Re: Phantom Power
The original one. Everybody knows the Rolls Royce one was an unreliable disaster ;)
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"By the early part of this year it was clear to me that perhaps acquisition would be a way to accelerate."
So it was clear to you that something may potentially lead to something else.... or in other words: "it was clear to me that acquisition could also decelerate [insert whatever it is]".
Very insightful.
As to what is being accelerated... well, I'd rather not speculate.
"I called [Nokia board of directors chairman] Risto [Siilasmaa] right after the first of the year sometime in January, early February. "
The first WHAT of the year? Public beheading of underperforming VPs? Bonfire? What?
Additionally, encrypting incoming and outgoing traffic is well and good, but unencrypted data at rest/inside the cloud provider is still at risk from provider personnel and depends on regular physical/logical access security of the cloud data center anyway.
Waving "encryption" around as a magical solution is just PR.
So basically that law gives the government the right to detain whom they please - without even having to think up an excuse about the victim being a terrorist?
Great.
BTW, this part of the article:
"This is a routine hazard for people of interest to spooks or serious police investigations, and it could be seen as a little odd that Greenwald, Miranda and Poitras didn't anticipate it."
is rather nasty, isn't it? Why shouldn't you use a laptop etc if you're "a person of interest"? It's not their fault that western legal systems get corrupted by these 1984 style laws, is it?
Icon because that's the only thing that will save my blood pressure now.
I don't know how the legal system works over in the UK but the judge gave the court order, didn't he? So he should be responsible for the mess.
What he then chooses to take out on FAPL is his concern, but not something the poor (sniff) sites that have been wrongfully blocked should have to concern themselves with.
"M$ neither licensed nor asked permission before reverse engineering the private API, and subsequently threw the toys out of the pram when Google shut them down."
Wellll...
I vaguely remember IP law has provisions to allow reverse engineering these kinds of APIs for interoperability reasons. [1]
E.g. Google's copying API headers from Java was not deemed an infraction on Java IP.
Whether Google are within their rights to subsequently block anything with a Redmond whiff knocking at their API... that I can't say... and can't be bothered to try and find out...
[1] Didn't even the DMCA have some provisions for that?
The EU response will be absolutely zilcho, nothing, nada - just look at the so-called "Safe Harbor" to make is possible for EU companies to store confidential/client data in the US without falling foul of EU data regulators.
It is in effect an admission that the US (i.e. a foreign government) may unleash the Patrioat act ("the government can look at the data even without telling us") on EU data.
After this, do you really think EU government instituions will care?
I agree with your explanation about email providers not being allowed to read the contents of the email in general... but in this case, yes, Gmail has specifically mentioned they would do this (even if not in red letters) when the user signed up.
Too bad many people don't read T&Cs. That's really their problem.
However, ISPs etc suddenly doing deep packet inspection, reading email contents without it being contractually agreed with the customer, *is* a problem, yes.
Ehm yes, but I think you'd better replace:
<<next time an American politician says he wants to "reach across the aisle" or promote "bipartisan engagement" [....] to fuck you over>>
with
<<next time any politician says anything [....] to fuck you over>>
It's useless. The proposed German system would also turn over the unencrypted data to the authorities. This may mean the NSA would not snoop on you (or have to work harder at it, i.e. by asking the German government nicely), but our own "democratic" governments would still be able to do so...
I'll get my coat with the GPG man page printout now...
I'd be fine with them spending American taxpayers' money if they weren't using that money to spy on me and everybody else. Yes, including whatever cat pictures I care to send to whomever.
Of course the world isn't kept safe by massively indexing garbage. But budgets are and you never know if you find somebody with an outstanding parking ticket... or somebody Googling for pressure cookers and backpacks.
Looks likes your post boils down to "there is no absolute security", which is of course correct. However, IIRC, Silent Circle is apparently happy to provide "secure" VOIP communication while email comms are supposedly not secure enough.
I have some trouble believing e.g. PGP enabled email cannot be made as secure as PGP (or SRTP or whatever it's called) enabled VOIP.
Even if the data center in question is located in Ireland, the US PATRIOT act (or whatever silly law it was) still applies: US company Amazon (or a subsidiary) operates the data center =>US gov can inspect data at any time.
Apart from that: yes, NSA snooping seems quite likely, too.
Goodbye, client confidentiality and adherence to Dutch/EU privacy regulations.
I wonder though what DNB really said.
Mostly they're very wishy washy and love general business speak platitudes - they might have said something like "well, Big Bank, if you want to outsource stuff to Amazon, it's your problem and your responsibility to (have Amazon) comply with legal requirements. We can't really be bothered to look into what those Amazon guys are doing so we're content with just not saying no in advance and going after your sorry ass once problems have occurred... ehm of course that should be when problems have been reported on loudly in the press"
Unfortunately, as I've found out in the IT security field, seeing is often believing.
Demonstrating a dead simple attack has managers ooh-ing and aah-ing while writing up the same thing in a report gets questions like "yes, my tech guys tell me this can happen but aren't you all bullshitting?".
This is actually an issue for all crews, I'd say.
Crews routinely rely on their instruments to provide them with correct data. They tend to believe what their instruments tell them - it's human nature. Only a paranoid would go out and check if the GPS is right all the time.
Pirate icon because... well, it's obvious, really.
The insistence of some groups to redefine the word free keeps amusing me:
"not meet the FSF's criteria for software freedom.
Specifically, the Apache License does not require Google to release all of its source code"
freedom... require... yep.
Mind you, I do understand why those FSF guys make the distinction between free as in give it a way and their idealistic hippie-tinged idea of what 'free" should really mean... and it has helped keep e.g. Linux vibrantly alive but I'm not averse to some MIT or BSD licensed goodness...
Yep. The components are there: Samba 4 for Active Directory/file sharing, Sogo/OpenChange as an Exchange drop-in replacement, Apache/whatever web server etc.
There are some small business-oriented "all-in-one" distributions like SME Server (former E-Smith), ClearOS (former ClarkConnect) and Zentyal. Haven't looked at them lately - hope they incorporate AD and Exchange functionality now...
... if I had been drinking coffee:
"a series of animated tutorials to help you get a handle on the counter-intuitive interface that is GNOME 3."
ROFLMAO.
Yes, why not have some tutorials for an interface nobody understands instead of fixing the interface.
Glad to see a Reg article with an author who firmly takes a position instead of regurgitating press releases.