No, you're seeing a combination of astroturfing and genuinely dispirited people.
When one wants to defeat a people, first one makes them afraid, and second, despairing of justice ever being done. Anything that increases despair is pushed by the parties trying to prevent public outrage.
The proper response to a plague of vampires isn't building castles, it's a mob of farmers with pitchforks and torches (;-))
This also applies to nominally-elected legislators who gerrymander their district boundaries to create lots of "safe" districts for one party or another. That makes them hard to defeat, and in return they help the opposing party gerrymander their district boundaries.
This is bad for the voters, of course: they want the choice of two candidates, and the option to throw the incumbent out if he or she gets too corrupt.
For both free and proprietary ROMs, we need checksums. Not just of BIOS chips, but of disk drives, ethernet cards, router flash memories and anything else one executes programs out of.
Cisco is moving software research and development to the Toronto, Ontario area. Not, please note, mere production, but development instead.
If things keep getting worse, I expect they will drew attention to this, to reassure customers that they are not necessarily an unwilling creature of the NSA.
Rather specifically, if you consent to having your information in a computer, the sysadmin can get it. That arguably means that you cannot expect privacy on any computer you don't personally administer.
In the British systems, there are more checks and balances, as our courts used to have Kings in them, who kept trying to put their thumbs on the scales of justice (;-))
The Crown has a duty to act if someone lays an "information" before them. If they push back, a good ground-swell of opinion will "encourage" them to do the right thing.
In addition, a private person (preferably a world-famous lawyer) can lay charges, naming any member of the crown (ie, prosecutors) who were involved in presenting the lies to the Court.
If that doesn't work, things get nasty, with contempt and disbarment actions.
In cases like this, the miscreants will want you to express exactly that opinion, to avoid a ground-swell of opinion that will force the Crown to lay charges. I recommend you write your local newspaper to ask for their heads on a pike!
Fortunately lying to a court is a criminal offence, typically called perjury. If officers of the court lie to it, as appears to be the case, they can at the very least be disbarred, if not imprisoned for contempt.
The guilty parties, of course, will be posting everywhere saying you can't do anything about it, to avoid a ground-swell of opinion that would force the Crown Attorneys to lay charges.
Also expect the miscreants to be writing learned opinions saying that the courts should defer to the security services, whose job is to lie and spy...
You normally put just factories in countries other than your own. Cisco's proposing to put development in Canada, which is unheard of. Sun and IBM used to have some limited development here when developers in California couldn't be had for love or money, but that's mostly gone by now.
I hope they know enough to discard the information after they're done the analyses, as libraries have long since learned to do when someone returns a book. Otherwise they can look forward to someone showing up with a court order and asking them for "a google search of everyone using more than 10 KW/H between 1 and 5 AM".
I'd also expect to tie the web service to "something I have" as well as something I know (my password). A good thing to uniquely tie it to is the google thermostat itself. It can give the owner it's private key via bluetooth and a "press to authenticate" button*.
--dave
[* this is a solution to a lot of "authenticate a device" problems]
Organizations are generally more concerned about foreign governments, such as ones who got a "google" certificate from a nominally Dutch CA. If they get told "you may not do business with country X", they'll be specifically interested in being sure country X can't eavesdrop on them with a forged certificate.
They're already quite aware certificates can be forged: many have forged their own to snoop on their employees.
Businesses are failure-averse. If they need to adopt a new scheme for certification in order to stay in business, they will.
Alas, rationabilis was used in non-ecclesiastical latin in strictly the sense of "capable of reasoning", or rational, while we were trying to translate reasonableness in the senses of
Being within the bounds of common sense: arrive home at a reasonable hour.
Not excessive or extreme; fair: reasonable [farlex]
If we'd used rationabilis, we would have a real risk of it translating back into English as "let spocky-ness flourish"
Fortunately that doesn't affect the nominally reasonable person by extinguishing their right to privacy.
Professional paranoids and whistle-blowers are valuable the the community, but if their existence could make it easy for the CSE to erase my right to privacy, It Would Be Bad (;-))
Actually it's an expectation a randomly-selected private individual would have, in the absence of specific knowledge. The proverbial "person on the Clapham omnibus" would have the expectation that the government won't act illegally against him. The paranoid wearing the tinfoil hat in the next seat, who considers all governments illegal and intrusive, doesn't count in this case.
It's also called "a reasonable expectation of privacy", where "reasonable[1]" doesn't include admittedly illegal mass collection efforts by the CSE.
Now that the cat's out of the bag, reasonable expectations still hold (the action's illegal, after all), but absolute ones fail. Consult a lawyer in your country for specifics.
--dave
[1. It's interesting to note you can't translate "reasonableness" into Latin or modern French. It seems to be something very English-language-specific. My college's motto, "Let Reasonableness Flourish", is in English because of that oddity, and it says interesting things about other countrys' jurisprudence.]
Yes: a colleague from out in the country noted that the larger boxes are always too small.
I suspect the postal service did more costing than modelling when they laid out the cabinets (;-))
Formally, fascism is a name applied to government by councils of industries. It was also called "corporatism", which is probably more appropriate, and closer to what we have now. The new term isn't as insulting, though (;-))
Actually our population is mostly in a band within 50 miles of the border, which makes broadband easier than in the central 'states. Presumably the same density equation applies to postal mail.
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No, you're seeing a combination of astroturfing and genuinely dispirited people.
When one wants to defeat a people, first one makes them afraid, and second, despairing of justice ever being done. Anything that increases despair is pushed by the parties trying to prevent public outrage.
The proper response to a plague of vampires isn't building castles, it's a mob of farmers with pitchforks and torches (;-))
--dave
It's zombies where you build castles
This also applies to nominally-elected legislators who gerrymander their district boundaries to create lots of "safe" districts for one party or another. That makes them hard to defeat, and in return they help the opposing party gerrymander their district boundaries.
