Bad karma and lack security: these guys have a unique developer API policy:They own whatever you develop for their platform. (surprised anyone agreed to this..) so I say "it couldn't happened to a nicer guy". Perhaps they were eluding to what should happen later on given they way they treat the developers who for some odd reason create stuff for their platform under ethically questionable terms.
Sounds like an attempt to gather evidence before charges are laid. Possibly because they don't have any yet...shakedown is what this basically sounds like.
A few years from now someone will "discover" something that disproves the limitaion of the pear shaped nuclei. The one thing about science, it's never certain, and what we thing is fact today, becomes fiction tomorrow. " Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. " K, Men in Black.
I'm a software/web developer architect. I get into discussions about how to implement things on websites a lot and it's a lot scarier than many might think. Just a few weeks ago I was looking at anti-fraud solutions which use something called "digital fingerprinting" which basically means tagging you in semi permanent fashion to verify you are actually "you". These solutions all rely on Javascript which my client couldn't use because they managed other external sites as well so it was too big a hassle. But if you go to many sights (forbes.com for example), try to use it without Javascript and see how far you get. BTW: for security I believe NoScript on Firefox or Umatrix on Chrome/Vivaldi are VITAL plugins to keep people from being the victim of malicious javascript routines, particularly from websites exploiting from popular typos. These things can potentially carry viruses as well and your antivirus may or may not protect you. Javascript is the black hole of security on the Internet these days in my opinion.
Problem is, many websites are designed to not function/give content without it. I've always been against this, but in attempt to sell to marketers, JS is all the rage. At the expensive of security, which most people don't seem to pay much mind anyway at least until they become a victim.
national security: you can use that reason to justify just about anything. there seems to be no limit, including ignoring/undermining the constitution in the name of national security. Of course B.J. Franklin said it best.
Not useful yet...but...like most things, given enough refinement. Specific patterns in change can be mapped to data once replicated. Many things we use today to store and transmit data were mere "noise" and random disturbances many years ago. Now we send petrabytes of data with those same distortions.
Yep, my words to a "T". So much for the "Free" lunch. New slogan: "Windows 10: You ARE the product" (Wonder if Linux Distros are tainted and if so, how badly..)
Okay, legally, you OWN your computer. Legally if something you own is in your home, it's YOURS. Now,even the argument that you use the Internet (can be argued that is the government's property), it's a stretch because you are still going into private property. that is technically breaking and entering to obtain information without a warrant. Basically the judges seems to be "yes" men the FBI and CIA. Perhaps that is what was meant when an FBI agent (source snowden) said off hand that "The constitution is irrelevant". If we don't enforce the constitution what is it worth. What is law when the enforcers ignore it? What is a constitution/charter/bill those entrusted will not uphold it? when are we all going to swamp our government offices with letters, emails, and our own persons if need be and say "no, we are not Russia, Eastern German or China". While it may be this person is guilty, if we say the end justifies the means, well, we know where that leads, and it's never pretty, just, lawful or right.
LOL, okay, 3 then. The 2 you mentioned (each have categories) and the 3rd, being the real data so the top of the food chain knows what it actually has. I know I sound cynical, in addition to what I've been told, we have lots of stories that seem to reflect the same. Oh, and of course, the off shore accounts we didn't know about (well some of us) before the Panama papers.;). still, it's good info to look at (and potentially see how much further some businesses go). Thanks for the info!
It's a leverage game. The courts would favor Let'sEncrypt trademark (as they basically paid the government for it first). It could also be shown that in using it on such a scale it's purpose is to use Let'sEncrypt's name and in the end the group could get damages for Comodo. but first it has to pay for the lawyers to get. So it's not a matter of who is in the right, but who can use their purse strings to draw this out long enough. Our justice isn't really based on a sense of fair play, rather than whose got bling to play. Kinda like Net Neutrality.:D Hopefully Comodo decides the bad PR and litigation isn't worth it. but they might. I have little doubt they'll suggest a number (in essence blackmail) to get the domain at a "minimal fee". While it's true ideally one would register the web domain but domain != trademark. trademark wins, but only if the money exists to drag in out in court.
