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I see you being downvoted, but I'm not sure why.

Anyway, in the UK, YOU are invoiced for board and lodging upon release[1] [2]. The UK Home Office use it as a method of effectively diminishing any compensation payment to negligible sums (but oddly, only for male prisoners - female ones are not invoiced, apparently). 27 years wrongly imprisoned gets you total of around 46 pounds (around $80). [3]

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-458006/Man-wrongly-j... [2] http://www.rense.com/general50/25yt.htm [3] http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/mar/22/sean-hodgson-compe...

Encryption is hard to do correctly. Even for ransom-ware developers.

Thankfully, in this case, it also gave a way for some smart people who understand encryption to fix a potentially serious problem.

Ransom-ware seems to be the current big growth area. It's probably due to the fact that simple breaches don't really give much financial payback on the investment - active credit card details raise only a few cents as they are disabled so quickly by anti-fraud mechanisms, so are unlikely to actually yield much, except in a few 'lucky' [to the bad guys] cases.

Real systems security (not just the traditional technical measures people have relied upon till now, but process, business activity etc.) looks like the way forward. But there are going to be a few casualties along the way, especially if the FBI suggest people should pay up[1].

[1] http://thehackernews.com/2015/10/fbi-ransomware-malware.html

They settled for undisclosed terms - http://fhstheprint.com/2097/news/russian-man-takes-it-to-the...

However, he felt his life was under threat, which may have helped the bank's negotiating power - after all, it is Russia. https://www.rt.com/business/tinkoff-bank-agarkov-credit-299/

A good example of why you should be sure your country is a safe place for contract disputes to be dealt with by the courts and not by men with ski masks and AK47s.

You read the story quite differently from me.

I don't think he changed how they operated at all.

He gave them a program which highlighted the most critical calls for most urgent attention.

That's EXACTLY how 911 operators are SUPPOSED to operate.

CAD systems are supposed to do that but it can be difficult to properly do that when lots of calls come in - and when a really critical calls does come in, it frequently is reported multiple times leading to duplicates as other operators key it simultaneously. Many CAD systems will not automatically connect them and require intervention. It sounds like metrics like this and others were being used to automatically suggest critical calls.

He helped them do their job, in the way they should do their job, but in a way which was efficient and directly led to better, and possibly life-saving, outcomes to residents of Seattle.

But you are suggesting he should have been fired ?

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Unfortunately, policing culture is very territorial and operates at extreme levels of testosterone fueled territory marking.

A tech-nerd (with possibly some autistic traits from the descriptions) is never going to get along in that environment without someone seriously watching over them. And whoever that is, will have some serious work to do in order to get the best for the department.

Cops are trained to push peoples buttons and make them lose control. Tim seems to have not seen the play coming and was fairly easily sideswiped before he even got far off the ground.

It sounds like SPD are not up to the job - even though someone at least seemed to be in the right direction when they hired Tim in the first place. If they had been able to follow through with the right support, SPD could have been an incredibly awesome exemplar of Policing and tech done right. To me, it sounds like there are serious management problems with the department - this situation would never have happened if people were properly competent.

Sadly, in my own experience, Policing and tech are never done terribly well. It always ends up with the snoopers and intrusive abusers gaining more ground and the things which really help keep people safer and more secure being thrown in the ditch or run over completely.

Alas, not very helpful, from the top of the Google cache page :

This is Google's cache of https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=41068. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 25 Oct 2015 20:18:41 GMT.

As the deed was done on 23 October, this version is not much use.

Anyone know of an earlier version (or how to get Google to spit out the earlier version it, for sure, has) ?

TalkTalk spent the weekend in full PR mode claiming the attack was the work of cyber jihadi's[0] and suggesting huge resources were used to target and overcome their defenses (i.e. the "no-one could have withstood this sort of attack" defense) and then switched to a defense of "no legal requirement to encrypt customer financial data" when people got upset about their bank details being pilfered[1] and reports of bank accounts being emptied started to emerge.

Now we find out the likely candidate is a spotty teenager. I wonder how TalkTalk plan on trashing this kid now.

[0] http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/talktalk-hack-by-cyber-... plus many others [1] e.g. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/26/talktalk_crypto_obli...

Rather suspicious, repeated, mentions of 23andMe. This reads more like an advertisement in disguise rather than "news".

The UK. My role saw interaction across different jurisdictions and the UK seemed better than some (some of the US stuff was eye popping, even based on my experience). I'm sure there are places better than the UK but I can just base things on my experience. Others may be able to comment on the good based on their experience.

It appears you've never had a real encounter with Police.

I've actually worked with the Police. ALL training is about asserting power when dealing with suspects (a suspect is anyone you stop or talk to - no matter what the circumstances; think about how many people reporting a crime actually end up being arrested themselves due to something they say which incriminates them, even in something tangential and unrelated to what they are reporting).

