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  1. Another state enforces NN rules on New Jersey Governor Signs Net Neutrality Order (thehill.com) · · Score: 0

    enforcing NN rules and protecting existing paper insulted NN wireline networks.
    Could have innovated with new networks, services. Now its all about having to prove to the state bureaucrats your network is NN rule ready.

  2. Re:Why would he be extradited in the first place? on Lauri Love Ruling 'Sets Precedent' For Trying Hacking Suspects in UK (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The US has a long history of protecting its self given:
    "To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations"
    Other nations should remember that "Shores of Tripoli" and "Halls of Montezuma" part of a hymn.
    The USA will come looking and its well funded legal system is always on the job.

  3. Re:The perils of outsourcing :] on NSA Exploits Ported To Work on All Windows Versions Released Since Windows 2000 (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That is what started all the problems. The NSA held up well against the Soviet Union and all its attempts into the 1980's.
    With the use of contractors the compartmentalization was finally lost.
    Every contractor had its own new ways and full tool lists. Staging servers could do anything for any mission at any time for a price.
    Contractors got let into more and more US gov secrets until the esprit de corps within the US gov, mil was replaced by contractors rent seeking.
    Political leaders backed the private sector as they got "results" for the same budget. States got new private sector consulting jobs and that was good for reelection.
    It all held together until the staging servers with all the tools got found. Why put so many tools in one staging server? Convenience for the private sector? Profit? It always just worked in the past?

  4. Re:You don't steal from the NSA unless... on NSA Exploits Ported To Work on All Windows Versions Released Since Windows 2000 (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Contractors changed all that. The days of compartmentalization ended in Vietnam. After that it was all about budget and showing political leaders its was all private sector savings and using advanced products and market forces.
    Lots of contractors and private sector networks rented their services back to the NSA per mission. The US mil/gov "contractor" staging servers held out for many years online but someone finally tracked some bot, automated network back to a NSA contractor.
    With correct US gov compartmentalization that would have been an empty front company with nothing more than what was needed for one mission.
    With the contractor it was the full cyber tool set on a server because a contractor is allowed to have all the tools they need for any mission, ready to rent back to the US gov.

  5. A "privilege" that anyone who could afford a car, pass a test could enjoy.
    No having an app consider if a person was going to be allowed by app policy to request a car to drive them into a city.
    That a city would only allow a few set self driving brands with their own user ToS to enter the city limits.

  6. Re:SD card feature? on Camera Makers Resist Encryption, Despite Warnings From Photographers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Re 'which means the manufacturer could easily bump up the RAM by 10-20% to support the crypto hardware"
    In a weather sealed, small camera that needs 4K movies and a lot of other new useful features and has to support more and more images, have more resolution, capture more data per image?
    The manufacturer has so many other heat producing, battery using systems to try and fit in without adding new costs of "bump up the RAM by 10-20%"
    Then to "support the crypto hardware".

    Consider the user side too. A user sets a code. They forget the code. They want their best images back... The brand gets asked to recover the images, they cannot. The once captive user who was fully invested in branded lens, branded hardware is unhappy with that brand.
    A lack of encryption makes for lower costs, allows limited memory to work as expected for the costs, cpu, heat, power and other limitations to be used on features that make a product stand out from past generations.
    Adding encryption would need more cooling, more power, a larger physical size of camera, more costs to pass on for design work to keep the existing size?
    New special chips or slow the existing chips to now do encryption too?
    The "cost that they will have to eat" is going to codecs, 4K, the next ten of camera. Not much room in the costs to add a new design for crypto. Unless the features are reduced, kept the same, costs are increased. Who wants a next ben camera thats like the last one with more costs and "crypto" as the only new feature. With the same/less images in a set time.

  7. Re:Huh? on Finland Will Introduce a Mobile 'Driver's License' App (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    The phone has to match the licence plate reader and the facial recognition.
    Thats a few data sets. The face of the person at the time of contact with police. The car they are using. The data on the phone, the phone account.
    The "rooted Smartphone" will have to match the car and any big gov database with a persons history, photo in that nation.
    The face of the person seen by the police at that time, their image, data sets on the phone ID, phone data and car plate have been seen together for years, past CCTV images of the face, plate? Thats good.
    The "rooted Smartphone" is hours or days old as an account? Thats more interesting. The face is new to the city, nation, not seen on national CCTV? The car is "rented"?
    The short term account on a "rooted Smartphone" just makes the person more interesting. Normal people have years of phone accounts looking for low rates but they are all in the system as account changes by the same person. So is their face and years of national ID use, CCTV seeing their car use, having a bank account, utility payments, paying rent, for a house.

