Actually the Burglars Association simply agreed heartily with the FBI proposal saying it would ensure increased revenue streams for its members as they increasingly move to online crime with much higher profits. There will also be fewer problems with Local Law Enforcement as they won't be seen out of doors with inappropriate tools or guns. We see a safer and brighter future for our members.
Slightly harder to set up but possibly easier in the long run...
Have a burner iCloud (assuming iPhone) account set up with appropriate dummy gmail accounts subscribed to some innocuous mailing lists. Have that available as a "backup" for your phone.
When you need to cross the border, backup your phone, restore from the burner iCloud account. If you need to hand out your password don't worry about it. Nothing there to look at.
After the border just restore from your actual iCloud.
If you have a consulting firm you can get an EV. Yes about $1000/year.
Yes it is on a token so it can't be easily shared or stolen. Or if stolen you'll be aware of the fact so you can have it cancelled and get a replacement.
You can login to the token once and then have automated builds that run signtool against it repeatedly. It is still painful as the request/answer from the token is slow, takes a second or two extra to sign anything. So if you are doing multiple signing during your build it will slow down.
It is possible to arrange ssh access (cygwin) into a dedicated windows 10 server that can then doing signing with signtool from the token. So it can be shared to that extent.
Hmm.. make cell phones more vulnerable so that there are more crimes done so that more crimes can be "solved" so that we (tax payers) are grateful to fund more enforcement..
Yeah, I'm sixteen years into my Toyota 4-runner and every time I drive it I pray for it to die so I can buy something newer. It simply refuses to stop running!
The best comparison is by comparing wages. Circa 1970 entry level job wages where in the sub $1 range. Certainly much less than 20% or current minimum wages.
To summarize.... average buying power is probably at least doubled, that gets you a car that has far lower operating costs, is much safer, has many more amenities, and lasts anywhere from 2-5 times as long.
The concept doesn't HAVE to change, it just will change.
There won't be any requirement for you to only use services. You will be able to purchase and operate your own autonomous vehicles. It just that most people will realize that it is (maybe) a lot cheaper to subscribe for services than to own your own.
One of the reasons that coral can adapt quickly is that their symbionts adapt quickly.
From the above reference "Although coral genomes may evolve slowly, their symbionts have extremely fast generation times, averaging every 7 days. Furthermore the symbiont community consists of hundreds of symbionts that have already adapted to a wide variety of temperature, irradiance and salinity variables within different microclimates over the past million years. Symbiont shuffling and shifting is an evolutionary masterpiece that circumvents plodding evolutionary mechanisms of most organisms with long generation times and enables immediate adaptation.
A good summary statement is provided by Baker et al. “flexibility in coral–algal symbiosis is likely to be a principal factor underlying the evolutionary success of these organisms”. "
But it is prima facie illegal for the third party to develop the tool unless they where hired specificallyto create the tool by the FBI. I.e. specifically it would be illegal for them to create it, but not illegal for the FBI to use it.
Not sure why the FBI bothered to pay for it. They could have just arrested said third party and to verify that the tool was illegal tried it out on certain phones. That is a win-win situation for sure!
Exactly. Being able to force Apple to sign code allows for weaponized updates. Custom versions of code that can be covertly placed into a targeted phone (either black box or via normal update). Think of phones that simply send the GPS tracking data continuously to the relevant authorities in real time. Or have the microphone recording audio and forwarding in real time.
First, there are tools to translate from source code to binary and binary to source code. Merely a mechanical translation. Object code is provably equivalent.
Second, if they made change to the binary with a binary editor, the signature would no longer be valid and it would not work. It would need to be resigned which as explained is speech and also cannot be forced (hopefully.)
This skirts on free speech. That includes signing a document and there is jurisprudence on digital signing. Forcing someone to hand over the magic pen or stamp that is used to sign is equivalent to forcing them to sign.
You can certainly copyright your presentation of it if it is in anyway unique especially from previously written forms. Other people can present it differently or use previously non-copyright versions.
The current court order is that the FBI wants Apple to produce a customized version of IOS signed for installation on a single iPhone. Done in this case in open court to sway public opinion. And presumably with some custom installation method because they can't auto-update without the password.
But remember that most of these requests are done under seal with Apple not being allowed to talk about it publicly. So once this precedent is set, the next step is a court order to do similar or other customizations to IOS for a specific customer's phone and then simply put that into the normal IOS update system so that the next time that phone is updated (e.g. when the customer sees that a new update is generally available) the customized version of IOS is installed.
I'll leave to the imagination the types of customizations that the FBI or the NSA (or any totalitarian government e.g. China, Iran, etc.) might think to ask for.
This really is the the camel getting it's nose into the tent. Once it is there we won't be able to get it out. And at that point there will simply be no way to trust our phones are doing what we think they are doing. They will be doing whatever the government wants them to do.
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Just buy the Belkin two port Lighting hub and you'll be able to use your Aux cable with the dongle provided in the box.
So if you have a Costa Rica sized economy (and accompanying lifestyles) it is possible to (barely) run it on renewable's.
I'm sure that tells us a lot about what a first world economy can do.
Actually the Burglars Association simply agreed heartily with the FBI proposal saying it would ensure increased revenue streams for its members as they increasingly move to online crime with much higher profits. There will also be fewer problems with Local Law Enforcement as they won't be seen out of doors with inappropriate tools or guns. We see a safer and brighter future for our members.
