Despite all the "new security features" in Windows 10, or perhaps in spite of them as a work-around, Windows 10 seems to be the most "law enforcement friendly" OS yet (not just out of Windows all versions, but out of all operating systems).
Can we please stop using MPEG-LA technologies on the web?! This nonsense will never end otherwise. At best you buy a few years with some new technology while they pretend to not charge you so everyone adopts the technology. And then they come knocking.
The only way to end this cycle is to stop using their technologies. Full stop.
Why can't they just disable WebRTC by default and ask the user for permission like they do with location and so on, without revealing the IP before the user accepts the connection? Also, maybe the user could easily whitelist some connections/WebRTC IDs?
Honestly, the whole account "integration" just pisses me off. I want my Gmail account to be separated from my Youtube account and from the Maps account.
The main reason (by far) Google unified them is so they they can more easily track everyone across multiple properties.
Unfortunately, it couldn't come at a worse time - a time when even the most "democratic" countries on Earth are pushing for their people to have fewer rights, more censorship, more surveillance, more torture, more secret assassinations and so on.
That's nonsense. First off, ARM is able to "keep up" with only tens of millions in profit a year. Second, Qualcomm is one of the richest chip makers. Third, Samsung hasn't been using custom CPUs and GPUS - at all.
Which is funny because the reason Qualcomm screwed up recently (besides all the anti-competitive/antitrust issues) is because it didn't come out with its own next-generation custom CPU core sooner, and had to use stock ARM IP which I guess it didn't have much experience in handling.
The shareholders' "solution" is what will destroy the company. Qualcomm would've been fine in the next 2 quarters, once it passed the Snapdragon 810 generation.
I don't know why they freaked out so badly after just one bad quarter (and after Qualcomm has constantly grown for the past 5 years) to the point where they want to split the company. That seems rather crazy. I wonder if there's something else besides next-quarter-profit thinking behind this motivation.
Indeed, and I remember the vast majority of the people getting super excited at the possibility of "getting an OTA update that can improve your acceleration by 0.1s" - without realizing what exactly that means in terms of security. In particular, that others could also control your engine and car the same way through updates.
The car manufacturers who do OTA updates for their cars are sitting on time-bombs. The clock is ticking for them until people get killed this way (regardless of them using HTTPS or signed updates - which some manufacturers don't even use now).
So you're okay with spy agencies (from all over the world) as well as drug cartels and other criminal organizations having the power to kill you in an almost untraceable way while you're on the highway?
Also, the US gov has been using these entertainment systems to spy on people for more than a decade...it's already been happening. Unfortunately, I can't find the link now, but it was a post from 2001 or 2003 on NYT and I think they were using Ford Sync to do it.