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  1. Re:Censorship has never improved society on German Minister: Facebook Should Be Treated Like a Media Company Rather Than a Technology Platform (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Germany will revert to its post 1945 laws in the West. Total control over anything that could endanger "democracy".
    No communists, no fascism, no cults that are incompatible with democracy.
    No commenting on German gov or mil or BND or BfV policy or what happened after "free" speech is attempted.

  2. Re:Not geosynchronous? on SpaceX Files FCC Application For Internet Access Network With 4,425 Satellites (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    RASCOM, Regional African Satellite Communication Organization was to do a lot with Libya's funding.
    Libya was going to give Africa telephone, television, radio-broadcast, telemedicine and long-distance learning (WIMAX) without the West's corporate profit taking.

  3. The UK planned for that until the Falklands became a reality. The UK had to find maps, ask the GCHQ to decode systems it had had total mastery of until the Argentinean fixed their cypher security a bit. Decoding then took hours. Argentina had crypto machines that did not stay secure. Double encryption did not help at all as the UK had a mastery of all common export grade networks..
    The only system to give the GCHQ any issue was Argentina's Air Force traffic as it used a new, better system that was not open market from UK, NATO or US brands.. it was better designed without the usual export grade backdoors..
    The planning issue for the UK is it might not have that real time or near real time (under 24h) access next time to other nations command and control communications..
    Every system now has to be Russia aware, be the next Falklands ready, play nice with nuclear sub policy, have supplies to hunt pirates in small fishing boats, help bring illegal migrants into the EU.
    Add in cost of contractors, been seen to fly the flag globally without needing help from tugs, trying not to not running aground again and keep skilled crews.
    Too many expensive tasks, too much different work for too long. The most expensive and best contractors for the all the past wars.
    Other smarter nations with better policy formation just fund a real coast guard or only have a set of real navy ships with very unique set roles. Their sub hunters really spend all day working out how to hunt subs.

  4. Reminds me of Millennium Challenge 2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
    The enemy must to use its expensive ammo in small amounts and never ever have too many ships.
    "At this point, the exercise was suspended, Blue's ships were "re-floated""

  5. Re "I'd say that's just the tip of the iceberg too."
    A lot of different people actually do like having computers get serviced.
    "FBI asks computer shops to help fight cybercrime" (Feb 5, 2004)
    http://the.honoluluadvertiser....
    "Each member of the computer crime squad is given a list of local businesses ... establishing a working relationship with all of them."

  6. Re:How to fix this without big gov on Schneier: We Need a New Agency For IoT Security (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Hi AC, the US seems to want it both ways.
    "CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher" (03.15.12)
    https://www.wired.com/2012/03/...
    "All those new online devices are a treasure trove of data if you’re a “person of interest” to the spy community."
    All global AV brands have to do is scan with every common pw/usernames and see what fails. Get users to create their own long pw and unique usernames.
    Or make the gateway to the internet hide or mask what the user is running.

  7. Re:Still better than Russia on Royal Navy Giving Up Anti-Ship Missiles, Will Rely On Cannons For Naval Combat (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    When the enemy mil is warned to stand down, stay home and accept surrender it all looks like winning on TV.
    Teams contacted the Libyan mil and gave them an offer. Stand down and walk away. So its not that any ship was "tested", the other side selected to stay home.
    Thats not any navy winning, thats having signals intelligence and making a lot of calls.
    The Falklands was more real. Lots of hardware issues and code on imported hardware to get working. The lesson learned was never to fully trust imported systems.

  8. Re:well, anti-ship missiles are archaic on Royal Navy Giving Up Anti-Ship Missiles, Will Rely On Cannons For Naval Combat (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    When crews are called up and given a few hours notice, they will load up their electronic devices with a few months of new files from their desktop computers.
    Wifi networks over days, usb recharging on duty will open different networks days later. Droid, iPad, iPhone, laptop... should not be allowed but are smuggled in.
    Given the secure role of isolated consumer grade OS on a lot of wider platforms...
    The honey trap of crypto staff or interesting staff in the 1960's is now all digital.

