Considering that property seizures do have to be compensated, I wonder what the valuation on the iOS source code would be? And how long would Apple litigate, before handing it over, to set said value? There are after all, real, hard, numbers for iPhone sales over the years. And then there's extrapolated future sales to consider.
In your scenario, this will be interpreted by a lot of people in the Bay Area as the engineer having the integrity to maintain the security of his work, in spite of an impossible situation, by staging an "accident" with plausible deniability. Said engineer would have no difficulty finding future employment.
Trump has already publicly stated that he would personally force (I'm not sure how, exactly.) Apple to comply with the FBI. Cruz is basically Trump without the bluster. Hillary will be pliable if Apple is willing to cut her a large enough check... sorry... donate to her super-PAC in the next election. The wildcard is Sanders who, while usually reliable in favor of civil liberties, has intimated (but not overly firmly) that Apple should cooperate with the government.
Honestly, I don't see how anybody who is in any way familiar with the FBI, it's history, it's most well-known director, the culture and organization he built, the shenanigans (to put it mildly) during his tenure, and the fact the the FBI still reveres and honors said director, even residing in a HQ building bearing his name... could *POSSIBLY* consider the FBI trustworthy. We're not talking about the television FBI of Mulder and Sculley. The real thing is the house that J. Edgar Hoover built. I wouldn't trust a one of them so far as I could spit a rat.
Yes. Six figures is normal... in the Bay Area. As of the 2010 census (Which, remember, took place around the tail-end of the 2008 recession.), salary of $100,000 would put you in approximately the top 40% of earners in either the San Francisco or San Jose metro areas:
I'm pretty sure the stat is that 90% of ALL new businesses... not just tech startups... fail within the first two years.
The fact that the same rule (or your 1/14) applies to tech is no reason to go running around like chicken little. Personally, I'd not be too surprised if there is a bit of a contraction... if for no other reason than the fact that, until San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area starts building significantly more housing, we're running out of room for workers to fit. But a big difference I'm seeing vs. the dotcom days is a lack of "lose money on every transaction and make it up in volume" business plans. Most everyone seems to understand that you do have to turn a profit these days and are working (granted, not always successfully) towards that goal.
The majority are neither smug nor self-important. Yes, there some a-holes who write blog posts about how disgusting it is to have to occasionally see a homeless person or how ugly girls thing they're hot (4/9-ers.). But they are very much the minority. Most tech workers are fairly ordinary people, working to make a living, have a little fun, and hopefully own a home eventually... normal, everyday, "get on with your life and go about in peace" stuff. If everyone were as bad as those bloggers, you'd see stories about mid-Market Twitter and Uber employees making the homeless do demeaning tricks for food; which is obviously not happening.
Specifically, according to Wikipedia, the Department of Justice's yearly budget is $27.1 billion, of which the FBI gets $8.3 billion. Last year, Apple brought in $53.4 billion on profit... not revenue... profit.
> The problem is the keys CAN'T be updated. They're > burned into real ROM (as opposed to OTP), the > reason being the boot ROM will verify a signature > using the key it has. If the key was stored in > alterable (e.g., flash) memory, then it would be > possible to erase the key, program your own and > jailbreak your device that way.
Well, if the FBI tries this tack, can there be any doubt the Apple will darken the skies with so many lawyers the FBI will think it's the 11th plague? Remember IBM's antitrust case? IBM made it last more than a decade... that's longer than there's even been such a thing as an iPhone... and ground the DoJ down to the point that they eventually just gave up. Apple is richer (can afford more and better lawyers) now than IBM was then. By the time they're able to seize the iOS source code, Apple could easily have more than enough time to write an entirely new OS and iterate many generations of iPhone, to the point that all of the phones with the old key burned-in are in landfills and what the FBI gets would be useless.
And that's aside from the value of iOS, for which Apple would have to be compensated. Can you begin to imagine what that would be? Or the additional court cases to determine said value? Does the FBI want to have a budget to do *anything* else for the next couple of decades?
Up until Overwatch, as of which they have abandoned the Macintosh, Blizzard was a cross-platform developer supporting Mac and PC as far back as I can remember. But I'm not sure they ever supported Linux. Since they already have the existing and supported code base, the extra effort to include the Mac in this patch was probably trivial for them. But the development work to do a new client for a third platform is probably more than the Diablo 2 team has allocated to them. Hell, I'm more than a bit surprised that there still is a Diablo 2 team in the first place. And given that they've stopped developing for the Mac, I expect you can forget about them ever releasing for Linux in the future as well.
