This is an issue that I run in to more and more these days, usually among younger people who grew up on the Internet. They tend to have the opinion that the personal stuff they post on the Internet should never be allowed to be viewed or used by people they didn't intend it for.
I get exasperated trying to explain that the Internet is a public place, like a bus station, except that when you speak loudly on the Internet, your voice echoes forever.
When you're a spy, you need to learn that sometimes, the easiest way to foil a security system is with an Infrared transmitter. A $20 toy from your local toy store will work just fine.
Snowden is getting exactly what he wanted, notoriety and fame. He has found a way to elevate himself to celebrity status which he will ride for as long as he can.
As soon as the public eye starts moving away, I expect some kind of book deal or other, possibly drastic, effort to regain the spotlight.
I have done the Android thing for a few years but I am starting to trend back to my old habits of keeping my devices separated (i.e. mp3 player, gps, phone, camera, tablet web browser are all separate devices that do their respective jobs well).
I am thinking that if you at least just separate our your phone from your multi-function device, you are much less susceptible to this type of surveillance. At the very least you are not a "one-stop-shop" for the NSA. Make them work for their data....
This is off topic but your points about having "all your eggs in one basket" are well taken.
I ran in to a similar problem about a year ago when I lost control of a couple of domains that I no longer used. I had been using those domains for years, tinkering with various Google services and whatnot and unfortunately for me, I didn't unlink those domains from those services before they were picked up by someone else.
Over a period of about a week, I was in a battle to wrest control of my Google and other accounts from the hands of someone who was using my old domains to reset password on my accounts. It was a very sobering experience to say the least.
I now do exactly as you outlined in your e-mail, which is to say that I have a separate "vault" account that I have specifically for the "password reset / alternate" e-mail fields of all the services I use.
"A lot of devices and services we have seen during our research should never be connected to the public Internet at all. As a rule of thumb, if you believe that "nobody would connect that to the Internet, really nobody", there are at least 1000 people who did. Whenever you think "that shouldn't be on the Internet but will probably be found a few times" it's there a few hundred thousand times. Like half a million printers, or a Million Webcams, or devices that have root as a root password."
It amazes me, still, how these things can happen. It really shouldn't, I am a contractor after all and have seen hundreds of different networks, large and small. Most with amazing security....deficiencies, usually done in the name of convenience.
The ability to provide kids with a tool that can help them understand computer coding and the ability to distribute computer power widely for very little money: In our globalized world, many of us are illiterates to a language, which increasingly characterizes our world and our choices. That language is computer encoding and this illiteracy means that few of us are actually able to understand, let alone write the programs that – everyday – decide what we buy online, who we are friends with on Facebook, and what answers we are offered when we are Googling. Raspberry Pi is a part of the solution of this serious illiteracy.
The low price of Raspberry Pi ensures that creativity and play can be added to children and young people’s use of computers and programming. Raspberry Pi is awarded as a market leader with a very open approach to sharing, which actively encourages other companies to clone what they’re doing
I think it has as much, or more, to do with the culture surrounding the Raspberry Pi foundation as it does with the price point.
This is good work these people are doing and it is about making a difference (hence the whole point of the award).
From what I understand, the problem is that OSHA cannot easily enforce existing safety standards because of the way the business of Cell phone tower work is structured.
The parent company, say AT&T, hires a contracting house to oversee all tower related projects which, in turn, hires hundreds of small contractors, many of which are less than 10 employees, to do the actual tower climbing.
The small companies are often the lowest bidders and, as a result, operate with a very thin profit margin and cut corners on safety in order to maximize profit. Couple this with the heavy pressure to complete projects in a very fast time frame and you have a recipe for disaster that regulators cannot really get a handle on.
Sure, OSHA can shut down any number of the small contractors, but they will just be replaced. AT&T, at the same time, can pay lip service to safety all they want but their hands are clean since they can just point to the contracting agency they hired to oversee their towers.
Obviously, there needs to be some more political will to regulate things closer to the top of the chain, I just wonder how many people need to die in order to generate that will.
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And this is precisely one of the reasons why I cringe when anyone says the government should be run more like a corporation...
I mean why do we assume that something we create, if run out of our control, will be destructive?
Because it is running out of our control...
But... they can always make more killbots...
I, for one, welcome our new killer robot overlords...
Nobody can be a bigger badass than Raven.
"Fuck the damn creationists I say it with authority,
because kicking their punk asses be me paramount priority.
