I'm pretty sure he meant organisms -- they were jubilant because the washing machines were being recalled. Not sure why it was only the female ones though.
I don't know how many devices that is, but I'd guess... a lot? Before Nougat was released, Marshmallow had around a 20% market share of Android versions:
This is why I hide my illegal content using steganography in otherwise legal content. It's secure because no one is willing to sit through enough furry porn to find it.
My neighbor had a sprinkler system installed while they had a second story bedroom/bathroom added to their $400k house. Less than a year later it malfunctioned and went off, flooding every room and destroying all their possessions.
I've never heard of a residential "deluge" style system (the kind where one sprinkler head going off triggers every sprinkler in the system), they are typically only used in commercial construction, and even then only in special circumstances (i.e. if a hallway sprinkler goes off, all of the hallway sprinklers trigger, but if a janitorial closet sprinkler goes off, that doesn't set off every sprinkler in the building).
But even if all heads in the system went off, unless they were away from home for an extended period, it's unlikely that a sprinkler discharge destroyed *all* of their possessions -- anything in a cabinet would have been mostly spared, as would have things that aren't destroyed by water (clothes, dishes, etc), durable appliances (bathroom fixtures, laundry, kitchen appliances), and typically the home structure itself is salvageable if cleanup and drying starts right away. In contrast, a fire literally does destroy everything in a very short period of time -- nothing was salvageable from my brother's house, pretty much the entire contents of the house ended up in the basement in a pile as the floors and walls burnt through.
If they were away from home for an extended period, then I could see water damage being much worse, but it doesn't take a sprinkler system to cause that kind of damage, a washing machine host failure, refrigerator icemaker failure, or just an old fashioned plumbing leak can cause the same problem.
I live in a residential complex with over 100 separate dwellings, all have sprinklers, there have been 2 accidental discharges in the history of the complex - both were caused by physical damage to a sprinkler head (one was caused by a contractor accidentally hitting it during a remodel, one was from children hitting it with a toy thrown at the ceiling). 7 sprinkler heads have been replaced over the past 20 years due to leaks (4 of them within a year of construction). The HOA doesn't track legitimate sprinkler activations, there's only one recent fire that I'm aware of - someone had a large grease fire in the kitchen (they knocked over a pan of cooking oil and it caught fire on the stove and surrounding cabinetry). They ran outside to call 911 and by the time the fire department had arrived, the kitchen sprinklers had already activated and stopped the fire. The sprinkler activation also triggered local fire alarms to warn residents and called the fire department. The fire department had to beak up the cabinets involved in the fire to look for and hidden fires, but didn't need to use their own water, so damage was limited to the kitchen (with some water damage to the surrounding floor). In contrast, a few years back a nearby apartment building (without sprinklers) had a similar kitchen fire - 2 apartments were destroyed, 17 units had extensive smoke damage and were uninhabitable for several weeks, and 4 other units had water damage.
So they should have to invest $20k just to protect themselves from faulty products? I've never seen a home with sprinklers.
Not just faulty consumer products, but cooking fires (most common cause of home fires), faulty heating equipment (tied with cooking fires for fire related fatalities), electrical and lighting faults, intentionally set fires, and smoking related fires. If you're buying a million dollar 4,000 square foot house, why wouldn't you make a safety improvement that's shown to save lives (and can safe the structure itself, but that's a lesser concern). If you care about your family's safety, go above and beyond fire codes. I bet the granite countertops in the kitchen in that house cost more than it would have cost to put in sprinklers.
I've seen many homes with fire sprinklers, my state requires them in new construction and I've known people that retrofitted them (usually with a new home purchase in combination with electrical upgrades since the sprinkler system itself is only about half the cost of the retrofit, the other half is drywall repairs).
This family didn't even have linked smoke detectors throughout the house, which led to a delay in evacuation:
Both children initially confused the sounds of the blaze for someone breaking into the home. They thought they heard arguing, according to their parents, but were confused by the sounds of their pets and the vocal warnings of the downstairs fire alarms.