Perhaps one day they will purge themselves of the Activision taint and go back to being the old Blizzard. My guess is that the end of Mac development is an Activision thing, given that the old Blizzard kept up Mac versions even in the '90s when Apple was "beleaguered". And that's probably what would be necessary before any Linux versions were forthcoming. But I'm not holding my breath. At least I got to play the full Starcraft 2 before they made this change.
It's even worse than that. There are people out there now who just watch for any picture-taking... not of them specifically, but anywhere in their general vicinity... so that they can be offended by it. On multiple occasions over the last several years, I've taken pictures of or with friends, or of events taking place in public (Not just random happenstance events, mind you, but also planned public events like the SF Pride parade & festival.); and had some random unknown person come up to me, demand to see the picture so they can check if they're in the background and *order* me to delete the picture if that's the case. Suffice it to say, I told them where they can stick their demands and orders every time. But that sort of thing didn't happen until the last half-decade or so, and seems to have become increasingly common since.
Also, there's a contingent at some events (like Burning Man, for example) who believe that it should be "lived within the moment", and that any photography at all "violates the sanctity" of said notion. That contingent tends to be mostly harmless loons and not aggressively confrontational than the former though.
> I have sympathy for people who are born there as > renters and can't afford to leave. I have zero > sympathy for people who moved there and then > complained that they couldn't make it.
On that point, I've lived in San Francisco most of my adult life... the better part of two decades... and the "born and raised San Francisco native" is a rare creature indeed. It's always been very much a city of transplants, you'll have better luck finding a proper New York bagel here than a true native, and that was true the day I first moved here. And personally, I think that's one of the things that makes the city fantastic. My own circle of friends includes people from all over the US, plus Korea, the Phillipines, Singapore, Russia, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Japan... just off the top of my head. So, in a lot of cases, what you're really hearing is: "Everyone who moved to San Francisco after I moved to San Francisco is ruining San Francisco"; a very hypocritical and contemptible position.
Also, I've been here long enough to see a couple of boom and bust cycles. The busts were some very depressing hard times, and I think the people hoping for another one are short-sighted nitwits who should be required to go spend a year in Detroit before cheering for an economic collapse.
Pretty much this. You could also achieve the goal of specifically penalizing the egregious polluters by charging a higher yearly registration fee for gas-guzzling models/years, or even base the fee on mileage with the data from the smog check inspection, also payable at registration time. Either option would be significantly less intrusive than the tracking scheme. But I don't think "non-intrusive" is a concern in China.
Why the hell would you risk getting caught cheating for something silly and simple?
It's been a long time since my CCNA. But when I took it, you got to use this silly plastic sheet w/ dry-erase pens as "scratch paper". And the first thing I did, as recommended by my Cisco instructor during our test prep class, was write out a CIDR table for fast reference during the rest of the exam. (It does help quickly answering some of the easier questions, freeing up time to concentrate on the simulator problems.)
Similar experiences here. In my Engineering Physics classes, all the exams were open notes plus calculator. Some of us even had the full exams from previous semesters as part of our "notes". And the physics profs never failed to create exams that were hard as hell, even with all of that available. Rote memorization or the ability to look up formulae are not the same thing as understanding the material.
I don't know about the TI-83. But the TI-85 could easily be hacked to run assembly programs, instead of the BASIC it supported out of the box. No hardware mod was required. From there, you could knock up a program that would appear to clear the memory if the professor (More like the TA proctoring the exam.) was having you clear it out on your way in. But there would still be a hidden memory area in which you could stash whatever notes you were going to use to cheat. Of course, if you were good enough to do the hack and write the program, you were probably also smart enough not to have to cheat on the sort of exam where you'd have access to said TI-85 in the first place. Not like you'd have any legit reason to have a scientific calculator on your desk for a history exam, after all.
It also had a good enough CPU that you could write and run things like Pacman and Tetris.
This was Florida. It's surrounded on three sides by ocean and has no small number of lakes and rivers. Pretty much all of the power plants... nuclear, gas, oil, whatever... are built adjacent to some source of water so they can use it for cooling. If there's a problem here, it's with the intake design and the stupidity of the diver, not the source of heat.
Google doesn't necessarily have to be complicit in manipulated search results though. The entire SEO industry exists to manipulate Google search results, after all. And to this day, if you google "Santorum" you mostly get a frothy mixture.
Waste disposal? Easy... build breeder reactors and process it into more fuel. Anything that can't be processed into more fuel, tell the NIMBYs to go pound sand and put it in Yucca Mountain. (Also, store it there until the breeder reactors are built.) It's not as if it's actually in anyone's "backyard" anyway. No one is going to be building the next Las Vegas in the Nevada Test Site. And if weather patterns don't change and get the Colorado River adequately flowing again, Las Vegas may not even be in Las Vegas for much longer.