  9. How to fix this without big gov on Schneier: We Need a New Agency For IoT Security (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    1. Get anti virus software, free and subscription to scan a users networks by default. Find every device and test them with common pw/usernames and see what fails.
    Report that to the user and tell them to replace or update the device until it is safe on any network facing the internet.
    2. Ban the branded control software from cell phone and all app stores. If your device can be used as part of a swarm, its app gets banned and the world told why a brand cant be trusted.
    3. Work with isp. A IoT device broadcasting to an ip with all bandwidth 24/7 on a strange port is worth an automated email to that account.
    Most home user accounts should not be running networks 24/7 pushing data up.
    4. Educate the next generation of designers about crypto, passwords, user gui's to ensure set up is easy and results in a secure network connection.
    5. Name the brands design teams that fail. Promote good brands with really great staff who can code and design to a good standard and keep devices updated.
    6.. Talk to insurance companies. When a policy is offered, have a chat about good anti virus for the computer to scan and secure the IoT in the home.
    7. Create an open website with short video jargon filled clips that show the errors in many of the chips and hardware that caused the IoT issues.
    Is it a chip issues, factory issue, design policy or app and software issue. Educate the designers and developers with fun video clips on what can be done better.
    Find and support the good hardware. The good software and apps. The teams that offered great encryption and support that secure their devices.
    Find the hardware that works and make sure developers globally know about it.

  10. Compliance with site policy to keep an account is not approval or support of the sites or its politics.
    People soon learn not to post links to material they really enjoy and use other IM, email or enjoy much or fun and better stand alone portals.
    Social media can offer a few safe listed media sites but its users will just play along.
    If every comment and link is been watched by teams of SJW, best just to use the sites features.
    What a social media site then offers as group think is then exposed by the reality of elections results nation wide.
    If a social media site only allows links to a set few media sites, all its users will learn to use such links on that site.

  11. Re:Twitter also wondering where profit is. on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Gov workers, celebrities, empowered teams of SJW, theocracies, monarchies, cults, ruling parties and kingdoms will add content that will keep people interested?

  12. Re:"Why isn't anyone using us"? on Twitter Says It's Cracking Down on Hate Speech (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Once all the fun people exit to free speech platforms what is left?
    Staff from monarchies, theocracies, kingdoms, cults and Communist governments? Boring users who know never to have or be fun? Celebrities and their staff?
    Local government services? Political parties and foundations? NGO's? Teams of SJW? Sports? Newspaper staff doing web 2.0?
    Once freedom of speech before, during and after comments is gone, all the very best users go.

  13. Re:Face recognition on WhatsApp, Used By Over One Billion People, Gets Video Calling Feature (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ" (28 Feb 2014)
    https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
    The govs have been at that for years. They like users to be facing the camera with their face upright for best collection results.
    Lets hope that fully encrypted part is deep at the OS level on both ends :)

  14. "Modernize the U.S. Copyright Office" so we can have more software patents or natural human genes?
    Data driven innovation? How about trying to learn how to encrypt your own brands data before seeking even less consumer privacy with lots of different data?
    Warrant for content stored across technologies? That US wide domestic collect it all policy seems to be getting its access for decades without comment.
    Strong encryption? What use is strong encryption if the US brands hand over the keys to the US gov? Or the US sets weak standards. Or firms store data in plain text due to a lack of expert staff?
    Surveillance Reform? The US gov enjoyed the help and support of US brands over decades. Why the interest in the users privacy now?
    Re "defamation, “dangerous” speech, or political dissent". If you sell out to a monarchy, theocracy, kingdom and accept their cash, the freedom of speech from the USA is gone. Thats not a US issue. Don't sell out and your brand is fully protected in the USA.
    Re "adequate intellectual property regimes" stop selling out to regional media brands that keep your content away from consumers globally for weeks, months or longer.
    Don't let weak per nation deals remove the ability to stream your own content globally. Find better legal teams.
    Re "Cross-Border Data Flows" Why should other nations accept junk US encryption and give their nations private data to the US? Learn to encrypt to a better standard and work with locals.
    Re "The increasing number of governments disrupting" Stop selling out to a monarchy, theocracy, kingdom and then other govs won't get control.
    STEM education vs yet more open immigration? If US universities cant produce graduates and other nations can, that won't be fixed with ever more open immigration or creating ever more work permits.
    Bring back real exams and tests, pass the only the very best and the US too can again have "high-skilled graduates" just like every other nation.
    Cry ins, exams been optional do not help with the "high-skilled graduates" vision.
    Re "Increase Diversity" just make the exams and tests really hard. The US will then have a lot of really good, smart people working hard with lots of really great local jobs been created in the private sector.
    Skills that the US can sell to the world. Average skills do not sell well globally or help any community.
    Start by teaching encryption to secure all the great new "privacy, security, standardisation" and Internet of Things.

