Two Issues to consider -
If an application was built with a backdoor the hackers of the world would invest their considerable talents and efforts into finding that back door and they will find it once found it will be abused. Once the back door has been uncovered the company who built the application would be required to fix it. Now who is going to pay for the fixing? Not the company because they know the same things that one is reading now. YOU will pay for the new application. YOU will pay to inform ALL the people who are using this now worthless application that it is broken and needs to be updated. YOU will pay to download and ensure that the new version is in use. This will happen over and over until YOU give up your foolish mandate. The state of Mississippi once considered mandating PI as 3. Same issue, politics needs to understand mandating foolish ideas makes one look like the fool they are! ---
Since the world has MANY countries in it, any mandate for USofA would not apply to the other countries. Any person wanting or needing a non-FU encryption application would find one from some other source and use it. How are YOU going to mandate what application one uses to encrypt?
You can't!
Poof!
There goes universal back door access!
A head-on collision between two Jovian moons would create a crash so large it would be visible from earth, astronomers said. ---
Ok, what time frame: minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia?
Make it mandatory that the test for the error be part of the submission, then the developer has the code to test for the error/bug/problem etc.
Yeah it might get problematic, but better to have the error actually checked than not.
Any product that has ANY post sale involvement is up for DRM (Digital Rights Management) abuse! Any home appliance the breaks or needs repair! Any vehicle that needs repair! This is a BIG issue! DRM MUST be toned down to protect the original manufacturer or sale, but NOT limit or deny repair for fix by a 3rd party!
I would make it MANDATORY that every robot made have an OFF switch!
Governments, clandestine organizations; CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. all make life and death decisions daily. Their mechanical servants MUST have an OFF switch that works from a distance. Otherwise one may get into a situation like SKYNET, COLOSIS, etc.
We have emergency tools with hammers, cutters and sharp point to break the older tempered glass,
Now how will one break this new Gorilla glass? Or will one need an explosive to break it?
Put a string of password like alphabet soup in a routine. Then when that routine becomes ensconced in some other application it can still be searched for and noted for replacement of removal. It would only take about 128 bytes to clearly note application, programmer, usage, date, time, etc. It used to be a size issue but with todays Gigabyte memory size, that issue has diminished dramatically.
Usually the family of a student is paying for the education. As such the family need to know how and what the student is doing. I know they may be over the "report to family age", but since this situation demands something real and hard be done, report any and all drinking, drugging and hospital events to the familys might go a long way with reigning in the abuse. Yes the educational institution need to take a hard stand on this and bring it under control. Make it part of the admission policy so all familys and students know what will happen when they drink or abuse drugs. Yeah the students may be over the age where they are considered adult and "on their own" but one needs to get real so report them to some agency that can put real pressure on the students, family or guardian.
Unless "direct detection" rather than "indirect detection" can be factually proven to get private information from TOR which is supposedly NOT available, and private information from "Virtual Private Networks" which again is NOT available then the case MUST be dismissed. All technology and software MUST be divulged. Not hidden nor private techniques. No one watching a network protected by TOR and/or VPN can determine who nor what is using said network.
Look up Warrant Canary and display one to ensure your activities and promotions are pure and not compromised.
"Warrant canary" is a colloquial term for a regularly published statement that a service provider has not received legal process that it would be prohibited from saying it had received, such as a national security letter. - Canary Watch
In the USA this feature would be a guaranteed "NSA and all other TLAs" Local, County, State, and Federal police would mandate that they MUST be able to get it at ALL times. This is too good to be true. A Guaranteed locator! No more use of StingRay.
Isaac Asimov Three Laws of Robotics must be MANDATORY! Anything less and your'e just asking for trouble!
The documentation for the device resides IN the device and is EASILY accessible to the user.
I've seen way too many devices that require intricate complicated instructions that are no where to be found when something needs fixing or modifying. IE wrist watch time setting.
Put some code like "PG", "All", "Adult" on the site not age. There are too many disparate and country specific age issues all over the place.
Age restricted in one country is perfectly permissible in another country. Use Codes not age.
If the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights are the supreme laws in this country then the WHOLE Judiciary needs to be re-educated in them.
The Bill of rights as it's 1st item clearly states Freedom of Speech is an inalienable right.
Unless there is some reinterpretation of "inalienable" that clearly indicates one's freedom to say ANYTHING can NOT be infringed, PERIOD, NSL are wothless!
The real problem comes when one wants to get the Supreme Court to hear and rule on same.
One can guarantee if anyone attempts to secure or harden TOR or any other onion product enough to ensue the TLAs can't gain access they will be visited by some "Men in Black" with some NSLs to hand out. Never to be seen again! The TOR site need to have a Warrant canary "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary"
specific to this situation, unless they already have been issued NSL or other mandates, then all bets are off, probably the latter!
It's a shame the Gov. thinks it's the boss, the people are the boss, the constitution clearly says so! This is not for our own good, it's for the Gov. spying operations, and we already have way too much of that!