I've also read proposals about dumping it in deep ocean trenches in the Pacific subduction zone; the idea being that it gets sucked down into the earth's mantle. But I've not seen enough detail to form a valid opinion on that one.
Also, we go go back to classifying encryption as armaments, then the NRA would be on Apple's side. And a politician with the balls to stand up to the NRA is even more rare a creature than a politician with any shred of honesty or integrity.
Come to think of it... that may really be the best thing for Apple and encryption.
Indeed. It's been known for quite a while that older SSLs were crap, even before DROWN. When the CVE hit, I checked the servers I'm responsible for, and discovered that I'd already disabled SSLv2 not long after I took the job. I'd simply forgotten having done so.
I'm not convinced that the request *IS* reasonable. If the news reports are accurate, the data in question is not, and never was, actually stored in Brazil at all; and WhatsApp stored its data on servers in the US. And I think the current trent of governments to presume that they have universal global jurisdiction over everyone, regardless of where the person or data they're seeking resides, to be more than a little bit disturbing. And yes, I include the US government's own abuses in that regard as a problem as well. It really is unfortunate that the exemplars of the problem have thus far turned out to be douchebags like Kim Dotcom, Microsoft, and these drug traffickers. But this sort of overreach is something that should be stopped before it really does get out of hand. If enough precedents get set... remember that China and Saudi Arabia have judges that can issue warrants as well.
More to the point, does the VP who was arrested actually have the access or authority within Facebook to provide the data in the first place? WhatsApp is a fairly recently acquired subsidiary that previously had no business presence in Brazil. It's not likely that the business units have been integrated with Facebook itself yet, much less the servers and the data. So, in addition WhatsApp data not being stored in Brazil in the first place, it's fairly likely that neither Diego Dzodan, nor anyone in his chain of reporting employees, had the ability to access to the data he was being ordered to turn over. So basically, what it looks like is Brazil just picked some employee who's not at all the responsible party and is holding him hostage in order to extort someone over whom they don't have any legitimate authority.
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Considering that property seizures do have to be compensated, I wonder what the valuation on the iOS source code would be? And how long would Apple litigate, before handing it over, to set said value? There are after all, real, hard, numbers for iPhone sales over the years. And then there's extrapolated future sales to consider.
In your scenario, this will be interpreted by a lot of people in the Bay Area as the engineer having the integrity to maintain the security of his work, in spite of an impossible situation, by staging an "accident" with plausible deniability. Said engineer would have no difficulty finding future employment.
Trump has already publicly stated that he would personally force (I'm not sure how, exactly.) Apple to comply with the FBI. Cruz is basically Trump without the bluster. Hillary will be pliable if Apple is willing to cut her a large enough check... sorry... donate to her super-PAC in the next election. The wildcard is Sanders who, while usually reliable in favor of civil liberties, has intimated (but not overly firmly) that Apple should cooperate with the government.
> while you may think the FBI is trustworthy
Honestly, I don't see how anybody who is in any way familiar with the FBI, it's history, it's most well-known director, the culture and organization he built, the shenanigans (to put it mildly) during his tenure, and the fact the the FBI still reveres and honors said director, even residing in a HQ building bearing his name... could *POSSIBLY* consider the FBI trustworthy. We're not talking about the television FBI of Mulder and Sculley. The real thing is the house that J. Edgar Hoover built. I wouldn't trust a one of them so far as I could spit a rat.
Yes. Six figures is normal... in the Bay Area. As of the 2010 census (Which, remember, took place around the tail-end of the 2008 recession.), salary of $100,000 would put you in approximately the top 40% of earners in either the San Francisco or San Jose metro areas:
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And that was six years ago. The economy has been improving, and salaries rising with it, ever since.
I'm pretty sure the stat is that 90% of ALL new businesses... not just tech startups... fail within the first two years.
The fact that the same rule (or your 1/14) applies to tech is no reason to go running around like chicken little. Personally, I'd not be too surprised if there is a bit of a contraction... if for no other reason than the fact that, until San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area starts building significantly more housing, we're running out of room for workers to fit. But a big difference I'm seeing vs. the dotcom days is a lack of "lose money on every transaction and make it up in volume" business plans. Most everyone seems to understand that you do have to turn a profit these days and are working (granted, not always successfully) towards that goal.