    Altering a smartphone will have to go with altering CCTV, a past history in the nation, accounts and separated databases. All to mach a face of a person new to the nation.

  8. Re:will not record the location of its user on Finland Will Introduce a Mobile 'Driver's License' App (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    Would a gov/mil/police request ever respect the consumer level user settings?
    Would any consumer level user settings the user could track show what the gov app was OS and hardware approved to do?

  9. Re:FOSS must learn to organize and collaborate on Crowdfunding Campaign Seeks a Fully Open Source Alternative to Citrix XenServer (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 1

    "Whatever else they're doing" is why more open code source is needed.

  10. Owners of cars that are not part of an approved fleet will be able to drive into the city.
    Once the persons car enters a city area a new city tax is calculated.
    The freedom to drive exists but very few will be able to afford that per mile luxury tax in the city.
    A congestion tax, road upkeep tax, city pollution tax, a parking tax.

  11. So only approved people can get to request approved "transport" pod in the city at set times?
    A mil, government or big brand does not like you and no city car for you.
    No car to or from that protest.
    The internet politics of the car brand and the user's web history requesting the car is too far apart? No car app in the city for that person.
    A few brands will make a nation wide list of who they will drive into a city for shopping, medical, work, fun.
    The self driving car looks over every profile and finds out the next request is from a city worker, city contractor, member of the press? Are they doing an investigation on the brand? The brand considered them a ToS risk. No self driving car for them.

    Car ownership and been able to drive yourself, a taxi is going to be looked back on as true freedom.

  12. Re:SD card feature? on Camera Makers Resist Encryption, Despite Warnings From Photographers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "Hardware encryption won't slow anything down."
    A consumer dslr can do 5 images in a set time before the hardware and media need time to catch up. The camera stops for a while as the buffer of set size and speed fills.
    Call it say 30 images with a more expensive dslr. Then the much faster card has to saves the images.
    Add encryption and that rate stays the same, gets not as good for that generation given the new encryption.
    The competition selects not to offer encryption. Their lack of heat, power, working on the file in a new way with encryption allows their image per time number to look better.
    Their buffer just works on images, not having to work on and wait for encryption. While one weather sealed camera slows to encrypt, uses more power to encrypt and gets warmer, the completion captures a few more images per set time.

    Hardware encryption needs more battery support, makes more heat, slows the buffer. Less images per set time and thats one selling point that has to be better.
    Selling a slower camera with less images per buffer size at the same price as next generation will be difficult given what new encryption will take away.

  13. Just have a dictatorship, monarchy, theocracy invite a "private sector" broadcaster to do their news in nice locations. Nice news about holidays, sport, art and animals.
    A 100% private sector logo that is 100% gov approved and ready for social media.
    No direct gov funding but the private sector broadcaster had a lot of ad buys from that gov for "tourism".
    So many ways to use front companies or just offer direct for the private sector.
    Will every social media clip have to divulge who allowed them to a nation, who arranged the permits?
    Nations will just buy their way around this using the private sector and the need for ads and new content.

  14. Re:So how do we move forward from here? on DuckDuckGo CEO: 'Google and Facebook Are Watching Our Every Move Online. It's Time To Make Them Stop' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    As you listed AC a browser with add ons like no script, uMatrix, Ghostery, script blocker. Never allow ads.

  15. Every worker who spent time with that individual who attempted to start a union....

  16. What "giants"? on How DIY Rebels Are Working To Replace Tech Giants (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The brands that helped the clandestine services with PRISM? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    The brands that could not get crypto to work and allowed plain text data to exist on networks that could be seen from the internet?
    The brands that hire SJW to remove links, derank news? Remove accounts and ban movie reviews?
    The brands that demand users allow malware on computers as "ads"?

