If Apple phones were absolutely secure from prying eyes, why couldn't the government have paid less than $1k per off the shelf iPhones for the needed security?
It may boil down to cost/benefit. There's a difference between secure and provably secure. I don't know how the government vets these things but surely there's a certification process involved. Source code would have to be handed over and every single line analyzed and signed off by multiple teams, tests would need to be written and conducted, lots of man hours invested... And the government isn't footing the bill. Apple (or Samsung, or anyone other than Blackberry) may not have been willing to submit to that process.
As best as I can tell, it's been tied to metamoderation for some time now. If you don't metamod, you're never going to get mod points; when I do get them, it's typically a few minutes after submitting the metamod form.
I noticed before sometimes in the United States when people want your government to control people more it says "D something" by their name.
Apparently you haven't been paying attention to the news from states like Georgia, Indiana, and Kansas. When those people want the government to control people more, it says "R something" by their name.
There are a lot of authoritarians in both major American political parties. It's our duty to vote for (or against) individuals, not parties.
What were the effects of being on the watch lists?
In general we can't even know, because we don't know whether or not we're on one. Maybe the reason Joe got pulled over 3 times last year for "reckless driving" but was never issued a ticket isn't because he can't drive well, but because he's on a list. Is he? Which one(s)? How is he to know?
What we do know is that searching Google for terms like "Linux" or "Tor" gets us put on a list. What we do know is that people like Senator Ted Kennedy have been added to the no-fly list, for god knows what reason. It took him a very public fight to get himself removed from the no-fly list, and that was as a sitting Senator, with a direct line to the head of Homeland Security. Makes the rest of us feel kinda hopeless.
Yahoo sells mail as an enterprise product much like Google and Microsoft, so Yahoo Mail has millions of users under other branding. For example, anyone with an email address @att.net, @bellsouth.net, @sbcglobal.net, @swbell.net, or @flash.net is actually a Yahoo Mail user, the webmail interface is att.yahoo.com.
It's quite sad that in the United States of America, of all places, this is now a legitimate and very real concern. What in the hell happened to this country?
WE have the FBI wasting resources to get Apple to decrypt a phone with NOTHING ON IT for data THEY ALREADY HAVE.
No, we have the FBI (hopefully) wasting resources to get Apple compelled to provide a phone-decryption service, which will then be used as a matter of course while investigating everything under the sun, to include jaywalking and barbering without a license. It isn't about this phone, it's about everyone else's.
I'm with you, but the U2 thing isn't a great comparison. Many people had to pay for that "free" album in terms of data usage or overage costs when their iPhone automatically downloaded it over a metered telco data connection, which was the default setting at the time. Hopefully none of Amazon's postcards are arriving postage due!
You jest, but the AI chat bot concierge thing was done on AOL many years ago with SmarterChild (and AI chat in general long before that by ELIZA...). It was a goofy idea then, and is still a goofy idea now. I guess even Indians are getting too expensive these days...
This right here is an awesome change. Forbes and Wired, while they both seem to have quality content, are huge offenders in this space now. I hope they're both on your shitlist.
It prevents public aggregation of user relationships by scrapers.
Each user's Friends / Fans / Foes / Freaks / Friends of Friends / Foes of Friends list is fully visible, so I doubt that's the motivation. I don't agree that moderations should be public, but I don't think foiling screen scrapers is the reason there's no who-modded-what display.
More annoying, the "off to the right" link doesn't appear on the mobile site at all. Browsing from mobile there's no way to RTFA unless someone links it in the comments.
It's simple, we lock every American in their own jail cell 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Gun deaths will plummet. Coincidentally, so will burglaries, drunk driving, and jaywalking. When do we get started?
I think it's the "blocking wifi" part that's getting the FCC's attention, not so much which expensive alternative is being pimped. If you're jamming frequencies or using some type of active denial to kick everyone off APs in the area, they aren't going to be happy with you.
The phone was issued to him by his employer, the County of San Bernardino. The government owns the phone. I presume they've surrendered it to the FBI voluntarily.
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If Apple phones were absolutely secure from prying eyes, why couldn't the government have paid less than $1k per off the shelf iPhones for the needed security?
It may boil down to cost/benefit. There's a difference between secure and provably secure. I don't know how the government vets these things but surely there's a certification process involved. Source code would have to be handed over and every single line analyzed and signed off by multiple teams, tests would need to be written and conducted, lots of man hours invested... And the government isn't footing the bill. Apple (or Samsung, or anyone other than Blackberry) may not have been willing to submit to that process.
