People using SMS for security are hoping that it is difficult to impossible to potentially tie together the data, but of course it's not foolproof. Texts and be easily intercepted and put together if data from the other side can be acquired. It was made for convenience. Simple as that. which is why we have other apps and methods of encrypting sms or equivalent (Whatsapp for example although in theory there are ways to attack that too but is harder, can't remember details). Even GMS seems a bit weak to me and in India, there is apparently no encryption at all. Cell phone technology was designed with a focus on security, but convenience and easy of use. in other words, easy to consume. The price of convenience in my experience has always been security.
It would be surprising is there WASN'T an investigation given Equifax has credit and personal info on a huge number of the US population and controls credit access of virtually the entire country. Probably should have been more government monitoring for security which I would guess will occurs after a post-mortem of this incident.
Actually, in the first 6 months of this year there was far greater use is the Bush administration created policy to search people's devices without warrant at the border. The Trump administration is by far the biggest spike, so much so it's gotten a LOT of attention lately. Trump has no sense of balance of discretion so many things set up by previous presidents unnoticed are probably getting noticed (and will be) this year.
You are partially right. This little exception clause in the law saw done by the Bush (senior I believe) administration and continued by every president since him, so no one is innocent. What IS noteworthy is that it was actually more in the first 6 months of this year than in the combined years of the other previous presidents, so the Trump administration is responsible for using this privilege to an excessive extent.
Well said, if a bit extreme. If not for the "Stressed" suggestions for marketing, I'd give you points if I had them. You have valid points, but perhaps express them a little too vividly.
Problem is it's not default. And without that being default, it is a vulnerability as most people don't change their default as is well known and often exploited by MS to comply with laws while effectively circumventing them. MS Office is a classic example: You can set save file defaults, to something other than MSOOXML but it is VERY hard to find the setting.
Oh, and I use Thunderbird regularly and it works very well, and have set it up in a multitude of environments. To have Thunderbird automatically interface with 3rd party products, could well be exploited in a similar fashion as email clients, interacting with a 3rd party component that is not a part of the main product.As for using Mozilla Thunderbird to schedule shared resources there IS in fact a way. But it is not user friendly as that is not a priority of Mozilla:
We all know that embedded codes for dynamic engines in your OS or even the program reading the messages is just an invitation for trouble.
Microsoft lead the with with VB.Script in Outlook. ("I luv you" too...), then as marketing people wanted to decorate with fancy email signatures we started embedding HTML/Javascript, leading to clever tracking on web servers and javascript routines. The worst part is the default for email clients and web client is all HTML/Javascript.
We need the default on all email stuff to be text only for our own protection as well as the general health of cyberspace.
Microsoft isn't exactly known for making the most secure software (Windows Defender is often a joke among security software vendors). However, knowing what we now know, that backdoors were in many cases left unpatched (under duress possibly), for government "monitoring" as the CIA has had their noses in MS windows development/feature process for sometime. Windows 10 is particularly vicious on data collection.We may never be sure when the holes are oversights or government "requests" to leave open until someone else discovers it (which they will sooner or later). The UK is trying to force "mandatory" backdoors in security/OS software. That is scary stuff. Will start a whole army of hackers going after software coming from the UK. In China I assume it's already there.
To be clear, I've never said that FireFox wasn't a good browser, but I find Vivaldi is a better browser. Also, firefox's new updates appear to kill a lot of addos (extension equivalent). The most popular ones for web developing and security from what I've read will not have a chance to be updated for this new standard. The extensions in vivaldi that work will will continue to work. That is the real issue: a key feature will be (at least for awhile) effectively disable. Mozilla should be working with add-on developers to help the switch over. If they do that and an upgrade doesn't kill my firefox "add-ons" cool. If that is a reinstallation from "add-on" to "web extension" cool. But just dying, not cool. That is the primary issue.
If Mozilla doesn't come up with a way of keeping the extensions we have grown to love firefox for, I guess I won't be using FireFox. It is strange that Mozilla would not have taken this into account. I've been playing with Vivaldi and I'm a fan of the browser (as well as his music) Have Vivaldi with Umatrix installed, which is like "NoScript" on steroids. So for me Vivaldi is a good alternative to Firefox.
