The fact that Apple can read iMessages and hand them over to the authorities is hardly surprising, especially given that we know they co-operate with the NSA.
Excuse me, but how do we know this? Except for your prejudice and paranoia, do you have any actual evidence?
How about instead of trying to duck and weave around the NSA we do it right and demand they dismantle their illegitimate spying apparatus? Remember the part about where the government is supposed to answer to the people?
This discussion isn't about NSA. It is about a company providing information when they are required to do so by a legal search warrant and when they have the information, and about the company telling the customers what they are doing.
You can come up with all kinds of things that the company could be doing theoretically without telling anyone, but that is obviously pure speculation. And the exact same speculations can be made about any company that ever comes into contact with any customer data.
Right because surveillance has never been done against innocent people or against someone for political reasons either. No, you only get surveillance on you by doing something bad.
I think this company is in the USA, so you are saying the police can get search warrants signed for political reasons?
By sending the picture (or video) encrypted with a unique key, and only sending the key when the recipient opens it.
Everything is perfectly fine if they send the picture encrypted, and keep both hackers and insiders away from all stored pictures. There is no reasonable requirement to keep law enforcement from executing search warrants.
Snapchat hasn't been telling the truth to it's user base and stores private data longer than they claim to it's user base? That they do this so in case LE comes in with a warrant, they will have the info on tap for them?
No, they have been telling the truth. They store a picture until the recipient opens it. They have to, how else could they send the picture to the recipient? And the purpose is to be able to send the picture to the recipient when needed, not to preemptively gather information for the police.
And a search warrant is a search warrant. Same as fifty years ago. The police gets search warrants to look for evidence against people suspected of crimes. Are you saying that Snapchat should think about whether information it has could be evidence against a criminal and hide it if it is? I'd say absolutely not. They should protect users' data against illegal access, but giving the information to police with a search warrant is absolutely legal.
The two main reasons that someone would contemplate suicide is to get attention and to punish someone who injured them.
What a piece of crap. The three main reasons are mental illness like depression which makes their life too painful to live, mental illnesses that stop them from experiencing life as it is and makes their life seem too painful to live, or f***ing bastards and bitches like the one this article is about who make someone's life too painful to live.
Taking a kitchen knife and stabbing the bitch would have worked wonderfully to get attention and punish the person who injured her.
It was always a lie, mostly spread by bullies. Human beings are what they are because words are so powerful.
Standard bullying tactics is to use words until the victim snaps, then claim to be in the right because they didn't "initiate violence".
Remember that bullies are experienced sociopaths. Teachers are often socially inept or cowards or both, so they will side with the bully because they are socially inept and fall for the sociopath, or because they are cowards and expect less trouble from the victim than from the sociopath.
The real answer question is, in what fucking world is it appropriate for courts to say what a private company programs?!? If the encryption is not illegal (it shouldn't be either way, but encryption is still legal in the US) the judiciary has no business saying whether it should be used or not.
The court _can_ tell a private company to give information about a customer, or hand over information or things that belong to the customer and are in possession of the company. A company that rents out physical storage can be ordered to hand over the items that a suspected criminal has stored, and if they don't have a key they may have to unlock the storage with physical force which may damage the company's property. So you should ask what happens if they rent out safes, and have no expertise at all how to open the safes. I suppose they can send the unopened safe to the court, or let police experts on their premises to try to open the safe. In either case, the action is damaging to the company but they have to allow it.
Now the court cannot tell the company how they write their software or what software they use. They _can_ tell the company that they want some customer's data. So the company says "we have the data, but it's in a safe". So the court says "in that case, open the safe".
The company should have created a safe that is impossible to open, or not kept any data of that customer at all. Now if I send an unencrypted email to a Lavabit customer who is under suspicion, then it is obviously that Lavabit _can_ store that email in unencrypted form and _can_ be ordered to keep a copy outside the safe. For already stored data, they'd have to create a design where a "masterkey" doesn't give access to anything.
If Lightning was a set of wires and a connector that might be a valid argument, but the Lightning cable has enough computing hardware in it that I dare say it's more of a waste burden than the charger it plugs into.
Nonsense. 98% of the waste is the plastic and the copper in the actual 5 foot of cable, not the tiny plug. Doesn't matter how much computing power you fit into one gram of electronics, it's just one gram of waste.
If you're asking for the rationale behind the EU charger harmonisation, it's waste. If every device uses the same charger then fewer chargers have to be manufactured and ultimately recycled. For example you never have to go out and buy a "spare" charger for your smartphone to keep at the office, or a replacement for the one you left behind on holiday, if you already have four mutually intercompatible chargers that originally came with different products.
