marcuspovey

Possibly, this may actually be a good thing, at least as far as the internet is concerned. When governments realise that they can't get any "special exemptions" put in for them, the only real option left open is to throw their weight behind measures to secure the internet for everybody.

Hmm.. that's nice, but I don't care, this NSA/GCHQ nonsense has burnt me for cloud computing, sorry.

What needs to happen is that the market heavily punish, and legal teams sue back into the stone age, those companies that collaborated. Then we need some legal structure in place that is a little more than "we promise we won't screw you".

It doesn't matter that this lot are based in Finland, because unless there is a heavy price for collaboration, the second they get big, the government of [insert jurisdiction here] will pressure them to turn data over and there will be little incentive to push back.

I've said this elsewhere; but this is all part of an attempt (or at least an institutional belief) that equates opposition and protest, which is part of a healthy democracy, with terrorism.

This is very scary.

I find the phrase "Memorisation not rationalisation" deeply sinister.

At home, and everywhere I've had a say on how the network is laid out during working hours, I treat wifi as external. They get internet access, and there's a password to prevent the neighbours kids downloading GBs of pr0n, access to internal resources require connection over the vpn.

This has the side benefit that all my devices can connect securely to home resources wherever I am in the world.

Commented earlier on another Women In Tech thread (seems to be the meme of the day).

The question is not "Why are there so few women in IT?", it's "Why are so many men in IT such jerks?"

Even if you no longer own or control the content?

Yeah, 'cos I really want a convenient way to send my fingerprints to the government.

This shit has got to stop. Seriously.

As MEN in our industry we need to take a stand against this sort of behaviour which is truly endemic and all pervasive in our industry.

This is not a women in tech issue, it's a problem with MEN.

I would love to see everyone in the IT industry take a similar pledge.

If enough of us do we can choke off the oxygen supply to these organisations, especially if we make it an unattractive career prospect for undergrads.

Absolutely, but it changes the economics substantially in your favour.

That is the rub of course.

Self hosting is somewhat better, if nothing else because it presents a much less tempting target, and it is a privilege currently only available to the technical.

Well implemented strong encryption is another avenue.