It's the UK's Regulatory Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) that came in quite some years ago. Yup, they thought of that, surprisingly. It is an offence to not provide the keys when asked: silence isnt' an option.
Your point is cogent, informative, and well-written.
Are you new here?
I'd just add that TC state that their hidden volumes are indistinguishable from random noise, i.e. cannot be detected.
For playback, rather than using as a recorder with a Tuner, I've been using XBMC on an original Xbox for a couple of years. It's amazing. Plays anything, it's small, can be made near silent with a couple of mods, and costs virtually nothing - the only problem with it is that in the days of HD, it doesn't have the horsepower for decent HD playback. Other than that - it's the best thign since sliced bread - the interface is brilliant, it's got a huge developer base, and it's genuinely living-room-friendly.
When I feel a pressing need to upgrade I'll probably go with Boxee running on either a modded Apple TV, or on a mini-ITX PC.
I'm sure you're right, but if I were in the business of creating HDCP-avoiding hardware like this I'd spoof the key of a major household brand like Sony. Try revoking that without starting a revolt...
I've not read TFA, because it's the Daily Mail, and I'd rather poke my eyes out with needles, but I'm assuming until I hear otherwise that this is duplication of an ID card, not creation of a new one: i.e. you end up with a clone, containing the original biometric data, rather than it being an exploit that can manufacture new, seemingly valid, ID cards for new individuals. Check the biometrics on the copy, and it won't match up with the person who's holding the clone.
Still bad, just not as scary as the headline suggests. Note the Mail's reason for existence is to print scaremongering headlines to give the UK's middle classes something to moan about: immigration, foreigners, bureaucracy in europe, etc.
I guess everyone must have seen this coming.
My two cents: Apple, as a general principle, aren't going to be too happy with third-aparty devices that sync as seamlessly as an iPod/iPhone to itunes, as it erodes one of USPs of the iPod and means that you can get the same experience by buying a non-Apple music player. This implies less hardware sales for Apple.
From Palm's point of view, I think this is a shot-across-the-bows. Both from an anticompetitive point of view - it'd be easy for Apple to be mired in some antitrust allegations, which they obviously don't want, and also Palm hold a shedload of patents that may or may not be able to similarly tie up Apple in legal knots for quite some time. To be fair, Apple also own a lot of patents in this space, but the thing you realise if you talk to an IP lawyer is that getting into this sort of dick-swinging match is mutually assured destruction.
I think Palm are banking that they could persuade Apple to quietly ignore this feature for fear of the backlash if they blocked it, and it's not paid off. I also think that the fact they did it, regardless of the obvious risk that this might happen, probably doesn't hurt their image as a slightly cooler, more enthusiast-friendly platform. We're talking about it and saying "Go Palm!", aren't we?
"The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits... a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."
"Maybe not requested directly from you, but all of that license information, including home address and the photo, is stored in the DVLA database. You have no idea who has access to it, or what they have done with it."
Yes I do! It's frigging anyone who wants it. As an example, private car clamping firms can get it from them to send you a bill - see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/17/dvla_review/. Major supermarket chains have automatic numberplate recognition cameras that will automatically post you out a fine if you sit for too long in their carparks. McDonalds in the UK will famously send you a fine in the post for the temerity of sitting in their car parks for an hour whilst you eat your burger, and the first you'll hear about it is when the fine arrives in the post: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/mcfines%20for%20slow%20eaters/1169247.
I wouldn't be surprised if that was what was behind this: a media-cartel backed buyout and takedown. Bear in mind that it's not just TPB that'll go away - an awful lot of other trackers just index TPB traffic. Bring on the minibay.org.
The "owners" of the TPB haven't made a profit: they've asked for payment to a fund for "internet projects" instead. This will presumably be some interesting new political statement.
They also aren't actually the owners as such: TPB was sold in 2006 to a shell company specifically to avoid any legal problems for the founders.
The buyers will find that they've bought another Napster: i.e. nothing but a recognised name, with a value proposition that fades away like fairy gold once the free content goes away. TPB founders start up another interesting project, with boatloads of cash to fund it, and away we go again. If you ask me this is a pretty smart move: the establishment will effectively be funding a new political project around the freedom to share...
