My parents gave me an old PC they found because they knew 'I liked computers and stuff'. The machine was utter rubbish, but out of curiosity I mounted the 10MB HD to my system and looked around. A LOT of bank accounts and other details, including passwords were there within 2 minutes. That right there is the reason I never resell my hardware, but rather destroy it and trow it away.
I read here plenty of posts on how to handle it, but most pass on the REAL issue. Security (even from PC hardware) is NOT a technical problem. It is a social one. As long as technical people treat it as a technical problem, it wil,l not be solved.
I would go even further and say that security is a mindset, not even a problem. People will think from their own point of view and think that if they would not do something, nobody would. That is why still most hacking needs social engineering. (These geeks should use it to get women.)
Just try and see how many people will give up their password if some manager from IT calls them and asks for it. I have been asked and told then to shove it (in other words) and I am aware that I am an exception.
So as long as people do not truly understand the impact they could cause, they will not do anything. They will bnot delete anything, leave the keys in their unlocked car and leave their beer unattanded when they go for a leak.
The Linux users are acremely fanatic in their believe. At least they do not spy on linux users because that would be wrong. Right? And if it goes wrong, the USofA can just not elect those who do wrong. Right? I also hear people quoting some papers written several decades ago, so that is worth something as well. Right?
(Not sure if people can detect sarcasm. Not even sure if this IS sarcasm or just really, really sad.)
There statements will change only slightely. It will go from "No!" to "So?". The real issue is not so much that they are spying or even lying about it. The issue is that nothing is done to stop it.
There is a difference between humans as individuals and humans as a species. We HAVE created wars. We HAVE weapons of mass distrutions (although not always where we think they are) and yet as individuals we hate killing others in general.
As a species the reason we ARE number one might well be because we value other things more than life. As a species, we value the species more than the individual.
Unfortunately the wars, killing and computervirusses are part of being number one, because as a species there is one rule that is more true than for the individual: if it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger.
Sure, that will cos a few individuals, but as a species it is all part of it.
In Belgium, unfortunately each time I left a company they annuled the non-compete part of the contract. Because basically what it means is that if I am not allwed to work for the competition, they must pay me a LOT of money. So as long as I am not going to work for the competition, they owe me.
Many people do not know this and think that they must pay the company if they do. That is only half of it. The other half is that they pay YOU for not being able to work for the competition (for a reasonable period). This can sometimes mean a doubleing of your income over a peiod of a few years.
What more often happens is that they are ok with you working for the company, but forbid you to take secrets with you. That for obvious reasons and it is clear for most but the stupid what secrets are and what not.
I have never used a screensaver in my life. I either turned off the monitor, or I want to use it. I also never let it go out by itself, as I have a need to do nothing with a screen for a longer period, while still be able to see it. I do understand that others might be too lazy to turn off their screens when they leave for more than say 15 minutes, so the auto-off of the monitor might be good for some.
The only places I have seen burned in screens is where a screensaver would be no good. e.g. data and callcenters where the same information will be shown all the time.
That all does not mean we do not should get rid of datacaps. One has nothing to do with the other and we can have both" No screensavers AND no datacaps. So your wuation should be (as is often the case) "I would ask why we ALSO still have screensavers."
The reason is that they are not customers. Users USED to be customers. Not anyumore. They are the product that they sell. And like cattle we follow them to the sloughterhouse. Even though we seem the same and are told we are treated the same. Some users who are not like the others. Do I dare say that some are not as equal as others.
(If I were any good, I am sure I could write a book about it where I would make animals look as if they were humans. However a martketing study told me that it would never sell.)
If you have network connection on most of the places you go and you have a smartphone, you could just use VoIP. I use http://www.poivy.com/en/index.... whenever I am not in Belgium and it works great for me. There are many more out there. I do not need an incoming number, but there will be VoIP providers who have that as well.
Prices will vary depending on the country you come from. Using your own server at home might also be an option.
Have it activated when you say "I do not consent to this search." That way they have no idea what you did and they won't "drop" their sticks on it while they give it back to you and it is in on your body again. All 5 officers. Several times.
Not sure how that works in the US, but in Europe a company could not implement this without any official backing. And that would make it a governement list again.