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Two Issues to consider - If an application was built with a backdoor the hackers of the world would invest their considerable talents and efforts into finding that back door and they will find it once found it will be abused. Once the back door has been uncovered the company who built the application would be required to fix it. Now who is going to pay for the fixing? Not the company because they know the same things that one is reading now. YOU will pay for the new application. YOU will pay to inform ALL the people who are using this now worthless application that it is broken and needs to be updated. YOU will pay to download and ensure that the new version is in use. This will happen over and over until YOU give up your foolish mandate. The state of Mississippi once considered mandating PI as 3. Same issue, politics needs to understand mandating foolish ideas makes one look like the fool they are! --- Since the world has MANY countries in it, any mandate for USofA would not apply to the other countries. Any person wanting or needing a non-FU encryption application would find one from some other source and use it. How are YOU going to mandate what application one uses to encrypt? You can't! Poof! There goes universal back door access!
A head-on collision between two Jovian moons would create a crash so large it would be visible from earth, astronomers said. --- Ok, what time frame: minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia?
Sweden doesn't have our problems with education, They rate teachers very highly and pay them to think and teach.
I graduated in '60's. The only computer we had in HS were Slide Rules.
Make it mandatory that the test for the error be part of the submission, then the developer has the code to test for the error/bug/problem etc. Yeah it might get problematic, but better to have the error actually checked than not.
Any product that has ANY post sale involvement is up for DRM (Digital Rights Management) abuse! Any home appliance the breaks or needs repair! Any vehicle that needs repair! This is a BIG issue! DRM MUST be toned down to protect the original manufacturer or sale, but NOT limit or deny repair for fix by a 3rd party!
Colossus: The Forbin Project
I would make it MANDATORY that every robot made have an OFF switch! Governments, clandestine organizations; CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. all make life and death decisions daily. Their mechanical servants MUST have an OFF switch that works from a distance. Otherwise one may get into a situation like SKYNET, COLOSIS, etc.
Make damn sure it's in an unbreakable container. Accidents do happen, and you don't want MRSA to get loose on the ISS!
Wasn't long ago you were crying for water. Now you got it.
We have emergency tools with hammers, cutters and sharp point to break the older tempered glass, Now how will one break this new Gorilla glass? Or will one need an explosive to break it?
It might help if Google had an add-on to E-Mail and Google that specifically checked ALL software that entered the system for Crypto Bugs!
Put a string of password like alphabet soup in a routine. Then when that routine becomes ensconced in some other application it can still be searched for and noted for replacement of removal. It would only take about 128 bytes to clearly note application, programmer, usage, date, time, etc. It used to be a size issue but with todays Gigabyte memory size, that issue has diminished dramatically.
And how fast does anyone think the hackers will usurp the technology to FORCE the cars to crash?
This new process needs to be ABSOLUTELY secure otherwise the script kiddies in addition to all the other hackers will have a field day!
Do they have a Warrant Canary (https://canarywatch.org/) and if so where is it or why not?
Usually the family of a student is paying for the education. As such the family need to know how and what the student is doing. I know they may be over the "report to family age", but since this situation demands something real and hard be done, report any and all drinking, drugging and hospital events to the familys might go a long way with reigning in the abuse. Yes the educational institution need to take a hard stand on this and bring it under control. Make it part of the admission policy so all familys and students know what will happen when they drink or abuse drugs. Yeah the students may be over the age where they are considered adult and "on their own" but one needs to get real so report them to some agency that can put real pressure on the students, family or guardian.
Unless "direct detection" rather than "indirect detection" can be factually proven to get private information from TOR which is supposedly NOT available, and private information from "Virtual Private Networks" which again is NOT available then the case MUST be dismissed. All technology and software MUST be divulged. Not hidden nor private techniques. No one watching a network protected by TOR and/or VPN can determine who nor what is using said network.
Look up Warrant Canary and display one to ensure your activities and promotions are pure and not compromised. "Warrant canary" is a colloquial term for a regularly published statement that a service provider has not received legal process that it would be prohibited from saying it had received, such as a national security letter. - Canary Watch
I can hear them typing out the NSLs now!
In the USA this feature would be a guaranteed "NSA and all other TLAs" Local, County, State, and Federal police would mandate that they MUST be able to get it at ALL times. This is too good to be true. A Guaranteed locator! No more use of StingRay.
Isaac Asimov Three Laws of Robotics must be MANDATORY! Anything less and your'e just asking for trouble! The documentation for the device resides IN the device and is EASILY accessible to the user. I've seen way too many devices that require intricate complicated instructions that are no where to be found when something needs fixing or modifying. IE wrist watch time setting.
Put some code like "PG", "All", "Adult" on the site not age. There are too many disparate and country specific age issues all over the place. Age restricted in one country is perfectly permissible in another country. Use Codes not age.
If the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights are the supreme laws in this country then the WHOLE Judiciary needs to be re-educated in them. The Bill of rights as it's 1st item clearly states Freedom of Speech is an inalienable right. Unless there is some reinterpretation of "inalienable" that clearly indicates one's freedom to say ANYTHING can NOT be infringed, PERIOD, NSL are wothless! The real problem comes when one wants to get the Supreme Court to hear and rule on same.
One can guarantee if anyone attempts to secure or harden TOR or any other onion product enough to ensue the TLAs can't gain access they will be visited by some "Men in Black" with some NSLs to hand out. Never to be seen again! The TOR site need to have a Warrant canary "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary" specific to this situation, unless they already have been issued NSL or other mandates, then all bets are off, probably the latter! It's a shame the Gov. thinks it's the boss, the people are the boss, the constitution clearly says so! This is not for our own good, it's for the Gov. spying operations, and we already have way too much of that!