You're kind of right, and this is always the approach that I've taken. However, in recent years I've noticed some quite large companies making moves to stop imaging new machines in the interest of cost cutting. Typically, if you can persuade the manufacturer to give you a clean build, and you're running Windows in an AD environment, you can automate a lot of the process of customisation as part of joining the domain. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's probably 50% as good for 20% of the cost of doing it yourself. Welcome to the world of the beancounters.
"When you get to be as big a company as we are you take whatever the lobbyist are giving away."
Never a truer word spoken: in our case, it's Lenovo...!
...big companies have infrastructure architects to plan, test and make recommendations on new infrastructure. You don't just go out and buy a container load of the latest and greatest based on the advertising copy.
If this is using your broadband connection to allow GSM mobiles to connect to Voda's network, would you pick up anything interesting with Wireshark? Could you (for example) put the femtocell into "promiscous" mode and get neighbours' phones to automatically prefer to connect to it?
Seriously, give it a go. I've never had classic hayfever symptoms - no streamign eyes/nose - just congestion. Piriton/Clarityn didn't do much, Vicks Synex and other similar cold relief did but too much use has the opposite effect as it irritates the membranes and makes them close up again - I was really negative that salt water would do anything at all but my dad (who has had nasal polyps removed under anaesthetic - nice! hope it's not genetic...!) had a can of this stuff so I thought what the hell.
It's sorted me out. I don't even have to use it every day after a few weeks use, and for extra bonus points it's stopped me snoring which the missus is very happy about. Give it a go, fingers crossed it helps you out.
We do. If it's classed as a medicine (i.e. has clinical effect) then it's highly regulated.
If it's classed as homeopathy, it's classed along with fairy sprinkles and not regulated.
The problem is that here we have something being marketed as homeopathic which clearly isn't. If it has a clinical effect (bad or good) then the FDA will regulate and mandate their exhaustive testing.
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It's the UK's Regulatory Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) that came in quite some years ago. Yup, they thought of that, surprisingly. It is an offence to not provide the keys when asked: silence isnt' an option.
Your point is cogent, informative, and well-written.
Are you new here?
I'd just add that TC state that their hidden volumes are indistinguishable from random noise, i.e. cannot be detected.
Have you forgotten your Tin Foil Hat? A mic in millions of cable boxes would be fairly obvious, wouldn't it. Find me some evidence of them.
Take that, HTC-fanboys!
For playback, rather than using as a recorder with a Tuner, I've been using XBMC on an original Xbox for a couple of years. It's amazing. Plays anything, it's small, can be made near silent with a couple of mods, and costs virtually nothing - the only problem with it is that in the days of HD, it doesn't have the horsepower for decent HD playback. Other than that - it's the best thign since sliced bread - the interface is brilliant, it's got a huge developer base, and it's genuinely living-room-friendly.
When I feel a pressing need to upgrade I'll probably go with Boxee running on either a modded Apple TV, or on a mini-ITX PC.
I'm sure you're right, but if I were in the business of creating HDCP-avoiding hardware like this I'd spoof the key of a major household brand like Sony. Try revoking that without starting a revolt...
I've not read TFA, because it's the Daily Mail, and I'd rather poke my eyes out with needles, but I'm assuming until I hear otherwise that this is duplication of an ID card, not creation of a new one: i.e. you end up with a clone, containing the original biometric data, rather than it being an exploit that can manufacture new, seemingly valid, ID cards for new individuals. Check the biometrics on the copy, and it won't match up with the person who's holding the clone.
Still bad, just not as scary as the headline suggests. Note the Mail's reason for existence is to print scaremongering headlines to give the UK's middle classes something to moan about: immigration, foreigners, bureaucracy in europe, etc.
If only you could get wind-powered ships.
Well played, sir. (Doffs hat)
I guess everyone must have seen this coming.
My two cents: Apple, as a general principle, aren't going to be too happy with third-aparty devices that sync as seamlessly as an iPod/iPhone to itunes, as it erodes one of USPs of the iPod and means that you can get the same experience by buying a non-Apple music player. This implies less hardware sales for Apple.
From Palm's point of view, I think this is a shot-across-the-bows. Both from an anticompetitive point of view - it'd be easy for Apple to be mired in some antitrust allegations, which they obviously don't want, and also Palm hold a shedload of patents that may or may not be able to similarly tie up Apple in legal knots for quite some time. To be fair, Apple also own a lot of patents in this space, but the thing you realise if you talk to an IP lawyer is that getting into this sort of dick-swinging match is mutually assured destruction.