And the chargers are all compatible - plugs in the wall and lets you plug in a USB plug. Well, some kill people or explode, so that's probably not compatible:-( But any decent quality chargers are exchangeable. You can plug an Apple Lightning cable into a Nokia USB charger and a Micro USB cable into the charger that comes with an iPhone and it works.
Seriously, what's the problem? The important thing are charges that you can plug into the wall and that should be safe and powerful, with a USB outlet. And then you have cables that you plug into devices - what's the problem with having different cables? And why should a company producing _better_ cables switch to an inferior one?
The ARM 64 chip runs iOS software faster in 64 bit mode than in 32 bit mode _right now_, so that's a reason.
Moreover, the ARM architecture has changed by removing instructions that limit the clock speed in 64 bit mode. So you _could_ increase clock speed with the same technology if you change 32 bit code to take more cycles. Once most apps are available in 32/64 bit, that can be done and you get a nice jump in clock speed at no additional cost.
He's even offered to return to Sweden, if Sweden promises not to hand him over to the United States. That Sweden refuses to do so tells you all you need to know about what their intentions actually are and how much of a shit they give about the allegations.
That's very generous of him, but in the end he skipped bail in the UK after running from Sweden, and no governement would make such a promise - it is quite likely that the USA don't have anything that would require an extradition, but if they do, then not extraditing him would be highly illegal.
Have you seen how atheist Russia treats homosexuals, bigot? Bigotry has nothing to do with religion.
I thought that had mostly to do with sexual insecurity. Someone being very worried about their own sexuality. Real men are not afraid of gay people, Mr. Putin.
Bin Laden didn't want Western societies to become ordinary dictatorships, he wanted them to become nations ruled by Muslims living under Islamic Sharia law. With the demographic implosion underway in Europe among native Europeans, the continuing import of vast numbers of immigrants that reject Western values, and religious conversion among native Europeans, it would be hasty to rule out that possibility in 100-200 years. There may be real trouble brewing in as little as 50 years since so many countries are hovering around the birthrate of 1.3 children per woman, which will halve an existing population in that time. While native Europeans are on a self-chosen road towards extinction (you can only halve a population so many times), natives continue to arrive.
On the other hand, give them jobs, iPhones, porn and the X Factor, and they will piss on Bin Laden and his shit, and go for a good life.
But how can this be tied back to Apple? Isn't everything bad that Foxconn does Apple's fault? I'm sure Apple is responsible for this somehow if we dig hard enough!
Like "300 workers at Apple factory threaten suicide" (because they were in danger of losing their jobs when Microsoft Xbox production dropped). Another one was an article about employees complaining mostly about overtime - when they actually complained that they couldn't always get as much overtime as they wanted.
Maybe I'm misreading the story, but as I understand it, people who do not do the work aren't just not receiving credit, they are actually having credit *deducted*. If that is correct, there is definitely something fundamentally wrong with this.
Most likely it's like a maths test where you get 10 points for solving a problem, and get points deducted for errors in the solution. Just depends on how it is expressed.
Independent of that, it is very hard to decide whether an English language article matches reality in China, when there is huge room for misinterpretation, innocently or intentionally, or mistranslation, innocently or intentionally.
True, except that the driver of the other car still might have to do exactly that (or hit other cars from the front or rear) because some asshole with FAP-Aid parked his car too close to the others.
I know one parking garage where you find a series of three parking spaces between two walls. If two cars can park their cars very closely to the walls, it's a lot easier for the one in the middle. I'll just repeat: It's amazing how Slashdotters can find only the negative in anything.
Well, if I'm the driver in the adjacent car I'd make very sure that your brand new Ford has a shiny new scratch on its side. I'll take my keys out of I have to.
I am sure Ford engineers haven't thought about this. They couldn't have come up with ideas like (1.) the car getting out of the parking spot the same way it came in (with a press of a button on the user's smartphone), or (2.) wirelessly communicating with the nearby parked cars to see if they support this parking feature, and only squeeze into the tight spot if they reply YES.
It always amazes me on Slashdot what negative attitude some posters have. They declare immediately that some idea is useless or impossible to implement, where a person with a more positive attitude to life would think about how they can make something useful and how to implement it.
You should checke Apple's "out of warranty replacement" program. You can get almost any device replaced with a refurbished one for a reasonable fee. (Almost any: I think it has to be in one piece still).
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The fact that Apple can read iMessages and hand them over to the authorities is hardly surprising, especially given that we know they co-operate with the NSA.
Excuse me, but how do we know this? Except for your prejudice and paranoia, do you have any actual evidence?
How about instead of trying to duck and weave around the NSA we do it right and demand they dismantle their illegitimate spying apparatus? Remember the part about where the government is supposed to answer to the people?
