And are you seriously suggesting that the US at large is culpable for the actions of William Calley, Jesse England, and any other rapist, murderer, or degenerate who manages to make it into the uniformed service.
How do you know its not the same thing with Chinese army? They even have hundreds of thousands larger army so theres probably more such immoral persons.
Just like China, US also has detention camps and is one of few countries in the world who still have a death penalty (like China).
However subpoena is kind of moot point. You can get one just to check that theres not any law being broken, instead of having some evidence or probably cause. In my opinion a court order should be the minimum requirement in the US too. Also, a lot of data is actually disclosed even without subpoena and like with this news US government probably has some hidden backdoor service like with some ISP's.
I do actuallythink so. These ISP's clear your traffic data and have gone to court to defend your privacy and won. Some mail providers do the same, and some utilize encryption so that they wouldn't even have access to your emails even if they needed to.
Do you live in the USA? You do realize that all data handling companies are subject to the same US laws, so move your email anywhere you want, the government can still get it at will.
Take mail hosting from prq.se (the company hosting WikiLeaks and earlier The Pirate Bay) and use SSL IMAP/POP3 to access it. Looks like a quite good package too.
Isn't it a shame that Google, once regarded as a leader in privacy, seems to have gone and sold its soul? "Don't Be Evil" seems to be more and more fluid in its meaning, and suddenly Google is looking like another Microsoft. What happened to "The Good Guys"? I'll be sure to cancel my gmail account very soon, such a shame.
Google has never been leader of privacy. "Don't Be Evil" is PR. Google is a marketing company - to begin with your privacy is gone. Microsoft is at least selling you software and has no reason to violate your privacy. The Good Guys? They developed Google and started making money. And you know, Google is a publicly traded company with shareholders who can tell the company to do anything they like.
Usually it has required a court order, or at least subpoena. Though subpoena is kind of meaningless as you can get it just to check that nothing criminal is taking place instead of checking if some crime is being committed (yes theres a difference)
If China government cant get access to Gmail, what it makes it ok for USA? Especially to those accounts not owned by US citizens.
If China tried to get access to gmail accounts of those who tried to start revolts in China and that wasn't ok, what makes it ok for US government to get access to those who try to start revolts in US (aka terrorists)? After all, USA also has a long track record of killing those it considers its enemies and even civilians and journalists, in addition to detaining people and ignoring their human rights along with sexual abuse and torture. US does exactly the same to it's enemies than China. Like most of Chinese people, US people also deny this or say it's not as bad or try to justify it by saying they're enemies or "terrorists". In the end it's all the same.
What if the credit card processor isn't an US company? It's not like the state can really ban them, and theres credit card processors that only work online.
I don't see them banning and going into fight with Visa/Mastercard over this, especially since it's just one state. It would hurt people of Mass. even more.
It's not that the states really care about you gambling, they just want to have the revenue from it themselves instead of it going to someones Internet business.
So Apple's wimpy receiver needs a boost and the solution is to buy more hardware from Apple - sound like IBM's business model
It's not IBM business model, it's Apple's actually. You cant just buy your own graphics card, more hardware, or even a damn battery for iPhone. You have to buy everything from Apple, from an Apple store, with high Apple prices. This just follows the same lead.
The funny thing is the iPad Case -accessory. Apple has tried to make it look like Courier Tablet and like an actual book, but the truth is that theres no screen on the other side (which you can't see from the picture). What a surprise for the buyer.
Over the weekend we saw some footage of empty queue stalls which was vaguely like when we popped into Disneyland Florida in November. -- Eric Savitz said that the figures "didn't quite meet estimates" -- According to the WSJ, Wall Street took a deep breath when analysts heard the figures.
And yet the article says nothing about the intention being to start a war between China and India. Making things up is indeed fun. As for the CIA supporting the Dalai Lama... heck, in this case I'm all for it.
And it states:
The money allocated for the resistance movement was spent on training volunteers and paying for guerrilla operations against the Chinese, the Tibetan government-in-exile said in a statement.
Just like with Osama bin Laden, Iraq and Middle-East. USA has a long history of supporting guerrilla and when it doesn't fit them anymore, they call them terrorists. I would imagine Dalai Lama and Tibet will be the next such thing.
Or someone is going after Dalai Lama in a crudely obsessive way to make you think it's Chinese doing it in a crudely obsessive way so you would think it's the Chinese who are trying to hide it by doing it in a crudely obsessive way.
