I know I'm supposed to give some sort of insightful comment but today I will be giving a loosely poetic, haiku-inspired rant instead.
To discourage the frivolous repair requests and pay for all the "hassle free" returns repair costs must be high.
You do not really care that the costs are high because a Home Pod belongs in the home. The proof is in the name.
You will own one, you will pay for it when you buy it, when you repair it and when Apple monetizies whatever clever data collection they have on you, anonymously or not.
It's quite a recent iThing and you already own many iThings and you know old iThings get "battery optimised" to slow down so you might as well buy.
Also, poor people cannot afford to pay a repair bill that is near the amount of the original item, assuming they can even pay for the original. You, you are not like a poor person, you can waste money so you won't even care.
In fact I just recently bought a HomePod, to put in my home where the Pod belongs and I ruined it just so I can prove I can afford the stupid repair costs and then asked Siri what to do and bought another! AND it connects to all my iThings. Flawless.
Thank you Apple for making iThings. They complete me.
(I admit to breaking with traditional haiku structure. I opted for 19-24-24-32-28-44-53-9 instead)
Firstly you are declaring outright that you have traded BTC and will have to pay tax.
Secondly you will be losing money to convert to BTC then have the state lose more of your tax money by converting back.
Simply put BTC is currently too slow. If the value changes in transit and appreciates will you be refunded? If it goes down will the state HODL??
Imagine a scenario in which the state has most of its payments in BTC and it needs to pay employees, contracts etc and BTC just crashes 50% - who's gonna pay for that? The tax payer.
Once Lightning Network happens then this may seem less half baked because payments can be instantaneous. So value will not change in transit...but until then.
Apparently there is a way to evaluate worth by users...Metcalfe's law.
Depending on how you count users (as this can vary the results) BTC is "worth" $2500 - $5000
People aren not buying what it is worth they are buying what it will be worth when LN + MAST are live and in mass user on mainnet.
Once people traded with shells and feathers and it seemed ridiculous because it's not gold...then they traded paper to represent gold until it didn't represent gold. What is the value of a feather? The answer lies in the amount of people believing it has value.
2. Windows 7 is actually the best - (This option will upgrade you to windows 10 immediately or later when you click "cancel upgrade to windows 10")
3. I use Linux - (This option never appears because this is a windows poll & windows 10 is the best)
4. I use android - (Another invalid option + there's a mobile windows thing so this does not count either)
5. I HATE WINDOWS 10! - (OEMs include it in everything + we actively ruin the OS experience of previous generations so you actually love it & will upgrade.)
At Microsoft we value our users and make real changes based on your feedback.
Before anyone can stop bitcoin they'll need to at first understand what bitcoin is. Considering some of these entrenched knee-jerk politicians are still coming to grips with DNS & VPN I'd worry in about 20 years...
BTW, BTC will likely touch sub $3k - good time to buy. -You're welcome!
It's free money and anyone who says different is a rube. I just mortgaged my house and pulled my kid out of college so I could use his tuition to buy more Bitcoins!
I hope for your sake you're not joking. If you are you'll really get upset when bitcoin hits $100k
I advised on twitter to buy at $11k - whoever listened will be up 50% shortly.
Imagine if you have an average US house worth $189k roughly, if you partially re-mortgaged for $50k you'd have $450k by the end of next year.
I know I know, what if it turns to 0 your life would end and everything would be ruined. It seems like it's a 50/50 right>? a huge gamble.
EA first started milking customers with DLCs which were really portions of the game they purposefully removed, not added. Is it not enough to pay $50 for a bloody game? -Are they not profitable enough??
It's painfully obvious that they are using basic psychology techniques to frustrate gamers into buying more.
Shamelessly trying to squeeze every penny out of gamers that are ALREADY PAYING A PREMIUM is really bad for anyone involved in this project & the Star Wars gaming universe in general.
This is not to "create a sense of achievement." You do that with complexity, length and difficulty. This is a cheap money grab plain and simple.
EA just stop being a bunch of dicks. It's fucking Star Wars, IT'S ALREADY A CASH COW.
By cross referencing all the telemetry data on windows 10, + Cortana random sound sampling + uploading suspicious samples to central 3rd party forensic analysis labs Microsoft can keep you safe.
