Still, you need to get one of the "ends" to co-operate. And as long as this is not a British Communication Service Provider, the law will not apply to them. In any case, asking one end to hand over the keys is not really "removing end-to-end encryption".
Except the accident wasn't on a real divided highway if you have turning traffic crossing your lane. Frankly, the horrible design of this junction has a lot to do with this accident - I don't think such a type of a junction ("divided" highway with two lanes in each direction, no speed limit, no traffic light, but a junction where turning traffic crosses your lane) exists where I drive (mostly Benelux, Germany, Scandinavia, UK).
Have you even been at the Chunnel? There is a border checkpoint... What you are describing is not the EU but the Schengen agreement, which the UK has not signed up to. Many EU countries are part of it, but so are a few non-EU countries like Norway and Switzerland.
I'm not quite sure why I am replying to such a racist rant, but I wanted to point out that the vast majority of Muslims in the UK are from South Asia. This immigration had nothing to do with the EU, but was possible because of the Commonwealth.
Are you aware that this migration from countries like Poland to the UK happened because the UK (by it own decision) opted out of a transition period of (I think) seven years where citizen of the new Eastern European EU member states would not have full freedom of movement? Most other countries, including Germany, did not opt out so no "mass immigration" happened. Furthermore, the UK was one of the biggest proponents of EU enlargement to the East. So why blame the EU for something that was very much the wish of the democratically elected UK government?
The most relevant one for the UK right now: The European Economic Area (which now is EU plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein - many countries that were only in the EEA are now full EU members). And it is far more than the right of visa free travel, it is the right to work anywhere in the EEA as an EEA citizen.
Switzerland is not in the EEA. They have a lot of bilateral agreements with the EU, though, and they pay for them, too - so the situation is not that different from the non-EU EEA members Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
You can download quite large rectangles now (much larger than they used to be). If you really need the whole of the UK, you should be able to download in 10 or so parts.
I actually built a PC a few months ago with 64 GiB. I didn't think of it much, and it probably was a waste of money (It also cost a lot more than $239; I paid EUR 470 - I should probably have bought a better graphics card instead of the GTX 960 and just 16 GiB RAM). But sometimes it is awesome - open a very large file (say 30 GiB video) in one application - takes quite long to load. Then close it and open it in a different application - it loads very quickly as it is still in the operating system file cache. I never really had this effect previously when my computers had 8 GiB of RAM - which was mostly taken by programmes, so there was not a lot of RAM allocated to file cache.
Which earnings do you want to split? Acme Local Ltd in the UK has zero earnings! You want part of the earnings of Acme Global Corporation? Not possible, they have no business in the UK and no UK profits that can be taxed. Ah, those licensing fees Acme Local pays to Acme Global - it is all at market rate.
Apparently it is not possible. See http://stackoverflow.com/quest... - "This code requires the activity to be in memory and in the foreground. Without root access and without modifying Android's source there is no way you can one can take a screenshot."
I think you miss the premise of the paper. The PC that you use to access Google services is under control of an attacker. Therefore, even if 2FA is turned, it will not actually be requested if it is accessed from the computer in question.
That's what I thought as well first and deleted my main mobile phone number immediately from 2FA settings. But I think the Authenticator App itself might be vulnerable as well. I was able to take screenshot, and I would assume that there are apps that could do the same. It would then just need some OCR and the Authenticator would be broken as well. However, it may be the case that Android does not allow other apps to take screenshots and that there is no way to give them a permission to do so.
Not so sure. Sounds like advanced malware is used that could hide in hard disk firmware or the BIOS. And reflashing is not an option as this requires co-operation from the firmware that is already on the disk, which could simply pretend that it has been overwritten.
In some countries, leaving mobile data enabled causes Gogle's background activity to use all your data allowance in an hour! I have no idea why Google needs gazillions of Gigabytes in the background but it does.
That's odd. My phone (Android 4.3) only needs 3-5 MiB per day if I don't do anything special. This would then only be the traffic of receiving some e-mails and dozens of apps doing their thing. Are you taking many pictures and are using Google's auto-backup?
CTRL+ENTER is terrible. I disabled it after e-mails were sent prematurely a few times after my finger lingered slightly too long on the CTRL key after pasting something, whilst I hit ENTER too quickly for the next paragraph. ALT+S is safer.
Not quite correct - he probed for a simple directory traversal (think adding "/../../etc/passwd" to the end of the URL). However, the website was not vulnerable and did not disclose anything! It only threw an internal alarm and Cuthbert was identified by the previously entered credit card information.
In the old days, Homo Sapiens rarely had to worry about worn-out knees as they passed away before the age that the knees would have to be replaced. So there was no evolutionary pressure to have sturdy knees that would last into your 80s.
Try swiping on a keyboard like Swype (or the built-in Android keyboard since 4.3). Swiping one word at a time is faster than typing on a hardware keyboard.
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But how does this law give you the power to ask a non-British company to hand over the private keys?
Still, you need to get one of the "ends" to co-operate. And as long as this is not a British Communication Service Provider, the law will not apply to them. In any case, asking one end to hand over the keys is not really "removing end-to-end encryption".
If someone like an ISP can remove an encryption, it is not end-to-end encryption in the first place.
