Must be the reason why they spied on Petrobras oil firm. The reason everyone lost their privacy and the trust on internet as a whole is in part that some US oil corporations wanted to steal information on where are oil reserves to other foreing oil companies.
They must spy on their citizens because between US cyber efforts there is a big (foreign) social engineering component, or at the very least there is a big perception on that. Rebels start with the right push to the right people, is the perfect environment to push later a puppet or a trojan horse in the government.
Something in the Google's end decrypts the information to send it to you, is not like they send you an encrypted file and you manually decrypts it with pgp (you can store there only pgp encrypted files, but for that don't matter if google encrypts or not). So if ordered, they can do the decryption without user intervention, or even send it to the NSA at the same time they send it to you. They are still in US, still have to follow its (secret) laws, still have to give anything to the NSA if they ask, no matter if how theoretially perfect encryption scheme they use. Thats the problem with secrecy and being ordered to not tell or directly lie, there is no possible trust ever unless you get outside those laws.
The problem is that no matter how good intentions you are willing to attribute to the Google company (or that they really have), how good is that encryption, they are under US law, they must follow their (secret laws) orders, and don't tell us that they are following them. In practice, from the outside, is almost as bad as i.e. Microsoft, you can only trust in what they release in fully open source form (Chromium, android AOSP), but not web services or binary programs like Chrome. Adding a level of encryption more a placebo than something that does a real difference.
Want to recover lost market? Move to other country, one outside US and snooping allies laws. That will do more on giving the impression that you care about your users privacy than adding encryption in a place where you have the give the unencrypted content anyway.
The ones that handle the puppet are the same. There is no worse, just kept their original agendas running over 2 different president, and now people start to realize what they have been doing all this time in front of their eyes.
CyanogenMod replaces the bundled Android OS with the published open source version (still could remain the closed source binary drivers, phone BIOS and so on). F-Droid gives you a replacement market with open source software. And there are a bunch of good android (and other platforms) security programs and open source alternatives here.
Also in some point, for some models, will be released Ubuntu Touch, and maybe you can install on your phone Firefox OS too. Those uses android's boot (open source code, but not sure about device drivers), but what runs over there is afaik fully open source.
You don't choose the candidates unless you are called Lester. Explicitely not voting the main parties (voting third parties, voting for no candidate where you can do it, not sure if can get there the pirate or green parties) is something you can do. Not going to vote or buying the don't throw your vote message picking one of the 2 main parties (that are anyway controlled by the same people, and have essentially the same agenda) is not doing something against it . Believing their promises that "this time we will change" (Obama main selling point was "change" after all, and you know how that resulted) won't help neither.
Maybe you won't make any difference, even if most people try to follow this, but at least will become even more evident that US is not a democracy.
What about supporting the ones trying to do something about it? Raising awareness on the clueless majority of US population (and correcting the one with the wrong clues, like i.e. the ones that buys the shoot the messenger mantra) could help too, you have a voice, use it.
There had been some reprisals, the EFF sued, requested information, tried to keep public informed. That won't mean that law or the wrongly called Department of Justice will do anything regarding it, or that the information that is requested would be just a bunch of lies (if they lies to the congress, and get promoted after that gets found, then they can lie on everyone).
Also there had been some diplomatic consequences, Germany, Brazil and other countries complained and had some diplomatic answers that if they had an IQ higher than 50 should had discarded as plain lies. And a lot of countries and companies are getting off the cloud and US based servers.
And last but not least, open source is getting a stronger push to become the preferred software used in a lot of countries. If them put some people to audit what is already there, and monitor changes to prevent infiltrations it is a better bet than using the known for sure to have NSA backdoors commercial alternatives.
The worst part of the no trust is that they can't even know if the data they are collecting from is being misused. Not just they are lowering on pourpose your security (weakening crypto, planting backdoors, etc), and syphoning everyone's private information, but is already proved (to the public, with Snowden) that they don't know who access their information and how is or will be using it.
So if tomorrow your bank account shows a pretty rounded zero because the backdoors NSA planted on you was used by one of the employees of one of the companies the NSA hires (he just sold in the black market that backdoor information and someone else did it), don't be sad, the country must be defended from the terrorists.
With those hard numbers the remaining thing to see in this discussion is how many people is paid for Koch industries and similar ones, and how many got fooled by them into denying that human activity are causing changes in global climate strong enough to be responsible for the consequences of some of the extreme weather we suffered in recent years.
Worse than that, upper (and middle, and even lower) management orders you to do things that goes against security, like opening access to the intranet from the whole internet so they can access it from anywhere they are, asking full access for their portables, no matter what they have installed or where they use it, transfering remote access passwords by unencrypted mail, and of course, their phones. And any recommendation to do any of this a bit more secure get scrapped because they are "complicated".