I think Palm are banking that they could persuade Apple to quietly ignore this feature for fear of the backlash if they blocked it, and it's not paid off. I also think that the fact they did it, regardless of the obvious risk that this might happen, probably doesn't hurt their image as a slightly cooler, more enthusiast-friendly platform. We're talking about it and saying "Go Palm!", aren't we?
"The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits... a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."
No, that was WikiWikiLeaks.
"Maybe not requested directly from you, but all of that license information, including home address and the photo, is stored in the DVLA database. You have no idea who has access to it, or what they have done with it."
Yes I do! It's frigging anyone who wants it. As an example, private car clamping firms can get it from them to send you a bill - see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/17/dvla_review/.
Major supermarket chains have automatic numberplate recognition cameras that will automatically post you out a fine if you sit for too long in their carparks. McDonalds in the UK will famously send you a fine in the post for the temerity of sitting in their car parks for an hour whilst you eat your burger, and the first you'll hear about it is when the fine arrives in the post: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/mcfines%20for%20slow%20eaters/1169247.
And they'll store this evidence in an unlocked, canteen freezer along with the icecream if you're in North Yorkshire: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6616759.ece
..and I've been putting off filling in *my* Project Status Reports...
I wouldn't be surprised if that was what was behind this: a media-cartel backed buyout and takedown. Bear in mind that it's not just TPB that'll go away - an awful lot of other trackers just index TPB traffic. Bring on the minibay.org.
The "owners" of the TPB haven't made a profit: they've asked for payment to a fund for "internet projects" instead. This will presumably be some interesting new political statement.
They also aren't actually the owners as such: TPB was sold in 2006 to a shell company specifically to avoid any legal problems for the founders.
The buyers will find that they've bought another Napster: i.e. nothing but a recognised name, with a value proposition that fades away like fairy gold once the free content goes away. TPB founders start up another interesting project, with boatloads of cash to fund it, and away we go again. If you ask me this is a pretty smart move: the establishment will effectively be funding a new political project around the freedom to share...
At least Sony have lots of experience in shipping products with rootkits in them already.
You're kind of right, and this is always the approach that I've taken. However, in recent years I've noticed some quite large companies making moves to stop imaging new machines in the interest of cost cutting. Typically, if you can persuade the manufacturer to give you a clean build, and you're running Windows in an AD environment, you can automate a lot of the process of customisation as part of joining the domain. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's probably 50% as good for 20% of the cost of doing it yourself. Welcome to the world of the beancounters.
"When you get to be as big a company as we are you take whatever the lobbyist are giving away."
Never a truer word spoken: in our case, it's Lenovo...!
...big companies have infrastructure architects to plan, test and make recommendations on new infrastructure. You don't just go out and buy a container load of the latest and greatest based on the advertising copy.
If this is using your broadband connection to allow GSM mobiles to connect to Voda's network, would you pick up anything interesting with Wireshark? Could you (for example) put the femtocell into "promiscous" mode and get neighbours' phones to automatically prefer to connect to it?
Seriously, give it a go. I've never had classic hayfever symptoms - no streamign eyes/nose - just congestion. Piriton/Clarityn didn't do much, Vicks Synex and other similar cold relief did but too much use has the opposite effect as it irritates the membranes and makes them close up again - I was really negative that salt water would do anything at all but my dad (who has had nasal polyps removed under anaesthetic - nice! hope it's not genetic...!) had a can of this stuff so I thought what the hell.
It's sorted me out. I don't even have to use it every day after a few weeks use, and for extra bonus points it's stopped me snoring which the missus is very happy about. Give it a go, fingers crossed it helps you out.
and you could do this:http://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm.
Check out Bayer's ad for Heroin, or the Cocaine Toothdrops.
We do. If it's classed as a medicine (i.e. has clinical effect) then it's highly regulated.
If it's classed as homeopathy, it's classed along with fairy sprinkles and not regulated.
The problem is that here we have something being marketed as homeopathic which clearly isn't. If it has a clinical effect (bad or good) then the FDA will regulate and mandate their exhaustive testing.