I'm surprised at Amazon. Are they pushing to have the antitrust laws repealed?
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Hey, big vendor: Oracle, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook blow even more cash on lobbying
AMD sales soar, actually makes a profit, beats expectations, share price... decimated
There's a battle on over two US spying laws: One allows snooping on citizens – one bans it
Re: A difficult question
Since this isn't (or appear to be) and either/or situation... pass both of them. The advantages are: It will give the TLA's a choice. It'll tie the courts up for years while allowing the TLA's to run amok. And lastly, every CongressCritter can proclaim at election time that they were for security because "terrorists".
Coinhive hacked via old password to move manic miners' Monero into miscreants' pockets
UK financial regulator confirms it is probing Equifax mega-breach
Re: They're smoldering, heres hoping the FCA adds some petrol...
Indeed, any company can pay the fee and get a list of people who meet the criteria the buyer wants. Sometimes is deep criteria (age, sex, income, household location, age of car, etc.) other times it's just maybe location of your home.
@Commswonk -- Re: What Exactly Was The Breach ???
It's almost guaranteed that they have a file on you. Credit card, bank account number or at least verification of an account, insurance (car and home), any utilities, employment (and places you applied for employment) and the list goes on and on. Last time I checked the Big 3 here in the States, I was surprised at what they had. They knew more about me than I knew about me.
As the article states, just about every company share info back with them.
Hackers nip into celeb plastic surgery clinic, tuck away 'terabytes'
Legacy kit, no antivirus, weak crypto. Yep. They're talking critical industrial networks
Re: Endemic to the sector
Often they have relatively unprotected remote access too including via say mobile phone. What's the worst someone could do though? Turn off your aircon and fry your IT kit?
Think deeper. Industrial controls.. like blast furnaces, assembly line automation, chemical processes, etc. All are disaster waiting to happen if the wrong people get access. Look at the damage the US did to the NORKS nuke program... or tried to anyway.
Feel the pension pot burn, Canadian DXCers
I feel for those employees. Same crap goes on here in the States... retirement plan is suddenly a 401K (contributed to by employees and employer). Then magically, the employer starts cutting the contribution (and/or looting the pension funds). Pretty soon... pension? You're on your own until we lay you off. But it's justified by "returning shareholder value". Damn I hate that justification of everything.
It's time to rebuild the world for robots
Uber's revolting sexism, the movie
What's HPE Next? Now it's unemployment for 'thousands' of staff
So.. they slash expenses, get rid of all the people who know stuff and how to, and offshore/outsource even more. The stock price will jump up this quarter and maybe next couple and the shareholders will be happy for the "returned value".... Then what? At the end of the 3 years, HP will be a shell of it's former self and struggling again, if not before. Those who live by the quarterly statements, die by them.
Once more, with feeling: Dawn to take a closer look at Ceres
Re: Hundreds of millions of km away
I.e. somehow impose the scientific principle that if the political theory and the real-world facts are in conflict then it is the political theory that is wrong.
But that's why it's called politics. Science won't get you elected or more importantly, re-elected. Politics is the "win" for elections.
Boffins trapped antiprotons for days, still can't say why they survived the Big Bang
New phishing campaign uses 30-year-old Microsoft mess as bait
US energy, nuke and aviation sectors under sustained attack
Boss visited the night shift and found a car in the data centre
MH 370 search to resume as Malaysia makes deal with US oceanographic company
Hate to break it to you, but billions of people can see Uranus tonight
Didn't install a safety-critical driverless car patch? Bye, insurance!
Survey: Tech workers are terrified they will be sacked for being too old
Re: "experience and wisdom to share"
The closest I've seen to "young buck" optimization was a lad who didn't put any white space, line numbers, comments, etc. into his code as they slowed things down. I was just one long line... maybe 4 to 10 printed pages worth. Took about 3 days to prove to him that he was wrong and then another 6 months on how to optimize his code. <sigh> I don't miss coding these days except for personal use.
Facebook, Google and pals may be hit with TV political ads rules
"Honest ads..." Sounds like an oxymoron to me. But reading what they want to legislate may not be a bad idea since it's already applied to other forms of communication.
I would expect then that if this passes, the "ads" on social media will need to be labeled much like they are on TV, radio, and in the press/magazines, etc.
Lucky Canada. Google chooses Toronto as site of posthuman urban lab
Sounds like the perfect city for Google... they will know everything and sell what they know. The sheeple who live there will just mosey about and consume what Google tells them too. No thought required on the citizens part and Google makes profit! I'd suggest that this idea get burned with fire and quickly.
Google faces $10k-a-day fines if it defies court order to hand over folks' private overseas email
Tezos crypto and $232m initial coin offering risks implosion – reports
Variant on a theme....
I get the feeling that these types of "investments" and "startups" have been seen before. The Internet is littered with the bodies (metaphorically speaking) of those who had no clue. In the early days it was get some investors, start a website and sit back to wait for the pile of money to come it. No clue on having "membership fees" for some sites like certain photo sharing ones (long gone many of them), chat sites, etc. But somehow the money was supposed to magically appear. Some companies changed their business model and succeeded, most died off.
And now the apple in everyone's eye is blockchain and cryptocurrency.... there's another bubble out there waiting to burst. I do wonder what's next as maybe get in early, make my fortune and head to some quiet island....