Sorry, gotta ask, who is reviewing these articles before it gets posted. This feels a a lot like ads/spam on the site by a marketing/PR specialist. Whatever the original source, doesn't change an article that is in fact a promotion/ad.
Absolutely right. We need to decentralize the Internet. that is the only way to truly preserve it. It got too centralized and Google, Facebook, and possibly cloudflare (dont' know about them, but you could be right), are certainly participating in web censorship/suppression for governments.
While all these are valid points, the fact remains that the EU has a president who is seeking to implement these Chinese-like Internet policies. Regardless of whether the majority of the EU nations agree, regardless of whether there are privacy laws in place, the president of a large group of nations like this can do a LOT of damage, so this proposal of his needs to be nipped in the bud before it takes root and gains traction. Nothing like this every gets implement in a single stage. It's like cancer, if it isn't found stopped early, it increases the chance of a terminal case. (like China, it would take another revolution there to remove the hard nose tactics in place there now, which was always the point).
Fortunately Trump has not shown the intelligence, nor even technically alliances necessary to do so. (Most tech companies do not work with him). Putin has all of these which is part of what makes Putin so dangerous. (His intelligence and knowledge of the KBG doesn't hurt either).
Unfortunately, there is a monitoring net set up during the Obama administration (as demonstrated by Snowden) that makes it relative easy to implement in the US. Also, there are clear signs that Google (and Yahoo) is already participating in restricting searches as demonstrated by the EFF. Those with the know how can bypass some of this with VPNs to other countries and searching from Google, say in France, Germany, or South American which bypasses these business/government "boosts". I tend to use Qwant, a French search engine), sometimes Dogpile, or DuckDuckGo (controlled by Russia) as well as Yandex (another Russian Search engine) to get results I cannot find in Google USA. I'll probably look into Japanese Search engines as well. It's becoming clear the centralization of the web is too easy for governments to clamp down and VPN's are being banned in China and Russia. One observer correctly commented that the web needs to be decentralized
But none of this has anything to with Trump, who has shown signs of mental instability, vanity, and utter lack of knowledge of how government or international politics works, plus has the finesse of a bull in a china shop, breaking everything in it's path. And on top of that, appears to be a white supremacist sympathizer as well, with proven lack of respect of rule of law. (Releasing Sheriff who basically defied a court order). A President who doesn't respect rule of law, is a really dangerous things, and it undermines the confidence in general of rule of law. Not sure we really want that, but I digress. To main topic, if we do have a Chinese firewall, Trump will probably know less about it than most people who keep up with international news. (and certainly less than any techie I know)
there is only one reason for using China's system for control data/opinions shows: To guarantee the status quo and minimize or eliminate any threat to your current power structure. Unless the world wants their governments run like China, those that don't like it need to speak up, openly, now....because once it's in, it will be a lot harder to remove. (as per design)
Don't own it, have no intention of buying it. My next laptop is probably a Toughbook (wiped with Linux installed and maybe a Windows xp/7 Virtual OS), or maybe a Fujitsu Portable Workstation (high specs)
With these kind of verdicts, what is going to deter other laptop vendors from doing this to their customer...or...is that what the government wants, as they access to all that data upon request.
Technically it should be illegal as their own products don't have the same requirements. but the deck is stacked. Google actually makes it a bit inconvenient to remove their stuff. And the "update server" was nuts. Nobody needs an update server. With Firefox you can remove the update service but not with Google, at least not without remove other google software packages. Consequently I don't use Google in MS Windows. "This smells funny, and I'm not eating".
