There's a difference between email, where there is NO reasonable expectation of privacy, and your proposed scenario of putting a webcam in my bathroom. Of course, my question to that is "How much am I going to be paid?" Let's be honest - people have accidentally waliked on on someone else who's using the throne already, and it's the intruder who's embarrassed.
Thanks. I haven't got a clue myself, so I'm going to err on the side of caution. Then again, my life is an open book, so if the government wants to rummage around in it, I really don't care. After all, everyone knows that Google does it, Facebook does it, Twitter does it, and who knows how many others?
At least with the government, they're not doing it to make a buck by selling ME to others (which is basically what happens when you are the product).
Kitkat is NOT a patch. It's also something that most of the millions of people who are affected can install. Please, stop defending the undefendable. The Android system is now even more fractured than linux.
With the way the world is today, you'd better be ready to respond in 2 weeks or less with no planning, because new situations with new protagonists can crop up in less than that.
Will the EFF be the ones who apologize to the families of those killed by attacks that could have been stopped?
Where are these unicorns? Has there ever been a single verifiable case of this?
I don't know about elsewhere, but here in Kanuckistan the RCMP has been working, with the cooperation of the muslim community, to deradicalize people, with some success.
Ah, but do you really trust Kim DotCom? For all anyone knows, this could be part of a backdoor deal to put in back doors he's hoping to sell to the government in return for having the charges dismissed on a technicality. His motivation is $$$, not principle.
So you wouldn't mind giving me the password to all your email accounts
Go right ahead. There is literally almost nothing to see there - and Google has already seen it.
Just like Facebook has already seen the private messages people send each other.
Remember - three people can keep a secret only if two of them are dead. Sharing anything with anyone puts it out there - people learn in grade school that even kids like to gossip about each other.
It used to be that people could be shamed about stuff in their private lives. Today, not so much. A politician is gay or lesbian? So? An alcoholic? So? A crackhead (Rob Ford, I'm looking at you)? So? Cheats on his wife (Bill Clinton comes to mind)? So? Is being treated for a mental illness? So? Had an abortion? So? Nobody gives a damn.
The more open we are as a society, the healthier we are. There was a time that victims of rape hid in shame. That LGBT lived in fear of being outed, and thrown in jail (Turing). That someone with a mental illness was seen as "mental" and not "ill". That teenagers who had kids were "sent away."
Most of us have evolved. We see honor killings as seriously f'd up and totally dishonerable. We see female circumcision of children as mutilation and abuse. And we also understand that the best way to remove the stigma of a problem is to talk about it openly.
TL;DR: Unless you're a hermit, privacy is and always has been a convenient social illusion with an ugly unhealthy dark side.
Microsoft lets you install patches for their previous OSes. Google has said they won't even bother making a patch - you have to upgrade. For most users, that's not going to happen.
Why? They say that they haven't got the resources. Of course they don't - only about 10% - 12% of their employees are engineers, and many of those are involved in the ad side of things. Google works for advertisers, not users. Both Apple and Microsoft know that pissing off users has a direct effect on their bottom line. Google? Not so much, eh?
"Choice is good." And seeing as we'll never get to the year of the linux desktop, choice is also essential. If anything, the linux side has too many choices, making it as fragmented as Android, where you can't even get bug fixes in a timely manner.
They actually did scout out the lay of the land, so it wasn't just a thought experiment. The age of empire is done. If we don't learn to cooperate better, we're all toast.
Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, said his members had concerns as well. 'I can think of 100 ways that it could present an officer-safety issue,' Pasco said. 'There's no control over who uses it. So, if you're a criminal and you want to rob a bank, hypothetically, you use your Waze.'"
If bank robbers only rob banks far away from where the cops are, and are gone by the time the cops get there, doesn't that LOWER the chances of an armed confrontation? Just saying...
Phones used to last 5-6 years. The worst you had to do was change the battery after 3 years. Now it's OMG you need to buy a new phone every year. PCs still (mostly) last more than half a decade, and are supported for longer - and they frequently cost less, not more, than the latest hotness from a smartphone vendor.
It's not a problem with the kernel or any part of the software-hardware interface - it's a bug in the browser component, which is purely software. They could patch it for everyone if they wanted.
And yet if Canada were to send military personnel dressed in civilian clothes to "scout out" locations (as the USA did under Plan Red), those military personnel would be spies and liable to be executed.
The United States declared war on June 18, 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions brought about by the British war with France, the impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support of Indian tribes against American expansion, outrage over insults to national honor after humiliations on the high seas, and possible American interest in annexing British territory in modern-day Canada.
With the majority of its land and naval forces tied down in Europe fighting the Napoleonic Wars, the British used a defensive strategy in the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, repelling initial American invasions.
Declaring war and invading is NOT the same as planning to invade and annex an ally.
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when I saw the word hack I thought the goal of tournament was to break into a game server and steal in-game money and items or fake personal details.
You're thinking of the media definition - the proper word for that is a "cracker", not a hacker.
This was an educational experience, and the games are free.
Try me. After I was outed, I made a conscious decision not to have any more secrets. It's a huge relief.
So I guess my way, where I have no secrets, has pretty much immunized me from that concern :-)
There's a difference between email, where there is NO reasonable expectation of privacy, and your proposed scenario of putting a webcam in my bathroom. Of course, my question to that is "How much am I going to be paid?" Let's be honest - people have accidentally waliked on on someone else who's using the throne already, and it's the intruder who's embarrassed.
