Sadly England seems to be.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-23727511

That isn't paranoia.

A rather large bomb was set off by the IRA in 1996 within walking distance of the sorting office in the article. There have been multiple bombs planted recently in NI itself.

NI?

Northern Ireland.

Yep I got this too, beta.bbc.co.uk 443 cert etc.

No other site would load either until I disabled the extension.

The author was given the tricky task of padding out 60 or so words to nearly 1000, it's almost prose.

The hypocrisy is truly hilarious, lambasting others for "Antitrust violations". They can still be the victim here though, I'm not ruling that out at all.

Microsoft is truly synonymous with Antitrust in my mind, on an unparalleled level. With regards to Windows/Xbox/anything they can really.

I don't think Google are playing fair here either, but MSFT are hitting new levels of childishness in my mind. If MSFT truly believe it's unfair, why not take them to court in CA for Antitrust? Take a shot at being on the side receiving the settlement for once.

Um, it is prose.

They didn't, it was the first one I looked for:

_______ Hacker - Cheesy for anything with the possible exception of a job with the specific responsibility of finding security exploits.

I find the Leap part of BTT (BetterTouchTool) is actually... err.. use-worthy..? Neither useful nor useless.

I've got some really cool (still a big part for me) and useful stuff working, augmenting my mouse/keyboard use. For example, a finger to the left minimises and two fingers to the right opens a list of recently used apps.

Yet I'm very conscious that everything would just be better suited to a keyboard shortcut..

I never bothered with Touchless and mouse emulation things; years of 2D GUI design isn't suited to this kind of interface. "Midnight" is a my favourite Leap app but I think that's just an iPad app that lends itself very well to the leap input too.

It seems from the video/screenshot [1] that they are just adding VPN settings (still cool).

[1] https://mediacru.sh/QGOXHRWC9fpZ

Sort of. :-) We're using iOS's VPN capabilities but not actually running a VPN. As the Wireshark session in the video shows (but please verify yourself!), blocked tracking requests never leave your iPhone or iPad (are never sent) with Disconnect Kids installed.

(I'm one of the devs.)

Hi, Can you explain how it works in some more detail?

It's all in the video!

http://youtu.be/HverdXMmuEE

I saw the video. I was asking how is the app able to block the tracking on the whole iOS device? What does the configuration profile this app installs exactly do?

I keep seeing these Renew people dance around this whole "identifying information" thing.

Maybe they clarified it somewhere along the line, but I read the quartz article and the one before.

I can't think of anything more identifying that I carry than my MAC address(es). So say my MAC is 01:23:45:67:89:ab and Renew anonymizes this to "0001", clearly that's just as identifiable.

I genuinely can't think of a reason to gather MAC addresses other than to use them for profiling.

The human footfall/bean counter thing is great [1], but not worth any money to anyone. Seems more like a PoC...

I don't know a lot about AI recognition but I'd have thought you could have a camera counting people fairly easily.

I actually don't personally mind, I think it's fair game unless the government says it isn't - and then I can go back to just the worry of blackhats.

So unless I'm very mistaken this Reveal/Orb company are either building profiles, plan to, or have a business plan [1] that is going nowhere big.

[1] http://www.littlesheep-learning.co.uk/images/Tally_Counter.j...

It seems pretty clear from the way they talk about it that they're tracking who sees each ad on each bin in exactly the same way google tracks who sees each ad on each web page. The obvious next step for such a technology is to show specific ads only when people who might care about them are nearby. It's pretty genius really - it would put them miles ahead of other physical ad companies, at least until the rest started doing it too.

But yes, the obvious downside is that instead of worrying about google knowing everywhere you go on the internet, you now have companies that know everywhere you go physically as well.

I agree feels very polished.

As an aside the 4.000 images over 4,000 on the API pricing thing is temporarily confusing;

I'm guessing you're from the EU which is cool, but then pricing is in dollars. Anyway pretty sure it's an obvious mistake so no need for me to harp on.

I didn't think this article was very good at all, I've read all this before.

These are just Stallman's exact ideas rehashed under hotwords like Snowden & SaaS...

I'd usually try not to whine but I'm not even sure if the quotes they use are from the talk or from years ago.

Probably both. Like a lot of other speakers, Stallman has a few canned speeches. He asks the organizers which one they want, and he gives it. It probably evolves over time, but the differences are minor.

The issues Stallman talks about have not changed much over the last 20 years, so his speeches haven't either.

I attended this talk and he spoke about Snowden/SaaS for like maybe 5% of the total talk time. Misleading article indeed.

I felt the same thing when I read the BBC article last night. I think the circumstances alone are suspicious regardless of the source.