We're moving to a cashless society like it or not. I don't like it! I prefer to pay cash for everything. Banks don't want you to use cash. Governments don't what you to use cash. NSA wants to know what movies you watch, what books you buy, what places you go to, control of your toaster and everything in between while making you bankrupt by a single keystroke if you're not towing the correct political line.. I'm glad I live in a relatively low tech country where I'll probably die before it gets implemented here, but you folks in high tech areas--your days of cash buying are serious numbered. Still I wish the folks in Austria good luck, but believe it will ultimately be a futile struggle.
One can easily imagine a new form of terror--the creation of mass "false positives" - which get you on a list which you can never get off--just like the "no-fly list".
Now that the backdoor has been revealed, it certainly won't be considered as a TOR upgrade, and governments and individuals are now fully aware (or should be) of what a backdoor actually means will steer clear of it. We know of at least one government that will strong-arm the other 8 into doing whatever is asked of them. Let's hope Chaum's project dies an early death.
Solar activity should be considered a major contender for detecting earthquakes, ongoing research at SuspiciousObservers.org. Electrical activity in the earth's atmosphere is too little too late.
Do the right thing is to have strong unbreakable encryption with no back doors. That Manhattan DA needs to get his head out of his ass and do some friggin' research. He should know first of all that all this spying by NSA has produce ZERO results--no terrorists have ever been caught by this kind of spying. Second, the Paris attacks used unencrypted SMS.
Shutting down websites is a ridiculous idea. The US does not control world domain registrations and could not do this.
I propose a more interesting solution: Getting NSA off their butts and stop tracking everyone's porn viewing habits and start identifying who uses these suspect terrorist sites. Then we might get some usable intel.
Of course I would like to get rid of Pocket. 3rd party bookmarking? Yah, like that's all it does. More than likely Pocket is collecting your browser history and selling it to 3rd parties to target advertising your way. Indeed Firefox has lost it.
I'm calling BS on these "privacy policies". While they may have some limited effect on the commercial sale of your personal info, be aware that government is going to get what they want (all your infos)--the Obummer administration is already planning on mandatory backdoors via sotware updates.
There is no end to the extrapolations that can be made with this Facebook nonsense. It is far better get off Facebook and other social media and GET A LIFE. There are real people out there that would enjoy a face-to-face.
Kargman should be paying for our bandwidth if we're forced to endure his ads. And while I'm at it, Microsoft should be paying for my bandwidth when it downloaded that UNWANTED Win10 module into my Win7 machine. Not everyone has unlimited bandwidth, you know.
Agreed! Those of us were there back then and know that Woz is telling it like it was. I was glad to partake of those glory days. It is all so boring nowadays.
Agreed! This is certainly possible. All such activities will of course be logged to disk so they'll sill be observable. I expect this job will be fun for a while but soon become rather tedious.
Exactly! PfSense and Snort gateway....find and block every one of those "call home" URL's and see how many are left still trying to call home after all known privacy options have been enabled. It's gonna take me awhile.
If Google+ is such a failure, why won't they get rid of it. The vast majority of the community don't like. Especially irksome is the tie-in to YouTube.
I expect NSA doesn't want Google to change their policy regardless of their lack of success so I don't expect it to sunset anytime soon.
I remember the day when ROM actually meant Read Only Memory.......and why Thunderbolt devices need to be re-writeable "flash" firmware instead of ROM is a mystery to me. I'm not aware of Apple issuing any firmware upgrades to these devices since their inception.
I'm suggesting that she shouldn't travel to the US with a camera, laptop, phone or notebook or any other electronic goodies. Pretty much wherever she's going she can obtain the equipment there then dump her encrypted data in the Cloud and then dump the equipment before returning to the US so DHS will end up with nothing to physically search.
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We're moving to a cashless society like it or not. I don't like it! I prefer to pay cash for everything. Banks don't want you to use cash. Governments don't what you to use cash. NSA wants to know what movies you watch, what books you buy, what places you go to, control of your toaster and everything in between while making you bankrupt by a single keystroke if you're not towing the correct political line.. I'm glad I live in a relatively low tech country where I'll probably die before it gets implemented here, but you folks in high tech areas--your days of cash buying are serious numbered. Still I wish the folks in Austria good luck, but believe it will ultimately be a futile struggle.
