You got that right. Security is hard. Security is expensive. Security does not improve profits (as long as they continue to be lucky). The company that spends money on security while their competitors are not, will lose out. Therefore, who needs it? There's no sense of living dangerously without some really spectacular examples...
Yeah, D.A.R.E. worked like a charm, didn't it. The scare tactics teach kids more about how to keep from getting busted than they instill good values, especially since as usual they'll oversell it and when the kids figure out they fudged the truth any guilt they might have had goes right out the window.
Apple is going to end up killing off the fingerprint security industry singlehanded, just like they did handwriting recognition a few years back. It's another one of these technologies that sounds good at first, but in practice just doesn't quite hold up. Parents shouldn't use it to keep their kids out of their phone for example, because there are available fingerprints to acquire all over the house. http://pacsec.jp/psj06/psj06krissler-e.pdf
I'm going to send all my email as Captcha jpgs. To hell with encryption, your recipient has to be savvy enough to install it, and a I can't even figure that out on my end. So let the NSA have it, but I'll make damn sure they can't index it without using human eyeballs. Or at least make them work harder on anti-captcha software first. Most email programs can send jpgs just fine already, and Facebook and Twitter handle them fine, also. I just need to come up with a captcha program that will do an entire paragraph.
An even better idea. I'll post all my comments as jpgs. Anyone know of some good captcha software that works on entire paragraphs? Might give the #NSA a run for their money, too.
Unfortunately, these companies know that most people a) don't much care what the NSA does, b) have a very short memory and short attention span, and c) just can't wait to consume the next shiny thing that comes along.
For the rest of us, no matter what the politicians say or do, we will never trust them or the NSA again, and will never believe anything the US internet companies have to say about it again. Credibility is gone baby, gone.
So are you telling me that I could build my own custom hardware and software and Verizon would allow me access to their US LTE network using it? Note that I spend most of my time in areas where only Verizon has decent coverage, the rest of them are a joke as far as I'm concerned. Not that I like Verizon all that much, but I've tried the others, Verizon is what works. I have not had the impression that Verizon allows you to tie any old piece of equipment up to their network. And if this ISN'T the reason such phones would never be mainstream, what is? And why should I care if a phone isn't mainstream if I have no trouble myself using one with the local carrier?
Use a smtp/imap/pop client. Eliminates all that sort of crap. Also you can tie in other accounts so that your yahoo & hotmail incoming get aggregated together, should you find that desirable. The only interface you'll see is the clients UI, no bogus enhancements from the mail provider or ads either. And I have to agree, I took a look at the gmail web interface, and it's the worst. Plus, half of it won't even work with my preferred browser, it's useless.
If people are inclined to choose other more secure options for email, Google could lose customers. Furthermore, if Google isn't privy to your unencrypted traffic in some way, there's no info to collect for targeted advertising. So Google has some motivation to take charge of the encryption...
To be truly end-to-end, Google will only have access to the encrypted forms. And that's what they'd store on their servers. Though they'd still have to have the metadata required for delivery. But then how are they going to scan everything for the keywords that drive their targeted ads? That's their bread & butter, innit?
I don't care what discussions Syria has internally about chemical weapons. I do care when they actually USE them, though I doubt that cruise missiles are an effective or moral response. The fact Syria HAD such weapons seemed to be known already, we're only now getting into a tiff over it since they may have actually been used. But If you think you need to decrypt someone's communications to figure that out if WMD has been used, you've got bigger problems, because Syria or the next Syria could end up using sneakernet for that communications, or a form of encryption you can't decrypt. This whole reliance on knowing everyone's electronic thoughtcrimes about WMD or whatever is simply laziness. There's this idea that you don't need spies on the ground who risk detection anymore and that it can all be done from an office chair in Langley, and frankly, that's dangerous thinking that puts us all at risk. Similar the idea that you don't need boots on the ground and can wage an effective pushbutton war. You can certainly kill a lot of people with a pushbutton, but that's not the same thing. However, it's easy to sell these ideas to get big budgets for cool equipment and the ability to violate privacy just like the Stasi and you don't even have to get out if your office chair to earn your paycheck. I'm sorry but it's a really lousy long-term solution for the rest of us.
Unions are not the only picketers. Sure it was common for unions to picket, but private citizens or individual employees have been known to as well. Not much point though if you are one person with an issue at one store, even an independent one, that's in a space in a 250-store mall with a huge paking lot.
Stores have been known to be picketed, but you don't see it much anymore. Picketing a store with it's own parking lot is a lot more effective though, than picketing a store with a huge shared parking lot-- I've seen it happen, people picketing at an entrance to a mall parking lot, but there are usually many entrances, and it's tough to cover them all with a small crew, and the problem being, a mall may have hundreds of stores, you don't know who's crossing the picket line and who's not. Customers may just be going to one of the stores not being picketed.
Now however, storefronts are taking a back-seat entirely for many people-- you definately can't effectively picket a store whose access is via the internet. Opportunities for people who have been wronged by stores to communicate with other customers are generally under attack, if they can find a way to prohibit tweeted complaints being elevated to premium positions, rest assured they will.
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Torturing isn't quite the same as killing. Or benign, either. But perhaps the distinction is lost on Americans these days.
What I want is the ability to paywall my eyeballs. A browser that won't download advertising unless it includes some bitcoins.
You got that right. Security is hard. Security is expensive. Security does not improve profits (as long as they continue to be lucky). The company that spends money on security while their competitors are not, will lose out. Therefore, who needs it? There's no sense of living dangerously without some really spectacular examples...
Morons posting such pix of their ex-girlfriends have been making it impossible to find girlfriends willing to be photographed...
