I am going say Bad Apple on this one. As I stated on the other article I am not sure that this app really could do a lot of the things that are being claimed. Terrible for privacy sure, but apps implementing ATS and other best practices should still have been secure.
I'm not. The app installs a Facebook root certificate. Once that happens it's Game Over for any app to have any privacy.
Yeah, I'm kind of curious about the business model because mass abandonment of the physical asset that makes the money can't be cost-effective. Even if their up-front cost is $150, how many rides at $y does it take until they lose control of the asset? And there's all of the supporting infrastructure that has to be paid for, etc, etc. Of course, the US tax code probably allows them to write off all of the losses even though it's their strategy.
...I needed a car battery. Looked at Sears.com, found one on sale that fit my car. Drove to Sears to buy that battery and found out that said battery was priced wayyyyy higher than online. I asked how that could be. The answer was staggering: "[Brick and mortar] Sears and sears.com are owned and run by different entities with different pricing structures." In other words, how to fail at both at one time as neither got my business.
Ford's privacy policy specifically says that they can give your driver information to your insurance company. That info isn't anonymized. Like to speed? Have to hit the brakes too hard too often? Be prepared to pay extra for that.
...for their Vehicle Health Report Service and swore that I'd never use it. They don't/won't disclose the data they collect nor what they'll use it for (Summary: "We reserve the right to do anything we want with the data that gets uploaded"), and I swore that I'd never buy a Ford again. Reading TFA makes that even more of a promise. (Yes, other companies may be as bad, but they haven't pissed me off like Ford has. Orphaning the the MS MyFord Touch system WHILE THE CAR WAS STILL UNDER WARRANTY was unforgivable.)
Uh, how can they charge her with obstructing anything when they a) don't know what was on the phone and b) had any assurance they could even access they phone (especially as TFA notes that they were so clueless that they didn't toss it in a Faraday bag). There may or may not have been evidence.
This all part of the game, and this round went to the bad guys.
...and also throw the executive suite in jail for polluting and all sorts of other malfeasance. After all, if companies have the rights of persons, they should be treated like them.
" I'd be a rather leery of anything that requires that the person on the other end have a proprietary app. (Admittedly, the NSA would probably be in a better position to do a code review, but...)"
So you'd take the certainty of being intercepted over the possibility of something being "bad" in a closed-source product? Do you also draw to inside straights while playing poker?
LOL, someone clever would talk about how he'd be inviting the Dalai Llama over for a state visit where they're going to talk about Tianamenn Square, and how the Russians are planning to hack The Great Firewall.
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I am going say Bad Apple on this one. As I stated on the other article I am not sure that this app really could do a lot of the things that are being claimed. Terrible for privacy sure, but apps implementing ATS and other best practices should still have been secure.
I'm not. The app installs a Facebook root certificate. Once that happens it's Game Over for any app to have any privacy.
...when a company says that they may/are recording I say "So am I!" whether I am or not. The skeevier places will immediately hang up.
...the shorter a rap song is, the less bad it is. Now if they can hit 0:00 it'd be perfect!
Yeah, I'm kind of curious about the business model because mass abandonment of the physical asset that makes the money can't be cost-effective. Even if their up-front cost is $150, how many rides at $y does it take until they lose control of the asset? And there's all of the supporting infrastructure that has to be paid for, etc, etc.
Of course, the US tax code probably allows them to write off all of the losses even though it's their strategy.
Perfect analogy.
Yeah, most of it's cheap quality Chinese shit now. Old US-made Craftsman hand tools should be treasured and never sold.
Brick and mortar Sears wouldn't match/honor. I should have said that in my post instead of just implying it.
...I needed a car battery. Looked at Sears.com, found one on sale that fit my car. Drove to Sears to buy that battery and found out that said battery was priced wayyyyy higher than online.
I asked how that could be. The answer was staggering: "[Brick and mortar] Sears and sears.com are owned and run by different entities with different pricing structures."
In other words, how to fail at both at one time as neither got my business.
Commie China
so a country filled with entrepreneurs and capitalists is "commie"
You're right; the OP phrased that badly. "Commie" implies a political philosophy besides "pissant, power-hungry, murdering mother fuckers."
...trading in an iPhone for a Huawei would be like my boss telling me "Ditch that BMW and we'll help you buy a replacement Yugo."
Uhh, I'll decline that "generous" offer.
This looks more like "pump and dump" than any viable long term strategy.
. "Even in the case of a particular individual, the interception order shall not be effective unless affirmed by the Home Secretary."
That line could have been written by a 419 scammer. If it had the word "modality" in it I'd be 100% convinced.
...we can't just drop the Soviet Union, err Russia from routing tables.
Maybe?
This is neither "News for Nerds" nor "Stuff that Matters."
Ford's privacy policy specifically says that they can give your driver information to your insurance company. That info isn't anonymized.
Like to speed? Have to hit the brakes too hard too often? Be prepared to pay extra for that.
...for their Vehicle Health Report Service and swore that I'd never use it. They don't/won't disclose the data they collect nor what they'll use it for (Summary: "We reserve the right to do anything we want with the data that gets uploaded"), and I swore that I'd never buy a Ford again. Reading TFA makes that even more of a promise.
(Yes, other companies may be as bad, but they haven't pissed me off like Ford has. Orphaning the the MS MyFord Touch system WHILE THE CAR WAS STILL UNDER WARRANTY was unforgivable.)
...and the interoperability of IPX.
How long has the IPv6 adoption been going on for now? 15 years? How's that been been going?
Yeah, that slowly.
Uh, how can they charge her with obstructing anything when they a) don't know what was on the phone and b) had any assurance they could even access they phone (especially as TFA notes that they were so clueless that they didn't toss it in a Faraday bag). There may or may not have been evidence.
This all part of the game, and this round went to the bad guys.
...and also throw the executive suite in jail for polluting and all sorts of other malfeasance.
After all, if companies have the rights of persons, they should be treated like them.
"undertaking to not destroy any evidence"
Encrypting is not destroying.
If Twitter had a bias, Trump would have been removed long ago for all of his flagrant violations of their terms of service. I
" I'd be a rather leery of anything that requires that the person on the other end have a proprietary app. (Admittedly, the NSA would probably be in a better position to do a code review, but...)"
So you'd take the certainty of being intercepted over the possibility of something being "bad" in a closed-source product? Do you also draw to inside straights while playing poker?
LOL, someone clever would talk about how he'd be inviting the Dalai Llama over for a state visit where they're going to talk about Tianamenn Square, and how the Russians are planning to hack The Great Firewall.
And then there's Trump.