Please forward some suggestions to Google Maps engineers and Google Auto guys. I'm sure that they have not considered this.
Slightly harder to set up but possibly easier in the long run...
Have a burner iCloud (assuming iPhone) account set up with appropriate dummy gmail accounts subscribed to some innocuous mailing lists. Have that available as a "backup" for your phone.
When you need to cross the border, backup your phone, restore from the burner iCloud account. If you need to hand out your password don't worry about it. Nothing there to look at.
After the border just restore from your actual iCloud.
If you have a consulting firm you can get an EV. Yes about $1000/year.
Yes it is on a token so it can't be easily shared or stolen. Or if stolen you'll be aware of the fact so you can have it cancelled and get a replacement.
You can login to the token once and then have automated builds that run signtool against it repeatedly. It is still painful as the request/answer from the token is slow, takes a second or two extra to sign anything. So if you are doing multiple signing during your build it will slow down.
It is possible to arrange ssh access (cygwin) into a dedicated windows 10 server that can then doing signing with signtool from the token. So it can be shared to that extent.
Hmm.. make cell phones more vulnerable so that there are more crimes done so that more crimes can be "solved" so that we (tax payers) are grateful to fund more enforcement..
Hate to start an editor war, but vim has no trouble dealing with leading delimiters either.
Get a real editor. Through out that IDE.
Agreed, but I wouldn't go to the mat in a swearing contest over it.
Yeah, I'm sixteen years into my Toyota 4-runner and every time I drive it I pray for it to die so I can buy something newer. It simply refuses to stop running!
The best comparison is by comparing wages. Circa 1970 entry level job wages where in the sub $1 range. Certainly much less than 20% or current minimum wages.
To summarize.... average buying power is probably at least doubled, that gets you a car that has far lower operating costs, is much safer, has many more amenities, and lasts anywhere from 2-5 times as long.
Yes, I really like the labels that say organic, tells me which products are over priced to serve an indoctrinated audience.
Gas driven cars are vapourware said the buggy manufacturer to the buggy whip manufacturer...
The concept doesn't HAVE to change, it just will change.
There won't be any requirement for you to only use services. You will be able to purchase and operate your own autonomous vehicles. It just that most people will realize that it is (maybe) a lot cheaper to subscribe for services than to own your own.
For a slightly more balanced view on this see here: https://judithcurry.com/2016/0...
One of the reasons that coral can adapt quickly is that their symbionts adapt quickly.
From the above reference "Although coral genomes may evolve slowly, their symbionts have extremely fast generation times, averaging every 7 days. Furthermore the symbiont community consists of hundreds of symbionts that have already adapted to a wide variety of temperature, irradiance and salinity variables within different microclimates over the past million years. Symbiont shuffling and shifting is an evolutionary masterpiece that circumvents plodding evolutionary mechanisms of most organisms with long generation times and enables immediate adaptation.
A good summary statement is provided by Baker et al. “flexibility in coral–algal symbiosis is likely to be a principal factor underlying the evolutionary success of these organisms”.
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It is not illegal for the government to do it.
But it is prima facie illegal for the third party to develop the tool unless they where hired specificallyto create the tool by the FBI. I.e. specifically it would be illegal for them to create it, but not illegal for the FBI to use it.
Not sure why the FBI bothered to pay for it. They could have just arrested said third party and to verify that the tool was illegal tried it out on certain phones. That is a win-win situation for sure!
Exactly. Being able to force Apple to sign code allows for weaponized updates. Custom versions of code that can be covertly placed into a targeted phone (either black box or via normal update). Think of phones that simply send the GPS tracking data continuously to the relevant authorities in real time. Or have the microphone recording audio and forwarding in real time.
First, there are tools to translate from source code to binary and binary to source code. Merely a mechanical translation. Object code is provably equivalent.
Second, if they made change to the binary with a binary editor, the signature would no longer be valid and it would not work. It would need to be resigned which as explained is speech and also cannot be forced (hopefully.)
This skirts on free speech. That includes signing a document and there is jurisprudence on digital signing. Forcing someone to hand over the magic pen or stamp that is used to sign is equivalent to forcing them to sign.
You cannot patent the discovery that 2 + 2 = 4.
You can certainly copyright your presentation of it if it is in anyway unique especially from previously written forms. Other people can present it differently or use previously non-copyright versions.
The current court order is that the FBI wants Apple to produce a customized version of IOS signed for installation on a single iPhone. Done in this case in open court to sway public opinion. And presumably with some custom installation method because they can't auto-update without the password.
But remember that most of these requests are done under seal with Apple not being allowed to talk about it publicly. So once this precedent is set, the next step is a court order to do similar or other customizations to IOS for a specific customer's phone and then simply put that into the normal IOS update system so that the next time that phone is updated (e.g. when the customer sees that a new update is generally available) the customized version of IOS is installed.
I'll leave to the imagination the types of customizations that the FBI or the NSA (or any totalitarian government e.g. China, Iran, etc.) might think to ask for.
This really is the the camel getting it's nose into the tent. Once it is there we won't be able to get it out. And at that point there will simply be no way to trust our phones are doing what we think they are doing. They will be doing whatever the government wants them to do.
Insurance companies have accepted that they can justify charging more money for policies.
How many of those 175 phones are related to terrorism? And how many to simple home grown criminal cases.
Since there is no driver in a robotaxi the time to charge the driver per driver is infinitely small.
Another fully charged robotaxi meets you and you swap vehicles, with your fare carrying forward into the new vehicle.