It sounds like he's saying it's cheaper/easier to just get it from the carriers rather than directly collect it themselves.
The NSA has figured out that the crypto isn't the weak point no matter what algorythm is used. Change it all you want, it makes no difference.
So does that mean insurance companies run by right winger climate deniers will have lower rates?
"Let's say we did something so that we can start pretending things are different."
Where's the funding coming from? Are my kids going to be getting "just say no" lectures when they should be having art or music class instead?
Yeah, D.A.R.E. worked like a charm, didn't it. The scare tactics teach kids more about how to keep from getting busted than they instill good values, especially since as usual they'll oversell it and when the kids figure out they fudged the truth any guilt they might have had goes right out the window.
What if I open source my DIY ultrasound code? Or my STL files of the 3D printed parts? Should I be expecting a gag order?
Apple is going to end up killing off the fingerprint security industry singlehanded, just like they did handwriting recognition a few years back. It's another one of these technologies that sounds good at first, but in practice just doesn't quite hold up. Parents shouldn't use it to keep their kids out of their phone for example, because there are available fingerprints to acquire all over the house. http://pacsec.jp/psj06/psj06krissler-e.pdf
I'm going to send all my email as Captcha jpgs. To hell with encryption, your recipient has to be savvy enough to install it, and a I can't even figure that out on my end. So let the NSA have it, but I'll make damn sure they can't index it without using human eyeballs. Or at least make them work harder on anti-captcha software first. Most email programs can send jpgs just fine already, and Facebook and Twitter handle them fine, also. I just need to come up with a captcha program that will do an entire paragraph.
An even better idea. I'll post all my comments as jpgs. Anyone know of some good captcha software that works on entire paragraphs? Might give the #NSA a run for their money, too.
So what, do we have to start communicating in pig latin to get them to butt-out?
Unfortunately, these companies know that most people a) don't much care what the NSA does, b) have a very short memory and short attention span, and c) just can't wait to consume the next shiny thing that comes along.
For the rest of us, no matter what the politicians say or do, we will never trust them or the NSA again, and will never believe anything the US internet companies have to say about it again. Credibility is gone baby, gone.
So are you telling me that I could build my own custom hardware and software and Verizon would allow me access to their US LTE network using it? Note that I spend most of my time in areas where only Verizon has decent coverage, the rest of them are a joke as far as I'm concerned. Not that I like Verizon all that much, but I've tried the others, Verizon is what works. I have not had the impression that Verizon allows you to tie any old piece of equipment up to their network. And if this ISN'T the reason such phones would never be mainstream, what is? And why should I care if a phone isn't mainstream if I have no trouble myself using one with the local carrier?
I presume the relevant issue is that no US carriers will support it?
Use a smtp/imap/pop client. Eliminates all that sort of crap. Also you can tie in other accounts so that your yahoo & hotmail incoming get aggregated together, should you find that desirable. The only interface you'll see is the clients UI, no bogus enhancements from the mail provider or ads either. And I have to agree, I took a look at the gmail web interface, and it's the worst. Plus, half of it won't even work with my preferred browser, it's useless.
If people are inclined to choose other more secure options for email, Google could lose customers. Furthermore, if Google isn't privy to your unencrypted traffic in some way, there's no info to collect for targeted advertising. So Google has some motivation to take charge of the encryption...
To be truly end-to-end, Google will only have access to the encrypted forms. And that's what they'd store on their servers. Though they'd still have to have the metadata required for delivery. But then how are they going to scan everything for the keywords that drive their targeted ads? That's their bread & butter, innit?
I don't care what discussions Syria has internally about chemical weapons. I do care when they actually USE them, though I doubt that cruise missiles are an effective or moral response. The fact Syria HAD such weapons seemed to be known already, we're only now getting into a tiff over it since they may have actually been used. But If you think you need to decrypt someone's communications to figure that out if WMD has been used, you've got bigger problems, because Syria or the next Syria could end up using sneakernet for that communications, or a form of encryption you can't decrypt. This whole reliance on knowing everyone's electronic thoughtcrimes about WMD or whatever is simply laziness. There's this idea that you don't need spies on the ground who risk detection anymore and that it can all be done from an office chair in Langley, and frankly, that's dangerous thinking that puts us all at risk. Similar the idea that you don't need boots on the ground and can wage an effective pushbutton war. You can certainly kill a lot of people with a pushbutton, but that's not the same thing. However, it's easy to sell these ideas to get big budgets for cool equipment and the ability to violate privacy just like the Stasi and you don't even have to get out if your office chair to earn your paycheck. I'm sorry but it's a really lousy long-term solution for the rest of us.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4425238,00.html
Unions are not the only picketers. Sure it was common for unions to picket, but private citizens or individual employees have been known to as well. Not much point though if you are one person with an issue at one store, even an independent one, that's in a space in a 250-store mall with a huge paking lot.
Stores have been known to be picketed, but you don't see it much anymore. Picketing a store with it's own parking lot is a lot more effective though, than picketing a store with a huge shared parking lot-- I've seen it happen, people picketing at an entrance to a mall parking lot, but there are usually many entrances, and it's tough to cover them all with a small crew, and the problem being, a mall may have hundreds of stores, you don't know who's crossing the picket line and who's not. Customers may just be going to one of the stores not being picketed.
Now however, storefronts are taking a back-seat entirely for many people-- you definately can't effectively picket a store whose access is via the internet. Opportunities for people who have been wronged by stores to communicate with other customers are generally under attack, if they can find a way to prohibit tweeted complaints being elevated to premium positions, rest assured they will.