Re: Android
Remember the NSA has seen what your friends ^really^ say about your lamb vindaloo.
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"Throughout history, nations have used encryption to protect their secrets ..."
One of the first signs of wakefulness is the argument that 'we have done stupid sh*t that doesn't work "throughout history"' , as if that made it work better, and as if 'the bad guys' were stuck on stupid too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%27s_Maxim
Journalists too stupid to stop acting stupid ? Slow News Day El Reg ?
That's the difference between the BBC and Hollywood. The mere mention of "hefty bonus" contract details would have been worth a mini-series.
Seriously, if you want a publishing deal, go to the Tabloids, they know value when they see it.
"You're clueless aren't you. Are you American? (repeated in case it didn't sink in the first time)."
I believe the proper term is "squared" not "repeated", but then, what do I know, I'm an American.
(I do agree the comment "It's common practice with left wing outfits." went ignorant way beyond to call of duty, cluelessnesswise)
There are no data processing race conditions for ethical dilemmas.
This is the reason the Conquistadors murdered Aztecs and never brought Human Sacrifice back to Europe. And also the reason the Electronics Industry went to Asia and brought "no poaching" employment agreements and a religious hate for Unions back home.
You have to be a moral monster to race to the bottom time after time to maintain your surprise at the position of the finish line.
Instead of arguing the value of privacy or nuclear non-proliferation, simply turn the old nukes over to Larry Page and he'll sell them on E-Bay. After all, mankind has no reasonable expectation some nutter nation won't make a boo-boo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%27s_Maxim
Very nice Google, legally and technically correct.
1) Users have the right to try to be obscure, although it won't do them any good.
2) Oh yes, and Google if your tax avoiding ass gets anywhere near dry land you'll be shot as a spy. That's what happens when coded communications get decoded and read before they are delivered to the intended recipient. Shannon and Kerckhoff had that one figured out too.
AI fan bois, please, get a grip.
Now on to our exciting challenge ...
1) Apply for your prize by email, and do not be sore when you find out I'm broke. If you can pull this off, and you can't, troll the heck out of IBM's Patent Portfolio which not doubt says they already did pull this off.
2) The Challenge: Program a Roman Emperor Robot to "fiddle while Rome burns."
3) Easy huh? Um ... no. The efficiency of Nero's endearing brand of homicidal mania was limited to citizens of the Roman Empire. As much as he probably liked burning folks, his fiddle time was wait states. Perhaps he could get lucky and the rest of the humans might burn themselves into extinction, but he had no command to make that happen. A Robotic Nero is an impossibility, with or without Issac Asimov.
You Brits really need to listen more carefully to American chicks, they can be very bright:
When Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor MP famously asked Stalin "when are you going to stop murdering people?" he replied "when it is no longer necessary." Time for your piano lessons Uncle Joe.
Facebook: 'Don't worry, your posts are SECURE with us'
Sorry I must have read my request wrong, I was sure I said SECURE from you. I am almost positive that is what I wrote, and very sure that is what I proof-read (sorry, I try to code fast and break things, but I keep breaking things I ought not to break ... what? that's ok? but I thought ... no,no,no I'm not contradicting you, I'm sure you're right, but ... but no I'm doing it again. sorry, I'll stop. Thank you for your understanding. Mother doesn't 'LIKE' me anymore! Oh please, I said I was sorry, it will never happen again ...)
My reading of the Law of Parsimony is that if Apple did not take steps to prevent the possibility of 'human misery and eco-ruin' in Product Development and are not now able to point to those precautions as proof of competency then they are nothing but greedy assho... Siri, help me out here, I seem to be holding my credulity wrong.
Well, it was in place at the NSA ... nobody can get anything back out ... but you can index and sell the business intelligence which you collected for the NSA. If a buyer is in panic mode, as when consumers are disappearing, then "for the NSA" is as good as "by the NSA" as long as you have deep pockets.
In the US, information disclosed by Government is Public Domain, but information, however private, collected for the Government is your prize for being "cooperative".
D'oh, Amazon, do you honestly think anybody would run business critical processes like that ?
"... will make navigating between the two services more seamless"
Could you tell us exactly how many negative seams there are ? Or are they imaginary seams which will be imaginarily supported up through Version XP then refuse to die because customers demand them ?
Right apropos PRISM. A font will not even slow PRISM down.
