"A Google spokeswoman said via email the company does not provide encryption keys to any government and provides user data only in accordance with the law."
What does this mean, exactly? That they would provide encryption keys in accordance with the law?
It means they will decrypt the data and then hand it over.
Its server side encryption. The server has the keys.
The most recent version prior to this one was fairly usable, but you are right its been a long road to stability. They keep adding stuff till its designed and releasing stuff till its debugged.
And any suggestions are met with surly put-downs and childish insults. I almost hesitate to upgrade because I've been so often disappointed.
I happen to know how Samsung builds products. And RSI is actually not an issue. This is a payoff fishing expedition from Brazil needing currency, now that they've closed down external bank transfers in US dollars, and shut down a large sector of their economy. Rather than admit their mistake and undo it, they are now looking to get their money a different way.
Strange, but Apple (contractors Pegatron and Honhai) have faced the same charges in other countries. Could it be that Samsung manufactures phones so dramatically differently that all Brazil can do shake Samsung down for a couple hundred thousand?
Transportation is a benefit to you on which you must pay income tax.
But this tax goes to the Feds, not to the local cities or states, so it matters not a wit for the discussion at hand. Remember that all public transit loses money. Every rider you add to the system costs the system more than the rider pays in fares. If the city/county had to add buses for this purpose it would be a much bigger loss.
The more you isolate people from poverty around them, the more you'll hear stuff like "if people are starving, let them eat cake." It rots the soul. If a millage comes up to improve public buses, how would you expect them to vote?
Oh, I see. The issue isn't that smart technically competent people have high paying jobs, the problem is that they don't have to look at stupid incompetent street riff-raf and gang bangers.
By all means, lets inflict a affluence penance on these high tech workers, and have mandatory alley tours and sniff safaris into the back streets, because god knows its just not fair that someone who works hard to acquire marketable skills should profit while the high-school drop out has to drive a cab, or panhandle for money.
No, you are missing the point. There busses, Caltrain and BART already... instead of these corps. helping to make public transit even better they are opting out of paying their fair share and spending it on MORE busses that only their employees can ride... which clog the streets even more. I pass a bunch of them each morning on my ride in. *shrug*
Wait, What? Opting OUT?
Do these companies somehow not have to pay all the local taxes that other companies pay to support the public buses that always run in the RED? Do these private buses opt out of all the road tax, licensing fees, gas tax that the public buses are exempt from paying?
Would not the local buses also have to increase vehicles on the road to compensate if these private services were discontinued? Would those buses be direct routes? With WIFI, comfy seats, and no smelly vagrants sitting next to someone trying to write an email or looking at some proprietary code?
Basically, I don't see the problem here, other than the local bus systems are deprived of the opportunity to LOSE MORE MONEY for every rider the private services handle.
That and a great deal of envy and jealousy on your part.
Dude: Even those people, especially those people can not afford to start chopping hole in their roof and putting all of their possessions at risk due to the leaks this will cause.
Known networks are those that you have previously connected to. This terminology is true for both iPhones and Android. If a new network appears, even if it requires no password, it will not be connected to automatically.
It appears that most wifi devices (not limited to android or IOS) still broadcast their Mac Address even when you do not attempt to connect. The standard says that this should be done for Access Points/Routers, but the problem is that almost every device out there does this for no apparent reason even when not connecting.
The important thing to keep in mind is this if you hate this, you can turn it off. The option is just buried under an "advanced" menu. Turning off "Scanning always available" will make "off" for Wi-Fi really be "off."
And further, its only on a leaked version of 4.3, not anyone's production version.
I would think simply re-generating a random MAC address each time you enable WiFi would work well enough.
There are times when you want to use your real mac (or at least the same mac you used last time you connected).
Mac filtering is sometimes used to limit who can connect. DHCP servers use mac to give out the same IP upon re-requests, and can run out of IP addresses if a gazillion phones power up with ever-changing mac addresses.
But if the software could use the same mac each time it connected to a specific router, then that SAME MAC could be what ever random mac was in use at the time it first connected with that particular router. Its a tad more record keeping for the phone, but it already keeps SSIDs and Access Point MACs and Passwords, so its not that big of a deal to keep a few more bytes to hold your router specific spoof-mac.
With your question, you've touched the heart of the problem.
Lazy software designers (those working for wifi chip designers) are sending mac addresses even while they are not associated with any network. Some say that these only occur when you have previously associated with a hidden SSID network, but that is not the only case, and most modern chip sets send a mac address all the time for no reason at all.
