Internet traffic is managed by reciprocal peering agreements between network providers (i.e. you carry my traffic and I'll carry yours). Google or Facebook may provide peering with other providers, but they're only one of countless others. On the other hand, major ISPs like Comcast and ATT are also major network peering providers. So they CAN influence the cost and amount of traffic they carry. Hence the need for regulation. The reference poses a false analogy about a website whose content was so vile that no one wanted to carry it. That's carry Web content, not Internet traffic. That's primarily a function of advertisement and revenue generation. If you carry vile content, companies are not going to want to run ads next to it to avoid the association.
Totally agree. I'd expect the NSA to be the best at what they're supposed to do. Trouble is, the have no regulation or scrutiny. The rubber stamp FISA court is a joke. The NSA spends a lot of time lying, spying on, and gaming American citizens, when they should be devoting that time and energy to cracking codes from our enemies. Sheesh.
PCI/DSS standards clearly dictate that all customer data, when "at rest" (i.e. on disk, in a database, etc.) needs to be encrypted: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/pci_fs_data_storage.pdf:
"Do use strong cryptography to render unreadable cardholder data that you store, and use other layered security technologies to minimize the risk of exploits by criminals"
That Sony (and all the other businesses and institutions that have been hacked, left laptops to be stolen, etc.) doesn't do this is inexcusable. Had this data been properly encrypted, it would have been unusable to anyone. It's trivial to incorporate this encryption as a part of the design.
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Internet traffic is managed by reciprocal peering agreements between network providers (i.e. you carry my traffic and I'll carry yours). Google or Facebook may provide peering with other providers, but they're only one of countless others. On the other hand, major ISPs like Comcast and ATT are also major network peering providers. So they CAN influence the cost and amount of traffic they carry. Hence the need for regulation. The reference poses a false analogy about a website whose content was so vile that no one wanted to carry it. That's carry Web content, not Internet traffic. That's primarily a function of advertisement and revenue generation. If you carry vile content, companies are not going to want to run ads next to it to avoid the association.
Totally agree. I'd expect the NSA to be the best at what they're supposed to do. Trouble is, the have no regulation or scrutiny. The rubber stamp FISA court is a joke. The NSA spends a lot of time lying, spying on, and gaming American citizens, when they should be devoting that time and energy to cracking codes from our enemies. Sheesh.
Is "don't publish the plan on the Internet". Good luck!
He's a writer's writer -- quality of prose was amazing, learned a new word on just about every page.
I've had great performance with a Lenovo W520, using it for work. Nice sale for Memorial day
PCI/DSS standards clearly dictate that all customer data, when "at rest" (i.e. on disk, in a database, etc.) needs to be encrypted: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/pci_fs_data_storage.pdf: "Do use strong cryptography to render unreadable cardholder data that you store, and use other layered security technologies to minimize the risk of exploits by criminals" That Sony (and all the other businesses and institutions that have been hacked, left laptops to be stolen, etc.) doesn't do this is inexcusable. Had this data been properly encrypted, it would have been unusable to anyone. It's trivial to incorporate this encryption as a part of the design.