In my home every smoke detector is linked (through hardwire and/or RF links) and every one alerts at the same time -- everyone in the family knows that if they hear them go off to leave the house *immediately*. 2nd floor bedrooms both have escape ladders. Oh, and the house has a sprinkler system, which was one of the things I looked for when buying. And yes, we do yearly fire drills.
It may seem like over the top paranoia, but my brother lost his house to a fire caused by a furnace fault, he and his family all got out (he and his wife had to go out the 2nd floor window, fortunately the kids rooms were on the first floor and they escaped through a window), but the speed with which it went up made me realize that it's true what they say about fires - every second counts. By the time the fire department got there (about 7 minutes after they were called), the home was fully engulfed and was a total loss. Spending time debating whether or not that sound you hear is really the smoke detector can make a significant difference in getting out safely. Fire is the 3rd leading cause of death in the home (after falls and poisoning).
It basically boils down to neither Microsoft nor Apple providing a decent value proposition anymore.
Microsoft is doing everything they can to make people despise Windows 10, and while I like OSX just fine, it's as if Apple has completely lost it WRT hardware.
So you have a choice between using Microsoft Mediocre Crap or Apple Expensive Crap. Having been an Apple user for well over a decade, I'm thinking that my next machine will have to be a Dell XPS/w Ubuntu.
Agreed on the OSX hardware thing - I've been anxiously awaiting for the new MacbookPro's to come out so I could finally get more than 16GB of RAM. Only to find out that Apple decided that 16GB is enough for everyone, so the new MBP has the same limit.
Looks like I'll be shopping around for a Linux laptop with 32 or 64GB of RAM. I'm very happy with OSX, but I also want more than 16GB of memory.
If the messages are unencrypted, are they not authenticated either? What's to stop someone spoofing messages that induce the operators to shut the plant down? Or even worse to take some course of action that damages the plant with the wrong action, or by ignoring warnings they think were cancelled?
I'm sure the regulations say they should check, but we know how often those are ignored in this industry.
When I get paged from work, the first thing I do is check independent monitoring systems to see if the problem that's reported is actually occurring since False alarms sometimes happen. I don't just blindly reboot a server because I get a page saying that it has a problem, I make sure that problem exists before I "fix" it.
I'd like to think that nuclear plant workers do the same and don't vent steam from the reactor just because their pager said that pressure is high, I'd hope that they verify from multiple independent sources.
About the worst you could do with unencrypted alerts is change them - change "steam pressure elevated" to "steam pressure critical" or "steam pressure normal" or "you got p0wned". But if you have the ability to re-write plain text alert messages, even if they are encrypted you'll have the ability to block them or corrupt them and prevent important messages from getting through.
Plus, since hydroelectric is usually considered 'renewable', water keeps flowing (usually) through dams on cold winter nights.
Canada has quite a few cold winter nights, yet "Manitoba, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon and Quebec produce over 90% of their power from hydroelectricity. Quebec generates half of Canada's hydroelectric power."
2. The weather. I wouldn't have predicted this one, but having the current weather conditions plus the day's high/low temps on the watch face is super useful. I probably look at my watch for the weather conditions almost as often as I look at it for the time.
How often does your weather chance? I check the weather in the morning to see if I need to wear a jacket or bring an umbrella and that's the last time I check it all day - I don't really need to know if it's 63 degrees or 67 degrees, the forecast said "mid 60's" and that's all I need.
About the only time I check the weather on demand is to look at weather radar to see if I can go on a bike ride without getting caught in the rain, but a watch face seems a little small to see a moving radar map with enough detail to predict when and where it will be raining.
Coincidentally, I've purchased a Garmin watch in the past year. I wanted a GPS + Heart rate monitor sports tracker for running and cycling, and didn't want one that requires that it be used with my phone. If I have to carry my phone along, then I'd just use it for sports tracking instead of the watch.... I don't see why I'd want to have a "smart watch" that's only smart when it's tethered to my phone. If I get a phone or text message when I'm too busy to take my phone out of my pocket to see who it is, I'm ok with not knowing who it is, I'll check it later.
