Try more boring aspects like backing up your encrypted container. Or using an encrypted partition rather than an encrypted drive. Or making multiple containers with the same passphrase. Or a whole host of other things that can give a determined attacker a place to start cracking your encryption. These things are pretty well detailed in the TrueCrypt manual.
Countries go to war with one another. You can't go to war with a terror organization, legally (whatever the hell that means with respect to war) or not.
It is unfortunate that the spin machines call everything "the war on [insert whatever you find unfavorable here]". It makes the duller members of society think that Congress had declared war somewhere.
company should not be allowed to own a patent covering technology that it did not invent
Companies do not invent anything. Employees at companies invent things. The employees assign the patent to the companies. If you remove the ability to assign a patent, invention stops. OK, not all invention, but the invention that people are paid to do, which is probably not much more than 99% of all invention.
You can't seriously believe that privacy-neutral states like US or UK do not have a backdoor into RIM infrastructure.
Yes, I seriously believe that the US government does not have a back door into RIM's infrastructure. They do not need a back door. With a simple "national security" letter, US government agents waltz right through the front door, take what they want, and prevent anyone from saying anything about it.
Reality is so much more boring than a good conspiracy theory.
So is your argument that Apple (or any other manufacturer for that matter) should not build new features into their products if the old features were not compatible? Have you thought that through? Would you like your car to not have an automatic transmission, air conditioning, power steering, power windows, or anything beyond AM radio because those features were not compatible with the way things were before?
With your logic there shouldn't even have been an iPhone 3G because it had features that the original iPhone did not.
News flash - companies that do not evolve their products die. If you want the new stuff, man up and buy the new stuff. If you don't want the new stuff enough to buy it, don't whine about it.
So, you are postulating that a phone must maintain a database of your location for the past year to function? Then how do all of those non-smart phones work without the location database? Here's a hint for you - a cell phone does not require a database of your past locations to function as a cell phone.
Seriously, that is the stupidest post I've read in a long time. I would have posted that as an AC too.
It is OK if you want to drink the Kool-Aid. Just admit that you want to drink the Kool-Aid and be done with it.
Do you really think "we have proof you were at X location" is really any different than "we have proof you were in the vicinity of X location" makes any difference when you are forced to defend yourself against data that shouldn't be stored in the first place?
isn't it just guesswork to say "You visited thus and so" in a congested urban location?
The police will not guess. In an investigation the question of why your phone data is they way it is will be asked numerous times in multiple ways. Any answer you give that is not exactly like your other answers to the same question will be held up as proof that you were inconsistent and dishonest with the investigators.
If your phone doesn't track your location, that is one less pool of data you do not have to defend yourself against.
And to further the argument that is isn't about ownership...
It is about possession. If Dropbox was holding your grandma's 5k diamond ring, the FBI could request Dropbox to turn it over, just as they are allowing access to your files, the previous comment about the obviousness of the intrusion not withstanding.
While I'm on my soapbox, I will reiterate the opinions that it is not very smart to store something you feel is that sensitive in the cloud. If I had files I felt were that sensitive, they would be encrypted and backed up and stored in my personal safe. Yes, the FBI can get the drive if they want it, but the intrusion will be obvious and the encryption will have no back door and will be as strong as the passphrase I used. If you put it on Dropbox, consider it is everywhere -- on their servers, stored with their backups, released to any law enforcement agency that asks, browsed by bored employees, and maybe even posted on the internet by a disgruntled employee. Putting blind faith in what most use as a FREE backup service should be considered just as safe as hiring an unknown, unpaid person to housesit your home while you are on vacation.
A public-run utility would hire commercial companies to design, build, and maintain the entire nuclear infrastructure. It would look a lot like what we have today. But ignore that for a minute.
Question is, how far would you have them overbuild? Overbuilding adds a significant amount to the cost of a project. The Fukushima reactors were build to a specification and they survived much worse with regard to the earthquake to the point of stating they were overbuilt for safety. The tsunami wasn't unexpected, but overwhelmed the design redundancies. So now you are a genius and will design a reactor for a 7.2 earthquake and resulting mega-tsunami. Won't you look like a dumbass when the 7.7 earthquake and resulting even-bigger tsunami wipe our your design.
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Osama Bin Laden and basic ethics do not belong in the same thought.
If you can't stand jokes about OBL and goat porn (or actually read the linked article) Slashdot is not for you.
Try more boring aspects like backing up your encrypted container. Or using an encrypted partition rather than an encrypted drive. Or making multiple containers with the same passphrase. Or a whole host of other things that can give a determined attacker a place to start cracking your encryption. These things are pretty well detailed in the TrueCrypt manual.
Countries go to war with one another. You can't go to war with a terror organization, legally (whatever the hell that means with respect to war) or not.