Ruby is great, and the most intuitive language I've seen in years. But your son will do VERY well. Scratch is a good place to start but as you point out it's not the end of all anything. Minecraft and Python definitely cool. But kids will want someone to help get past the "cage" of variables/control statements to see more of the result. You might do well with RPG MakerXP. Students love making their own interactive stories with that. Part of the challenge is keeping it fun. Robotics and game engines definitely help with that. So does a little competitive edge.:D
Ahem, as a professional program, allow me to explain that programming IS program solving. pure and simple. The rest is simply what tools you choose. I was into this stuff from the age of 11 when all hardware was configured using jumper pins and the Internet was virtually all text. The reason virtually all professions these days have elements of IT (and consequently programming) is programming is about documenting successful procedures and being able to reproduce them accurately and cheaply. A doctor who has a programming background is more likely to have a stronger analytical mind than a doctor without skills in programming. And programming isn't necessarily about math (unless you specialize in search libraries or numerical/data analysis). And most of the people in my generation who learned programming, found ourselves in great demand on many levels. As for communicating, half of my job in consulting/development is doing data requirements analysis, and there you learn the biggest challenge in programming is not the computers or tools, but getting people to understand their operations. (a lot of professionals including doctors, engineer and so on don't know their own business process (which is why they can't program their own systems half the time).
Of course you are looking from the point of someone who feels the world is obsessed with tech stuff, and to a degree you are right, and I advocate against the overuse of technology as it is not a proper substitute for thinking individuals. But as for learning other fields before programming (again, problem solving), I would argue against.Most basic reason, I've used robotics to teach math to children who were being help back by teachers who were not following through on their students intellectual capabilities, probably due to overly large class sizes. I would argue teaching subjects WITH programming, because it can be applied anywhere, and in the real world in this day and age, it may be the difference between the highly employable and the those getting phased out by AI's being developed. (see lawyers (AI's are predicting judgements by judges), GP in medicine (as most aren't terribly good these days), insurance actuaries, or any job that quickly becomes a "routine"). It's becoming like the Internet: you are required to have access to that and a computer to graduate from university now. (Not that I totally agree with that, but...I don't make those rules).
It's shouldn't be about a specific language, but about breaking down tasks into logical reusable steps. Most real programmers don't get bogged down in specific languages as we often have to switch depending on tools/libraries/environment available when we arrive on the scene
Simple answer to that question: To teach children how to break down a process. I learned programming concepts before I learned about other things. Coding CAN teach analytical skills if people don't just copy and paste. Of course when I learned programming from Logo, Basic and Pascal you couldn't use the Internet to look everything up. Just had to try and break down the problem. I've taught children as young as 6 programming concerts and others are trying to teach the basic concepts at a younger age, like a game, which I think is rather brilliant. you can teach programming through board games.
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (yes. believe it or not it CAN teach pattern recognition which is good for programming and other things) http://home.bloxelsbuilder.com... http://codemonkeyplanet.com/ (this one I haven't tired but it looks FUN
A simple answer besides giving more ideas of how, is because you don't have to be a math wiz to be a great programming. It's about problem solving. I've always seen it as a a MacGyver type of affair: see the problem use what you have, make it work. Math can help, but not essential. Problem solving skills and being able to break a task down is THE most important part of programming, and that children should be developing as fast as they can for everyday life.
With a little adult guidance, you can have them doing electronic story books, drawing, simple quizzes, and tons more (one student recreated pac-man). Kids learn about use of sprites, pictures, control statements very quickly. It's all drag/drop action blocks which make it easy to learn. Some kickstarter campaign had some interesting ideas of teaching programming through robotics.
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People using SMS for security are hoping that it is difficult to impossible to potentially tie together the data, but of course it's not foolproof. Texts and be easily intercepted and put together if data from the other side can be acquired. It was made for convenience. Simple as that. which is why we have other apps and methods of encrypting sms or equivalent (Whatsapp for example although in theory there are ways to attack that too but is harder, can't remember details). Even GMS seems a bit weak to me and in India, there is apparently no encryption at all. Cell phone technology was designed with a focus on security, but convenience and easy of use. in other words, easy to consume. The price of convenience in my experience has always been security.
It would be surprising is there WASN'T an investigation given Equifax has credit and personal info on a huge number of the US population and controls credit access of virtually the entire country. Probably should have been more government monitoring for security which I would guess will occurs after a post-mortem of this incident.
