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  1. Re:All for poisioning the well on AdNauseam Browser Extension Quietly Clicks On Blocked Ads · · Score: 2

    What if AC is a lady?

  2. So right on Ello Formally Promises To Remain Ad-Free, Raises $5.5M · · Score: 1

    I'd respect the intent if "Sell user-specific data to a third party" was replaced by "Allow 3rd parties any access to your online transactions" since metadata correlations -> identity match.

    Further, I expect identifying the class of people who move from the other social networks to Ello due to tracking concerns provides a very valuable dataset.

  3. It's down to money on Microsoft Agrees To Contempt Order So It Can Appeal Email Privacy Case · · Score: 1

    MS can sell data to anyone they want, including USG. If they win this, then they can charge USG a much higher price for access than the 'reasonable costs' for responding to a court order.

  4. Re:Anthropometrics on 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room · · Score: 1

    Please explain your last sentence.

  5. You are probably correct... on Securing Networks In the Internet of Things Era · · Score: 1

    ..but in 30 years. Meanwhile, the toaster manufacturer needs Granny to be able to but and use it without explicitly pluuging in a network or configuring anything.

    So IOT devices will have to have wifi sneak capabilities, always trying to establish a wifi connection. They can continually try to crack encrypted wifis.

    It will be an interesting household with a few dozen nodes continually spamming the aether trying for connection.

  6. Re:The memo you are about to see on Calif. Court Rules Businesses Must Reimburse Cell Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    I expect you are being ironic, but actually the problem I have observed is managers expecting to get hold of employees 24/7, so initiating the phone call.

  7. Re:noone trusts their cya legalese on Apple Refutes Report On iPhone Threat To China's National Security · · Score: 1

    Just curious, but have you ever actually read a 'chinese news media report'? I certainly haven't. I suspect your comment is merely your nationalistic prejudice rearing up defensively.

    IMHO, it's western governments that publish spin (i.e. lie, or mislead, or obfuscate). The (ex-)communist countries simply don't allow anything to be published about politically controversial issues.

  8. Re:Seems Prudent on Nominet Compromising UK WHOIS Privacy, Wants To See Gov't-Issued ID · · Score: 1

    You're on the train to nowhere...

  9. Re:Fedora Linux Question on Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog · · Score: 1

    With US based commercial software they can compel the vendor to hand over the code, as pretty much all of the major vendors have already done.

    Citations for that claim?

  10. Assumptions on Mark Zuckerberg Gives $990 Million To Charity · · Score: 0

    Actually most of the people were presuming MZ is evil and incapable of doing anything without personal gain, rather than most rich people.

    Yes, that's unfair. However, since MZ controls FB with his >50% holding, he is personally responsible for the continual bait-and-switch privacy behaviors at FB which no-one can claim is nice. Note also that most of this pattern occurred before FB had a 'fiscal duty to its shareholders'.

    So it's not unreasonable to ask for a higher level of evidence before believing that BG or MZ are behaving altruistically.

  11. The worrying bit: on The Cloud: Convenient Until a Stranger Nukes Your Files · · Score: 1

    Thanks to some no doubt heroic digital forensics, they had managed to locate and restore all my missing folders.

    Actually I suspect nothing is really deleted, just marked inaccessible to the owner but still available to the cloud company and any subpoena or court order.

    Please encrypt your stuff yourself (not the cloud's encryption) before uploading.

  12. Re:Need Bay Trail to have advantages on Intel Rolls Out Raspberry Pi Competitor · · Score: 1

    Gloom - even the best only supports 4GB RAM. Not enough for ZFS server.

    http://ark.intel.com/products/76760/Intel-Atom-Processor-Z3770-2M-Cache-up-to-2_39-GHz/

  13. Need Bay Trail to have advantages on Intel Rolls Out Raspberry Pi Competitor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    TFA mentioned next gen will use Bay Trail core (Atom Z3770), which is available with AES-NI. Now that is suddenly very useful for servers, because the encryption is fast (but still passes through the processor).

  14. No US-based cloud service can really fight the NSA on Lockbox Aims To NSA-Proof the Cloud · · Score: 1

    There's fighting without fighting, as the late Mr Lee would say.