  17. Qwest on Ask Slashdot: Which Tech Company Do You Respect Most? · · Score: 2
  18. Re:errrr no on eBay Is Dumping PayPal For Dutch Rival Adyen (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    AC the "why" is in the payments from gift cards, other payment systems.
    Why accept CC when lots of people may want or can only use a gift card. The ability to work with a network of gift cards globally open up the gift card, bank payments, e-commerce payment systems and the CC market.
    More nations, more banks, more gift cards, new payment systems.

  19. Re:We need examples of the elleged Russian action on Twitter Notifies 1.4 Million Users of Interaction With Russian Accounts (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    The results found in Iraq after the US had total control of Iraq showed what the ""evidence" accept as evidence" resulted in.
    The trusted media was given junk fictional intel stories to spin.
    Now more people have the internet and can question the same attempts at spin for the next military adventure.

  20. Re:Luxembourg? Military? on SpaceX Successfully Launches Satellite Into Orbit On a Used Falcon 9 Rocket (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Benelux countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) are doing all kinds of security work together i.e. Benelux-cooperation.
    Beyond thats is the "The Ring of Five" i.e. Germany, the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Denmark doing their own security work together.
    Then NATO.
    Nations, groups within groups of nations are all working together on their own security.

  21. What to do about telcos on Google Fiber's Wireless Internet Service Is Leaving Boston (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How to support new community broadband and new networks.
    How to support new gigabit internet networks moving into more cities and states?
    Whats the block been used by telcos to prevent a dynamic innovative rollout of new private sector networks in every state and city?
    Time to escape the paper insulted wireline rules and get states and cities to support new gigabit internet networks.

  22. Re: I have a better idea on Verizon Drops Plans To Sell Huawei Phones Due To US Government Pressure (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Re " "interesting" people must have come earlier to the same realization."
    The US mil lets its own special forces, troops, contractors, medical experts, support staff run around with consumer devices?
    The NSA and GCHQ would have seen all the data flowing out of the black sites globally as part of their security support for such black sites?

    I doubt everyone is that unaware all the time in the different agencies at that level of mil security awareness.
    It was allowed as the devices gave a feeling of joy and pleasure to the people far away from home? A huge wage and few consumer comforts?

    Re 'international mobster, spy, revolutionary, terrorist, freedom fighter"
    A lot of their help comes from lawyers, human rights lawyers, faith groups, dual citizens, police looking for cash, the media with access to security cleared telco workers.
    If the interesting people are not seeing cell phone discovery presented to police by a brand, telco then the interesting people might actually still think its safe.
    The people selling out the USA to interesting people from what they see might also really be seeing "nothing" and report that back for cash, or as been part of the same community, faith.
    The other complication is mid and low level corrupt police, politicians who see what can be done with stingray, federal agents with LETC flights. If they only see real time results as an ID location not a voice print, not the files on a cell phone, not a live mic, then thats all still ok.
    PRISM and DROPOUTJEEP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... should have been the wake up to a generation to go dark and stay dark. It was not.
    What did they get reassured about by their contracts deep in the US law enforcement, mil, gov structure that kept them using trusting consumer cell phones?
    Are interesting people having their corrupt contacts deep in the telco world tell them its still all ok except for location?

    The news of China having total access to every aspect of the US telco system just by selling consumer products in the USA?
    Yet the US consumer brands are 100% safe from the security services... ?
    The telco system is both 100% secure when using the correct brands and 100% open to another nation?
    Someone has every voice print in the USA and is not allowing US law enforcement to upset the collection or crypto is holding and the spy, revolutionary, terrorist, freedom fighter, corrupt police know its still ok to talk?
    What are security services doing with their billions in domestic collect it all project funding, water cooling and power usage if that are not collecting it all?
    But a China can totally collect it all it all with a few investments in US consumer grade tech?

    Someone in US law enforcement has that "Reality Distortion Field" set to max and its still working.

  23. Whats domestic propaganda and international propaganda into todays social media world?
    Planted fake stories globally will stay within another nations domestic print media and magazines?
    With less of the Smith–Mundt Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–Mundt_Act its all a global effort.

  24. The US even has a name for their efforts.
    "Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act"
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Enjoy the local gov funded propaganda messaging.

  25. The "topic" is the way the "identity" got banned... thats the way party political censorship works.
    It gets even more fun when social media allows other nations blasphemy laws.