Actually, in the first 6 months of this year there was far greater use is the Bush administration created policy to search people's devices without warrant at the border. The Trump administration is by far the biggest spike, so much so it's gotten a LOT of attention lately. Trump has no sense of balance of discretion so many things set up by previous presidents unnoticed are probably getting noticed (and will be) this year.
You are partially right. This little exception clause in the law saw done by the Bush (senior I believe) administration and continued by every president since him, so no one is innocent. What IS noteworthy is that it was actually more in the first 6 months of this year than in the combined years of the other previous presidents, so the Trump administration is responsible for using this privilege to an excessive extent.
Well said, if a bit extreme. If not for the "Stressed" suggestions for marketing, I'd give you points if I had them. You have valid points, but perhaps express them a little too vividly.
Problem is it's not default. And without that being default, it is a vulnerability as most people don't change their default as is well known and often exploited by MS to comply with laws while effectively circumventing them. MS Office is a classic example: You can set save file defaults, to something other than MSOOXML but it is VERY hard to find the setting.
Oh, and I use Thunderbird regularly and it works very well, and have set it up in a multitude of environments. To have Thunderbird automatically interface with 3rd party products, could well be exploited in a similar fashion as email clients, interacting with a 3rd party component that is not a part of the main product.As for using Mozilla Thunderbird to schedule shared resources there IS in fact a way. But it is not user friendly as that is not a priority of Mozilla:
https://support.mozilla.org/en...
We all know that embedded codes for dynamic engines in your OS or even the program reading the messages is just an invitation for trouble.
Microsoft lead the with with VB.Script in Outlook. ("I luv you" too...), then as marketing people wanted to decorate with fancy email signatures we started embedding HTML/Javascript, leading to clever tracking on web servers and javascript routines. The worst part is the default for email clients and web client is all HTML/Javascript.
We need the default on all email stuff to be text only for our own protection as well as the general health of cyberspace.
Microsoft isn't exactly known for making the most secure software (Windows Defender is often a joke among security software vendors). However, knowing what we now know, that backdoors were in many cases left unpatched (under duress possibly), for government "monitoring" as the CIA has had their noses in MS windows development/feature process for sometime. Windows 10 is particularly vicious on data collection.We may never be sure when the holes are oversights or government "requests" to leave open until someone else discovers it (which they will sooner or later). The UK is trying to force "mandatory" backdoors in security/OS software. That is scary stuff. Will start a whole army of hackers going after software coming from the UK. In China I assume it's already there.
To be clear, I've never said that FireFox wasn't a good browser, but I find Vivaldi is a better browser. Also, firefox's new updates appear to kill a lot of addos (extension equivalent). The most popular ones for web developing and security from what I've read will not have a chance to be updated for this new standard. The extensions in vivaldi that work will will continue to work. That is the real issue: a key feature will be (at least for awhile) effectively disable. Mozilla should be working with add-on developers to help the switch over. If they do that and an upgrade doesn't kill my firefox "add-ons" cool. If that is a reinstallation from "add-on" to "web extension" cool. But just dying, not cool. That is the primary issue.
If Mozilla doesn't come up with a way of keeping the extensions we have grown to love firefox for, I guess I won't be using FireFox. It is strange that Mozilla would not have taken this into account. I've been playing with Vivaldi and I'm a fan of the browser (as well as his music) Have Vivaldi with Umatrix installed, which is like "NoScript" on steroids. So for me Vivaldi is a good alternative to Firefox.
Sorry, gotta ask, who is reviewing these articles before it gets posted. This feels a a lot like ads/spam on the site by a marketing/PR specialist. Whatever the original source, doesn't change an article that is in fact a promotion/ad.
Absolutely right. We need to decentralize the Internet. that is the only way to truly preserve it. It got too centralized and Google, Facebook, and possibly cloudflare (dont' know about them, but you could be right), are certainly participating in web censorship/suppression for governments.