    The problem is "NSA agents will descend upon them, and provide a legal order requiring" something, as you say.

    Make that ineffective. Host end doesn't hold any keys is easy. No make the client end that uploads open source AND externalise the key handling and algo choice from the client. A script into Truecrypt is a crude example of externalising.

    Now, if the upload client suddenly starts wanting keys or anything else unecessary the user will be suspicious, and the knowledgeable can scrutinise the code.

  15. Re:System may be working? on Members of Parliament Demand Explanation For Detention of David Miranda · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It's actually a little more subtle than that:

    Terrorism Act 2000 Schedule 7
    2(1)An examining officer may question a person to whom this paragraph applies for the purpose of determining whether he appears to be a person falling within section 40(1)(b).

    5A person who is questioned under paragraph 2 or 3 must
    (a)give the examining officer any information in his possession which the officer requests;
    (b)give the examining officer on request either a valid passport which includes a photograph or another document which establishes his identity;
    (c)declare whether he has with him documents of a kind specified by the examining officer;
    (d)give the examining officer on request any document which he has with him and which is of a kind specified by the officer.

    Also, under the "Examining Officers under the Terrorism Act 2000 Code of Practice" Code-of-Practice-for-Examin1.pdf:

    The examining officer should advise the detained person that, under paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 to the Act he/she has a duty to give the officer all the information in his/her possession which the officer requests in connection with his determining whether the person appears to be, or have been, concerned in the commission preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. The detained person should also be reminded that not complying with this duty is a criminal offence under paragraph 18(1) of Schedule 7 to the Act.

    This means that one has to submit to full search of electronic stuff (decrypting where necessary), but questioning about stuff clearly irrelevant to terrorism need not be answered.

    If Miranda was largely questioned about irrelevant stuff to use up the 9 hours, than that's something to take up with ECHR as abuse.

  16. Re:Will this work? on Mozilla Labs Experiment Distills Your History Into Interests · · Score: 1

    As something did change. Thanks to Justin Amash and others, we are now aware which 217 Representatives are ok with NSA violating the constitution, and which 205 Representatives are not.

  17. Re:Don't worry on Ask Slashdot: Is GNU/Linux Malware a Real Threat? · · Score: 1

    Gosh, I thought we all used aptitude now...

  18. Re:Yeah, not just that on Casting a Harsh Light On Chinese Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    I've come across quite a few self-described 'Principle Engineers' too. Perhaps they operate on a different moral level?

  19. Re:Next step: identify the companies on California Law Would Require Companies To Disclose All Consumer Data Collected · · Score: 1

    I just requested a copy of my report from The Work Company (free, once a year - they do salary checks) and guess what... they have full details of every 2 week paycheck from my current job. Last two jobs: nothing. So even my own employer (or their payroll sub) is selling my info.

  20. Re:Next step: identify the companies on California Law Would Require Companies To Disclose All Consumer Data Collected · · Score: 1
  21. XtreePro on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That and Norton Utilities made DOS useable.

    But XTP's superlative use of the screen area and hotkeys was stunningly competent.

  22. Weasel words... on Google Pushing Back On Law Enforcement Requests For Access To Gmail Accounts · · Score: 1

    In order to compel us to produce content in Gmail we require an ECPA search warrant

    He doesn't explicitly say that Google doesn't produce content in Gmail without that warrant. Just that warrant compels them.

    I'd be happy if he said "Google never produces content in Gmail without receiving a valid ECPA search warrant first"

    Of course an NSL is the trump card...

  23. Great for car audio on Acer Rethinks the "Tablet Bubble," Launching $99 Tablet · · Score: 1

    A small tablet with touch navigation and enough storage for my music sounds like a perfect car audio device to me.

  24. And 2000 model Jaguar S type... on The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence · · Score: 1

    Lovely, useless, analog handsfree phone system

  25. the original RISC? on Imagination Technology Buys MIPS · · Score: 1

    "MIPS Technologies - the original RISC processor company"

    Shirley that was Acorn with the original ARM in the 1980s??