hm free long distance phone calls.. blue box @wendell?
the UK stuff. It seems like the encryption talk was a ruse knowing it would never pass in order to push through the rest of the bill.
Not only are they wanting comms providers to store data, compel them to decrypt traffic, but theres some power in there to compel UK companies to circumvent there own products to allow backdoors into them. Some of these require warrants, but even the requirement for a legal warrant is wide. Basically, dont trust your ISPs hardware.
Its completely the wrong way to do things.
edit: what i said on another topic on this
Policing is whats needed. Its not like encryption wasn't
used before the Internet, and the police did fine them. Its no different
now. Traditional police work.. works. Theres a need to a change in laws
to keep up with the changing landscape of technology sure, the CMA was
created with that in mind, thats why its lasted so long. Mass
surveillance is the answer for searching for a ghost, but ghosts don't
exist.
An idiot criminal is goig to be easy to fine without these laws, and a
good criminal wont be affected by these laws, the only people who are
affected are ordinary people. Theres protections in this bill in an
attempt to try and protect some sort of semblance of privacy for the
ordinary citizen (keeping data for only a year and completely destroying
it, requirement for warrants on certain types of data, etc) the issue
is, once this starts it only ever expands. And the government is not
considering the potential impact of citizens in the future when they
have no power to stop a future government expanding this surveillance or
abusing it to target people they disagree with or charge them with new
crimes from past actions.
https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/encryption-looks-like-we-are-going-to-have-to-ban-pen-and-paper/90917
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Linux
I use aptitude on Debian, and DNF on Fedora. The Ubuntu software center is a terrible peice of software, never been good and everyone knows it. The gnome version (honestly) istn that great either, but maybe with Ubuntu adopting it that will improve. Having something for your your average user is a good idea, its needed. No one here needs it, but you mum could use it.
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I really hope the EM drive becomes a thing. Its interesting whats happening with it, and lets hope they dont discover some testing problem thats causing the thrust. In fact isnt what really needs to happen is they understand how it works so they can improve it.. wait and see i guess.
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@Logan Is this similar to the gene editing your talking about?
logan speaking about the future from the past in a video put up in the present.. could logan be john titor...