Like Uber, for socialism: Chinese leader calls for more use of AI, big data and sharing economy
Somewhere the ghost of Mao is laughing and Deng Xiao Ping is spinning in his grave.
I doubt that. Read what he said and realize that these were their goals... Control first and foremost to eliminate "erroneous viewpoints". Couple that with big data and Big Brother is approaching adulthood. Add in “develop China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful.” and you have the goals from day one but are more economic oriented in their control than physical border expansion. Big data will here again be used to their advantage.
As for the "socialist" part...like most countries that call themselves "socialist", I'm not sure that we in the West truly understand the meaning and implications as they don't use evil "communist" word. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism.
Microsoft Azure ████ secret ██ █████ ██ US govt's ███ ███ centers
NYC cops say they can't reveal figures on cash seized from people – the database is too shoddy
In 2014, police across the US seized $4.5bn under civil asset forfeiture rules... By contrast, in that same year, the FBI reported that burglars stole $3.9bn from American citizens.
It would appear that the average US citizen would be better off dealing with a burglar than a cop. Shooting a cop is bad but shooting a burglar is ok in most places.
Icon ---> because this is legal piracy.
Please replace the sword, says owner of now-hollow stone
Europol cops lean on phone networks, ISPs to dump CGNAT walls that 'hide' cyber-crooks
Re: Fishing
While I agree with you, I would hope that you (or I) never get drug into a police investigation because they can't follow the true path and end up going after someone innocent which is bound to happen. Yeah, it's a real mess with the cops and TLA's wanting everything (including backdoors for encryption and they can't get it. I just hope innocent bystanders (or users in this case) don't start getting rounded up and put in situations they were involved in.
Linux kernel community tries to castrate GPL copyright troll
Re: I'm confused
I'm glad you asked this because it's not something I'm wrapping my brain around. Outside of the old Shareware thing early on, every company, every project, I've been associated with asked for "first look" to see if they wanted it. So if I wrote some code on my own time, I had to give them first look. IF they wanted it, they paid for it.. licensed, or out right purchase. If not, I could do what I want. I would have assumed that those writing code for Linux would have had some similar agreement but maybe not.
Argh, my loafer just fell down the rope ladder! Yes, I'm in the Microsoft treehouse
Crypto-coin miners caught toiling away in hacked cloud boxes
Google adds planets and moons to Maps, but puts bits in the wrong places
Russia tweaks Telegram with tiny fine for decryption denial
There's a large rabbit hole out there that governments are finally leaping into. They all seem to want a backdoor to encryption except for their own (the government's) equipment. Without a concerted effort (and a united one by ALL countries) to shut down the criminals who would attack and grab data, it won't work. As yet, many governments haven't put in the effort to crack down and punish the hackers.
I won't even go there as far as country to country hacking (say Russian to US) as that's even a bigger mess since much is government sponsored. Same for such things as NSA wanting a backdoor here in the States.
Apple slapped hard with $440m patent bill in VirnetX FaceTime spat
Twitter to be 'aggressive' enforcer of new, stronger rules
Re: The political choice you make by not making a political choice
Reading other news sources indicates that Twitter may be self-destructing. Low income while bleeding cash, falling membership, etc. It would appear just to be a matter of time. If it fails during the next say, 4 years, Trump (and others) will have to find a new outlet for their bleatings*.
*reference dictionary.com for appropriateness.
'Cyber kangaroo' ratings for IoT security? Jump to it, says Australia's cyber security minister
Self reporting?
That'll work because suddenly every bit of tat will have 5 Kangaroos... even stuff 10 years old. MS.. well we know how they will react. As for rest...meh.
Yes, they'll all think it's a great idea but don't expect any company to mark it's products the less than 5 stars.
Perhaps, some along the lines of "Consumer Reports" with in depth testing? But the big question is keeping the testing independent of who gives them the funding.
Remember how you said it was cool if your mobe network sold your name, number and location?
Re: Now Americans can see
Of course they can see. They just choose to ignore because - hey look, shiny !
Actually I doubt they even look much less see. Except for us IT types, most users haven't a clue what's going on or are even aware that their data is being slurped. Mainstream news isn't going to report because advertisers might just pull out. But then again, I doubt most users don't visit mainstream as much s getting their news filtered by FB.
Huge power imbalance between firms and users whose info they grab
Re: Simple solution
Make it a criminal offence to pass on, sell, or even buy and store indirect personal information. With criminal liability falling on the persons involved, certainly the executives. And pass the legislation quickly.
Unless the board or execs are bleeding off money to personal accounts, I can't recall any prosecution of a board or exec. The companies own the legislatures so fat chance of this ever passing.
Supreme Court to rule on whether US has right to data stored overseas
So, if the DoJ wins, than corporations like MS will probably lose customers in Europe and elsewhere ? If MS wins, then they don't lose customers but also don't dare ever to move any data to the US.
Whatever happened to law enforcement following law. treaty agreements, and practice to get evidence from another country?
Brit intel fingers Iran for brute-force attacks on UK.gov email accounts
BOFH: Oh dear. Did someone get lost on the Audit Trail?
Re: "Yes. I'm the decoy," I say, as the sound of a heavily loaded shredder...
That's a good one. I'm reminded of the old story about LBJ and his first election. While the cops were breaking down the door to the place where the votes were tallied, the ballots were being fed to the shredder. Not sure how true it was but it was in Texas....
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