Charter: "Since 2012, we have invested $7 billion in network improvements and added more than 7,000 jobs resulting in growing and longer customer relationships,"
I love how they say because they hire people, it's okay, to charge more than the rate advertised and agreed to. I'll bet some of of those 7000 people are included in who is overbilled. And Time Warner says they will only give refund if people complain about being charged. They admit to it, but then say they don't have to refund the people whose pockets they pick unless they are asked. Sounds like a thief, or at least a kid stealing from the cookie jar and say "But mommy, I don't do it again..I PROMISE". License to steal. We'll see if the government actually slaps these people with a court order or no. ethically they should, or they encourage other corporations to do the same. After all, "if you don't see it I didn't do it". Or in this case, "Okay, you got me, but the victim didn't...so who cares". How sad.
Perhaps but I could think of better ways to create hype. All this would do is create concern and possibly distrust. Not what I think apple's stockholders would have in mind. If anything, this could move more people to Android just to see if it's more secure (or just the same, but less expensive phones). Apple is already slowing down on profits from their iphones recently. Not the best timing on something like this. Marketing typically tries to put a positive spin. This doesn't feel positive as much as reluctant.
Canary Warrant. The Government got to them in spite of the public display of resisting.You can be anyone who was relying on Apple phones to keep secrets will use other means now. Doh.As for the claim that kernel cache doesn't contain user data (and bear in mind this took a week of "consideration", and I'm not a security expert), wouldn't it be possible to extrude data from the kernal cache that could lead to the ability to access other encrypted data? seems odd to encrypt it and then remove that encryption, especially given the timing. I could be wrong but I think Apple is giving a half truth. why take a week for a response to a question they had to know others would ask?
you have a point, but perhaps the word you are looking for is CORRUPT statistician. there are a number of ways to make statistics lie. There is even a book titled "How to lie with Statistics". Many high school teachers (at least good ones) talk about this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I learned that there are often two sets of books in businesses: one for the public/Auditors, and one for the top executives/owners. You can guess the numbers reflected in the public books. It's funny how the 2 books never seem to match. Of course with vulnerabilities, people's lack of tech security matters, plus private/government installed backdoors (added to or as part of software products/OS), documents like this will be leaked with increasing frequency. And the revelation will be shocking to those who believed the marketing hype. If these folks want to keep their private set of financial books secret, they'll have to learn to go back to paper, or at least use a set of isolated computers that never touch the Internet.
A valid argument: We do use relationships. Number are an attempt at short cut to reproducing things. You look at all the precise movements some we recognize/respect (Dance, athletes,musicians and the like) and we have other everyday things like walking we don't fully appreciate nor fully understand the complex motions, so much so it takes years sometimes to learn them. Robots + AI are an attempt to create in essence a shortcut to creating a person we don't have to have the same regard for as a human ( as far as we know). Our limited understanding of these things of course lead to poor reproductions. But you gotta, walk before running right? We are far from perfect, but recently developments i think show we will get there, and it may well be in sight. Asimo is not as flexible as a proper organic creature, but considering the lack of learns to learn working, and lifting, he's doing pretty well. He's got the balancing thing fairly well down. Someone just need to install some penumatic air pump muscles, and we have huge (if expensive) progress to making our little Asimo "a real boy".
Data will be open sourced as well. We already have a HUGE database with Open Street Map:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
if things continue in this way, there will be a LOT of useful data for AI, like other things it will start. of course an AI could also collect data from the Internet too. think Microsoft tried something like with concerning results:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3...
Anyway, I think the data one way or another will be there.
Recently so many people are taking spying/data collection to a whole new level including the dreaded MS. And the government benefits so they won't add policies to control them themselves unless there is a big public stink.It's unfortunate that Snowden's effort didn't get more public reaction. It's nice to see some companies trying to do the right thing. Be nice to use them to keep others in the industry honest. what about GoogleWallet or Authorize.net?
