-in architecture (so that advantage is smashed), get rid of the UI customization (so that advantage is smashed)...eventually all we'll have left is Chrome with a different web engine. This must be what its like when the marketshare water is going around and around the bowl real fast towards the end as the "leadership" sets the whole application on fire thinking they're "fixing" things.
Be interesting to see how it does in your pocket with your keys. Going back far enough, this was how we got Gorilla Glass as the plastic displays scratched right up with keys / stuff in your pocket with it.
"0 – The number of customer cards that Chip-and-PIN-enabled terminals would have been able to stop the bad guys from stealing had Target put the technology in place prior to the breach (without end-to-end encryption of card data, the card numbers and expiration dates can still be stolen and used in online transactions)."
Seems like Mozilla's mission is to destroy Firefox's marketshare.
One of Firefox's remaining (dwindling) advantages is its massive plugin library. The leadership at Mozilla, with Firefox marketshare falling & developer interest declining thinks it'll be a good idea if they drop their existing plug-in architecture - and wipe away that massive library - so they can start all over again (then Chrome, Opera and I.E. (whatever it is) will have bigger plugin libraries. Good idea! Not....
Why in the world, with all the post Snowden knowledge of U.S. backbone equipment makers being compromised by, if not working hand in hand with the NSA, would anyone expect the Cuban's to buy from U.S. suppliers? You'd have to assume that if the suppliers weren't in cahoots with the NSA to begin with that the NSA would intercept the equipment and bug it directly prior to delivery. Especially with U.S. history there.
Now it would be expected that the Chinese equipment is probably back doored as well, however the Cuban's probably mind that alot less than U.S. based compromised equipment.
Yesterday I wanted to get a small file from one computer to another, didn't want to use a thumb drive (didn't have cloud storage on one as well) so I just figured I'd Hotmail myself (via its web interface) an e-mail with the attached file zipped and encrypted (it was a tax doc) to another e-mail address of mine...no problem right? So I try to attach the file and Microsoft decided it had to be able to scan and identify (and log?) what I had in that zip file before it would allow it to be attached (since it was encrypted it wouldn't allow it to be attached...tried it several times...the NSA must be pleased)....so much for user's privacy.
With all the information, since Snowden, about Microsoft working hand in glove with the U.S. government I have to laugh a little at them being included here - as it seems a PR stunt on their part.
How long till the MPAA or others start roaming through people's hard drives and deleting material that they feel is an "attack" on their industry, right? This is an awful idea because of the (practically guaranteed) likelihood of abuse.
Yes. Change from default install options (and don't tie a Microsoft account to your Login) and you'll have several pages of things where you literally turn off every item...(should be opt in) but at least that option is there & I turned it all off.
Good analysis yodleboy. I did an install last night as well. (Just grabbed the install tool (U.S.) - https://www.microsoft.com/en-u... and kicked the process off immediately...hadn't signed up for the upgrade...did have to right click and run the tool as Administrator - was getting the "Something Happened error..which is classic)
If you go with the defaults on install it seems like everything you do on your machine goes to Microsoft for various purposes (the NSA after loosing the always on audio/video recording by default from the Xbone) must be licking their chops - but, (they still have this at this point) if you change the install defaults you can opt out of virtually all the garbage going to Microsoft / NSA's logging service. Doesn't seem any slower than 7. Frankly I find the UI design to be awful (just pull that calculator up as an example), its still 8's UI design but you don't have two different schizophrenic desktops / settings etc. - but that's a personal preference. I'll play with it for a while, then image it and store it if I ever want to use it again. Not an improvement over 7 at all (you have significantly less freedom as a user over updates etc. and of course its ugly, IMHO) but better than 8 / 8.1 if you're stuck with those and don't like tile world.
Todd, the founder of Purism, had defrauded hundreds of people out of hard earned money. He's pulled numerous scams and is STILL bilking people who don't know better out of money.
Seems like quite a personal rant you have there - which might be all true, but how would we know its not just a smear... Any supporting links about his numerous scams?
Not quite a full roll back to previous policies....they have a tool you can download that will allow you to hide and skip particular updates that you choose (I believe):
For most folks (who wouldn't know how to use this) its full on install everything, including device drivers - no change in default policy (what a nightmare).
So, Mozilla management thinks - Firefox users want more releases? Are they kidding? They think users want more bundled proprietary junk added to the browser with those releases? Mozilla management wants to drop support for the architectures most Firefox plug-ins use - so that a mass of existing plug-ins just die, that's a good idea? Sad to see Mozilla management just hastening the destruction of their user base like this.
Slashdot Mirror
This is what happens when you have an "encrypted" system with a built in backdoor for the government - and this is why that is a bad idea.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Unless you're driving a somewhat recent Nexus...then you'll get an update fairly quickly.
Exactly...works for me and keeps the nagging away. And while you're at it uninstall the updates that backported the data monitoring from Windows 10 as well.