Thank you Microsoft for giving me YET ANOTHER REASON not to touch Windows 10. If I need to game I'll use 7, anything else is Linux.
Exactly. Practically no use for it. It's a utility in some boards perhaps.
You can coat a phone in gold and sell it for $20k too. Still just a phone. If it came with 2 BTC in a "cold wallet" it too would sell for as much in a week or two.
What about pearls? Do they have value? - they didn't until they were MARKETED next to expensive social status items.
Social status items give a status "utility" but it's mostly a fashion. It has no true utility. BTC does.
In some way your work and BTC are very vulnerable. Jewellery can go out of fashion & BTC can become obsolete.
Firstly Bitcoin is NOT anonymous and all payments CAN be tracked. The tools to do so are not terribly accessible and when they are then they are not sophisticated enough.
The WizTec team have found the Mt Gox stolen funds and that has lead to Alexander Vinnik's arrest. So No, it is not anonymous.
Gold and BTC has some commonalities. There is no particular reason to buy gold beyond a store of value. That in itself is a utility.
Yes, gold is used in other application but those are not the main reason for its price. There is a limited availability, supply rate and a finite amount of resources. That is very similar to BTC. BTC has an advantage because it's so much easier to transfer. Try moving 100kg of gold between borders as a method of payment...
As BTC demand grows because of its utility to store and transfervalue easily without a centralised authority to control flow so will its usefulness grow. More tools and methods to handle BTC will reach every day people.
BTC IS A BUBBLE. There is no doubt it is a bubble. Stocks are a bubble, bonds, the housing market and in deed the economy is a bubble too. Should we simply not invest in anything because its a bubble?
The greater fool is a classic example of the Tulip bubble mania and the psychology behind it. This does not fully apply to BTC because BTC has a utility that utility gives intrinsic value. There may be much better ways to do the same exact thing that BTC does today, indeed from a technological perspective there are except they are not as well know and are not as widely endorsed.
History is riddled with superior failed products. So BTC has the advantage, has an amazing Dev team. They are in the lead in multiple fronts and recent shakedowns with BCH and SegwitX2 etc are passed.
We know BTC is resilient, we know large financial bodies cannot crash it and we know its growing in adoption.
I recommend that each person evaluate and do their own research as to the utility of Bitcoin. You may find that buying $1000 worth of it today can make for a very nice retirement bonus.
It is unclear which currency or token will come to dominate but we all know the blockchain and by extension distributed ledgers will replace fiat money.
One parting comparison to tulips. In the tulip mania you had to buy 1 whole tulip at outrageous price without any utility. You do not have to buy a whole Bitcoin. You can buy fractions. If buying a fraction of something to sell at a greater cost, like stocks, houses etc, is only for fools then investors anywhere are fools.
I can see the deep thought behind it; just like they killed the Lycos MP3 search engine and napster and gnutella p2p - no one shares files anymore. If you can do that to file sharing why not VPN? -BAN ALL VPNs!
I'm just tunnelling this information via encrypted link end to end. TOTALLY DIFFERENT TO VPN.
Time to start using MAID - encryption via mutli-port-multi-protocol distributed means. VPN is a joke.
Thank you to China for starting this process and for Russia to accelerate it. I hope more countries follow suit.
What's the point anyhow? Putin throws whoever he wants in jail regardless of wrong doing and makes rich people "share" their wealth with him. -call it the loving embrace of a bear.
1. AMD has returned to profit and is reinvesting to continue momentum.
2. AMD currently has the edge in multi-threaded workloads which is the future.
3. AMD have release their ZEN/Vega APU that performs well compared to intel but at much lower TDP
4. The crypto market IS JUST STARTING if you look at how we are edging closer to bitcoin ETF and market regulation allowing major international players to enter the market this will be obvious.
5. AMD lost BILLIONS due to Intel's anti-competitive practices back from when the 1.2Ghz Thunderbird (c variant) was demolishing anything intel had. Even 1.8Ghz P4s - this is a point because AMD has not lost money due to poor management but rather due to intel bribing OEMs not to sell AMD.
6. AMD has semi-custom designed and a new generation of consoles is just around the corner. While console sales decline for old hardware because everyone is waiting for something faster they will pick up AND currently all major platforms run AMD designs. - assuming consoles suddenly die a horrible death AMD still has a great PC business.
