Posts by Dan 55 15451 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
They already stepped up, they wrote blank cheques to the OpenSSL group (now part of the Linux Foundation), who, in the same time as the OpenBSD time, have sent out an e-mail with some vague objectives about what they're going to do.
It'd have been quicker for them just to set fire to that money.
I suppose it was because they just knocked their App store's Bada support on the head, leaving just Android support.
Now, are they planning on having Tizen apps?
Samsung themselves probably don't know, they just seem to periodically throw stuff at a fan and see if it sticks.
They really should give the option to make it ask for a password/PIN before all purchases. On Android you can hide the Amazon App store in the launcher (if it has that option) or set up another profile but I have no idea if the Kindles allow this though.
You don't have that option with Amazon, they've already got your card details. You can put a password/PIN on in-app purchases but not on app store purchases and you can't sign out from the app store either.
A point in their favour is they do send an e-mail immediately on purchasing or downloading a free app so you know exactly what apps are being bought or used by your little darlings.
Okay, so...
1) Your "reasoned theory" conveniently ignores statements on record which have been found to be false later on or facts from the Snowden documents. Other people's "evidence" is dismissed however. You seem to think your conjecture is the absolute truth or you're under the impression you're speaking for the NSA. In the infinitely improbable chance that you are speaking for them, your ramblings can be safely dismissed as they're probably as truthful as other statements from them which have found out to be false.
2) You've confused the configuration file with the search parameters in the user interface.
3) "We"? Is there more than one Matt Tyrant? What a horrible thought.
Well it's still one more piece of evidence than you've used to prove that Everything Is Hunkydory and it shows that analysts have the right to look up data on everyone, so people being what they are as mentioned above, more data has been misused.
I've visited the Tails website so in theory that means my data is kept forever as I am of interest according to XKeyscore's configuration file.
So that icon's for you.
Of course it's been misused, see LOVEINT.
But at least Tyrant hasn't trotted out his usual argument that nobody is interested in the sheeple. This time he's actually said that the sheeple are having their data slurped so a year later and some progress has been made.
Extract from an e-mail from the Post article from someone in Afghanistan to his girlfriend (for want of a better word) in Australia...
“look in islam husband doesnt touch girl financial earnigs unless she agrees but as far as privacy goes there is no room….i need to have all ur details everything u do its what im supposed to know that will guide u whether its right or wrong got it”
He was a fanatic. What does that make the NSA?
Everything starts with Google, so if I want him to run TeamViewer I have to get him to search for TeamViewer (not go to teamviewer.com), click on TeamViewer's website, download it, run it, and set it up to open instead of install.
The fact that TeamViewer's already installed and in the Start Menu, on the desktop, and on the icon bar, just confuses matters.
Hey ho...
I wonder how many people visited the Tails, Tor, or Truecrypt homepages when their respective big news stories broke recently. Does that label them as extremists?
(What about posting something with those three keywords or just reading a page with them?)
No, if there's anything that shows that they're as arbitrary as the inquisition, this is it.
Visit a particular magazine's website to find out how to use a command line as pretty much was the only way to use most computers up till 20-or-so years ago? Get labelled as 'extremist'.
This is also the perfect example of mission creep in action. Extrapolate from here and imagine what will be considered extremist in another 20 years.
Retailers without content are nothing, be they books or music. Publishers call the shots, but they don't seem to realise it.
"Oh noes, we can't be on YouTube or Amazon." Well go elsewhere then. It's as if HMV got upperty and the labels were cowering because they might have to sell music in another shop, as if the public were incapable of finding other music shops or even comprehending that other music shops exist.
The excuses for Apple dropping support for old machines were Power instead of Intel, 32-bit EFI instead of 64-bit EFI, and 32-bit graphics drivers instead of 64-bit graphics drivers. A mid-2007 iMac (Intel, 64-bit EFI, and 64-bit graphics drivers) manages up to Mavericks and will take Yosemite. There's not really any big technology speedbump after that except the 4Gb RAM limit for old machines and it's in Apple's own interests for everyone to be running the latest OS as that's got the latest shiny technologies they want everyone to use.
Add some pointless permissions like Android, loads of developers will ask for all of them, loads of users won't care anyway.
Maybe Google will flick the switch one day and charge for access to the API once they have reached a critical mass of users, like Maps.
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