Posts by ChrisPv

Two obvious reasons to not let Huawei into telco core networks are as follows:

- “we installed backdoors every time we were in their situation, so they will too”

- “we installed backdoors and now there will be new infrastructure we need to penetrate again?!”

Google fault

Manufacturer, once device was sold gets 0 profit from continued use. Google on the other hand profits handsomely from every one Android in operation. It is logical, that Google should pay, but they don’t care, until it will endanger their business model.

Icredible

So for paltry 1 milion per month Ruskies were able to undermine Hilary campaign with 1,2 billion?

Those people will land six figure jobs in online marketing if true.

Goobook vs Telcos

The net neutrality is and was always Goobook vs Telcos. Who will get lion share of profits? As the former is the engine of US Economy and allowing it for cultural domination in the word, I actually surprised that Telcos got this so far. For US, abolishing net neutrality would be against national interest. On the other side, in abolishing net neutrality would be typical pro- home industry protectionism, but EU Telcos are not even able to lobby effectively.

Hmm

Could someone in the know enlighten me who the biggest competitor to the M.E. Docs is and does they have any history of less than stellar business methods?

SBU

SBU is not to be trusted. It is source of as many idiotic and debunked conspiracy theories as Sputnik, except SBU ones were eaten by media wholesome.

On a serious note, is also the agency suiciding members and families of previous government. Where is outrage?

The three stages:

1) Is not true and you are conspiracy wacko

2) Everyone is doing this

3) This is old news, why should we care

Imagine articles if Russian version of the FBI would harass Microsoft or Google employees in Moscow at 2AM.

clickbaity even by theregister standards

So as the Soyuz landings go, this one was as vanilla as it gets.

I was like: What happened? Did "soft landing" mechanism failed to engage?

So comentards, not so sure now?

In last round of comments, the mind-hive certainty that Russians are culprits based on "perfect punctuation".

Sneaky bastards those Chinese speaking state sponsored Russian hackers.

I have my pitchfork, but no use for it

I have to admit, that after reading title, I dived into article fully ready to be angry. But this is no "mass-surveillance" is normal legal intercept. For details, 6500 people at the time is not much for the country of the UK size and there is some resemblance of legal process. Only the encryption bit is stupid.

Is not like the GHCQ tapping Vodafone proxy to spy on third of the Europe in the same time.

All in all, this is something to be discussed, which is surprising in these times.

RIP.

The true pioneer.

Note: Is sad that The Register perpetuates the myth of Apple and Microsoft both stealing. Apparently good story always trumph the truth, even in 80s.

Apple - Jobs specifically - got deal from Xerox to view their work and use their ideas. Xerox got pre-IPO Apple stock as compensation. Great deal for Apple, but deal nevertheless.

American English

I see "human" used here, when datasets used are in English, and if I understood correctly, American in origin.

The hypothesis that in other languages the results will be the same is tempting, but research is limited to English IMO.

How language has chnaged over time

Publish Pentagon papers - investigative journalism

Publish DNC emails - hacking the election

In simpler times

In the situation like this, when company is firing left and right, there would be words; words like strike, workers solidarity, unions, words long forgotten.

Ether of the 20/21st century physics

I always believed that dark matter is for current physics what Ether was for XIX century one. I.e way to explain observable results differing from current theory, using framework of the current theory. We need new theory, in my very very humble opinion.