Please proclaim loudly in your advertising that you will break customer's phone encryption any time the government ask. People will be glad to know that! It's a huge marketing (mis)feature!
Forcing Internet Platforms To Police Content Will Never Work
It DOES work. For certain values of 'work'. It just doesn't work in the way we would like. Think about just how it actually works and what it accomplishes. Quick automatic takedowns of anything, anywhere, anytime -- with no consequences or penalty of perjury. Even if those takedowns censor breaking news or have economic consequences. Drive by takedowns.
If Hollywood is so smart, why can't it build a single centralized website that lets any visitor fire off large scale automated DMCA takedowns to a list of sites offered as checkboxes that can be selected.
How can you even say: Forcing Internet Platforms To Police Content Will Never Work
It DOES work. For Hollywood to censor and vandalize the internet. Which is what they want.
At first, when it was made available, this PhD thesis was very difficult and slow to download. As if a black hole was trying to pull the thesis back into the server.
This space time phenomena seems to happen with other downloads that suddenly experience popular download demand.
Re: Re: Desktop "workstations" will be around for a long time
I'm not disagreeing with you, but we are both talking about the future. I expect technology to improve, even though I expect us to live in something worse than a Sci Fi dystopia.
What I was describing was "someday". In the future. Today's pocket devices were unthinkable (except as fiction) in the 1990's, even early 2000's. Why won't that also be true a decade or so in the future?
Let me give you the list of reasons why these crazy automobile thingies will NEVER replace the tried and true, beautiful horse and buggy.
Automobiles are noisy. Smelly. Difficult to start. You can even break your arm crank starting if the engine backfires while you are cranking. Automobiles are unreliable. And worst of all . . . they frighten the horses! So don't expect this Automobile thing to ever take off. It's just a fad.
The fact is, automobiles had a lot of problems. But if you were looking forward, you could expect them to get better and better.
Desktop "workstations" will be around for a long time
A setup with one or several large monitors, a comfortable keyboard and mouse will be around for a long time.
That doesn't mean it will be a PC in the classic sense.
The "PC" box may be replaced with a Docking device for a mobile phone. You can walk up to any desktop workstation and insert your device and use it. At a hotel. At the library. In your home. At your work.
The desktop workstation setup is just too useful and productive to be replaced by a tablet for some uses. Especially some work uses. Software Development for example. But other business applications as well.
Not to down play tablets and phones. I am a big believer that for many people those are all they need. Most of the time in my personal life when not at the office I only need my phone and/or a tablet. But I still have a desktop PC at home that I use sometimes.
When I need to do serious work, at home or at the office, for my employment, or my own fun projects, I use a nice dual monitor set up with a PC with 32 GB RAM, and SSD. (And yes, employer buys good equipment at work too.) Once you use it you're spoilt and won't go back. But someday the device in your pocket will have this much power.
Even if everything on your phone is fully encrypted, what does that have to do with the cellular network tracking your devices location based on the cell towers it gets near to?
Whether your device is or is not encrypted is unrelated to whether the government should be able to get your phone's location from third parties without a warrant.
Your phone can be tracked by cell towers it is in contact with. So you also need to disconnect your phone from the network. (eg, airplane mode)
If you're really paranoid, probably don't then enable WiFi while in airplane mode.
GPS is only a receiver, not a transmitter. The received GPS data tells THE PHONE where it is at. Now the phone can do anything with that information, including sending it to the cloud to obtain, for example, map information, and advertisements that Taco Bellyache is two blocks ahead. Thus the cloud now knows where your phone is. Your phone (or some app such as your mapping app) might maintain a log of where it has been.
Google is simply helping Spain protect the best interests of the Catalonian people by suppressing their right to vote, silencing the chaos of people expressing their worthless opinions, and most important of all, denying them the right to choose how and by whom they will be governed. What could go wrong? The latest polls indicate that 98% of world dictators agree.
The reason this (and the previous TD article) is happening is because we are gradually turning into a police state. We don't want that to happen. The people making it happen probably don't actually want that to happen. They are just too focused on their short term wants without considering the long term consequences as this gradually slides down the slippery slope.
