Posts by NoneSuch

Inspiring Entrepreneurs

Go on kids. start making nitroglycerin with your store bought chem sets. Oh no, better not or Homeland Security will get involved.

Re: "Randomly watching and surveilling what's going over the internet...

It isn't random, it's gathering info on everyone.

Extradition?

No worries. There's plenty of room in the Ecuadorian Embassy and Assange (TM) needs a roomie.

No backup solution can override stupidity.

With respect you missed the BIG one.

Ensure the company you are entrusting your data to is fiscally viable and monitor that they remain so for the duration of your stay in their data center. If they ever go under, your assets and your access to them may be restricted for a long time.

Ensure your backups are made frequently and stored on your infrastructure. Have a transition plan to other resources using only those backups.

Lots of companies offer data centers today. Not all of them should be in that business.

Re: Too soon

If only the NSA protected MY information with such zeal.

LOHAN

Take LOHAN across the border into Mexico for a stratospheric good time.

Re: I don't get it

The hydrogen fuel cell device is the new Apple car. An entire vehicle designed to give an iPhone more than 12 hours leccy.

FFS

If government taxed fairly and spent revenues reasonably, perhaps citizens wouldn't need overseas bank accounts to avoid the Exchequer.

Parlament reminds me of this...

Captain Zapp Brannigan: We'll just set a new course for that empty region over there, near that blackish, holeish thing.

People didn't believe in flight until Orville and Wilbur came along.

It's still early days. Yes, there are obstacles. However, boffins are on the case.

Re: Where to put it?

At the RAF St Mawgan base. Down south, ocean on two sides and still has an operational RAF contingent.

If nation states are not following their own laws, what makes you think they'll follow the UN?

The only solution is the electorate to make their feelings known to the government in one voice, "If you support mass spying on individuals you will not be reelected."

Politicians only respond to threats to their power.

Mr. Snowden, I hope you see this.

Stay away until an outraged public forces a Presidential pardon BEFORE you return home.

The President wants to make an example of you. They want to scare all other whistleblowers into silence so they can continue breaking the Constitution and other laws. You will not receive a fair trail. They are lying to Congress, what makes you think they'll tell you the truth?

You can accomplish more in Moscow than going "home" into a 6 x 7 foot cell with daylight only an hour a day. No one will hear a word from you ever again in jail.

With you free, there is hope.

Pale Moon

Is Firefox without the garbage. My add-ons work longer and there is the familiar classic interface. Highly recommended for multiple platforms. (I am not associated with, compensated, or employed by Pale Moon in any way.)

From their web site.

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Re: I don't really like AES

Any encryption solution depending on AES is crap. I want to choose the encryption method and key strength that goes on my phone. Google gives us free choice from a list of one.

Re: OH RLY?

They don't sell it.

They turn it over to the US government free of charge.

"Edward Snowden was so concerned about smartphone microphones as a conduit for eavesdropping that he famously asked journalists and lawyers who visited him after he hot-footed it to Hong Kong to place their smartphones in hotel fridges."

Says it all doesn't it? In the end, brands probably don't matter as long as the nation state is trying to compromise any technology in your possession. Whatever you have, you can't trust it. Which also says volumes about our trust in the state.

Re: brilliant solutions for gangstas, bankstas, terrorists and others in search of ultimate privacy

"Shun NSA snooping, enroll for Mossad snooping instead."

Didn't you hear Snowden? It's the same thing actually.

"* Apple doesn't do PR in El Reg's direction, on the basis of ancient grudges about our predilection for colourful language and not being gushy about everything it does."

El Reg staff will be flayed alive in the streets during the 2017 Apple Riots. However, don't worry. You shall be avenged in the Android counter-revolutionary trials of early 2018.

Re: "the FCC's chairman has refused to publish the rules before the vote took place."

No, you get to see new legislation called "Patriotic Elimination of Child Molestation and ISIS" or some such with the exact same unseen text.

This does not stop them, it only delays them.

Re: Works For Me

We only know what Snowden knew. I'm sure he was not in on all the pies the NSA/GCHQ had jammed their fingers into.

There is certainly more out violations out there and instead of governments reigning the intel services in, they're actually increasing efforts across the board for more access.

This will not stop until someone is made accountable, charged and convicted. Then you'll see the doe eyed civil servants pause when they realize they can be held accountable.

Keep the tech Samsung. I get gouged enough by my banks service charges, fees and exchange rates. Don't think I'm going to add another hand in my pocket.

Any fee paid to Samsung to use their service will be billed back to me with additional fees in time. So as I say. Keep it.

Re: UK

Interesting how the Presidents cell phone is one specially encrypted by the NSA. I guess the "strong encryption" available on regular cell phones is considered insufficient.

Re: Well, fuck!

When "state secrets" override personal freedoms, the constitution is no longer in effect.

Think about that.

Re: Have a cigar

Half the users (or more) on Twitter are secondary or fake so they've been without new users for some time now.

Their problem is they can't monetize smiley faces.