In the other hand, dismissing anything just because a screenwriter wrote around it (i.e. a small example) wrote it is beyond dumb. Heck, i could use most of Discworld novels as real life lessons.
When you weaponize computers everything could look as a disease. Running a trojan (or worse, removing a software that is a government trojan), receiving spam message, doing a "funny comment", or just someone else playing social engineering could put you in the enemy of the state list. The fake version of the disease is the one viral, not the disease per se (even if the government is trying very hard to have sick people to justify what they are doing)
In medical terms, what is being perpetrated is creating a new disease, forbidding doctors to make a vaccine, intentionally release in all the world, and asking foreigners to not bring that disease here, because we won't develop any cure even if we want because that cure could be used elsewhere.
The technological side is how people loses the big picture when something shiny is shown to them. Somewhat this what the most important thing in the world, instead what the government and the DOJ is perpetrating elsewhere.
That the big bully does it means that it is right now? We won't get targetted by drones if people from outside US does exactly what they are doing? This is a declaration of war against the world (their words, not mine). Whats next? Redoing pre-WWII discourse and taking invading countries where there are americans as something right?
Privacy are the bricks over what intellectual property is built, one of the things that US push in every international treaty, agreement, pact, embargo, boicott or whatever in the last 10-20 years at least. I say that something is mine and private, and will give the permission to others to have/use/know it under certain, defined conditions. Stripping everyone of privacy means no intellectual property too. Or we will keep making exceptions and say that you have right to have intellectual property if you are a big corporation lobbing the US government? The UN can agree that if the US pretend that we have no privacy, the rest of the world can pretend that they don't have intellectual property?
Would you accept in your project submissions with intentionally obfuscated code from a new collaborator? As I said, hard, at least compared with handled with a silver plate like it could happen with closed source, but not impossible.
In what it helps is in the case that the NSA (or related) intercepted your past, encrypted communications (as is doing for long now), then (maybe in a near future) decides that it worths to check what is there and use the private key to decrypt what is already stored, without being actively being MITM right now. With forward secrecy that should keep being secret.
Also, don't attribute to malice to what can be explained by idiocy. But we are talking about Microsoft here, probably was their idea to plant backdoors to settle with the DOJ.
No privacy (specially for foreigners, but is valid for most americans too) means that all the code that you shared privately, not for an open source project, but for a private one, in house or whatever, is gathered by them. And Microsoft/Apple could patent/copyright that code/algorithm/design/whatever before those authors could, banning them from using it. Thats how you steal intellectuall property, not doing non destructive copies. With that in the table, intellectual property lost their meaning, as you don't have the right to have any (because the government have the "right" over your privacy).
An open code (with reviewers on it) means that is at least hard that a backdoor sneaks in. In closed source software you must "trust" in the vendor to not include it (and this story is about a particular one, clearly not deserving any trust), as is even forbidden by law to reverse engineering software to see if it have backdoors or is spyware. in open source you have all the code, and more important, they have it too, they could check if there isnt backdoors from others too. They would be dumb if they are all attack and no defense.
Not the open source, but the closed source ones. You know, no privacy implies no meaning of intellectual property, they could steal private code, projects, ideas, songs, etc even before they get published, if ever, and give them to their protegees (i.e. Microsoft) so they can patent, copyright, trademark or whatever the work of others, and effectively steal (as opposed of making a non destructive copy) intellectual property, as the original author won't be able to use it ever. That it comes from the main pusher of international intellectual property laws and treaties makes it worse.
You should consider NSA/FISA by now as mobsters, and what they sell is "protection", specially from the law. And considering how much Microsoft has been protected from the law in the last 20-30 years, i'd say that their cooperation with US intelligence agencies goes back to the last century.
Backdoors? Want one in the very place where you hold all your critical data? Even if they have good will (we are speaking about Oracle, so no hope on that) the government could eventually ask them to add some "extra functionality".
With a fixed, weak master password that is not adviced in the documentation nor requested to changed to a safe one on install/configuration? That is a plain backdoor. That they managed to built security on it to enable you to control what authenticated users can see or do only make it worse, is not that they don't know how to authenticate users or have secure passwords. Not only they sold you a backdoor, but also show how idiot they think you are.
Those laws are for people that does things against the government/corporations, not for corporations doing it for the government. Having backdoor will be the new normal, at least if people keeps buying from them.
And don't think the "consequences" will include removing them, the fix will only just put them more hidden, or reinstall them with the next update.
Or provide open drivers (and the photo app) so could be ported to be installed there Android, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish or whatever OS the end buyer prefer. Is pretty bad how localizable i am carrying a cellphone, but giving away all my data makes it some orders worse.
Let the blackmailing games begin. Snooping all the information means that any people with access to that (and that means at least 5 millon) can use them for blackmailing anyone, foreigners and americans, from the lowest employee to Obama (as point the video). Give them enough power, and they will have power over you. Any chain is weak as if even the strong links can be blackmailed.
You are right, who knows how much Google Glass could eventually hurt our privacy if it ever get popular, better forget how Microsoft is widely doing it now.
Kermit would had been better. If must be a puppet in that position, is better if look as one. Actively voting for no candidate was the option, very few took it.
Would be interesting if other countries modify slightly their laws, putting into all the forbidding things (i.e. not kill, steal, rape, whatever) the "unless is done to an american" exception, so when its that case have no punishment. More or less this is what is doing US.
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In the other hand, dismissing anything just because a screenwriter wrote around it (i.e. a small example) wrote it is beyond dumb. Heck, i could use most of Discworld novels as real life lessons.
They aren't using the FAT filesystem anymore and still blackmail android vendors because they "own" it.
