Re: Pretty worrying appointments...
There is no upside except to unfriendly foreign powers.
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Trump's cyber-guru Giuliani runs ancient 'easily hackable website'
It's not just your browser: Your machine can be fingerprinted easily
Drone biz Lily Robotics takes $34m in pre-orders, ships nothing, shuts down, gets sued by San Francisco DA
The top doc, the FBI, the Geek Squad informant – and the child porn pic that technically wasn't
Thursday 12th January 2017 19:10 GMT 
Re: This is repair?
In this case the tech gets his $500 for finding the evidence on the computer he examined. He doesn't get more if the defendant is found guilty. He doesn't get more if more evidence is found on other systems owned by the defendant. His incentive to plant evidence on other systems is therefore non-existent.
This statement makes no sense. You agree the tech is getting a reward, but then say the reward is no incentive? WTF?
In case you don't know, most Geek Squad techs are paid shit. There may be isolated regional examples of above average pay, but most make $13hr. (oh I see it's been raised a whole fucking dollar in the last 6 years) To someone making that shit wage, $500 is serious money. It's an entire weeks pay, before taxes.
Best Buy is also a known shit employer who regularly fuck their employees often and hard.
There is so much incentive to make that $500 it would make a whore blush.
Thursday 12th January 2017 19:03 GMT
Re: This is repair?
Do you then think that the technician then broke in to the doctor's home and loaded the images onto a Mac, his iPhone and two hard drives?
How do we know the feds didn't?
That's the problem. They already tainted their evidence.
Ever heard of "fruit of the poisoned tree"? The FBI really should know better.
Again, I am NOT defending the doctor, but I am defending everyone's right to due process as written in the Constitution. The Founding Fathers weren't stupid and often opined that they knew the risk of letting the guilty go free. That is was preferable to the oppression of the innocent. Something that seems to really go against human nature, it seems. Why is that?
Thursday 12th January 2017 18:56 GMT
Re: OC Weekly...
A better car analogy is taking your car to a garage for a small repair, and they then take apart the interior to see if they can find any evidence of narcotics, which they then report to the feds for a fee.
That was basically my point. That having custody of some else's property does NOT give anyone the right to do with it as they please.
Thursday 12th January 2017 06:47 GMT
Re: OC Weekly...
Holy fuck. Paying someone to purposely violate your privacy?
"Hey, here's $500 to break into that person's car you just parked and see if you can find some shit on him."
That shit is NOT acceptable. Private investigator can get away with that (although I'll never understand why) but law enforcement? That's mile high bullocks.
Backpage.com kills adult section, claims government censorship
Thursday 12th January 2017 07:32 GMT
Many of you really missed this one
Child prostitution or not, it is still illegal as hell to advertise prostitution anywhere in the US.
That it is allowed at all shows just how corrupt the whole situation really is.
I am all for consenting adults doing whatever they want in private as long as nobody gets hurt, but the idiot that owns backpage is breaking the law. Fuck him.
Anti-smut law dubs PCs, phones 'pornographic vendor machines', demands internet filters
Panzura picks up $32 million growth funding
EU wants power to fine behavioural data bad boys and the ad men aren't happy
Thursday 12th January 2017 07:05 GMT
Re: The web as we know it?
In a statement, the Internet Advertising Bureau said the "the future of the web as we know it" was in "danger".
---The current web is a cesspit of spying, tracking, and "walled gardens", not to mention being shoved crappy ads all day long, to the point we have an arms race between people forcing ads down our throats and people developing software to strip those same ads out.
Right? He says that like it's a bad thing.
Kerching! That's the sound of Barracuda customers feeling the ransomware fear
Microsoft sued by staff traumatized by child sex abuse vids stashed on OneDrive accounts
Thursday 12th January 2017 06:37 GMT
Re: @palpy: Yup. Quite bullshitty.
And what about when they get it wrong? When they report someone's innocent files as child porn because the person at microsoft doesn't get the context of the file?
This has already happened before the Internet (or in the early days). Some people who had their kids bath pictures processed at the local drugstore were arrested and prosecuted. There were eventually found innocent, but at great cost to their lives. (I believe that might be found on google as I am reporting from memory on this one and this was not the only case)
Thursday 12th January 2017 06:34 GMT
So many problems on so many levels
In no particular order of importance:
First MS should have asked for volunteers. Seeing the nightmare of depravity that some people are capable of is more than most people can take, let alone for long periods for time.
Second, we now have absolute proof MS can view your on-line files. How that's cloud things working for ya?
Third, MS, and other companies affected by this law, has effectively become a non-deputized agent of law enforcement. While informing is quite legal, being forced to spy under penalty of law is often viewed as a police state tactic. MS, and all the other companies have been basically given letters of marque.
Fourth, the amount of depravity in the world absolutely needs, without question, to be combated and persecuted. It is one thing to trade goods and services illegally, quite another to trade in human torture and violence.
Fifth, the lines and boundaries of privacy versus social safety are often and easily overstepped.
I see no easy answer to any of this, yet I am reminded of the U.S. Founding Fathers specific 4th Amendment regarding search and seizure and how there are no exceptions. If you think they were not aware of secret acts of terror and violence, you would be badly mistaken. Then why did they make the Amendment so strong? Yet if the protocol is followed, then there are no rights violations.
Here is the exact wording:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
You will note is does not say by whose oath or affirmation. However, it DOES says a particular place, person and things must be described. Open fishing IS NOT allowed.
This is a very thorny issue, as they say, and one that will not be resolved any time soon.
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TV anchor says live on-air 'Alexa, order me a dollhouse' – guess what happens next
Google gives up YOUR private data to US govt – but won't hand over its OWN staff personal info
Cancel! that! yacht! order! Marissa! – Verizon's! still! cold! on! Yahoo! gobble!
Friday 6th January 2017 01:20 GMT
Oh they fucking know
"Unfortunately, I can't sit here today and say with confidence one way or the other because we still don't know."
Oh they know. If you think they don't know, I've got a very nice bridge for sale. Gently used, of course.
They just aren't telling anyone which tells me there is something fishy going on.
Snapchap snaps back: Snapchat Snapbrats' Snapstats are Snapcrap
Dotdot. Who's there? Yet another IoT app layer
Robo-supercar hype biz Faraday Future has invented something – a new word for 'disrupt'
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