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by g_p 6y ago
Oops sorry. Was referring to the above about mobile operator politics, and lobbying power. Mobile operators like to think of themselves as the only ones owning and operating services on IMT spectrum. The idea of being able to deliver a full
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by g_p 6y ago
Nothing hugely different to "late stage 4G" (Release 14). The main difference with 5G (that was available in Rel14 but not widely used by anyone) is control and user plane separation, which means some network traffic can leave the
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by g_p 6y ago
Seamless handovers are definitely key to mobile networks, and much of the 3GPP technology is designed around this. Spectrum licensing is more about ensuring exclusive use of spectrum - in a busy built up area (less common during current tim
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by g_p 6y ago
Just to add to the above, some countries have very lightweight spectrum access and licensing regimes. Ofcom in the UK let you apply for a low power license (fine for around the home etc.) for a relatively nominal fee, and that will get you
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by g_p 6y ago
SDR-based UEs work for 4G right now (see srsLTE with the srsUE), but I'm not aware of an open source one that supports 5G standards yet. There are unlicensed variants of LTE/5G, but worth noting that these often are designed to us
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by g_p 6y ago
If anyone is interested in trying to work around this, I have a few ideas for how to try distinguish a real and fake cell. Temporary event "pop-up" networks should announce valid neighbouring cells. Your baseband (radio) might exp
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by g_p 6y ago
Yes, that would probably work. This would then need to tie in with versioning support on the client side, so that people can "listen" for particular versions of dependencies. As a user it would also need to support team or shared
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by g_p 6y ago
My answer is probably a bit cynical, but I believe it's accurate. The average when it comes to security and patching is pretty low, so on average, a hosting company probably doesn't find out about it, or patch it. The majority of
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by g_p 6y ago
This might be what you're referring to: From https://developer.apple.com/security-bounty/payouts/ "Issues that are unique to designated developer or public betas, including regressions, can result in a 5
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by g_p 6y ago
I will take a look at Jetpack - it does sound promising as the "next layer up". I was hoping Flutter might try to fill this space - it feels to me that there's no inherent need for the "higher layer" to be platform
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by g_p 6y ago
Oh the browser/JS world is far from perfect too - the NIH-isms and re-invention of the wheel in stacked and layered frameworks is definitely a problem on the web. I think it will come down to the level of abstraction that works and mak
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by g_p 6y ago
Very true, and harder to really work around in JS, although I guess you can get a fair bit further along the "runway" before encountering this issue. With Android, you'll probably need to be using UI and non-UI thread work fo
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by g_p 6y ago
I'm not a defender of the "modern web" recursive dependencies approach to building js sites, but the one thing the web platform seems to do better than Android is let the developer focus more onto their own logic, rather than
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by g_p 6y ago
In fairness here you probably need to add the Android SDK, NDK, and an emulator image or two, to match what iOS is giving in xcode. That isn't going to make the difference up, but from memory the NDK is around a 1.1 GB compressed downl
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by g_p 6y ago
I think there are 2 issues with Android and iOS development here - first is the steepness of the "on ramp". I learned web development using the "edit html page in text editor, switch to browser, press F5 and look" approa
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by g_p 6y ago
> 1st: most people outside of government don't know how much they are expected/"required" to do to protect their work against foreign nation states. This is very true, sadly. It ought not to be, but level of practical
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by g_p 6y ago
Where it's possible, perhaps using a deterministic process that can be easily repeated to verify the groupings haven't been tampered with? (Not to reduce the importance of backups, though they themselves can be attacked, but just
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by g_p 6y ago
He originally said they got around 2000 deletion requests since sending out the original message. That comment appears to be gone from this page now, but another commenter concurs with my recollection. It's hard to gauge significance w
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by g_p 6y ago
I'd second this. Although from memory (and I didn't re-check this so I might be wrong) Twitter's API has quite strict user limits, in order to prevent third party clients from gaining significant marketshare (and thus spoilin
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by g_p 6y ago
Agreed - I think they stopped doing this, but I am still tempted to make a GDPR complaint on the basis I have never consented to receiving contact from them. Looking back at my email archives, I was still getting "X's invite is aw
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by g_p 6y ago
This is good to hear. I have spent a lot of time looking at this topic, and for me there's 3 things worth exploring. 1. Versioning of user consent. A lot of services have been designed around the idea that once a user consents to the t
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by g_p 6y ago
Kudos for owning up straight on this. I think LinkedIn is a massively privacy violating service, and alternatives are a very good and important thing to see. I would add one comment though perhaps helpful in the future: One reason people he
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by g_p 6y ago
Not a lawyer, not legal advice either, but the GDPR approach to extraterritoriality is somewhat interesting. The presence of offices or employees isn't a strict requirement by law. The law, as written, would seem to apply to a US entit
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by g_p 6y ago
Sounds like a fairly straightforward contested charge on grounds of failure to provide the service they were paid for? If you couldn't access it and were locked out, they can't claim they provided the service.
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by g_p 6y ago
This sounds like a good and sensible step. It is a shame it has been pushed back due to Covid, as this is really not a particularly onerous requirement. Given how many companies are resorting to limited "service levels" as they ha
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by g_p 6y ago
I understand why card companies struggle to implement this while retaining good relations with merchants, but this does seem an opportunity for Stripe or similar. You can "log into" a London TFL "account" that is effecti
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by g_p 6y ago
There is a similar sounding provision in GDPR, which requires that it is as straightforward to withdraw consent as it is to grant it (i.e. it must be possible through the same procedure, so preventing postal letters being sent to a dedicate
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by g_p 6y ago
Absolutely. Article 25(2) is written for this specific situation, and expressly prohibits opt-out situations where personal data might be made publicly accessible: "In particular, such measures shall ensure that by default personal dat
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by g_p 6y ago
It seems slightly unclear, but generally a lot of interpretations seem to be focusing on the location of the person. An American buying something in a European airport is protected by GDPR during their fleeting pass-through of the "GDP
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by g_p 6y ago
In which case, it sounds like at the moment they carry out a "data processing operation" to make your data public, you would have standing to make a formal complaint to your local data protection authority. Article 18 restriction

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