Posts by Paul Crawford 5667 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Mar 2007
Nincompoops who don't realise what they have, movers and shakers doing their majik to go some-place "better", and everyone ends up wailing and gnashing their teeth in frustration because the land wasn't actually greener on the other side.
Sounds just like Brexit
Same here, though I now have a City Fibre connection. Had the VM* cable connection for 20 years with excellent reliability. Others in same city on the ADSL option were crap.
[*] originally Blueyonder, then Telewest, before VM (and then without name change Liberty)
The companies that are best equipped to deal with a breach already have implemented security basics including two-factor authentication and vulnerability scanning
Which is only tangentially related. You would rewrite that as "folks who care don't do dumb shit" or similar, the key point is to have a safe verified copy of your data, ideally at another site. And said data is not modifiable by anyone on the first site, so no shared admin passwords (or AD entries) for file system snapshots, tape machine control, etc.
For Cornwall, possibly as they really only had the horizontal launch cake to eat.
There is still hope, but very slim, that vertical launch at Sutherland on mainland north coast, or Saxavord on Shetland Islands, will bring success, but both of them are not really bringing much infrastructure to the game. They are largely a concrete plinth in the arse-end of nowhere so if the rocket fails it is very unlikely to hit anyone. The companies looking to use them, like Skyrora, are basically mobile launch vendors so they can turn up almost anywhere with a few containers and the rocket (if not in a few more containers) and they are good to go.
The real question for folks thinking this is going to usher in a golden age for UK space is much as what caused VO to fail - no real UK gov money to lubricate things (as the USA, etc pours in) and nothing compelling to develop much industry related to the sites. The scale of SpaceX means they can out bid on cost so you have to try and fine niches where someone dearly wants a launch at a time or orbit they are not offering.
And, if the majority are related to suicide, then removing the guns won't change that much.
I'm not so sure that is true. Yes, some folks will always find a way to kill themselves. But a gun makes it very easy and very simple to end it all after a few drinks too many whereas in another home, without a gun, they would not have found the means to do so before they either passed out or sobered up.
Its not the spying, its the consequences of what you do that differ.
Sure democratic countries vary in how free and open they are, and all have limits on what it allowed (otherwise it is anarchy/failed state time) but if you don't grasp the difference then try visiting Russia and criticising Putin (jail or falling from a high window seems common outcomes), visiting China and trying to discuss Tiananmen Square, or Thailand and insult the king.
Our politicians and their policies are far from perfect, helped by idiot voters of course, but we have a great deal of freedom on simple things like ridiculing them.
Did we ever really have human rights and freedom? I'm sure before technology governments had people eaves dropping in pubs or infiltrating dangerous groups that wanted to save beavers and stuff.
The difference now is technology allows you to hoover up ALL data and decide what to look for later, etc. In the past the limits of gov budgets meant they would struggle to keep tabs on more than a few thousand folks in total. Now it can be anyone's history and interactions up for inspection at the touch of a button.
And yet when there is some terrorist act almost always we find they were already a "person of interest" known to the authorities and so you have to wonder just how useful all of this state surveillance really is. For Google & Facebook, etc, it is useful as it makes money, they don't need any other reason to do it.
I can see the point of the sanctions to a degree, a bit like excluding Russian athletes from international games as a means of reminding the nation of the consequences of its leader's actions. But I don't see that sanctioning individual FOSS contributors is that helpful and there is a danger of xenophobic attacks on Russian individuals irrespective of their support or opposition to Putin.
Possibly a better and more IT retaliation would be to route all access via one IP filter so international news access for Russian citizens is automatically part of gaining access to the rest of the world!
Students at the university I used to work for discovered the 'emergency phone' in the lift had no barring on it, unlike virtually all user's phones, so started making international calls from there!
How quaint in these days of fixed-price and fast(ish, depending on where you live) broadband and VoIP...
It depends upon what threats you are worried about. If your protocols are secure in themselves (i.e. working end-end encryption, etc) then the telco equipment can't see the contents no matter how they are routed and through who's equipment. But if you have control over the equipment in a given country, for example, you can use it for several obvious activities no mater what:
- Get the metadata on who is talking to who (and in the case of mobile phone networks where they have been), useful if you want to target specific individuals, identify who works at/with a specific company or gov department, etc.
- Copy encrypted data passing within that country so in 5-10 years time, or if other leaks / cryptanalysis breakthrough / etc happen, you might be able to decrypt it.
- Bring down comms if you enter any sort of conflict where business niceties go by the wind
"The attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted email which triggers automatically when it is retrieved and processed by the Outlook client," Microsoft explained. "This could lead to exploitation BEFORE the email is viewed in the Preview Pane."
Outlook, the gift to criminals that keeps giving!
If Google and Apple had any backbone they could turn the the UK gov and say "fine, we will implement this client-side scanning for all UK phones and are going to have the agency doing this located in China."
If there is no flaw in your plans why are you not happy? It will be cheaper that way and the Chinese already have expertise in monitoring things :)
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