Posts by billse10 386 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2010
" isn't it just as much of a potential offence when a villain collects personal details by subterfuge or misappropriation as when they do this by de-anonymisation"
My view, fwiw, is that you should replace the word villain with the phrase "anyone, especially in any part of government" and add "or scope creep" after misappropriation. ........
a less important, but interesting extension - what if the company interferes with an overseas entity (indlvidual, or company, government etc), breaking that jurisdiction's law and then staff end up facing extradition? Who is extradited - the responsible manager? business owner? (even if they hate this idea and only doing bare minimum required by the law)
Or will it be the civil servants who draft it, the Home Sec who introduces the law, the MPs who pass it (if they do) ? Ha. Ha. Ha.
thank you for a more polite response than mine, which would have been just "No * Sherlock."
The article did, however, raise a question or thought: if, rather than a data warehouse, 'we' move things like invoices, copies of correspondence etc, into something like Amazon Glacier, where there is a monthly storage charge plus a retrieval charge that we incur if the compliance people come calling a couple of years later, who pays that charge? Is it just a cost of business, along with the storage itself - a cost that can be charged for "compliance record keeping" or similar?
that rang a bell too - found it right here:
"Deeply puzzling, though, was the reading on the multimeter connected in series with the power supply. The needle was at zero: the processor seemed to be consuming no power whatsoever.
As Wilson tells it: “The development board plugged the chip into had a fault: there was no current being sent down the power supply lines at all. The processor was actually running on leakage from the logic circuits. "
Naselus - I'm sure you are right, and if she was interested in telling people what happened, what to do about it, and providing accurate information she could have said that.
(There is the important caveat on that £50 limit, of course - it applies once you have told your bank that you believe your information compromised.)
bbc this morning featured the CEO and a customer who says he's had £10k lifted from bank account courtesy of leak. CEO's response? "talk to bank". Customer? "Bank said TalkTalk have responsibility if they made details available" (paraphrasing, it was several hours ago). CEO response? Nothing. Just mumbled platitudes.
"Now in addition to searching your computer to see what other petty crime you might have committed when you are arrested for stealing a bottle of water, they will be able to search your complete communications history to see what other charges they can lay at you feet."
there was a story yesterday about a guy stopped for an unrelated motoring offence who was done for driving at 180mph plus, after the police found his own videos of that on his phone ...... two offences for the price of one?
are we talking about data transferred to Talk Talk? :)
(Yet to hear anything meaningful from the ICO about whether T/T took "appropriate" measures to protect customer data - my instinctive view is that there is a vague possibility that they could perhaps, maybe, have done a little more?)
good to know Bobby Tables is alive and well .......
(possibly my favourite xkcd, although that's a tough call)
"Companies are not required to publicly admit to data breaches under the UK's Data Protection Act, "
They should be required to admit it to the data subjects ....
They should also be required to show they acted within the terms of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 82 S13 (" there is an implied term that the supplier will carry out the service with reasonable care and skill"), and if requested by a customer following a breach to provide evidence that they were using reasonable care and skill at the time ...
"In fact, a new study just published says that there are no fewer than three trillion huggable woody trunks alive on the planet today"
have they all got email addresses? Or is that still just Melbourne?
working on a project where we've discussed doing exactly that, but the customer (who, after all, pays the bills) won't even discuss supporting anything that is not available from at least two commercial sources. Weirdly - annoyingly - Microsoft is an exception to that as "everyone uses it"; any ARM-based Linux variant that we do has to be a derivative and able to inherit security patches from a distro that PHBs have heard at a conference.
Squashing Linux to resemble the stuff Mr. 126 mentions is, as he says, probably a waste of time, just like trying to bughunt every last one out of existence: trying to do both at once will probably result in despair.
"As I see it in this case, the face that a phone had been on sale before the suit was filed is a real 'Doh' moment. If it was that critical then Samsung should have given it to Apple during Discovery."
As I see it in general, things that are generally available public information - if something is available for the public to buy, that's got to count a public information - should not need to be brought to the attention of the court. Unless the legal system in question also says that during the discovery phase at least one party has to remind everyone to breathe, as if it's not included it is not relevant during the hearings?
"as soon as you need to interact with the Pi’s GPIO (general purpose input/output pins) or other Pi-specific hardware, this will not work."
"A built-in web application on the Pi lets you monitor and manage the device."
So if i want to monitor the Pi's GPIO it does not work, but if I want to monitor the Pi device, it does? Err ...
Thanks for that - was thinking about trying one based on review until saw your comment.
As far as "t's in Roku's and the companies' best interests and maybe some consumers like it, too – a quick button to a particular outlet. But for us, the fewer buttons the better. It's a commercial compromise we wish didn't exist." goes - i'd say fair enough, but would rather have four programmable buttons that default to those providers, rather than fixed. Better still if they were e-paper, defaulting but also open to change ... then again, what would that put on cost, i guess ....
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