Sorry, misread, my bad.. Of course the word "allow" suggests it's voluntary. But of the CIA wants other agencies to collaborate and they are being allowed without any checks? Although I maintain the CIA is not really into sharing, I suppose they might trade, or even "sell" for other info in return.
The CIA Isn't exactly known for sharing. not sure this will mean anything at all on a practical level. Sounds like it's an attempt to shift accountability for secrets to the CIA instead of the executive branch.
Oracle has been looking to profit form the free labor from open source software advocates ever since it was losing clients to MySQL which they later purchased. The original developers were so concerned they created MariaDB. And from this LibreOffice sprung to protect "OpenOffice" and after realizing Oracle was never going to make money on OO They give it to the Apache Foundation. Oracle has not had a history of playing nice with the open source community and their development on MySQL and related products has not exactly been dedicated. Suspect they are only doing it because it was a condition for the EU to allow the European portion of the take over of Sun Microsystems. Why hasn't Oracle just put put ZFS as a fully open GPL2 compliant code for all to use and improve? Probably, like OpenOffice, to see if they can exploit it to their benefit in some way, which could even sabotage Linux (or at least Ubuntu). Debian has the right idea in distributing the source only of ZFS. We'll see where this goes but I think The Software Freedom Conservancy is in the right, and in cases like this far better to err on the side of caution. If everyone lobbied Oracle, we could get a proper and compatible ZFS license that oracle couldn't do a poison pill or "about face" on later. Why not give that a try.
First, answering the second question, I guess yes but....
The "new USA economy" is actually the OLD economy. The Brits sent out colonists with that exact purpose in mind and the same for India (which they did with great success for awhile). The difference is in the USA we went "wild, wild west" and in truth never went back, especially in the sense we tend to do everything through legalized extortion. (or illegal in many cases but conveniently "ignored" by authorities) I consider IP laws a new government revenue generator (think IP Real Estate) similar to selling of property that was in essence stolen from the natives who were original here.As I implied before, they need to be redone. It's actually becoming a liability for the government now ironically.
While you can argue piracy, the USA it is perfectly legal to make backup copies of commercial media you legitimately own. Very important for owners of old DVD, VHS tapes, laser disks and so on. Once nice thing about linux is it's a lot harder to just "shut down" because it's world wide and the USA is the most anal when it comes to copying laws. It's inverse is China where it's apparently unfashionable NOT to copy things..(and in many cases sell the copies..). Anyway, there are reasonable policies when it comes to backups of things we purchase but in the USA, the business are trying to require people to purchases their media more than once if possible. We gotta rethink these IP laws as they don't encourage innovation as much as they promote lazy fat cats to just rest on the laurels of a single creation for not only their lifetime, but the lifetime of their descendants.
Would be easier to write fixed questions wouldn't it? Also harder for the less observant to spot.:D Surveys in my mind go into the category of statistics, which can lie in a number of ways. Surprised at this news.
So many people use Wi-Fi on their phones for Internet and VoIP phone calls (plus Whatsapp..etc). Would be cool not to have to worry about my phone battery going dead within a few hours after using the Wi-fi for Internet.
Yea, good one. Like we can trust the FBI and CIA with a one off. We all knew this was the goal. If you say yes to one you have to say say to all. Now...when is the public going to stand up and say "NO"? Or do we want cases like the the one just posted today:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...
This is when the data was unprotected. Which in essence will be the effect if the FBI has it's way. (some in the FBI has said we should ban encryption so the government has full unfettered access).
Where the government OPM database was breached in 2014 and 2015, partially by foreign (the Chinese..of course...).
If you create a key, everyone will want to use it. And everybody will...especially private/foreign hackers. And when it come to hacking, the international hacking community will find any backdoor created. (rumor has it Apple already has one may be patching it before they strong armed into disclosing it). Put the word out (as this case will if Apple complies) that there is such a key, and watch the effort redouble to find/exploit. The public needs to say, "enough is enough" before everything becomes the data "wild, wild west". Benjamin Franklin was so insightful: We truly deserve neither. and that is what we appear to be getting.
The first thing I was taught in my statistics class is how they can lie. And in a wide variety of ways. The first thing I would ask is who is asking the questions, and who wrote the questions in the first place. In addition, most of the public is so "high strung" with news designed to scare the into accepting anything with the word "security" or "anti-terrorism" they many are now psychologically programmed to say yes to anything with these key phrases in them. The fix is in folks. I just wonder if the bus for "1984" was early, or late...
