I was, and always am, instantly suspicious of the use of the word "hero(es)". So it was off to a bad start for me right there.
As for moderation... maybe they are playing fast and loose conceptually with anything you can file under reporting, since they are probably trying to appease the gatekeeping crowd with the video reporting aspects, and felt like fleshing out the whole program with these other "activities".
It does seem rather thin and suspicious. It's a good point, and another person was also wise enough to mention it earlier as well. However, it is a perfectly good concept to discuss whether or not the story is real, particularly since the comments mostly address the abstracts of it.
And some people who aren't children don't like having their pictures taken, let alone posted. It doesn't have to be anything embarrassing at all.
I'm not thinking legalities here, but it would be nice if we could balance things like privacy and free speech by people following the strange concept of "Don't be a dick."
They also make "news" by picking some idiotic thing and pretending that there are two valid sides to it and gather opinions. That's when they play the hands-off approach and won't bother mentioning any facts involved.
Newspapers were a news source that people were just waiting to jump off of long before the internet, never mind any of these more recent houses of newspaper-killing evil.
The thing about this is... if one wanted and remotely needed to hack at IMSI catchers, they would make exploits and tools for all of them. Then they could go warstrolling to their little supercriminal terrorist hearts' content.
Next up: Gov demands nerding harder from vendors so phones respond to an "IMSI bit" when in airplane mode, off, and the battery out. Sort of a super-RFID.
This makes no sense considering the technology used is decades old and the methodology has been common knowledge for nearly the same length of time.
What they don't want exposed is that whole alarming frequency thing, along with the alarmingly flimsy orders.
But this only seems to pertain to cases involving such orders in the first place, which hardly seems to cover uses exposed after the fact, or unexposed uses, uses of things they claim they need no paper for, and anything not falling under one of those types of orders.
Oh yay, the call of the FUD. Except innovating stupid isn't innovation. When some researchers who just happen to have an interest and funding, doing the vendor a favor, and the vendor actually responds with a fix, it's mostly cool. But the real patch is: Don't make critical systems with such a wide attack surface in the first place. It's stupid and unnecessary. It is merely trendy. The sad thing is, if IoT morons would simply make things functional without being sloppy and adding their thousands of holes so they can harvest data off you, a lot of this wouldn't happen, but most "innovations" are not really useful in the first place. The really sad this is, people doing things like auto manufacturers have a huge pool of people and information to draw on who have already successfully executed things like, oh, fly by wire and other critical systems for 20-30 years, depending on what you consider relatable to contemporary automobiles.
i suppose in an environment when some vendors offer compensation for good reviews, bringing suit (or threatening such) over bad reviews or negative commentary is simply par for the course.
I have the exact opposite experience with a Pixma. And when it is claiming the cartridges are empty, the scanner won't even work. And the ink is outrageous. Unfortunately it also has color, which it demands or complains about. And it prints like crap with brand new OEM cartridges that no amount of alignment and tweaking will fix. Also unfortunately, you just can't keep a full color cartridge in it to keep it happy because they dry out rather rapidly...
Never mind the DRM, all the insanely numerous megabytes of "drivers" are pretty bad to begin with. You can install brand new OEM cartridges and the damn things will still claim they are empty. You can even go through the various hidden steps for correcting this which an archaeologist might find on a vendor site if lucky, and try them 10 times to no effect.
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As for moderation... maybe they are playing fast and loose conceptually with anything you can file under reporting, since they are probably trying to appease the gatekeeping crowd with the video reporting aspects, and felt like fleshing out the whole program with these other "activities".
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I'm not thinking legalities here, but it would be nice if we could balance things like privacy and free speech by people following the strange concept of "Don't be a dick."
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However, i've seen plenty of bitching about it, even here, at least relatively, given that this isn't happening in the US.
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Next up: Gov demands nerding harder from vendors so phones respond to an "IMSI bit" when in airplane mode, off, and the battery out. Sort of a super-RFID.
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What they don't want exposed is that whole alarming frequency thing, along with the alarmingly flimsy orders.
But this only seems to pertain to cases involving such orders in the first place, which hardly seems to cover uses exposed after the fact, or unexposed uses, uses of things they claim they need no paper for, and anything not falling under one of those types of orders.
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