> If you want us to trust our intelligence communities with decryption capabilities in case we happen to be criminals, then we need
It's not decryption they want, it's a backdoor. If there's a back door, it was never really encrypted to begin with.
And what we need is encryption that works and is implemented properly- with no back doors. The idea that the government has the right to spy on each and every thing that is said at any time, at any place, and push it through whatever the latest grep / pattern analysis / AI farm- is ludicrous. It's simply ludicrous.
Encryption- not back doored encryption where you are trusted with a slave key and a bunch of people in the shadows have a master key- is the only answer.
This will continue nearly indefinitely. The game plan would be something like- first pass laws to prevent it from happening in the US, which will include free and open source software, second talk easily persuaded nations into the same thing, third use trade tactics and even threats to push down the "terrorism supporting" nations.
Encryption is speech. Any of these attempts are flatly unconstitutional.
They understand if you remove people from the payroll and claim it helps, that it makes the stock go up. Say "my production code doesn't need to be tested, I found all the bugs" in a mirror. What does that person look like saying that?
Don't even think about believing it. If removing test was a good idea, it would have been done years ago across the industry. You seriously think an entire profession is entirely needless? Like, even for a second?
This is just some dumb scam to reduce corporate overhead to pump dem stox. You'd have more success firing the managers (another bad idea that has been tried).
The standard model does predict that a Dow/Dupont merged particle could exist, but it would have a very short half life, and will be observed by the three predicted decay companies.
> it already can do some things other browsers can't
Well, it's on Windows 10, which already does a bunch of ludicrous things no other OS does. So I wouldn't get sold over some dubious hardware acceleration. We know what Microsoft does when they have even a moderate amount of browsershare, after all.
I'm still not sure how they get that. It's certainly true that decentralized low security church websites can be owned and stay owned, but... how many people visit them? When a major adult ad network gets compromised, it serves the bad add a zillion billion times before someone catches it- even if they catch it later that same day.
It's harder, but there's pretty constant zero days through browsers still. They usually put themselves on the porno sites so you can say "oh well you shouldn't go to the porno sites", which totally misses the point.
Intel's actions were shocking and absurd, and they seem to be willing to play by legal limits only when failing to do so would visibly get them hammered with monopoly lawsuits. It was a poor resolution to a very real issue. The other part? It prevents Intel from having to do anything rash or aggressive with their chip power, because by neutering their only competitor they were able to focus more on profitability and less on performance and perception. In my *opinion*, I think this is a big part of why we saw chips mostly become stagnant compared to in years prior- Intel is actually keeping in range of what AMD is capable of on purpose. They are holding back.
I've thought Trump was a clown, but the Muslim comment was absolutely chilling- "top polling GOP candidate vows to repeal first amendment" is how I read that. Clearly, Republicans will address this issue, but holy crap. The internet thing would have soured my already poor opinion of him, but it came after the "ban the Muslims" comment. That's straight frightening.
> Sorry to nit pick but those are consoles not gp computers
Well, none of them can run a simple bash script, so they are all roughly equal in functionality. And the only reason anyone stays with Windows is because of the games, right? I mean, come on- you can't seriously expect Windows to do the work of a Linux distro, right? Windows is a toy OS that runs some games, like the Wii U and the PS4 dashboards.
Sorry man, I was making a sarcastic joke. Windows 7 and frankly all other OSes don't do this. My joke is in two parts: First I'm making fun of the people who point to some privacy problem (usually with the default configuration of Android) and then pretend that what Microsoft is doing is ok. Second, I'm making fun of the people who can't switch to a real OS because of games, by pretending that Microsoft Windows has, as its main competitors, Sony's PS4 and Nintendo's Wii-U- the gag being that I don't even bother comparing to functional OSes, because Windows is so far gone, but has people who won't switch because of games.
Apologies for the confusion, if the joke was funnier it would have been modded as such and would have been obvious:P
There's no ads on wired.com. If you're seeing them, you are configured incorrectly. Did you accidentally disable your ublock origin? If you aren't using that, we'll make apk come by and tell you what to use instead.
Well, not every machine is assumed to be a client. There is no list, after all. Or there shouldn't be. Think of it this way: the ideal Windows box sends the same telemetry to Microsoft, as the default Debian install does. That is how mucb telemetry Microsoft needs.
> Telemetry is simply a measurement of some kind that is sent back to a service that collects that information.
Given that its usage in computers is EXTREMELY recent, telemetry means anything that they want.
So, a measurement of some kind that is sent back to a service that collects information?
I don't want that. You also give an example as "it could be as simple as". Well, I don't want that either. I don't want system errors (which leak information about what programs I use, and can leak RAM dumps too) transmitted remotely. It's a huge leak for some remote spybot to know when I'm likely to run programs, how much memory they are using, how long they run for, what paths they save to, etc. All the things you'd care about for debugging a problem are things you don't want to transmit on your actual personal box! Microsoft sniffing my RAM, keyboard, and mic, ostensibly to help themselves make a less shitty OS in the future, is absolutely not in my interest- and I'd be surprised if its in *anyone's* interest. Telemetry COULD send PII upstream- Microsoft certainly makes you agree to that in their EULA, because PII could easily be in any of the vast array of contacts, phone calls, emails, file system names, applications run, etc.