Yep, that's the Microsoft I know. Just like the default options in IIS 4.0 or "Option explicit"(not being turned on) in VB: worst defaults ever. Gotta love convenience at the price of security. Go get em, MS. You Rock! (inversely)
The bigger question is, why shouldn't it be safe to connect to any random Wifi hotspot? Literally everything should be using https by now, SSL certs are even available for free, so there's no excuse not to. I often connect to public Wifi hotspots (and use a VPN since I know that everything is *not* secured with SSL) and there's really no other option (other than "never use public wifi hotspots") since there is no way to know whether the "Starbucks" or "Starbucks - SFO" or "Starbucks - Public" SSID is the legitimate one.
Um, is this a trick question? There are MANY sites that don't encrypt all data. (Most sites I believe still only encrypt the login password, and many don't even do that.) Plus you have to consider the devices and software as well. It's not just websites. What about email sent through those wifi hotspots? You've just given sniffers an easy access port to record those messages without even having to register on the network. Yes, there are flaws in the current WPA2 and especially in WPA1 and WEP, but to make it easy to record data without even having to register on the network or even hack some basic encryption? Not a great idea in my opinion. It's like an open invitation to sniff anonymously. Relying on HTTPS is a sure way to leak data, because not all traffic goes that way due to various Internet application and services that don't encrypt because of lack of diligence or optimization efforts.
Not unless you tell them. The default of most Laptops/Cell Phones is for you to specify whether to automatically connect to any unencrypted networks. This happened because it's the nature of most people to use what is available. And people don't want to hear that convenience always comes at the price of security. Every time. Or as a friend of mine put it: "Necessity is convenience + time"
People see the word "free" and don't think of the consequences. Look at the people who get their "free" phones with a contract, not even realizing that their phone as so much preloaded spy apps preinstalled for them. It's like a kid taking candy from strangers, or worse a drug dealer (it's almost as addictive). Or the "cheap" laptops which in my experience have more preinstalled "market-ware" than the lightly more expensive business grade laptops. People in general are lazy and cheap when it comes to security and countless companies have built highly successfully marketing strategies based on this fact including (big surprise) Microsoft, WhatsApp, Facebook. I could go on. This is why India blocked FAcebook from opening their limited (to facebook approved content only) free wi-fi over there. They understood the dangers of a central controller free Internet platform in poor regions of that company. The ultimate opportunity to control what people see/hear and influence people's thinking over there. Will we ever learn, except for a few "weird" people, it seems unlikely.
There are so many organizations who get junior/intermediate developers who are told to build it fast, without a plan and without consideration of what they are storing. There are probably hundreds of companies who set up a system, make it big, and never do audits of their code, data or protection. Anyone storing sensitive data should be doing a periodic audit so the people "upstairs" know what is stored and how it is stored. It's not enough for it to "just work". It's not just the medical and psychology industries that keep sensitive data. US laws regarding the protection of such data are often vague, vary from state the state and are rather weak. We should probably be solidifying those laws a bit, and standardizing on a federal level. Then again, since the Federal government seems fixated on compromising data security (see recent "request" by the FBI to Apple), they may not in fact be that concerned and some of of them have actually spoken AGAINST encryption. They could hash things like names and date of birth of course, but they they couldn't do as much in market analysis. Parents should be more care who they trust with their data in my opinion. They can do monitoring themselves through various means or have a neighbourhood server employed rather than some big (and careless) corporation whose sole purpose is to make money and sell their data to marketing companies. That goes double for people like this who collect gigs of data on children and don't even audit the data they keep. I'd go as far as to recommend a government audit/lawsuit in a case this big.This was so easily prevented.
For what you trying to accomplish, there are more open source programs available for Windows than any other platform. If your computer is stand alone, you need not worry about phone home telemetry, or just use Windows 7. Auto Tune alternatives are widely available for Windows than Linux, if that matters to you. Otherwise, Linux is great if it meets all your projected needs.
If Windows 7 has in essence a "back door" (Windows update which you can disable but how many people think of that?) that can upgrade you to an OS an that sends "telemetry" data about your activities, what's to stop them from getting "ideas" from your work? For me, anyone who is doing any professional, profitable work should stay off of MS Windows unless they are tech savvy and/or want to work for MS. I'm hoping Apple software providers aren't doing anything sneaky and Apple has long been an industry standard for musicians and artists.Just a thought as a possible alternative.