It is unfortunate that the spin machines call everything "the war on [insert whatever you find unfavorable here]". It makes the duller members of society think that Congress had declared war somewhere.
I don't think this thing guarantees you wouldn't catch the herp from a remote kiss with Courtney Love.
A way for the Slashdot crowd to get a french kiss.
In many states part of the small claims process is that you cannot have professional legal representation. So no council petitioning anything.
for knowing every inane thought that crosses the mind of people I only vaguely care anything about.
company should not be allowed to own a patent covering technology that it did not invent
Companies do not invent anything. Employees at companies invent things. The employees assign the patent to the companies. If you remove the ability to assign a patent, invention stops. OK, not all invention, but the invention that people are paid to do, which is probably not much more than 99% of all invention.
But at least my shift key works!
Insightful, but not wasting mod points on AC.
You can't seriously believe that privacy-neutral states like US or UK do not have a backdoor into RIM infrastructure.
Yes, I seriously believe that the US government does not have a back door into RIM's infrastructure. They do not need a back door. With a simple "national security" letter, US government agents waltz right through the front door, take what they want, and prevent anyone from saying anything about it.
Reality is so much more boring than a good conspiracy theory.
As opposed to if his mom was a slut and everyone else got lucky?
If Google did not have a large patent portfolio they would likely be sued out of existence very quickly. Patent portfolios are a necessity.
It's for the children, except when the children take up too much time and we need to do something else.
As it turns out, identifying humor through software is hard.
That's what she said.
So is your argument that Apple (or any other manufacturer for that matter) should not build new features into their products if the old features were not compatible? Have you thought that through? Would you like your car to not have an automatic transmission, air conditioning, power steering, power windows, or anything beyond AM radio because those features were not compatible with the way things were before?
With your logic there shouldn't even have been an iPhone 3G because it had features that the original iPhone did not.
News flash - companies that do not evolve their products die. If you want the new stuff, man up and buy the new stuff. If you don't want the new stuff enough to buy it, don't whine about it.
Steve Ballmer?
So, you are postulating that a phone must maintain a database of your location for the past year to function? Then how do all of those non-smart phones work without the location database? Here's a hint for you - a cell phone does not require a database of your past locations to function as a cell phone.
Seriously, that is the stupidest post I've read in a long time. I would have posted that as an AC too.
It is OK if you want to drink the Kool-Aid. Just admit that you want to drink the Kool-Aid and be done with it.
Do you really think "we have proof you were at X location" is really any different than "we have proof you were in the vicinity of X location" makes any difference when you are forced to defend yourself against data that shouldn't be stored in the first place?
isn't it just guesswork to say "You visited thus and so" in a congested urban location?
The police will not guess. In an investigation the question of why your phone data is they way it is will be asked numerous times in multiple ways. Any answer you give that is not exactly like your other answers to the same question will be held up as proof that you were inconsistent and dishonest with the investigators.
If your phone doesn't track your location, that is one less pool of data you do not have to defend yourself against.
Yes, but how many Library of Congresses is that?
The people who thought this up should be fired in my opinion.
Don't forget to make them wear a cape.
And to further the argument that is isn't about ownership...
It is about possession. If Dropbox was holding your grandma's 5k diamond ring, the FBI could request Dropbox to turn it over, just as they are allowing access to your files, the previous comment about the obviousness of the intrusion not withstanding.
While I'm on my soapbox, I will reiterate the opinions that it is not very smart to store something you feel is that sensitive in the cloud. If I had files I felt were that sensitive, they would be encrypted and backed up and stored in my personal safe. Yes, the FBI can get the drive if they want it, but the intrusion will be obvious and the encryption will have no back door and will be as strong as the passphrase I used. If you put it on Dropbox, consider it is everywhere -- on their servers, stored with their backups, released to any law enforcement agency that asks, browsed by bored employees, and maybe even posted on the internet by a disgruntled employee. Putting blind faith in what most use as a FREE backup service should be considered just as safe as hiring an unknown, unpaid person to housesit your home while you are on vacation.
Yes, like you just did.
A public-run utility would hire commercial companies to design, build, and maintain the entire nuclear infrastructure. It would look a lot like what we have today. But ignore that for a minute.
Question is, how far would you have them overbuild? Overbuilding adds a significant amount to the cost of a project. The Fukushima reactors were build to a specification and they survived much worse with regard to the earthquake to the point of stating they were overbuilt for safety. The tsunami wasn't unexpected, but overwhelmed the design redundancies. So now you are a genius and will design a reactor for a 7.2 earthquake and resulting mega-tsunami. Won't you look like a dumbass when the 7.7 earthquake and resulting even-bigger tsunami wipe our your design.