We probably crossed the slippery slope a long time ago and are already in the process of sliding down right now. We will reach the bottom eventually. At some point everyone (who could change things) will wake up and flail around trying to fix it. But it may be too late. We could end up with a madman in power with no checks and balances. Or mad courts. Or mad legislature.
It's the three ring circus of government: 1. Legislative ring 2. Judicial ring 3. Executive ring
Re: Sheesh. It's not the phone, it's the "criminal activity".
I'm not worried at all that criminals might be caught.
I'm worried that innocent people will be "caught".
Given how the police have poisoned the public trust of police, this seems like a justified concern. Given how the FBI likes to entrap people into committing a crime by putting enough pressure on them until they commit the crime.
The reason the video went viral is the actual problem. The video went viral for a reason. That reason is the problem.
Ordinary interactions with the police do not lead to viral videos. When the police are fully justified in using force that does not lead to a viral video. It is misconduct that leads to viral videos. Misconduct that anyone can see for themselves.
If those silicone valley geeks can create perpetual motion machines and faster than light spacecraft, then why can't they make responsible encryption that is perfectly secure until a warrant is issued? /s
It might be best to not put something like this on your head while driving. Stick to the small screen of a cell phone. A safe following distance is calculated as two seconds plus the average time interval between when you look up from your phone to glance at the road.
On the post: BlackBerry CEO Promises To Try To Break Customers' Encryption If The US Gov't Asks Him To
Dear Blackberry
Please proclaim loudly in your advertising that you will break customer's phone encryption any time the government ask. People will be glad to know that! It's a huge marketing (mis)feature!
On the post: Back Down The Rabbit Hole About Encryption On Smartphones
What we need
If they can create perpetual motion machines and faster than light drives, this shouldn't be any more difficult of a problem to solve.
On the post: Verizon Will Graciously Now Let You Avoid Video Throttling For An Additional $10 Per Month
How soon until . . .
I can see it now.
Verizon's Internet Gold package. Only $29.95 per month extra. What do you get? The ability to connect to:
If you don't like that, then try Verizon's Internet Silver package for only $19.95 per month which enables you to access:
Otherwise, without the Silver or Gold package, you are still able to connect to any other internet sites.
On the post: Forcing Internet Platforms To Police Content Will Never Work
It DOES Work!
It DOES work. For certain values of 'work'. It just doesn't work in the way we would like. Think about just how it actually works and what it accomplishes. Quick automatic takedowns of anything, anywhere, anytime -- with no consequences or penalty of perjury. Even if those takedowns censor breaking news or have economic consequences. Drive by takedowns.
If Hollywood is so smart, why can't it build a single centralized website that lets any visitor fire off large scale automated DMCA takedowns to a list of sites offered as checkboxes that can be selected.
How can you even say: Forcing Internet Platforms To Police Content Will Never Work
It DOES work. For Hollywood to censor and vandalize the internet. Which is what they want.
On the post: The Good News: You Can Download Hawking's PhD For Free; The Bad News: It Took 50 Years To Make It Happen
Difficuclt to download
This space time phenomena seems to happen with other downloads that suddenly experience popular download demand.
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 142: Who Still Needs A Personal Computer?
Re: Re: Desktop "workstations" will be around for a long time
What I was describing was "someday". In the future. Today's pocket devices were unthinkable (except as fiction) in the 1990's, even early 2000's. Why won't that also be true a decade or so in the future?
Let me give you the list of reasons why these crazy automobile thingies will NEVER replace the tried and true, beautiful horse and buggy.
Automobiles are noisy. Smelly. Difficult to start. You can even break your arm crank starting if the engine backfires while you are cranking. Automobiles are unreliable. And worst of all . . . they frighten the horses! So don't expect this Automobile thing to ever take off. It's just a fad.
The fact is, automobiles had a lot of problems. But if you were looking forward, you could expect them to get better and better.
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 142: Who Still Needs A Personal Computer?
Desktop "workstations" will be around for a long time
That doesn't mean it will be a PC in the classic sense.
The "PC" box may be replaced with a Docking device for a mobile phone. You can walk up to any desktop workstation and insert your device and use it. At a hotel. At the library. In your home. At your work.
The desktop workstation setup is just too useful and productive to be replaced by a tablet for some uses. Especially some work uses. Software Development for example. But other business applications as well.
