Posts by JaitcH 3904 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Oct 2009
Silent Circle's servers are in Canada. Only their front office is in Washington.
Zimmerman has the creds for fighting the US government, he did it for three years and won so I suspect there are more, serious, details we have not been made privvy too.
You can still use their encrypted document transmission service with a 60 Mbyte limit. This should handle most email sized transmittals.
What struck me was the generous forgiveness by both Amish victims families as well as the woman whose father was T-boned. What great examples of humanity they are.
Most of us would be looking for revenge, understandably, but these people have moved on.
I live in Second and 'Third World' countries, to adopt your classification and I guess you haven't seen too much.
Cell handsets and InterNet keep even the most basic of African villages rolling. Not only can they do business and banking over these facilities but also ascertain present day prices of commodities and minerals so they don't get ripped off by dealers.
In Laos it's how remote villages keep in touch, summons help from authorities get medical advice, taking accommodation reservations and doing other business.
In VietNam almost every teenager spends hours on-line studying languages from the BBC or general education from that equally amazing Khan Academy, even on-line university credit courses.
Gates does his thing and Google does theirs.
In making that snide comment Bill Gates, worth $61B and Richest Man in America, said more about his small mindedness, than anything.
The SecureKey (key ring dongle) is useless. It has caught fire, and is simply a security placebo. One of my techs took a long time to hack it but now the codes are on my Samsung Note behind a decent password.
I was speaking to a live technician in London, not the Mumbai sweatshop, and he inquired whether I had Rapport installed. After advising him No, he came back with the rejoinder Don't install it! Seems that Tech Support makes a lot of overtime from that little piece of junk software.
And it doesn't enhance security much, but it makes customers feel good.
I think the Europe part needs better defining.
I would rate Britain, France and Germany as unsafe domains to keep the corporate crown jewels in. Britain and Germany because they sleep with the NSA, as well as having resident spy stations, and France because it likely is into cloud penetration, too.
The high-speed fibre cables all have pinch points: Brazil, USA, UK, Singapore, with a small one in India and, equally, draconian computer access laws. The Russian block are tapped in Germany.
Perhaps the answer is to keep the servers in a country that's antagonistic to the USA and doesn't host NSA spies. Greece and Cuba sure don't like the States. Or they could beef up the cable to Greenland and on to Newfoundland thence to the north shore of Canada.
El Reg sure bounces around a lot. I've seen them hosted in the USA, Japan as well as Europe.
There must be groups of civil servants surveying daily life to see how big an a*sehole they can be each day.
Not all Google-type glasses are the same: some accept corrective lenses and with my tri-focal lens costing around USD$500 a pair I am not about to be buying two sets.
I agree that the display should not be active but corrective lens in a inactive display frame is no more unsafe than any other framed lens. All these spoil-sports need do is to add a few words to the regulation that governs cell handset use.
Guess we are lucky Centrica doesn't have the contract for writing this regulation.
Yesterday (Wednesday), in Washington, at the Senate, NSA deputy director John Inglis let out a little secret when he said: "they (NSA using telephone metadata) “try to be judicious” and that when there is a second hop or third hop, they “may only do that for a subset of numbers. ”If a “pizza deliveryman” is included in one of those hops, “you don’t go after that,” he said.
So, all terrorists, register your cell as Ali's Pizza, or something similar, and the NSA will ignore you!
THANK YOU, NSA deputy director John Inglis. Dummy.
then it follows you will treat your customers likewise.
What is to stop an dishonest employee from giving an acquaintance, visiting a store, the goods he wants taken out illegally?
Nothing. I usually decline to do business with stores like that as they usually penalise staff for loses, too.
There is a hotel in Hoi An, VietNam, that uses the same scheme, and after I and a fellow employee (we were on a hotel qualification inspection) filmed the process each day.
After a few days a manager approached me and asked what I was filming. I explained my purpose of checking hotels and that we filmed his 'security' inspections to give negative publicity to our trade clients (travel agents and tour operators) which is part of our business.
A couple of days later it had stopped and, after checking for a year, still remains a thing of the past.
Near my office there is a supermarket where, in public near the store entrance, all employees are scanned and hand searched even if they go to the toilets. And that includes the manager.
I asked him who had key access to the store and he replied five people. I asked what was to stop them returning after hours and pinching something
He replied nothing. I said it was therefore pointless searching them and they, too, stopped.
If employees want to steal product, they will, but that does NOT excuse their employer from humiliating them.
DIDN'T work for BOEING - and they have money to burn as far as safety is concerned. See: < http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-boeing-requests-worldwide-checks-of-honeywell-beacons-20130728,0,150797.story >.
Now, with Honeywell beacons catching fire (at Heathrow) Boeing is requiring all it's new designs be inspected for scorching. (717, Next-Generation 737, 747-400, 767 and 777s, etc)
Th subliminal message is FLY AIRBUS!
flame retardant furniture. Unprotected furniture may be cheaper but the cost is far less than the loss of a life,
Many older apartments in HongKong have 'gates' on the entrances and bars on the windows. These are great for keeping break and enter artists out but terrible in emergencies.
