well, that complements with "I feel sorry for anyone who has to hide inside their own home". Its pretty sad that indeed you do. There is a whole planet of people to feel sorry for.
>A parent might be able to better protect a child with this kind of software.
more likely they'll creep on their kid until he goes insane. I think the sad reality, is we've sold our nation's parents "there is something wrong with your kid", and "your children aren't safe" so fucking hard to push a whole bunch of worthless commericial products, and very harmful political ideas down our throats.
We need to just stop. The kids where fine before hand. They'll be fine. If we really want to do what is best for our nation's children, its stop making mountains out of molehills, and just relax. Many, if not most of the crazy things we concoct to "protect the children" do far more harm than good.
the NSA obviously. Just about half the people on the "terrorist" watch list who have no known links to terrorism. Or any "terrorists" who've been enganging in non-violent terrorist behavior, take notice.
But that spyware is classified officially, and still legal. I guess big brother doesn't like competition.
Law enforcement agencies, Heck, I am more thinking about how something like the "Sharia Police" or their white(or any other fucking race) nationalist equivilants, could use this to create their own pseudo law enforcement street gangs.
The last thing we need is moralists, gangs, paristan activists using this to harrass their critics.
On the other hand, I think this should be legal, but it should be by law mandated open source. It should be sent to every security lab for anaylsis, and it should be available for everyone to download, disect, dissemenate, and learn about?
Why? Because people should be aware the capabilities of such software, and by making it public we force people to talk about it, write more software to stop it, and find ways to mitigate it.
private browsing mode prevents firefox from leaving usage tracks on your HD, that is all. Nothing more.
Once you close firefox after using private browsing mode, your computer has no records of your actions. No cookies, history, cache, html5 cookies, anything.
It doesn't stop someone from sniffing network traffic, but its still insanely useful
No one is saying that. We are saying that there is commericial software that is basicly an invitation for abuse, that for a couple bucks lets anyone play NSA, law enforcement at their most depraved and stalk, harrass and intimidate people by hi-jacking their devices.
any by existing you mean "playing NSA at home for fun and profit".
some feminists can be asshats, but sweet shit. Even if you don't like them, at least admit they are right on this one.
Personally, I think this software should remain legal, just so everyone knows what a secret wiretap of your phone is capable of, and why its really really really bad, and an inviation for abuse.
Tesla isn't a "fringe" brand. They are a "niche" brand, like apple. Unlike GM, they are extremely profitable for selling extremely expensive, polished products to a niche market.
I'd say poor people are terrible at making good decisions.
I mean who else would volunteer to work for minimum wage. They also spent all their extra money on luxuries like toliet paper, and soap. you really don't need soap to live. I mean what kind of idiots even consider living in apartments when they make $7/hour. Terrible decision making.
They should have gone to college and got burdened with lots of crushing debt to get jobs that don't exist anymore.
or reverse engineer, and BCC the instructions to 2600 and phrack, and then make an anonymous email and submit to slashdot, wired, tech republic, ars technicana, make a blog for it, etc...
I know, look at all of these godless communists, how dare they want to get to work, to take their children to the doctor. I mean, couldn't they just all stop being poor. Not being poor in the first place is key. It means they aren't people to begin with, something they really need to justify before they start trying exploiting a threatened group like an bank. I mean those banks, one step away from going out on the streets. Some people have no idea how hard a bank works just to provide for its famil*eh*stockholders.
I mean what kind of godless communists could say such a thing.
Next they are going to you know, they might want to let their women vote, or work 40 hour work weeks. We need to stop these communist shenanigans right now.
>Your access to the internet is not a public utility or a state/federal run highway
it should be. It could have been, but somehow lobbyists prevented public infrastructure build out because it would interfere with the business model of cable companies.
> A company paid to build your access to the internet
actually the government paid for a lot of it. They cable companies payed a lot in lobbying to prevent a lot of places from constructing public internet service.
What people are missing is that unscrupolous dealers are selling cards that aren't not tested at full specs as cards that *are*.
You have a pretty big "if" statement. We have no clue on nVidia's yield rate is, and especially not compared to their sales model. What we do know is that at least *some* of the chips will not funciton as advertised.
which gets us back to why nVidia is signing firmware. They don't want to be associated with products of unknown quality, sold by people who bypass their Quality Control proccess, designed to make sure *every* product that leaves nVidia's line *performs exactly as specified, first time everytime*. nVidia is more concerned with overall quality than performance. Something that will build their brand reputation.
I don't like what nVidia is doing, but I do understand why, and I'm not going to resort to conspiracy. nVidia recently has been good working with the nouvea open source team, and I hope the experiance continues and we can work something out where we can help fight against counterfeit cards, save nVidias reputation
AND AT THE SAME TIME
provide a commitment to high quality Free software drivers to provide a quality error free experiance for people running Free software, and make gnu/linux installs *just work* out of the box.