7. The future. We cannot know it for sure but if the past is any indication it is likely that the next "must have" game or application that needs more cores, more shaders and more everything than ever before is soon upon us. -my bet is on the next generation VR that will necessitate the hardware to push 4/8/16k res PER eye at 10bit colour and so on.
So you know what? Fuck Morgan Stanley. While it does not play on whether this is right/wrong but as an aside this is the same FAILED INVESTMENT BANK that got $107 BILLION from the Federal Reserve.
We remember all the banks getting a free ride on public funds. It's just one of the many reasons people like crypto.
It was a proposed model.
Also, you wouldn't necessarily have to consult the government as a complicated action, you might just have a biometric ID that allows contactless key exchange.
But as to why would practically anyone want the governement or a company to hold crypto keys...well because they already have the data and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. Might as well find a happy medium to secure it from other parties.
That is if things remain as they are...but with advancement come advanced means.
Tiny solar panels that can have your phone operate and transact anything is very realistic. A small foot drive generator to produce enough electricity for a minute woth of computing power is all you really need. Crude but in a situation in which electricity is out for weeks it's amazingly useful.
The more tightly society becomes the more likely we are to cross-specialise or know many shallow details from various fields.
When we use blcokchain technology of some kind to transact money, assets etc it won't matter if all the computers in the world crashed because as soon as a small network can run again we have all the recods of everything that ever happened on the blockchain.
Humanity will recover from far worse events, but it will take time. In that devices which are extremely power efficient, generators and SOLAR PANELS will eign supreme.
If we are speaking of a post-apocalyptic situation then computing as we know it will change, but it's still possible it;s just that you won't have an HD phone running Android 18 it will probably be some black and white prompt that has a CPU liek a 386 with single atom transistors that gets it's powere from electromagentic radiation. -just a thought.
In the post pocalyptic world cash and computers might actually be irrelevant. Knowledge will the most precious resource as all the vaules that contain it would possibly be lost. -why? because the scenerios in which society loses electricity permenantly are such that leave very little of anything.
I don't want to trust security devices or methods, I want them to be bulletproof. Al-Qaeda used a fucking hotmail account for months and they were not caught. How is this backdoor BS gonna stop anything?
As long as the government is weakening security then security remains weak for everyone and those that have to "trust" simply use soemthing else.
In short, this method of backdoors is not preventing crime or catching out organised crime it's just making everything compromisable eg wrose.
Multi-factor multi-signature keys. If we develop with this in mind then data-breaches, abuse of power and all the usual crude is far less likely.
Your data is encrypted (default state) then have a key, the governmet has a key and or the company of the product has a key.
Scenerio one; jealous cop next door wants to see your tax return; he needs your key, governemnt key (already has it) and the company key. True that if you have part of the key brute forcing can be easier but it's still difficult if not impossible.
Scenerio two; FBI says you colliuded with russians (it's popular) and forced the company of your favourite IM to hand over keys. They have government key, company key but not your fucking key. -they can issue a warrant and you may reliquish your key OR refuse. They may now have a pretty decent chance or cracking encryption and might need 3-6 months to do so...
Scenerio three - no governement data sharing, only two keys, your and the company; nasty blackhat hackers stole all the company's data of your naked shenanigans, they stole the company keys as well, but you still have yours. Data is useless.
You get there idea....it's not perfect or fool proof but it's MUCH better than data laying about being "secure" in some sort of "high security" facility somewhere with one controlling entity and one encryption key which you do not own.
Lawman doesn't want to give citizens that kinda power? -OK how about mutli-factor multi-signatory keys for the governement only? Big insurance company gets one key, FBI gets another, DHS get a third. -now if there is to be sharing there needs to be a process to share the keys, preferably by agencies that keep each other in check and are less likely to collude. Put that process autheorization and signing on a public blockchain and we'll know it probably followed due process and if not we'll find out one day who signed the dotted line. (as it were)
Facebook does it. All those tiny like buttons on every page you go to.
Android helps improve your location tracking by combining wifi AND GPS through google maps...or anything with app rights on your phone.
In fact so many different organisations do it without explicit consent by cross referencing data, why would it matter if the TfL does it as well?
Here's the curious thing. Most tube passengers already use an oyster card. (some RFID-ed plastic to pay toll barriers) - so TfL already has movement and time and links to credit card data. In fact you can top-up your oyster card from your phone or online so it has a lot of identity data already.