People would have a field day with this. Even without a lawyer. + You can not board the plane - Why not? + You are on the list - Why? + The list says you are a dangerous person and a terrorist and a childmolester. - My blank slate that I have here tells me otherwise. If I would be dangerous, I should be in prison. + Uh, we look at the list and you are on it - Again? Why? + Not sure - So let me on the plane + We can refuse anybody access if we want to. - No, you cant't. There are enough rulings that state that you need a specific reason forn refusing a person access.
You could try to do it upfront with the reservation, but that would make it even easier to contest.
When I was i Germany against the Danish border, I saw a lot of farmers who had a lot of solar panels. To give that perspective, Sleswig-Holstein is north of Hamburg and is more to the North then Calgary. The South of Gernany (e.g. Garmisch-Partenkirchen) is around where Seatle is.
So when you compare the hours of summer, you better compare to Canada then you would with the USofA.
This means that in the US it could become even more effective if people would start doing it.
The thing people need to understand is that we should not bet everything on one horse. It does not need to be renewable or not. It can be both.
At this moment the US has choosen to increase the oil production, which means that it will take longer to get your ROI on solar panels.
Point 2 will bring it back to point 1. Not as a direct point of sale, but as a brand awareness tool. When you see an add for a drink, it is not ment that you imediatly go to the store and buy that drink. It is that you see the brand in the store and recognize it. As it is something familiar, you wil be more likely to buy it.
So why are we not allowed to swear on tv? Why are we not allowed to see female nipples?
The thing is, advertising DOES work. Be it via banners, email, posters, tv or whatever. What people often do not understand is that advertising (just like spam) is a numbers game. As long as you get more out of it then you put into it, it will stay.
Regardless of what people think. And even if that 62% says it has no influence on them, I would be looking if I make a profit on it or not. If the 30% that I have some influence on is making me money, you bet I wil keep doing it.
Even if it would be as low as 1% of the people, if I make money, I keep doing it.
Still a management problem. At one company where I worked they did it the correct way. First and foremost we added the end users into the whole project. This was asking them what they wanted to improve from the current system. Next we listend to them and saw that we implemented what they needed (not always what they wanted).
We assigned key users (not supervisors or managers) from those endusers.
We then kept them in the team for the whole development running. We knew upfront that some changes would be made. Things that were requested before would be unwanted afterwards.
When the project was aout to be deliverd, we obviously included them in the testing on the floor. We even used those people when explaining it to THEIR cow orkers as ambasadors. This not only because they would be much better able to explain what the advantages were and how to do things faster because they knew boththe old and the new system. Not only that.
The main reason was that it had become THEIR project. They were selling it to their collegues. It was not some far away CEO or COO deciding to change things for the sake of changing.
If management does not factor in the human aspect, you are doomed to fail. Just saying "I know what is best for you." is not good enough.
We had barely resistance when we launched as everybody already knew what the advantages (and disadvantages) were going to be. Indibviduals who were resiting were told to shut u by their collegues.
As a result we were still on budget, under time with a high customer satisfaction and a great ROI. (for those of you who are manager) and less stress for us.
So everybody won. Truth is that not many managers or management teams dare to do it this way. They rather listen to their supplier (e.g. IT) than their customer (e.g. person on the workfloor)
The news is that they are printing with light. This means smaller processors. more data on a DVD and many more things. Not 'just' material that can carry 160.000 times its own weight.
In Europe when you buy a phone, you sometimes get a reduction if you bring in your new phoen. It has to start and no broken display. These are then sold to people who export them to Africa as second hand. No problem there as it is working second had that is going to be re-used.
OTOH many electronic parts get exported as waste, so they can salvage the materials in them. This does not happen in the most enviromental frienly way.. See some images here
The problem is not that it has added value for the people in other countries. The problem is that we decided the waste should be treated in a certain way for security (of humankind, if you will) and this is not happening.
So yes, the waste is more valuable and because of that people will die of toxids. There is no excuse to do this other than "I do not care if people die." to allow this.
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This should have been Edward Snowdens defence: "Oops!"
My parents gave me an old PC they found because they knew 'I liked computers and stuff'. The machine was utter rubbish, but out of curiosity I mounted the 10MB HD to my system and looked around. A LOT of bank accounts and other details, including passwords were there within 2 minutes.
That right there is the reason I never resell my hardware, but rather destroy it and trow it away.
I read here plenty of posts on how to handle it, but most pass on the REAL issue. Security (even from PC hardware) is NOT a technical problem. It is a social one. As long as technical people treat it as a technical problem, it wil,l not be solved.