Them wack-ass bitches say, "evolution's just a theory",
they best step off, them brainless fools, I'll give them cause to fear me.
The cosmos is expanding every second, every day,
but their minds are shrinking as they close their eyes and pray.
They call their bullshit science like the word could give them cred,
if them bitches be scientists then cap me in the head."
-MC Hawking, F*ck the Creationists
If not even NASA can move to the metric system, what hope do we have as a nation to move over?
I believe this as well.
This is an issue that I run in to more and more these days, usually among younger people who grew up on the Internet. They tend to have the opinion that the personal stuff they post on the Internet should never be allowed to be viewed or used by people they didn't intend it for.
I get exasperated trying to explain that the Internet is a public place, like a bus station, except that when you speak loudly on the Internet, your voice echoes forever.
Bravo! Bravo!
Nothing like a Simpsons reference to make my day complete.
Thank you sir
When you're a spy, you need to learn that sometimes, the easiest way to foil a security system is with an Infrared transmitter. A $20 toy from your local toy store will work just fine.
Personally, I use a flock of seagulls.
Why yes, yes I would!
Snowden is getting exactly what he wanted, notoriety and fame. He has found a way to elevate himself to celebrity status which he will ride for as long as he can.
As soon as the public eye starts moving away, I expect some kind of book deal or other, possibly drastic, effort to regain the spotlight.
Presumably he had several employees in the hay day of typewriter repair...
However, you bring up a good point. The article should credit the institution he founded / lead, rather than himself, solely.
I was thinking the same thing.
I have done the Android thing for a few years but I am starting to trend back to my old habits of keeping my devices separated (i.e. mp3 player, gps, phone, camera, tablet web browser are all separate devices that do their respective jobs well).
I am thinking that if you at least just separate our your phone from your multi-function device, you are much less susceptible to this type of surveillance. At the very least you are not a "one-stop-shop" for the NSA. Make them work for their data....
"I think we should discuss this offline..."
For some reason, that statement bothers me above all others.
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This is off topic but your points about having "all your eggs in one basket" are well taken.
I ran in to a similar problem about a year ago when I lost control of a couple of domains that I no longer used. I had been using those domains for years, tinkering with various Google services and whatnot and unfortunately for me, I didn't unlink those domains from those services before they were picked up by someone else.
Over a period of about a week, I was in a battle to wrest control of my Google and other accounts from the hands of someone who was using my old domains to reset password on my accounts. It was a very sobering experience to say the least.
I now do exactly as you outlined in your e-mail, which is to say that I have a separate "vault" account that I have specifically for the "password reset / alternate" e-mail fields of all the services I use.
Agreed...somewhat. Port 23 though? really? Why would you not be using telent and not SSH to connect to any server from the outside?
"A lot of devices and services we have seen during our research should never be connected to the public Internet at all. As a rule of thumb, if you believe that "nobody would connect that to the Internet, really nobody", there are at least 1000 people who did. Whenever you think "that shouldn't be on the Internet but will probably be found a few times" it's there a few hundred thousand times. Like half a million printers, or a Million Webcams, or devices that have root as a root password."
It amazes me, still, how these things can happen. It really shouldn't, I am a contractor after all and have seen hundreds of different networks, large and small. Most with amazing security....deficiencies, usually done in the name of convenience.
Besides the fact that I am pretty sure you can't hold back the ocean...
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I think it has as much, or more, to do with the culture surrounding the Raspberry Pi foundation as it does with the price point.
This is good work these people are doing and it is about making a difference (hence the whole point of the award).
Well.... I guess Elop would be fine but how does he feel about developers, developers, developers, developers?
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From what I understand, the problem is that OSHA cannot easily enforce existing safety standards because of the way the business of Cell phone tower work is structured.
The parent company, say AT&T, hires a contracting house to oversee all tower related projects which, in turn, hires hundreds of small contractors, many of which are less than 10 employees, to do the actual tower climbing.
The small companies are often the lowest bidders and, as a result, operate with a very thin profit margin and cut corners on safety in order to maximize profit. Couple this with the heavy pressure to complete projects in a very fast time frame and you have a recipe for disaster that regulators cannot really get a handle on.
Sure, OSHA can shut down any number of the small contractors, but they will just be replaced. AT&T, at the same time, can pay lip service to safety all they want but their hands are clean since they can just point to the contracting agency they hired to oversee their towers.
Obviously, there needs to be some more political will to regulate things closer to the top of the chain, I just wonder how many people need to die in order to generate that will.