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by g_p 6y ago
It seems that Windows SMB file sharing is still the go-to universal storage system in a lot of organisations. I imagine because it's built in, easy to configure, and works out the box with the ability to map drives so it's transpa
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by g_p 6y ago
Can't speak directly to this, but just to add to the sentiment here - no breach was ever prevented through the application of pen to paper in the shape of a check mark. If an organisation has the money to spend on doing ISO or somethin
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by g_p 6y ago
Not to disagree with you as I agree with the sentiment, but as a counter data point, I've seen a number of quite serious beaches in the past where PCI/DSS clearly wasn't being followed, as CVV2 was compromised along with paym
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by g_p 6y ago
Post-Solarwinds, hopefully people will wake up to your point - any online device using components and softwares from complex supply chains isn't good enough. Heck, Intel, Microsoft and Cisco were breached through that, and that covers
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by g_p 6y ago
This is something I've seen an awful lot on iOS. Clearly having Apple give you an SDK is convenient as a developer, but for a huge segment of the market, storing randomly on "someone else's computer" just isn't an o
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by g_p 6y ago
When companies started restoring from their (new and existing!) backups when hit by ransomware, the ransomware authors looked at what would impact their "clients" the most -- if preventing them getting access to their data wasn&#x
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Hackers threaten to leak plastic surgery pictures(bbc.co.uk)
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Amazon’s surveillance drones violate FCC rules(vice.com)
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by g_p 6y ago
Getmail is probably your best bet for an automated email backup - that will fetch your email over IMAP (getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens can use oauth to connect to IMAP) and store it as a maildir or mbox. You can then use that with whatever cli
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by g_p 6y ago
The key part of this announcement for me is the last sentence, where they announce a deal with Qualcomm for extended security update support. While having compatible hardware APIs is clearly needed to get new Android versions out, we need d
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by g_p 6y ago
Articles 5 and 6 are the ones of most interest. A quick summary: - no preventing businesses from using other intermediaries (i.e. payment processors for app stores) - ensuring businesses can contract with users outside the platform, and the
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by g_p 6y ago
I think one of the biggest challenges with modern social media is the ability for anyone to immediately engage in "broadcast" communications. Absent the centralised media of old, broadcast simply wasn't an option in the past
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by g_p 6y ago
It's a good point - the past was far from perfect. Long before the current "user generated content" fact-level problem, I remember (some) traditional internet forums offering the same problem as we have today - inane parrotin
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by g_p 6y ago
Not disagreeing, but I do wonder how the first amendment sits with regards to no guaranteed audience - you can likely be free to say something, while still having others free not to amplify it indefinitely. To an extent I think the big digi
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by g_p 6y ago
This seems interesting - clearly the friction in sharing everything with everyone is far lower online than before. Before, you had to consume finite resources (time, energy, postage stamps, etc.) to tell someone else about something. This g
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by g_p 6y ago
On the discrete GPU front, most AMD users will be using FOSS drivers that are built into the kernel, plus the standard open source Mesa. In fact, AMD actively recommend you use the open source ones. I think the community radv vulkan driver
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by g_p 6y ago
This might be very good timing for your product - the European Data Protection Board has just out their first guidance after the Schrems II case. It seems to firmly point towards cloud services where the provider can access the data in plai
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by g_p 6y ago
Only if it's needed for giving the user functionality they explicitly request (i.e. after adding something to their basket, they implicitly accept a session cookie that's solely used to hold their basket content). That wouldn&#x27
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by g_p 6y ago
When placing cookies, the bar to essential is actually really high. It has to be essential and unavoidable for the delivery of the bytes to the browser, or it has to be essential for the requested functionality. The UK ICO has some pretty g
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by g_p 6y ago
That is why it is important to note that certain GDPR rights can be enforced yourself, without waiting on a regulator. Waiting on a regulator to bring the case is not your only option, since these are data subject rights, and the data subje
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by g_p 6y ago
GDPR sets out a maximum retention time as you point out, but it also regards the act of "erasure or destruction" as a processing operation (Art 4(2)). Recital 83 highlights the importance of preventing "accidental or unlawful
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by g_p 6y ago
An interesting perspective, but GDPR also requires them to delete data according to policy. If, by their policies, the data should still be held, then you have the right to access it. If they deleted it contrary to policy, that would itself
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by g_p 6y ago
Absolutely. Perhaps an angle for the current ongoing antitrust/anticompetitive behaviour investigations going on in the House? Incumbent telcos fought portability, but in the end it has become a "given". There's no reaso
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by g_p 6y ago
The UK's Data Protection Act (2018) is pretty much a copy-paste of the GDPR, and it is to remain in effect - the UK had a fair hand in writing the GDPR itself, and has passed it as its own implementing law. So while it's not &quot
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by g_p 6y ago
Absolutely. I suspect if this hit a court, Google would decline to say why the account was banned. A judge would then struggle to see this as not being an automated unaccountable decision. A good point well made. Several grounds here.
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by g_p 6y ago
An interesting point here actually - number porting was viewed to be core to a telecoms service operator. They have to provide it free of charge as a cost of doing business. Perhaps we need similar for email forwarding - it's clear tha
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by g_p 6y ago
Under GDPR right to access your own data (in Europe), you could sue over Google's refusal to honour your data rights. Your request to use data rights can be made through any means, including social media message funnily enough! You can
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by g_p 6y ago
In Europe there's no provision for GDPR rights to access to data to be removed on these non-grounds, so users would have the right to get access to their takeout. Since Google's processes don't seem to give access to that, yo
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by g_p 6y ago
Noting some of the sibling comments about timestamping and trust, something I've thought about before when explaining use of Blockchain is that the real use case is verifying the relative order and integrity of events. Clearly the time
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by g_p 6y ago
I wonder why they've done so badly - clearly there's likely to be some level of political pressure at play, but the ICO is independent and can and should stand up to that as just part of the job. I've never felt any regulator

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