Lets get back to your point- you are playing that same equivalence game I see a whole lot of. You said "I guarantee that apps on your phone are sending telemetry all the time". I told you I had an iphone, and asked you what is being sent upstream? Your example is geo-loc being transmitted when using GPS, or in a browser.
This is not telemetry.
If I choose to use a map service- and remember, I could be using apple maps, or google maps, or another third party- then of course, it does need access to my location. But in these cases, it doesn't send a bunch of data to some third party- and its not sending measurements about how I'm using the product, it's requesting maps and such *as needed to accomplish the task at hand*. That's not telemetry- that's just it doing its job. If I run notepad, it transmits that fact to Microsoft. If I run a web browser and go to Microsoft.com, that's not telemetry- that's me asking microsoft.com for data.
Geo IP lookup is gated by an OS access screen in ios (and maybe Android, but I'm not sure). Geo-loc is also gated in general, so that a map app has to ask for that. It also doesn't transmit when not in use, and it doesn't talk to third parties.
There are, but this will get addressed eventually. A friend at work accidentally upgraded to Windows 10 (and he's a computer security professional, lol!), and his big side effect so far has been that Star Wars: Battlefront works well for him now.
Windows 10 should be avoided because of its massive privacy problems and lack of features- certain features that are intended but currently bugged will almost assuredly be worked out soon enough, but it will not stop the spying without a policy change at Microsoft, and it will not support removed features, such as the media center, without additional third party software that is expensive in most cases.
This is an outright lie, and an attempt to normalize spying.
The fact that I'm on slashdot is being transmitted to slashdot. It's not being transmitted to, say, Microsoft. The fact that I run notepad shouldn't be transmitted to Microsoft either.
Remote connections are not telemetry- your post is factually incorrect.
Slashdot Mirror
Call it what it is- you get a slave key, the government gets a master key.
> If you want us to trust our intelligence communities with decryption capabilities in case we happen to be criminals, then we need
It's not decryption they want, it's a backdoor. If there's a back door, it was never really encrypted to begin with.
And what we need is encryption that works and is implemented properly- with no back doors. The idea that the government has the right to spy on each and every thing that is said at any time, at any place, and push it through whatever the latest grep / pattern analysis / AI farm- is ludicrous. It's simply ludicrous.
Encryption- not back doored encryption where you are trusted with a slave key and a bunch of people in the shadows have a master key- is the only answer.
This will continue nearly indefinitely. The game plan would be something like- first pass laws to prevent it from happening in the US, which will include free and open source software, second talk easily persuaded nations into the same thing, third use trade tactics and even threats to push down the "terrorism supporting" nations.
Encryption is speech. Any of these attempts are flatly unconstitutional.
> Actually, the developer wanted the lead tester fired for having a weak password on the bug database
Hahaha what a perfect monster.
Unit tests are not functional tests. You NEED functional tests, you SHOULD HAVE unit tests.
Also, why do you think TEST can't follow test procedures, but somehow SOFTWARE will?
This is just a stock pump and dump thing.
They understand if you remove people from the payroll and claim it helps, that it makes the stock go up. Say "my production code doesn't need to be tested, I found all the bugs" in a mirror. What does that person look like saying that?
> But with zero testing, how would they know?
Don't even think about believing it. If removing test was a good idea, it would have been done years ago across the industry. You seriously think an entire profession is entirely needless? Like, even for a second?
This is just some dumb scam to reduce corporate overhead to pump dem stox. You'd have more success firing the managers (another bad idea that has been tried).
The standard model does predict that a Dow/Dupont merged particle could exist, but it would have a very short half life, and will be observed by the three predicted decay companies.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. It's a right of the people, not of a militia.
> it already can do some things other browsers can't
Well, it's on Windows 10, which already does a bunch of ludicrous things no other OS does. So I wouldn't get sold over some dubious hardware acceleration. We know what Microsoft does when they have even a moderate amount of browsershare, after all.
I'm still not sure how they get that. It's certainly true that decentralized low security church websites can be owned and stay owned, but... how many people visit them? When a major adult ad network gets compromised, it serves the bad add a zillion billion times before someone catches it- even if they catch it later that same day.
It's harder, but there's pretty constant zero days through browsers still. They usually put themselves on the porno sites so you can say "oh well you shouldn't go to the porno sites", which totally misses the point.
Sigh. Mod parent up pls, this is helpful.
AMD settled their entirely valid lawsuit:
http://www.cnet.com/news/intel...
Intel's actions were shocking and absurd, and they seem to be willing to play by legal limits only when failing to do so would visibly get them hammered with monopoly lawsuits. It was a poor resolution to a very real issue. The other part? It prevents Intel from having to do anything rash or aggressive with their chip power, because by neutering their only competitor they were able to focus more on profitability and less on performance and perception. In my *opinion*, I think this is a big part of why we saw chips mostly become stagnant compared to in years prior- Intel is actually keeping in range of what AMD is capable of on purpose. They are holding back.