This applies to many, many countries in the Far East where builders supply a so-so quality lock for the door AND a sliding-grill / gate for added protection. These are secured with padlocks.
Better still, make sure your household furniture has fireproofing - even required by some governments out here.
And make sure barred windows have quick release devices on the inside!
the childishness in Apple's feeble attempts to frustrate people in opening their property.
No 'unique' screws here!
Nice, clean, design with no compromises like piggy-backing components. Curious why the 'circular' edge is actually a series of flats rather than a continuously rounded profile.
Hardly a valid comparison.
Apple doesn't have executives who are pot heads, or race car drivers, or wanna be politicians.
Eaton's, a family owned, Canada-wide, department store was founded by a hard working immigrant Scotsman using very tight vertical integration and then neglected by the third generation who were little better than wealthy playboys.
@AC: My bank just forced me to start using a hand held token generator to access my account
HSBC, who think they are hot sh*t when it comes to security despite their web sites being hacked, only allows a single 'SecureKey' per retail customer account although they allow commercial accounts to have two.
As I have accounts in several countries it means I have an equally impressive array of secure keys - all hanging on the wall next to my work station. Fortunately, someone cracked the secure key and now I can access my bank accounts from my Samsung Note which has a code generating program in it.
BTW, SecureKeys, and similar, have a battery mounted under the bottom L/H of the keyboard. THEY CATCH FIRE, have a picture, so be careful where you keep them.
Almost every city, and decent sized town, has severe pollution problems. And by severe includes rivers catching fire. Yet the country has an aggressive recycling industry that starts with old ladies (no pension plan in China) going house-to-house ad apartment-to-apartment buying for cash discarded cardboard, newspapers, pop bottles, plastic wrap and even foam cups and food containers. Never realised foamed food containers could be recycled.
These collectors, in turn, turn the collected items in to district recycling companies who reimburse them based upon weight.
THEN the pollution begins! Some types of plastic are heated up whilst others, such as pop bottles are washed (in a river or lake) then they are shredded and dried in the sun.
Electrical cables are particularly polluting. They set huge piles of cable on fire to burn off the insulation, then the copper is recovered.
In VietNam the government is proactive. A Taiwanese owned food additive producer was polluting a river system and the discharge pipe was discovered by amateur ecologists. The only thing that got the company's attention was when the general population refused to buy their products. Some supermarket chains also stopped selling their products.
Another anti-pollution step has been the government reducing the supply of charcoal brickettes - used by street vendors and some residential users - as the fumes from smouldering charcoal is as bad as the old night watchmen's oil barrels filled with garbage to keep warm.
Countries should be forced to dispose, or process, their own disposable products - no more ship stripping on the beaches of Asia or e-waste off Africa < http://www.greenfudge.org/2010/09/13/uk-govt-and-european-e-waste-illegally-dumped-in-africa/ >.
TaiWan has decreed all vehicles must be fitted with EFI (Electronic Fuel Injection). Since TaiWan is the base for may small-engined vehicles manufacturers, including motorcycles and scooters, the 'spill over' effect has migrated to all regional consuming countries with the result air is cleaner and fuel consumption lowered. The vehicles are also speedier!
A similar survey, based upon theft and insurance claims, also taking into account when new iThingies were released might produce some interesting figures.
There was a recent case in Ho Chi Minh City where a street thief snatched a cell handset and, whilst departing, he looked at it and noted it wasn't an Apple. He then threw it down.
After being arrested by plain clothes cops (a lot of these in tourist areas) he was asked why he threw it way and he apparently responded "I only steal Apples"!
Another reason to buy an Android.
No CCTV spokesman Charles Farrier said: "The ICO has validated our view that blanket vehicle tracking should have no place in a democratic society. The ANPR camera network amounts to an automated checkpoint system that is the stuff of totalitarianism."
What this man forgets is the mindset of the British government which also runs Tempura - the slurp everything program (except Silent Circle, PGP and infra-red links)..
Way back, in the days of pagers, you could turn them off or 'be out of range' and the calling party / boss wouldn't know. Now cell handsets can be traced and / or verified, and I don't mean by the NSA / FBI.
As a manager I prevent any company related calls being forwarded to employee cell handsets. Our company has a 'managed' telephone system whereby all our calls are routed through call management system which re-directs calls to a pre-arranged plan. Since the company actually owns our cell handsets, which are also used as internal office intercoms, this is an easy policy to implement.
Employees off-time should be sacrosanct, unless they receive remuneration for being available, and genuine freedom from employment activities benefits both the employer and employee. We didn't 24/7 communication in years past and 'pocket billiards' kept our hands busy.
