Posts by Derek Choate 1 4 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Feb 2016
Maybe I'm being a bit simplistic ... but couldn't you just require people to register for iPlayer and during that process check for their license status? Yes, I know that properties are licensed, not people, but I'm sure that a compromise could be found - it is after all, far more viable than sniffing wifi packets.
As well all know, people tend to be the weakest link in most security regimes and the author seems to think that this can change through some sort of mass conditioning. Sadly, humans are the weakest link because we tend not to be obedient little automatons and no amount of nagging will change that. Ever. Instead we must completely re-engineer our security approach that minimising the amount of damage that individuals can do. For example, forget passwords - go for something much harder to share, like fingerprints or other forms of 2FA.
About a year ago I moved away from EE. The reason was simple - indoor coverage was extremely poor (and this was in spitting distance of EE's headquarters in Paddington). Forget speed, I just wanted a signal without having to lean up against a window. Now I'm with O2, I rarely suffer signal issues.
So, I'm not sure how Ofcom got their results. Perhaps they drove around measuring speed outdoors and then extrapolated (probably incorrectly) for indoor coverage, or perhaps they put an app on volunteers' phones to sample data speeds. But then most people would select a mobile carrier they could reliably use, and this would minimise readings that negatively effect results. Whatever the method, it certainly doesn't reflect my experience of EE.
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