Because increased awareness about privacy would lead to less profits. In particular, notice who it was that made it impossible for the app to continue on iTunes:
Foursquare yanked the Girls Around Me app's access to its data, which in turn led to the app's developer removing it
The exact same people that would lose profits from increased awareness.
I just came to think that it might be a counter-measure to the Iranian high-speed boats. iirc there was a discussion earlier on Slashdot about how difficult they might be to hit with traditional munitions.
Won't the range of such a weapon be limited by the horizon? If so, then of what use is such a weapon, when the enemy can fire *beyond* the horizon with traditional shells?
How come they haven't cited the actual comments? I would think that a comment that can lead to more than 50 days in prison would be of public interest, no? After all, reading the actual comments are essential to form an independent opinion about the story.
Because you don't want those "features", but all the other HDTV makers jumped on the bandwagon too, and you simply can't find a non-bugged set?
This is already (mostly) true for laptops. It's nearly impossible to find one in the shop that doesn't have a camera and a microphone. The same can be said about cell phones and tablets.
Further, I am not aware of any way to encrypt communications between the botnet's controllers and the botnet's nodes because every node will need to have the private key to decrypt incoming communications. So anyone can analyze a node and just pick out the private key, and then start issuing commands to it as though they were the operators.
The botnet nodes/controllers would theoretically only need the public key of the person supplying the commands. If the commands are issued with a unique, verifiable sequence number (i.e. concatenated with the node's id), it would be practically impossible to issue false commands.
Exploiting browser bugs is what hackers have been doing for more than a decade to perform drive-by installations. The mere fact that they managed to exploit a *bug* doesn't justify their actions. Nor does it for Google.
I basically agree with most of your post, except for the part where you write about slowing down the loops in the free version. This may scare off any prospecting customers who are using the free version to evaluate the paid product.
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Foursquare yanked the Girls Around Me app's access to its data, which in turn led to the app's developer removing it
The exact same people that would lose profits from increased awareness.
I just came to think that it might be a counter-measure to the Iranian high-speed boats. iirc there was a discussion earlier on Slashdot about how difficult they might be to hit with traditional munitions.
Won't the range of such a weapon be limited by the horizon? If so, then of what use is such a weapon, when the enemy can fire *beyond* the horizon with traditional shells?
I actually believed it for a few seconds.... Oh, first post :)
How come they haven't cited the actual comments? I would think that a comment that can lead to more than 50 days in prison would be of public interest, no? After all, reading the actual comments are essential to form an independent opinion about the story.
Eventually, the equipment will be mandatory (like safety belts in cars), and it will be illegal to bypass (like copy protection).
Because you don't want those "features", but all the other HDTV makers jumped on the bandwagon too, and you simply can't find a non-bugged set?
This is already (mostly) true for laptops. It's nearly impossible to find one in the shop that doesn't have a camera and a microphone. The same can be said about cell phones and tablets.
I will FINALLY be able to get those giant, car tipping Bar-B-Que ribs Fred Flintstone caused me to lust after for so very long!
In fact, I think you're right. What bigger market could there possibly be for large, extinct mammoths, than exotic food?
...given that the message itself is signed with the person issuing the command's private key. (forgot to add to parent)
Further, I am not aware of any way to encrypt communications between the botnet's controllers and the botnet's nodes because every node will need to have the private key to decrypt incoming communications. So anyone can analyze a node and just pick out the private key, and then start issuing commands to it as though they were the operators.
The botnet nodes/controllers would theoretically only need the public key of the person supplying the commands. If the commands are issued with a unique, verifiable sequence number (i.e. concatenated with the node's id), it would be practically impossible to issue false commands.
Exploiting browser bugs is what hackers have been doing for more than a decade to perform drive-by installations. The mere fact that they managed to exploit a *bug* doesn't justify their actions. Nor does it for Google.
This is exactly what I thought of as well. When owning a passport is becoming a privilege, you're on your way down a very slippery slope...
I basically agree with most of your post, except for the part where you write about slowing down the loops in the free version. This may scare off any prospecting customers who are using the free version to evaluate the paid product.