The moment someone tries to reassert control, training is to respond with additional aggressive responses to overwhelm resistance. Call in backup, draw a taser/gun/baton, physically take hold of the person etc.

Try pulling things like talking about your consulting projects and asking for a guarantee about making a meeting and you'll be lucky not to be face down on the ground in under 5 seconds and spend the next 24 hours sitting in a cell.

In all my years, I think I probably met less than 5 colleagues who could proportionately and reasonably interact with people, defuse tensions and remain in control (of both the situation and themselves). All the rest relied solely on the power assertion training and some couldn't even interact with other police officers without trying to assert power over each other. That always got nasty, especially when they did it to someone who, like them, didn't know how to back down or defuse a situation.

Unless you have a crack team of lawyers monitoring your every move, your best approach is to be compliant and non-confrontation. Remember as much detail as you can (especially names/numbers) and make a formal complaint later on, via a lawyer if possible, once you're out of custody (and preferably out of easy reach - remember the police are 24x7, they can expend huge resources to hound you out of sheer vexatiousness. You have to sleep. They don't.).

Never occurred to me before, but here "substitutes" reads to me as being commutative. I read both as having the same meaning. (i.e. you end up with unicode homographs replacing your ascii) Just me?

> I'm also alarmed at the number of European countries using this software...

Why? A number of EU countries have set up front companies to re-sell their spy agencies skills in mass surveillance to assorted dictators and despots. They need a test-bed for development and the local population is the obvious choice. What they are reselling is always the previous generation while they use the new, more advanced and intrusive version locally.

It's all about protecting the children and keeping us safe from terrorists. It's not about mass surveillance. Honest. And look at the money made by exporting our technology!

> The guy who was raping little kids in his van shouldn't serve his time in a nice hotel

And there's a myth about prison right there. Spoken by someone who clearly has no idea how horrible prisons really are. And how dangerous and deadly they are for anyone even accused of offenses against children.

UCSD Pascal used the p-machine to be machine/architecture independent. All the way back in 1978. [edit: a quick google suggests the p-machine was based on original work circa. 1966]

While not the JVM, using a virtual processor setup as a target for portability was a really old concept by the time Java or the .NET CLR came along.

Newer approaches add new concepts or take advantage of new technologies, but it's never revolutionary.

Totally, in business critical systems for all sorts of stuff.

Rewriting it would be enormous effort and provide no business benefit and be full or risk of introducing new (or re-introducing old) bugs in the process of converting to some whiz-bang c# or whatever is trendy.

We even built custom integration modules (DLLs in Visual C++ 6 for anyone curious). They integrate to legacy AS/400 systems and the interfaces used are totally legacy and unlikely to be easy to integrate with c++ 2015.

So, we're absolutely still using Tcl (and Tk) in 2015 and it is still relevant. It will be in use until the company (or the sun) implodes.

I do hate the syntax though. Yuk. [edit: I see others commenting that that's the thing they like ! I'm obviously an outlier or our code sucks more than most.]

Ah, yes. Toronto police. The guys who gave us Officer Bubbles. And financed his defamation action against YouTube out the public purse. [0]

I'm sure the Professional Standards division will be all over an assault by officers on a member of the public.

[0]http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2010/10/16/officer_bubbles_s... plus many others.

Hey, great point ! I wanted to buy property in Thailand but found I'm not legally allowed to because I'm not a Thai citizen.

That's got me thinking, what about the social responsibility of southeast Asians towards Americans who have been denied for decades the opportunity to own property and live in southeast Asian countries?

Every country has it's own laws about who can settle and work and under what conditions. America does it and so do 'Southeast Asian' countries and everywhere in-between.

Thailand decides who can own property (or work) there. It's neither racist (as you seem to imply - but perhaps you mean only when it's America?) nor is it evil.

Guess, I'll just need to suck it up and go without that great beach house in Thailand.

I'm really surprised there is no mention of SOGo (http://www.sogo.nu/).

It has a nice mail interface plus calendaring and even provides mobile device integration via an Exchange compatible interface (so your mobile device calendar and email integrates using the Exchange connector).

I've never understood why it does not get more traction (or mention on HN).

The blog has the date (at the end) and also prominently at the top :

"UPDATE: Google has corrected this behavior as of Android OS 5.0 (“Lollipop”)"

However, it is very odd that the account was created 24 days ago and has submitted 20 pages from the same site since then. It does look like some sort of paid advertising or site traffic generation account.

Perhaps one for HN mods to look at a bit more closely.

The downvotes for the original poster in this thread are probably due to the rather vitriolic sounding language used.

