Google is an international advertising company, one of the (if not the) largest in the world. Russians purchase millions of ads per year from them. Will some be politically motivated? Sure. Is this legal? Yes.
Non-story in a desperate attempt to paint Russia as both a military boogyman and a Democrat scapegoat.
It's ridiculous that the discount 3rd-party Android phone you bought ago will never get a security update. All my Nexuses and now Pixels get updates immediately and for years.
"This should be enhanced by the fact that the American government has apparently seen something so concerning that they are reacting to it with law enforcement assets and have bared it's use within the DOD."
Is this the same government that deliberately start wars and invade other countries based on their own propaganda (aluminum tubes and babies being pulled from incubators, anyone)? Yeah, I thought so. So now it's show your proof or GFY.
I don't possess radar, LiDAR, or a gazillion redundancy systems. Stereo cameras (eyes) on a pivoting head and two directional microphones (ears). My software is way better than GM's, though, and I'm expecting Tesla's is too.
Aside from the issue of not being able to prove a negative, no integrated vendor is going to offer their source code for peer review. Either you use OSS router & switch software or you trust the manufacturer. Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, etc have all had widely-reported breaches (in Cisco's case, several).
...or can we now prove negatives? If this is all an advanced-enough simulation we'd never know, nor could we, by design. It's like if there was an omniscent & omnipotent being that made all this instead, by definition of their omnipotence could ensure we'd never know. Some people can't handle dealing with that, and apparently some of them go to Oxford.
I set my clients up on G Suite products all the time, Gmail especially. Including CEOs. If the password is strong and unique I don't see the issue, better yet if using 2FA. Or are you suggesting Google is exfiltrating email user data in a way that exposes company secrets?
1. Google's primary income is from their ad platform. 2. Targeting is what makes their ad platform competitive. 3. Hate speech is protected speech in the US.... 4. Profit?
That was Craig Federighi, SVP of software. He's been presenting at Apple events for years.
I was referring to Apple's "white glove" crew that meticulously polishes and preps the devices prior to demonstration. They were the ones Apple claims didn't understand how Face ID worked during handling and what potential future consequences would come of it.
"People were handling the device for [the] stage demo ahead of time and didn't realise Face ID was trying to authenticate their face."
Everything had already been leaked, yet Apple's overzealous secrecy meant their own staff didn't know how to operate the devices they were being tasked to prepare for presentation. More than ample time/money/staff/resources to train the prep crew appropriately but deliberately chose not to.
I'd consider this more a management error than the prep crew.
So they get a Commodore-64 and some big floppy drives and put our SSNs on that, because *reasons*. Then when it's breached they point to the C64 and say, "well, look what we had to work with."
Doesn't work that way, but we're not their customers. So fuck us.
Companies like IBM have system boards photographed at the production facilities and then upon delivery, open them up and check them against the photographs because US spy agencies intercept deliveries and modify the hardware. Despite the 24/7 propaganda, Russia hasn't demonstrated itself to be an enemy of the US anymore than say... Israel (which the US has caught on multiple occasions spying on the US), yet Israeli tech is OK?
This is potentially a good/great phone to recommend to price-sensitive users but will depend on (1) can be unlocked from T-Mobile, and (2) based on such thin margins what's the firmware update situation going to be?
If you're going to be silly and pick on bullshit, I'm going to call you out on "jeez", which is a shortened and mangled form of "Jesus". Why do you mispronounce his name while using it in vain? Oh h-e-double-hockey-sticks!
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Also -- the game likely had nowhere enough loot crates.
Arment was Tumblr's first lead developer & CTO, but not a co-founder. It was founded by its CEO, David Karp.
3rd party firmware is your only option at this point.
Tested & verified uBlock Origin stops whatever TPB is cookin'. Why in the hell WOULDN'T you use an adblocker nowadays?
Google is an international advertising company, one of the (if not the) largest in the world. Russians purchase millions of ads per year from them. Will some be politically motivated? Sure. Is this legal? Yes.
