The crazy thing is that people are suggesting things that should simply be added on as a function of the site. It's 2019, Dark mode is here to stay, why not just add it natively instead of having to install yet another plug-in/add-in/extension?
Yeah I have to agree with this. If you're savvy enough to setup your own close-looped surveillance system then you're savvy enough to check if the camera is pinging home to a China-based server. And if it is then just block all WAN connections from that IP.
Gotta love vice:
>Motherboard identified an MPC employee thanks to those company database records, web domain information, and the business card. Two sources confirmed this person’s role in the company, with both saying he acted as a “frontman” for The Brothers. When reached for comment via email, the frontman asked Motherboard “[Where] did you hear about MPC.” He did not respond to a series of follow-up emails or messages. Motherboard is not naming the person as they have not previously been named in media reports, and to minimize any potential harm or retaliation against the individual for being identified.
So you're telling us how to find out who this person is..
How do they plan on loading up an iphone or android phone with a 'trojan'? This seems to be more an excuse to get police some sort of excuse to be able to snoop even more than what they currently can.
I see a lot of scrutiny in the comments, but the simple fact is that they are actively trying to secure their users data to whatever extent they can. This shows a great form of care from a company and pushes me as a consumer to use them. Yes Iceland has had reports of letting the US pull drives before. No I wouldn't think to plant my servers in Iceland. But the fact that they are considering all of this is a big big + in my opinion.
Most countries who have INTL fiber cables running in/out of them will have a direct link to a "surveillance" country, but as long as encryption is sufficient then the data is still relatively secure. and pulling RAM to inspect the memory is a pretty hard thing to get away from.
I think this is as thoughtful as it gets when considering user and company privacy.
Gotta love that the article has 0 mentions of the main cause: Vitamin E being added to the solution alongside THC oil. This is the sole reason, not nicotine, nor PG/VG.
This technology has been posted on HN before and the comments were all too similar to this one. I understand why a lot of people are falling into the FUD-hole, but we can pretty easily solve the issues mentioned in the comments by inserting a digital key - similar to a SSL certificate, into an image/video upon initial upload. Or even upon creation, maybe using some sort of ledger to verify integrity. I'm not too worried.
Every parent scared to death of finding out their kid is vaping should ask themselves this: What if they were using actual cigarettes, or god forbid Vanilla cream flavored vodka.
Agreed, there are many things "wrong" with modern PC's, I don't think caps lock is one of them. I personally don't 'fly to close to the sun' and miss entire sentences of all-caps, because I don't look down when I type, I look at my screen.
Easier to just re-map the key to something useful than to adjust a whole industry to a single opinion.