Posts by James 51

Remember comrades, in Soviet Russia, the internet trolls you!

Still waiting for the follow up to the 1020. Or if they still made that (preferably the 64gb model).

I wonder if this will be admitted as evidence in the privacy case that's going through the courts at the moment.

It's a pity there aren't any 4:3 ratio monitors in the group. I get a lot of comments in my office about putting my widescreen monitor in portrait mode to view more code.

They won't. Spooks of every flag have been exposed as obeying the law when it suits them and it being changed when they get caught. I think they'll cave or be pushed aside at some point but I hope not.

You'd to forensically examine everyone's pc to prove this. Otherwise you run the risk of someone's WiFi router being hacked and used (unlikely but possible). There is simply no way IP matching meets the standard of prove required. Speculative invoices is being kind. Demanding with menaces would be more accurate.

I know quangos get bad publicity but there should be one that can advise the rest of the public sector on tech spend and implementation. Here's the catch, it should be staffed by IT professionals who know what they're talking about. If something goes wrong, they should review what happened and produce recommendations. If something fails a second time, then it's comfy cushion time.

It will be sad when it finally goes but that ssd must be well done it's normal wear and tear life cycle by now.

Sounds like it would make ideal student housing too.

Or a 'man cave' in the garden. Hmm wonder how much they retail for.

Good luck to them. Given the amount of cash and other resources Google is going to throw at them they are going to need it.

I am surprised that this isn't being framed as a local democracy issue with a small town/rural area trying to provide for it's citizens when the free market has failed them and the state law is anti-freedom and anti-democratic. It's easy to see that interaction between government and citizen is slowly being moved to digital first. The state needs to fill in the blanks for that to happen ans the benefits to society might justify a small financial hit.

We may be living in interesting times....

In cases like this companies need to have their feet held to the fire otherwise nothing will change. Who ever designed the security accreditation they got needs to go over what happened and make some serious changes otherwise it isn't worth anything. Aren't these people suppose to be professionals?

How in the name of $deity do these companies keep getting government contracts and actually paid for failing so spectacularly? Stuff like this is suppose to be the bedrock of our democracy. If you can't vote then you are excluded from the one thing politicians actually need from us once every few years.

We need 'CERN does it better' t-shirts.

You had me at Ryan Reynolds. That's one to avoid.

You'd hope that amazon would do the right thing here and wave the fees. After all that's forcing the victim to literally pay for crime and the positive press of handling the situation well would be worth a lot more.

There's something about this story that brings a warm glow to my heart. Hackery as it should be.

In theory it's a good idea but it's only a matter of time before it will be abused. How many times have agencies like the NSA and GCHQ promised they weren't doing it and then got caught doing it? And that's before you get into various police agencies as well. The hardware and software will need to be absolutely rock solid.

It's a pity that things have gone so far that obvious advances in safety get thought of in the ways they will be used against us instead of to help us. Otherwise you could start thinking about things like weight sensors that could detect the number of people in the car, accelerometers that gave some idea of the force of the impact etc etc. Not spots might still pose a problem.

All good points but as long as good security is seen as a cost and a source of friction it the comprises made are more likely to fall one way than the other.