Apple never stated it's going to be encrypted. Read the article you linked to, or even Apple's actual Press Release
Yes they did! DUDE, take your own advice. From the Apple press release:
These calculations are performed live on the iPhone using a crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data that is generated by tens of millions of iPhones sending the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and *******encrypted******* form to Apple.
Further down, it states:
In the next major iOS software release the cache will also be encrypted on the iPhone.
Well, isn't that interesting....and you said:
cacheisn't even from the iPhone itself,
The Apple press release specifically says that it's generated from tens of millions of iPhones sending bla bla bla bla.....
My tinfoil hat fits fine, and I don't even own an iPhone.
I read the summary, the article and the press release. That's how I knew it was encrypted....All 3 resources state it....including Apple....in their press release....that you linked to....and obviously didn't read past the first paragraph.....
Additionally, Apple said that in the next major iOS software release the cache would be encrypted on the iPhone, though a timeline for that was not provided.
You might try reading the article, or even the summary.
Additionally, Apple said that in the next major iOS software release the cache would be encrypted on the iPhone, though a timeline for that was not provided.
Other than that, how's being a schmuck working for you?
Yeah, but the key can be compiled into a binary, so it might be inaccessible without knowing exactly where it is and how big it is. It probably won't be in a file named "ENCRIPTION KEY"
Knowing a history of where you've been is key to determining where you might be going in the future.
I had to tell one of my daughters to turn off the GPS location update on her pedometer app because she was posting her jogging path/times on facebook. She didn't know the feature was turned on, and scrambled to delete the details from her facebook account. I didn't need to explain the dangers to her, but I'll explain it here.
With knowledge of her jogging path and the approximate times she normally runs, kidnapping (or worse) couldn't be easier.
Apple: We didn't see anything wrong with the previous implementation, but it seems that our customers do. We'll begin encrypting the information so our customers have no idea what we are doing or what data we are storing. Maybe then they will go back to sleep until it's time to pony up for the next version of hardware.
Heh, usually, I don't see vegetarians or vegans attempt to climb stairs or exert more energy than it takes to sit down and gasp for air.
I like to think that I'm still part of the food-chain / circle of life thingy. If I run across an animal that considers me prey, I fully expect to kill or be killed.
Humans are the only creatures to choose what they eat on principle. Animals will kill when the opportunity presents itself - there are no tofu eating lions out there, unless the lion takes a big bite of a vegetarians stomach.
Personally, I like already dead food (the more recent, the better....but not squirming in my mouth)
No, it's ok if an investment bank loses money. The government will just bail them out so their investors don't lose anything and nobody has to cancel their house renovations or trips to tropical places.
We were going to kill and eat the chickens anyway. I'd rather see vegetables used for food, and unwanted chicken grease used for fuel than to see the grease poured down the drain and the vegetables poured into a fuel tank.
I've seen reports that show a net loss when converting vegetables directly into fuel. Government subsidies are they only reason it remains in practice.
If you believe that petroleum oil is from dinosaurs, then they're already using animal products. I can't tell you how many vegetarians/vegans I've met that wear various articles of leather, feed their pets canned food (containing meat) and use other animal products. I try to point it out as often as possible.
Take a small solar cell connected to a battery and a photoswitch running a light bulb near the chickens. The chickens eat the tasty insects drawn to the light. Add a little water and while you're waiting for the chickens to fatten up, you get eggs to eat with the corn you're no longer turning into biofuel. Additionally, the high-nitrogen chicken poop can be composted to fertilize the growing corn.
In addition to being tasty, chickens are definitely renewable. And chicken poop is frequently green.
...until you hire a developer to fork and continue support and development.
Likely, the original developer stopped development and support when he didn't get any support from the community. Everyone wants a free lunch, nobody wants to do the dishes.
Only.05% of people who download my FOSS make a donation for development or support. By your comment, I bet you're not part of the small percentage that contributes to FOSS.
Something that is free is not necessarily without cost. Someone pays the cost (time and money) to create it and give it away, why shouldn't it cost you to use it?
So it becomes "Document Foundation Office Suite" or "Document Foundation Office" (as someone earlier mentioned)
The hard part isn't convincing people to use Writer and stop looking for Word. The hard part is convincing people that there is more than one application to accomplish a goal, and that what they're looking for is a Word Processor and that Writer is an application that meets the requirements.
No, I've never met an IT guy who could do anything other than report, leaving HR decisions to someone with actual authority.
I responded to these hipaa arguments yesterday. Complying with hipaa guidelines is an individual responsibility as much as it is the responsibility of a hospital. If an employee posts individually identifiable patient information ANYWHERE public, they've violated hipaa. The OP wants a calendar app for scheduling - that doesn't necessarily require ANY individually identifiable patient information to be present in the individual calendar entries. If the employees in his department exercise some common sense when crafting and following their AUP for the calendar, they will have smooth sailing.
