Posts by easytoby

Used everywhere

WhatsApp is in wide use right across the NHS. On issued phones and personal devices. The issue here is a breach because someone outside was added (so - I agree with the address book leak issue).

It's an unfixable problem as far as I can see. But we are a in a better place than when it was by SMS.

The investigation here does nothing to address the issue that WhatsApp is the default messaging solution for both front line teams and and management teams in many hospitals. I know this is the case because I manage data security (as best I can) within a hospital. We know WhatsApp is there and in use, but cannot offer a compelling alternative.

It's not about the air gap

My view on this is that it’s not about the air gap is about imposing, dark satanic mills style control upon the proletariat of the employees

Third Way App Store ?

I wonder if it would be worth Apple and Google antitrust interest to support this towards an Independent App Store solution as well?

Server side = not in user control?

The other advantage (to Facebook) is that server side is outside local European legislation protecting the privacy of individual users. This is how they will overcome e.g. the Apple restrictions on device ID tracking.

LoRA for large scale still wins I think

Individual small numbers of items dropped into a WiFi network this seems positive. However for large scale deployments of 1000+ devices across a site the LoRA work still looks much more scalable to me.

Postal option?

I thought the biggest risk was associated with postal votes. But I cannot see anything on the release about that?

So my assumption is that this is a drive towards universal ID cards again, not securing voting.

I am a big fan of the convenience of postal voting, as I am often working away from home.

Have found it smooth with no problems

Using a traditional on site exchange server v2016. All fine. No interruption. No probs after iOS 11

Whatsapp favourite for plotting

And all the while, Whatsapp groups remain the favourite vehicle for plotting politicians to secretly discuss business in private

Encouraging efforts

I am encouraged that USA is not lost. Liking the sound of Representative Kathleen Rice (D-NY). “You were chosen by him, you work for us. I’m sure that’s what you meant,”

Bigger Problem: May's stance on encryption

The bigger cloud accompanying May's appointment (as opposed to election....) is her stance on encryption. I assume she is an intelligent person, however her past comments on encryption and her desire to see a state agency back door into private communications, point either to an ignorance of the facts or a deliberate ignoring of the implications

Interesting UK entry also

There is a in interesting UK entry this year also. Employs novel option of constantly adjusting tilt of the solar panels to keep maximum output.

see:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23810535

Squeezing the last drops

This feels like the Dinosaur incumbent squeezing the last drops out of an outdated business model. I think they need to see the writing on the wall, and accept that the current way of doing business does not have much longer to run.

The future has to be the customer paying for content to be delivered at their own convenience. The BBC iPlayer is, I think, the best current example of this. However, Netflix, Amazon and even IMDb feel like they are circling like vultures over the carcasses of the old media executives.

Perhaps when the fat cats have taken their comfortable retirement packages and retired to the coast the inevitable truth will become clear that change is not in the hands of the traditional controlling centre, but will be driven by the consumer ourselves.

JD Sports in Poor Customer Service Shock!

nuff said really

That looks just like my old MacbookG4

I have an old MacBook G4, looks stunningly similar to this machine, right down to the vents on the side.