Also, sometimes they can't get why something related to security is important, they have their own ideas, opinions, and biases. After several times explaining how something security related is important and essential and the other side don't want to hear, don't understand, don't think is necessary, or orders you to do instead something that don't solve the core problem, you just give up on that.
They already intentionally lied to the congress and suffered no consequences even after that was found out. What are the odds of what they show is the real full documents or just a redacted, partial, totally false or even a bunch of pages filled with loren ipsum? They already proved that deserve no trust and that don't care at all about it.
US is actually in war with everyone, specially in the cyber realm. They have (or think their have) the upper hand and then is happily going against all the world, not just spying, but infiltrating, planting backdoors, sabotaging, and other activities that in their own opinion deserves decades in jail if is done by civilians. They aren't doing this for preserving the peace, protecting their citizens or attack terrorists, they are doing it because they want war, they profit from it, and they think they can win it, no matter the cost in lives.
They are trying to legalize the war in Syria (that probably they or their associates are instingating) , so they can define hacking as something similar to weapon of mass destruction, and justify intervention in even more countries.
Ballmer will still be in charge, and this time will be real the "betting the company" on this one. Could be the final push for a company at the edge of the abyss.
Is not about in particular english or german (in fact, most germanic languages should fit, english is one exception), nor a particular country (maybe his TED talk clears a bit some of the concepts, in countries where there are several languages but the same culture have that differences between the speakers of each language), is about a language feature, and how basis in the language change how you see and understand the world. In mandarin chinese you don't go forward and backward in time, but up and down, for some australian language you don't have your subjective left/right/forward/back, but absolute north/south/east/west (and time goes east to west, as the sun). And that change of view implies changes on attitudes, behaviour or even abilities (like better caring about the future or ever knowing where are the cardinal points, unless you go to tricky test situations). And english, spanish or others could have some features that put them over others that as we see them as natural we can't notice them.
Anyway, even if those things are nice, i don't believe that they will ever be adopted into languages that have its own way to do those things. If we want that way to see things to be adopted into our culture, it must be introduced in another way.
In general complex memes like language (and religion and so on) adapt and evolve. But the main problem in the gp argumentation is the "becoming perfect", there is no perfection in evolution, just better fit for a particular environment (that could change with time). Anyway cultural barriers usually deny adoptions of better language features (i.e. German speakers are better saving money) because tradition, national pride, or whatever.
Like dolphins and sharks (that are around far before mammals), that have a somewhat similar shape? More than having the best shape for a function, having also DNA for genetic code and probably similar decoding engine could explain matches even there.
For something that could be attached to my wrist most of the time i would expect that it would check me (i.e. pulse, blood pressure, temperature, etc). And of course, have longer battery life. Qualcomm's Toq smartwatch have at least better battery life and can be read at sunlight, or something with more sensors like Whithing's Pulse (that is not a smartwatch, yet).
Anyway, it could be a hint for things to come, more devices that uses the computer power of our phones (or at least, devices that we carry with us but hidden, or in a pocket, or whatever) and via bluetooth or similar have satellite devices around us.
The term you are looking for is plutocracy. And the rich are already using technology to kills everyone else or at least will make life everywhere even more miserable, just after they die, climate change and its consequences, non renewable resource exhaustion like oil (not just is useful for burning it, and will be out for everyone, forever, in few decades/centuries), global social distress, and probably biological weapons that will be used this decade or next one, to name a few. A lot of trends are all of them ticking bombs, and a lot of the 1% are just abusing everything to make sure the world ends after them.
Eventually, people will understand that to avoid risks originating from the poorest countries, the final solution is to just eradicate those countries. After all, we don't want them for their population but for their resources. Instead of killing a few and putting a government that follows our orders, eventually we'll be capable (both technologically and socially) to just exterminate everyone in a country and replace them with resource extraction machines.
You don't need to exterminate, the resource extraction machines are already everywhere, you just need to convince them to give their resources and work to you, giving fake money in exchange.
Also in 10 or 20 years that could be as outdated as the ENIAC. Not sure about viruses, but at least bacterias had been very successful developing antibiotic resistance, specially with the abuse we are doing with antibiotics and antibacterials agents. And new findings will lead to more ways to protect yourself (and knowing economics, will be sold as much as possible, leading to abuses), and so more ways to adapt around those protections.
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You are right. Everyone knows that the brazilian government trains terrorist at their oil companies headquarters.