An antitrust suit based on what? Not like AT&T and Time-Warner are competitors.
It was right there in the summary:
AT&T Chairman and Chief Executive Randall Stephenson announced the $85 billion deal Saturday as "a great fit" that will combine the "world's best premium content with the networks to deliver it to every screen
The company that owns the pipes shouldn't be the same company that owns the content.
"You don't want AT&T and want to switch to Google Fiber? Well then I hope you don't mind giving up CNN, HBO and other content"
The incumbent carriers already have too much power, they shouldn't get to wield content over subscribers heads too.
re "A few times a month I trip an alarm in my normal work and have to justify my actions to our compliance group."
Internally the NSA don't have an alarm for that. Nobody could do any gov work if "alarms" or encryption got installed at that level and had to be cleared every few hours.
Why not? If private companies are expected to have access controls and adequate auditing for sensitive data and face fines for data breaches, then why isn't the NSA held to the same standard when they have access to much more sensitive data? if a private company has a breach, it can face multi-million dollar fines. What's the punishment when the NSA (who has access to far more data than many people prefer) loses that data because they can't be bothered to secure it out of "convenience". When a hospital has a data breach and your medical records are available for download, would you accept "Well, we could never do any medica work if we had any access controls or auditing for access to your medical data." At least in the case of a hospital, they have a good excuse - it literally is a matter of life-and-death - if the ER doctor can't pull up your medical records, you may die while waiting for treatment. But convenience and expediency is not excuse, even for a hospital.
Everything is decrypted and reduced to plain text. Thats the mission to decrypt and read, sort and index. The select humans allowed in to read and search the material are the "security".
So the NSA *requires* invasive access to all sorts of personal data, but they can't protect it at all? Every employee with some sort of clearance needs access to everything with no access controls at all?
Somehow that seems unlikely, and is not the level of care most people expect for such databases.
A random contractor should not be allowed to walk out with 50TB worth of data.
The select humans allowed in to read and search the material are the "security".
Note that there are about 5 million people with some sort of security clearance, 1.4M have a "top secret" clearance, so how select is that group? The NSA is estimated to have 40 - 50 thousand employees (the exact number is, ironically, secret), if even just half of them have access to data, that's not a very select group of employees, and there are guaranteed to be more leaks.
The idea is to allow the NSA workers to dig deep into all the raw data and find the gems that every other branch of the US gov and mil missed due to a lack of skill or clearance.
East Germany faced such a walk out of all their spies in the West as raw data in the 1950's. They fixed it by splitting the data up so no one person could ever see all the data lists alone again. A complex buddy and the need for senior staff to be present if such data was requested stopped walk outs
The GCHQ faced the issue of a cleared person with access to photocopier without a counter and daily uncounted paper refills. The ability to just copy secret vault material was limited only by the size of a folder to carry paperwork home in everyday. The GCHQ fixed the issue by securing the hardware and been more staff aware.
In the digital age the NSA has to trust its staff, contractors and people the contractors offer as trusted or who other agencies pass as trusted.
So this problem was solved 50 years ago, yet the NSA can't manage to solve it with modern computer systems?
The skilled staff ratio to material gathered is just getting so complex, jargon packed or in need of translation that a lot of contractors have to be ready to look. Its all plain text to help that work flow of a global collect it all policy. Then add in the sorting of the domestic collection.
That's a common criticism of the NSA -- they already have a haystack of data and can't find the needles they are looking for.
Who at the NSA will also face prosecution for such poor access controls that a *contractor* (not even a full employee) could steal 50TB of "highly classified documents" unnoticed?
I have full admin rights to every system at my employer, and even with those admin rights, I could not steal data unnoticed. A few times a month I trip an alarm in my normal work and have to justify my actions to our compliance group.
And we don't even store classified documents, just run of the mill business documents for our customers.