But, setting that aside and responding to your question :

It's ironic that if you had ever followed Private Eye, you would have read all the details of money laundering through London; the original article is really about exactly that and how people can use anonymous companies (often in Nevis) to launder huge sums through London property and the lack of action by UK authorities even when egregious abuses take place.

So, a starting link is http://www.private-eye.co.uk/registry - EXACTLY the one that this discussion is about.

If there is other evidence to meet balance of probabilities, it's irrelevant whether you say something or not. Saying something is more likely to cause you trouble and open up avenues to hang you out to dry.

Of course, were that to be the case, any sensible lawyer would tell you to make a settlement pre-trial. That way the 5th is never an issue, nor is any testimony which would otherwise go on official record and be searchable for all time.

Unfortunately, that's not how the "politically & economically powerful demographic in the world" works.

What you will see is lots of new laws to crack down on hackers, encryption and any type of computing not specifically 'approved' by some sort of security overlord department.

Look at what the UK is proposing (way before AM became news) and you'll have a rough starting point.

The laws will be the exact opposite of improved privacy.

Why is it that suddenly lots of people are commenting about Android spying as much as Win10 ? This has never been a hugely commented upon topic but, as soon as concerns are raised about Win10, lots of people seem to respond that it's not as bad as Android.

It's almost like it's been a prepared response designed to distract attention from the problem (Win10 privacy) and try and deflect onto Android (and hence give Google a kick in the nuts in the process).

The issue is privacy in Win10. If you're concerned about privacy in Android, post something related to that and make the comments there.

It has long been discussed within the Jewish community that lots of children of survivors can be really screwed up - not just their parents.

This sounds like an attempt to examine this to find something other than anecdotal evidence and to see if there is something more going on.

However, so much time has passed, that getting good sample sizes is difficult (i.e. you need parent DNA from living parents as well as child DNA and there are now very few survivors left alive). The DNA science necessary for the study came along too late for there to be a good sample size still available.

The research could have considerable application if it is found to hold true - there are many, many situations where we could be setting up future generations in need of help (e.g. Iraq, Syria to name just 2). If there is a genetic change component, gene therapy applications could be part of a better planned approach to address issues suffered in 20, 30 or more, years time.

Sounds like you were on the losing end of some strong arm tactics. Or did I read your comment wrongly?

Holy crap !

"1 – Does my Multifunction Printer need a CAL?

Yes, if the multifunction printer is connected to a Windows Server network. A multifunction printer accesses server software to; receive an IP address, to receive a job, to communicate that the job is finished, etc"

So if your printer gets a DHCP address from your windows server, the printer needs a CAL !

And that's the #1 item they list.

And then there's #5 (which you mention) which has the caveat which could mean you need a CAL for anyone on the internet accessing your web server.

Despite Tony Blair pushing through changes to allow corporate bodies to use defamation laws, it's still pretty rare and an uphill struggle. The McLibel case showed how dangerous it is for a company to resort to that sort of litigation.

They spent millions, had an array of hilarious 'mom & apple pie' witnesses flown in from the US and managed to lose on many points (but not all) and were left with a useless judgment which they can never collect on as they were stupid enough to sue two people with no assets or any prospect of having any.

They did however, become a laughing stock in the legal world and have an array of TV programs and plays, mocking them mercilessly. Plus some of the, till then, unproven, claims of disgusting practice ended up being proven and therefore repeatable without risk - which was not the case beforehand.

Defamation actions are never a good way to go. Even winning one does not generally help you much.

Working in the legal system for many years, it was always very clear that these are courts of law, never courts of justice.

The legal system requires minor technical hurdles to be passed to "prove" guilt. Experienced prosecutors know that the facts of a case are irrelevant (as demonstrated here, very starkly). Get enough of your check-boxes filled in and you "win" and you're up for promotion based on all your wins (or election to higher office etc.). That's all a prosecutor is interested in (i.e. their own promotion, building a track record of winning).

Justice, I'm afraid, does not get a look in. Sometimes, by coincidence, it may meet, but that's never by design on the prosecution side.

Facebook (et al) already hand over user data to UK and other authorities. There is no need for any MITM certificate and even if there was, these companies would just do it since it makes it easier for them to say to authorities they already have the key to read it without involving Facebook - instant plausible deniability for Facebook to say we don't hand over info to authorities and full access for Governments everywhere.

Sadly I too found it was screwed a few days ago when trying to pull some source code hosted there (ironically so I would have my own copy in case things went wrong there...). I just got their 'Disaster Recovery Mode' notice and a subset of binary packages available.

Lots of google searching for what's wrong with Sourceforge revealed nothing (other than complaints about their packaged installers/crapware). Now I have the answer to the question I was really asking.

I just need to wait and see if the developers of the packages I need will somehow migrate to github so I can get the source...