In response to that, doing something is one thing. Doing it without proper precautions and oversight is another. There is plenty of discussion about how much regulation of drones is required. That is a separate debate. what is crucial to this is it's about industrial uses for these devices. Generally household drones only have a camera. Although...some very clever (and dangerous) people have mounted flamethrowers and firearms on homemade drones. Now technically this is not illegal, but it probably should be. To easy to do all sorts of things. Now we are talking about industrial use. And this could well go beyond carrying a book or two (which can be dangerous in itself actually even from 400 ft, which should have registered flight paths much like any plane), but these industrial drones (small with many working in concert), or larger ones, could eventually be dealing in more dangerous things. The crop dusters we used to use were hazardous enough, imagine hundreds of these, imagine the damage to organic areas/populations. Or other items. And yes, some of even the home drones have caused some damage: interference with airlines, invasion of privacy (the FBI/CIA is bad enough without public wannabes), people shooting drones out of the air as consequence. Even line of sight clauses. Oh, and what if one of these drones get hacked which most people don't even consider. Even industrial made drones may not be secure. there is a lot a business needs to be aware of before using these things large scale in business. and we don't seem to be treating drones and their potential with the respect they deserve. Potentially more dangerous than cars, but less regulation than on car drivers. Amazon or people who fear PR and lawsuits won't be the problem. but business who get too aggressive/ambitious will start making serious mistakes if we make it easy.
Note the clause: "FAA is not requiring small UAS to comply with current agency airworthiness standards or aircraft certification". There is nothing pertaining about use of drones in concert which ironically, is being researched by MIT because groups of smaller drones working together may be more efficient than having a single larger drones, and this includes lifting medium to heayweight objects. Oh, and the job opportunities? What about the jobs that this new freedom allows drones to replace. This isn't about job opportunities, it's about corporates getting to make more money at the expense of their soon to be ex-employees as well as public safety. These aren't toys, but we seem to be handing out licenses for industrial use like candy in the name of corporate profit.
Heads I win (FBI spys on people like the secret service in East Germany, arbitrarily at any whin and no oversight/controls) or Tails (remove all individual rights to the point we are sheep to be herded). The terrorists have indeed one, America is no more and we are all cowering a cattle without the guts to do anything significant to truly stop it. The terrorists we have to worry about, are governments in the USA creating environments no different than Russia, we who open condemn. (But I wonder if we are taking cues from him in fact given news like this...)
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Bad karma and lack security: these guys have a unique developer API policy:They own whatever you develop for their platform. (surprised anyone agreed to this..) so I say "it couldn't happened to a nicer guy". Perhaps they were eluding to what should happen later on given they way they treat the developers who for some odd reason create stuff for their platform under ethically questionable terms.
Sounds like an attempt to gather evidence before charges are laid. Possibly because they don't have any yet...shakedown is what this basically sounds like.
A few years from now someone will "discover" something that disproves the limitaion of the pear shaped nuclei. The one thing about science, it's never certain, and what we thing is fact today, becomes fiction tomorrow. " Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. " K, Men in Black.
I'm a software/web developer architect. I get into discussions about how to implement things on websites a lot and it's a lot scarier than many might think. Just a few weeks ago I was looking at anti-fraud solutions which use something called "digital fingerprinting" which basically means tagging you in semi permanent fashion to verify you are actually "you". These solutions all rely on Javascript which my client couldn't use because they managed other external sites as well so it was too big a hassle. But if you go to many sights (forbes.com for example), try to use it without Javascript and see how far you get. BTW: for security I believe NoScript on Firefox or Umatrix on Chrome/Vivaldi are VITAL plugins to keep people from being the victim of malicious javascript routines, particularly from websites exploiting from popular typos. These things can potentially carry viruses as well and your antivirus may or may not protect you. Javascript is the black hole of security on the Internet these days in my opinion.
Problem is, many websites are designed to not function/give content without it. I've always been against this, but in attempt to sell to marketers, JS is all the rage. At the expensive of security, which most people don't seem to pay much mind anyway at least until they become a victim.
national security: you can use that reason to justify just about anything. there seems to be no limit, including ignoring/undermining the constitution in the name of national security. Of course B.J. Franklin said it best.
Not useful yet...but...like most things, given enough refinement. Specific patterns in change can be mapped to data once replicated. Many things we use today to store and transmit data were mere "noise" and random disturbances many years ago. Now we send petrabytes of data with those same distortions.
Yep, my words to a "T". So much for the "Free" lunch. New slogan: "Windows 10: You ARE the product" (Wonder if Linux Distros are tainted and if so, how badly..)