The Trump Organisation responded to Beaumont’s criticism by putting out a statement to the media saying that its web setup is shielded behind a firewall.
The Trump Organization deploys best in class firewall and anti-vulnerability technology with constant 24/7 monitoring. Our infrastructure is vast and leverages multiple platforms which are consistently monitored and upgraded using current cyber security best practices.
I have been a hard-core LInux user for over 15 years, running it on desktops, laptops, everything, completely eschewing the WIndows ecosystem (except for some occasional Wine use). Then I moved to an employer that is 100% OSX based. Running Linux on a bare metal Macbook was not an option due to the necessity of running security software mandated by their compliance department (along with a security token for MFA that doesn't work with Linux).
So I switched to OSX and run Linux in a VM, ssh'ing to it as needed.
I was reluctant to make the switch at first, but now am quite happy with OSX as my main OS -- everything works, the laptop sleeps and wakes up as it should, the integrated touchpad and camera work flawlessly, it switches from a single monitor to my double desktop monitors without a problem, then switches back to the laptop display when I unplug. Presentation mode works well when I plug in the projector.
While running running Linux on my thinkpad, I've experienced lots of problems -- sometimes the laptop would fail to suspend -- I'd pull it out of my backpack and it'd be hot with a nearly dead battery after continuing to run while the lid was closed, sometimes it would fail to wake up and I'd have to power cycle it. Sound was a recurring problem, I'd have to restart the sound daemon at least once a week, and plugging in an external monitor was always an exercise in finding out where my windows scattered to and hoping that it found the right resolution for my monitor.
On the server side, I'm a big fan of Linux, but on the desktop, I'm become a fan of OSX.
point being that if it's not in the original budget then getting an extra couple of mil isn't an "only" thing.
otherwise "a few percent" salalry increase for the cops wouldn't be an issue now would it?
Point being that it should be in the budget -- having police cameras that the police can decide when to turn on protects the police more than it protects citizens.
The video would be an official record, which means retention schedules kick in - you can't just delete it because no one has asked for it yet. It could quite easily be required to be kept for 2 / 6/10 years. Oh and they need to be managed, so you can search for the time/date/officer/location.
That 1TB per officer per fortnight could end up being a billion dollar information management system...
They are already discarding the videos after 31 days:
The new cameras are turned on by officers as necessary during dealings with the public or attendance at crime scenes, and automatically upload stored video when reconnected to a dock later at the station. Videos saved are discarded after 31 days unless earmarked as evidence, and any affected member of the public may request a copy of the video within that time-period.
Instead of giving away money to everyone, provide jobs for every one. If you can't find a job at a private company, then the government can bring back public jobs programs. The unemployed can work on habitat for humanity style homes, maintaining public parks and other landscaping, etc. Those that can't hand the physical labor can sew hats for stray kittens or some other low-impact work.
Paying people to do nothing just seems like incentive to do nothing.
so with 30000+ officers that's "only" 30 petabytes of storage they'll need.
Right. Is that a lot of storage these days? Anything times 30,000 is a large number, if a police officer's badge costs $100 to make, it costs over $3M just to outfit the force with badges.
A TB of enterprise storage, including backups costs around $500 - $2000/year these days (Amazon will rent you 1 TB of triple replicated storage for around $300/year) -- just a few percent of an officer's salary, and if the camera keeps the officer out of court just once for a false claim of abuse, it will have more than paid for itself.
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You mean "fake orgasms"?
I'm pretty sure he meant organisms -- they were jubilant because the washing machines were being recalled. Not sure why it was only the female ones though.
Any reasonably fast device running Android 6.0 or higher must enable encryption by default.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...
I don't know how many devices that is, but I'd guess... a lot? Before Nougat was released, Marshmallow had around a 20% market share of Android versions:
https://www.statista.com/stati...
This is why I hide my illegal content using steganography in otherwise legal content. It's secure because no one is willing to sit through enough furry porn to find it.