I would go even further and say that security is a mindset, not even a problem. People will think from their own point of view and think that if they would not do something, nobody would.
That is why still most hacking needs social engineering. (These geeks should use it to get women.)
Just try and see how many people will give up their password if some manager from IT calls them and asks for it. I have been asked and told then to shove it (in other words) and I am aware that I am an exception.
So as long as people do not truly understand the impact they could cause, they will not do anything. They will bnot delete anything, leave the keys in their unlocked car and leave their beer unattanded when they go for a leak.
The Linux users are acremely fanatic in their believe. At least they do not spy on linux users because that would be wrong. Right?
And if it goes wrong, the USofA can just not elect those who do wrong. Right?
I also hear people quoting some papers written several decades ago, so that is worth something as well. Right?
(Not sure if people can detect sarcasm. Not even sure if this IS sarcasm or just really, really sad.)
So life is hard for half the world or do you not know how averages work?
There statements will change only slightely. It will go from "No!" to "So?".
The real issue is not so much that they are spying or even lying about it. The issue is that nothing is done to stop it.
There is a difference between humans as individuals and humans as a species. We HAVE created wars. We HAVE weapons of mass distrutions (although not always where we think they are) and yet as individuals we hate killing others in general.
As a species the reason we ARE number one might well be because we value other things more than life. As a species, we value the species more than the individual.
Unfortunately the wars, killing and computervirusses are part of being number one, because as a species there is one rule that is more true than for the individual: if it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger.
Sure, that will cos a few individuals, but as a species it is all part of it.
In Belgium, unfortunately each time I left a company they annuled the non-compete part of the contract. Because basically what it means is that if I am not allwed to work for the competition, they must pay me a LOT of money. So as long as I am not going to work for the competition, they owe me.
Many people do not know this and think that they must pay the company if they do. That is only half of it. The other half is that they pay YOU for not being able to work for the competition (for a reasonable period). This can sometimes mean a doubleing of your income over a peiod of a few years.
What more often happens is that they are ok with you working for the company, but forbid you to take secrets with you. That for obvious reasons and it is clear for most but the stupid what secrets are and what not.
I have never used a screensaver in my life. I either turned off the monitor, or I want to use it. I also never let it go out by itself, as I have a need to do nothing with a screen for a longer period, while still be able to see it. I do understand that others might be too lazy to turn off their screens when they leave for more than say 15 minutes, so the auto-off of the monitor might be good for some.
The only places I have seen burned in screens is where a screensaver would be no good. e.g. data and callcenters where the same information will be shown all the time.
That all does not mean we do not should get rid of datacaps. One has nothing to do with the other and we can have both" No screensavers AND no datacaps. So your wuation should be (as is often the case) "I would ask why we ALSO still have screensavers."
You forgot the REAL issue here. Were and are they spying on the Belgian football team? If the US wins, I guess we will know the answer.
If they loose, it means the NSA have read this and try to hide what they were doing.
Perhaps they listend to their customers and now they listen to their users.
Those are not always the same people. You can buy Windows in stores, but the majority is not sold via stores. It is sold via pre-install.
If it has taken off, it means that anoying everybody into pulp works.
The reason is that they are not customers. Users USED to be customers. Not anyumore. They are the product that they sell. And like cattle we follow them to the sloughterhouse.
Even though we seem the same and are told we are treated the same.
Some users who are not like the others. Do I dare say that some are not as equal as others.
(If I were any good, I am sure I could write a book about it where I would make animals look as if they were humans. However a martketing study told me that it would never sell.)
If you have network connection on most of the places you go and you have a smartphone, you could just use VoIP. I use http://www.poivy.com/en/index.... whenever I am not in Belgium and it works great for me.
There are many more out there. I do not need an incoming number, but there will be VoIP providers who have that as well.
Prices will vary depending on the country you come from. Using your own server at home might also be an option.
Have it activated when you say "I do not consent to this search." That way they have no idea what you did and they won't "drop" their sticks on it while they give it back to you and it is in on your body again. All 5 officers. Several times.
Not only can. Also wants to.
Giving people cheap education or health? Fuck it, lets buy some more military and spying stuff.
You know what hardware you have around. So just go for it and see what happens. Then tell us what happened.