I've thought Trump was a clown, but the Muslim comment was absolutely chilling- "top polling GOP candidate vows to repeal first amendment" is how I read that. Clearly, Republicans will address this issue, but holy crap. The internet thing would have soured my already poor opinion of him, but it came after the "ban the Muslims" comment. That's straight frightening.
> Sorry to nit pick but those are consoles not gp computers
Well, none of them can run a simple bash script, so they are all roughly equal in functionality. And the only reason anyone stays with Windows is because of the games, right? I mean, come on- you can't seriously expect Windows to do the work of a Linux distro, right? Windows is a toy OS that runs some games, like the Wii U and the PS4 dashboards.
Sorry man, I was making a sarcastic joke. Windows 7 and frankly all other OSes don't do this. My joke is in two parts: First I'm making fun of the people who point to some privacy problem (usually with the default configuration of Android) and then pretend that what Microsoft is doing is ok. Second, I'm making fun of the people who can't switch to a real OS because of games, by pretending that Microsoft Windows has, as its main competitors, Sony's PS4 and Nintendo's Wii-U- the gag being that I don't even bother comparing to functional OSes, because Windows is so far gone, but has people who won't switch because of games.
Apologies for the confusion, if the joke was funnier it would have been modded as such and would have been obvious :P
There's no ads on wired.com. If you're seeing them, you are configured incorrectly. Did you accidentally disable your ublock origin? If you aren't using that, we'll make apk come by and tell you what to use instead.
Sorry, four or more tabs on Firefox is NP Complete. The quantum speed up is only square root of N- not enough for something like that.
Content blockers are only supported on newer hardware. This is an Apple decision, ostensibly based on performance.
Well, not every machine is assumed to be a client. There is no list, after all. Or there shouldn't be. Think of it this way: the ideal Windows box sends the same telemetry to Microsoft, as the default Debian install does. That is how mucb telemetry Microsoft needs.
> Telemetry is simply a measurement of some kind that is sent back to a service that collects that information.
Given that its usage in computers is EXTREMELY recent, telemetry means anything that they want.
So, a measurement of some kind that is sent back to a service that collects information?
I don't want that. You also give an example as "it could be as simple as". Well, I don't want that either. I don't want system errors (which leak information about what programs I use, and can leak RAM dumps too) transmitted remotely. It's a huge leak for some remote spybot to know when I'm likely to run programs, how much memory they are using, how long they run for, what paths they save to, etc. All the things you'd care about for debugging a problem are things you don't want to transmit on your actual personal box! Microsoft sniffing my RAM, keyboard, and mic, ostensibly to help themselves make a less shitty OS in the future, is absolutely not in my interest- and I'd be surprised if its in *anyone's* interest. Telemetry COULD send PII upstream- Microsoft certainly makes you agree to that in their EULA, because PII could easily be in any of the vast array of contacts, phone calls, emails, file system names, applications run, etc.
Lets get back to your point- you are playing that same equivalence game I see a whole lot of. You said "I guarantee that apps on your phone are sending telemetry all the time". I told you I had an iphone, and asked you what is being sent upstream? Your example is geo-loc being transmitted when using GPS, or in a browser.
This is not telemetry.
If I choose to use a map service- and remember, I could be using apple maps, or google maps, or another third party- then of course, it does need access to my location. But in these cases, it doesn't send a bunch of data to some third party- and its not sending measurements about how I'm using the product, it's requesting maps and such *as needed to accomplish the task at hand*. That's not telemetry- that's just it doing its job. If I run notepad, it transmits that fact to Microsoft. If I run a web browser and go to Microsoft.com, that's not telemetry- that's me asking microsoft.com for data.
Geo IP lookup is gated by an OS access screen in ios (and maybe Android, but I'm not sure). Geo-loc is also gated in general, so that a map app has to ask for that. It also doesn't transmit when not in use, and it doesn't talk to third parties.
So, nope, no telemetry demonstrated yet.
I actually think they are WORSE than cellphones, but even if they are only "just as bad", it's a horrible step backwards.
> Buggy drivers are still a problem
There are, but this will get addressed eventually. A friend at work accidentally upgraded to Windows 10 (and he's a computer security professional, lol!), and his big side effect so far has been that Star Wars: Battlefront works well for him now.
Windows 10 should be avoided because of its massive privacy problems and lack of features- certain features that are intended but currently bugged will almost assuredly be worked out soon enough, but it will not stop the spying without a policy change at Microsoft, and it will not support removed features, such as the media center, without additional third party software that is expensive in most cases.
This is an outright lie, and an attempt to normalize spying.
The fact that I'm on slashdot is being transmitted to slashdot. It's not being transmitted to, say, Microsoft. The fact that I run notepad shouldn't be transmitted to Microsoft either.
Remote connections are not telemetry- your post is factually incorrect.