It takes a little common sense...just a smidgeon. I can loan you some.
That's the first nice thing anyone has said. Thank you.
Ethically bankrupt? I see it as protecting self interests. In this scenario, nobody gets hurt and IT technically does get a login to the system, but in a segregated area where they can't do any damage.
Remember, OP said that IT doesn't want a superuser account....they just want a non-privileged account. The end result is the same. The IT user account still has no access to see or do anything. The difference is that the IT account can only do damage to a VM.
What's the difference between: 1. a non-privileged user account on a VM and 2. a non-privileged user account on the real server
Answer: Nothing, except that crashing a VM doesn't take the real server down. Users have rights to do the same things - nothing. They have access to the same files (when chrooted), their home directories.
In the event that the IT account does manage to crash something, I'd much rather they crash a VM where no damage can be done.
So, how exactly are they supposed to know the difference when they have access to nothing either way?
making someone regret their actions is more to say that if an IT guy who thinks he's especially 1337 might decide to try to root the machine, or delete all the data, or plant something in hopes of getting someone else in trouble.
IT guy: Hey, we found pr0n on Crudely_Indecent's DAViCAL server. Crudely_Indecent: Hey, I have logs showing that IT guy put the pr0n there. HR lady: IT guy, here's your final paycheck.
Who says it's a lie. They wanted non-privileged user access to the system, and that's what they get.....but to a segregated area where they can't do any damage. Any sufficiently secured system would lock a user into his home directory, preventing him from accessing the web root or the database. So, it's likely to produce exactly the same result as giving them access to the real system, except that if they do manage to screw something up, they're only crashing a VM and not dragging the entire system down.
Technically, it isn't a lie because they ARE accessing the same system. I'd take that defense to court.
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Apple never stated it's going to be encrypted. Read the article you linked to, or even Apple's actual Press Release
Yes they did! DUDE, take your own advice.
From the Apple press release:
These calculations are performed live on the iPhone using a crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data that is generated by tens of millions of iPhones sending the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and *******encrypted******* form to Apple.
Further down, it states:
In the next major iOS software release the cache will also be encrypted on the iPhone.
Well, isn't that interesting....and you said:
cacheisn't even from the iPhone itself,
The Apple press release specifically says that it's generated from tens of millions of iPhones sending bla bla bla bla.....
My tinfoil hat fits fine, and I don't even own an iPhone.
I read the summary, the article and the press release. That's how I knew it was encrypted....All 3 resources state it....including Apple....in their press release....that you linked to....and obviously didn't read past the first paragraph.....
Except they aren't going to encrypt it....
From the summary and the article:
Additionally, Apple said that in the next major iOS software release the cache would be encrypted on the iPhone, though a timeline for that was not provided.
You might try reading the article, or even the summary.
From the summary and the article:
Additionally, Apple said that in the next major iOS software release the cache would be encrypted on the iPhone, though a timeline for that was not provided.
Other than that, how's being a schmuck working for you?
Yeah, but the key can be compiled into a binary, so it might be inaccessible without knowing exactly where it is and how big it is. It probably won't be in a file named "ENCRIPTION KEY"
Knowing a history of where you've been is key to determining where you might be going in the future.
I had to tell one of my daughters to turn off the GPS location update on her pedometer app because she was posting her jogging path/times on facebook. She didn't know the feature was turned on, and scrambled to delete the details from her facebook account. I didn't need to explain the dangers to her, but I'll explain it here.
With knowledge of her jogging path and the approximate times she normally runs, kidnapping (or worse) couldn't be easier.
Maybe a little more like this...
Apple: We didn't see anything wrong with the previous implementation, but it seems that our customers do. We'll begin encrypting the information so our customers have no idea what we are doing or what data we are storing. Maybe then they will go back to sleep until it's time to pony up for the next version of hardware.
I am a proud owner of "The Complete Far Side", so yes, it was a reference for those similarly blessed.
Heh, usually, I don't see vegetarians or vegans attempt to climb stairs or exert more energy than it takes to sit down and gasp for air.
I like to think that I'm still part of the food-chain / circle of life thingy. If I run across an animal that considers me prey, I fully expect to kill or be killed.
Humans are the only creatures to choose what they eat on principle. Animals will kill when the opportunity presents itself - there are no tofu eating lions out there, unless the lion takes a big bite of a vegetarians stomach.
Personally, I like already dead food (the more recent, the better....but not squirming in my mouth)
No, it's ok if an investment bank loses money. The government will just bail them out so their investors don't lose anything and nobody has to cancel their house renovations or trips to tropical places.
And who's patient enough to wait 100 years to hear the answer to:
"Can you hear me now?"
We were going to kill and eat the chickens anyway. I'd rather see vegetables used for food, and unwanted chicken grease used for fuel than to see the grease poured down the drain and the vegetables poured into a fuel tank.