As best as I can tell, it's been tied to metamoderation for some time now. If you don't metamod, you're never going to get mod points; when I do get them, it's typically a few minutes after submitting the metamod form.
Ah, well I'm not sure whether that makes it better or worse. A Google employee who didn't know how to turn his own computer on is a sad thought.
I noticed before sometimes in the United States when people want your government to control people more it says "D something" by their name.
Apparently you haven't been paying attention to the news from states like Georgia, Indiana, and Kansas. When those people want the government to control people more, it says "R something" by their name.
There are a lot of authoritarians in both major American political parties. It's our duty to vote for (or against) individuals, not parties.
What were the effects of being on the watch lists?
In general we can't even know, because we don't know whether or not we're on one. Maybe the reason Joe got pulled over 3 times last year for "reckless driving" but was never issued a ticket isn't because he can't drive well, but because he's on a list. Is he? Which one(s)? How is he to know?
What we do know is that searching Google for terms like "Linux" or "Tor" gets us put on a list. What we do know is that people like Senator Ted Kennedy have been added to the no-fly list, for god knows what reason. It took him a very public fight to get himself removed from the no-fly list, and that was as a sitting Senator, with a direct line to the head of Homeland Security. Makes the rest of us feel kinda hopeless.
Google had a help desk that took phone calls? Was that only available if you knew the secret Stanford handshake, or what?
Yahoo sells mail as an enterprise product much like Google and Microsoft, so Yahoo Mail has millions of users under other branding. For example, anyone with an email address @att.net, @bellsouth.net, @sbcglobal.net, @swbell.net, or @flash.net is actually a Yahoo Mail user, the webmail interface is att.yahoo.com.
It's quite sad that in the United States of America, of all places, this is now a legitimate and very real concern. What in the hell happened to this country?
I kinda miss the days of proggies, phat MMs, and naked amputee chat. I don't miss the dialup downloads, though.
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Yes. Dial any number in Brussels, speak your order into the phone, and the NSA will be around in a few minutes with their delivery van.
Not unless Rick Snyder figured out how to run nessus...
WE have the FBI wasting resources to get Apple to decrypt a phone with NOTHING ON IT for data THEY ALREADY HAVE.
No, we have the FBI (hopefully) wasting resources to get Apple compelled to provide a phone-decryption service, which will then be used as a matter of course while investigating everything under the sun, to include jaywalking and barbering without a license. It isn't about this phone, it's about everyone else's.
I'm with you, but the U2 thing isn't a great comparison. Many people had to pay for that "free" album in terms of data usage or overage costs when their iPhone automatically downloaded it over a metered telco data connection, which was the default setting at the time. Hopefully none of Amazon's postcards are arriving postage due!
Kim Jong Dong, it went off like a firework.
You jest, but the AI chat bot concierge thing was done on AOL many years ago with SmarterChild (and AI chat in general long before that by ELIZA...). It was a goofy idea then, and is still a goofy idea now. I guess even Indians are getting too expensive these days...
This right here is an awesome change. Forbes and Wired, while they both seem to have quality content, are huge offenders in this space now. I hope they're both on your shitlist.
It prevents public aggregation of user relationships by scrapers.
Each user's Friends / Fans / Foes / Freaks / Friends of Friends / Foes of Friends list is fully visible, so I doubt that's the motivation. I don't agree that moderations should be public, but I don't think foiling screen scrapers is the reason there's no who-modded-what display.
More annoying, the "off to the right" link doesn't appear on the mobile site at all. Browsing from mobile there's no way to RTFA unless someone links it in the comments.
Microsoft Bob(TM).
It's simple, we lock every American in their own jail cell 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Gun deaths will plummet. Coincidentally, so will burglaries, drunk driving, and jaywalking. When do we get started?
London Trust Media is an Indiana corporation with mailing addresses in Los Angeles, CA and Grandville, MI.
Hundreds of other strangers and the lights in their hotel rooms!
I think it's the "blocking wifi" part that's getting the FCC's attention, not so much which expensive alternative is being pimped. If you're jamming frequencies or using some type of active denial to kick everyone off APs in the area, they aren't going to be happy with you.
The phone was issued to him by his employer, the County of San Bernardino. The government owns the phone. I presume they've surrendered it to the FBI voluntarily.