We live in strange times though. Advertisers would consider an unusual font a cypher to be cracked. It draws their attention and in doing so draws other Advertisers attention, and others ... The avalanche effect violates Kerckhoff's Principle or Shannon's Maxim (whatever your preference)
"It must not be required to be secret, and it must be able to fall into the hands of the enemy without inconvenience".
If Google+ declares a font a cypher, then Facebook, Linkedin, Amazon ... wants to "crack" it as well. They line up, and the Web slows to a crawl. The unintended consequence of building a better "Art Form" is a Gallery full of Paparazzi waiting for a Celibrity to appear.
Maybe my tinfoil hat is pinching, but I'm in a bad mood over the trouble my gadgets were giving me this morning. I also think that Advertising Big Dogs, Inc. are not all that unpredictable and might turn up the slurp to the highest possible setting if privacy regulation is a possibility. They gotta try and the trouble they will all try at once.
And if that happens it will be best for everyone to know the cause as soon as possible. I have a concern for privacy and have for a long time.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-egov-ig/2013Jun/0029.html
Won't someone please think of the little green men ?
I once had an interview with multiple department heads, and my future boss asked me (his only question):
"We like to promote from within ... do you like to torture insects and small animals ?" with an assist from the sight of dropping jaws, I blundered into the right answer: I laughed my ass off. I was a good listener.
"... all I'm saying is that the ability to learn is more important than what you already know, particularly in positions where you are trying to be creative/innovative."
If you beat a puppy (even if she has a PhD) then you'll probably create a fearful dog who knows how to avoid beatings rather than a creative/innovative self-confident dog who might be hiring a great new puppy for the "family". You don't reverse that death spiral by saying "we do things differently now".
On "Meet The Press" last Sunday, the former head of both the NSA and the CIA said they would rather lose data points than screw with the Public ... but ... still do not appreciate having to pinpoint the "lines" they won't cross.
He may as well have told Google that if they want to pursue their "Permissible unless (found) Illegal, creeping up to the line" nonsense that they are headed for a very big fall.
"National Security" (fill in the Nation, I don't think it matters) often hinges on cheap, silly deceptions directed at General Officers. It helps when the Generals think they have enormous privates and not too many Privates.
This is quite different from the circumstances of Google. Their data collection efforts and financial "Security" depend on efforts directed against Private soldiers, regardless of uniform. It helps when The Google thinks it has enormous privates.
The mission is not the words or the meta data.
The NSA wants to let the Law be the line Google is creeping up on (in the words of Eric Schmidt).
It simply doesn't work for both the NSA and The Google. The Courts can not oblige both. At some point either the NSA must say what it will not do (Terrorists, we have to throw stuff out after 3 years, act accordingly) or Google will have to be told what it cannot do (Whaaaat? get your hands of my "creativity and innovation").
"OFFS, don't worry about the NSA. We dreamed up this meta data superpowers thing so rich idiots would pay us BEELIONS for crap 'advertising'. It doesn't work. We're making most of it up anyway. Stop giggling, ok ? Not that they read the Register, but some of them can read - WE THINK. Ok enough, be quiet they're milling about looking confused, no they always look that way when their money is being harvested ..."
I meta meta data; I don't (heart) control freaks and hucksters leading me around by the nose.
The biggest problem is not what the NSA knows, it is what Silicon Valley is telling them what they know without a shread of evidence their methods have validity.
Silicon Valley: For an extra penny per gigabyte we'll tell you who is wearing green socks today!!!!
NSA: Hmmmm green socks! That changes everything! Wait a minute, no it doesn't. Here's your penny.
Somebody could have made off with a treasure trove of Public Sector Information in the Public Domain. My guess is Starbucks. Maybe they detected a smoker somewhere in the various Family Trees in the Western Hemisphere several generations back and wanted to prove their machismo.
The Drupids - (Druids who run Drupal) - are right to say "Open Source, Open, O-P-E-N, Open"
"of course the joke icon should have given it away..."
Oops, we're busted. And we go out of our way to prove we are willfully illiterate idiots instrad of freetards. We have our pride, and when that fails, there is psychosis.
Apple and Tim Cook have done nothing in the last 48 hours to convince me they deserve a hearing on a solution to this problem. They are dime-a-dozen gadget hucksters. If I want a gadget, I know where they are. If I want lectures on how brilliant they are, I've got a dime.