If you want to avoid problems, use a current version. And don't use wine. Run it in e.g. VirtualBox. Also just do all that other stuff you proposed.
Not sure how that works in the US, but in Europe a company could not implement this without any official backing. And that would make it a governement list again.
People would have a field day with this. Even without a lawyer.
+ You can not board the plane
- Why not?
+ You are on the list
- Why?
+ The list says you are a dangerous person and a terrorist and a childmolester.
- My blank slate that I have here tells me otherwise. If I would be dangerous, I should be in prison.
+ Uh, we look at the list and you are on it
- Again? Why?
+ Not sure
- So let me on the plane
+ We can refuse anybody access if we want to.
- No, you cant't. There are enough rulings that state that you need a specific reason forn refusing a person access.
You could try to do it upfront with the reservation, but that would make it even easier to contest.
When I was i Germany against the Danish border, I saw a lot of farmers who had a lot of solar panels.
To give that perspective, Sleswig-Holstein is north of Hamburg and is more to the North then Calgary. The South of Gernany (e.g. Garmisch-Partenkirchen) is around where Seatle is.
So when you compare the hours of summer, you better compare to Canada then you would with the USofA.
This means that in the US it could become even more effective if people would start doing it.
The thing people need to understand is that we should not bet everything on one horse. It does not need to be renewable or not. It can be both.
At this moment the US has choosen to increase the oil production, which means that it will take longer to get your ROI on solar panels.
At least now we can add that he is a smeghead without getting sued.
Point 2 will bring it back to point 1. Not as a direct point of sale, but as a brand awareness tool.
When you see an add for a drink, it is not ment that you imediatly go to the store and buy that drink. It is that you see the brand in the store and recognize it.
As it is something familiar, you wil be more likely to buy it.
So why are we not allowed to swear on tv? Why are we not allowed to see female nipples?
The thing is, advertising DOES work. Be it via banners, email, posters, tv or whatever. What people often do not understand is that advertising (just like spam) is a numbers game. As long as you get more out of it then you put into it, it will stay.
Regardless of what people think. And even if that 62% says it has no influence on them, I would be looking if I make a profit on it or not. If the 30% that I have some influence on is making me money, you bet I wil keep doing it.
Even if it would be as low as 1% of the people, if I make money, I keep doing it.
Still a management problem. At one company where I worked they did it the correct way. First and foremost we added the end users into the whole project. This was asking them what they wanted to improve from the current system. Next we listend to them and saw that we implemented what they needed (not always what they wanted).
We assigned key users (not supervisors or managers) from those endusers.
We then kept them in the team for the whole development running. We knew upfront that some changes would be made. Things that were requested before would be unwanted afterwards.
When the project was aout to be deliverd, we obviously included them in the testing on the floor. We even used those people when explaining it to THEIR cow orkers as ambasadors.
This not only because they would be much better able to explain what the advantages were and how to do things faster because they knew boththe old and the new system. Not only that.
The main reason was that it had become THEIR project. They were selling it to their collegues. It was not some far away CEO or COO deciding to change things for the sake of changing.
If management does not factor in the human aspect, you are doomed to fail. Just saying "I know what is best for you." is not good enough.
We had barely resistance when we launched as everybody already knew what the advantages (and disadvantages) were going to be. Indibviduals who were resiting were told to shut u by their collegues.
As a result we were still on budget, under time with a high customer satisfaction and a great ROI. (for those of you who are manager) and less stress for us.
So everybody won. Truth is that not many managers or management teams dare to do it this way. They rather listen to their supplier (e.g. IT) than their customer (e.g. person on the workfloor)
The news is that they are printing with light. This means smaller processors. more data on a DVD and many more things. Not 'just' material that can carry 160.000 times its own weight.
In Europe when you buy a phone, you sometimes get a reduction if you bring in your new phoen. It has to start and no broken display. These are then sold to people who export them to Africa as second hand.
No problem there as it is working second had that is going to be re-used.
OTOH many electronic parts get exported as waste, so they can salvage the materials in them. This does not happen in the most enviromental frienly way.. See some images here
The problem is not that it has added value for the people in other countries. The problem is that we decided the waste should be treated in a certain way for security (of humankind, if you will) and this is not happening.
So yes, the waste is more valuable and because of that people will die of toxids. There is no excuse to do this other than "I do not care if people die." to allow this.
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