Posts by Mark 65 3439 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
If there has been any crime or abuse of process involved in procuring that evidence it is a separate matter which can be dealt with independently, it doesn't invalidate the evidence.
Pretty sure that if there is a crime in gathering evidence it is inadmissible else you could just torture confessions out of whomever you liked.
Let's continue the analogy.
If you burgle an ATM terminal of a Swiss bank in UK are you tried in UK or Switzerland?
You're still fitting in with what the OP put in that the offence - the digital break and enter - took place where the server resides, anything else such as misuse of systems along the way is just extras. In your analogy the ATM is in the UK and thus so is the crime.
A more interesting analogy might be you in the UK hacking the servers of Google/Facebook in a UK data centre that causes issues to propagate around the zones. Where then? UK? Each zone?
What it really comes down to is that the US are effectively the colonial power of the day and they make the rules by and large. A century or more ago the UK was likely doing the same thing shitting on people although not for internet crimes.
@Jimmy: Therein lies the secret of politics - use the emotions and not the facts. If you can make your argument an emotive, heart string tugging tagline of simplistic points then you'll always win in the court of Z-list celebrity politics that envelopes most of the electorate. Fact-based complex arguments are understood by too few, so why bother?
@AC: How dare you come in here touting your anti-wind agenda with cold hard facts. Heresy says I. If you didn't read it on a frothing greenist blog it didn't happen.
If the world wants low carbon then we are looking at a mix of nuclear, gas, and renewables else it isn't going to happen.
I saw
Flaxman acknowledges that the update has caused some previously functional and otherwise fine cartridges to be rendered useless, but claims HP also has a right to protect its brand from infringement.
and immediately thought "that's what courts are for". However, HP will no doubt shortly be finding out what else courts are for especially the EU ones.
The irony would be if the alleged discrimination were actually some kind of requirement put upon them by their Government customer base. That wouldn't surprise me after a couple of cases a few years back of Chinese agents employed in sensitive work places.
Say what you like about Gates the corporate man but at least his philanthropy is large scale and its commitments somewhat more realistic and less hipster. Beating malaria vs "curing everything everywhere PS hey look at me".
If he really has $30+bn why not give more away? Once you get into the billions surely all you do is piss it on yachts and ski lodges.
Cleaning it up is easy - you just pass the cost onto the dickhead that bought it by telling them as an ISP that they have malware on their network causing issues contrary to their contract and their connection will be blocked or throttled until it is fixed i.e. put pressure on the ISPs and shit gets fixed.
I believe that, once they've finished jamming other major offenders in the arse in the courts, the EU will crack down on this as it is anti-competitive at the very least. Ford cannot mandate you only use tyres they supply or petrol etc. The actions they undertook by activating the "feature" 6 months after releasing it (and I believe transferring ownership of the division) makes me think more than a fine could be in the offing here.
@Smooth Newt: You have to get used to the fact that the uber rich don't pay tax like the rest of us. After a certain point of wealth various intricate and legal tax minimisation schemes become highly cost effective which is why they use them and we don't. Like it says in the article, they are extremely wealthy and can pick and choose where they live. Personally I would rather collect the 10 times the average from them and the potential for their lavish spending rather than nothing at all. Is it fair? No, but then neither is life in general so get used to it.
Tom Hardy sometimes seems more like he'd play a Bond that kept previous opponents in the cellar for casual dismemberment for personal amusement in his downtime. Just a bit too psycho I think. Good, but not sure he's Bond. Again, like Idris, I think he'd make a better bad guy.
But that's the issue too - these muppets think that France etc will reap the rewards whereas the most likely beneficiary is and always has been Ireland. Much like the finance industry. Move to Paris where they love their 35 hour week and a good protest march or move to Dublin where they also speak English and you could probably get by with just a shell office?
I think the UK and EU Data Protection Commissioners might have something to say about that.
The point being that it is easier to ask forgiveness than permission. The damage is done, they have your info and they won't be deleting it. I'm verging on the point of going back to a simple calls + SMS phone.
The problem with your 'hard to subvert' blockchain theory is that it is hard but not 'near impossible' which is the end of the spectrum you'd desire for an election. Especially when you consider that the likely subverters of any election would generally be nation states with large resources.I believe that is likely why you'd posit the use of a central authority (something you think you control) rather than what kind of amounts to a majority vote on the vote.
I disagree that regulators like the ACCC are well-regarded worldwide unless you mean by companies that like to abuse the customer base. I've generally found them to be weak as piss and they have totally shied away from the food duopoly and the bullshit petrol pricing nonsense. They don't exactly do much at all really.
The former NSA analyst explains that the agency may have cycled servers used in offensive operations after he fled out of caution, an act that would have cut off any attacker with a foothold in command and control boxes.
I'd have thought you'd try to regularly cycle through those for exactly this reason, unless of course you're convinced of your own invincibility so much that you believe "it couldn't happen to me".
I'm not sure you get deniability from linking a C&C server to yourselves and, by extension, any hacking undertaken using it. Unless of course you are implying a spy novel like double bluff whereby they did do shit, and it was recently, and it was from this server, so they now want to make it look like it was hacked in 2013 so that there's doubt said activity was really done by them and not the Russians doing it and trying to make it look like them?
I need some paper and crayons at this stage.
If you are worried about names, just make them up - use the Bogan Name Generator, or characters out of Jane Austen novels. It is not as though they can cross-reference them with the Electoral Roll (that would be illegal for the moment).
I wouldn't be trusting them not to cross reference the data though. I have no problem giving my name along with my income (the ATO already have this pair), it is more the extra superfluous and invasive shit they also want to know that irks me. That they should only get without identifying information.
I think that stability in cost post-computerisation is likely due to the ever more complicated rules politicians put around the system as they forever attempt to buy votes. More rules, more code, more chance for error, less chance of understanding the mess that results.
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