Depends. For example, if he was an undercover policeman doing this as part of his job, things get tricky. It would at the very least be a huge ethics violation and hence should be a crime. If he was merely acting for direct personal gain, he is a scumbag, but there is (and cannot be) any law against that.
Fraud and rape are fundamentally different. Fraud here means consent was given, but after intentionally false information was supplied. Rape means that there was no consent. Retracting consent after the fact is not possible, whether it was sex or some trade (and it can be argued sex was traded here), and that is the whole purpose why fraud exists as a crime. If you could retroactively withdraw consent for a contract or trade, fraud would become robbery or theft. And as a really bad side-effect, your signature and consent would become worthless, breaking basically all business transactions.
That said, if it is aggravated fraud, I have no problem with penalties and restitution matching those for rape.
Indeed. I think I have enough of them, especially as what they do is criminal here (you may not save any user data without explicit permission, and I did not ever permit them to do anything).
Have a link to a list of all their domains/subnets so I can put them into my firewall?
From Wikipedia: "Abomination (from Latin abominare, "to deprecate as an ill omen") is an English term used to translate the Biblical Hebrew terms shiqquwts ("shiqqûts") and sheqets,[1] which are derived from shâqats, or the terms , t or to'e'va (noun) or ta'ev (verb). An abomination in English is that which is exceptionally loathsome, hateful, sinful, wicked, or vile."
Your disagreement only demonstrate a problem on your side.
This story is utter bullshit. May as well write about marriage between toasters and humans. The only purpose the story serves is to blow up the ego and exposure of the "experts" in question.
Sony is doing IT Security cheaper than possible. As long as this does not have personal consequences, for the people that screwed up here (no, I do not mean the administrators that were not given budget and time, but the ones making the decisions), nothing will change.
The second group could apparently do it in short notice. The term "gross negligence" comes to mind. It is time that companies that handle customer data and have some brand recognition will pay more in fines for things like this than they saved in IT security cost...
I agree. While I have been lucky so far, several of my friends have not been. It is really nice when "who pays" is not a concern when you need medical help.
Ah yes. Sounds nice and safe. However, how do you know this thing is not recording after other keywords and silently passes what it heard onward as a bit of additional traffic? Until somebody competent and trustworthy has done a full analysis, the only reasonable level of trust is zero.
Yes, the religiously demented are the source of the precursors of the surveillance-state. Of course, they only fake it, but the chilling effects are the real goal here, and for that a imaginary scum "God" does just as nicely as a real scum NSA.
You are missing that all that nice training data can be resold to the TLAs to nicely decode all your phone-calls and those of people sounding like you. In fact, that use may generate more money than you ever will for them.
Same here. Besides it being a choice target for all kinds of criminals and the criminally minded (like the NSA), one has to expect that all that is being said will make its way into personality profiling at the vendor.
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Depends. For example, if he was an undercover policeman doing this as part of his job, things get tricky. It would at the very least be a huge ethics violation and hence should be a crime. If he was merely acting for direct personal gain, he is a scumbag, but there is (and cannot be) any law against that.
Fraud and rape are fundamentally different. Fraud here means consent was given, but after intentionally false information was supplied. Rape means that there was no consent. Retracting consent after the fact is not possible, whether it was sex or some trade (and it can be argued sex was traded here), and that is the whole purpose why fraud exists as a crime. If you could retroactively withdraw consent for a contract or trade, fraud would become robbery or theft. And as a really bad side-effect, your signature and consent would become worthless, breaking basically all business transactions.
That said, if it is aggravated fraud, I have no problem with penalties and restitution matching those for rape.
Indeed. I think I have enough of them, especially as what they do is criminal here (you may not save any user data without explicit permission, and I did not ever permit them to do anything).
Have a link to a list of all their domains/subnets so I can put them into my firewall?
That is the usual behavior of a bully: When given a taste of his own medicine, he screams like a pig...
From Wikipedia: "Abomination (from Latin abominare, "to deprecate as an ill omen") is an English term used to translate the Biblical Hebrew terms shiqquwts ("shiqqûts") and sheqets ,[1] which are derived from shâqats, or the terms , t or to'e'va (noun) or ta'ev (verb). An abomination in English is that which is exceptionally loathsome, hateful, sinful, wicked, or vile."
Your disagreement only demonstrate a problem on your side.
There are stable versions of Windows 10? Oh, right, they mean versions where the spying on user activities and data works reliably.
MS has always been a collection of incompetent, arrogant morons, but this is getting ridiculous.
Nobody in this attack generates "disproportional traffic". That is the idea of DDoS.
What is it with the bad story editing? CyanogenMod is renaming itself, but that is it. It is not "going away".
Spoken like a true full-on religious fuckup. And it is not even true.
"Futurist" = "Big-ego clue-less moron with grand visions"
This story is utter bullshit. May as well write about marriage between toasters and humans. The only purpose the story serves is to blow up the ego and exposure of the "experts" in question.
Sony is doing IT Security cheaper than possible. As long as this does not have personal consequences, for the people that screwed up here (no, I do not mean the administrators that were not given budget and time, but the ones making the decisions), nothing will change.
The second group could apparently do it in short notice. The term "gross negligence" comes to mind. It is time that companies that handle customer data and have some brand recognition will pay more in fines for things like this than they saved in IT security cost...
Unfortunately, I think you are right. And certainly not from the large concentrations of evil we have today, which you aptly name.
Talk is cheap. As a businessman, Trump is even more aware oft this than the average politician...
I agree. While I have been lucky so far, several of my friends have not been. It is really nice when "who pays" is not a concern when you need medical help.
Which is one reason my phone has a removable battery...
Ah yes. Sounds nice and safe. However, how do you know this thing is not recording after other keywords and silently passes what it heard onward as a bit of additional traffic? Until somebody competent and trustworthy has done a full analysis, the only reasonable level of trust is zero.
The worst threat to freedom are happy slaves. Methinks you qualify.
Yes, the religiously demented are the source of the precursors of the surveillance-state. Of course, they only fake it, but the chilling effects are the real goal here, and for that a imaginary scum "God" does just as nicely as a real scum NSA.
You are missing that all that nice training data can be resold to the TLAs to nicely decode all your phone-calls and those of people sounding like you. In fact, that use may generate more money than you ever will for them.
Getting rid of an unbearable wive is time-consuming and expensive. The only good thing about Alexa may be that you can get rid of her easily.
Same here. Besides it being a choice target for all kinds of criminals and the criminally minded (like the NSA), one has to expect that all that is being said will make its way into personality profiling at the vendor.