What then can they want with WiFi/MAC tracking? - seems the only thing left is the option to snoop on people even when they do not use oyster cards or NFC contact-less payments via phone/credit card.
So when you pay for your kid they get to be tracked too! (because while only 8 they already have their own wifi enabled phone right?)
That old woman that still uses paper tickets or only uses cash to top-up her oyster card, she won;t turn her wifi off when not using it. She didn't even know there was a "WiFi" thing. She'll get tracked as well.
Keep digging along these lines...there's a lot of data they can get to this way...so they can get money from advertisers that will profile your MAC address because it's easy to know if you have a samsung or an apple. Are there more apple users in Knight's Bridge? -let's advertise out wireless apple headphones there!
Who benefits from this? -certainly not consumers that are averse to ad spamming like it's a disease.
Is it time to look at your phone and realise this is a personal tracking device. It tracks your location. Your buying habits. Your health. Your demographics. Your environment. Most of this data is not used to benefit you. -the problem is not TfL or anyone else exploiting the data (legally or not) it is us the consumers that have allowed these things to track everything about us. -wait til they cross reference your tinder profile with your facebook and your browsing habits to your amazon wish list.
Not only do these things happen and have happened, you cannot delete the data. It will most likely be accessible to a determined curious person for decades.
Slashdot Mirror
...but what does "the most powerful" atomic clock do as opposed to just a "powerful" one?
"powerful" is not something I can immediately quantify when it comes to time keeping.
Does this mean Alexa will finally understand what I mean when I say "fuck off you gimmicky spy platform"?
I know I'm supposed to give some sort of insightful comment but today I will be giving a loosely poetic, haiku-inspired rant instead.
To discourage the frivolous repair requests and pay for all the "hassle free" returns repair costs must be high.
You do not really care that the costs are high because a Home Pod belongs in the home. The proof is in the name.
You will own one, you will pay for it when you buy it, when you repair it and when Apple monetizies whatever clever data collection they have on you, anonymously or not.
It's quite a recent iThing and you already own many iThings and you know old iThings get "battery optimised" to slow down so you might as well buy.
Also, poor people cannot afford to pay a repair bill that is near the amount of the original item, assuming they can even pay for the original. You, you are not like a poor person, you can waste money so you won't even care.
In fact I just recently bought a HomePod, to put in my home where the Pod belongs and I ruined it just so I can prove I can afford the stupid repair costs and then asked Siri what to do and bought another! AND it connects to all my iThings. Flawless.
Thank you Apple for making iThings. They complete me.
(I admit to breaking with traditional haiku structure. I opted for 19-24-24-32-28-44-53-9 instead)
Paying taxes with bitcoin currently is just daft.
Firstly you are declaring outright that you have traded BTC and will have to pay tax.
Secondly you will be losing money to convert to BTC then have the state lose more of your tax money by converting back.
Simply put BTC is currently too slow. If the value changes in transit and appreciates will you be refunded? If it goes down will the state HODL??
Imagine a scenario in which the state has most of its payments in BTC and it needs to pay employees, contracts etc and BTC just crashes 50% - who's gonna pay for that? The tax payer.
Once Lightning Network happens then this may seem less half baked because payments can be instantaneous. So value will not change in transit...but until then.
Apparently there is a way to evaluate worth by users...Metcalfe's law.
Depending on how you count users (as this can vary the results) BTC is "worth" $2500 - $5000
People aren not buying what it is worth they are buying what it will be worth when LN + MAST are live and in mass user on mainnet.
Once people traded with shells and feathers and it seemed ridiculous because it's not gold...then they traded paper to represent gold until it didn't represent gold. What is the value of a feather? The answer lies in the amount of people believing it has value.
1. Windows 10 is the best!
2. Windows 7 is actually the best - (This option will upgrade you to windows 10 immediately or later when you click "cancel upgrade to windows 10")
3. I use Linux - (This option never appears because this is a windows poll & windows 10 is the best)
4. I use android - (Another invalid option + there's a mobile windows thing so this does not count either)
5. I HATE WINDOWS 10! - (OEMs include it in everything + we actively ruin the OS experience of previous generations so you actually love it & will upgrade.)
