Unlike the whistleblower who discloses a health, safety or welfare hazard affecting all, or the government employee who reveals mismanagement or worse by our public officials, (the Macintosh news sites) are doing nothing more than feeding the public's insatiable desire for information," Kleinberg wrote at the time.
so now the caveat to freedom of the press is:print what you like, so long as what you print is evidence of a health, safety or welfare hazard affecting all, or a government employee who reveals mismanagement.
I don't think the notion of an RFID tag transmitting my lifestory is anywhere near as scary as a massive database linked to major transportation hubs everywhere and being administrated by your average Joe security guy.
Why go for the technical hack that involves possibly defeating encryption and security thugs roaming around the airport or trainstation looking for geeks with yagi antennas? The minimum wage security guy will scan everyone for you for less than the price of the equipment you'd want to use in the firstplace. The weakest link in most networks is the human one.
I'm sure there was once a time when someone thought watermarks were just the greatest security feature ever. The weakness in these kinds of technologies seems to remain the same. The difference now is the scale of the potential compromises and abuses of the folks that administrate it.
Regardless of how or what technologies are used, the evolution of the hack will rise to meet the demand.
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Well that explains why the Canadians don't like it.
Unlike the whistleblower who discloses a health, safety or welfare hazard affecting all, or the government employee who reveals mismanagement or worse by our public officials, (the Macintosh news sites) are doing nothing more than feeding the public's insatiable desire for information," Kleinberg wrote at the time.
so now the caveat to freedom of the press is: print what you like, so long as what you print is evidence of a health, safety or welfare hazard affecting all, or a government employee who reveals mismanagement.
I don't think the notion of an RFID tag transmitting my lifestory is anywhere near as scary as a massive database linked to major transportation hubs everywhere and being administrated by your average Joe security guy.
Why go for the technical hack that involves possibly defeating encryption and security thugs roaming around the airport or trainstation looking for geeks with yagi antennas? The minimum wage security guy will scan everyone for you for less than the price of the equipment you'd want to use in the firstplace. The weakest link in most networks is the human one.
I'm sure there was once a time when someone thought watermarks were just the greatest security feature ever. The weakness in these kinds of technologies seems to remain the same. The difference now is the scale of the potential compromises and abuses of the folks that administrate it.
Regardless of how or what technologies are used, the evolution of the hack will rise to meet the demand.My wife still can't wrap her head around my SuSE Linux machine. She insists on calling it "Susie Links".