Posts by EnviableOne 2001 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jan 2016
they are sending the TSSI in the contact packet, and recording the RSSI on the recieve end.
if you know what the sending and reciving devices are, with both of those you can work out the distance.
its not exact science, environmental variables, but its better than trying to work out Time of flight.
theres a lot of work gone on into the idea recently, and signal loss is a pretty reliable measure of distance.
not NHS IT, this is App Upcock's little un needed and un wanted digital quango "NHS X", what the X satnds for nobody knows.
the ICO havent signed it off, NHS Digital (the real NHS IT) won't approve it for their app store, not sure i'd approve it for install on our devices, seems not to be secure by design and default.
Telefonica have been looking to offload O2 for years, and Liberty look to be a good fit, it would give them a proper quad threat package with their own physical network, that would compete with BT/EE/Plusnet and increase their subscriber count while decreasing the cost base for existing VM mobile customers.
Beardy only has about a 2% stake in VM, just so liberty can continue to use the name.
the three deal was struck down as it would have left only 3 MNOs instead of 4, nothing to do with the MVNO market. to be fair the BT aquisition of EE was a far greater threat to competition.
anyone showing a fake version of said ID card, barley distinguishable from the real thing or gaining access via an exploit in the virtulisation platform,
or considering it's "Cloud" anyone obtaining a warrant under legislation in the cloud provider's country of origin, and recieiving said information from the "Cloud" provider.
Together People Please lets not allow this to happem
Everyone Matters Including System providers
both as bad as each other
to be fair, with the IPA they dont need an app to do tracing, well government dont, for some reason the NHS got missed off the list of agencies that can get a streeam of your telephone meta-data, but the Marine Management Organisationare on there....
not so, the product sold included the means to manage that product, which they are discontinuing.
Though the device still functions, you now have no means to control that function or benefit from it.
Which now means the product is not fit for the purpose for which it was sold.
Hence covered by the Law
We are expecting everypme to get tested who might posibly have it.
in order for the whole system to work, people need to be tested, even if they dont think they have it, and tested more than once, seeing as the current test only tells you if you had it at the point of testing.
the testing regieme needs to be geared up substantially, and the issuing of a declaration token with a result is trivial.
if this is going to be used for contact tracing and case linkage, you're gonna need to have atleast 28 days of data to ensure the 14 days of history from an encounter with someone within the last 14 days, thats if you expect testing to be on the spot, currently we are looking at 48-72 hrs for a result after the terst, so your gonna need 31 days of encounters....
pile this with the range of bluetooth and the number of bluetooth enabled devices in the avarage built up area (not under lockdown) and this is going to eat storage
according to the studies i've read, the levels of antibodies in the system i the young are nigh on non-existant, so getting infected confers no immunity, however as the age of the infectee increases, the bodies specific responses are more triggered and anti-body counts and immunity persistance rise.
ok so moving from CBC to GCM is more secure, but they still decrypt in their cloud, and they still have bad default settings on passwords etc
Encryption is fine, that handles the Integrity angle, but what about the authentication for the confidentiality part, ok there is options for 2FA, but nothing is by default
and the measly 3 nines of uptime for the availability part....
Its all down to the lack of effective competition doing something different with the weight behind it
the rest of the networking vendors wokrk in their specific nieches or get floated around between vendors.
Cisco are stifling inovation and holding up standards, as they can't keep up. they are still promoting 3 tier enterprise networks with chassis at the core ffs.
Great ideas from other vendors like extensions to previous protocols, designed to be extended, that solve issues, and dont need new ASICS or another box in your data centre, wither on the vine, as without the standard definition IETF can provide, the rest of the market can't adopt them in an interoperable way.
From iOS 10.3 there is an MDM API call to force iOS updates.
Now if it comes to this, i belive apple could fire off this process without the users permission to force an upgrade to 13.19
it may be a massive imposition on some, but i'm sure you comuld proably find a clause in the T&Cs that would allow them to do it.
Google habe a simillar function that they can push the core enabling patches in the Android system layer
most people have a phone and herd immunity only requires about 80% coverage
if you look at mobile usage currently 6.8 billion own a mobile or 95%+ of the world populations
and 99%+ of these run either android or iOS
the next two OS are KaiOS at 0.32% and Tizen at 0.16%, and apparently 0.1% still use windows mobile
so by covering Android and iOS you cover approximatley 94% of the world's population, which is more than enough to protect the other 6% (herds and all)
without actually identifying the individuals, it relies on individuals to take heed of the notifications generated, which has mixed response.
from my understanding the app will log the BD_ADDR of any devices in close contact, and hold the contacts for 14 days, then if the app is set Tested positive, notify the devices that are in that list.
the problems come from identinfying how close the contact is and how to send that notification,
and the not unreasonable idea that google might use app_ids to track people.
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