What scumbags? The article directly says theres no links to any government, Chinese or other.
But I think there might be more to it. If it were Chinese super hackers, either working alone or the government, wouldn't you think it would be kind of stupid to leave all the traces pointing to China? After all we are on the Internet and it wouldn't be too hard to locate your servers elsewhere in the world. That makes me suspect Chinese have nothing to do with it, but its either some other nation using Chinese as a gateway and making them get the heat, or it's someone trying to make Chinese image bad. That's what politics are, playing dirty. When you make Chinese look like bad guys you can get more support for yourself.
Xpdf on Windows doesn't follow the spec for security either. The separate applications have nothing to do with OS security. The point is, this vulnerability affects Linux too.
And it's not Windows fault that some users can't seem to update their system. Would it be Linux fault if I ran Red Hat 2?
His last point doesn't deny that running as root is more severe than limited account. It says most malware doesn't need admin/root access and is correct. Are you reading some other post than me?
every PDF viewer - except Reader - on Linux doesn't follow that part of the spec for security
You mean Adobe PDF Reader for Linux? It sure does.
Xpdf and Okular on Windows aren't vulnerable either. Adobe PDF Reader on Linux is vulnerable.
This goes to show that it doesn't matter which the OS is, as it's mostly about software or user stupidity. Windows and Linux are on par in this, neither one is better than the another. There is SELinux for Linux which can mitigate the issue, but there are such tools and settings for Windows too. Not that any casual user will put up with those in either system.
But SELinux is pain in the ass and generally disabled on every desktop oriented Linux distro like Ubuntu. I also doubt any casual users will go (or even know about) some SELinux policy change. Windows has the same kind of tools and settings available, so it all boils down to how knowledgeable the user is about security. The choice of OS can't really help much with that.
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Scroogle and other such. There's also some German one (I forgot the name now) that is required to delete such data by their private laws.
And are you seriously suggesting that the US at large is culpable for the actions of William Calley, Jesse England, and any other rapist, murderer, or degenerate who manages to make it into the uniformed service.
How do you know its not the same thing with Chinese army? They even have hundreds of thousands larger army so theres probably more such immoral persons.
Just like China, US also has detention camps and is one of few countries in the world who still have a death penalty (like China).
However subpoena is kind of moot point. You can get one just to check that theres not any law being broken, instead of having some evidence or probably cause. In my opinion a court order should be the minimum requirement in the US too. Also, a lot of data is actually disclosed even without subpoena and like with this news US government probably has some hidden backdoor service like with some ISP's.
I do actually think so. These ISP's clear your traffic data and have gone to court to defend your privacy and won. Some mail providers do the same, and some utilize encryption so that they wouldn't even have access to your emails even if they needed to.
They always also have logs of what search queries were done from what IP's.
Do you live in the USA? You do realize that all data handling companies are subject to the same US laws, so move your email anywhere you want, the government can still get it at will.
Take mail hosting from prq.se (the company hosting WikiLeaks and earlier The Pirate Bay) and use SSL IMAP/POP3 to access it. Looks like a quite good package too.
Isn't it a shame that Google, once regarded as a leader in privacy, seems to have gone and sold its soul? "Don't Be Evil" seems to be more and more fluid in its meaning, and suddenly Google is looking like another Microsoft. What happened to "The Good Guys"? I'll be sure to cancel my gmail account very soon, such a shame.
Google has never been leader of privacy. "Don't Be Evil" is PR. Google is a marketing company - to begin with your privacy is gone. Microsoft is at least selling you software and has no reason to violate your privacy. The Good Guys? They developed Google and started making money. And you know, Google is a publicly traded company with shareholders who can tell the company to do anything they like.
Usually it has required a court order, or at least subpoena. Though subpoena is kind of meaningless as you can get it just to check that nothing criminal is taking place instead of checking if some crime is being committed (yes theres a difference)
Or even better, use www.scroogle.org
If China government cant get access to Gmail, what it makes it ok for USA? Especially to those accounts not owned by US citizens.
If China tried to get access to gmail accounts of those who tried to start revolts in China and that wasn't ok, what makes it ok for US government to get access to those who try to start revolts in US (aka terrorists)? After all, USA also has a long track record of killing those it considers its enemies and even civilians and journalists, in addition to detaining people and ignoring their human rights along with sexual abuse and torture. US does exactly the same to it's enemies than China. Like most of Chinese people, US people also deny this or say it's not as bad or try to justify it by saying they're enemies or "terrorists". In the end it's all the same.
