You do not get it: Nobody at all (except morons like you) claim OSS is bug-free. The claim is that closed-source software is much, much worse. From some code security reviews I did under NDA, I fully and completely agree to that claim.
And if it gets discovered, there is an excellent chance it will also be attributed and whoever out it in will be burned and that makes such an attack extremely costly. For example, the forward-hashes of git serve exactly this purpose: No revision of the change-history after commit.
Which is a good example how and why OSS works: It was found, documented, traced back (no sign of foul play) and fixed. What do you think would have happened in a commercial, closed library?
Indeed. The stupid is strong with that one. The thing is that in OSS, backdoors will be found sooner or later, sometimes much later. And that is something the NSA/GCHQ/GeStaPo dreads as it exposes them. Does not matter that much even if it is 5 years or 10 years later.
Reasons? I need email, calender, hot-spot, occasional maps and excellent telephony. That is it. All there. Add an extremely snappy UI (as it is QNX), removable battery, good keyboard and overall excellent hardware. And I recently got a spare new one for around $100 off Ebay. As long as BB supplies security-patches, I am not moving.
Facebook? Whatsapp? If I want time-sinks, I play real games on a real computer.
A code of conduct written by SjWs (and they all are) is an absolute no-go, because these projects obviously place product quality a distant second to other considerations. That cannot work.
Well, it nicely shows that FOSS projects can be ruined by bad management and stupid "leaders" just as much as any commercial software project. I do not know what exactly went wrong at Mozilla, but they must have used really large buckets to carry the stupid in.
And where did you miss the part that roundabouts are a lot cheaper and require much less space in the roads leading up to them? If you selectively ignore data, you will always be able to justify any point-of-view, no matter how flawed.
Never, obviously. But there are occasional storms strong enough to blow down roof-tiles (and blow over people that are not careful). They usually do not do much damage due to much better building quality. Incidentally, I have been hit with two earthquakes strong enough to wake me up from the shaking. Damage in total: a single-digit number of smaller houses developed cracks. Now, if you go to Turkey (not really part of Europe), you find a lot of people killed by earthquakes due to shoddy building quality.
Your suggestion that the US has higher environmental risks is flawed.
WTF? Seriously, with any decent X11 window manager (I use fvwm), this is a configuration setting where you specify the position. Have they implemented a non-conforming X11 application for this "launcher" and crippled it thereby?
Europe? Wired Internet is usually pretty reliable, wireless networks are very reliable. And the last electrical outage where I live was more than 10 years ago. But this is about vehicle-to-vehicle communication over short ranges, an entirely different thing.
They are efficient, pretty safe (no blowing through red lights, at worst low-speed collisions), have a high traffic capacity and are far cheaper to maintain. Sure, drivers tend to dislike them for a while, but that passes.
Police work _must_ be hard. They _must_ be limited in what they can do. It is not and has never be the task of the police to catch every criminal. It is their task to keep the problem enough under control so society continues to function. As soon as police work becomes too easy, they expand into areas they were never supposed to go and control everything. Police-persons just cannot help themselves, that is their mind-set. The result of a failure to strongly limit the powers of the police is a police-state and that almost universally evolves to full-blown fascism over time.
Don't get me wrong, we need them. There are enough bad actors that need to be kept under control. But the police itself immediately becomes such a bad actor if not controlled tightly. Handing them the rains is about as stupid as handing it to the military or to the big corporations: They all place their own agenda far before the welfare of society.
I think "going dark" is actually about "we need to see everything", i.e. not about enforcing laws at all, but about creating strong chilling effects. There is a special kind of despicable human being that cannot stand others having independent "unauthorized" thoughts and, worse, putting them in writing. Traditionally, an all-seeing, all-knowing God took care of that. These days not even most religious people fall for the idea that "God" would enforce the agenda of all-too-flawed worldly "authorities", so they are now trying to enforce that "you cannot hide your thoughts" by technological means to make people self-censor and self-oppress.
For the case at hand, this means this is not about the phone at all and not about the firmware Apple is requested to write. It is about that said despicable individuals cannot deal with being told "no" when they want to demonstrate that nobody is safe from them. While I am sure not all of the FBI and DoJ is like that, the current "leaders" there have the mind-set of the Inquisition and the GeStaPo and are a huge threat to free society.
This is not about some mythical "bad guys". They will (as far as they exist) have secure communication, no matter what and the government must know that (unless they are fully demented, which I doubt). This is about eroding security for the average person, because people of a certain despicable mind-set cannot stand others having the freedom to put down in writing or even think unapproved thoughts in secrecy. It used to be an all-seeing, all-knowing "God" that provided the strong chilling effects these people crave for everybody. That one has stopped working, so they are now trying to establish a technological surrogate. The ultimate goal is always the same: People self-censoring, self-oppressing and not daring to question authority.
Congratulations, you completely missed the point. And you were an ass about it. And no, for anybody competent, this is most decidedly not a settled question, unless you spend a lot of money on it (archival-grade tape) and even there it takes constant re-evaluation and people manage to screw it up.
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You do not get it: Nobody at all (except morons like you) claim OSS is bug-free. The claim is that closed-source software is much, much worse. From some code security reviews I did under NDA, I fully and completely agree to that claim.
And if it gets discovered, there is an excellent chance it will also be attributed and whoever out it in will be burned and that makes such an attack extremely costly. For example, the forward-hashes of git serve exactly this purpose: No revision of the change-history after commit.
