It is probably too late. The demand has already been issued.
He cannot destroy anything, it has already been demanded by the feds and destroying it after it is requested will land him in jail.
I'd like to hear more opinions on this.
It seems Lavabit didn't even email their own customers to tell them they shut down. This would be an astonishingly bad bit of customer service -- unless of course it was protecting a customer (let's call him Edward).
Is it possible that the FISA warrant was issued against the company and not the owners, and so the only legal way to get out of it was to dissolve the company and destroy the servers?
Britain is still a lovely, free country but could be a full-blown police state within a couple of years thanks to the decimation of our constitution by Blair & Brown.
With the Liberal Democrats having made very little progress in restoring our rights and checks & balances on govt, I fear for the future.
Also, the UK is almost impossible to migrate to now, unless you're an EU citizen.
I'd mod you up if I hadn't already contributed to this topic.
I have little doubt the Her Majesty's GCHQ intelligence service remains completely and unreservedly British, and that British interests, though often in common, are separate from American interests.
You seem to have avoided declaring that GCHQ's interests and British interests are the same thing. Given the 13+ year drive to impose Stasi 2.0, I'd have to agree. Though, it should be pointed it, there is an ongoing internal disagreement in MI5 over this.
Question: ewenmacaskill 17 June 2013 3:07pm I should have asked you this when I saw you but never got round to it........Why did you just not fly direct to Iceland if that is your preferred country for asylum?
Answer: Leaving the US was an incredible risk, as NSA employees must declare their foreign travel 30 days in advance and are monitored. There was a distinct possibility I would be interdicted en route, so I had to travel with no advance booking to a country with the cultural and legal framework to allow me to work without being immediately detained. Hong Kong provided that. Iceland could be pushed harder, quicker, before the public could have a chance to make their feelings known, and I would not put that past the current US administration.
Name a safe secure means of saving money, that doesn't lose value over time due to inflation.
Index-linked bonds, preferably German if they do them.
I think the greater point is that money (and the risk attached to where it is invested) has to be managed.
The UK govt was stupid enough to bail out private investors in Icelandic banks. Likewise, it saved 3 banks who are still too broke to lend any money and GDP is still flat. If it had just let investors take the losses, we'd be a lot better off.
Market booms and crashes are driven by expectations of rapid changes in price. No-one expects major currencies to do that, except on the downside, when they start printing money.
Bitcoin has no such limitations. It's price acts more like a commodity than a currency. Indeed, it has the potential to be more volatile than a commodity.
I believe the current difficulty of mining bitcoins is fixed until it becomes impossible. As they're currently going at an astonishing $145 (quadrupled over a month), it's extremely profitable to mine on ATI card. However, the FPGA will flood the market with Bitcoins and we willl see the price dropping, maybe crashing.
I don't know how MI5 managed it but somehow the Data Protection Commissioner (now the Information Commissioner) was somewhat ambivalent about Stasi-like surveillance. The latter bit was told to me by Phil Booth, ex-national co-ordinator of NO2ID.
Panorama has spoken to several intelligence officials as well as the US' main source, Curveball, who later admitted making up the mobile laboratory claims.
3g/HSPA+/4G sucks more out of your phone than Wifi.
True.
It goes something like: 1. C/GPU 2. Screen + backlight 3. Calls or sending/receiving data 4. Camera 5. Vibrate 6. Screen no backlight 7. GPS continuously receiving... with GPS using 10x lower power than C/GPU.
When idling, your smartphone is using maybe 2 orders of magnitude less power than eg browsing. Since smartphones are idling a lot of the time, these numbers become significant.
8. Automatic checking whether anyone's messaged you on FB/Twitter is a significant battery killer. I don't have figures for this but it at least halves battery life.
Apart from that, from highest to lowest: 9. 3G 10. BT 11. Wifi 12. 2G
So 3G + BT + Wifi consumes roughly 3x just 2G.
So your battery may last 3x longer with just 2G active when idling.
I'm so glad the EU is doing something right and we're standing up to unhealthy US corporate practices.
The right to be forgotten is a brilliant idea. I know, I had it myself.
Who gains? The people. Who loses? Companies whose business model is to whore our data.
Obviously, this right could only be invoked if the invoker was not in debt to the data-holding company. Likewise, the data-holding company can not be held responsible for consequences of missing data.
There are also some subtleties. Should eg FB be obliged to remove all content Shared from a 'forgotten' user? Should Google be obliged to delete any data associated with an IP you used at a certain time?
Regardless, this is a brilliant idea and the free world should be pushing hard for it if they want to remain free.
... because it's largely open source. Developers have re-written closed components, are still fixing bugs, still adding functionality to the base OS: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84292
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AC is spot on.
It is probably too late. The demand has already been issued.
He cannot destroy anything, it has already been demanded by the feds and destroying it after it is requested will land him in jail.
I'd like to hear more opinions on this.
It seems Lavabit didn't even email their own customers to tell them they shut down. This would be an astonishingly bad bit of customer service -- unless of course it was protecting a customer (let's call him Edward).
Is it possible that the FISA warrant was issued against the company and not the owners, and so the only legal way to get out of it was to dissolve the company and destroy the servers?
Good post btw.
Britain is still a lovely, free country but could be a full-blown police state within a couple of years thanks to the decimation of our constitution by Blair & Brown.
With the Liberal Democrats having made very little progress in restoring our rights and checks & balances on govt, I fear for the future.
Also, the UK is almost impossible to migrate to now, unless you're an EU citizen.
I've never seen the Govt do anything this effective before. Have you?
Spot on. Blair deliberately underfunded ICO as it was a bit of an obstacle in his attempted creation of a New World Order.