To be honest Wii was first "hacked" for piracy with the mod chips. It was way longer than 1 month until you could run your executables on it.
lol at this conversation
I bet APK could go on forever with this. He has been arguing with himself over 6 years on this articles comments, for over 215 pages.
What if the credit card processor isn't an US company? It's not like the state can really ban them, and theres credit card processors that only work online.
I don't see them banning and going into fight with Visa/Mastercard over this, especially since it's just one state. It would hurt people of Mass. even more.
It's not that the states really care about you gambling, they just want to have the revenue from it themselves instead of it going to someones Internet business.
How in the world do you enforce this? RIAA style dragnets?
NSA sniffs at ISP's.
Army and Air Force will take you down.
FBI will freeze your money.
IRS will collect taxes from your winnings even while you don't get your money back.
Next question?
So Apple's wimpy receiver needs a boost and the solution is to buy more hardware from Apple - sound like IBM's business model
It's not IBM business model, it's Apple's actually. You cant just buy your own graphics card, more hardware, or even a damn battery for iPhone. You have to buy everything from Apple, from an Apple store, with high Apple prices. This just follows the same lead.
The funny thing is the iPad Case -accessory. Apple has tried to make it look like Courier Tablet and like an actual book, but the truth is that theres no screen on the other side (which you can't see from the picture). What a surprise for the buyer.
Too bad the iPad sales are disappointing:
Over the weekend we saw some footage of empty queue stalls which was vaguely like when we popped into Disneyland Florida in November. -- Eric Savitz said that the figures "didn't quite meet estimates" -- According to the WSJ, Wall Street took a deep breath when analysts heard the figures.
And it states:
The money allocated for the resistance movement was spent on training volunteers and paying for guerrilla operations against the Chinese, the Tibetan government-in-exile said in a statement.
Just like with Osama bin Laden, Iraq and Middle-East. USA has a long history of supporting guerrilla and when it doesn't fit them anymore, they call them terrorists. I would imagine Dalai Lama and Tibet will be the next such thing.
It's the Chinese. They left traces pointing to China so you would suspect that it was someone else.
Yeah because that will definitely work outside movies too.
Or someone is going after Dalai Lama in a crudely obsessive way to make you think it's Chinese doing it in a crudely obsessive way so you would think it's the Chinese who are trying to hide it by doing it in a crudely obsessive way.
What scumbags? The article directly says theres no links to any government, Chinese or other.
But I think there might be more to it. If it were Chinese super hackers, either working alone or the government, wouldn't you think it would be kind of stupid to leave all the traces pointing to China? After all we are on the Internet and it wouldn't be too hard to locate your servers elsewhere in the world. That makes me suspect Chinese have nothing to do with it, but its either some other nation using Chinese as a gateway and making them get the heat, or it's someone trying to make Chinese image bad. That's what politics are, playing dirty. When you make Chinese look like bad guys you can get more support for yourself.
Xpdf on Windows doesn't follow the spec for security either. The separate applications have nothing to do with OS security. The point is, this vulnerability affects Linux too.
And it's not Windows fault that some users can't seem to update their system. Would it be Linux fault if I ran Red Hat 2?
His last point doesn't deny that running as root is more severe than limited account. It says most malware doesn't need admin/root access and is correct. Are you reading some other post than me?
every PDF viewer - except Reader - on Linux doesn't follow that part of the spec for security
You mean Adobe PDF Reader for Linux? It sure does.
Xpdf and Okular on Windows aren't vulnerable either.
Adobe PDF Reader on Linux is vulnerable.
This goes to show that it doesn't matter which the OS is, as it's mostly about software or user stupidity. Windows and Linux are on par in this, neither one is better than the another. There is SELinux for Linux which can mitigate the issue, but there are such tools and settings for Windows too. Not that any casual user will put up with those in either system.
But SELinux is pain in the ass and generally disabled on every desktop oriented Linux distro like Ubuntu. I also doubt any casual users will go (or even know about) some SELinux policy change. Windows has the same kind of tools and settings available, so it all boils down to how knowledgeable the user is about security. The choice of OS can't really help much with that.