Okay, this is the biggest embarrassment the IOC has had yet, and the oympics haven't even started. Is it worth it for the rowers to put themselves through this. And the performance of the athletes..I doubt we'll be seeing any world records. Unless it's for racing in toxic conditions. The Olympics needs to come back to it's roots and remove the IOC as it exists today. And the rowers should refuse to compete. There are lives outside of the Olympics for professional athletes, and for the amateurs who wanted to start out in the olymtics...they have lives...period. Either way, the Olympics are not worth these health risks. The athletes might consider going on strike this year so their health and safety are properly protected which the IOC and Rio has blatantly failed to do.
It's amazing how when Lucas was given enough money to have free reign, he was the inverse of the Midas touch. If it was already gold, he made it bronze (the CGI skipped silver). if it was new it was tin or worse. So who was it that kept him from messing up the original trilogy in the first place.
"That doesn't really work does it...have you tried.." Tom Hulce(Mozart) - Amadeus.
Yep. We could always partner with China on government policy reform. We seem to be trying to adopt similar policies anyway: Do what the government agencies tell you without question...or else. In China being a lawyer is all about relationships with the judge (talk to a few Chinese lawyers of you have trouble believing this...) and the USA this is an example of the same and more to come in my opinion.
It's not like we really honored the US Constitution since the so-called "patriot act" after 911. Benjamin Franklin said it best: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." When will we learn?
This seems to be an attempt to sway an American public who generally only read headliners but not the full story. Encryption was not from what I read even used in coordinating the Paris events. Of course the best people in espionage do not rely exclusively on high tech methods. I think the FBI forgot there are other means to do things in secret and are using headlines to get public support and put pressure on politicians to give the FBI unfetted access to all transmitted data. in which case people may well go to variations of the "Book Code". Given the state of literacy in the USA, that could work even better than high power encryption algorithms.:-)
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Sorry, misread, my bad.. Of course the word "allow" suggests it's voluntary. But of the CIA wants other agencies to collaborate and they are being allowed without any checks? Although I maintain the CIA is not really into sharing, I suppose they might trade, or even "sell" for other info in return.
The CIA Isn't exactly known for sharing. not sure this will mean anything at all on a practical level. Sounds like it's an attempt to shift accountability for secrets to the CIA instead of the executive branch.
Oracle has been looking to profit form the free labor from open source software advocates ever since it was losing clients to MySQL which they later purchased. The original developers were so concerned they created MariaDB. And from this LibreOffice sprung to protect "OpenOffice" and after realizing Oracle was never going to make money on OO They give it to the Apache Foundation. Oracle has not had a history of playing nice with the open source community and their development on MySQL and related products has not exactly been dedicated. Suspect they are only doing it because it was a condition for the EU to allow the European portion of the take over of Sun Microsystems. Why hasn't Oracle just put put ZFS as a fully open GPL2 compliant code for all to use and improve? Probably, like OpenOffice, to see if they can exploit it to their benefit in some way, which could even sabotage Linux (or at least Ubuntu). Debian has the right idea in distributing the source only of ZFS. We'll see where this goes but I think The Software Freedom Conservancy is in the right, and in cases like this far better to err on the side of caution. If everyone lobbied Oracle, we could get a proper and compatible ZFS license that oracle couldn't do a poison pill or "about face" on later. Why not give that a try.
First, answering the second question, I guess yes but.... The "new USA economy" is actually the OLD economy. The Brits sent out colonists with that exact purpose in mind and the same for India (which they did with great success for awhile). The difference is in the USA we went "wild, wild west" and in truth never went back, especially in the sense we tend to do everything through legalized extortion. (or illegal in many cases but conveniently "ignored" by authorities) I consider IP laws a new government revenue generator (think IP Real Estate) similar to selling of property that was in essence stolen from the natives who were original here.As I implied before, they need to be redone. It's actually becoming a liability for the government now ironically.
While you can argue piracy, the USA it is perfectly legal to make backup copies of commercial media you legitimately own. Very important for owners of old DVD, VHS tapes, laser disks and so on. Once nice thing about linux is it's a lot harder to just "shut down" because it's world wide and the USA is the most anal when it comes to copying laws. It's inverse is China where it's apparently unfashionable NOT to copy things..(and in many cases sell the copies..). Anyway, there are reasonable policies when it comes to backups of things we purchase but in the USA, the business are trying to require people to purchases their media more than once if possible. We gotta rethink these IP laws as they don't encourage innovation as much as they promote lazy fat cats to just rest on the laurels of a single creation for not only their lifetime, but the lifetime of their descendants.
