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Comment: Re: Not-so-accurate source (Score 1) 487

by stiggle (#43926059) Attached to: BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix?

Per household consisting of members of the same family.
So a shared student house (where each student has a separate tenancy agreement) with a TV in each room is supposed to have one per student. If they have a joint tenancy then its a single license as they're classed as a single household.

Portable devices are covered under the household license, unless they are then connected to fixed cabling. So a battery powered portable TV in a holiday home is OK as long as its not plugged into anything. As soon as you do that then its no longer a portable device and requires a license at that address.

Comment: Re:Tip of the iceberg (Score 1) 609

by stiggle (#43923789) Attached to: Verizon Ordered To Provide All Customer Data To NSA

Location information is embedded in the cellphone transmissions - even if its just as basic as approximate direction and distance from the transmitter without GPS.
So , they'll know that a particular handset frequents 2 locations - so that will likely be home and work.
Check the location addresses against tax returns, property records, etc. and thats your name and your employers name.

Think using a burn phone is safe and you turn it on & off at a location which isn't linked to you? eg. walking to the subway station, switch on outside #3387; walking back from the subway, switch it off outside #3387 - so they potentially link that cellphone with #3387
Where was it bought, credit added to it, etc. Those locations will have CCTV.
Do you have another cellular device on you at the same time as the burn phone? Those are now linked.
Ever posted a pic from your cellphone of your cat? Did you disable GPS tagging?

You're already leaking data all over the net, whats a few lines to join up the dots to make the picture :-)

Comment: Re: Not-so-accurate source (Score 4, Informative) 487

by stiggle (#43923549) Attached to: BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix?

No you don't. You only need a license to watch or record broadcast TV live (or near live - a few seconds diff)
So:
live retransmitter sites - license required.
on-demand sites - NO license required.
iPlayer to watch something live - license required.
iPlayer to watch something broadcast yesterday - NO license required.

http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_tv_progs/tvlicence

Comment: Re: I can't wait to see this battle (Score 5, Insightful) 716

by stiggle (#43739861) Attached to: Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8

Their customers can use the YouTube website - same as everyone else who doesn't have a pre-built app installed or for their platform. Just because you can hack YouTube's website and write a wrapper around your hacks to provide the content doesn't mean its legit.

Isn't accessing web content through means other than the published API or intended URL a hacking offense with prison time after conviction?

Comment: Re: Why not? (Score 1) 55

While the data has been anonymised, studies have shown that identifying information can be obtained from it.
eg. If you know where I live and where I work - then you can search the data for those locations, you've got a pretty good chance of getting my phone from the dataset. Then with that, you can now see where else I've been with my phone switched on. If there are some suspicious locations then you pull up the phones that were also in that location, search for their 'common sites' and you have their home, work, bar locations.

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