Must be the reason why they spied on Petrobras oil firm. The reason everyone lost their privacy and the trust on internet as a whole is in part that some US oil corporations wanted to steal information on where are oil reserves to other foreing oil companies.
They must spy on their citizens because between US cyber efforts there is a big (foreign) social engineering component, or at the very least there is a big perception on that. Rebels start with the right push to the right people, is the perfect environment to push later a puppet or a trojan horse in the government.
Something in the Google's end decrypts the information to send it to you, is not like they send you an encrypted file and you manually decrypts it with pgp (you can store there only pgp encrypted files, but for that don't matter if google encrypts or not). So if ordered, they can do the decryption without user intervention, or even send it to the NSA at the same time they send it to you. They are still in US, still have to follow its (secret) laws, still have to give anything to the NSA if they ask, no matter if how theoretially perfect encryption scheme they use. Thats the problem with secrecy and being ordered to not tell or directly lie, there is no possible trust ever unless you get outside those laws.
The problem is that no matter how good intentions you are willing to attribute to the Google company (or that they really have), how good is that encryption, they are under US law, they must follow their (secret laws) orders, and don't tell us that they are following them. In practice, from the outside, is almost as bad as i.e. Microsoft, you can only trust in what they release in fully open source form (Chromium, android AOSP), but not web services or binary programs like Chrome. Adding a level of encryption more a placebo than something that does a real difference.
Want to recover lost market? Move to other country, one outside US and snooping allies laws. That will do more on giving the impression that you care about your users privacy than adding encryption in a place where you have the give the unencrypted content anyway.
The ones that handle the puppet are the same. There is no worse, just kept their original agendas running over 2 different president, and now people start to realize what they have been doing all this time in front of their eyes.
Also in some point, for some models, will be released Ubuntu Touch, and maybe you can install on your phone Firefox OS too. Those uses android's boot (open source code, but not sure about device drivers), but what runs over there is afaik fully open source.
You don't choose the candidates unless you are called Lester. Explicitely not voting the main parties (voting third parties, voting for no candidate where you can do it, not sure if can get there the pirate or green parties) is something you can do. Not going to vote or buying the don't throw your vote message picking one of the 2 main parties (that are anyway controlled by the same people, and have essentially the same agenda) is not doing something against it . Believing their promises that "this time we will change" (Obama main selling point was "change" after all, and you know how that resulted) won't help neither.
Maybe you won't make any difference, even if most people try to follow this, but at least will become even more evident that US is not a democracy.
What about supporting the ones trying to do something about it? Raising awareness on the clueless majority of US population (and correcting the one with the wrong clues, like i.e. the ones that buys the shoot the messenger mantra) could help too, you have a voice, use it.
There had been some reprisals, the EFF sued, requested information, tried to keep public informed. That won't mean that law or the wrongly called Department of Justice will do anything regarding it, or that the information that is requested would be just a bunch of lies (if they lies to the congress, and get promoted after that gets found, then they can lie on everyone).
Also there had been some diplomatic consequences, Germany, Brazil and other countries complained and had some diplomatic answers that if they had an IQ higher than 50 should had discarded as plain lies. And a lot of countries and companies are getting off the cloud and US based servers.
And last but not least, open source is getting a stronger push to become the preferred software used in a lot of countries. If them put some people to audit what is already there, and monitor changes to prevent infiltrations it is a better bet than using the known for sure to have NSA backdoors commercial alternatives.
The worst part of the no trust is that they can't even know if the data they are collecting from is being misused. Not just they are lowering on pourpose your security (weakening crypto, planting backdoors, etc), and syphoning everyone's private information, but is already proved (to the public, with Snowden) that they don't know who access their information and how is or will be using it.
So if tomorrow your bank account shows a pretty rounded zero because the backdoors NSA planted on you was used by one of the employees of one of the companies the NSA hires (he just sold in the black market that backdoor information and someone else did it), don't be sad, the country must be defended from the terrorists.
You are part of the cattle (and get years or decades of jail for things that are crimes, affects noone or make your rights prevail), or you are above the law, getting more money and support if you violate constitution amendments, get promoted if found that you intentionally lied to the congress, or get a small fine if is found that you you knowingly launder money for terrorist and drug cartels.
There are countries where law and justice seem to be antonyms.
With those hard numbers the remaining thing to see in this discussion is how many people is paid for Koch industries and similar ones, and how many got fooled by them into denying that human activity are causing changes in global climate strong enough to be responsible for the consequences of some of the extreme weather we suffered in recent years.