Hey, maybe he can game the system to buy the time necessary to fix things?
This is akin to saying, "go ahead, put public webcams in ALL bathrooms". You are truly a fucking moron when logic and awareness meet up.
Comparing Google or the government reading my email to a peeping tom with a webcam is kind of stupid, don't you think?
Thanks. I haven't got a clue myself, so I'm going to err on the side of caution. Then again, my life is an open book, so if the government wants to rummage around in it, I really don't care. After all, everyone knows that Google does it, Facebook does it, Twitter does it, and who knows how many others?
At least with the government, they're not doing it to make a buck by selling ME to others (which is basically what happens when you are the product).
Kitkat is NOT a patch. It's also something that most of the millions of people who are affected can install. Please, stop defending the undefendable. The Android system is now even more fractured than linux.
My sig is still there. You just need to be logged in to see it, same as always, silly goose :-)
With the way the world is today, you'd better be ready to respond in 2 weeks or less with no planning, because new situations with new protagonists can crop up in less than that.
see drunken pictures from USask? Or to know that you're bipolar?
We all have stuff we're embarrassed by.
Really? Times have changed. There's no reason to be ashamed of either of those things.
Will the EFF be the ones who apologize to the families of those killed by attacks that could have been stopped?
Where are these unicorns? Has there ever been a single verifiable case of this?
I don't know about elsewhere, but here in Kanuckistan the RCMP has been working, with the cooperation of the muslim community, to deradicalize people, with some success.
Ah, but do you really trust Kim DotCom? For all anyone knows, this could be part of a backdoor deal to put in back doors he's hoping to sell to the government in return for having the charges dismissed on a technicality. His motivation is $$$, not principle.
So you wouldn't mind giving me the password to all your email accounts
Go right ahead. There is literally almost nothing to see there - and Google has already seen it.
Just like Facebook has already seen the private messages people send each other.
Remember - three people can keep a secret only if two of them are dead. Sharing anything with anyone puts it out there - people learn in grade school that even kids like to gossip about each other.
It used to be that people could be shamed about stuff in their private lives. Today, not so much. A politician is gay or lesbian? So? An alcoholic? So? A crackhead (Rob Ford, I'm looking at you)? So? Cheats on his wife (Bill Clinton comes to mind)? So? Is being treated for a mental illness? So? Had an abortion? So? Nobody gives a damn.
The more open we are as a society, the healthier we are. There was a time that victims of rape hid in shame. That LGBT lived in fear of being outed, and thrown in jail (Turing). That someone with a mental illness was seen as "mental" and not "ill". That teenagers who had kids were "sent away."
Most of us have evolved. We see honor killings as seriously f'd up and totally dishonerable. We see female circumcision of children as mutilation and abuse. And we also understand that the best way to remove the stigma of a problem is to talk about it openly.
TL;DR: Unless you're a hermit, privacy is and always has been a convenient social illusion with an ugly unhealthy dark side.
Microsoft lets you install patches for their previous OSes. Google has said they won't even bother making a patch - you have to upgrade. For most users, that's not going to happen.
Why? They say that they haven't got the resources. Of course they don't - only about 10% - 12% of their employees are engineers, and many of those are involved in the ad side of things. Google works for advertisers, not users. Both Apple and Microsoft know that pissing off users has a direct effect on their bottom line. Google? Not so much, eh?
I guess free isn't that free after all.
First, are you going to put a cop on every corner? No. So you're not detering the robbery, just shifting the location.
Second, most crooks are STUPID. They leave clues. Every crook in jail didn't think he'd get caught. Even the ones who dropped their wallets.
"Choice is good." And seeing as we'll never get to the year of the linux desktop, choice is also essential. If anything, the linux side has too many choices, making it as fragmented as Android, where you can't even get bug fixes in a timely manner.
They actually did scout out the lay of the land, so it wasn't just a thought experiment. The age of empire is done. If we don't learn to cooperate better, we're all toast.
Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, said his members had concerns as well. 'I can think of 100 ways that it could present an officer-safety issue,' Pasco said. 'There's no control over who uses it. So, if you're a criminal and you want to rob a bank, hypothetically, you use your Waze.'"
If bank robbers only rob banks far away from where the cops are, and are gone by the time the cops get there, doesn't that LOWER the chances of an armed confrontation? Just saying ...
it's as if they don't have experience with OS design/coding, contrary to the other companies!
They should have lots of experience, since they regularly abandon projects when they write newer projects.
Phones used to last 5-6 years. The worst you had to do was change the battery after 3 years. Now it's OMG you need to buy a new phone every year. PCs still (mostly) last more than half a decade, and are supported for longer - and they frequently cost less, not more, than the latest hotness from a smartphone vendor.
It's not a problem with the kernel or any part of the software-hardware interface - it's a bug in the browser component, which is purely software. They could patch it for everyone if they wanted.
And yet if Canada were to send military personnel dressed in civilian clothes to "scout out" locations (as the USA did under Plan Red), those military personnel would be spies and liable to be executed.
The United States declared war on June 18, 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions brought about by the British war with France, the impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support of Indian tribes against American expansion, outrage over insults to national honor after humiliations on the high seas, and possible American interest in annexing British territory in modern-day Canada.
With the majority of its land and naval forces tied down in Europe fighting the Napoleonic Wars, the British used a defensive strategy in the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, repelling initial American invasions.
Declaring war and invading is NOT the same as planning to invade and annex an ally.