A backdoor/vulnerability/weakness that the government can exploit is one that a bad actor can exploit. Digital data of many sorts *requires* integrity and confidentiality. To allow an opening for surveillance is to allow an opening for hackers. It is simply not tenable to the economic functioning of the planet to allow communications and storage that are other than secure.
Can you think of any good targets? Religious radicals with a...vehemently...nostalgic enthusiasm for an imaginary medieval ideal tend not to be on the cutting edge of technology and culture production.
You're right. I'm sure these Luddites DDos'd and hacked into websites and social media accounts using their complete technological ignorance.
I'm sure terrorist organizations that have savvy social media recruiting operations globally and use encryption and steganography to avoid surveillance have no technical assets or operatives or data centers.
I'm sure their global funding networks with ties to certain Middle East governments have no vulnerabilities to destructive and/or doxxing attacks.
I'm sure complex hierarchical organizations such as Al Queda and ISIS that have far-reaching command-and-control structures use no technology and have no attack surface.
It seems to me a super simple, effective, and more complete solution would just be to make the police pay court costs plus penalties when they are sued for recovery of seized assets and lose. This would create an incentive for lawyers to take cases on a deferred compensation basis and rectify the current situation where only people who already have significant economic means can afford to fight back against improper and unjust seizure. Human behavior is driven by incentives; setup the correct incentive structure and this problem goes away overnight!
On the other side of filtering, after the Snowden revelations, I've definitely written mundane personal email messages that tangentially mentioned certain keywords that genuinely made me think twice before hitting send so as to avoid ending up on a watch list. False positives are an equal problem.
Although not strictly related, makes me remember blind people like Daniel Kish who can use echolocation to do things like ride a bicycle by making clicking noises with his mouth and perceiving the three-dimensional structure of the world around him from the refracted sound waves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Pretty impressive, and, even as a sighted person, I find this idea interesting for seeing in the dark.
Quick! Tell California to stop the groundbreaking on their $60B high speed rail boondoggle which is only $10B funded right now. Don't get me wrong, I support the idea of high-speed rail, but this project is "off the rails" and multiple studies have shown it will neither be economically viable nor a practical solution for its intended purpose of getting people off the highways (mostly because of the complete lack of the all-important "last mile" solution in California).
This is an awesome development! That Karpeles is so hate-able.
Has anyone watched "The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin" scene where Karpeles apologizes for losing everyone's money? It's hilarious. He says, in Japanese (paraphrasing here), "There was inadequate security, and we lost everyone's bitcoins. I am very sorry about that," and he bows down at the waist, and stays there (awkwardly) for an eternity! It's the funniest thing to see this pudgy Frenchman speaking Japanese and awkwardly performing these Japanese rituals. Here's a picture: http://www.dailytech.com/Mt+Go...
Beat the hell out of a savings account for the $20. And that's ignoring the money I saved on Radio Shack purchases over the years. So, yes, it was unequivocally a great deal.
I doubt this technology is going anywhere anytime soon. Whether Google or someone else, this tech will persist. Its release has at least sparked all sort of debate about the expectations and limits of privacy, not to mention raising the warning for the ubiquitous surveillance that will soon exist. Expect to see FISA subpoenas in the future for people's Google Glass (or successor) data so the government can keep tabs on everything.
“If a Verizon customer tethered with their phone, their notebook could get stuck with the zombie value. (The ultimate in cross-device advertising!) And the zombie value could spread between cookie stores on a device, including between the web browser and individual apps. (The ultimate in inter-app advertising!)”
Many, many, MANY years ago (early 90s), I bought *one share* of Radio Shack stock because I read that they gave shareholders coupons to get discounts in the store. So, I paid like $20 and would get coupons every Christmas worth, I don't remember, like 20% off one item. Over the years, I got more than my money back for buying the stock. The stock was horrible even back then, but I never watch it. It split 2:1 a few times over the years, and eventually they discontinued the shareholder coupons so I sold my 8 shares. Over the long haul, I actually made a decent return on the stock too! (Despite it being a horribly performing company even back then.)
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A backdoor/vulnerability/weakness that the government can exploit is one that a bad actor can exploit. Digital data of many sorts *requires* integrity and confidentiality. To allow an opening for surveillance is to allow an opening for hackers. It is simply not tenable to the economic functioning of the planet to allow communications and storage that are other than secure.
