Posts by Mark 85

And the game-playing by various states continues..... I'm waiting for some country to name 5-Eye's employees and file charges. Where's the popcorn?

The guy is a cockwomble. I've had my CC used for online fraud at least twice. They didn't get that number from me or my computer. So he want's us to be responsible for any merchant's (online or not) CC system? Think all the break-ins to places like Home Depot, Target, etc. The guy is daft.

Being a member of the State Department, one would think (I would at least) that there should have been something in the way of "betraying the public trust" also, if not a charge, then from the judge at sentencing while hitting him with the maximum.

A boondoggle through and through and now ejection seats are also a problem?

What did they do, reinvent the wheel or something similar? One would think that since every fighter built since the beginning of the jet age has had one, there wouldn't be issues that make it more dangerous than not ejecting.

I think the Brits need to be pissed off also, since their shiny, new carriers will have nothing to carry for a few more years.

This thing is turning out to be a bigger mess than first imagined.

Interesting to say the least. I wonder if the phone wasn't already broken into and the lawsuit was just a smoke screen for precedent setting? Or... Or.... so many tinfoil hats needed lately.

Nothing like spilling the beans on a quiet or backroom conversation, then. I would have thought that Google would have been the ones to announce this or at the least, not seem surprised or maybe even a joint announcement. The way this was done gives it a bit of a sleazy edge to it.

I really don't believe some the stuff I'm seeing being pulled by the government lately. This is just one them.

Can it be turned off?

I'm thinking for those on the night shift. Wouldn't want them getting all mellowed out and groggy because of their phone now would we?

I'm having a hard time with this.... a former Telco Lobbyist, and logically if we follow what goes on after their time in government, he'd be at another one with a larger salary. And here he is slapping down his old bosses and gloating about it. I guess stranger things have happened but I'm not sure what those would be.

Google API's eh...

And when Google gets bored and kills many of them off.. MS/Edge will be where?

Funny for now...

But what's the purpose once it's fully developed? I can see a lot of uses for taped "confessions" and political smear campaigns. Maybe Max Headroom or Big Brother will be unleashed once they can figure out voices.

They're just not lobbyists anymore, are they? That bit about tool almost smells like Google is a secret contractor or the trading of favors. The question would be: "for whom are they a contractor or doing favors for? State Department? CIA? NSA, other governments?"

If they can track defectors, who else can and are they tracking?

Headed to Spotify? Why?

They've hired a new shark... Why would be the question since all they seem to have lately is royalty payment issues.. like not paying them.

It's been a long time since I've watched a live launch due to work and other obligations. It's still a thrill to watch it leave the pad and all the inside shots were great.

They looked relaxed during this launch. One reading a somethingPad, the second following what looked like a checklist, and the third one just looking like he's on the morning commute.

I guess some employees have looked in a mirror...

They can still look at themselves and know they're trying to do the right thing. This is one of the those battles that will keep raging and when the government wins, everyone loses.

I'm more worried about miscreants than what the government might find on my equipment, but if they get the backdoor (and we know they will), then any non-encrypted product is doomed and the company that made it will go with it.

I do believe that many/most of these employees understand and support the Constitution and trying, in their own way, to defend it.

And to those who would argue that the employees should go along with this.... would you? Would you do this knowing the implications in the long term? I wouldn't.

Rogue Corporate or Tip of the Iceberg?

I have to wonder with all these security firms claiming they've spotted other corporate's info on the web along with some of the malware that show up. One would think that the market driven by miscreants themselves would be large enough without the FUD being added to it by some companies who have the "only" solution for a given bit of malware.