Re: This was patched yesterday
people I don't know can't call me on Facetime
Ah. Must enable that immediately.
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Maybe the key didn't actually leak at Microsoft and it has just been told to take the hit.
Maybe what really happened was that the key was stolen from one of the many agencies it must be sharing the key with, but they can't afford the embarrassment. We're as used to Microsoft causing security problems as we are to Trump committing crimes or Musk overpromising that it would not really register much..
After all, this is the same government that told you your luggage was still safe despite their mandated backdoor*, and you can get TSA keys now even from Amazon..
* If this sounds familiar, you're thinking of the insane idea to demand a backdoor into encryption that somehow seems to appear every 7 years or so, but in British politics.
I *so* want to see the Pentagon access control in Monsters vs Aliens implemented..
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The problem with sticking the cables where you can't see them is that you can't see them.
When you (or someone else) is digging, trying to find a fault, identify capacity - when you lose the map you don't get a blackout, more a slow brownout as your maintenance gradually fails.
I came across this when securing the map data of an electricity provider whose map system provider was being rather naughty.
Not really.
Replace it with someone that can be properly managed like Threema Work.
I've used it, and it, er, works. You could also use any other secure messaging app for free, but making it manageable gives you better control and it has a gateway API for integration.
Better still, because you pay for it you also have a company you can yell at if something doesn't work. I've never had cause to (as it does the job), but apparently that makes management feel more at ease.
I can easily see Threads eclipsing Twitter within weeks if it works reasonably well
Make that days. I don't think you'll have to wait until next week Friday before they've surpassed the sad lot that stuck with Twitter, for a number of simple reasons:
- Zuck is using the existing Instagram base which brings along the required networks to draw others in;
- even since Musk got his hands on Twitter, advertisers and users have been on the lookout for alternatives that were not populated by crazy right wing loons, or were at least taken offline in a timely manner, so it fills a need the world didn't even know it had until Musk screwed it up;
- there are plenty who are looking to annoy Musk - that alone should make them sail past the user count of Twitter in days.
The problem with Mastodon is that it's distributed, where Twitter worked precisely because it was centralised. As long as Zuck fights the temptation to stick it too full of ads and features that get in the way of functionality I suspect Musk will face having to sell off more shares or admit he screwed up and start closing the shop by next week. I cannot see the latter happen, but I think you are right: the former will not happen either without some robust questions from his shareholders.
He may have to sell tickets to that cage fight, just to cope :).
A couple of years as a monk as portrayed in Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail would be better.
Heck, I'd even donate the plank.
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I think it returns roughly every seven years.
Total Information Awreness, the Clipper chip - you name it.
The basic argument is that we must all install easily pickable locks in millions of houses so the police can briefly digress from their institutional problems and chase the ten or so troublemakers (compared in volume) while simultaneously enabling thousands of others to do the same, but undetected. It's almost like employment protection if it wasn't for the fact that simple statistics and frequent events suggest that there are quite a few dodgy ones hide amongst that force itself - which will then have a much easier life too.
Basically, allowing this idiocy will amplify crime to the point of having to return to cash-in-hand transactions.
Brexit and now this again tells me is that standards of education and analytical thinking in politics have declined to the point that Idiocracy is heading towards becoming a documentary, but without as yet any sight on a happy ending.
Yeah, there should have been no rescue efforts at all - seriously
No. I am OK with the effort to try and rescue people in need - even just as a more realistic exercise (and as for money, I think the company would have faced a massive bill if they had survived it). I just wish as much energy and collaboration was expended to the less fortunate.
If we start being selective about who we rescue it becomes an even more slippery slope than it is already. In certain 'enlightened' countries we already have hospital emergency service first checking out your insurance which is IMHO inhumane.
Just to be sure, the kit that is going to replace the Huawei gear they remove is surely as thoroughly screened and the results made public as what it replaces, right?
Right?
Yeah, thought so.
Sound like a new road to ye olde Total Information Awareness/Access, and not even in a subtle way.
And government suckers in the EU fell for it. Again.
Although the FOSS environment still counts fewer forks than the average IKEA store, it is indeed occasionally hard to keep track.
However, sometimes such forks can foster progress, create resilience or bypass development roadblocks which is IMHO one of the things FOSS has going for it - there are more opportunities for evolution there than with proprietary platforms. That freedom to tinker has value, and I think we should cherish the fact that we have it.
All IMHO, of course :).