This is bad for the voters, of course: they want the choice of two candidates, and the option to throw the incumbent out if he or she gets too corrupt.
Because US companies are in greater danger of subversion by the NSA than foreign ones.
For both free and proprietary ROMs, we need checksums. Not just of BIOS chips, but of disk drives, ethernet cards, router flash memories and anything else one executes programs out of.
Cisco is moving software research and development to the Toronto, Ontario area. Not, please note, mere production, but development instead.
If things keep getting worse, I expect they will drew attention to this, to reassure customers that they are not necessarily an unwilling creature of the NSA.
Rather specifically, if you consent to having your information in a computer, the sysadmin can get it. That arguably means that you cannot expect privacy on any computer you don't personally administer.
That certainly seems to apply to the NSA!
David T.S. Fraser writes in the Canadian Privacy Law Blog, Dec 23, 2013 Special prosecutor required to investigate spies and their lawyers lying to the Federal Court.
Special prosecutors are used when you fear political interference with the crown prosecutors...
In the British systems, there are more checks and balances, as our courts used to have Kings in them, who kept trying to put their thumbs on the scales of justice (;-))
Indeed, that's what this judge has said... anyone want to bet he's more than a *little* annoyed ?
Saying "sorry, won't happen again" isn't a good tactic when you are in front of the court against whom you committed the offence (;-))
Perjury, fabricating evidence, obstructing justice, criminal contempt ... all sorts of Criminal Code fun for the culprits.
The Crown has a duty to act if someone lays an "information" before them. If they push back, a good ground-swell of opinion will "encourage" them to do the right thing.
In addition, a private person (preferably a world-famous lawyer) can lay charges, naming any member of the crown (ie, prosecutors) who were involved in presenting the lies to the Court.
If that doesn't work, things get nasty, with contempt and disbarment actions.
Happily, the article describes criminal offences. A good ground-swell of opinion to encourage the Crown is in order.
Danger Danger, Will Robinson!
In cases like this, the miscreants will want you to express exactly that opinion, to avoid a ground-swell of opinion that will force the Crown to lay charges. I recommend you write your local newspaper to ask for their heads on a pike!
Fortunately lying to a court is a criminal offence, typically called perjury. If officers of the court lie to it, as appears to be the case, they can at the very least be disbarred, if not imprisoned for contempt.
The guilty parties, of course, will be posting everywhere saying you can't do anything about it, to avoid a ground-swell of opinion that would force the Crown Attorneys to lay charges.
Also expect the miscreants to be writing learned opinions saying that the courts should defer to the security services, whose job is to lie and spy...
You normally put just factories in countries other than your own. Cisco's proposing to put development in Canada, which is unheard of. Sun and IBM used to have some limited development here when developers in California couldn't be had for love or money, but that's mostly gone by now.
I hope they know enough to discard the information after they're done the analyses, as libraries have long since learned to do when someone returns a book. Otherwise they can look forward to someone showing up with a court order and asking them for "a google search of everyone using more than 10 KW/H between 1 and 5 AM".
I'd also expect to tie the web service to "something I have" as well as something I know (my password). A good thing to uniquely tie it to is the google thermostat itself. It can give the owner it's private key via bluetooth and a "press to authenticate" button*.
--dave
[* this is a solution to a lot of "authenticate a device" problems]
Organizations are generally more concerned about foreign governments, such as ones who got a "google" certificate from a nominally Dutch CA. If they get told "you may not do business with country X", they'll be specifically interested in being sure country X can't eavesdrop on them with a forged certificate.
They're already quite aware certificates can be forged: many have forged their own to snoop on their employees.
Businesses are failure-averse. If they need to adopt a new scheme for certification in order to stay in business, they will.
Alas, rationabilis was used in non-ecclesiastical latin in strictly the sense of "capable of reasoning", or rational, while we were trying to translate reasonableness in the senses of
If we'd used rationabilis, we would have a real risk of it translating back into English as "let spocky-ness flourish"
To be fair, it's really Mr. Snowden and the whistle-blowers we should be thanking.
Fortunately that doesn't affect the nominally reasonable person by extinguishing their right to privacy. Professional paranoids and whistle-blowers are valuable the the community, but if their existence could make it easy for the CSE to erase my right to privacy, It Would Be Bad (;-))
Actually it's an expectation a randomly-selected private individual would have, in the absence of specific knowledge. The proverbial "person on the Clapham omnibus" would have the expectation that the government won't act illegally against him. The paranoid wearing the tinfoil hat in the next seat, who considers all governments illegal and intrusive, doesn't count in this case.
It's also called "a reasonable expectation of privacy", where "reasonable[1]" doesn't include admittedly illegal mass collection efforts by the CSE.
Now that the cat's out of the bag, reasonable expectations still hold (the action's illegal, after all), but absolute ones fail. Consult a lawyer in your country for specifics.
--dave
[1. It's interesting to note you can't translate "reasonableness" into Latin or modern French. It seems to be something very English-language-specific. My college's motto, "Let Reasonableness Flourish", is in English because of that oddity, and it says interesting things about other countrys' jurisprudence.]
Yes: a colleague from out in the country noted that the larger boxes are always too small. I suspect the postal service did more costing than modelling when they laid out the cabinets (;-))
Formally, fascism is a name applied to government by councils of industries. It was also called "corporatism", which is probably more appropriate, and closer to what we have now. The new term isn't as insulting, though (;-))
A colleague from the country writes that the box "is always smaller than the parcel", so he has to drive into town whenever he gets a parcel.
Actually our population is mostly in a band within 50 miles of the border, which makes broadband easier than in the central 'states. Presumably the same density equation applies to postal mail.