Would be easier to write fixed questions wouldn't it? Also harder for the less observant to spot. :D Surveys in my mind go into the category of statistics, which can lie in a number of ways. Surprised at this news.
So many people use Wi-Fi on their phones for Internet and VoIP phone calls (plus Whatsapp..etc). Would be cool not to have to worry about my phone battery going dead within a few hours after using the Wi-fi for Internet.
Yea, good one. Like we can trust the FBI and CIA with a one off. We all knew this was the goal. If you say yes to one you have to say say to all. Now...when is the public going to stand up and say "NO"? Or do we want cases like the the one just posted today: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/... This is when the data was unprotected. Which in essence will be the effect if the FBI has it's way. (some in the FBI has said we should ban encryption so the government has full unfettered access).
Or another case that came to light today as well: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Where the government OPM database was breached in 2014 and 2015, partially by foreign (the Chinese..of course...).
If you create a key, everyone will want to use it. And everybody will...especially private/foreign hackers. And when it come to hacking, the international hacking community will find any backdoor created. (rumor has it Apple already has one may be patching it before they strong armed into disclosing it). Put the word out (as this case will if Apple complies) that there is such a key, and watch the effort redouble to find/exploit. The public needs to say, "enough is enough" before everything becomes the data "wild, wild west". Benjamin Franklin was so insightful: We truly deserve neither. and that is what we appear to be getting.
The first thing I was taught in my statistics class is how they can lie. And in a wide variety of ways. The first thing I would ask is who is asking the questions, and who wrote the questions in the first place. In addition, most of the public is so "high strung" with news designed to scare the into accepting anything with the word "security" or "anti-terrorism" they many are now psychologically programmed to say yes to anything with these key phrases in them. The fix is in folks. I just wonder if the bus for "1984" was early, or late...
Yep, that's the Microsoft I know. Just like the default options in IIS 4.0 or "Option explicit"(not being turned on) in VB: worst defaults ever. Gotta love convenience at the price of security. Go get em, MS. You Rock! (inversely)
The bigger question is, why shouldn't it be safe to connect to any random Wifi hotspot? Literally everything should be using https by now, SSL certs are even available for free, so there's no excuse not to. I often connect to public Wifi hotspots (and use a VPN since I know that everything is *not* secured with SSL) and there's really no other option (other than "never use public wifi hotspots") since there is no way to know whether the "Starbucks" or "Starbucks - SFO" or "Starbucks - Public" SSID is the legitimate one.
Um, is this a trick question? There are MANY sites that don't encrypt all data. (Most sites I believe still only encrypt the login password, and many don't even do that.) Plus you have to consider the devices and software as well. It's not just websites. What about email sent through those wifi hotspots? You've just given sniffers an easy access port to record those messages without even having to register on the network. Yes, there are flaws in the current WPA2 and especially in WPA1 and WEP, but to make it easy to record data without even having to register on the network or even hack some basic encryption? Not a great idea in my opinion. It's like an open invitation to sniff anonymously. Relying on HTTPS is a sure way to leak data, because not all traffic goes that way due to various Internet application and services that don't encrypt because of lack of diligence or optimization efforts.
Or do their devices automatically do it for them?
Not unless you tell them. The default of most Laptops/Cell Phones is for you to specify whether to automatically connect to any unencrypted networks. This happened because it's the nature of most people to use what is available. And people don't want to hear that convenience always comes at the price of security. Every time. Or as a friend of mine put it: "Necessity is convenience + time" People see the word "free" and don't think of the consequences. Look at the people who get their "free" phones with a contract, not even realizing that their phone as so much preloaded spy apps preinstalled for them. It's like a kid taking candy from strangers, or worse a drug dealer (it's almost as addictive). Or the "cheap" laptops which in my experience have more preinstalled "market-ware" than the lightly more expensive business grade laptops. People in general are lazy and cheap when it comes to security and countless companies have built highly successfully marketing strategies based on this fact including (big surprise) Microsoft, WhatsApp, Facebook. I could go on. This is why India blocked FAcebook from opening their limited (to facebook approved content only) free wi-fi over there. They understood the dangers of a central controller free Internet platform in poor regions of that company. The ultimate opportunity to control what people see/hear and influence people's thinking over there. Will we ever learn, except for a few "weird" people, it seems unlikely.