The majority are neither smug nor self-important. Yes, there some a-holes who write blog posts about how disgusting it is to have to occasionally see a homeless person or how ugly girls thing they're hot (4/9-ers.). But they are very much the minority. Most tech workers are fairly ordinary people, working to make a living, have a little fun, and hopefully own a home eventually... normal, everyday, "get on with your life and go about in peace" stuff. If everyone were as bad as those bloggers, you'd see stories about mid-Market Twitter and Uber employees making the homeless do demeaning tricks for food; which is obviously not happening.
Specifically, according to Wikipedia, the Department of Justice's yearly budget is $27.1 billion, of which the FBI gets $8.3 billion. Last year, Apple brought in $53.4 billion on profit... not revenue... profit.
> The problem is the keys CAN'T be updated. They're > burned into real ROM (as opposed to OTP), the
> reason being the boot ROM will verify a signature
> using the key it has. If the key was stored in
> alterable (e.g., flash) memory, then it would be
> possible to erase the key, program your own and
> jailbreak your device that way.
Well, if the FBI tries this tack, can there be any doubt the Apple will darken the skies with so many lawyers the FBI will think it's the 11th plague? Remember IBM's antitrust case? IBM made it last more than a decade... that's longer than there's even been such a thing as an iPhone... and ground the DoJ down to the point that they eventually just gave up. Apple is richer (can afford more and better lawyers) now than IBM was then. By the time they're able to seize the iOS source code, Apple could easily have more than enough time to write an entirely new OS and iterate many generations of iPhone, to the point that all of the phones with the old key burned-in are in landfills and what the FBI gets would be useless.
And that's aside from the value of iOS, for which Apple would have to be compensated. Can you begin to imagine what that would be? Or the additional court cases to determine said value? Does the FBI want to have a budget to do *anything* else for the next couple of decades?
The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
Up until Overwatch, as of which they have abandoned the Macintosh, Blizzard was a cross-platform developer supporting Mac and PC as far back as I can remember. But I'm not sure they ever supported Linux. Since they already have the existing and supported code base, the extra effort to include the Mac in this patch was probably trivial for them. But the development work to do a new client for a third platform is probably more than the Diablo 2 team has allocated to them. Hell, I'm more than a bit surprised that there still is a Diablo 2 team in the first place. And given that they've stopped developing for the Mac, I expect you can forget about them ever releasing for Linux in the future as well.
Perhaps one day they will purge themselves of the Activision taint and go back to being the old Blizzard. My guess is that the end of Mac development is an Activision thing, given that the old Blizzard kept up Mac versions even in the '90s when Apple was "beleaguered". And that's probably what would be necessary before any Linux versions were forthcoming. But I'm not holding my breath. At least I got to play the full Starcraft 2 before they made this change.
It's even worse than that. There are people out there now who just watch for any picture-taking... not of them specifically, but anywhere in their general vicinity... so that they can be offended by it. On multiple occasions over the last several years, I've taken pictures of or with friends, or of events taking place in public (Not just random happenstance events, mind you, but also planned public events like the SF Pride parade & festival.); and had some random unknown person come up to me, demand to see the picture so they can check if they're in the background and *order* me to delete the picture if that's the case. Suffice it to say, I told them where they can stick their demands and orders every time. But that sort of thing didn't happen until the last half-decade or so, and seems to have become increasingly common since.
Also, there's a contingent at some events (like Burning Man, for example) who believe that it should be "lived within the moment", and that any photography at all "violates the sanctity" of said notion. That contingent tends to be mostly harmless loons and not aggressively confrontational than the former though.
> I have sympathy for people who are born there as
> renters and can't afford to leave. I have zero
> sympathy for people who moved there and then
> complained that they couldn't make it.
On that point, I've lived in San Francisco most of my adult life... the better part of two decades... and the "born and raised San Francisco native" is a rare creature indeed. It's always been very much a city of transplants, you'll have better luck finding a proper New York bagel here than a true native, and that was true the day I first moved here. And personally, I think that's one of the things that makes the city fantastic. My own circle of friends includes people from all over the US, plus Korea, the Phillipines, Singapore, Russia, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Japan... just off the top of my head. So, in a lot of cases, what you're really hearing is: "Everyone who moved to San Francisco after I moved to San Francisco is ruining San Francisco"; a very hypocritical and contemptible position.
Also, I've been here long enough to see a couple of boom and bust cycles. The busts were some very depressing hard times, and I think the people hoping for another one are short-sighted nitwits who should be required to go spend a year in Detroit before cheering for an economic collapse.
Pretty much this. You could also achieve the goal of specifically penalizing the egregious polluters by charging a higher yearly registration fee for gas-guzzling models/years, or even base the fee on mileage with the data from the smog check inspection, also payable at registration time. Either option would be significantly less intrusive than the tracking scheme. But I don't think "non-intrusive" is a concern in China.