At Microsoft we value our users and make real changes based on your feedback.
Couldn't be due to the ICO for telegram and potentially allowing telegram tokens transferred through encrypted chat that cannot be eavesdropped on?
Good guess?
to end porn...drug use...and well uhm. Stuff.
Good thing they had picked a worthy pursuit we can all get behind! Seems ending poverty is nothing anyone (with money) cares about.
Bitcoin settlements can be delivered by carrier pigeon, more code or encoded in text/email. -Stopping bitcoin is harder than stopping porn.
I refer to The Simpsons -> http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/i... (Old man yells at Cloud)
Before anyone can stop bitcoin they'll need to at first understand what bitcoin is. Considering some of these entrenched knee-jerk politicians are still coming to grips with DNS & VPN I'd worry in about 20 years...
BTW, BTC will likely touch sub $3k - good time to buy. -You're welcome!
Very detailed article. I'm impressed.
Although I do wonder, how much did they get away with and keep as opposed to get caught and got to jail?
BTC unpredictability graph
It's free money and anyone who says different is a rube. I just mortgaged my house and pulled my kid out of college so I could use his tuition to buy more Bitcoins!
I hope for your sake you're not joking. If you are you'll really get upset when bitcoin hits $100k
I advised on twitter to buy at $11k - whoever listened will be up 50% shortly.
Imagine if you have an average US house worth $189k roughly, if you partially re-mortgaged for $50k you'd have $450k by the end of next year.
I know I know, what if it turns to 0 your life would end and everything would be ruined. It seems like it's a 50/50 right>? a huge gamble.
From working cash in hand jobs as a teen to a couple of decades later, the less I work the more I earn.
I was always led to believe the inverse is true.
EA first started milking customers with DLCs which were really portions of the game they purposefully removed, not added. Is it not enough to pay $50 for a bloody game? -Are they not profitable enough??
It's painfully obvious that they are using basic psychology techniques to frustrate gamers into buying more.
Shamelessly trying to squeeze every penny out of gamers that are ALREADY PAYING A PREMIUM is really bad for anyone involved in this project & the Star Wars gaming universe in general.
This is not to "create a sense of achievement." You do that with complexity, length and difficulty. This is a cheap money grab plain and simple.
EA just stop being a bunch of dicks. It's fucking Star Wars, IT'S ALREADY A CASH COW.
By cross referencing all the telemetry data on windows 10, + Cortana random sound sampling + uploading suspicious samples to central 3rd party forensic analysis labs Microsoft can keep you safe.
Thank you Microsoft for giving me YET ANOTHER REASON not to touch Windows 10. If I need to game I'll use 7, anything else is Linux.
Exactly. Practically no use for it. It's a utility in some boards perhaps.
You can coat a phone in gold and sell it for $20k too. Still just a phone. If it came with 2 BTC in a "cold wallet" it too would sell for as much in a week or two.
What about pearls? Do they have value? - they didn't until they were MARKETED next to expensive social status items.
Social status items give a status "utility" but it's mostly a fashion. It has no true utility. BTC does.
In some way your work and BTC are very vulnerable. Jewellery can go out of fashion & BTC can become obsolete.
Firstly Bitcoin is NOT anonymous and all payments CAN be tracked. The tools to do so are not terribly accessible and when they are then they are not sophisticated enough.
The WizTec team have found the Mt Gox stolen funds and that has lead to Alexander Vinnik's arrest. So No, it is not anonymous.
Gold and BTC has some commonalities. There is no particular reason to buy gold beyond a store of value. That in itself is a utility.
Yes, gold is used in other application but those are not the main reason for its price. There is a limited availability, supply rate and a finite amount of resources. That is very similar to BTC. BTC has an advantage because it's so much easier to transfer. Try moving 100kg of gold between borders as a method of payment...
As BTC demand grows because of its utility to store and transfervalue easily without a centralised authority to control flow so will its usefulness grow. More tools and methods to handle BTC will reach every day people.
BTC IS A BUBBLE. There is no doubt it is a bubble. Stocks are a bubble, bonds, the housing market and in deed the economy is a bubble too. Should we simply not invest in anything because its a bubble?