The current lot came in with a 12pc deficit to narrow and no great desire to be held to account either.
I'd mod you up if I hadn't already contributed to this topic.
I have little doubt the Her Majesty's GCHQ intelligence service remains completely and unreservedly British, and that British interests, though often in common, are separate from American interests.
You seem to have avoided declaring that GCHQ's interests and British interests are the same thing. Given the 13+ year drive to impose Stasi 2.0, I'd have to agree. Though, it should be pointed it, there is an ongoing internal disagreement in MI5 over this.
Question:
ewenmacaskill 17 June 2013 3:07pm
I should have asked you this when I saw you but never got round to it........Why did you just not fly direct to Iceland if that is your preferred country for asylum?
Answer:
Leaving the US was an incredible risk, as NSA employees must declare their foreign travel 30 days in advance and are monitored. There was a distinct possibility I would be interdicted en route, so I had to travel with no advance booking to a country with the cultural and legal framework to allow me to work without being immediately detained. Hong Kong provided that. Iceland could be pushed harder, quicker, before the public could have a chance to make their feelings known, and I would not put that past the current US administration.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower
Name a safe secure means of saving money, that doesn't lose value over time due to inflation.
Index-linked bonds, preferably German if they do them.
I think the greater point is that money (and the risk attached to where it is invested) has to be managed.
The UK govt was stupid enough to bail out private investors in Icelandic banks. Likewise, it saved 3 banks who are still too broke to lend any money and GDP is still flat. If it had just let investors take the losses, we'd be a lot better off.
Market booms and crashes are driven by expectations of rapid changes in price. No-one expects major currencies to do that, except on the downside, when they start printing money.
Bitcoin has no such limitations. It's price acts more like a commodity than a currency. Indeed, it has the potential to be more volatile than a commodity.
I believe the current difficulty of mining bitcoins is fixed until it becomes impossible. As they're currently going at an astonishing $145 (quadrupled over a month), it's extremely profitable to mine on ATI card. However, the FPGA will flood the market with Bitcoins and we willl see the price dropping, maybe crashing.
I continue to see Opera fall.
Opera 12.15 64-bit is the best browser ever produced, on Windows at least. Though the other browsers are catching up.
There is no reason to believe that Google will not increasing put closed source components into Blink.
If they do, Opera will just fork.
If Google close it or do anything worth forking for, Opera will fork.
http://www.chromium.org/blink#participating
Very interesting indeed. Sorry I have no mod points.
Solar thermal is great if you have the right environment for it, but outside the southwest, nuclear is still the better option.
Must suck to live in a country where you can't trust the news.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/07/fox_news_expert_on_solar_energy_germany_gets_a_lot_more_sun_than_we_do_video.html
I don't know how MI5 managed it but somehow the Data Protection Commissioner (now the Information Commissioner) was somewhat ambivalent about Stasi-like surveillance. The latter bit was told to me by Phil Booth, ex-national co-ordinator of NO2ID.
They probably farm their profits through Ireland.
Oh look, I was right.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/business-news/facebook-defends-its-double-irish-tax-reduction-deal-29007504.html
Test 320kps with Apple's AAC.
If you can tell the difference, submit yourself to Hydrogen Audio's blind testing because nobody else can.
Panorama has spoken to several intelligence officials as well as the US' main source, Curveball, who later admitted making up the mobile laboratory claims.
You will need a UK IP address to watch this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rh8hd/Panorama_The_Spies_Who_Fooled_the_World/
YNokia could be the next victim of that "cooperation".
Could?!? It's already happened.
Basically like fast food, only with CCTV instead of owners.
3g/HSPA+/4G sucks more out of your phone than Wifi.
True.
It goes something like: ... with GPS using 10x lower power than C/GPU.
1. C/GPU
2. Screen + backlight
3. Calls or sending/receiving data
4. Camera
5. Vibrate
6. Screen no backlight
7. GPS continuously receiving
When idling, your smartphone is using maybe 2 orders of magnitude less power than eg browsing. Since smartphones are idling a lot of the time, these numbers become significant.
8. Automatic checking whether anyone's messaged you on FB/Twitter is a significant battery killer. I don't have figures for this but it at least halves battery life.
Apart from that, from highest to lowest:
9. 3G
10. BT
11. Wifi
12. 2G
So 3G + BT + Wifi consumes roughly 3x just 2G.
So your battery may last 3x longer with just 2G active when idling.
http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_Hardware_Power_Consumption#Some_preliminary_numbers_using_the_battery_monitor_chip.
This is for my N900 and increases battery life to 3+ days at low usage.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=45053
Presumably, Droid and Apple with their 100,000 fart apps have something similar.
I'm so glad the EU is doing something right and we're standing up to unhealthy US corporate practices.
The right to be forgotten is a brilliant idea. I know, I had it myself.
Who gains? The people.
Who loses? Companies whose business model is to whore our data.
Obviously, this right could only be invoked if the invoker was not in debt to the data-holding company. Likewise, the data-holding company can not be held responsible for consequences of missing data.
There are also some subtleties. Should eg FB be obliged to remove all content Shared from a 'forgotten' user? Should Google be obliged to delete any data associated with an IP you used at a certain time?
Regardless, this is a brilliant idea and the free world should be pushing hard for it if they want to remain free.
And I get money and free heating out of my ATI re: BitCoin mining.
Currently using a 6750 on Windows 7.
To accuse someone of being a shill simply because they post as AC (as if /. IDs are somehow validated) smacks of someone who's losing it...
... because it's largely open source. Developers have re-written closed components, are still fixing bugs, still adding functionality to the base OS:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84292