Posts by Luke Worm

So what's in the new Windows Insider build? Bug fixes, an AR goof-around, and a font

What? No new emojis? I thought that was an integral part of an operating system update nowadays

Official: America auto-scanned visitors' social media profiles. Also: It didn't work properly

No, it can even make you president.

Don't worry about Privacy Shield, it's fine. Really. I promise, says US trade watchdog head

Re: Political theatre

Unfortunately you are right @ratfox. Theatre indeed, tragedy and farce simultaneously :-(

Comcast lied and now it must STFU: Its cable broadband is not 'the fastest' in the US

If you ask Trump, he would say it could be true.

;-)

Super Cali: Be realistic, 'autopilot' is bogus – even though the sound of it is something quite precocious

Re: Whoever writes these titles

Totally agree! Especially this one was excellent!

We live in a world where a 'Hamdog' burger hybrid is patented

News?

Apparently this patent was granted in 2009, seven years ago. Why is it news now?

https://www.google.com/patents/USD584478

Making us pay tax will DESTROY EUROPE, roars Apple's Tim Cook

Re: I don't get it.

This kind of sweetheart deal is considered illegal state aid according to EU competition rules.

UK gov says new Home Sec will have powers to ban end-to-end encryption

Domestic?

"This power, if applied, would be imposed upon domestic CSPs by the new Home Secretary"

_domestic_ :-)

It just applies to the UK part of the internet. How intelligent!

How innocent people 'of no security interest' are mere keystrokes away in UK's spy databases

Dynamics

"The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what [government officials] do: that's why they are called public servants.

They are supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we are called private individuals.

This dynamic - the hallmark of healthy and free society - has been radically reversed. Now, they know everything about what we do, and are constantly building systems to know more. Meanwhile, we know less and less about what they do, as they build walls of secrecy behind which they function. That's the imbalance that needs to come to an end. No democracy can be healthy and functional if the most consequential acts of those who wield political power are completely unknown to those to whom they are supposed to be accountable."

---- Glenn Greenwald

Nest bricks Revolv home automation hubs, because evolution

Looking forward to the day when Tesla remotely bricks their cars, "because old and obsolete models"

French parliament votes to jail tech execs who refuse to decrypt data

History

Use of encryption, such as PGP, was completely forbidden in France until 1996. Only in 2004 did use of encryption become totally allowed.

How many Surface power cords are a fire risk? 2.25 million in the US alone

Aah, the always underestimated costs of failures in Design and Quality Control.

Most of the world still dependent on cash

Yes, negative interest rates is one thing, transaction fees are the next. And then the government wants to tax every transaction. Without cash there is no escape, except: moving savings to another country, another currency, gold, silver. Of course, in such cases the government would impose an "exit tax".

Everything is recorded by VISA, your bank, Apple, Google, Facebook and others. All of course in the interest of a greater good (for others).

For fsck's SAKKE: GCHQ-built phone voice encryption has massive backdoor – researcher

"Government-grade security"

I just love the real meaning of this phrase. Can't stop laughing ...

Bigger than Safe Harbor: Microsoft prez vows to take down US gov in data protection lawsuit

TTIP

To further enforce this "everywhere in the world is the United States", Europe, as well as countries around the Pacific, will get dictated this TTIP agreement. Under the banners of "free trade" and "economic growth".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investment_Partnership

The puppets in Brussels are of course following uncle Joe without much questioning.

Snowden bag-carrier Miranda's detention was lawful – UK appeal court

Lawful and lawless

OK, so the police is off the hook because they followed the law. But the government/parliament need to redo their work because the law is unlawful (is that a word?).

You ain't nothing but a porn dog, prying all the time: Cyber-hound sniffs out hard drives for cops

SSD?

Does Brody smell SSD's also, or only spinning disks?

What America's drone owner database could look like in future

It’s like you must register your car but you don’t need a driver’s license to use it. Just click “Agree” on the screen (like for software licenses), put a sticker on your drone and off you go.

Microsoft capitulates, announces German data centres

Isn't it Germany where CIA/NSA have their "listening stations" SCS, Special Collection Service, in Berlin and Frankfurt ?

Encrypt voice calls, says GCHQ's CESG team ... using CESG encryption

Lawful interception?

How wide is the jurisdiction of this "lawfulness"? John in London and Tom in Leeds use encrypted communication service (VOIP or messaging) provided by an entity abroad, in Iceland or Switzerland for example; an entity that has no physical presence in the UK.

UK watchdog offers 'safe harbor' advice on US data transfers

And within EU?

Not much has been written about data transfers within EU. Are the laws and regulations in the UK, for example, safe enough for data transferred from Germany ?

TalkTalk plays 'no legal obligation' card on encryption – fails to think of the children (read: its customers)

Re: What qualifies Dido Harding to run a major broadband provider?

Naah, maybe rather Aesthetics, Cosmetics and Comparative Erotics.

Oh, OK then: Ireland will probe Max Schrems' Facebook complaints

"The court ruled that because of permissive legislation in the USA, and the PRISM programme, Europeans couldn’t be ensured that their data was safe once transferred outside the EU".

With the same logic, can data even be safely transferred to the UK (GCHQ) ?

Safe Harbour ruled INVALID: Facebook 'n' pals' data slurp at risk

That made me think: since GCHQ is just as bad as NSA, how do UK rules and practices comply with EU rules on data protection?

Re: The ICO will still do nothing

"in line with the law" ... which law? US?

Re: Student

He's a PhD student now.

IBM to offer breast milk delivery-as-a-service for staff

Nonpasteurized

IBM enters a new content delivery business

'One day, YOU won't be able to SENSE the INTERNET,' vows Schmidt

Credibility?

Also in Davos, Schmidt said that all of that will create 400 million new jobs in Europe! That's quite impressive for a population of about 500 million (European Union).

Singapore startup does an Uber on tech support

Swedish company names are the fashion?

Yet another company with a Swedish name: Fynd. We already have Lyft. Über is German.

Vice squad cuffs vice chairman of Bitcoin Foundation in $1m money-laundering probe

Silently contemplating over the numerous HSBC executives that were handcuffed and arrested for laundering BILLIONS of drug money ...