The greater fool is a classic example of the Tulip bubble mania and the psychology behind it. This does not fully apply to BTC because BTC has a utility that utility gives intrinsic value. There may be much better ways to do the same exact thing that BTC does today, indeed from a technological perspective there are except they are not as well know and are not as widely endorsed.
History is riddled with superior failed products. So BTC has the advantage, has an amazing Dev team. They are in the lead in multiple fronts and recent shakedowns with BCH and SegwitX2 etc are passed.
We know BTC is resilient, we know large financial bodies cannot crash it and we know its growing in adoption.
I recommend that each person evaluate and do their own research as to the utility of Bitcoin. You may find that buying $1000 worth of it today can make for a very nice retirement bonus.
It is unclear which currency or token will come to dominate but we all know the blockchain and by extension distributed ledgers will replace fiat money.
One parting comparison to tulips. In the tulip mania you had to buy 1 whole tulip at outrageous price without any utility. You do not have to buy a whole Bitcoin. You can buy fractions. If buying a fraction of something to sell at a greater cost, like stocks, houses etc, is only for fools then investors anywhere are fools.
I can see the deep thought behind it; just like they killed the Lycos MP3 search engine and napster and gnutella p2p - no one shares files anymore. If you can do that to file sharing why not VPN? -BAN ALL VPNs!
I'm just tunnelling this information via encrypted link end to end. TOTALLY DIFFERENT TO VPN.
Time to start using MAID - encryption via mutli-port-multi-protocol distributed means. VPN is a joke.
Thank you to China for starting this process and for Russia to accelerate it. I hope more countries follow suit.
What's the point anyhow? Putin throws whoever he wants in jail regardless of wrong doing and makes rich people "share" their wealth with him. -call it the loving embrace of a bear.
1. AMD has returned to profit and is reinvesting to continue momentum.
2. AMD currently has the edge in multi-threaded workloads which is the future.
3. AMD have release their ZEN/Vega APU that performs well compared to intel but at much lower TDP
4. The crypto market IS JUST STARTING if you look at how we are edging closer to bitcoin ETF and market regulation allowing major international players to enter the market this will be obvious.
5. AMD lost BILLIONS due to Intel's anti-competitive practices back from when the 1.2Ghz Thunderbird (c variant) was demolishing anything intel had. Even 1.8Ghz P4s - this is a point because AMD has not lost money due to poor management but rather due to intel bribing OEMs not to sell AMD.
6. AMD has semi-custom designed and a new generation of consoles is just around the corner. While console sales decline for old hardware because everyone is waiting for something faster they will pick up AND currently all major platforms run AMD designs. - assuming consoles suddenly die a horrible death AMD still has a great PC business.
7. The future. We cannot know it for sure but if the past is any indication it is likely that the next "must have" game or application that needs more cores, more shaders and more everything than ever before is soon upon us. -my bet is on the next generation VR that will necessitate the hardware to push 4/8/16k res PER eye at 10bit colour and so on.
So you know what? Fuck Morgan Stanley. While it does not play on whether this is right/wrong but as an aside this is the same FAILED INVESTMENT BANK that got $107 BILLION from the Federal Reserve.
We remember all the banks getting a free ride on public funds. It's just one of the many reasons people like crypto.
You sir. You do not exist. My computer says so. -Therefore I shall ignore you from this moment forward.
My condolences to your non-existent offspring.
...but he BDSM community has grown massively since last I heard of it.
It was a proposed model.
Also, you wouldn't necessarily have to consult the government as a complicated action, you might just have a biometric ID that allows contactless key exchange.
But as to why would practically anyone want the governement or a company to hold crypto keys...well because they already have the data and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. Might as well find a happy medium to secure it from other parties.
That is if things remain as they are...but with advancement come advanced means.
Tiny solar panels that can have your phone operate and transact anything is very realistic. A small foot drive generator to produce enough electricity for a minute woth of computing power is all you really need. Crude but in a situation in which electricity is out for weeks it's amazingly useful.
The more tightly society becomes the more likely we are to cross-specialise or know many shallow details from various fields.
When we use blcokchain technology of some kind to transact money, assets etc it won't matter if all the computers in the world crashed because as soon as a small network can run again we have all the recods of everything that ever happened on the blockchain.
Humanity will recover from far worse events, but it will take time. In that devices which are extremely power efficient, generators and SOLAR PANELS will eign supreme.