Why the hell would you risk getting caught cheating for something silly and simple?
It's been a long time since my CCNA. But when I took it, you got to use this silly plastic sheet w/ dry-erase pens as "scratch paper". And the first thing I did, as recommended by my Cisco instructor during our test prep class, was write out a CIDR table for fast reference during the rest of the exam. (It does help quickly answering some of the easier questions, freeing up time to concentrate on the simulator problems.)
Similar experiences here. In my Engineering Physics classes, all the exams were open notes plus calculator. Some of us even had the full exams from previous semesters as part of our "notes". And the physics profs never failed to create exams that were hard as hell, even with all of that available. Rote memorization or the ability to look up formulae are not the same thing as understanding the material.
I don't know about the TI-83. But the TI-85 could easily be hacked to run assembly programs, instead of the BASIC it supported out of the box. No hardware mod was required. From there, you could knock up a program that would appear to clear the memory if the professor (More like the TA proctoring the exam.) was having you clear it out on your way in. But there would still be a hidden memory area in which you could stash whatever notes you were going to use to cheat. Of course, if you were good enough to do the hack and write the program, you were probably also smart enough not to have to cheat on the sort of exam where you'd have access to said TI-85 in the first place. Not like you'd have any legit reason to have a scientific calculator on your desk for a history exam, after all.
It also had a good enough CPU that you could write and run things like Pacman and Tetris.
This was Florida. It's surrounded on three sides by ocean and has no small number of lakes and rivers. Pretty much all of the power plants... nuclear, gas, oil, whatever... are built adjacent to some source of water so they can use it for cooling. If there's a problem here, it's with the intake design and the stupidity of the diver, not the source of heat.
Google doesn't necessarily have to be complicit in manipulated search results though. The entire SEO industry exists to manipulate Google search results, after all. And to this day, if you google "Santorum" you mostly get a frothy mixture.
Waste disposal? Easy... build breeder reactors and process it into more fuel. Anything that can't be processed into more fuel, tell the NIMBYs to go pound sand and put it in Yucca Mountain. (Also, store it there until the breeder reactors are built.) It's not as if it's actually in anyone's "backyard" anyway. No one is going to be building the next Las Vegas in the Nevada Test Site. And if weather patterns don't change and get the Colorado River adequately flowing again, Las Vegas may not even be in Las Vegas for much longer.
I've also read proposals about dumping it in deep ocean trenches in the Pacific subduction zone; the idea being that it gets sucked down into the earth's mantle. But I've not seen enough detail to form a valid opinion on that one.
Do I pass?
To continue the metaphor, even if the sky were, indeed, calling; Chicken Little has cried "WOLF!!!" so many times that he has no credibility left.
Also, we go go back to classifying encryption as armaments, then the NRA would be on Apple's side. And a politician with the balls to stand up to the NRA is even more rare a creature than a politician with any shred of honesty or integrity.
Come to think of it... that may really be the best thing for Apple and encryption.
Indeed. It's been known for quite a while that older SSLs were crap, even before DROWN. When the CVE hit, I checked the servers I'm responsible for, and discovered that I'd already disabled SSLv2 not long after I took the job. I'd simply forgotten having done so.
I'm not convinced that the request *IS* reasonable. If the news reports are accurate, the data in question is not, and never was, actually stored in Brazil at all; and WhatsApp stored its data on servers in the US. And I think the current trent of governments to presume that they have universal global jurisdiction over everyone, regardless of where the person or data they're seeking resides, to be more than a little bit disturbing. And yes, I include the US government's own abuses in that regard as a problem as well. It really is unfortunate that the exemplars of the problem have thus far turned out to be douchebags like Kim Dotcom, Microsoft, and these drug traffickers. But this sort of overreach is something that should be stopped before it really does get out of hand. If enough precedents get set... remember that China and Saudi Arabia have judges that can issue warrants as well.
More to the point, does the VP who was arrested actually have the access or authority within Facebook to provide the data in the first place? WhatsApp is a fairly recently acquired subsidiary that previously had no business presence in Brazil. It's not likely that the business units have been integrated with Facebook itself yet, much less the servers and the data. So, in addition WhatsApp data not being stored in Brazil in the first place, it's fairly likely that neither Diego Dzodan, nor anyone in his chain of reporting employees, had the ability to access to the data he was being ordered to turn over. So basically, what it looks like is Brazil just picked some employee who's not at all the responsible party and is holding him hostage in order to extort someone over whom they don't have any legitimate authority.