When you say Russian authorities, you seem to mean that there is one organization. There are many factions of siloviki in Russia. Putin is currently the top dog, but there are others.
It is most likely that the ChronoPay disrupted the wrong company. That company complained to its protectors, and ChronoPay was stopped. ChronoPay's scareware operations do not step on the toes of any siloviki, so they are not a problem.
This law will make things worse. Also, this will make it seem like a problem has been addressed, so getting the problem looked at again will take another 30 years.
I prefer apps over websites in a browser for my android phone for a lot of things. Having a browser between myself and what I'm doing is annoying. Also, my plan has a very low cap for data transfer, so webpages take up more bandwidth even if a lot of it is cached. With an app I can download the app at home over wifi and use it out in the world over 3G. Things like graphics don't get transferred over the connection, just a bit of text.
Example:
GasBuddy
This app is very slick and well written, I think even the best web designers would not be able to make a webpage version of this that is as clean and fast as the app. Also, the only thing that gets transmitted between the app and the gasbuddy servers is text requests for prices and your uploaded prices sent to the server. It uses almost NONE of my cap.
In Virginia:
"Virginia's wiretapping law is a "one-party consent" law. Virginia makes it a crime to intercept or record any "wire, oral, or electronic communication" unless one party to the conversation consents. Virginia Code 19.2-62. Therefore, if you operate in Virginia, you may record a conversation or phone call if you are a party to the conversation or you get permission from one party to the conversation in advance. That said, if you intend to record conversations involving people located in more than one state, you should play it safe and get the consent of all parties."
Google is breaking the law because they are not informing both parties of the recording in advance. I'm sure that all this information is buried somewhere in the terms of service that you click "yes" to without reading it. But, unfortunately for google, that does not satisfy informed consent laws. Some states even require consent on a call by call basis, so blanket consent is automatically invalid and illegal.
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When you say Russian authorities, you seem to mean that there is one organization. There are many factions of siloviki in Russia. Putin is currently the top dog, but there are others. It is most likely that the ChronoPay disrupted the wrong company. That company complained to its protectors, and ChronoPay was stopped. ChronoPay's scareware operations do not step on the toes of any siloviki, so they are not a problem.
So, when will LulzSec admit that they wer behind this. I'm sure the airlines will never admit to being hacked.
This law will make things worse. Also, this will make it seem like a problem has been addressed, so getting the problem looked at again will take another 30 years.
I prefer apps over websites in a browser for my android phone for a lot of things. Having a browser between myself and what I'm doing is annoying. Also, my plan has a very low cap for data transfer, so webpages take up more bandwidth even if a lot of it is cached. With an app I can download the app at home over wifi and use it out in the world over 3G. Things like graphics don't get transferred over the connection, just a bit of text. Example: GasBuddy This app is very slick and well written, I think even the best web designers would not be able to make a webpage version of this that is as clean and fast as the app. Also, the only thing that gets transmitted between the app and the gasbuddy servers is text requests for prices and your uploaded prices sent to the server. It uses almost NONE of my cap.
This is somewhat akin to the argument made a while back on an NPR show by Kevin Kelly, the founding editor of Wired Magazine: that tools never die. No matter what tool you can think of, it is still in active use somewhere on Earth by someone: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/02/04/133188723/tools-never-die-waddaya-mean-never
How is it that you didn't get TrueCrypt working? The current version is in the ports collection and works fine for me: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/security/truecrypt/pkg-descr
In Virginia: "Virginia's wiretapping law is a "one-party consent" law. Virginia makes it a crime to intercept or record any "wire, oral, or electronic communication" unless one party to the conversation consents. Virginia Code 19.2-62. Therefore, if you operate in Virginia, you may record a conversation or phone call if you are a party to the conversation or you get permission from one party to the conversation in advance. That said, if you intend to record conversations involving people located in more than one state, you should play it safe and get the consent of all parties." Google is breaking the law because they are not informing both parties of the recording in advance. I'm sure that all this information is buried somewhere in the terms of service that you click "yes" to without reading it. But, unfortunately for google, that does not satisfy informed consent laws. Some states even require consent on a call by call basis, so blanket consent is automatically invalid and illegal.