Monday 's BestNetTech Comments

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  • On the post: French Parents Face Fines, Lawsuits And Prison For Posting Pictures Of Their Own Children Online

    Monday ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2016 @ 02:04pm

    That's funny 'cuz it's someone else...

    Gives a whole new meaning to

    At eighteen you're out the door!

    Then we'll pay for your retirement at nineteen...

  • On the post: After Backlash, Amazon Promises To Bring Back Encryption On Fire OS

    Monday ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2016 @ 01:59pm

    My opinions...

    I, personally, have zero problems with Amazon. I consider them a 'good' company, with some well defined support and good employees/representatives - the ones I have encountered anyways - whom are generally interested in a customer's well-being and peace of mind.

    I have had a couple problems in the past with Amazon, and they were more than willing to work with me to get the issues I had resolved. It's a great model, if it's actually being told to representatives... although that would be an amazing feat to get so many employees reading from the same book, let alone on the same page.

    If even an hundred people voiced complaints; demanded refunds, because Amazon had broken an agreement, it is my belief that Amazon would want to fix this.

    As for bringing FIRE OS back, "with a new backdoor", I seriously doubt that. That is a first year Conspiracy Theory influenced by what is happening with APPLE, and all the comments, opprobrium, and County District Attorney fabrications. It could very well be that the performance issue, while encryption was turned on, is the case, but, and you are right Masnick, I agree it was an overreaction; quite possibly a small test, for the reactions from the customer and the company's possible response to their own encryption issues - they needed to find out just how many people were/are paying attention to the encryption debate.

  • On the post: Iran Joins The Using Video Game Footage To Pump Up Your Own Military's Reputation Arms Race

    Monday ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2016 @ 12:57pm

    Re: I've often argued...

    I wrote alot on War in University in my later fourth year, and I agree.

    It's softened simply for sales. Make it fun... Fun sells.

    But, really, "No levity for the dead."

  • On the post: Iran Joins The Using Video Game Footage To Pump Up Your Own Military's Reputation Arms Race

    Monday ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2016 @ 11:32am

    Re:

    Listen up Coward,

    There is only spray then a body dropping. These guns cut people in half; take an arm or leg off; heads become mist. I was trying to keep it clean so it would get posted. Who's clueless now?

    Hence, "There is no headshot anymore. Everything is a killshot."

    Jackass...

  • On the post: Copyright History: The Strange Case Of A Book Authored By Mark Twain Via A Ouija Board

    Monday ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2016 @ 11:26am

    I've seen this before...

    Emily Grant Hutchings should have used a Top Hat; told everyone the there were magic cards in it; professed to "Translate" those magic cards, and she would have created a cult following for the old author's new book... problem solved - with tax exempt status.

  • On the post: Iran Joins The Using Video Game Footage To Pump Up Your Own Military's Reputation Arms Race

    Monday ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2016 @ 10:50am

    Reality Bites

    First, this isn't real in the fact the it's not that violent. The Iranian Sniper rifle is a take, as most are now, from Barrett's 50 cal, and those shots on Daesh combatants show gamer hits - keeping it light for the kids...

    There is no headshot any more. Anything is a killshot.

  • On the post: Afraid Of Upsetting The Cable Industry, Roku Won't Support FCC Quest For Increased Set Top Box Competition

    Monday ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2016 @ 11:45am

    Comes around, goes around, maybe?

    "First to feast. Last to Fight:

  • On the post: Different Brazilian Judge Orders Facebook Exec Released After Arrest

    Monday ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2016 @ 11:33am

    Enuf already!!!

    This Brazilian Judge and John Yoo attended the same University.

    "... arresting a Facebook exec is like arresting an investor for what one of its companies does.

    "My ISP doesn't get access to who I email."

    "Hurried", Brazilian... I gotta go

  • On the post: FCC 'Probing' Whether Cable Companies Have Sabotaged Internet Video

    Monday ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2016 @ 10:53am

    FCC Needs to get really anal with all this probing...

    All pun intended.

    Article here: http://www.wsj.com/article_email/fcc-probes-cable-firms-influence-on-web-tv-1456704465-lMyQjAxMTE2MTI2OTMyMzkwWj

    You don't need to register.

  • On the post: Basically Every Single Presidential Candidate Is Totally Clueless As To What's At Stake In The Apple / FBI Fight

    Monday ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2016 @ 10:54am

    'On Deadly Ground'

    There isn't much to add to this debate regarding the dangerous lack of, and the incredible amount of, even mildly aware Presidential candidates when it comes to the security of citizens on American soil. Perhaps, Hilary Clinton I might consider being the exception, as she is the only person that has worked in a position of Governmental privilege, and by that I mean working with high Security clearances, but she has also shown incredible naïvety when it comes to anything technical.
    The Candidates do not read their briefs; do not go online and do actual diligence; show little interest regarding almost every issue that is raised by the public, especially this one, so it is no surprise they are utterly clueless about the citizens' concerns and opinions, nor are they remotely aware of the insights, comments, and criticisms of authors such as our Mike Masnick.