IMO, suicide is neither a solution for the actor nor friends / family and is a very selfish act.
it takes two hands to use them. One hand is attached to the wrist the watch is mounted on and the other to manipulate it - whilst squinting at the text.
The distraction is perfect for would be robbers, or those idiots who stumble on to the roadway and get struck by a vehicle.
You might as well keep your money and just use your Android, or other phone, using two hands, too.
Given that the UK doesn't compensate innocent people incarcerated for years, these 'errors' won't cost much.
At one time, when I was young, parents would say if you need help - find a Plod. Scotland Yard was actually respected - now, just another bunch of bag men.
These days Plod ARE the problem - crooks in uniform.
If the system is so good, why weren't the crooked Plod caught selling information. Why? Because it was, and is, ineffective.
President Carter stands out amongst presidents as he didn't go around starting wars, he pursued a very 'quiet' US policy. Carter fought the economic woes of inflation and unemployment. By the end of his administration, he could claim an increase of almost 8,000,000 jobs and a decrease in the budget deficit, measured in percentage of the GNP.
He reformed the civil service, he expanded the national park system including 103 million acres of Alaska territory. He created the Department of Education, strengthened the pension system, and imported record numbers of women, blacks, and Hispanics into Government. He also deregulated the trucking and airline industries.
BUT he made no wars.
He has used his retirement for the betterment of others - no subsequent president can claim THAT!
And what he said about Snowden is so right.
Whenever Boeing has a setback financially, the US government always has a Pentagon contract handy.
EADS won the aerial tanker contract and then Boeing started paying the lobbyists to get the contract cancelled and re-tendered.
The Lockheed 130 aircraft does not need to get orders passed by the Pentagon, Congress passed what amounts to a permanent order for them. The Pentagon say it doesn't need any more, which is why you see so many parked at shared-purpose airports in the USA.
China makes some technically very savvy stuff, and at good prices, which US companies cannot match.
So what does CISCO and company do? Have their products made in China! GE is massive in infrastructure control systems - again, all made in China.
is OK by the legislators and the fruitcakes who belong to the NRA.
American values are so screwed up but the worst thing is they try to foist their ways to to the rest of the world.
Guess there will be a new sport. Out with clay shooting and in with drone shooting.
Unlike the West, many countries are somewhat economical in their use of circuit breakers.
Typically a house has a meter, which has a supply company breaker to protect their gear. Then there is another breaker where the power feed from the meter enters the premises.
After that there is a junction box where all the house wiring is attached to. This means be it light, power socket or water heater the SOLE protection is a breaker way, way too high in rating for individual outlets.
So when an attached appliance catches fire/shorts the 40 Amp breaker almost guarantees a dangerous situation.
have better security than the NSA.
It would be nice if a Snowden civil industry counterpart would leak lists of all those the US government had demanded information about.
It would be kind of hard to declare the companies security risks when they have the goodies.
why is the NSA reviewing it's collection and storage of data and adopting the EU plan of common carriers doing the storage?
Wonder what other Constitution breaches are under review?
Snowden deserves a Nobel award for this, at least he is more deserving than Obama.
At least China never pretended to be a virgin unlike the USA who has the affrontery to lecture everyone of Human Rights, Democracy and Freedom.
Kind of rich when you consider they abbrogated the Geneva Convention; operated Abu Ghraib Prison and tortured prisoners; made Guantanamo a no mans land jail; waterboarded inmates; murdered innocents, including two Reuters employees along with a sound track that sounded like a moose hunt; abused Bradley Manning by denying him clothing; lieing to everyone from politicians and citizens and even spying on their own people. The list is endless.
If you call the Chinese 'scum', what is your descriptor for the USA?
Singapore in just a small version of China, with a guy well past his Best Before date telling the government how to run things. The big difference is Singapore has a good PR department but otherwise it is just as crooked as most any other country.
Little wonder Singaporeans are emigrating by the thousands - all air, except China's, smells fresher.
The old bond / deposit trick is a favourite with the Singy government. Singapore is the new 'dirty money' capital of the world that Switzerland used to be.
All domestic interNet connections are monitored and many web sites cannot be accessed.
Singapore is good, only, for making money. The Vietnamese owner of the office building in Ho Chi Minh City, who has a work permit for Singapore, where my company rents some space, always seems to be in back home.
When I asked him why he spent so much time here when he lives in Singapore, he replied: "I come back to VietNam to enjoy the freedom!"
as anyone who has ever tried making landline calls in India will attest to.
I worked in India for around seven months, installing data communication systems, and we eventually ended up using unlicenced Single Sideband HF eequipment operating in their military bands. These were far more reliable than telephones.
They never did catch on!
It is reasonable to assume that most computer owners have InterNet and therefore the connections are a reasonable indicator of computer numbers.
The problem is FAST/whomever (often an MS employee) claims there are more pirates than there are computers.
The question is: How are these non-computer owners using the allegedly hot software?
More mystery numbers.
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