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Jun. 20th, 2023 01:10 am
First sighting of the new bus tracker signs. Really looking forward to
them replacing the current one, which is getting increasingly
dodgy.
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Jun. 20th, 2023
Interesting Links for 20-06-2023
Jun. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. This is how much restaurants are really making from your meal
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- 2. Keir Starmer's flip-flopping is becoming a huge danger for the Labour Party
- (tags:labour politics UK )
- 3. Japan to open up Apple and Google app stores to competition
- (tags:Japan apple android regulation )
- 4. Two Ways to Visualize Canada's Wildfires
- (tags:canada fire viewDewline )
- 5. Google doesn't want its employees using code created by its own AI
- (tags:ai coding google )
- 6. Mum's microbes might boost brain development of c-section babies
- (tags:babies vagina birth brain )
- 7. Edinburgh's Smart City programme
- (tags:Edinburgh technology viaJackie )
Why are government ministers allowed to have secret conversations about government business on insecure, foreign-owned, channels?
Shouldn't they be forced to use secure apps run by their security forces, set up to archive important matters?
This would then, for a start, avoid the whole "We used a random chat app we heard about from a mate, and then a big boy stole my phone, so there's no record of my conversations about the billions-worth of handouts to my friends."
And it's not like any of this is that hard. Matrix, an open source, secure protocol is used in parts of the French, German, U.K, Swedish, Finnish and U.S governments, as well as the likes of NATO and adjacent organizations. The UK government could trivially run its own servers, or invest in an alternative if there was a really good reason to. Or, fuck it, set up Teams, which at least allows you to control, monitor, and archive messages.
To quote a friend who works in the communications industry:
Shouldn't they be forced to use secure apps run by their security forces, set up to archive important matters?
This would then, for a start, avoid the whole "We used a random chat app we heard about from a mate, and then a big boy stole my phone, so there's no record of my conversations about the billions-worth of handouts to my friends."
And it's not like any of this is that hard. Matrix, an open source, secure protocol is used in parts of the French, German, U.K, Swedish, Finnish and U.S governments, as well as the likes of NATO and adjacent organizations. The UK government could trivially run its own servers, or invest in an alternative if there was a really good reason to. Or, fuck it, set up Teams, which at least allows you to control, monitor, and archive messages.
To quote a friend who works in the communications industry:
There are extraordinarily strict rules for people in the public and private sectors who work with national security and the consequences for breaking privacy, using the wrong platforms, within the wrong environments includes anything up to dismissal and prison. Incredibly invasive background checks, moreso if national security is involved, are required to even *get* these jobs. That *MPs* are somehow magically exempt from these things is beyond reason.