This discussion isn't about NSA. It is about a company providing information when they are required to do so by a legal search warrant and when they have the information, and about the company telling the customers what they are doing.
You can come up with all kinds of things that the company could be doing theoretically without telling anyone, but that is obviously pure speculation. And the exact same speculations can be made about any company that ever comes into contact with any customer data.
Right because surveillance has never been done against innocent people or against someone for political reasons either. No, you only get surveillance on you by doing something bad.
I think this company is in the USA, so you are saying the police can get search warrants signed for political reasons?
By sending the picture (or video) encrypted with a unique key, and only sending the key when the recipient opens it.
Everything is perfectly fine if they send the picture encrypted, and keep both hackers and insiders away from all stored pictures. There is no reasonable requirement to keep law enforcement from executing search warrants.
Snapchat hasn't been telling the truth to it's user base and stores private data longer than they claim to it's user base? That they do this so in case LE comes in with a warrant, they will have the info on tap for them?
No, they have been telling the truth. They store a picture until the recipient opens it. They have to, how else could they send the picture to the recipient? And the purpose is to be able to send the picture to the recipient when needed, not to preemptively gather information for the police.
And a search warrant is a search warrant. Same as fifty years ago. The police gets search warrants to look for evidence against people suspected of crimes. Are you saying that Snapchat should think about whether information it has could be evidence against a criminal and hide it if it is? I'd say absolutely not. They should protect users' data against illegal access, but giving the information to police with a search warrant is absolutely legal.
The two main reasons that someone would contemplate suicide is to get attention and to punish someone who injured them.
What a piece of crap. The three main reasons are mental illness like depression which makes their life too painful to live, mental illnesses that stop them from experiencing life as it is and makes their life seem too painful to live, or f***ing bastards and bitches like the one this article is about who make someone's life too painful to live.
Taking a kitchen knife and stabbing the bitch would have worked wonderfully to get attention and punish the person who injured her.
It was always a lie, mostly spread by bullies. Human beings are what they are because words are so powerful.
Standard bullying tactics is to use words until the victim snaps, then claim to be in the right because they didn't "initiate violence".
Remember that bullies are experienced sociopaths. Teachers are often socially inept or cowards or both, so they will side with the bully because they are socially inept and fall for the sociopath, or because they are cowards and expect less trouble from the victim than from the sociopath.
The real answer question is, in what fucking world is it appropriate for courts to say what a private company programs?!? If the encryption is not illegal (it shouldn't be either way, but encryption is still legal in the US) the judiciary has no business saying whether it should be used or not.
The court _can_ tell a private company to give information about a customer, or hand over information or things that belong to the customer and are in possession of the company. A company that rents out physical storage can be ordered to hand over the items that a suspected criminal has stored, and if they don't have a key they may have to unlock the storage with physical force which may damage the company's property. So you should ask what happens if they rent out safes, and have no expertise at all how to open the safes. I suppose they can send the unopened safe to the court, or let police experts on their premises to try to open the safe. In either case, the action is damaging to the company but they have to allow it.
Now the court cannot tell the company how they write their software or what software they use. They _can_ tell the company that they want some customer's data. So the company says "we have the data, but it's in a safe". So the court says "in that case, open the safe".
The company should have created a safe that is impossible to open, or not kept any data of that customer at all. Now if I send an unencrypted email to a Lavabit customer who is under suspicion, then it is obviously that Lavabit _can_ store that email in unencrypted form and _can_ be ordered to keep a copy outside the safe. For already stored data, they'd have to create a design where a "masterkey" doesn't give access to anything.
Wait, scratch that, I forgot they don't do an adaptor the other way.
No adapter needed. You just plug the lightning cable into any old USB charger.
If Lightning was a set of wires and a connector that might be a valid argument, but the Lightning cable has enough computing hardware in it that I dare say it's more of a waste burden than the charger it plugs into.
Nonsense. 98% of the waste is the plastic and the copper in the actual 5 foot of cable, not the tiny plug. Doesn't matter how much computing power you fit into one gram of electronics, it's just one gram of waste.
If you're asking for the rationale behind the EU charger harmonisation, it's waste. If every device uses the same charger then fewer chargers have to be manufactured and ultimately recycled. For example you never have to go out and buy a "spare" charger for your smartphone to keep at the office, or a replacement for the one you left behind on holiday, if you already have four mutually intercompatible chargers that originally came with different products.
And the chargers are all compatible - plugs in the wall and lets you plug in a USB plug. Well, some kill people or explode, so that's probably not compatible :-( But any decent quality chargers are exchangeable. You can plug an Apple Lightning cable into a Nokia USB charger and a Micro USB cable into the charger that comes with an iPhone and it works.