Not to down play tablets and phones. I am a big believer that for many people those are all they need. Most of the time in my personal life when not at the office I only need my phone and/or a tablet. But I still have a desktop PC at home that I use sometimes.
When I need to do serious work, at home or at the office, for my employment, or my own fun projects, I use a nice dual monitor set up with a PC with 32 GB RAM, and SSD. (And yes, employer buys good equipment at work too.) Once you use it you're spoilt and won't go back. But someday the device in your pocket will have this much power.
On the post: Law Prof Argues Cell Location Records Shouldn't Need Warrants Because Cell Phones Have Encryption
Re: There is no question of balance.
On the post: Law Prof Argues Cell Location Records Shouldn't Need Warrants Because Cell Phones Have Encryption
How is Encryption connected with Cell Location?
Whether your device is or is not encrypted is unrelated to whether the government should be able to get your phone's location from third parties without a warrant.
On the post: Law Prof Argues Cell Location Records Shouldn't Need Warrants Because Cell Phones Have Encryption
Re:
If you're really paranoid, probably don't then enable WiFi while in airplane mode.
GPS is only a receiver, not a transmitter. The received GPS data tells THE PHONE where it is at. Now the phone can do anything with that information, including sending it to the cloud to obtain, for example, map information, and advertisements that Taco Bellyache is two blocks ahead. Thus the cloud now knows where your phone is. Your phone (or some app such as your mapping app) might maintain a log of where it has been.
On the post: Google Removed Catalonian Referendum App Following Spanish Court Order
Google helping to maintain law and order
On the post: Judge Bars News Station From Showing Pictures In News Story, Admits It's Prior Restraint, Shrugs
Re: Constitution, Constismooshion... Who cares...
We probably crossed the slippery slope a long time ago and are already in the process of sliding down right now. We will reach the bottom eventually. At some point everyone (who could change things) will wake up and flail around trying to fix it. But it may be too late. We could end up with a madman in power with no checks and balances. Or mad courts. Or mad legislature.
It's the three ring circus of government:
1. Legislative ring
2. Judicial ring
3. Executive ring
On the post: Use A Landline To Talk About Criminal Activity? The Government Can Seize The House Around It
Re: Sheesh. It's not the phone, it's the "criminal activity".
I'm worried that innocent people will be "caught".
Given how the police have poisoned the public trust of police, this seems like a justified concern. Given how the FBI likes to entrap people into committing a crime by putting enough pressure on them until they commit the crime.
On the post: Fired Cop's Attorney Argues His Client Is Being Punished Unfairly Because The Public Got To See His Misconduct
Re: Re: didn't help the nurse was white
But *bad* cops may have a different statistical ratio than the aggregate.
On the post: Fired Cop's Attorney Argues His Client Is Being Punished Unfairly Because The Public Got To See His Misconduct
Re: Re: Re: those pesky laws
The problem isn't that the video went viral.
The reason the video went viral is the actual problem. The video went viral for a reason. That reason is the problem.
Ordinary interactions with the police do not lead to viral videos. When the police are fully justified in using force that does not lead to a viral video. It is misconduct that leads to viral videos. Misconduct that anyone can see for themselves.
On the post: White House Cyber Security Boss Also Wants Encryption Backdoors He Refuses To Call Backdoors
What is the problem here?
/s
On the post: Utah Senator Wants To Revive The State's 'Porn Czar' Office To Combat The Threat Of Women's Magazines
Re:
On the post: Utah Senator Wants To Revive The State's 'Porn Czar' Office To Combat The Threat Of Women's Magazines
Re: There they go again
Don't tell that to the orange twitterer.
Can't states selectively override parts of the constitution, such as the 1st amendment, that they don't like? /s
On the post: Utah Senator Wants To Revive The State's 'Porn Czar' Office To Combat The Threat Of Women's Magazines
Re: Porn czar....
They can take my pr0n when they pry it from my warm sticky fingers.
On the post: Utah Senator Wants To Revive The State's 'Porn Czar' Office To Combat The Threat Of Women's Magazines
Re: Re:
There is Google Cardboard.
It might be best to not put something like this on your head while driving. Stick to the small screen of a cell phone. A safe following distance is calculated as two seconds plus the average time interval between when you look up from your phone to glance at the road.
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