Non-story in a desperate attempt to paint Russia as both a military boogyman and a Democrat scapegoat.
It's ridiculous that the discount 3rd-party Android phone you bought ago will never get a security update. All my Nexuses and now Pixels get updates immediately and for years.
"This should be enhanced by the fact that the American government has apparently seen something so concerning that they are reacting to it with law enforcement assets and have bared it's use within the DOD."
Is this the same government that deliberately start wars and invade other countries based on their own propaganda (aluminum tubes and babies being pulled from incubators, anyone)? Yeah, I thought so. So now it's show your proof or GFY.
I don't possess radar, LiDAR, or a gazillion redundancy systems. Stereo cameras (eyes) on a pivoting head and two directional microphones (ears). My software is way better than GM's, though, and I'm expecting Tesla's is too.
Aside from the issue of not being able to prove a negative, no integrated vendor is going to offer their source code for peer review. Either you use OSS router & switch software or you trust the manufacturer. Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, etc have all had widely-reported breaches (in Cisco's case, several).
...or can we now prove negatives? If this is all an advanced-enough simulation we'd never know, nor could we, by design. It's like if there was an omniscent
& omnipotent being that made all this instead, by definition of their omnipotence could ensure we'd never know. Some people can't handle dealing with that, and apparently some of them go to Oxford.
"CEOs shouldn't be using Gmail."
I set my clients up on G Suite products all the time, Gmail especially. Including CEOs. If the password is strong and unique I don't see the issue, better yet if using 2FA. Or are you suggesting Google is exfiltrating email user data in a way that exposes company secrets?
1. Google's primary income is from their ad platform. ...
2. Targeting is what makes their ad platform competitive.
3. Hate speech is protected speech in the US.
4. Profit?
That was Craig Federighi, SVP of software. He's been presenting at Apple events for years.
I was referring to Apple's "white glove" crew that meticulously polishes and preps the devices prior to demonstration. They were the ones Apple claims didn't understand how Face ID worked during handling and what potential future consequences would come of it.
"People were handling the device for [the] stage demo ahead of time and didn't realise Face ID was trying to authenticate their face."
Everything had already been leaked, yet Apple's overzealous secrecy meant their own staff didn't know how to operate the devices they were being tasked to prepare for presentation. More than ample time/money/staff/resources to train the prep crew appropriately but deliberately chose not to.
I'd consider this more a management error than the prep crew.
So they get a Commodore-64 and some big floppy drives and put our SSNs on that, because *reasons*.
Then when it's breached they point to the C64 and say, "well, look what we had to work with."
Doesn't work that way, but we're not their customers. So fuck us.
Companies like IBM have system boards photographed at the production facilities and then upon delivery, open them up and check them against the photographs because US spy agencies intercept deliveries and modify the hardware. Despite the 24/7 propaganda, Russia hasn't demonstrated itself to be an enemy of the US anymore than say... Israel (which the US has caught on multiple occasions spying on the US), yet Israeli tech is OK?
Proof or GTFO.
Mfgs have "commercial" product lines for retail, commercial, and trade-show use. They don't have the extra crap, just the panel and a bunch of inputs.
Android: Settings > Apps & notifications > App permissions
iOS: Settings > Privacy
YouTube Red and a 300 Mbps connection w/a copy of Transmission do me just fine.
"They do it too" & "it'd be more costly" != justifiable reasoning.
This is potentially a good/great phone to recommend to price-sensitive users but will depend on (1) can be unlocked from T-Mobile, and (2) based on such thin margins what's the firmware update situation going to be?
In my experience: this.
For the $ they charge they can't afford backups?
Oh crap. "Gunstar Heroes". Now I think I'm going to cry. I loved that game so much.
If you're going to be silly and pick on bullshit, I'm going to call you out on "jeez", which is a shortened and mangled form of "Jesus". Why do you mispronounce his name while using it in vain? Oh h-e-double-hockey-sticks!