I've seen reports that show a net loss when converting vegetables directly into fuel. Government subsidies are they only reason it remains in practice.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July05/ethanol.toocostly.ssl.html
If you believe that petroleum oil is from dinosaurs, then they're already using animal products. I can't tell you how many vegetarians/vegans I've met that wear various articles of leather, feed their pets canned food (containing meat) and use other animal products. I try to point it out as often as possible.
Bah, you think to small.
Take a small solar cell connected to a battery and a photoswitch running a light bulb near the chickens. The chickens eat the tasty insects drawn to the light. Add a little water and while you're waiting for the chickens to fatten up, you get eggs to eat with the corn you're no longer turning into biofuel. Additionally, the high-nitrogen chicken poop can be composted to fertilize the growing corn.
In addition to being tasty, chickens are definitely renewable. And chicken poop is frequently green.
Yes, the type of software that Exxon uses.
ERP manages many types of business activities, from manufacturing to materials management and HR to shipping and receiving.
For more info, you can visit a website of one of the ERP leaders - http://www.sap.com/
No, I don't work for or with SAP anymore. I just know how powerful it can be.
FOSS....If they stop, then you don't get updates.
...until you hire a developer to fork and continue support and development.
Likely, the original developer stopped development and support when he didn't get any support from the community. Everyone wants a free lunch, nobody wants to do the dishes.
Only .05% of people who download my FOSS make a donation for development or support. By your comment, I bet you're not part of the small percentage that contributes to FOSS.
Something that is free is not necessarily without cost. Someone pays the cost (time and money) to create it and give it away, why shouldn't it cost you to use it?
How about arresting Apple?
I'm pretty sure that a company can't be arrested.
So it becomes "Document Foundation Office Suite" or "Document Foundation Office" (as someone earlier mentioned)
The hard part isn't convincing people to use Writer and stop looking for Word. The hard part is convincing people that there is more than one application to accomplish a goal, and that what they're looking for is a Word Processor and that Writer is an application that meets the requirements.
I like LibreOffice better than OpenOffice, but you're right. It's still a bad name.
Personally I think "Document Foundation" sounds impressive. They should go with that.
"Document Foundation Suite" sounds pretty good.
No, I've never met an IT guy who could do anything other than report, leaving HR decisions to someone with actual authority.
I responded to these hipaa arguments yesterday. Complying with hipaa guidelines is an individual responsibility as much as it is the responsibility of a hospital. If an employee posts individually identifiable patient information ANYWHERE public, they've violated hipaa. The OP wants a calendar app for scheduling - that doesn't necessarily require ANY individually identifiable patient information to be present in the individual calendar entries. If the employees in his department exercise some common sense when crafting and following their AUP for the calendar, they will have smooth sailing.
It takes a little common sense...just a smidgeon. I can loan you some.
technically clever
That's the first nice thing anyone has said. Thank you.
Ethically bankrupt? I see it as protecting self interests. In this scenario, nobody gets hurt and IT technically does get a login to the system, but in a segregated area where they can't do any damage.
Remember, OP said that IT doesn't want a superuser account....they just want a non-privileged account. The end result is the same. The IT user account still has no access to see or do anything. The difference is that the IT account can only do damage to a VM.
What's the difference between:
1. a non-privileged user account on a VM
and
2. a non-privileged user account on the real server
Answer:
Nothing, except that crashing a VM doesn't take the real server down. Users have rights to do the same things - nothing. They have access to the same files (when chrooted), their home directories.
In the event that the IT account does manage to crash something, I'd much rather they crash a VM where no damage can be done.
So, how exactly are they supposed to know the difference when they have access to nothing either way?
making someone regret their actions is more to say that if an IT guy who thinks he's especially 1337 might decide to try to root the machine, or delete all the data, or plant something in hopes of getting someone else in trouble.
IT guy: Hey, we found pr0n on Crudely_Indecent's DAViCAL server.
Crudely_Indecent: Hey, I have logs showing that IT guy put the pr0n there.
HR lady: IT guy, here's your final paycheck.
I would have HR unceremoniously fire your sorry ass
Then you would be the most powerful IT person I've ever heard of!
No wonder you're posting AC.....you must be an IT diety!...or...a die-IT.....maybe you're the BOFH.
Who says it's a lie. They wanted non-privileged user access to the system, and that's what they get.....but to a segregated area where they can't do any damage. Any sufficiently secured system would lock a user into his home directory, preventing him from accessing the web root or the database. So, it's likely to produce exactly the same result as giving them access to the real system, except that if they do manage to screw something up, they're only crashing a VM and not dragging the entire system down.
Technically, it isn't a lie because they ARE accessing the same system. I'd take that defense to court.
You'd be the first.
I've been called stupid, an idiot, a troll.....sheesh... The last AC posted that my identity should be revealed! HAHAHA
I feel like the protagonist in an "Attack of the Anonymous Coward!" movie.