Re: Calling Nord 1.1.1.1
Apparently, some people really adamantly do not want the NSA to know that they're viewing those cat pics.
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Because you are not required by law to use FaceBook, Google or Amazon. They are private companies and you can avoid using them if you so wish.
You cannot avoid the police if they decide to set their sights on you, and resisting them will, in the best case, land you in jail, and could land you in the morgue.
I take it you have no idea what FaceBook is working at with its AI. My wife had a FaceBook account for two years or so. FaceBook was regularly asking her to confirm if she lived in a given village, and the name of that village regularly got closer to where we actually lived at the time.
You may avoid giving specific information to FaceBook, but you have friends, and FaceBook is watching their interaction with you, as well as everything you do. Post pictures ? FaceBook is interpolating with pics from your friends. FaceBook is correlating your messages. FaceBook is watching every damn thing you do.
Obviously FaceBook knows a lot more about you than you think.
Um, have you forgotten the whole iPhone decryption affair we had a few months ago ? Where the police were practically stomping their feet to get Apple to decrypt a phone, which Apple refused, and then the police somehow got the phone decrypted and (IIRC) there was nothing incriminating in it ?
Apple is quite proud of ensuring people's secure communications - unless we're talking about China in which case Apple is just a proud to ensure government access.
I'm guessing that that irks American politicians to no end, but in the US you can't lock up and torture someone to get information - not on US soil anyway. You have to be abroad for that, and the suspect cannot be white.
I think that's a good idea. Of course, it's not a new idea, but it's a good one.
That also means that Microsoft is going to have to stick with its tools for the long term. No more burying a product after only a few years, you're going to have to grin and bear it.
In this day and age, that might be a bit too much for Microsoft to do.
With less employees to do the job. Sure, that's going to work.
As of now, I am just waiting for the CEO who will whittle down employee count to 10,000 and spout the same bullshit.
Being CEO in a large corporation is apparently easy : all you have to do is have no soul and cull the staff numbers. Your bonus is ensured, and in the worse case, you have your golden parachute made from the tears of all those people you fired.
I don't know about other French alarms, but mine also has a battery backup.
And, given that the phone and internet connection are on a UPS, any burglar thinking of cutting the power would be well advised to wait half an hour at least before attempting entry, which means that the police will have largely enough to mosey on down to my place and cull the miscreant red-handed.
Because in the event of a power failure I get a notification, and will act accordingly.
Even though science has already simulated this a number of times, it is obvious that more data can only yield better understanding and more precise simulations.
So go for it, boffins !
Twenty years in and Microsoft still hasn't been able to reign in that abomination of an excuse to put DRM into the OS. For that matter, it hasn't even included any tool to search for orphaned keys and list them for deletion. You still have to use 3rd-party tools to clean up your Registry efficiently.
For shame, Microsoft. For shame.
Did they factor in the fact that current hardware is used for much longer these days ? My current rig was last updated in 2015, and I have no urge or need to update it now. Laptops are a different story, they cannot be upgraded in any meaningful way aside, perhaps, memory, but they can last a good many years as well, especially the more powerful ones.
I doubt that a change in chip availability has that much of an impact.
Last week I bought a replacement UPS on Amazon, because the 10 year-old one I had had died. Guess what I have in my mailbox twice this week ? Of course, an email from Amazon suggesting that I might be interested in a UPS.
I just bought one, you morons. Come back in ten years and you might be relevant.
Of course it can, but when it's the cloud provider, it's all of that provider's customers that have the problem. When it's your on-premises server that has a problem, it's only your customers that are impacted.
Let's try avoiding humongous single points of failure, shall we ?
I always thought those types of services were only in countries that were not interested in proper law enforcement. Poor places that have other priorities than worrying about a bunch of bytes only affecting people far away.
Seems to me that local crime in Europe (or at least, in the Netherlands) would do better to choose a bulletproof server in a country that will leave the hosting provider alone. It's on the Internet anyway, who cares about the location of the server ?
In any case, good on those cops. Hopefully they will get data from those servers that will serve to bust other operations as well.
Typical of billion-dollar behemoths, Google has a good thing going with Kubernetes and its stance is to make all the money, so get people hooked on the product and reserve the means to develop on it to only paying customers, thereby adding yet another revenue stream to fill its coffers.
It's an excellent decision - for Google.
So, if I understand correctly, right now large hospitals employ people to run around carrying stuff that is needed ? Funny, I've been to a few hospitals in my lifetime and I don't remember seeing employees running around carrying something.
Um, so how many "final" written warnings before something actually final happens ?
Because if they already got a final warning last year, and another one this year, what's to keep them from getting another one next year ?
Or is it just final in the sense that they won't be getting another one in that year ?
However, I cannot understand that someone agrees to move product without being able to inspect it in any way and not know that they are part of something shady. If it's legal, it is transparent, and I have the duty to ensure that the product is in good shape and has not degraded in any way, or does not risk degrading.
To do my duty, I am responsible for the product while it is in my care and I must be able to have eyes on it. If that is not part of the deal, then I am not going to take part.
The mathematical consequence of that is that Roku is now an ad agency that uses players as an excuse to get revenue. You never pay attention to your excuses, you only pay attention to what matters, and for Roku, what matters is the ad agencies.
Roku is now off of my list of acceptable purchases.
Well duh, they're encrypted.
I think that law enforcement should totally be able to obtain messages exchanged between suspects, especially in cases like poor little Lucy, but if those messages are encrypted then the law will just have to find the means to decrypt them.
No backdoors.
Allow me disagree, I do not feel that this is overboard. He 'hacked' the accounts to get to pics of scantily-clad women, that is clearly sexual in nature.
It is also tremendously stupid because the Internet is chock full of pics of women in undies that he could have accessed for free and very legally.
That said, I do have to agree that storing your pics on FaceBook and setting them to Private is very wrong. No one should consider FaceBook, of all things, to be a backup of any kind although, now that I think about it, I never have heard about FaceBook losing data. Hmm.
I don't think so. Using a gun is impersonal, using a knife is very much up close and personal. Plus you might get blood on yourself.
But I do agree that the societal guardrails we have thanks to welfare and social care are certainly what keeps the pot from boiling over.