While all these are valid points, the fact remains that the EU has a president who is seeking to implement these Chinese-like Internet policies. Regardless of whether the majority of the EU nations agree, regardless of whether there are privacy laws in place, the president of a large group of nations like this can do a LOT of damage, so this proposal of his needs to be nipped in the bud before it takes root and gains traction. Nothing like this every gets implement in a single stage. It's like cancer, if it isn't found stopped early, it increases the chance of a terminal case. (like China, it would take another revolution there to remove the hard nose tactics in place there now, which was always the point).
Fortunately Trump has not shown the intelligence, nor even technically alliances necessary to do so. (Most tech companies do not work with him). Putin has all of these which is part of what makes Putin so dangerous. (His intelligence and knowledge of the KBG doesn't hurt either).
Unfortunately, there is a monitoring net set up during the Obama administration (as demonstrated by Snowden) that makes it relative easy to implement in the US. Also, there are clear signs that Google (and Yahoo) is already participating in restricting searches as demonstrated by the EFF. Those with the know how can bypass some of this with VPNs to other countries and searching from Google, say in France, Germany, or South American which bypasses these business/government "boosts". I tend to use Qwant, a French search engine), sometimes Dogpile, or DuckDuckGo (controlled by Russia) as well as Yandex (another Russian Search engine) to get results I cannot find in Google USA. I'll probably look into Japanese Search engines as well. It's becoming clear the centralization of the web is too easy for governments to clamp down and VPN's are being banned in China and Russia. One observer correctly commented that the web needs to be decentralized
But none of this has anything to with Trump, who has shown signs of mental instability, vanity, and utter lack of knowledge of how government or international politics works, plus has the finesse of a bull in a china shop, breaking everything in it's path. And on top of that, appears to be a white supremacist sympathizer as well, with proven lack of respect of rule of law. (Releasing Sheriff who basically defied a court order). A President who doesn't respect rule of law, is a really dangerous things, and it undermines the confidence in general of rule of law. Not sure we really want that, but I digress. To main topic, if we do have a Chinese firewall, Trump will probably know less about it than most people who keep up with international news. (and certainly less than any techie I know)
there is only one reason for using China's system for control data/opinions shows: To guarantee the status quo and minimize or eliminate any threat to your current power structure. Unless the world wants their governments run like China, those that don't like it need to speak up, openly, now....because once it's in, it will be a lot harder to remove. (as per design)
Don't own it, have no intention of buying it. My next laptop is probably a Toughbook (wiped with Linux installed and maybe a Windows xp/7 Virtual OS), or maybe a Fujitsu Portable Workstation (high specs)
With these kind of verdicts, what is going to deter other laptop vendors from doing this to their customer...or...is that what the government wants, as they access to all that data upon request.
Technically it should be illegal as their own products don't have the same requirements. but the deck is stacked. Google actually makes it a bit inconvenient to remove their stuff. And the "update server" was nuts. Nobody needs an update server. With Firefox you can remove the update service but not with Google, at least not without remove other google software packages. Consequently I don't use Google in MS Windows. "This smells funny, and I'm not eating".
Ask and you shall receive:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
https://slashdot.org/comments....
Hope that helps.
Ruby is great, and the most intuitive language I've seen in years. But your son will do VERY well. Scratch is a good place to start but as you point out it's not the end of all anything. Minecraft and Python definitely cool. But kids will want someone to help get past the "cage" of variables/control statements to see more of the result. You might do well with RPG MakerXP. Students love making their own interactive stories with that. Part of the challenge is keeping it fun. Robotics and game engines definitely help with that. So does a little competitive edge. :D
https://codecombat.com/
https://checkio.org/
https://www.codingame.com/star...
https://www.codewars.com/
Enjoy!