Look at the brigth side. Maybe thanks to that, in some millons years could evolve intelligence in this planet at last.
They would trade mutated virus strains (specially the successful ones) without worrying about an incoming pandemy.
When you weaponize computers everything could look as a disease. Running a trojan (or worse, removing a software that is a government trojan), receiving spam message, doing a "funny comment", or just someone else playing social engineering could put you in the enemy of the state list. The fake version of the disease is the one viral, not the disease per se (even if the government is trying very hard to have sick people to justify what they are doing)
In medical terms, what is being perpetrated is creating a new disease, forbidding doctors to make a vaccine, intentionally release in all the world, and asking foreigners to not bring that disease here, because we won't develop any cure even if we want because that cure could be used elsewhere.
The technological side is how people loses the big picture when something shiny is shown to them. Somewhat this what the most important thing in the world, instead what the government and the DOJ is perpetrating elsewhere.
Instead of "firing by messenger" should had been "shooting the messenger"
is paved with exceptions to our rights.
That the big bully does it means that it is right now? We won't get targetted by drones if people from outside US does exactly what they are doing? This is a declaration of war against the world (their words, not mine). Whats next? Redoing pre-WWII discourse and taking invading countries where there are americans as something right?
Privacy are the bricks over what intellectual property is built, one of the things that US push in every international treaty, agreement, pact, embargo, boicott or whatever in the last 10-20 years at least. I say that something is mine and private, and will give the permission to others to have/use/know it under certain, defined conditions. Stripping everyone of privacy means no intellectual property too. Or we will keep making exceptions and say that you have right to have intellectual property if you are a big corporation lobbing the US government? The UN can agree that if the US pretend that we have no privacy, the rest of the world can pretend that they don't have intellectual property?
Would you accept in your project submissions with intentionally obfuscated code from a new collaborator? As I said, hard, at least compared with handled with a silver plate like it could happen with closed source, but not impossible.
In what it helps is in the case that the NSA (or related) intercepted your past, encrypted communications (as is doing for long now), then (maybe in a near future) decides that it worths to check what is there and use the private key to decrypt what is already stored, without being actively being MITM right now. With forward secrecy that should keep being secret.
Also, don't attribute to malice to what can be explained by idiocy. But we are talking about Microsoft here, probably was their idea to plant backdoors to settle with the DOJ.
No privacy (specially for foreigners, but is valid for most americans too) means that all the code that you shared privately, not for an open source project, but for a private one, in house or whatever, is gathered by them. And Microsoft/Apple could patent/copyright that code/algorithm/design/whatever before those authors could, banning them from using it. Thats how you steal intellectuall property, not doing non destructive copies. With that in the table, intellectual property lost their meaning, as you don't have the right to have any (because the government have the "right" over your privacy).
An open code (with reviewers on it) means that is at least hard that a backdoor sneaks in. In closed source software you must "trust" in the vendor to not include it (and this story is about a particular one, clearly not deserving any trust), as is even forbidden by law to reverse engineering software to see if it have backdoors or is spyware. in open source you have all the code, and more important, they have it too, they could check if there isnt backdoors from others too. They would be dumb if they are all attack and no defense.
Not the open source, but the closed source ones. You know, no privacy implies no meaning of intellectual property, they could steal private code, projects, ideas, songs, etc even before they get published, if ever, and give them to their protegees (i.e. Microsoft) so they can patent, copyright, trademark or whatever the work of others, and effectively steal (as opposed of making a non destructive copy) intellectual property, as the original author won't be able to use it ever. That it comes from the main pusher of international intellectual property laws and treaties makes it worse.
Then it should be called NSAR = Nation of Secure American Rulers. Because the (true) rulers of America are the ones safe with them.
You should consider NSA/FISA by now as mobsters, and what they sell is "protection", specially from the law. And considering how much Microsoft has been protected from the law in the last 20-30 years, i'd say that their cooperation with US intelligence agencies goes back to the last century.
You can use SSL certificates with perfect forward secrecy. If well is not that perfect, is an improvement.
Backdoors? Want one in the very place where you hold all your critical data? Even if they have good will (we are speaking about Oracle, so no hope on that) the government could eventually ask them to add some "extra functionality".
With a fixed, weak master password that is not adviced in the documentation nor requested to changed to a safe one on install/configuration? That is a plain backdoor. That they managed to built security on it to enable you to control what authenticated users can see or do only make it worse, is not that they don't know how to authenticate users or have secure passwords. Not only they sold you a backdoor, but also show how idiot they think you are.
Those laws are for people that does things against the government/corporations, not for corporations doing it for the government. Having backdoor will be the new normal, at least if people keeps buying from them.
And don't think the "consequences" will include removing them, the fix will only just put them more hidden, or reinstall them with the next update.
Or provide open drivers (and the photo app) so could be ported to be installed there Android, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish or whatever OS the end buyer prefer. Is pretty bad how localizable i am carrying a cellphone, but giving away all my data makes it some orders worse.
Let the blackmailing games begin. Snooping all the information means that any people with access to that (and that means at least 5 millon) can use them for blackmailing anyone, foreigners and americans, from the lowest employee to Obama (as point the video). Give them enough power, and they will have power over you. Any chain is weak as if even the strong links can be blackmailed.
You are right, who knows how much Google Glass could eventually hurt our privacy if it ever get popular, better forget how Microsoft is widely doing it now.
Kermit would had been better. If must be a puppet in that position, is better if look as one. Actively voting for no candidate was the option, very few took it.
Would be interesting if other countries modify slightly their laws, putting into all the forbidding things (i.e. not kill, steal, rape, whatever) the "unless is done to an american" exception, so when its that case have no punishment. More or less this is what is doing US.