If we are speaking of a post-apocalyptic situation then computing as we know it will change, but it's still possible it;s just that you won't have an HD phone running Android 18 it will probably be some black and white prompt that has a CPU liek a 386 with single atom transistors that gets it's powere from electromagentic radiation. -just a thought.
In the post pocalyptic world cash and computers might actually be irrelevant. Knowledge will the most precious resource as all the vaules that contain it would possibly be lost. -why? because the scenerios in which society loses electricity permenantly are such that leave very little of anything.
I don't want to trust security devices or methods, I want them to be bulletproof. Al-Qaeda used a fucking hotmail account for months and they were not caught. How is this backdoor BS gonna stop anything?
As long as the government is weakening security then security remains weak for everyone and those that have to "trust" simply use soemthing else.
In short, this method of backdoors is not preventing crime or catching out organised crime it's just making everything compromisable eg wrose.
Multi-factor multi-signature keys. If we develop with this in mind then data-breaches, abuse of power and all the usual crude is far less likely.
Your data is encrypted (default state) then have a key, the governmet has a key and or the company of the product has a key.
Scenerio one; jealous cop next door wants to see your tax return; he needs your key, governemnt key (already has it) and the company key. True that if you have part of the key brute forcing can be easier but it's still difficult if not impossible.
Scenerio two; FBI says you colliuded with russians (it's popular) and forced the company of your favourite IM to hand over keys. They have government key, company key but not your fucking key. -they can issue a warrant and you may reliquish your key OR refuse. They may now have a pretty decent chance or cracking encryption and might need 3-6 months to do so...
Scenerio three - no governement data sharing, only two keys, your and the company; nasty blackhat hackers stole all the company's data of your naked shenanigans, they stole the company keys as well, but you still have yours. Data is useless.
You get there idea....it's not perfect or fool proof but it's MUCH better than data laying about being "secure" in some sort of "high security" facility somewhere with one controlling entity and one encryption key which you do not own.
Lawman doesn't want to give citizens that kinda power? -OK how about mutli-factor multi-signatory keys for the governement only? Big insurance company gets one key, FBI gets another, DHS get a third. -now if there is to be sharing there needs to be a process to share the keys, preferably by agencies that keep each other in check and are less likely to collude. Put that process autheorization and signing on a public blockchain and we'll know it probably followed due process and if not we'll find out one day who signed the dotted line. (as it were)
Remember that? due process!
I can simulate a real terror threat and people will believe it! -get a new brain?!
How the fuck is this a flaw in iOS? What a load of rubbish.
Facebook does it. All those tiny like buttons on every page you go to.
Android helps improve your location tracking by combining wifi AND GPS through google maps...or anything with app rights on your phone.
In fact so many different organisations do it without explicit consent by cross referencing data, why would it matter if the TfL does it as well?
Here's the curious thing. Most tube passengers already use an oyster card. (some RFID-ed plastic to pay toll barriers) - so TfL already has movement and time and links to credit card data. In fact you can top-up your oyster card from your phone or online so it has a lot of identity data already.
What then can they want with WiFi/MAC tracking? - seems the only thing left is the option to snoop on people even when they do not use oyster cards or NFC contact-less payments via phone/credit card.
So when you pay for your kid they get to be tracked too! (because while only 8 they already have their own wifi enabled phone right?)
That old woman that still uses paper tickets or only uses cash to top-up her oyster card, she won;t turn her wifi off when not using it. She didn't even know there was a "WiFi" thing. She'll get tracked as well.
Keep digging along these lines...there's a lot of data they can get to this way...so they can get money from advertisers that will profile your MAC address because it's easy to know if you have a samsung or an apple. Are there more apple users in Knight's Bridge? -let's advertise out wireless apple headphones there!
Who benefits from this? -certainly not consumers that are averse to ad spamming like it's a disease.
Is it time to look at your phone and realise this is a personal tracking device. It tracks your location. Your buying habits. Your health. Your demographics. Your environment. Most of this data is not used to benefit you. -the problem is not TfL or anyone else exploiting the data (legally or not) it is us the consumers that have allowed these things to track everything about us. -wait til they cross reference your tinder profile with your facebook and your browsing habits to your amazon wish list.
Not only do these things happen and have happened, you cannot delete the data. It will most likely be accessible to a determined curious person for decades.