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I remember during my time with a large mobile carrier in UK I was told of a person in the company who could in theory read any SMS on the network. Mind you this
by dreen 6y ago
I remember during my time with a large mobile carrier in UK I was told of a person in the company who could in theory read any SMS on the network. Mind you this was literally one person for over 30 million customers. He had a high security clearance, extensive security training and the powers vested in him were used mainly to identify scammers and other criminals.
Pretty sure this was a requirement set by law - we need someone to be able to do this, but lets make sure they know what they're doing. It is very weird we dont place the same requirements on social networks.
- ummwhat 6y agoSocial networks were never supposed to be important or serious in the same way as phone networks. I would argue they still aren't. At the bottom, they are just time waster websites. You wouldn't demand that level of security of a php forum would you?
- deadalus 6y agoSocial networs including Twitter host tax-payer supported institutions such as USGS and NASA where they post updates.
- dreen 6y agoAt a certain threshold yes I would, if it served millions of people. A small ISP can get away with terrible security but once they start having millions of customers someone is going to sound an alarm. A forum, written in any language, should be no different. I realise there are challenges in making this happen but they are not unrealistic.
- antihero 6y agoExcept that huge public figures tweeting can actually affect real life a lot more than a bunch of SMS messages to yer nan....
- sharken 6y agoYou’re right about the first part, but large global social networks are quite close to phone networks in importance now. Though cases like the recent bipolar tweets from Kanye West on Twitter does seem to support your point. You could have said Wordpress forums, why take it out on PHP, though I get the message ;)
- goodluckchuck 6y ago> Social networks were never supposed to be important or serious in the same way as phone networks. I would think Zuckerberg intended Facebook to be important and serious. You don’t make a billion dollars off of something that’s trivial and unimportant.... The users might view it that way, but that lack of appreciation is just what enables you to make billions off of them.
- suizi 6y agoThis level of access horrifies me and in more than one way. We should be limiting what people can do, and not giving them the keys to the kingdom.