here is an interesting bit of information
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dwLl7r-7Gyg
I'm overwhelmed with the news coming out lately....spying phones, and tracking and all the other stuff that high-surveillance state authorities do to their own.
Yeah yeah. We've nothing to worry about if we aren't doing anything wrong. But given that they get to decide what's right and what's wrong at their whim it seems, why aren't people getting more nuts about this stuff? I really don't think people are getting pissed off enough about these things.
Our public schools now lock students in, and visitors entering the front door are under video and have to ring a doorbell. Yes yes, I get that bad things happen in schools, but honestly I've lived here for 40 years and nothing NEARLY so bad as needing a school locked has ever happened. Can it happen? Sure. But it can happen at the mall too, and they don't lock that and make you ring a door bell to get in. As I've said to the school officials, if a scared community reacting to things that 'could happen' is the new normal, then what the hell kind of community is that to live in at all?
I get that there are crazies that will find a gun and assault a school. Having been a kid myself, I do remember well that there wasn't much going on with anybody that somebody didn't know about. Are we so removed in the community that we don't have people that know that someone is off their rocker and is 'up to something'?
If our communities are that bad, is it really our solution to just hide behind the locked gates? What is going on?
Runs With Scissors
I'm overwhelmed with the news coming out lately....spying phones, and tracking and all the other stuff that high-surveillance state authorities do to their own.
Yeah yeah. We've nothing to worry about if we aren't doing anything wrong. But given that they get to decide what's right and what's wrong at their whim it seems, why aren't people getting more nuts about this stuff? I really don't think people are getting pissed off enough about these things.
Our public schools now lock students in, and visitors entering the front door are under video and have to ring a doorbell. Yes yes, I get that bad things happen in schools, but honestly I've lived here for 40 years and nothing NEARLY so bad as needing a school locked has ever happened. Can it happen? Sure. But it can happen at the mall too, and they don't lock that and make you ring a door bell to get in. As I've said to the school officials, if a scared community reacting to things that 'could happen' is the new normal, then what the hell kind of community is that to live in at all?
I get that there are crazies that will find a gun and assault a school. Having been a kid myself, I do remember well that there wasn't much going on with anybody that somebody didn't know about. Are we so removed in the community that we don't have people that know that someone is off their rocker and is 'up to something'?
If our communities are that bad, is it really our solution to just hide behind the locked gates? What is going on?
Itis nuts~ perhaps all students should stay at home and a system put in place for computer conference teaching....it will be interesting see where the school shootings will lead us to.
Seems that Apple took away their access rights to their latest iPhones so they couldn't comply if the government requested data on you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc7utZ54-7o
This means that they themselves cannot spy on you either. This is the latest sales pitch it seems to get folks to buy their products. It says that your encryption code even locks Apple out of your phone so retrieving data for the government is then impossible.
Logically, this trick is only good until the next update as they then can obtain your permission to modify the access again. I'm betting that lots of folks get this latest product and turn off all updates to maintain this security.
Hopefully, others such as Android will follow suite to veto this as a sales pitch. The advantage of open source software is that having a functioning version put out by Android will better enable programmers to duplicate this ability with software cracks to counter each update version thereafter. Yet some of these features are controlled as firmware updates which apply controls on specific aspects into the BIOS. These are usually written by the product designer such as Apple or Samsung. If the update applies fixes or mods to this area, it overrides the Operating System(OS) on boot up. The usual cracks usually cannot access or control this area. You can often tell when an update affected this region because the core layouts such as those seen when in the Settings or Control Panel section are now different. Once an update is known to contain the ability to shut off specific features, hackers will decompile the update and then have access to product designer powers.
Lets hope this new fight against government control lives long and prospers.