Seriously, what's the problem? The important thing are charges that you can plug into the wall and that should be safe and powerful, with a USB outlet. And then you have cables that you plug into devices - what's the problem with having different cables? And why should a company producing _better_ cables switch to an inferior one?
Why would you want a 64-bit processor on a phone?
The ARM 64 chip runs iOS software faster in 64 bit mode than in 32 bit mode _right now_, so that's a reason.
Moreover, the ARM architecture has changed by removing instructions that limit the clock speed in 64 bit mode. So you _could_ increase clock speed with the same technology if you change 32 bit code to take more cycles. Once most apps are available in 32/64 bit, that can be done and you get a nice jump in clock speed at no additional cost.
He's even offered to return to Sweden, if Sweden promises not to hand him over to the United States. That Sweden refuses to do so tells you all you need to know about what their intentions actually are and how much of a shit they give about the allegations.
That's very generous of him, but in the end he skipped bail in the UK after running from Sweden, and no governement would make such a promise - it is quite likely that the USA don't have anything that would require an extradition, but if they do, then not extraditing him would be highly illegal.
Have you seen how atheist Russia treats homosexuals, bigot? Bigotry has nothing to do with religion.
I thought that had mostly to do with sexual insecurity. Someone being very worried about their own sexuality. Real men are not afraid of gay people, Mr. Putin.
I just had to google for "Spiegel raid" and found this newspaper article from 1962:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19621107&id=vMAtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Cp4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=7169,1419811
Attacks against freedom of the press can stay in people's memory for a very, very long time.
Bin Laden didn't want Western societies to become ordinary dictatorships, he wanted them to become nations ruled by Muslims living under Islamic Sharia law. With the demographic implosion underway in Europe among native Europeans, the continuing import of vast numbers of immigrants that reject Western values, and religious conversion among native Europeans, it would be hasty to rule out that possibility in 100-200 years. There may be real trouble brewing in as little as 50 years since so many countries are hovering around the birthrate of 1.3 children per woman, which will halve an existing population in that time. While native Europeans are on a self-chosen road towards extinction (you can only halve a population so many times), natives continue to arrive.
On the other hand, give them jobs, iPhones, porn and the X Factor, and they will piss on Bin Laden and his shit, and go for a good life.
On the other hand, it has no type meant to store a single character that is capable of doing so.
But then no language has. In C++, std::string is the simplest thing guaranteed to store any single character.
But how can this be tied back to Apple? Isn't everything bad that Foxconn does Apple's fault? I'm sure Apple is responsible for this somehow if we dig hard enough!
Like "300 workers at Apple factory threaten suicide" (because they were in danger of losing their jobs when Microsoft Xbox production dropped). Another one was an article about employees complaining mostly about overtime - when they actually complained that they couldn't always get as much overtime as they wanted.
Maybe I'm misreading the story, but as I understand it, people who do not do the work aren't just not receiving credit, they are actually having credit *deducted*. If that is correct, there is definitely something fundamentally wrong with this.
Most likely it's like a maths test where you get 10 points for solving a problem, and get points deducted for errors in the solution. Just depends on how it is expressed.
Independent of that, it is very hard to decide whether an English language article matches reality in China, when there is huge room for misinterpretation, innocently or intentionally, or mistranslation, innocently or intentionally.
True, except that the driver of the other car still might have to do exactly that (or hit other cars from the front or rear) because some asshole with FAP-Aid parked his car too close to the others.
I know one parking garage where you find a series of three parking spaces between two walls. If two cars can park their cars very closely to the walls, it's a lot easier for the one in the middle. I'll just repeat: It's amazing how Slashdotters can find only the negative in anything.
Well, if I'm the driver in the adjacent car I'd make very sure that your brand new Ford has a shiny new scratch on its side. I'll take my keys out of I have to.
In other words, you are a criminal.
I am sure Ford engineers haven't thought about this. They couldn't have come up with ideas like (1.) the car getting out of the parking spot the same way it came in (with a press of a button on the user's smartphone), or (2.) wirelessly communicating with the nearby parked cars to see if they support this parking feature, and only squeeze into the tight spot if they reply YES.
It always amazes me on Slashdot what negative attitude some posters have. They declare immediately that some idea is useless or impossible to implement, where a person with a more positive attitude to life would think about how they can make something useful and how to implement it.
That was missing the point.
The very important point that the article made: Targetted advertising considered harmful to advertisers.
You should checke Apple's "out of warranty replacement" program. You can get almost any device replaced with a refurbished one for a reasonable fee. (Almost any: I think it has to be in one piece still).