Posts by Sloth77 36 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Oct 2016
"Guess what, most people are not fucking gamers."
I think the game industry revenue begs to differ:
"The global gaming industry is significantly larger than the movie industry, generating roughly $184–$188 billion annually as of 2023–2024. This dwarfs the global box office, which brings in roughly $34 billion, and often exceeds the combined revenue of the film and music industries together."
"But she added: "Why 48 hours and not 24 or even 12? Every hour these images remain online compounds the harm.""
Why not 1 hour... 1/2 hour.... 10 seconds?!?!?!?
FFS. Because 48 hours was chosen as a reasonable time limit and you have to draw a line in the sand somewhere
> Show me on MacOS where the walled garden hurt you
*cough* Gatekeeper *cough*
"By default, Gatekeeper helps ensure that all downloaded software has been signed by the App Store or signed by a registered developer and notarised by Apple"
So in other words, we need Apple's permission to install third party software. Even M$ doesn't enforce this...
"By preventing just any host from talking to just any other host, it caused massive centralization and concentrated a dangerous amount of power in a few companies, which routinely abuse it."
Thanks, I'll stick with NAT and the fact that my devices *dont* talk directly to other devices (and yes I'm aware of firewalls).
"And 80 percent of respondents pair their phone with their car anyway, allowing data and details of activities to be exchanged between apps and the vehicle and potentially its manufacturer."
But does the Bluetooth interface allow transferring of data outside of media and address lists?
I suspect not.
"P.S. No... I do NOT have any problems playing games, talking on Skype, etc. etc. etc. Never have had. And I forward precisely ZERO ports."
Most likely you are playing games that do not require peer-to-peer access between players. Some games, particularly Xbox games, but also PC (eg. Elite Dangerous) do require it however and won't work without either uPnP or manual port fowarding.
As regards Skype, I suspect it falls back to a centralised server (ie. middleman) approach if it cannot establish a direct connection between users.
"I'm not sure why more banks don't give customers hardware gizmos Like Nationwide BS or Barclays in the UK do. Can't cost more than a fiver and must pay for themselves with fraud prevention?"
Because they're a royal PITA? I carry enough crap in my pockets without a separate gizmo for each service requiring 2FA.
"Did you join up today to astro-turf on behalf of the Home Office?
Lets look at what you forgot:"
No, you are missing the subtlety here. They are not bothered about end-to-end encryption between customer and service, ie me -> Google, because Google is able to decrypt the information and simply pass it to the goverment. As they do already.
What they are bothered about is end-to-end encryption directly between users. Because then the only people that can decrypt it are the two users. And as it was previously pointed out, this type of encryption is fairly rare.
So:
Online banking.
Placing orders online with Amazon, eBay, Tesco etc etc.
Paying for anything via PayPal
Securely sending your password to your email provider to get your mail
Logging into pretty well any other service.
Are all perfectly safe. At least in theory. Unless the government change their mind....
