Posts by Christoph 3317 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Dec 2007
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: –
"Though we know we should defeat you,
we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
"more than 80 per cent of UK firms had tackled an internet security breach in 2014."
If you include things like a single, easily contained attack by a virus, you could stretch that to an even larger scare figure. But maybe they thought that would be too obvious.
Still, it's nice to know that the problem will be sorted out by two such experts on how the internet works.
The more energy you store and the smaller and lighter the thing you store it in, the more dangerous it is when things go wrong and all that energy makes a break for freedom.
There's an obvious long-term answer to the storage problem, but what happens when the isolation breaks down and all that anti-matter goes off at once?.
I gather that the statutory responsibilities are the main reason they're pushing this. When they're no longer required to provide a service they can tell the customer to get stuffed. And the customer can't go elsewhere, because they've had their tame politicians pass laws forbidding municipality-run wireless networks.
The Beeb reckon they're scratching their pointy little heads trying to work out what went wrong.
Absolutely. If the information is all public, there is no burden whatever on the council to draw the information together to satisfy a particular request.
If the information can be released under FoI, why isn't it released by default?
If there is no specific reason to keep it confidential, why is it not made public?
If there is no bureaucratic process of FoI compliance involved, but the information is simply posted to the web as standard operating procedure, the costs promptly become trivial.
Any analysis that the public and the press want to do, they can do themselves at zero cost to the council.
"building a back door into every cellphone, tablet, or laptop means deliberately creating weaknesses that hackers and foreign governments can exploit"
It also creates a weakness in equipment used by citizens of other countries that the USA government can exploit.
But the USA has anointed itself world policeman (being so scrupulously honest itself) so those funny foreigners will just have to put up and shut up.
"Hopefully someone will cleverly edit this into a one movie with filler removed, coming to a torrent site soon?"
The trailer for that is already out.
"Invariably someone puts a flight plan wrong and it borks the system"
"If the flight data processing system is down for more than eight minutes, the flight server alerts controllers that the data it is getting is stale."
So if one flight is well off its declared route, it can mean that it's eight minutes before the controllers go to checking the radar directly.
What happens if a second flight goes wild within that eight minute window? Does it get noticed?
Could terrorists exploit this by hijacking two aircraft? Use the first to crash the system by flying wildly, then the second has eight minutes before the RAF get notified.
What a list of all the terrible things that will happen if you don't give them even more power to snoop on everything we do.
Most of these will not be affected in any measurable way by the extra powers.
The one thing that we do know for certain is that they will misuse the powers. Because they always, always do. Every single time any inside information on their operations becomes public, it is found that they have massively misused their powers.
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