Worse than that, upper (and middle, and even lower) management orders you to do things that goes against security, like opening access to the intranet from the whole internet so they can access it from anywhere they are, asking full access for their portables, no matter what they have installed or where they use it, transfering remote access passwords by unencrypted mail, and of course, their phones. And any recommendation to do any of this a bit more secure get scrapped because they are "complicated".
Also, sometimes they can't get why something related to security is important, they have their own ideas, opinions, and biases. After several times explaining how something security related is important and essential and the other side don't want to hear, don't understand, don't think is necessary, or orders you to do instead something that don't solve the core problem, you just give up on that.
They already intentionally lied to the congress and suffered no consequences even after that was found out. What are the odds of what they show is the real full documents or just a redacted, partial, totally false or even a bunch of pages filled with loren ipsum? They already proved that deserve no trust and that don't care at all about it.
US is actually in war with everyone, specially in the cyber realm. They have (or think their have) the upper hand and then is happily going against all the world, not just spying, but infiltrating, planting backdoors, sabotaging, and other activities that in their own opinion deserves decades in jail if is done by civilians. They aren't doing this for preserving the peace, protecting their citizens or attack terrorists, they are doing it because they want war, they profit from it, and they think they can win it, no matter the cost in lives.
They are trying to legalize the war in Syria (that probably they or their associates are instingating) , so they can define hacking as something similar to weapon of mass destruction, and justify intervention in even more countries.
Ballmer will still be in charge, and this time will be real the "betting the company" on this one. Could be the final push for a company at the edge of the abyss.
Is not about in particular english or german (in fact, most germanic languages should fit, english is one exception), nor a particular country (maybe his TED talk clears a bit some of the concepts, in countries where there are several languages but the same culture have that differences between the speakers of each language), is about a language feature, and how basis in the language change how you see and understand the world. In mandarin chinese you don't go forward and backward in time, but up and down, for some australian language you don't have your subjective left/right/forward/back, but absolute north/south/east/west (and time goes east to west, as the sun). And that change of view implies changes on attitudes, behaviour or even abilities (like better caring about the future or ever knowing where are the cardinal points, unless you go to tricky test situations). And english, spanish or others could have some features that put them over others that as we see them as natural we can't notice them.
Anyway, even if those things are nice, i don't believe that they will ever be adopted into languages that have its own way to do those things. If we want that way to see things to be adopted into our culture, it must be introduced in another way.
Not of the language by itself, but for the effect on how you see the world or your attitude in certain situations, check the link in my post.
In general complex memes like language (and religion and so on) adapt and evolve. But the main problem in the gp argumentation is the "becoming perfect", there is no perfection in evolution, just better fit for a particular environment (that could change with time). Anyway cultural barriers usually deny adoptions of better language features (i.e. German speakers are better saving money) because tradition, national pride, or whatever.
Like dolphins and sharks (that are around far before mammals), that have a somewhat similar shape? More than having the best shape for a function, having also DNA for genetic code and probably similar decoding engine could explain matches even there.
For something that could be attached to my wrist most of the time i would expect that it would check me (i.e. pulse, blood pressure, temperature, etc). And of course, have longer battery life. Qualcomm's Toq smartwatch have at least better battery life and can be read at sunlight, or something with more sensors like Whithing's Pulse (that is not a smartwatch, yet).
Anyway, it could be a hint for things to come, more devices that uses the computer power of our phones (or at least, devices that we carry with us but hidden, or in a pocket, or whatever) and via bluetooth or similar have satellite devices around us.
The term you are looking for is plutocracy. And the rich are already using technology to kills everyone else or at least will make life everywhere even more miserable, just after they die, climate change and its consequences, non renewable resource exhaustion like oil (not just is useful for burning it, and will be out for everyone, forever, in few decades/centuries), global social distress, and probably biological weapons that will be used this decade or next one, to name a few. A lot of trends are all of them ticking bombs, and a lot of the 1% are just abusing everything to make sure the world ends after them.
Eventually, people will understand that to avoid risks originating from the poorest countries, the final solution is to just eradicate those countries. After all, we don't want them for their population but for their resources. Instead of killing a few and putting a government that follows our orders, eventually we'll be capable (both technologically and socially) to just exterminate everyone in a country and replace them with resource extraction machines.
You don't need to exterminate, the resource extraction machines are already everywhere, you just need to convince them to give their resources and work to you, giving fake money in exchange.
Also in 10 or 20 years that could be as outdated as the ENIAC. Not sure about viruses, but at least bacterias had been very successful developing antibiotic resistance, specially with the abuse we are doing with antibiotics and antibacterials agents. And new findings will lead to more ways to protect yourself (and knowing economics, will be sold as much as possible, leading to abuses), and so more ways to adapt around those protections.