A few other items of note: - Even though the privacy commissioner ruled it against PIPA, the Victoria based bars have decided to go ahead with the program, showing they don't respect the privacy of their clients, or the privacy commissioner himself. - They will not be scanning all patrons, only those they deem as a risk. Can't wait for the human rights commission complaints over that one. - A list of bars I will now permanently boycott are listed at the bottom of this Times Colonist article: http://www.timescolonist.com/Bars+swipe+patron+collect+data/1773848/story.html
The CP Lawn Bowling Club in Victoria, BC has done this. WiMAX -> Buffalo AP -> Linksys PAP2T -> SIP provider. Bringing the monthly bill from $54/month with Telus on copper pair, to $35/month for unlimited long distance and broadband/wifi as well. http://cplawnbowling.org/
Except if you were in the security community, or even spent an hour looking up some of the things he has done, you would realize he is someone worth listening too.
The people at Verisign are a little busy right now, having just discovered that MD5 could possibly have collisions, and that serial numbers for certificate signatures should maybe be pseudo random as opposed to sequential, and easily guessable sequential at that. Not to mention, their own SSL certificate has issues. Maybe once they understand the SSL process they'll get back to you about OpenID.
I have the open source iPhone, it's called the Neo Freerunner from Openmoko. Pretty much the same hardware, except both hardware and software is opensource. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner
Someone made a request to Accusearch for information on Canada's privacy commissioner, and they got it. The case made it to the Canadian court system. And if you wonder why affairs in Canada would affect the US;
Canada now has a "do not fly list" ("Passenger protect") -- yet they don't want one Canada is now starting a war against drugs -- yet they don't want one
Instead of using commercial firmware in our APs, let's either start using mesh friendly firmware, or even hardware solutions like the http://meraki.com/ units, and create massive mesh networks on our own. Please, use any of the APs in my house, and link your APs to mine.
If you want to make a difference and oppose this verdict, cancel any relationship you have with Sprint/Nextel and write them a letter explaining why you are boycotting them. If you believe in Vonage, show your support to them by subscribing. Anything else is just ignored.
CIPPIC filed a complaint a month ago with the federal privacy commissioner a month ago, in regards to the transfer of canada.com. (and the personal information contained there) to US soil. There are several complaints with the commissioner on information being moved to US soil, it will be interesting to see what precedence is set with the results of her findings.
This was not just an academic study, this was funded by the federal privacy commissioner , and CIPPIC is a group of lawyers who submitted their findings to the commissioner. The PIPEDA violations will now be investigated by the privacy commissioner. I'm not sure why, but the original submitted left out the link to the actual report .
Although like most US policy of the last 6 years, instead of fixing the issue they plan to take over others. Soon Canada, the U.S. and Mexico will share the "Amero" as currency within the North American Union.
In case you're unaware, Nortel was brought forward at the same time as Enron, and MCI Worldcom etc for accounting fraud. The only difference is that Nortel still exists today. So really this little blog incident is like a mosquito bite in comparison...
While Kim Cameron's talk on CardSpace is the best talk I've ever seen out of Microsoft, I've seen it more than once, which includes the same jokes. Like the one about his wife crying because the login prompt had her name several times. Hey Mrs.(too liberated to be Cameron), try an open source, free, multi-user operating system. Believe it or not, you don't have to put your real name there either, regardless of what Kim tells you. Using a pseudonym is more than adequate...
I'm also strongly suggesting to my clients, that none of them upgrade either. In my case, this ranges from mom and pop shops to National organizations. And I know there are many other consultants like me. In fact several branches of federal governments in North America are like me as well.
in Canada, there is a privacy act that prevents this from happening. All companies in Canada must disclose to their users what they are doing with their personal data.
you're a lot better just asking for W3 compliance than "support $my_browser because I use it". If it follows the W3 standard, we can all use it, and if we can't, it's because of our browser. Run the site through http://validator.w3.org/ and send them the URL as well as their list of errors.
So the executives at marketwatch.com got together, "How can we exploit this popular, and free online resource?" "We can write a story about them and fill our website with various means of advertising." "Great, get to it, make sure it hits slashdot for that extra revenue" "done".
Forgot COBOL, every time you "debug" something it is a remembrance of the day she pulled that moth out. That was the creation of the term computer "bug".
Slashdot Mirror
A few other items of note:
- Even though the privacy commissioner ruled it against PIPA, the Victoria based bars have decided to go ahead with the program, showing they don't respect the privacy of their clients, or the privacy commissioner himself.
- They will not be scanning all patrons, only those they deem as a risk. Can't wait for the human rights commission complaints over that one.
