You're trying to re-use something. The (book) publisher's model is "read once and throw away". They don't care that it's not applicable to music, movies or even books other than "summer blockbusters".
The level of willful blindness is getting a bit high (;-))
That would make it practically impossible to defend yourself against any charges brought against you by a government agency.
That's exactly what happens in terrorism cases in Canada: the security service swears they have secret evidence, and the Court has to make a decision based on that claim.
The courts are pushing back, asking that at the very least, the Court, Crown and Solicitors be cleared for the material on which they are to argue. It's contentious: even officers of the court have had to make anonymous comments in the media asking for more transparency.
One of the first tasks of a government to to prohibit private wars and vendettas, called "preserving the King's peace". From there, you get a slippery slope that honest governments admit exists, and used to work hard to stay away from. Not so much lately!
If you've read Asimov's later "Robots" stories, you can see his re-raising the question, and asking how it applies to a new technology.
Sure, but the WiFi analyzer on my phone will say "Holy cow, Dave, that's an insanely loud transmitter on channel 11, I'm going to have to shut down now or I'll blow".
Governments of the day would love us to have a "state broadcaster", and might also prefer to have a pliant privacy commissioner, but neither report directly to the PM. It's admittedly hard for them to honour and defend our constitution (to borrow a U.S. phrase) but they manage somehow.
The traditional response to discovering a formerly trusted supplier is actually a mafia front is to be "encouraged" to not discuss such things in public. The front then goes into a state of denial, or at least feigned denial (:-))
Also get some selected magazines, preferably last-month's copy of some of the teachers' favourites. Grade-school kids are interested in what grown-ups think are important, and will sometimes dive into thing's you'd never expect.
Especially articles about dinosaurs, including some stuff that grownup might think is way too hard. I didn't know I was supposed to be stupid, so I read about dinos everywhere, and just skipped over stuff I didn't understand (:-))
A good thing to have is a back issue or two of "The Atlantic", preferably including one with a John Fallows airplane article. Yes, it's a highbrow mag for grownups, but I read airplane articles in everything when I was a kid. Dinosaurs in F16s!
Amex already provide single-use credit card numbers, for use with untrustworthy vendors. I suspect they have other services for use when dealing with what looks arguably like a fraudulent vendor (:-))
Please note that MAC is turned off in SELinux (;-))
Joking aside, the NSA helped write the specs of secure systems, and certified a number, including Multics (B2) and Trusted Solaris (B1 workstation), both of which I used. That they've now decided that confidentiality is a bad idea doesn't mean they didn't care about it, back when it was their own government that was the main customer.
Imagine the fun of being a politician in a country where your security service spies on you. Imagine if the security service is headed by a inveterate collector of dossiers named J. Edgar Hoover. Disney and the Bank are pikers compared the the problems the US has!
Technically I was describing "MAC", mandatory access control. We used to have it, I even sysadmined it, but a three-letter organization seems to have decided no-one would want such a thing...
[From a longer rant about banks (:-)]
Imagine all files and programs on my phone have labels on them. My banking programs has one label that says "The Bank", while another says "David Collier-Brown". The files it creates have the same labels, and no program can read them unless it has both. The banking program will send careful selected information to programs that have just my label on them. This happens to include my printer and email programs, so I can email or print my bank statements and holdings. It can send much more to the bank itself, labelled with both the bank and my name. Let's call these labels (M & B), for me and the bank. When written to files, the labels take the form of public/private key pairs. That allows the program to send encrypted files to the bank over ordinary insecure networks without anyone being able to read them.
Disney has a label, too, and I can share what I like with them. and not with some chap with an evil plot to make use of Dave-and-Disney information
Organlegging: Technology needed to deal in illicitly obtained body parts.
Bill Christensen wrote: As far as I know, Niven was the first writer to really work with a topic that is just starting to become a problem, thanks to drugs that make transplantation viable.
Note that the law says that your data is your property.Car rental companies will fight this, as will hospitals, advertisers and everyone who wants to own someone else's data, but over time they'll get the same kind of respect we now show towards people who believe they can own human beings.
Actually, use of the public road is a right. Driving a 2-ton clumsy-box at high speed is the thing that's a privilege. Asmittedly, horses and bicycles are annoyingly slow, but no-one can make riding them a privilege (;-))
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They're training customers to distrust them. Remember Amazon's "delete 1984" fiasco? This may be Adobe's.
You're trying to re-use something. The (book) publisher's model is "read once and throw away". They don't care that it's not applicable to music, movies or even books other than "summer blockbusters".
The level of willful blindness is getting a bit high (;-))
That would make it practically impossible to defend yourself against any charges brought against you by a government agency.
That's exactly what happens in terrorism cases in Canada: the security service swears they have secret evidence, and the Court has to make a decision based on that claim.