Yes, the more sites that implement this, the better off we'll be....we can say goodbye to those sites. OK with me!
One can easily imagine a new form of terror--the creation of mass "false positives" - which get you on a list which you can never get off--just like the "no-fly list".
Now that the backdoor has been revealed, it certainly won't be considered as a TOR upgrade, and governments and individuals are now fully aware (or should be) of what a backdoor actually means will steer clear of it. We know of at least one government that will strong-arm the other 8 into doing whatever is asked of them. Let's hope Chaum's project dies an early death.
Absolutely NO ONE can be surprised by this. Anyone think NSA wasn't in this up their eyeballs?
I'm not buying it either! This is the WRONG VENUE for this and has no business on Slashdot.
Solar activity should be considered a major contender for detecting earthquakes, ongoing research at SuspiciousObservers.org. Electrical activity in the earth's atmosphere is too little too late.
Do the right thing is to have strong unbreakable encryption with no back doors. That Manhattan DA needs to get his head out of his ass and do some friggin' research. He should know first of all that all this spying by NSA has produce ZERO results--no terrorists have ever been caught by this kind of spying. Second, the Paris attacks used unencrypted SMS.
Shutting down websites is a ridiculous idea. The US does not control world domain registrations and could not do this. I propose a more interesting solution: Getting NSA off their butts and stop tracking everyone's porn viewing habits and start identifying who uses these suspect terrorist sites. Then we might get some usable intel.
Finally! Someone who knows what's really going on!
Of course I would like to get rid of Pocket. 3rd party bookmarking? Yah, like that's all it does. More than likely Pocket is collecting your browser history and selling it to 3rd parties to target advertising your way. Indeed Firefox has lost it.
I'm calling BS on these "privacy policies". While they may have some limited effect on the commercial sale of your personal info, be aware that government is going to get what they want (all your infos)--the Obummer administration is already planning on mandatory backdoors via sotware updates.
The world of gen X, Y, and Z.
There is no end to the extrapolations that can be made with this Facebook nonsense. It is far better get off Facebook and other social media and GET A LIFE. There are real people out there that would enjoy a face-to-face.
Kargman should be paying for our bandwidth if we're forced to endure his ads. And while I'm at it, Microsoft should be paying for my bandwidth when it downloaded that UNWANTED Win10 module into my Win7 machine. Not everyone has unlimited bandwidth, you know.
Agreed! Those of us were there back then and know that Woz is telling it like it was. I was glad to partake of those glory days. It is all so boring nowadays.
Well, I'm an Apple guy with an unused PC gathering dust and a lot of curiosity. So it's just an experiment, as I'm quite happy in the Apple ecosystem.
Agreed! This is certainly possible. All such activities will of course be logged to disk so they'll sill be observable. I expect this job will be fun for a while but soon become rather tedious.
Exactly! PfSense and Snort gateway....find and block every one of those "call home" URL's and see how many are left still trying to call home after all known privacy options have been enabled. It's gonna take me awhile.
Of course, this has been true for a long time. And now it gets you on a LIST.
If Google+ is such a failure, why won't they get rid of it. The vast majority of the community don't like. Especially irksome is the tie-in to YouTube. I expect NSA doesn't want Google to change their policy regardless of their lack of success so I don't expect it to sunset anytime soon.
I remember the day when ROM actually meant Read Only Memory.......and why Thunderbolt devices need to be re-writeable "flash" firmware instead of ROM is a mystery to me. I'm not aware of Apple issuing any firmware upgrades to these devices since their inception.
I'm suggesting that she shouldn't travel to the US with a camera, laptop, phone or notebook or any other electronic goodies. Pretty much wherever she's going she can obtain the equipment there then dump her encrypted data in the Cloud and then dump the equipment before returning to the US so DHS will end up with nothing to physically search.
I'm glad to see a recording artist speak out about he truly abysmal quality of the digital audio on offer these days.
I encrypt my cloud content, bet Laura could, too.