    This isn't an issue of just giving a trite answer on this fight between Apple and the Government and then hoping it just goes away, ending in success for the Government. AGAIN, it is not about a backdoor! If backdoors could be created, we would all be using burner phones. It is also about the 'blind', technically uneducated leaders thinking they have the right to make their uneducated privileged comments on this matter - although this happens all the time.

    It is about the threat to personal security WORLDWIDE.

    It isn't about Apple's business model. This is about the Government feeling that this issue - that the Government created - is the hole in the wall that they can squeeze through and finally gives them access to what amounts to worldwide data gathering. I have written this before, nevertheless, this privileged code will not stay privileged for very long. It will get to other governments. FYI, the Chinese are watching this very closely, and are the most interested Government in how this breach of privacy plays out. It is not about one old iPhone 5c. It is about having access, and the Chinese government gaining even more suppressive controls over a billion of their connected citizens - to them... understand? This is the extreme example. The sky is falling? It will if the Chinese government gets their way, translated, the American government gets their way.

    The American Government's FBI, absolutely cannot be allowed any possible way to succeed because the issue is not about one mobile - it is about billions. I say billions, because, it does not affect this one mobile, but every personal device existing worldwide, now, and in the future.

    Today, it's a password; an encrypted password, and access to encrypted data. Tomorrow, it will be access to anyone's personal device(s) that they own, and the Government's free reign to search everyone, and basically searching without warrant, just for an individual doing keyword searches through a search engine of their choice, and fitting a 'search profile'. In the same chord, it is about the ability of any Government on the planet being able to access any personal data anytime they feel pressed to react or search, or the urge to search from a fabricated, or perceived threat. It will be an eternal Carte blanche with nearly infinite powers.

    What I find truly baffling is the Presidential Candidates have all chosen to use the word "Terrorist", and speak of "Terrorism" on American soil. As unfathomably tragic as the San Bernardino "attack" is; as is any 'thing' such as this is, it killed 14 people in December, and is not even a top five mass shooting event in the US. The reason for the Government's push on this particular battle over encryption, and the child-like responses from the Candidates is the fact that these two San Bernardino shooters, especially the one with the cell-phone, Syed Rizwan Farook, made a claim of allegiance to ISIS, which ISIS has not acknowledged. These were two sociopaths and psychopaths who needed a really fantastical and big 'attention grabbing' reason to go and kill... plain and simple. I have also written this before (Paris attack), "[and] it doesn't take alot of training to kill alot of unarmed people." These two murderers are nothing special. They simply made an unproven statement with the word ISIS in it.

    They want access to the San Bernardino "Terrorist's" mobile. Using the word "Terrorist" is the only reason the Government sees as viable in gaining access through Apple's capitulation. It has been claimed that this is the worst terrorist attack since 9/11. If the Government can successfully use this claim as justification to breach one old phone, then they will certainly use the very same claim in the future, of any perceived possible "Terrorist" activity as the Government would use their profiled data to justify searches into any one device that fits that profile.

    I see massive funding requests each year for surveillance programs, now becoming necessary as these two people were terrorists, and this attack, as always, in the Government's milky eyes, is just the beginning. It's always the first of many, when it comes to events similar in content to the San Bernardino attack - the individuals involved were hostile to American citizens. The Government's reaction was likewise, in some small but significant degree, the same when the Boston Marathon Bombing occurred, but this event was handled by local Boston authorities, as well as the FBI, and if the FBI gains access to anyone's encrypted data, what's to say that in the future, a local, or state authority can get their access, and we all know how local and state authorities have behaved in the past when it comes to violating a person's right and freedoms.

    The Battle Cry, "Terrorists have been on American soil!", will now become the 'Raison d'etre for all funding of the current programs, as well as any future program(s), and justification for the massive funding needed to run any one of them. It will be a cited example to continue to breach personal security, and allow even more 'agency' (any 'Agency') the freedom to start, continue, or expand operations.

    With very little effort, a search engine will provide results of "Terrorists" being on American soil for hundreds of years.

    This cannot be allowed as the reason Governments get access to any personal device, anywhere, and, the Candidates running for Leader of this Government are frighteningly uninformed, ill-equipped, and unconcerned when it comes to the privacy and rights of 300 million Americans.

  • On the post: No, A Judge Did Not Just Order Apple To Break Encryption On San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone, But To Create A New Backdoor

    Monday ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2016 @ 09:25am

    Move it along folks...