Ahem, as a professional program, allow me to explain that programming IS program solving. pure and simple. The rest is simply what tools you choose. I was into this stuff from the age of 11 when all hardware was configured using jumper pins and the Internet was virtually all text. The reason virtually all professions these days have elements of IT (and consequently programming) is programming is about documenting successful procedures and being able to reproduce them accurately and cheaply. A doctor who has a programming background is more likely to have a stronger analytical mind than a doctor without skills in programming. And programming isn't necessarily about math (unless you specialize in search libraries or numerical/data analysis). And most of the people in my generation who learned programming, found ourselves in great demand on many levels. As for communicating, half of my job in consulting/development is doing data requirements analysis, and there you learn the biggest challenge in programming is not the computers or tools, but getting people to understand their operations. (a lot of professionals including doctors, engineer and so on don't know their own business process (which is why they can't program their own systems half the time).
Of course you are looking from the point of someone who feels the world is obsessed with tech stuff, and to a degree you are right, and I advocate against the overuse of technology as it is not a proper substitute for thinking individuals. But as for learning other fields before programming (again, problem solving), I would argue against.Most basic reason, I've used robotics to teach math to children who were being help back by teachers who were not following through on their students intellectual capabilities, probably due to overly large class sizes. I would argue teaching subjects WITH programming, because it can be applied anywhere, and in the real world in this day and age, it may be the difference between the highly employable and the those getting phased out by AI's being developed. (see lawyers (AI's are predicting judgements by judges), GP in medicine (as most aren't terribly good these days), insurance actuaries, or any job that quickly becomes a "routine"). It's becoming like the Internet: you are required to have access to that and a computer to graduate from university now. (Not that I totally agree with that, but...I don't make those rules).
It's shouldn't be about a specific language, but about breaking down tasks into logical reusable steps. Most real programmers don't get bogged down in specific languages as we often have to switch depending on tools/libraries/environment available when we arrive on the scene
Simple answer to that question: To teach children how to break down a process. I learned programming concepts before I learned about other things. Coding CAN teach analytical skills if people don't just copy and paste. Of course when I learned programming from Logo, Basic and Pascal you couldn't use the Internet to look everything up. Just had to try and break down the problem. I've taught children as young as 6 programming concerts and others are trying to teach the basic concepts at a younger age, like a game, which I think is rather brilliant. you can teach programming through board games.
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (yes. believe it or not it CAN teach pattern recognition which is good for programming and other things)
http://home.bloxelsbuilder.com...
http://codemonkeyplanet.com/ (this one I haven't tired but it looks FUN
A simple answer besides giving more ideas of how, is because you don't have to be a math wiz to be a great programming. It's about problem solving. I've always seen it as a a MacGyver type of affair: see the problem use what you have, make it work. Math can help, but not essential. Problem solving skills and being able to break a task down is THE most important part of programming, and that children should be developing as fast as they can for everyday life.
Oh, for video games that teach programming:
https://codecombat.com/
https://checkio.org/
https://vim-adventures.com/
http://www.cyber-dojo.org/
https://lightbot.com/
http://importantlittlegames.co...
https://www.gog.com/game/space...
https://www.gog.com/game/human...
http://www.machineers.com/#_=_
http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/pro... (this is more for making RPG games rather than a game, but students from 11+ seem to like it, I specifically link to the "XP" version because the others seemed less intuitive for students)
For aspiring writers to do their craft and do/learn programming:
https://renpy.org/ (specifically for graphic novels, the rest are all text only)
http://textadventures.co.uk/sq...
http://textadventures.co.uk/qu...
http://inform7.com/ (for zork fans especially)
http://www.tads.org/
https://twinery.org/
I've used many of these to help in teaching programming to children of various ages. Hope you all find this list useful.
This doesn't seemed geared for children. A bit off topic, but interesting
I've spent a couple years designing programs for teaching children from 6+ how to do programming. One of the best tools by far is MIT's Scratch.
https://scratch.mit.edu/
With a little adult guidance, you can have them doing electronic story books, drawing, simple quizzes, and tons more (one student recreated pac-man). Kids learn about use of sprites, pictures, control statements very quickly. It's all drag/drop action blocks which make it easy to learn. Some kickstarter campaign had some interesting ideas of teaching programming through robotics.
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
I'd start with Scratch, you'll be impressed, There are books available you can use with you kids:
https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/w...
Hope that's helpful.