Re: Last time i checked
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none of which seems to have remotely impacted their share price.
Is the above meaningless in the grand scheme of things or sign of internal rot? Im not sure sure. What I am sure about is $150bn in the bank gives you a lot of leeway for mistakes and about-face's
Hell look how MS and Oracle have managed to endure with a fraction of that cash pot.
My prediction - Apple buys Tesla in the next 3 years, with either Musk bought out to run SpaceX or tipped to replace Cook and invigorate a mature product line with some monomaniacal special sauce, given that he's probably the closest living thing to Steve Jobs.
Numbers please otherwise this is FUD/Marketing. I notice they deliberately only reference their own deployments, conveniently excluding all the CDH deployments out there. Which may or may not be bigger I grant you.
Paris coz she's easily impressed by big numbers.
@yoganmahew
Are these online criminals the AI's everyone's been warning us about?
Or maybe - just maybe @JimmyPage realises that the chance of having your CCV number compromised is more like to happen via physical access to your card, rather than a leaky online database.
Cant they repurpose one of those backup tape carousel thingies?
A machine can win at jeopardy but cant hold its own cards? Something must be done!
Alternatively they could automate one of those card shuffling machines you see at casino's with the added bonus of being able to program it to "blow its wad" at the fleshies in the event of a bad beat.
why not try google and not being so wilfully ignorant? El Reg have done several good write ups as have others.
Investigatory budgets are close to zero when compared to what apple can throw at its iPhone division.
If there is a charade here is being perpetrated by the FBI who either aren't willing or incapable of trying a hardware based approach. Basically the feebs are trying to set a precedent so they don't have to go running to the NSA everytime.
OSS wisdom would suggest the monoculture approach is safer - the many eyes hypothesis. Then heartbleed happened.
Trouble is that comes up against the vulnerability and risks of a monoculture - crack 1 api you've cracked every customer who uses it. The rewards go from compelling for 1 banks customers to irresistible for every banks customers.
Which one is safer? Flip a coin.
Thats a rather disingenuous interpretation of his comments. He's saying part of the bill is a necessary consolidation of a whole raft of dogdily interpreted regulations. And he has a point.
1 bill = less loopholes.
One of the problems with the IPB its 2 things (sensible consolidation of existing powers + stoopid enhancement of powers)
if done properly the first is a good thing.
And how do you know the iphone isn't an integral part of the kit? Especially since it doesn't have to be an iphone - any landfill android could be made to do the job.
Unless the only requirement is blue led for yes, red led for no, having a phone handle the comms and potentially a value add of important details on a good screen, plus ability to mail/phone/sms the data around it seems like the phone is a bit of a no brainer.
Plus not needing either a stoopid battery pack or a tether to a wall wart where mains coverages cannot be guaranteed. Pi's/Arduino's have their place. This aint one of them.
Dumb suggestion from a pi-boi tbh.
way to go AC! you have really added to the debate.
I would rather say 2 things :
1. They either are genuinely ignorant of the way this data can be abused.
2. The genuinely dont care.
Maybe 0.001% are stooges. But not much more if the survey sampling has been done properly. Since it was sponsored by the Welcome Trust - who have a damn fine reputation - Im prepared to assume the sampling was good.
The FBI has already shat all over their bed with borderline illegal use of stingray cell towers which by design hijack the infrastructure hundreds of ordinary citizens are using.
Give anyone this power it will be abused.
Until the pendulum swings the other way and law enforcement officials are immediately jailed for their abuse of technology the only protection we have is to deny them that technology because it WILL be abused on a scale all out of proportion to the problems it solves,
It's rather like giving them guns training and culture that emphasises their personal power over the rule of law and then being surprised that a minority think it's ok to blow away demographics that they look down upon or are frightened of.
Lots of uninformed commentardery on this thread.
Firstly he already had access to the systems - so calling it stealing is way off base, its improper access at best.
Secondly there is no suggestion he did anything with it.
Thirdly let the nerds who can say hand on heart that they haven't seen/found more that they should have been entitled to via DB/SA access cast the first stone.
@readinthereg
Whilst I agree with your sentiment, your analogy breaks down.
The situation is more like the Post Office being asked to maintain a list of addresses it wont accept mail for. The package type or package contents are irrelevant.
Then the inevitable workaround for a punter is to use Tor or a VPN which is like posting using a forwarding address in a region where the post offices list is not checked.
Hardware better - for sure, just don't forget a significant subset of consumers will pay a premium to be part of Apple's walled garden.
The value of a phone is measured in much more than its hardware. Especially if it's some shonky build of Android with a dubious upgrade lifetime. CM13 myself but I wouldn't recommend that to anyone but a techie.
Exactly judging the frequency I see them 'in the Wild' the 5c is doing quite nicely amongst those who like the apple ui and walled garden but who either can't or won't justify the price of Aplles latest shiny shiny.
Expect the new version to have Apple Pay and be possibly be delayed whilst they upgrade its cryptographic module to make it proof against FBI attacks. Assuming of course that the cryptographic hardware for Apple Pay doesn't already do the same job.
"We are not convinced HMRC has achieved this and it must work with overseas tax authorities if we are to see lasting and effective change in the international tax system,” added Hillier"
Hey Hillier How about legislating to fix the gaping holes in our tax laws and renegotiating our current tax treaties.
That's a politicians job not HMRC's other wise for all your pontificating you are part of the problem not the solution.
One piece of software that once developed can be trivially changed for the next Iphone 5C ID the next time the feds come knocking.
This one request massively lowers the bar for the flood that follows. Before you know it you have your phone cracked for applying to an out of area school. (Happened in the UK with RIPA).
Goverment/Law Enforcement overreach is a fact they abuse every capability we give them.