So will my brain now have sponsored links and ads that track me wherever I go?
Can you think of any good targets? Religious radicals with a...vehemently...nostalgic enthusiasm for an imaginary medieval ideal tend not to be on the cutting edge of technology and culture production.
You're right. I'm sure these Luddites DDos'd and hacked into websites and social media accounts using their complete technological ignorance.
I'm sure terrorist organizations that have savvy social media recruiting operations globally and use encryption and steganography to avoid surveillance have no technical assets or operatives or data centers.
I'm sure their global funding networks with ties to certain Middle East governments have no vulnerabilities to destructive and/or doxxing attacks.
I'm sure complex hierarchical organizations such as Al Queda and ISIS that have far-reaching command-and-control structures use no technology and have no attack surface.
Often with trains from the airports to the city center.
It seems to me a super simple, effective, and more complete solution would just be to make the police pay court costs plus penalties when they are sued for recovery of seized assets and lose. This would create an incentive for lawyers to take cases on a deferred compensation basis and rectify the current situation where only people who already have significant economic means can afford to fight back against improper and unjust seizure. Human behavior is driven by incentives; setup the correct incentive structure and this problem goes away overnight!
I thought Anonymous was coming to the aid of the French. Where are the counterattacks???
On the other side of filtering, after the Snowden revelations, I've definitely written mundane personal email messages that tangentially mentioned certain keywords that genuinely made me think twice before hitting send so as to avoid ending up on a watch list. False positives are an equal problem.
Although not strictly related, makes me remember blind people like Daniel Kish who can use echolocation to do things like ride a bicycle by making clicking noises with his mouth and perceiving the three-dimensional structure of the world around him from the refracted sound waves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Pretty impressive, and, even as a sighted person, I find this idea interesting for seeing in the dark.
Airports must be built in the center of cities to get passengers.
Huh? Most big city airports I can think of are 30-60 freeway driving minutes from the city center.
Quick! Tell California to stop the groundbreaking on their $60B high speed rail boondoggle which is only $10B funded right now.
Don't get me wrong, I support the idea of high-speed rail, but this project is "off the rails" and multiple studies have shown it will neither be economically viable nor a practical solution for its intended purpose of getting people off the highways (mostly because of the complete lack of the all-important "last mile" solution in California).
This is an awesome development! That Karpeles is so hate-able.
Has anyone watched "The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin" scene where Karpeles apologizes for losing everyone's money? It's hilarious. He says, in Japanese (paraphrasing here), "There was inadequate security, and we lost everyone's bitcoins. I am very sorry about that," and he bows down at the waist, and stays there (awkwardly) for an eternity! It's the funniest thing to see this pudgy Frenchman speaking Japanese and awkwardly performing these Japanese rituals.
Here's a picture: http://www.dailytech.com/Mt+Go...
Beat the hell out of a savings account for the $20. And that's ignoring the money I saved on Radio Shack purchases over the years. So, yes, it was unequivocally a great deal.
Is it just me or is the "Such-and-such is dead, long live such-and-such" headline being overused recently on Slashdot?
I doubt this technology is going anywhere anytime soon. Whether Google or someone else, this tech will persist.
Its release has at least sparked all sort of debate about the expectations and limits of privacy, not to mention raising the warning for the ubiquitous surveillance that will soon exist.
Expect to see FISA subpoenas in the future for people's Google Glass (or successor) data so the government can keep tabs on everything.
“If a Verizon customer tethered with their phone, their notebook could get stuck with the zombie value. (The ultimate in cross-device advertising!) And the zombie value could spread between cookie stores on a device, including between the web browser and individual apps. (The ultimate in inter-app advertising!)”
Many, many, MANY years ago (early 90s), I bought *one share* of Radio Shack stock because I read that they gave shareholders coupons to get discounts in the store. So, I paid like $20 and would get coupons every Christmas worth, I don't remember, like 20% off one item. Over the years, I got more than my money back for buying the stock. The stock was horrible even back then, but I never watch it. It split 2:1 a few times over the years, and eventually they discontinued the shareholder coupons so I sold my 8 shares. Over the long haul, I actually made a decent return on the stock too! (Despite it being a horribly performing company even back then.)