Which is a good example how and why OSS works: It was found, documented, traced back (no sign of foul play) and fixed. What do you think would have happened in a commercial, closed library?
Indeed. The stupid is strong with that one. The thing is that in OSS, backdoors will be found sooner or later, sometimes much later. And that is something the NSA/GCHQ/GeStaPo dreads as it exposes them. Does not matter that much even if it is 5 years or 10 years later.
Indeed. Consumer stupidity has killed numerous superior technologies.
Reasons? I need email, calender, hot-spot, occasional maps and excellent telephony. That is it. All there. Add an extremely snappy UI (as it is QNX), removable battery, good keyboard and overall excellent hardware. And I recently got a spare new one for around $100 off Ebay. As long as BB supplies security-patches, I am not moving.
Facebook? Whatsapp? If I want time-sinks, I play real games on a real computer.
Older white males know better than to join a cult like the Rust community, and so apparently do non-whites/non-males ;-)
A code of conduct written by SjWs (and they all are) is an absolute no-go, because these projects obviously place product quality a distant second to other considerations. That cannot work.
Well, it nicely shows that FOSS projects can be ruined by bad management and stupid "leaders" just as much as any commercial software project. I do not know what exactly went wrong at Mozilla, but they must have used really large buckets to carry the stupid in.
No, they are not. If done very carefully, they may get somewhat near, but that is it.
You forget that these are not buildings. No "access" here, and hence wrong act.
And where did you miss the part that roundabouts are a lot cheaper and require much less space in the roads leading up to them? If you selectively ignore data, you will always be able to justify any point-of-view, no matter how flawed.
Never, obviously. But there are occasional storms strong enough to blow down roof-tiles (and blow over people that are not careful). They usually do not do much damage due to much better building quality. Incidentally, I have been hit with two earthquakes strong enough to wake me up from the shaking. Damage in total: a single-digit number of smaller houses developed cracks. Now, if you go to Turkey (not really part of Europe), you find a lot of people killed by earthquakes due to shoddy building quality.
Your suggestion that the US has higher environmental risks is flawed.
WTF? Seriously, with any decent X11 window manager (I use fvwm), this is a configuration setting where you specify the position. Have they implemented a non-conforming X11 application for this "launcher" and crippled it thereby?
Europe? Wired Internet is usually pretty reliable, wireless networks are very reliable. And the last electrical outage where I live was more than 10 years ago. But this is about vehicle-to-vehicle communication over short ranges, an entirely different thing.
Bridges and tunnels. This is not rocket-science.
They are efficient, pretty safe (no blowing through red lights, at worst low-speed collisions), have a high traffic capacity and are far cheaper to maintain. Sure, drivers tend to dislike them for a while, but that passes.
The US already is a police-state at the low-intensity end. North Korea is full-blown fascism.
The DoJ caring about "privacy" of citizens? In what world do you live?
Might be a conspiracy-theory, but I now consider it possible that this was by intent.
Police work _must_ be hard. They _must_ be limited in what they can do. It is not and has never be the task of the police to catch every criminal. It is their task to keep the problem enough under control so society continues to function. As soon as police work becomes too easy, they expand into areas they were never supposed to go and control everything. Police-persons just cannot help themselves, that is their mind-set. The result of a failure to strongly limit the powers of the police is a police-state and that almost universally evolves to full-blown fascism over time.
Don't get me wrong, we need them. There are enough bad actors that need to be kept under control. But the police itself immediately becomes such a bad actor if not controlled tightly. Handing them the rains is about as stupid as handing it to the military or to the big corporations: They all place their own agenda far before the welfare of society.
I think "going dark" is actually about "we need to see everything", i.e. not about enforcing laws at all, but about creating strong chilling effects. There is a special kind of despicable human being that cannot stand others having independent "unauthorized" thoughts and, worse, putting them in writing. Traditionally, an all-seeing, all-knowing God took care of that. These days not even most religious people fall for the idea that "God" would enforce the agenda of all-too-flawed worldly "authorities", so they are now trying to enforce that "you cannot hide your thoughts" by technological means to make people self-censor and self-oppress.
For the case at hand, this means this is not about the phone at all and not about the firmware Apple is requested to write. It is about that said despicable individuals cannot deal with being told "no" when they want to demonstrate that nobody is safe from them. While I am sure not all of the FBI and DoJ is like that, the current "leaders" there have the mind-set of the Inquisition and the GeStaPo and are a huge threat to free society.
This is not about some mythical "bad guys". They will (as far as they exist) have secure communication, no matter what and the government must know that (unless they are fully demented, which I doubt). This is about eroding security for the average person, because people of a certain despicable mind-set cannot stand others having the freedom to put down in writing or even think unapproved thoughts in secrecy. It used to be an all-seeing, all-knowing "God" that provided the strong chilling effects these people crave for everybody. That one has stopped working, so they are now trying to establish a technological surrogate. The ultimate goal is always the same: People self-censoring, self-oppressing and not daring to question authority.
Congratulations, you completely missed the point. And you were an ass about it. And no, for anybody competent, this is most decidedly not a settled question, unless you spend a lot of money on it (archival-grade tape) and even there it takes constant re-evaluation and people manage to screw it up.
In a police-state, that is everybody.