<p>you're mischaracterizing. he's arguing that because ios7 already protected customers while providing LEO access via warrant, the net effect of ios8 is the customer gets the same protection and legal warrants are blocked. This is his thesis for the post, which he goes on to support. you can agree or disagree. it's not fair to call it a lie. He never says that apple's aim is to thwart legal warrants.</p> </quote> Your simply restating the article, which is not true. If there is a backdoor, for any reason in encryption, its broken, peroid. There is no such thing as a "good guy backdoor for law enforcement, installed by manufacture". This goes against all expert advice by people in the industry since the dawn of time. Its also pretty naive to believe that simply trusting the FBI to be the least bit transparant and not serve up secret National Security Letters, where they can demand information without any good reason.
Also legal warrants and not blocked. Technology cannot block legal warrants. Apple is simply shifting the burden of the warrants off themselves and onto the end consumer who is now %100 liable to comply with warrants, subopeanas and court orders. This is fair. There is no more cloak and dagger bullshit, secret letters and conspiracies. If the Feds want to come after you, they better have a good reason, and it affords you the ability to make a proper defense.
Its also damn smart business move by Apple. Its diverting a lot of liability away from the company.
iOS does not thwart "lawful warrants" the statement is highly misleading. Its simply Apple is unable to comply with lawful warrants. There is no legal duty for a software company to build backdoors for law enforcement into anything.
The person performing the encryption still has a lawful duty to comply with all warrants, subopeanas and court orders. By doing this, apple just shifted the burdern from off their heads. So instead of serving warrants directly to manufactures, the government has to serve warrants to the people they are investigating.
This is fair, because it precludes gag orders, mass survialence, and loose public oversight of surviallence. This is the balance you speak of.
This is good for consumers, and really good for apple, who would be between a rock and a hard place, if given a National Security Letter demanding decryption of someone's phone, without any real legal basis.
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well, that complements with "I feel sorry for anyone who has to hide inside their own home". Its pretty sad that indeed you do. There is a whole planet of people to feel sorry for.
me as well.
unfortunately domestic abuse is a real issue. So are helicopter parents, and police states and places on earth are still run by authoritarian regimes.
The world can get pretty scary sometimes, but its good that we have software that rises to meet the challenges.
oh nothing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ4w41ZYY9A
BRING OUT THE GIMP.
something about being stored in a closet being only taken out for dirty nasty degrading homosex
these kinds of activities are perfectly fine for nobody.
>A parent might be able to better protect a child with this kind of software.
more likely they'll creep on their kid until he goes insane. I think the sad reality, is we've sold our nation's parents "there is something wrong with your kid", and "your children aren't safe" so fucking hard to push a whole bunch of worthless commericial products, and very harmful political ideas down our throats.
We need to just stop. The kids where fine before hand. They'll be fine. If we really want to do what is best for our nation's children, its stop making mountains out of molehills, and just relax. Many, if not most of the crazy things we concoct to "protect the children" do far more harm than good.
the NSA obviously. Just about half the people on the "terrorist" watch list who have no known links to terrorism. Or any "terrorists" who've been enganging in non-violent terrorist behavior, take notice.
But that spyware is classified officially, and still legal. I guess big brother doesn't like competition.
Law enforcement agencies, Heck, I am more thinking about how something like the "Sharia Police" or their white(or any other fucking race) nationalist equivilants, could use this to create their own pseudo law enforcement street gangs.
The last thing we need is moralists, gangs, paristan activists using this to harrass their critics.
On the other hand, I think this should be legal, but it should be by law mandated open source. It should be sent to every security lab for anaylsis, and it should be available for everyone to download, disect, dissemenate, and learn about?
Why? Because people should be aware the capabilities of such software, and by making it public we force people to talk about it, write more software to stop it, and find ways to mitigate it.
what if its only "illegal" because its legitimate dissent in a country where such dissent in banned?
private browsing mode prevents firefox from leaving usage tracks on your HD, that is all. Nothing more.
Once you close firefox after using private browsing mode, your computer has no records of your actions. No cookies, history, cache, html5 cookies, anything.
It doesn't stop someone from sniffing network traffic, but its still insanely useful
I think the point was more that something like "tor button" would be included by default in the code base.
pidgin already has TOR intergration, under account management, under the proxy settings, there is an option for "use TOR"
No one is saying that. We are saying that there is commericial software that is basicly an invitation for abuse, that for a couple bucks lets anyone play NSA, law enforcement at their most depraved and stalk, harrass and intimidate people by hi-jacking their devices.
somehow its about feminism. are you fucking daft?
any by existing you mean "playing NSA at home for fun and profit".
some feminists can be asshats, but sweet shit. Even if you don't like them, at least admit they are right on this one.
Personally, I think this software should remain legal, just so everyone knows what a secret wiretap of your phone is capable of, and why its really really really bad, and an inviation for abuse.
yeah, but he's more than a little biased.
Tesla isn't a "fringe" brand. They are a "niche" brand, like apple. Unlike GM, they are extremely profitable for selling extremely expensive, polished products to a niche market.