My neighbor had a sprinkler system installed while they had a second story bedroom/bathroom added to their $400k house. Less than a year later it malfunctioned and went off, flooding every room and destroying all their possessions.
I've never heard of a residential "deluge" style system (the kind where one sprinkler head going off triggers every sprinkler in the system), they are typically only used in commercial construction, and even then only in special circumstances (i.e. if a hallway sprinkler goes off, all of the hallway sprinklers trigger, but if a janitorial closet sprinkler goes off, that doesn't set off every sprinkler in the building).
But even if all heads in the system went off, unless they were away from home for an extended period, it's unlikely that a sprinkler discharge destroyed *all* of their possessions -- anything in a cabinet would have been mostly spared, as would have things that aren't destroyed by water (clothes, dishes, etc), durable appliances (bathroom fixtures, laundry, kitchen appliances), and typically the home structure itself is salvageable if cleanup and drying starts right away. In contrast, a fire literally does destroy everything in a very short period of time -- nothing was salvageable from my brother's house, pretty much the entire contents of the house ended up in the basement in a pile as the floors and walls burnt through.
If they were away from home for an extended period, then I could see water damage being much worse, but it doesn't take a sprinkler system to cause that kind of damage, a washing machine host failure, refrigerator icemaker failure, or just an old fashioned plumbing leak can cause the same problem.
I live in a residential complex with over 100 separate dwellings, all have sprinklers, there have been 2 accidental discharges in the history of the complex - both were caused by physical damage to a sprinkler head (one was caused by a contractor accidentally hitting it during a remodel, one was from children hitting it with a toy thrown at the ceiling). 7 sprinkler heads have been replaced over the past 20 years due to leaks (4 of them within a year of construction). The HOA doesn't track legitimate sprinkler activations, there's only one recent fire that I'm aware of - someone had a large grease fire in the kitchen (they knocked over a pan of cooking oil and it caught fire on the stove and surrounding cabinetry). They ran outside to call 911 and by the time the fire department had arrived, the kitchen sprinklers had already activated and stopped the fire. The sprinkler activation also triggered local fire alarms to warn residents and called the fire department. The fire department had to beak up the cabinets involved in the fire to look for and hidden fires, but didn't need to use their own water, so damage was limited to the kitchen (with some water damage to the surrounding floor). In contrast, a few years back a nearby apartment building (without sprinklers) had a similar kitchen fire - 2 apartments were destroyed, 17 units had extensive smoke damage and were uninhabitable for several weeks, and 4 other units had water damage.
So they should have to invest $20k just to protect themselves from faulty products? I've never seen a home with sprinklers.
Not just faulty consumer products, but cooking fires (most common cause of home fires), faulty heating equipment (tied with cooking fires for fire related fatalities), electrical and lighting faults, intentionally set fires, and smoking related fires. If you're buying a million dollar 4,000 square foot house, why wouldn't you make a safety improvement that's shown to save lives (and can safe the structure itself, but that's a lesser concern). If you care about your family's safety, go above and beyond fire codes. I bet the granite countertops in the kitchen in that house cost more than it would have cost to put in sprinklers.
I've seen many homes with fire sprinklers, my state requires them in new construction and I've known people that retrofitted them (usually with a new home purchase in combination with electrical upgrades since the sprinkler system itself is only about half the cost of the retrofit, the other half is drywall repairs).
This family didn't even have linked smoke detectors throughout the house, which led to a delay in evacuation:
Both children initially confused the sounds of the blaze for someone breaking into the home. They thought they heard arguing, according to their parents, but were confused by the sounds of their pets and the vocal warnings of the downstairs fire alarms.
In my home every smoke detector is linked (through hardwire and/or RF links) and every one alerts at the same time -- everyone in the family knows that if they hear them go off to leave the house *immediately*. 2nd floor bedrooms both have escape ladders. Oh, and the house has a sprinkler system, which was one of the things I looked for when buying. And yes, we do yearly fire drills.
