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UK Home Sec stumbles while trying to justify blanket cyber-snooping

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Re: Who is a csp?

Cheers, Adrian Kennard has done a great job of trying to cut through the crud to get some sense out of this: though the comments there are essentially asking the same question: at what stage does it stop?

At the moment there seems to be no real answer, as a CSP seems to be defined as anyone providing internet connectivity to an end user, or at least everyone from the first layer of NAT onwards:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/13/snoopers-charter-theresa-may-cafes-wifi-network-store-customers-data

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Who is a csp?

Now it seems that internet cafes are being counted as CSP, the question really becomes where does it end? Logically by extension all BT FON routers etc would place the same liability upon households - or anyone who runs an open access point.

As someone looking to set up a business online this bill is seriously making me consider leaving the UK; it would place me at a commercial disadvantage to operating in a country without such draconian data retention policies. Without going into to much detail it could change the amount of data I need to store per client from about 300Kb to X (Quite possibly multiple GB per month): how can you develop anything resembling a credible business plan with those sorts of variables?

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Time to worry about container standard's AWOL dates?

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Re: Tough

Totally depends on how you use them - Containers are for more than just micro-services (and the like).

I'll get some flack for this from both sides I'm sure, but there is nothing wrong with running a container in the same PID and Network namespace as the host or even running systemd etc in a container. The idea that a container can only run a single process is religion, not science.

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freebsd !=linux

Never expected this from the reg: release the commentards.

lmcfy (dead?) or lxd would have been better examples for linux.

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El Reg to unleash rocket-powered spaceplane

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Autopilot

I'd have a look at DIY Drones for the basis of the autopilot. Most of the groundwork has been laid with their APM; they have good hardware and a well developed IMU. Don't think anyone has taken one that high or fast before though.. The components they use on the distributed board almost certainly wont be up to the job, but a custom pcb+bom should be quite easy - I'd be up for helping knock one up for sure.

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iPhone upgrades - a one-way control-freak street

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WTF?

Hows this news?

This has been the case as long as I've been using apple computers - at least since system 8...

Yup its rubbish as far as I'm concerned but hardly a new and subversive approach to updates - 99% of users don't care (I'm not surprised no one has mentioned that this has been Apple's approach since the 90's) the other 1% just work round it.

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