Its not part of the standard to broadcast your mac unless you are a router. But since the advent of ad-hoc networks, there are a lot phones that broadcast it all the time looking to join an adhoc network. Furthermore, bluetooth also broadcasts its mac all the time and often bluetooth and wifi are built into the same chip.
Mac addresses were originally designed to be static, but in the real world almost every smartphone uses software mac addresses. Their nics are built to allow MAC changing. For Android there are any apps for that.
Auto-connecting to open wifi is an option that's set to on by default by most carriers.
Carriers have nothing to do with wifi. And further, you have to explicitly connect to each router the first time. No phone automatically connects to random open wifi routers unless you set it to. (There are apps that will attempt this for you).
Yep, it's one of the most irritating things about my Android phone, even after I explicitly turn off WiFi I still get popups about available wireless networks, why is the damn phone powering a radio I told it to turn off? I'm not sure if it's trying to connect to those detected networks without my ok but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it was since it failed to listen to me in the first place.
Pictures or it didn't happen. Not on Android, and not on any cell phone. Off means off.
Turning off wifi powers down the wifi, and down means off. You can still get prompts for bluetooth.
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Oh come on, other people are not making decisions for you just because they show you an advertisement.
In fact most people simply gain more resistant to advertising the more blatant it is.
You over state your case. Yet, I wager you consider yourself more immune to advertising than the average man on the street.
Backup is all i use cloud storage for.
Some of it mildly proprietary. For that I use SpiderOak.com. Its client side encryption and They. Don't. Have. The. KEY.
"A Google spokeswoman said via email the company does not provide encryption keys to any government and provides user data only in accordance with the law."
What does this mean, exactly? That they would provide encryption keys in accordance with the law?
It means they will decrypt the data and then hand it over.
Its server side encryption. The server has the keys.
The most recent version prior to this one was fairly usable, but you are right its been a long road to stability. They keep adding stuff till its designed and releasing stuff till its debugged.
And any suggestions are met with surly put-downs and childish insults.
I almost hesitate to upgrade because I've been so often disappointed.
I happen to know how Samsung builds products. And RSI is actually not an issue. This is a payoff fishing expedition from Brazil needing currency, now that they've closed down external bank transfers in US dollars, and shut down a large sector of their economy. Rather than admit their mistake and undo it, they are now looking to get their money a different way.
Strange, but Apple (contractors Pegatron and Honhai) have faced the same charges in other countries.
Could it be that Samsung manufactures phones so dramatically differently that all Brazil can do shake Samsung down for a couple hundred thousand?
You can't multi-national your way out of property taxes.
Transportation is a benefit to you on which you must pay income tax.
But this tax goes to the Feds, not to the local cities or states, so it matters not a wit for the discussion at hand.
Remember that all public transit loses money. Every rider you add to the system costs the system more than the rider pays in fares. If the city/county had to add buses for this purpose it would be a much bigger loss.
So what's you point?
The IRS gets the money, not local transportation districts.
This is totally non-germane.
Income tax? You are going with that? Really?
If they drove themselves, or rode the bus, then what? How does that affect income tax?
The more you isolate people from poverty around them, the more you'll hear stuff like "if people are starving, let them eat cake." It rots the soul. If a millage comes up to improve public buses, how would you expect them to vote?
Oh, I see.
The issue isn't that smart technically competent people have high paying jobs, the problem is that they don't have to look at stupid incompetent street riff-raf and gang bangers.
By all means, lets inflict a affluence penance on these high tech workers, and have mandatory alley tours and sniff safaris into the back streets, because god knows its just not fair that someone who works hard to acquire marketable skills should profit while the high-school drop out has to drive a cab, or panhandle for money.
Seems your envy has gotten the better of you.
No, you are missing the point. There busses, Caltrain and BART already ... instead of these corps. helping to make public transit even better they are opting out of paying their fair share and spending it on MORE busses that only their employees can ride ... which clog the streets even more. I pass a bunch of them each morning on my ride in. *shrug*
Wait, What? Opting OUT?
Do these companies somehow not have to pay all the local taxes that other companies pay to support the public buses that always run in the RED? Do these private buses opt out of all the road tax, licensing fees, gas tax that the public buses are exempt from paying?
Would not the local buses also have to increase vehicles on the road to compensate if these private services were discontinued? Would those buses be direct routes? With WIFI, comfy seats, and no smelly vagrants sitting next to someone trying to write an email or looking at some proprietary code?