It may seem like over the top paranoia, but my brother lost his house to a fire caused by a furnace fault, he and his family all got out (he and his wife had to go out the 2nd floor window, fortunately the kids rooms were on the first floor and they escaped through a window), but the speed with which it went up made me realize that it's true what they say about fires - every second counts. By the time the fire department got there (about 7 minutes after they were called), the home was fully engulfed and was a total loss. Spending time debating whether or not that sound you hear is really the smoke detector can make a significant difference in getting out safely. Fire is the 3rd leading cause of death in the home (after falls and poisoning).
I haven't been in many million dollar homes, but I don't think I've ever seen a house with a sprinkler system (not counting for the lawn).
My state has required fire sprinklers in new residential construction since 2011.
They paid over $1M for their home, and couldn't pay another $20K to retrofit sprinklers?
It basically boils down to neither Microsoft nor Apple providing a decent value proposition anymore.
Microsoft is doing everything they can to make people despise Windows 10, and while I like OSX just fine, it's as if Apple has completely lost it WRT hardware.
So you have a choice between using Microsoft Mediocre Crap or Apple Expensive Crap. Having been an Apple user for well over a decade, I'm thinking that my next machine will have to be a Dell XPS /w Ubuntu.
Agreed on the OSX hardware thing - I've been anxiously awaiting for the new MacbookPro's to come out so I could finally get more than 16GB of RAM. Only to find out that Apple decided that 16GB is enough for everyone, so the new MBP has the same limit.
Looks like I'll be shopping around for a Linux laptop with 32 or 64GB of RAM. I'm very happy with OSX, but I also want more than 16GB of memory.
Blocking pager messages is quite hard.. You have to be close to the recieving pager and block it for all retransmissions.
Harder than editing them before they are received?
If the messages are unencrypted, are they not authenticated either? What's to stop someone spoofing messages that induce the operators to shut the plant down? Or even worse to take some course of action that damages the plant with the wrong action, or by ignoring warnings they think were cancelled?
I'm sure the regulations say they should check, but we know how often those are ignored in this industry.
When I get paged from work, the first thing I do is check independent monitoring systems to see if the problem that's reported is actually occurring since False alarms sometimes happen. I don't just blindly reboot a server because I get a page saying that it has a problem, I make sure that problem exists before I "fix" it.
I'd like to think that nuclear plant workers do the same and don't vent steam from the reactor just because their pager said that pressure is high, I'd hope that they verify from multiple independent sources.
About the worst you could do with unencrypted alerts is change them - change "steam pressure elevated" to "steam pressure critical" or "steam pressure normal" or "you got p0wned". But if you have the ability to re-write plain text alert messages, even if they are encrypted you'll have the ability to block them or corrupt them and prevent important messages from getting through.
Plus, since hydroelectric is usually considered 'renewable', water keeps flowing (usually) through dams on cold winter nights.
Canada has quite a few cold winter nights, yet "Manitoba, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon and Quebec produce over 90% of their power from hydroelectricity. Quebec generates half of Canada's hydroelectric power."
2. The weather. I wouldn't have predicted this one, but having the current weather conditions plus the day's high/low temps on the watch face is super useful. I probably look at my watch for the weather conditions almost as often as I look at it for the time.
How often does your weather chance? I check the weather in the morning to see if I need to wear a jacket or bring an umbrella and that's the last time I check it all day - I don't really need to know if it's 63 degrees or 67 degrees, the forecast said "mid 60's" and that's all I need.
About the only time I check the weather on demand is to look at weather radar to see if I can go on a bike ride without getting caught in the rain, but a watch face seems a little small to see a moving radar map with enough detail to predict when and where it will be raining.
Coincidentally, I've purchased a Garmin watch in the past year. I wanted a GPS + Heart rate monitor sports tracker for running and cycling, and didn't want one that requires that it be used with my phone. If I have to carry my phone along, then I'd just use it for sports tracking instead of the watch.... I don't see why I'd want to have a "smart watch" that's only smart when it's tethered to my phone. If I get a phone or text message when I'm too busy to take my phone out of my pocket to see who it is, I'm ok with not knowing who it is, I'll check it later.