There are so many organizations who get junior/intermediate developers who are told to build it fast, without a plan and without consideration of what they are storing. There are probably hundreds of companies who set up a system, make it big, and never do audits of their code, data or protection. Anyone storing sensitive data should be doing a periodic audit so the people "upstairs" know what is stored and how it is stored. It's not enough for it to "just work". It's not just the medical and psychology industries that keep sensitive data. US laws regarding the protection of such data are often vague, vary from state the state and are rather weak. We should probably be solidifying those laws a bit, and standardizing on a federal level. Then again, since the Federal government seems fixated on compromising data security (see recent "request" by the FBI to Apple), they may not in fact be that concerned and some of of them have actually spoken AGAINST encryption. They could hash things like names and date of birth of course, but they they couldn't do as much in market analysis. Parents should be more care who they trust with their data in my opinion. They can do monitoring themselves through various means or have a neighbourhood server employed rather than some big (and careless) corporation whose sole purpose is to make money and sell their data to marketing companies. That goes double for people like this who collect gigs of data on children and don't even audit the data they keep. I'd go as far as to recommend a government audit/lawsuit in a case this big.This was so easily prevented.
For what you trying to accomplish, there are more open source programs available for Windows than any other platform. If your computer is stand alone, you need not worry about phone home telemetry, or just use Windows 7. Auto Tune alternatives are widely available for Windows than Linux, if that matters to you. Otherwise, Linux is great if it meets all your projected needs.
If Windows 7 has in essence a "back door" (Windows update which you can disable but how many people think of that?) that can upgrade you to an OS an that sends "telemetry" data about your activities, what's to stop them from getting "ideas" from your work? For me, anyone who is doing any professional, profitable work should stay off of MS Windows unless they are tech savvy and/or want to work for MS. I'm hoping Apple software providers aren't doing anything sneaky and Apple has long been an industry standard for musicians and artists.Just a thought as a possible alternative.
Really, the same as windows 10?
Sorry, that should read "The Same as MS Windows 7+?" (Upgrading TO Windows 10 without your permission, including reboot)
Really, the same as windows 10?
Okay, this is the biggest embarrassment the IOC has had yet, and the oympics haven't even started. Is it worth it for the rowers to put themselves through this. And the performance of the athletes..I doubt we'll be seeing any world records. Unless it's for racing in toxic conditions. The Olympics needs to come back to it's roots and remove the IOC as it exists today. And the rowers should refuse to compete. There are lives outside of the Olympics for professional athletes, and for the amateurs who wanted to start out in the olymtics...they have lives...period. Either way, the Olympics are not worth these health risks. The athletes might consider going on strike this year so their health and safety are properly protected which the IOC and Rio has blatantly failed to do.
The Devil made me do it...
It's amazing how when Lucas was given enough money to have free reign, he was the inverse of the Midas touch. If it was already gold, he made it bronze (the CGI skipped silver). if it was new it was tin or worse. So who was it that kept him from messing up the original trilogy in the first place. "That doesn't really work does it...have you tried.." Tom Hulce(Mozart) - Amadeus.
If you want it printed online that is...
Yep. We could always partner with China on government policy reform. We seem to be trying to adopt similar policies anyway: Do what the government agencies tell you without question...or else. In China being a lawyer is all about relationships with the judge (talk to a few Chinese lawyers of you have trouble believing this...) and the USA this is an example of the same and more to come in my opinion.
It's called a typo. Not sure how that is relevant to the topic...anyway, I reversed the e and i (so perhaps focus on the actual issue at hand...) ;-)
It's not like we really honored the US Constitution since the so-called "patriot act" after 911. Benjamin Franklin said it best: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." When will we learn?
This seems to be an attempt to sway an American public who generally only read headliners but not the full story. Encryption was not from what I read even used in coordinating the Paris events. Of course the best people in espionage do not rely exclusively on high tech methods. I think the FBI forgot there are other means to do things in secret and are using headlines to get public support and put pressure on politicians to give the FBI unfetted access to all transmitted data. in which case people may well go to variations of the "Book Code". Given the state of literacy in the USA, that could work even better than high power encryption algorithms. :-)
Here...phishy, phishy, phishy, phishy....