Okay, legally, you OWN your computer. Legally if something you own is in your home, it's YOURS. Now,even the argument that you use the Internet (can be argued that is the government's property), it's a stretch because you are still going into private property. that is technically breaking and entering to obtain information without a warrant. Basically the judges seems to be "yes" men the FBI and CIA. Perhaps that is what was meant when an FBI agent (source snowden) said off hand that "The constitution is irrelevant". If we don't enforce the constitution what is it worth. What is law when the enforcers ignore it? What is a constitution/charter/bill those entrusted will not uphold it? when are we all going to swamp our government offices with letters, emails, and our own persons if need be and say "no, we are not Russia, Eastern German or China". While it may be this person is guilty, if we say the end justifies the means, well, we know where that leads, and it's never pretty, just, lawful or right.
LOL, okay, 3 then. The 2 you mentioned (each have categories) and the 3rd, being the real data so the top of the food chain knows what it actually has. I know I sound cynical, in addition to what I've been told, we have lots of stories that seem to reflect the same. Oh, and of course, the off shore accounts we didn't know about (well some of us) before the Panama papers. ;). still, it's good info to look at (and potentially see how much further some businesses go). Thanks for the info!
It's a leverage game. The courts would favor Let'sEncrypt trademark (as they basically paid the government for it first). It could also be shown that in using it on such a scale it's purpose is to use Let'sEncrypt's name and in the end the group could get damages for Comodo. but first it has to pay for the lawyers to get. So it's not a matter of who is in the right, but who can use their purse strings to draw this out long enough. Our justice isn't really based on a sense of fair play, rather than whose got bling to play. Kinda like Net Neutrality. :D Hopefully Comodo decides the bad PR and litigation isn't worth it. but they might. I have little doubt they'll suggest a number (in essence blackmail) to get the domain at a "minimal fee". While it's true ideally one would register the web domain but domain != trademark. trademark wins, but only if the money exists to drag in out in court.
Charter: "Since 2012, we have invested $7 billion in network improvements and added more than 7,000 jobs resulting in growing and longer customer relationships," I love how they say because they hire people, it's okay, to charge more than the rate advertised and agreed to. I'll bet some of of those 7000 people are included in who is overbilled. And Time Warner says they will only give refund if people complain about being charged. They admit to it, but then say they don't have to refund the people whose pockets they pick unless they are asked. Sounds like a thief, or at least a kid stealing from the cookie jar and say "But mommy, I don't do it again..I PROMISE". License to steal. We'll see if the government actually slaps these people with a court order or no. ethically they should, or they encourage other corporations to do the same. After all, "if you don't see it I didn't do it". Or in this case, "Okay, you got me, but the victim didn't...so who cares". How sad.
the increasingly common chinese government backdoor for data collection? A technology appliance from China somehow feels incomplete without it.
Perhaps but I could think of better ways to create hype. All this would do is create concern and possibly distrust. Not what I think apple's stockholders would have in mind. If anything, this could move more people to Android just to see if it's more secure (or just the same, but less expensive phones). Apple is already slowing down on profits from their iphones recently. Not the best timing on something like this. Marketing typically tries to put a positive spin. This doesn't feel positive as much as reluctant.
Canary Warrant. The Government got to them in spite of the public display of resisting.You can be anyone who was relying on Apple phones to keep secrets will use other means now. Doh.As for the claim that kernel cache doesn't contain user data (and bear in mind this took a week of "consideration", and I'm not a security expert), wouldn't it be possible to extrude data from the kernal cache that could lead to the ability to access other encrypted data? seems odd to encrypt it and then remove that encryption, especially given the timing. I could be wrong but I think Apple is giving a half truth. why take a week for a response to a question they had to know others would ask?
you have a point, but perhaps the word you are looking for is CORRUPT statistician. there are a number of ways to make statistics lie. There is even a book titled "How to lie with Statistics". Many high school teachers (at least good ones) talk about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I learned that there are often two sets of books in businesses: one for the public/Auditors, and one for the top executives/owners. You can guess the numbers reflected in the public books. It's funny how the 2 books never seem to match. Of course with vulnerabilities, people's lack of tech security matters, plus private/government installed backdoors (added to or as part of software products/OS), documents like this will be leaked with increasing frequency. And the revelation will be shocking to those who believed the marketing hype. If these folks want to keep their private set of financial books secret, they'll have to learn to go back to paper, or at least use a set of isolated computers that never touch the Internet.