But new systems are coming with it turned on by default (read the original linked article).
Good to remember, that Congress just passed new (clearing companies to share any data with the NSA directly without liability) surveillance legislation tucked into the 2015 budget bill:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
The way this (and the data uploading with Windows 10) dovetails with the budget spy bill just passed you'd think it was hatched out in a back room - in D.C.. Obviously don't use Windows 10 if possible (you can still get 7 or 8.1 on most systems) and don't use Microsoft's built in encryption option (which Microsoft kneecapped starting with Windows Version 8 by removing the elephant diffusor making it more vulnerable to brute force attacks), there are other options for Windows Encryption.
The DNC doesn't want Sanders to be their candidate any more than the leadership of the GOP desperately doesn't want Trump to be their candidate - cause they both are afraid it would cost them the election at the Presidential and Senate level (and House seats too). Expect the DNC to do anything it can PR wise to help the expected winner to win. JMHO...
Not quite right. This budget bill is getting voted on by both the House and the Senate - to "keep the government running" so nobody is going to veto it - for this little piece.
The president supports all this surveillance legislation - he probably had a hand in getting it rewritten (to the surveillance establishment's desires) and inserted into the Omnibus spending bill in the first place.
I thought it was a good well meaning laugh. If you close your eyes, click this site, imagine a stereotype'd Linux help board based on a Bullentin Board UI design from the 90's....open your eyes and your there. Nothing bad to the folks doing good work there...but it is pretty funny. On purpose maybe?
Amazing the lengths they go through to make it so you can't uninstall their "utility" and HP isn't even on this "bad list". I wonder if that is because this guy just didn't get to them yet? I can understand the PC Vendors wanting it on there - for the consumers that call them and have no clue after they've botched things up...but making it so you can't uninstall it moves into the realm of them thinking its their computer and not mine.
This is the 2nd serious security botch up recently for Dell, the NSA must love them (remember it was outed recently they were installing a root certificate that is easily exploitable):
http://arstechnica.com/securit...
Whenever I get a new computer I image the drive (as is) so I can restore it (if & when I sell it in the future), have the associated drivers for it already downloaded separately and then nuke the drive from orbit repartitioning and fresh installing the OS...then only installing the hardware device drivers it needs. Even that isn't enough for some PC vendors (remember Lenovo was putting some of its monitoring software in the UEFI BIOS, nice extra feature of UEFI, so it would reinstall itself after you wiped the drive). Crazy.
Dude, that's because the GOP leader of the Intelligence Committee on the Senate, Senator R. Burr (who is actually in power there) would agree with her and is quite deep in the pocket of the Intelligence Agencies as well. There is only one Senator on that committee (Wyden) that actually sees all this monitoring and proposed outlawing of encryption as a bad thing - and that committee proposes the laws in this area that go the general Senate to get voted on and enacted. Party makes no difference...it was the GOP that brought all this upon us with Bush (and why they defend and promote it)...Obama and Co. are just finishing the job.
As for Fascism...the closest thing we have to someone pushing up with that is Trump...he actually has armed groups cheering him on...he is villanizing marginal groups of the population and a big chunk of the U.S. population is cheering him on...it wouldn't take much more for the Brown/Trump Shirts to be around. These dangers can come from anywhere...any party (as can be seen on the Intelligence Committee), whether they're Democrats or Republicans makes no difference. JMHO...
You have to look at her history in particular to understand things. She's is asking for and demanding exactly what the intelligence (NSA/DHS/FBI) want which is the what her subcommittee oversees. And she has done this consistently. Those groups see an opportunity to keep most of the population communicating without privacy here and she's one of the messengers on that committtee (most of the committee is in the pocket of the agencies).
A more interesting question is why. She, herself has been a victim of the CIA hacking her project computers in the Senate, which she was quite upset about....yet she keeps running ahead as a mouthpiece to the intelligence community (the leading GOP person on it is the same) to keep privacy from possibly coming back to U.S. citizen communications like it'd be the end of the world. Hard to square.
Just like the documents showing Microsoft handing over their customers communication data to the NSA...once you've been fingered as a good "partner" with the U.S. intelligence apparatus your shelf life as a company has been time bombed...ignition is just waiting on an alternative supplier that can be reasonably trusted (IMHO this could take some years, but its coming...the market is too big and valuable...if given a true choice nobody wants to buy gear from companies that were shown to be stooges for government snooping).
ULA also has the Delta 4 rocket which uses U.S. designed / made rocket engines. Previously they were letting the 3 core Delta 4 handle the big launches and the single core Atlas 5 handle the smaller launches, but there is no reason they couldn't have bid with a single core Delta 4 if they wanted. Something smells politically fishy with this.
I feel much the same and have the plug-in Classic Toolbar Buttons that almost certainly hooks into the XUL to give me that 3.x look and colors I like - its one of the things that keeps me on Firefox.
