Posts by Woodnag 638 publicly visible posts • joined 24 May 2010
If UK gov gets their mitts on a mechanism to allow remote phone locking, the following will happen.
1. Capita will get the contract to manage it
2. Capita will get hacked and the access stolen, so crims will be able to offer a lock-a-phone-on-demand service
3. UK gov will start locking phones of people they don't like, such as attending certain protests, which also kills the video recording of said protests
"The issue was so severe that in September the UK government had to step in with financial support to the tune of £1.5 billion as JLR struggled to bring its systems back online."
Because parent Tata Motors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Motors (a public company) can't afford to pay for its own screwups, so the cost is socialised to the British taxpayer.
"Digital ID will act as no deterrent to illegal arrivals". True, but when the ID is required for every monetary transaction, then it will be difficult to live in the UK without the ID. Of course, no-one will actually want to live under those cicrumstances either, so those that can leave, will. Before the east coast is under water.
"Class actions only ever benefit the lawyers."
They are intended to provide a viable mechanism to penalise a company financially for actions providing deliberate low value harm to a lot of people.
Where the 'penalise' money goes is actually secondary.
It more or less works if sender and all recipients are on the same outlook server... but ever under that perfect circumstance, if a recipient forwards the email before the recall, the recall is pooched. Recall just starts the Streisand Effect. Oooh, recalled... what's embarrasing here?
"Anton Carniaux, director of public and legal affairs at Microsoft France" would have no knowledge that US gov had issued an NSL to get one off or continuous access the foreign data. So his statement that the scenario had "never happened before." is BS, because he would not have been in the loop, and he surely knows that.
The more pics of your face in identical poses, the more accurate the identification will be in the future of *you*.
Tell me why that's in my interest?
Of course the pics go elsewhere. When caught at it, what will be the repercussions? An un-auditable promise to delete?
Yes.
So the lede "Australia not banning kids from YouTube – they’ll just have to use mum and dad’s logins" is ignoring the huge elephant in the room, which is that mum and dad will now have to log in to YT.
A fantastic gift from the Oz gov to a foreign surveillance company.
Let's look at the official statement: Microsoft said it "does not have access to your export code and cannot help you recover it if it is lost."
"does not have access" implies that the code is actually saved somewhere.
"cannot help you" covers both business decisions and physical limitations. Just like I cannot help you rob a bank.
For Windows, I prefer a 128GB SSD as the C: drive, an HDD for D:, and locate the user standard directories (Docs, Video, Pictures, Temp etc) on D. Easy to backup user stuff by just copying D:.
If the SSD isn't encrypted, the unused areas compress well when imaged, so "sudo dd bs=4M if=/dev/sda | sudo gzip -c > Date_C_drive.gz && sync" from a live Linux USB provides a backup similar in size to the used storage, and 128GB doesn't take long. If encrypted, don't bother with gzip. And the backup can go on the D drive initially, so fast.
Try reporting a stolen car or bike to UK police.
They jot down the details and then ignore it.
So we are expected to believe that the police are wanting to put resources into deterring phone theft?
What the UK gov wants (ok, what MI5 and the Met want) is a mechanism in place to remotely disable people's phones. Going to a Greenpeace demo? The ISMI catchers will capture all the IMEIs within a radius and those phones will be suddenly disabled as the kettle is being put in place. End of text-based demo management, end of camera functionality.
["Code evidences that [AppLovin] is collecting and structuring user IDs from its key platform partners, which appears to be a major violation of the platforms’ terms of service (TOS)," the firm said in a note on its website. ... Foroughi again responded in a blog post, arguing that the biz's advertising pixel – used to track and attribute online ads – is no different from those used by Google or Facebook.]
I read Foroughi's post and he used a lot of words to say 'everyone does it', but failed to address the "major violation of the platforms’ terms of service" criticism.
[Brother's US limb did, however, tell Ars Technica: "We are aware of the recent false claims suggesting that a Brother firmware update may have restricted the use of third-party ink cartridges. Please be assured that Brother firmware updates do not block the use of third-party ink in our machines."]
The complaint wasn't that third-party ink was blocked... just the performance deliberately downgraded in that case.
When I worked for a company (Mixam: anag.) in Sunnyvale, they put up a new office building and multi-story car park that accessed the flat-roof entrance of the new office building. The MSCP's cameras were either fake or simply never connected to a system, so no coverage. The roof access had to be unlocked for fire reasons, and word got out, so there was a spate of thefts by people wandering in, looking like they worked there, and pilfering stuff from cubicles.
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