Except the accident wasn't on a real divided highway if you have turning traffic crossing your lane. Frankly, the horrible design of this junction has a lot to do with this accident - I don't think such a type of a junction ("divided" highway with two lanes in each direction, no speed limit, no traffic light, but a junction where turning traffic crosses your lane) exists where I drive (mostly Benelux, Germany, Scandinavia, UK).
Have you even been at the Chunnel? There is a border checkpoint... What you are describing is not the EU but the Schengen agreement, which the UK has not signed up to. Many EU countries are part of it, but so are a few non-EU countries like Norway and Switzerland.
I'm not quite sure why I am replying to such a racist rant, but I wanted to point out that the vast majority of Muslims in the UK are from South Asia. This immigration had nothing to do with the EU, but was possible because of the Commonwealth.
Are you aware that this migration from countries like Poland to the UK happened because the UK (by it own decision) opted out of a transition period of (I think) seven years where citizen of the new Eastern European EU member states would not have full freedom of movement? Most other countries, including Germany, did not opt out so no "mass immigration" happened. Furthermore, the UK was one of the biggest proponents of EU enlargement to the East. So why blame the EU for something that was very much the wish of the democratically elected UK government?
The most relevant one for the UK right now: The European Economic Area (which now is EU plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein - many countries that were only in the EEA are now full EU members). And it is far more than the right of visa free travel, it is the right to work anywhere in the EEA as an EEA citizen.
Only if it was part of France.
Switzerland is not in the EEA. They have a lot of bilateral agreements with the EU, though, and they pay for them, too - so the situation is not that different from the non-EU EEA members Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
You can download quite large rectangles now (much larger than they used to be). If you really need the whole of the UK, you should be able to download in 10 or so parts.
I actually built a PC a few months ago with 64 GiB. I didn't think of it much, and it probably was a waste of money (It also cost a lot more than $239; I paid EUR 470 - I should probably have bought a better graphics card instead of the GTX 960 and just 16 GiB RAM). But sometimes it is awesome - open a very large file (say 30 GiB video) in one application - takes quite long to load. Then close it and open it in a different application - it loads very quickly as it is still in the operating system file cache. I never really had this effect previously when my computers had 8 GiB of RAM - which was mostly taken by programmes, so there was not a lot of RAM allocated to file cache.
Which earnings do you want to split? Acme Local Ltd in the UK has zero earnings! You want part of the earnings of Acme Global Corporation? Not possible, they have no business in the UK and no UK profits that can be taxed. Ah, those licensing fees Acme Local pays to Acme Global - it is all at market rate.
Apparently it is not possible. See http://stackoverflow.com/quest... - "This code requires the activity to be in memory and in the foreground. Without root access and without modifying Android's source there is no way you can one can take a screenshot."
I think you miss the premise of the paper. The PC that you use to access Google services is under control of an attacker. Therefore, even if 2FA is turned, it will not actually be requested if it is accessed from the computer in question.
That's what I thought as well first and deleted my main mobile phone number immediately from 2FA settings. But I think the Authenticator App itself might be vulnerable as well. I was able to take screenshot, and I would assume that there are apps that could do the same. It would then just need some OCR and the Authenticator would be broken as well. However, it may be the case that Android does not allow other apps to take screenshots and that there is no way to give them a permission to do so.
The confirmed thyroid cancers identified in post-disaster screening thus far “appear to have already occurred prior to radiation exposure,”
I can see it clearly now - the Fukushima nuclear accident was caused by increased thyroid cancer rates in the prefecture.
Not so sure. Sounds like advanced malware is used that could hide in hard disk firmware or the BIOS. And reflashing is not an option as this requires co-operation from the firmware that is already on the disk, which could simply pretend that it has been overwritten.
Not everyone lives in America.
That includes me.
In some countries, leaving mobile data enabled causes Gogle's background activity to use all your data allowance in an hour! I have no idea why Google needs gazillions of Gigabytes in the background but it does.
That's odd. My phone (Android 4.3) only needs 3-5 MiB per day if I don't do anything special. This would then only be the traffic of receiving some e-mails and dozens of apps doing their thing. Are you taking many pictures and are using Google's auto-backup?
CTRL+ENTER is terrible. I disabled it after e-mails were sent prematurely a few times after my finger lingered slightly too long on the CTRL key after pasting something, whilst I hit ENTER too quickly for the next paragraph. ALT+S is safer.
Except that Lenovo just changed their power supply from round to rectangular so you can't do this anymore necessarily...
Not quite correct - he probed for a simple directory traversal (think adding "/../../etc/passwd" to the end of the URL). However, the website was not vulnerable and did not disclose anything! It only threw an internal alarm and Cuthbert was identified by the previously entered credit card information.
In the old days, Homo Sapiens rarely had to worry about worn-out knees as they passed away before the age that the knees would have to be replaced. So there was no evolutionary pressure to have sturdy knees that would last into your 80s.
I usually swipe my whole email first and then correct all incorrect words afterwards so not to interrupt the flow.
Try swiping on a keyboard like Swype (or the built-in Android keyboard since 4.3). Swiping one word at a time is faster than typing on a hardware keyboard.