Smart devices usually don't work without an internet connection and without registering on manufacturer's website. Then they will collect all your usage data.
Also this makes you dependent on the manufacturer for the rest of the life time of the device.
Talk to Apple. They have a $178 billion dollar pile of cash in the bank that is gathering dust. I think that is enough to build a whole school for every kid in Congo. And maybe get some modern mining equipment and mining engineers as well.
In a healthy democracy there shouldn't be such a thing as "secret rules".
Now that USA has disqualified itself as the world's custodian of democracy and freedom, is there any other country that wants to volunteer for this job?
And what do these 5500 millionaires actually *do* there exactly? Isn't iTunes like a webshop of digital products?
It doesn't have to be centralized. Hierarchical, yes, centralized no. Putting all your eggs in one basket (Dyn) is just not a good idea. People outsource stuff and then stop thinking. People assume that if they outsource to a company, nothing can go wrong. But big companies are bigger targets and when they fall over, the mess is much bigger. So yes, decentralize.
Proportional response for Russia / number of emails stolen by Russia * number of email scoped up by NSA = proportional response for USA
Wouldn't most if not all DDoS attacks be much harder if ISPs implemented BCP38? Of course IoT devices should be secure, but this is a dream as software will always contain bugs. The number of ISPs is much smaller than the number of devices connected to the internet, so blocking spoofed IP traffic is much cheaper solution.
Just stating the obvious, but having control of the DNS servers is really helpful for surveillance.
DNSSEC is very helpful to combat this.
The Internet of Things was my dreams ever since I got on the internet in the late 90s. I dreamed of the possibility to connect everything with open protocols and giving users amazing options to control their electronic gear.
Finally, the Internet of Things came and it's a mess of proprietary protocols where all devices are not connected with each other, but with centralized databases of the manufacturers. Fail!
Reasons for this failure:
- IPv4 address shortage and NAT (intermediate server needed)
- Silicon Valley greed (big data=big $$$ and everyone trying to get monopoly on their proprietary shit)
- user ignorance (would not buy if knowing how it works)
We, consumers, have to demand products that puts the user in control, not the company you bought it from.
Maybe they should also turn on DNSSEC for verisign.com, since they are crucial and into security and all.
Not so many vulnerabilities in pencils and paper.
First, Tor would be knowingly aiding and abetting in the distribution and consumption of child pornography.
Other things that aid or abet child pornography:
Let's just focus our attention to that last one.
It's British humour (that's British English for humor). I love it. And it's much better website than all other copy-paste tech news sites with 50 ads and 200 trackers.
In the Netherlands, 99% of the people have a fixed IPv4 address. For anonymity it doesn't really matter if your IPv4 address is fixed or your IPv6 address is fixed. And in both cases your ISP can both you IP address to a name/address. In any case, IP address != person.
In fact this was network specifically designed for facilitating this that are illegal for good reasons.
Oh really? Says who?
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