Posts by Nym O'Nonymous

Ad slinger Phorm ceases trading

They were never prosecuted because the law doesn't clearly say that mere interception by a computer without disclosing it to a human is a crime and Phorm therefore had a good chance of getting away with it. That's the difficulty of trying to apply a law made for wiretapping to the Internet.

As for the surrounding "campaign", what a magnificent victory for privacy, eh? Yes, we can certainly sleep safer in our beds knowing that there's not massive instrusive profiling of Internet users going on can't we? Pah, waste of time driven by self-serving idiots.

But the cookie faking that Phorm proposed? Nasty, all kinds of potential nastiness in that...

Overall good riddance.

Dad sues Apple for pushing cash-draining 'free' games at kids

Re: When will parents learn

>>You're forced to provide payment information even

>>if you have no intention of buying anything.

Untrue.

My children have iTunes accounts without any payment cards associated with them. They can download as many freemium apps as they like (and they do), but they can't spend a cent. If I'm feeling generous and they've been particularly efficient at sweeping chimneys or begging at traffic lights, I'll gift them £10 onto their accounts which they've quickly learnt that they can either pee away on in-game purchases or they can conserve and buy paid-for apps that are higher quality.

Apple: If you're under 17, you can't use Opera

I applaud Apple

Apple parental control setup is excellent and I rely on it to allow my two children to use the best of the net while avoiding accidentally having to see the worst of the net.

As previous commenters have highlighted, this is to preserve the parental controls which could be trivially circumvented if my children could just download an alternative web browser.

To all the kneejerk commenters - please engage your brains before engaging your knees.

O2 tries to explain its new prudish nature

Google Translate blocked 'cos it's a proxy

Google Translate is a well-known way to try to avoid content filtering, by translating forbidden pages. Other proxies will be blocked as well.

Vodafone shares subscriber info with world+dog

That would be the Terence Eden, who recently left Vodafone after 6 years

Terence began in the security team, moved onto the web teams, ended his days there as a "commercial planning manager". Clearly no love lost between him and Vodafone now.

Ever heard of responsible disclosure, Terence? Look it up before you broadcast how to recover Vodafone customer emails addresses to the world.

Nym