Basically, I don't see the problem here, other than the local bus systems are deprived of the opportunity to LOSE MORE MONEY for every rider the private services handle.
That and a great deal of envy and jealousy on your part.
And what does a new roof cost someone who makes $2 per day?
Dude: Even those people, especially those people can not afford to start chopping hole in their roof and putting all of their possessions at risk due to the leaks this will cause.
Elegant and no energy costs. It recycles something we all have handy. Easy to install also. Hard to argue with all those benefits!
And ruins your roof in the bargain. Such a deal!. What a great recycling project.
Save a bottle, and replace your roof.
Why not just Do it the right way.
I've seen this type of lighting system before on old ships (USS Constitution, etc...).
Instead of a water they used glass blocks (or similar).
But, it's great to see a novel way of recycling trash into something beneficial! :)
Cheers!
Commercially available "light pipes" have been available for decades. They are sold all over the world by many different companies.
The commercial products actually work, can reach deeply embedded rooms, and even basements, and save real electricity.
This is not novel, and it is certainly NOT beneficial.
Recycling a soda bottle and ruining your roof is a fools bargain.
Please think before you gush.
Yeah, that will work.
Its worked so well in other places it has been tried.
Oh, wait, it hasn't worked anywhere, ever, at anytime, in any country, even once, period.
Idiot.
What about makeing the EZ-pass system work for all us toll roads as well?
How about getting rid of toll roads all together?
You paid for them from your taxes. Do you get anything back when someone pays a toll?
Thought not.
Why?
All those multiple access points are going to share the same SSID. It should work.
Known networks are those that you have previously connected to. This terminology is true for both iPhones and Android.
If a new network appears, even if it requires no password, it will not be connected to automatically.
It appears that most wifi devices (not limited to android or IOS) still broadcast their Mac Address even when you
do not attempt to connect. The standard says that this should be done for Access Points/Routers, but
the problem is that almost every device out there does this for no apparent reason even when not connecting.
Apparently you didn't read you own link.
The important thing to keep in mind is this if you hate this, you can turn it off. The option is just buried under an "advanced" menu. Turning off "Scanning always available" will make "off" for Wi-Fi really be "off."
And further, its only on a leaked version of 4.3, not anyone's production version.
What do you mean it's "not possible?"
I would think simply re-generating a random MAC address each time you enable WiFi would work well enough.
There are times when you want to use your real mac (or at least the same mac you used last time you connected).
Mac filtering is sometimes used to limit who can connect.
DHCP servers use mac to give out the same IP upon re-requests, and can run out of IP addresses if a gazillion phones power up with ever-changing mac addresses.
But if the software could use the same mac each time it connected to a specific router, then that SAME MAC could be what ever random mac was in use at the time it first connected with that particular router. Its a tad more record keeping for the phone, but it already keeps SSIDs and Access Point MACs and Passwords, so its not that big of a deal to keep a few more bytes to hold your router specific spoof-mac.
With your question, you've touched the heart of the problem.
Lazy software designers (those working for wifi chip designers) are sending mac addresses even while they are not associated with any network.
Some say that these only occur when you have previously associated with a hidden SSID network, but that is not the only case, and most
modern chip sets send a mac address all the time for no reason at all.
Its not part of the standard to broadcast your mac unless you are a router. But since the advent of ad-hoc networks, there are a lot
phones that broadcast it all the time looking to join an adhoc network. Furthermore, bluetooth also broadcasts its mac all the time
and often bluetooth and wifi are built into the same chip.
Mac addresses were originally designed to be static, but in the real world almost every smartphone uses software mac addresses.
Their nics are built to allow MAC changing. For Android there are any apps for that.
Auto-connecting to open wifi is an option that's set to on by default by most carriers.
Carriers have nothing to do with wifi. And further, you have to explicitly connect to each router the first time. No phone automatically connects to random open wifi routers unless you set it to. (There are apps that will attempt this for you).
Yep, it's one of the most irritating things about my Android phone, even after I explicitly turn off WiFi I still get popups about available wireless networks, why is the damn phone powering a radio I told it to turn off? I'm not sure if it's trying to connect to those detected networks without my ok but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it was since it failed to listen to me in the first place.
Pictures or it didn't happen. Not on Android, and not on any cell phone. Off means off.
Turning off wifi powers down the wifi, and down means off.
You can still get prompts for bluetooth.