Posts by choleric

Re: Hours of recursive fun to be had from ...

An activity henceforth to be known as Schwindtling.

Completely agree.

And not just the routers but the user devices too. Most internet enabled TVs (Linux), most phones (AOSP, clue is in the name), embedded systems.

Yes there's a discussion to be had regarding an improved approach to security from OEMs and end users alike, but this policy suggestion from the FCC is not answer. It would put the brakes on the whole process of innovation and stifle the future of the tech sector.

I have resolved my own phone's exposure to unintended use of radio frequencies (thanks to recently disclosed bugs in Android) by flashing a community ROM. The OEM still hasn't moved to patch the flaws, but I'm covered now thanks to the open source movement.

Re: Shades of the mid-90's

> Would that make nVidia Transmeta? Oddly obscure despite perhaps being the most interesting and compelling?

I bet you won't see Linus Torvalds signing up to work for nVidia though.

I wandered lonely as a Dropbox cloud.

Dropbox is currently pushing up daffodils.

Re: Labelling

Soon there could be a sueball flying towards any manufacturers hubristic enough to make such a claim!

Re: REM had the answer in 1992?

No no no no no! It's the end of the world as we know it (and I'll flash mine).

Re: "in the world of heavily marketed, mediocre pop acts"

They can't do that because it's a streaming pile of audio-repugnant filth.

Re: Workarounds

Alternatively removing all MMS infrastructure from networks globally and running a steamroller over the lot of it would improve security vastly. Who intentionally sends MMS messages these days?

Re: Lettuce?...could do much better

I would love to see what shapes are produced when sugar cane is grown in zero gravity conditions. There must be a website devoted to speculation on the matter, excuse me for a minute ...

Re: Balanced article

@Roger Gann

That's torn it. Man the pumps!

Re: Meh

@Cal

Not sure from what you said if it was my attitude you thought was stinking, but if it was I'm not sure you really engaged with my point. I acknowledged Google's technical prowess and ease of use. It is astonishing, still. But the thing is that's not the full story is it? They are also astonishingly good at other things with Gmail etc. Just look at their quarterly results.

"many casual users don't really care about online personal privacy because it ultimately means so little to them."

That's not the same as saying that if they properly understood the way their privacy was being invaded that they wouldn't mind. And the fact that the subjects are blissfully ignorant of abuse and manipulation does excuse it.

"Certainly, £420 is far too much for most people for something already offered for free in terms of financial outlay."

The £420 is not for the email system, it is what the broadband package costs. A Gmail user would be paying the same amount. Camilla's extra cost is the Raspi and the extra electricity to run it. The Gmail user's extra cost is the loss of privacy and the manipulation of their choices through carefully tailored adverts as they spend their money.

Re: Well...

Nobody thinks the NSA aren't good at what they do. It's just they don't think that what they do is all good.

Re: "but it's ethically wrong to do this from an evolutionary perspective"

@Arnaut the less

I appreciate your point about evolution having no ethics. It's intriguing though to think that if evolution is what got us here then presumably that's something we think is positive. So why would we bring back something like the wooly mammoth? Or is that the evolutionary dead end of analytical thought?

Your point comparing the roles of tobacco, humans and wooly mammoths was good too. I think though that the tobacco and the wooly mammoths are equivalent. The wooly mammoths don't have nicotine, but they look impressive/cute so maybe that's their evolutionary advantage. Looks like they had a good cryogenic strategy before we ever did.

Re: @choleric - If this your idea

@ac said: "why not run IPv4 inside and IPv6 outside on the internet concentrating your efforts on dual stacking or translating between the two at the border ? By doing this you could avoid impacting your mission critical systems."

It's an idea that's been had before. The devil is in the details. A bit of Googling on the topic will give you an idea of what's possible and the work that people have done to make it happen.

Re: who wouldn't like to see the footage of that

The first comment was more in keeping with the tone of the original version of this article. Although it was offensive even then.

@El Reg sub eds: perhaps an acknowledgement on the article page to say that the original article was strongly edited to produce this current version might be helpful for people reading it for the first time?

Which are essential for chips, which are essential for any high functioning lifeform. So the point stands.

Re: No need

What Trevor said. I should have been clearer that I meant the lack of encryption on the SMTP connection from Amazon's outgoing email server to your email server. I'm not expecting Amazon to pull a Facebook and go all PGP on us. However, I would like them to take some basic steps towards preserving a customer's privacy.

@LukeLikely I like your point about all the "privacy" policies from major and medium players being largely equivalent.

FWIW I use a private mail server and am careful about what apps I install and what services are enabled on my phone OS. I am happy at the moment with the compromise. But I object to these large companies taking advantage of the vast numbers of people who have no clue by supplying them tech which they divulge their most intimate secrets to, and then abusing that trust and monetising it.

Re: Bring up DANE

I hear you. I can't see DANE taking over the world in its current form, but something needs to oust the ridiculous CA model. And you're spot on with the thin air thing. Have an upvote.