    We should update this argument/debate/discussion somewhat. There are some very informative and excellent new posts on the whole process in today's BestNetTech Daily Email, as well as some fine threads on Senators, the Chinese, and retarded reporters... :)

  • On the post: Our Further Response To Australian Lawyer Stuart Gibson, Who Continues To Threaten Us

    Monday ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2016 @ 07:23am

    Re: Re: Drivel vs Dribble

    MALAPROPISM.

    :D

  • On the post: Remember How US Marshals Seized All Those 'Hoverboards' At CES In A Patent Dispute? The Company Has Now Dropped The Case

    Monday ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2016 @ 07:58am

    Abuse of Patent Law... again...

    You have wrote of this abuse so many times, I don't even shake my head anymore - EXCEPT, with this one, today.

    Can Changzhou really get Future Motion back in Court? I know nothing of these laws, and I'm wondering, no, I'm hoping that Changzhou can do this. This was an attack through the failing Trade/Patent Laws I've read of here, using Gov't forces, to 'kill' competition - Foreign competition; CHINESE competition, that obviously has/presented a product that was a clear and present threat to any position Future Motion had in the Market. They received financial compensation through illegal malicious activity because of it.

    I wonder how many; how much investor capital will be NSF when Future Motion tries cashing those cheques? You obviously don't move that kind of money around in six weeks, especially when you're involved in a legal dispute.

    So again, my question is, "Can Changzhou get Future Motion back into Court? This could be ground breaking. A primer for future Corporate deceit.

  • On the post: No, A Judge Did Not Just Order Apple To Break Encryption On San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone, But To Create A New Backdoor

    Monday ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2016 @ 09:39pm

    What has happened to this thread?

    I have watched this post slowly evolve into a Phylogenetic tree of "Johnnie Cochran" rants and discussion.

    It'd be nice to read some 'on point' comments again. Sorry, that's just my opinion...

    Cheers m8s... :)

  • On the post: No, A Judge Did Not Just Order Apple To Break Encryption On San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone, But To Create A New Backdoor

    Monday ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2016 @ 11:31am

    Re:

    That's simply brilliant. It would be like some policing agency charging some 'schmo' 25k$ for a FOI, but reverse. I love it! :)

  • On the post: No, A Judge Did Not Just Order Apple To Break Encryption On San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone, But To Create A New Backdoor

    Monday ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2016 @ 01:15pm

    Apple's Customer Letter

    I just read this. Good for !

    http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

  • On the post: Our Further Response To Australian Lawyer Stuart Gibson, Who Continues To Threaten Us

    Monday ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2016 @ 11:42am

    Don't resort to "Bar Fights"

    I love this shit - always have! :D

    Renzo Gracie lives in New York - USE HIM! LEARN FROM HIM!

    Challenge Gibson to the Octagon, or, offer him a free flight to Japan for something in the ring.

    :)

  • On the post: No, A Judge Did Not Just Order Apple To Break Encryption On San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone, But To Create A New Backdoor

    Monday ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2016 @ 11:25am

    There is no such fallacy that gets around what's going to happen.

    This is a really technical request, MEANING, whomever helped draft the request is obviously a “Nerd” (I’ve always been fond of that title, and it is now become sheik.) and they know completely, what this means in the short term, and even more troubling, the long term, is the access to any phone anytime is at hand, and they are trying to help make it happen.

    I have had the same mobile phone since January 2002 – the battery lasts a week, and have recently been considering getting something new (Galaxy, iPhone etc) although I really don’t need the internet, or to read someone’s texts when I'm doing something else I'm sure is more imporatnt, but as I read this post, I was impressed with the ’10 fails it’s gone’ feature you’ve mentioned… I did not know that.

    Nevertheless, getting software, hacks, and other little treasures from Apple to get around this, will definitely lead to more audacious requests because it sets precedent, and the FBI won’t really need anything after that – including physical warrants, to access any phone anytime. It also sets precedent in ‘forcing’ other manufacturers to ‘comply’ with the FBI’s ‘requests.

    It is not a ‘slippery-slope’. The inevitable bench warrants to access phones for doing anything from watching a .tor to liking Met-Art to finding out why pressure cooker bombs were so popular to learning about the bridges of New York is going to be fair fodder for any request – by any agency… do you think that technology is going to stay locked up in FBI offices and they will be the only ones to use it.

    I hope Apple can get around it, through some law that was written in the nineteenth century, and they do not comply with the order. It is a disaster waiting to happen.

  • On the post: ISIS's Encrypted Messaging App Isn't Real; But Backdooring Encryption Still Won't Help The NSA

    Monday ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2016 @ 01:16pm

    Re: Daesh sticks with Telegram, pkTron, ICQ, tor

    You forgot using "Land Lines and speaking foreign language."

  • On the post: ISIS's Encrypted Messaging App Isn't Real; But Backdooring Encryption Still Won't Help The NSA

    Monday ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2016 @ 01:13pm

    Encryption...

    All this makes me wanna do is check out the ones in the "Safest" column.

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