An antitrust suit based on what? Not like AT&T and Time-Warner are competitors.
It was right there in the summary:
AT&T Chairman and Chief Executive Randall Stephenson announced the $85 billion deal Saturday as "a great fit" that will combine the "world's best premium content with the networks to deliver it to every screen
The company that owns the pipes shouldn't be the same company that owns the content.
"You don't want AT&T and want to switch to Google Fiber? Well then I hope you don't mind giving up CNN, HBO and other content"
The incumbent carriers already have too much power, they shouldn't get to wield content over subscribers heads too.
I dunno. This story just makes me feel better about not buying Apple products. I can buy any cable I like and not have to worry about this bullshit.
"OMG. You didn't buy a genuine monster cable! Quick, toss it out before it EXPLODES!"
Which bullshit? The bulishit of shoddy cables destroying your laptop?
re "A few times a month I trip an alarm in my normal work and have to justify my actions to our compliance group."
Internally the NSA don't have an alarm for that. Nobody could do any gov work if "alarms" or encryption got installed at that level and had to be cleared every few hours.
Why not? If private companies are expected to have access controls and adequate auditing for sensitive data and face fines for data breaches, then why isn't the NSA held to the same standard when they have access to much more sensitive data? if a private company has a breach, it can face multi-million dollar fines. What's the punishment when the NSA (who has access to far more data than many people prefer) loses that data because they can't be bothered to secure it out of "convenience". When a hospital has a data breach and your medical records are available for download, would you accept "Well, we could never do any medica work if we had any access controls or auditing for access to your medical data." At least in the case of a hospital, they have a good excuse - it literally is a matter of life-and-death - if the ER doctor can't pull up your medical records, you may die while waiting for treatment. But convenience and expediency is not excuse, even for a hospital.
Everything is decrypted and reduced to plain text. Thats the mission to decrypt and read, sort and index. The select humans allowed in to read and search the material are the "security".
So the NSA *requires* invasive access to all sorts of personal data, but they can't protect it at all? Every employee with some sort of clearance needs access to everything with no access controls at all?
Somehow that seems unlikely, and is not the level of care most people expect for such databases.
A random contractor should not be allowed to walk out with 50TB worth of data.
The select humans allowed in to read and search the material are the "security".
Note that there are about 5 million people with some sort of security clearance, 1.4M have a "top secret" clearance, so how select is that group? The NSA is estimated to have 40 - 50 thousand employees (the exact number is, ironically, secret), if even just half of them have access to data, that's not a very select group of employees, and there are guaranteed to be more leaks.
The idea is to allow the NSA workers to dig deep into all the raw data and find the gems that every other branch of the US gov and mil missed due to a lack of skill or clearance.
East Germany faced such a walk out of all their spies in the West as raw data in the 1950's. They fixed it by splitting the data up so no one person could ever see all the data lists alone again. A complex buddy and the need for senior staff to be present if such data was requested stopped walk outs
The GCHQ faced the issue of a cleared person with access to photocopier without a counter and daily uncounted paper refills. The ability to just copy secret vault material was limited only by the size of a folder to carry paperwork home in everyday. The GCHQ fixed the issue by securing the hardware and been more staff aware.
In the digital age the NSA has to trust its staff, contractors and people the contractors offer as trusted or who other agencies pass as trusted.
So this problem was solved 50 years ago, yet the NSA can't manage to solve it with modern computer systems?
The skilled staff ratio to material gathered is just getting so complex, jargon packed or in need of translation that a lot of contractors have to be ready to look. Its all plain text to help that work flow of a global collect it all policy. Then add in the sorting of the domestic collection.
That's a common criticism of the NSA -- they already have a haystack of data and can't find the needles they are looking for.
Who at the NSA will also face prosecution for such poor access controls that a *contractor* (not even a full employee) could steal 50TB of "highly classified documents" unnoticed?