- A list of bars I will now permanently boycott are listed at the bottom of this Times Colonist article: http://www.timescolonist.com/Bars+swipe+patron+collect+data/1773848/story.html
The CP Lawn Bowling Club in Victoria, BC has done this. WiMAX -> Buffalo AP -> Linksys PAP2T -> SIP provider. Bringing the monthly bill from $54/month with Telus on copper pair, to $35/month for unlimited long distance and broadband/wifi as well. http://cplawnbowling.org/
Except if you were in the security community, or even spent an hour looking up some of the things he has done, you would realize he is someone worth listening too.
The people at Verisign are a little busy right now, having just discovered that MD5 could possibly have collisions, and that serial numbers for certificate signatures should maybe be pseudo random as opposed to sequential, and easily guessable sequential at that. Not to mention, their own SSL certificate has issues. Maybe once they understand the SSL process they'll get back to you about OpenID.
I have the open source iPhone, it's called the Neo Freerunner from Openmoko. Pretty much the same hardware, except both hardware and software is opensource. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner
I would guess pressure had something to do with it:
http://www.cippic.ca/en/news/documents/Judgement.pdf
Someone made a request to Accusearch for information on Canada's privacy commissioner, and they got it. The case made it to the Canadian court system. And if you wonder why affairs in Canada would affect the US;
Canada now has a "do not fly list" ("Passenger protect") -- yet they don't want one
Canada is now starting a war against drugs -- yet they don't want one
more importantly, make partition level encryption a standard.
Instead of using commercial firmware in our APs, let's either start using mesh friendly firmware, or even hardware solutions like the http://meraki.com/ units, and create massive mesh networks on our own. Please, use any of the APs in my house, and link your APs to mine.
Geeks use sed, awk, and grep. Thieves rob.
If you want to make a difference and oppose this verdict, cancel any relationship you have with Sprint/Nextel and write them a letter explaining why you are boycotting them.
If you believe in Vonage, show your support to them by subscribing.
Anything else is just ignored.
CIPPIC filed a complaint a month ago with the federal privacy commissioner a month ago, in regards to the transfer of canada.com. (and the personal information contained there) to US soil. There are several complaints with the commissioner on information being moved to US soil, it will be interesting to see what precedence is set with the results of her findings.
This was not just an academic study, this was funded by the federal privacy commissioner , and CIPPIC is a group of lawyers who submitted their findings to the commissioner. The PIPEDA violations will now be investigated by the privacy commissioner.
I'm not sure why, but the original submitted left out the link to the actual report .
Although like most US policy of the last 6 years, instead of fixing the issue they plan to take over others. Soon Canada, the U.S. and Mexico will share the "Amero" as currency within the North American Union.
In case you're unaware, Nortel was brought forward at the same time as Enron, and MCI Worldcom etc for accounting fraud. The only difference is that Nortel still exists today. So really this little blog incident is like a mosquito bite in comparison...
While Kim Cameron's talk on CardSpace is the best talk I've ever seen out of Microsoft, I've seen it more than once, which includes the same jokes. Like the one about his wife crying because the login prompt had her name several times. Hey Mrs.(too liberated to be Cameron), try an open source, free, multi-user operating system. Believe it or not, you don't have to put your real name there either, regardless of what Kim tells you. Using a pseudonym is more than adequate...
In Canada, we have PIPEDA http://www.privcom.gc.ca/legislation/02_06_01_01_e .asp, as well as provincial and industry related privacy legislation that is useful. If you have a violation, you can submit it to the privacy commissioner, as well as http://www.cippic.ca./
I'm also strongly suggesting to my clients, that none of them upgrade either. In my case, this ranges from mom and pop shops to National organizations. And I know there are many other consultants like me. In fact several branches of federal governments in North America are like me as well.
Not only does each province have a privacy commissioner, there is a federal privacy commissioner in Canada, as well as consumer rights groups.
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in Canada, there is a privacy act that prevents this from happening. All companies in Canada must disclose to their users what they are doing with their personal data.
you're a lot better just asking for W3 compliance than "support $my_browser because I use it". If it follows the W3 standard, we can all use it, and if we can't, it's because of our browser. Run the site through http://validator.w3.org/ and send them the URL as well as their list of errors.
If all these questions and comments were sent to your member of congress instead of slashdot...
So the executives at marketwatch.com got together, "How can we exploit this popular, and free online resource?" "We can write a story about them and fill our website with various means of advertising." "Great, get to it, make sure it hits slashdot for that extra revenue" "done".
Forgot COBOL, every time you "debug" something it is a remembrance of the day she pulled that moth out. That was the creation of the term computer "bug".
sorry to correct your little typo:
sed s/horrible/Britain/