Posts by toby mills 14 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Nov 2008
Regulation takes too long but companies do need to be held accountable for security across the board.
Also large IoT networks are being deployed which will be redundant in a year or two because the tech will be out of date and obsolete.
Its a wild west right now and a lot of money will be wasted until industry standards and regulations catch-up.
I thought GDPR applied to all EU citizens regardless of where they live. Therefore an American company dealing with an EU citizen living in USA still must comply with GDPR regardless of the fact their customers are not living in the EU. Thus blocking people who are in Europe doesn't fix the problem.
Given that the Saudi & UAE, UK's other allies in the region, are currently boycotting Qatar this makes for interesting timing and won't impress the Saudi's too much. Though balance that against the region's anger at recent USA announcement on Israel perhaps its the UK showing some regional support.
More likely UK just trying to get more money to pay of the Brexit bill
This isn't anything new or unique. Lots of places do it, mainly shopping centres etc. to track footfall and use it to calc rates, congestion and more. Cisco, HP, Huawei all offer this out the box.
Without logging into a Wi-Fi you can be tracked down to 9 metres. When logged in that drops to around 1 metre.
And no, most people don't turn their Wi-Fi off.
Personally i think this is a nice article, I was not aware of RayNet or the capabilities of our comms infrastructure. However, bar RayNet, as other people have pointed out, who on earth (literally) are you going to call. I'm not aware that Satellite (Iridium) or other technolgies have a broadcast facility so unless you know the telephone number of any survivors your fecked!!
Prehaps El Reg could publish some useful numbers for us to remember in case of such a disaster, 999 withstanding :)
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