From almost no privacy to private information to be sold

[Evan]

Netgear 'fixes' router by adding phone-home features that record your IP and MAC address

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/2 ... me_feature

That should help with Netgear sales.

[Evan]

https://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2017 ... internet/1

The Conservative Party has announced, as part of its manifesto for the upcoming snap election, that it plans to create a new national network to replace the Internet as a means of allowing the government full control over what is said and done online.

It contains a pledge to, effectively, ban the Internet in favour of a Chinese-style walled garden system over which the UK government can exert complete control.

[fulalas]

Man... They're losing their minds!

[Rava]

Finally the UK believes in the Vision of the fluffy book called 1984.

...

In case someone did not get it: that was sarcasm. ..

[Evan]

China orders mobile app stores to remove VPN apps

Tue Jun 27

http://boingboing.net/2017/06/27/great- ... -apps.html

Starting July 1, the official Android and Apple App stores will no longer allow Chinese users to download the VPN apps that Chinese people rely upon in order to get around the Great Firewall of China, which censors information in China and surveils Chinese peoples' use of the net.

VPNs are banned in China, unless they register with the government and escrow their keys, enabling state surveillance and censorship of VPN users' internet access.

[anajames]

Netgear 'fixes' router by adding phone-home features that record your IP and MAC address

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/2 ... me_feature

That should help with Netgear sales.

Definitely it would.

[anajames]

China orders mobile app stores to remove VPN apps

Tue Jun 27

http://boingboing.net/2017/06/27/great- ... -apps.html

Starting July 1, the official Android and Apple App stores will no longer allow Chinese users to download the VPN apps that Chinese people rely upon in order to get around the Great Firewall of China, which censors information in China and surveils Chinese peoples' use of the net.

VPNs are banned in China, unless they register with the government and escrow their keys, enabling state surveillance and censorship of VPN users' internet access.

VPN brands surely loosing a big market then if this is implemented.

[anajames]

But i guess there would be some hack for it already in place since the news is out.
What do you have to say people about this?

[Rava]

^
I presume it is only harder for the people to get the VPN software...

[Evan]

Android and Apple App stores

VPNs are banned in China, unless they register with the government and escrow their keys, enabling state surveillance.

I'm guessing the point of the story is not about how people go about getting a VPN but the fact that Android and Apple as a large software supplier operating in China are not complying with Chinese surveillance laws so have been forced to remove software.

Beijing has rejected President Obama's criticism of its plan to make tech companies put backdoors in their software and share their encryption keys if they want to operate in China.

[Evan]

Create a user called '0day', get bonus root privs – thanks, Systemd!
It's not a bug, it's a feature

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/0 ... _accounts/

[fulalas]

Hahahaha! Man, this is getting really funny. Look at this statement of the main developer.

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Lennart Poettering, one of the lead maintainers of systemd, insisted the software is working as intended and declined to implement changes.

"I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here," he wrote. 

This is so predictable! So open source

[Evan]

Is Linux Deepin Spyware?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9eiErGo6u0

Funded by the Chinese Government and people are now also suspicious of Ubuntu Kylin

ubuntu.com/desktop/ubuntu-kylin

Ubuntu Kylin is an official flavour of Ubuntu. It is a free PC operating system created for China and complies with the Chinese government procurement regulations.

[Evan]

This is so predictable! So open source

He's getting nearly as good Torvalds for stirring people up.

[fulalas]

He's getting nearly as good Torvalds for stirring people up.

Linus is rude, but at least he takes good decisions regarding development. This guy from systemd seems more like the major open source developers with that god's syndrome, always denying any problem even when it's reproduced by a large number of users. I'm dealing with this recently when reporting bugs to LXQt developers; the first thing is denial, then being rude and finally just giving a fuck about everything, hahaha!