A valid argument: We do use relationships. Number are an attempt at short cut to reproducing things. You look at all the precise movements some we recognize/respect (Dance, athletes,musicians and the like) and we have other everyday things like walking we don't fully appreciate nor fully understand the complex motions, so much so it takes years sometimes to learn them. Robots + AI are an attempt to create in essence a shortcut to creating a person we don't have to have the same regard for as a human ( as far as we know). Our limited understanding of these things of course lead to poor reproductions. But you gotta, walk before running right? We are far from perfect, but recently developments i think show we will get there, and it may well be in sight. Asimo is not as flexible as a proper organic creature, but considering the lack of learns to learn working, and lifting, he's doing pretty well. He's got the balancing thing fairly well down. Someone just need to install some penumatic air pump muscles, and we have huge (if expensive) progress to making our little Asimo "a real boy".
If not, why do they want to either increase costs or add ads?
Data will be open sourced as well. We already have a HUGE database with Open Street Map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/ if things continue in this way, there will be a LOT of useful data for AI, like other things it will start. of course an AI could also collect data from the Internet too. think Microsoft tried something like with concerning results: http://www.theverge.com/2016/3... Anyway, I think the data one way or another will be there.
See Asimo: http://asimo.honda.com/
Recently so many people are taking spying/data collection to a whole new level including the dreaded MS. And the government benefits so they won't add policies to control them themselves unless there is a big public stink.It's unfortunate that Snowden's effort didn't get more public reaction. It's nice to see some companies trying to do the right thing. Be nice to use them to keep others in the industry honest. what about GoogleWallet or Authorize.net?
In response to that, doing something is one thing. Doing it without proper precautions and oversight is another. There is plenty of discussion about how much regulation of drones is required. That is a separate debate. what is crucial to this is it's about industrial uses for these devices. Generally household drones only have a camera. Although...some very clever (and dangerous) people have mounted flamethrowers and firearms on homemade drones. Now technically this is not illegal, but it probably should be. To easy to do all sorts of things. Now we are talking about industrial use. And this could well go beyond carrying a book or two (which can be dangerous in itself actually even from 400 ft, which should have registered flight paths much like any plane), but these industrial drones (small with many working in concert), or larger ones, could eventually be dealing in more dangerous things. The crop dusters we used to use were hazardous enough, imagine hundreds of these, imagine the damage to organic areas/populations. Or other items. And yes, some of even the home drones have caused some damage: interference with airlines, invasion of privacy (the FBI/CIA is bad enough without public wannabes), people shooting drones out of the air as consequence. Even line of sight clauses. Oh, and what if one of these drones get hacked which most people don't even consider. Even industrial made drones may not be secure. there is a lot a business needs to be aware of before using these things large scale in business. and we don't seem to be treating drones and their potential with the respect they deserve. Potentially more dangerous than cars, but less regulation than on car drivers. Amazon or people who fear PR and lawsuits won't be the problem. but business who get too aggressive/ambitious will start making serious mistakes if we make it easy.
Note the clause: "FAA is not requiring small UAS to comply with current agency airworthiness standards or aircraft certification". There is nothing pertaining about use of drones in concert which ironically, is being researched by MIT because groups of smaller drones working together may be more efficient than having a single larger drones, and this includes lifting medium to heayweight objects. Oh, and the job opportunities? What about the jobs that this new freedom allows drones to replace. This isn't about job opportunities, it's about corporates getting to make more money at the expense of their soon to be ex-employees as well as public safety. These aren't toys, but we seem to be handing out licenses for industrial use like candy in the name of corporate profit.
Heads I win (FBI spys on people like the secret service in East Germany, arbitrarily at any whin and no oversight/controls) or Tails (remove all individual rights to the point we are sheep to be herded). The terrorists have indeed one, America is no more and we are all cowering a cattle without the guts to do anything significant to truly stop it. The terrorists we have to worry about, are governments in the USA creating environments no different than Russia, we who open condemn. (But I wonder if we are taking cues from him in fact given news like this...)