I have full admin rights to every system at my employer, and even with those admin rights, I could not steal data unnoticed. A few times a month I trip an alarm in my normal work and have to justify my actions to our compliance group.
And we don't even store classified documents, just run of the mill business documents for our customers.
Seems like they just put out a call to be hacked:
The Trump Organisation responded to Beaumont’s criticism by putting out a statement to the media saying that its web setup is shielded behind a firewall.
The Trump Organization deploys best in class firewall and anti-vulnerability technology with constant 24/7 monitoring. Our infrastructure is vast and leverages multiple platforms which are consistently monitored and upgraded using current cyber security best practices.
"...he'd found that emails from the Trump Organization failed to support two-factor authentication..."
How does an email support two factor authentication?
I have been a hard-core LInux user for over 15 years, running it on desktops, laptops, everything, completely eschewing the WIndows ecosystem (except for some occasional Wine use). Then I moved to an employer that is 100% OSX based. Running Linux on a bare metal Macbook was not an option due to the necessity of running security software mandated by their compliance department (along with a security token for MFA that doesn't work with Linux).
So I switched to OSX and run Linux in a VM, ssh'ing to it as needed.
I was reluctant to make the switch at first, but now am quite happy with OSX as my main OS -- everything works, the laptop sleeps and wakes up as it should, the integrated touchpad and camera work flawlessly, it switches from a single monitor to my double desktop monitors without a problem, then switches back to the laptop display when I unplug. Presentation mode works well when I plug in the projector.
While running running Linux on my thinkpad, I've experienced lots of problems -- sometimes the laptop would fail to suspend -- I'd pull it out of my backpack and it'd be hot with a nearly dead battery after continuing to run while the lid was closed, sometimes it would fail to wake up and I'd have to power cycle it. Sound was a recurring problem, I'd have to restart the sound daemon at least once a week, and plugging in an external monitor was always an exercise in finding out where my windows scattered to and hoping that it found the right resolution for my monitor.
On the server side, I'm a big fan of Linux, but on the desktop, I'm become a fan of OSX.
point being that if it's not in the original budget then getting an extra couple of mil isn't an "only" thing.
otherwise "a few percent" salalry increase for the cops wouldn't be an issue now would it?
Point being that it should be in the budget -- having police cameras that the police can decide when to turn on protects the police more than it protects citizens.
humanity's survival rate is 0% historically.
I just checked your figures and you're mistaken -- as of this moment, humanity's survival rate is 100%.
The video would be an official record, which means retention schedules kick in - you can't just delete it because no one has asked for it yet. /10 years.
It could quite easily be required to be kept for 2 / 6
Oh and they need to be managed, so you can search for the time/date/officer/location.
That 1TB per officer per fortnight could end up being a billion dollar information management system...
They are already discarding the videos after 31 days:
The new cameras are turned on by officers as necessary during dealings with the public or attendance at crime scenes, and automatically upload stored video when reconnected to a dock later at the station. Videos saved are discarded after 31 days unless earmarked as evidence, and any affected member of the public may request a copy of the video within that time-period.
Instead of giving away money to everyone, provide jobs for every one. If you can't find a job at a private company, then the government can bring back public jobs programs. The unemployed can work on habitat for humanity style homes, maintaining public parks and other landscaping, etc. Those that can't hand the physical labor can sew hats for stray kittens or some other low-impact work.
Paying people to do nothing just seems like incentive to do nothing.
> only around 1TB of storage per officer
so with 30000+ officers that's "only" 30 petabytes of storage they'll need.
Right. Is that a lot of storage these days? Anything times 30,000 is a large number, if a police officer's badge costs $100 to make, it costs over $3M just to outfit the force with badges.
A TB of enterprise storage, including backups costs around $500 - $2000/year these days (Amazon will rent you 1 TB of triple replicated storage for around $300/year) -- just a few percent of an officer's salary, and if the camera keeps the officer out of court just once for a false claim of abuse, it will have more than paid for itself.