  15. Re:Including the US on Internet Freedom Wanes As Governments Target Messaging, Social Apps (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Even the domestic fix just offers more color of law fun.
    "NSA Can Access More Phone Data Than Ever" (Oct 20, 2016,) http://abcnews.go.com/US/nsa-p...
    "As a result, the NSA no longer has to worry about keeping up its own database .... the percentage of available records has shot up from 30 percent to virtually 100. "

  16. Like thinkpad support it will take a while and then just work on most distros. Until then it will be hard work.

  17. How many SJW are needed? on Google To Prohibit Fake News Websites From Using Its Ad-Selling Software (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    A campus full of them? At home click work? How many SJW are going to get jobs making the news safe again?
    Why cant the big search engines just search? Let the user work it out or find a great site, blog or portal they never would have. Do what made a search engine great, find news, search everything.
    Sooner or later users are going create a nice bookmark list of safe spaces. Thats great for them, the rest of us can enjoy a real working search engine. Let the search sites go back to searching, not filtering or censoring or funding staff to making the web a huge safe space..
    Less funding from creepy dictators, theocracies, foundations and monarchies for safe SJW projects and just make a good search engine again.

  18. Re:Must... resist... on Apple Considering Expansion Into Wearable Glasses, Says Report (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    From creepy glassholes back to traditional aholes?

  19. Re:If only "Freenet" existed on Internet Freedom Wanes As Governments Target Messaging, Social Apps (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Yes what was once a task for the NSA and GCHQ is now a per case budget for the federal police in most nations.
    Collect it all is now policy on any network.

  20. Re:Xanadu on Re-Discovering The 'Lost Civilization' of Dial-Up BBS's (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    The fun of the acoustic coupler. Mail flowing in as a series of letters, words, sentences, paragraphs and finally getting the full message :)

  21. Re:Broken Arrow on Uranium-Filled 'Lost Nuke' Missing Since 1950 May Have Been Found (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of fires too :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    "As experts were reviewing problems with the US nuclear force, the Air Force was withholding the fact that it was investigating damage to a nuclear-armed missile in its launch silo caused by 3 airmen" (Jan. 23, 2016)
    http://www.usnews.com/news/pol...
    The internal secrecy even from top cleared US experts is also an issue. The newer accidents are just not getting reported to the public as much anymore :)

  22. Re:The cloud is a joke on 'Lurking Malice' Study Finds Malware Hiding In The Cloud (gatech.edu) · · Score: 2

    AC its groupthink. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The experts offer huge amounts of storage, fast networking, low cost energy and CPU time for cents on the $.
    But with that comes a total loss of control. What random code is in the same location with your brand? What is been done in your brands name?
    On site experts can ensure your site and brand is clean and fast on totally controlled hardware and software. A cloud offers network balance globally but with a risk to reputation.

  23. Re:Radical idea! on Researchers Set To Work On Malware-Detecting CPUs (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    AC the security services would just go deeper. Alter the storage control chip or other hardware chips, well away from any deep software OS scan by AV.
    Every boot would load up gov malware that the OS and AV would give a free pass to. Recall the US keystroke logging software.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... efforts.

  24. Back to a cartridge system on Researchers Set To Work On Malware-Detecting CPUs (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Some form of cartridge system with a flap on the top. Externally flash chip and the user has a read only chip with new definitions and behavioural analysis.
    Fast, protected and total over view of all the hardware and software of the computer, network and OS.
    Display checksums of every upgradable part of the hardware and software.

  25. Re:Just those things? on Facebook To Stop Ads that Target, Exclude Races (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    AC that has it origins in the US going back to the 1950-70's.
    The real issue now is that fine granular ad consumer tracking and product placement.
    English, Portuguese, French, Spanish within the Americas, Africa and much more fine demographics down to small region, parishes, districts.