>2014, not understanding what "neo-liberal" means, and being too fucking dumb to look it up
I'd say poor people are terrible at making good decisions.
I mean who else would volunteer to work for minimum wage. They also spent all their extra money on luxuries like toliet paper, and soap. you really don't need soap to live. I mean what kind of idiots even consider living in apartments when they make $7/hour. Terrible decision making.
They should have gone to college and got burdened with lots of crushing debt to get jobs that don't exist anymore.
in %90 of the USA, not having a car is not an option. Only a handful of areas have decent public transportation.
or reverse engineer, and BCC the instructions to 2600 and phrack, and then make an anonymous email and submit to slashdot, wired, tech republic, ars technicana, make a blog for it, etc...
yeah, but you just don't bill the loan company.
Just like you don't go after RIAA companies for violations on copyright law.
If they took your song your band wrote, tought shit.
They copied your look and sounds, tough shit.
Only apple is allowed to sue for things like rounded corners.
I know, look at all of these godless communists, how dare they want to get to work, to take their children to the doctor. I mean, couldn't they just all stop being poor. Not being poor in the first place is key. It means they aren't people to begin with, something they really need to justify before they start trying exploiting a threatened group like an bank. I mean those banks, one step away from going out on the streets. Some people have no idea how hard a bank works just to provide for its famil*eh*stockholders.
I mean what kind of godless communists could say such a thing.
Next they are going to you know, they might want to let their women vote, or work 40 hour work weeks. We need to stop these communist shenanigans right now.
>Your access to the internet is not a public utility or a state/federal run highway
it should be. It could have been, but somehow lobbyists prevented public infrastructure build out because it would interfere with the business model of cable companies.
> A company paid to build your access to the internet
actually the government paid for a lot of it. They cable companies payed a lot in lobbying to prevent a lot of places from constructing public internet service.
> You didn't drop the copper for your access.
a trained technician did. Whats your point?
What other dumb shit is going to be acceptable as long as its "publicly announced"
transparent murder operations.
What people are missing is that unscrupolous dealers are selling cards that aren't not tested at full specs as cards that *are*.
You have a pretty big "if" statement. We have no clue on nVidia's yield rate is, and especially not compared to their sales model. What we do know is that at least *some* of the chips will not funciton as advertised.
which gets us back to why nVidia is signing firmware. They don't want to be associated with products of unknown quality, sold by people who bypass their Quality Control proccess, designed to make sure *every* product that leaves nVidia's line *performs exactly as specified, first time everytime*. nVidia is more concerned with overall quality than performance. Something that will build their brand reputation.
I don't like what nVidia is doing, but I do understand why, and I'm not going to resort to conspiracy. nVidia recently has been good working with the nouvea open source team, and I hope the experiance continues and we can work something out where we can help fight against counterfeit cards, save nVidias reputation
AND AT THE SAME TIME
provide a commitment to high quality Free software drivers to provide a quality error free experiance for people running Free software, and make gnu/linux installs *just work* out of the box.
drug laws: as soon as you mention "drugs" all constitutional rights are waived, because "think of the children"
<p>you're mischaracterizing. he's arguing that because ios7 already protected customers while providing LEO access via warrant, the net effect of ios8 is the customer gets the same protection and legal warrants are blocked. This is his thesis for the post, which he goes on to support. you can agree or disagree. it's not fair to call it a lie. He never says that apple's aim is to thwart legal warrants.</p>
</quote>
Your simply restating the article, which is not true. If there is a backdoor, for any reason in encryption, its broken, peroid. There is no such thing as a "good guy backdoor for law enforcement, installed by manufacture". This goes against all expert advice by people in the industry since the dawn of time. Its also pretty naive to believe that simply trusting the FBI to be the least bit transparant and not serve up secret National Security Letters, where they can demand information without any good reason.
Also legal warrants and not blocked. Technology cannot block legal warrants. Apple is simply shifting the burden of the warrants off themselves and onto the end consumer who is now %100 liable to comply with warrants, subopeanas and court orders. This is fair. There is no more cloak and dagger bullshit, secret letters and conspiracies. If the Feds want to come after you, they better have a good reason, and it affords you the ability to make a proper defense.
Its also damn smart business move by Apple. Its diverting a lot of liability away from the company.
iOS does not thwart "lawful warrants" the statement is highly misleading. Its simply Apple is unable to comply with lawful warrants. There is no legal duty for a software company to build backdoors for law enforcement into anything.
The person performing the encryption still has a lawful duty to comply with all warrants, subopeanas and court orders. By doing this, apple just shifted the burdern from off their heads. So instead of serving warrants directly to manufactures, the government has to serve warrants to the people they are investigating.
This is fair, because it precludes gag orders, mass survialence, and loose public oversight of surviallence. This is the balance you speak of.
This is good for consumers, and really good for apple, who would be between a rock and a hard place, if given a National Security Letter demanding decryption of someone's phone, without any real legal basis.