The courts are pushing back, asking that at the very least, the Court, Crown and Solicitors be cleared for the material on which they are to argue. It's contentious: even officers of the court have had to make anonymous comments in the media asking for more transparency.
One of the first tasks of a government to to prohibit private wars and vendettas, called "preserving the King's peace". From there, you get a slippery slope that honest governments admit exists, and used to work hard to stay away from. Not so much lately!
If you've read Asimov's later "Robots" stories, you can see his re-raising the question, and asking how it applies to a new technology.
No, it was part of v6, but removed in v7 after we got groups to work better that they did in PWB.
Solution looking for a problem, field test of something to use somewhere else, and/or overweening arrogance.
According to a former boss, CSE is a really polite bunch of folks. They seem be be polite evil this week, though.
Sure, but the WiFi analyzer on my phone will say "Holy cow, Dave, that's an insanely loud transmitter on channel 11, I'm going to have to shut down now or I'll blow".
Same way as early PCs and IBM token-rings did it: broadcast("I'd like to be user %d", id=rand(seed)); and see if anyone already has that number.
(Never ask a factual question sarcastically on a nerd site: someone will probably know the answer (:-))
Governments of the day would love us to have a "state broadcaster", and might also prefer to have a pliant privacy commissioner, but neither report directly to the PM. It's admittedly hard for them to honour and defend our constitution (to borrow a U.S. phrase) but they manage somehow.
The traditional response to discovering a formerly trusted supplier is actually a mafia front is to be "encouraged" to not discuss such things in public. The front then goes into a state of denial, or at least feigned denial (:-))
Also get some selected magazines, preferably last-month's copy of some of the teachers' favourites. Grade-school kids are interested in what grown-ups think are important, and will sometimes dive into thing's you'd never expect.
Especially articles about dinosaurs, including some stuff that grownup might think is way too hard. I didn't know I was supposed to be stupid, so I read about dinos everywhere, and just skipped over stuff I didn't understand (:-))
A good thing to have is a back issue or two of "The Atlantic", preferably including one with a John Fallows airplane article. Yes, it's a highbrow mag for grownups, but I read airplane articles in everything when I was a kid. Dinosaurs in F16s!
--dave (channelling Calvin) c-b
That also applies to police and courts who threaten the positions and livelihoods of the corrupt.
Amex already provide single-use credit card numbers, for use with untrustworthy vendors. I suspect they have other services for use when dealing with what looks arguably like a fraudulent vendor (:-))
Please note that MAC is turned off in SELinux (;-))
Joking aside, the NSA helped write the specs of secure systems, and certified a number, including Multics (B2) and Trusted Solaris (B1 workstation), both of which I used. That they've now decided that confidentiality is a bad idea doesn't mean they didn't care about it, back when it was their own government that was the main customer.
Imagine the fun of being a politician in a country where your security service spies on you. Imagine if the security service is headed by a inveterate collector of dossiers named J. Edgar Hoover. Disney and the Bank are pikers compared the the problems the US has!
--dave
Technically I was describing "MAC", mandatory access control. We used to have it, I even sysadmined it, but a three-letter organization seems to have decided no-one would want such a thing...
Also Carl Hiaasen's Team Rodent
[From a longer rant about banks (:-)]
Imagine all files and programs on my phone have labels on them. My banking programs has one label that says "The Bank", while another says "David Collier-Brown". The files it creates have the same labels, and no program can read them unless it has both. The banking program will send careful selected information to programs that have just my label on them. This happens to include my printer and email programs, so I can email or print my bank statements and holdings. It can send much more to the bank itself, labelled with both the bank and my name. Let's call these labels (M & B), for me and the bank. When written to files, the labels take the form of public/private key pairs. That allows the program to send encrypted files to the bank over ordinary insecure networks without anyone being able to read them.
Disney has a label, too, and I can share what I like with them. and not with some chap with an evil plot to make use of Dave-and-Disney information
--dave
Organlegging: Technology needed to deal in illicitly obtained body parts.
Bill Christensen wrote: As far as I know, Niven was the first writer to really work with a topic that is just starting to become a problem, thanks to drugs that make transplantation viable.
Note that the law says that your data is your property.Car rental companies will fight this, as will hospitals, advertisers and everyone who wants to own someone else's data, but over time they'll get the same kind of respect we now show towards people who believe they can own human beings.
Actually, use of the public road is a right. Driving a 2-ton clumsy-box at high speed is the thing that's a privilege. Asmittedly, horses and bicycles are annoyingly slow, but no-one can make riding them a privilege (;-))
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
Can you say "scam"? See a toy helicopter, report a predator (drone, that is).
I suspect the Siemens and Sietec people are now on a wide-ranging entropy hunt, probably along with the German Federal Security Service (:-))