It's crazy what the leadership is doing...get rid of their plug-in architecture (so that advantage is smashed), get rid of the UI customization (so that advantage is smashed)...eventually all we'll have left is Chrome with a different web engine. This must be what its like when the marketshare water is going around and around the bowl real fast towards the end as the "leadership" sets the whole application on fire thinking they're "fixing" things.
Be interesting to see how it does in your pocket with your keys. Going back far enough, this was how we got Gorilla Glass as the plastic displays scratched right up with keys / stuff in your pocket with it.
Just good to mention that Chip & PIN cards would not have prevented the Target breach in any way as mentioned in Brian Krebs follow up article:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/20...
"0 – The number of customer cards that Chip-and-PIN-enabled terminals would have been able to stop the bad guys from stealing had Target put the technology in place prior to the breach (without end-to-end encryption of card data, the card numbers and expiration dates can still be stolen and used in online transactions)."
Seems like Mozilla's mission is to destroy Firefox's marketshare.
One of Firefox's remaining (dwindling) advantages is its massive plugin library. The leadership at Mozilla, with Firefox marketshare falling & developer interest declining thinks it'll be a good idea if they drop their existing plug-in architecture - and wipe away that massive library - so they can start all over again (then Chrome, Opera and I.E. (whatever it is) will have bigger plugin libraries. Good idea! Not....
Why in the world, with all the post Snowden knowledge of U.S. backbone equipment makers being compromised by, if not working hand in hand with the NSA, would anyone expect the Cuban's to buy from U.S. suppliers? You'd have to assume that if the suppliers weren't in cahoots with the NSA to begin with that the NSA would intercept the equipment and bug it directly prior to delivery. Especially with U.S. history there.
Now it would be expected that the Chinese equipment is probably back doored as well, however the Cuban's probably mind that alot less than U.S. based compromised equipment.
Yesterday I wanted to get a small file from one computer to another, didn't want to use a thumb drive (didn't have cloud storage on one as well) so I just figured I'd Hotmail myself (via its web interface) an e-mail with the attached file zipped and encrypted (it was a tax doc) to another e-mail address of mine...no problem right? So I try to attach the file and Microsoft decided it had to be able to scan and identify (and log?) what I had in that zip file before it would allow it to be attached (since it was encrypted it wouldn't allow it to be attached...tried it several times...the NSA must be pleased)....so much for user's privacy.
With all the information, since Snowden, about Microsoft working hand in glove with the U.S. government I have to laugh a little at them being included here - as it seems a PR stunt on their part.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
How long till the MPAA or others start roaming through people's hard drives and deleting material that they feel is an "attack" on their industry, right? This is an awful idea because of the (practically guaranteed) likelihood of abuse.
Yes. Change from default install options (and don't tie a Microsoft account to your Login) and you'll have several pages of things where you literally turn off every item...(should be opt in) but at least that option is there & I turned it all off.
Good analysis yodleboy. I did an install last night as well. (Just grabbed the install tool (U.S.) - https://www.microsoft.com/en-u... and kicked the process off immediately...hadn't signed up for the upgrade...did have to right click and run the tool as Administrator - was getting the "Something Happened error..which is classic)
If you go with the defaults on install it seems like everything you do on your machine goes to Microsoft for various purposes (the NSA after loosing the always on audio/video recording by default from the Xbone) must be licking their chops - but, (they still have this at this point) if you change the install defaults you can opt out of virtually all the garbage going to Microsoft / NSA's logging service. Doesn't seem any slower than 7. Frankly I find the UI design to be awful (just pull that calculator up as an example), its still 8's UI design but you don't have two different schizophrenic desktops / settings etc. - but that's a personal preference. I'll play with it for a while, then image it and store it if I ever want to use it again. Not an improvement over 7 at all (you have significantly less freedom as a user over updates etc. and of course its ugly, IMHO) but better than 8 / 8.1 if you're stuck with those and don't like tile world.
Todd, the founder of Purism, had defrauded hundreds of people out of hard earned money. He's pulled numerous scams and is STILL bilking people who don't know better out of money.
Seems like quite a personal rant you have there - which might be all true, but how would we know its not just a smear... Any supporting links about his numerous scams?
Not quite a full roll back to previous policies....they have a tool you can download that will allow you to hide and skip particular updates that you choose (I believe):
http://www.zdnet.com/article/m...
For most folks (who wouldn't know how to use this) its full on install everything, including device drivers - no change in default policy (what a nightmare).
So, Mozilla management thinks - Firefox users want more releases? Are they kidding? They think users want more bundled proprietary junk added to the browser with those releases? Mozilla management wants to drop support for the architectures most Firefox plug-ins use - so that a mass of existing plug-ins just die, that's a good idea? Sad to see Mozilla management just hastening the destruction of their user base like this.