Re: [LINK] This incredibly simple privacy app helps protect your phone from snoops with one click

2018-11-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On 13/11/18 4:57 pm, Kim Holburn wrote: The problem is that DNS is currently basically broken. DNS requests go unencrypted, in the clear and there is no kind of proof that the answer has not been read or tampered with. This (app) solves one part of that problem and not well really. The

Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

2018-11-12 Thread Karl Auer
On Tue, 2018-11-13 at 15:16 +1100, Jim Birch wrote: > I'm not being rhetorically obtuse.  I want explicit information: > risks, likelihood estimates. Can you provide the same for the putative benefits? Come on - explicit information please! > The reason I ask is I believe that this argument is >

Re: [LINK] This incredibly simple privacy app helps protect your phone from snoops with one click

2018-11-12 Thread Kim Holburn
The problem is that DNS is currently basically broken. DNS requests go unencrypted, in the clear and there is no kind of proof that the answer has not been read or tampered with. This (app) solves one part of that problem and not well really. The connection between you and one or two DNS

Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

2018-11-12 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 13/11/2018 3:16 pm, Jim Birch wrote: > My approach to this would be to ask for solid quantifiable facts. So what > explicit risks do you see? How likely? How serious is the harm? (Most > importantly from my point of view how does it weigh up the the potential > benefits of the shared health

Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

2018-11-12 Thread Jim Birch
Karl Auer Can you genuinely not see how misuse of medical information might hurt > you, or how a Government might wish to use it for purposes that we the > population may not want or approve of? If you genuinely cannot, then > say so and we will try to elucidate. But I fear you are being >

Re: [LINK] This incredibly simple privacy app helps protect your phone from snoops with one click

2018-11-12 Thread Christian Heinrich
Kim, On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 10:16, Kim Holburn wrote: > > A cool feature of Cloudflare’s DNS service, at the IP address 1.1.1.1, is > > that it supports encryption. So an ISP, government, or hacker also can’t > > read the requests you send to Cloudflare’s server by trying to intercept > > the

Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

2018-11-12 Thread Karl Auer
On Tue, 2018-11-13 at 10:52 +1100, Jim Birch wrote: > David wrote: > > But the problem with MHRecord lies in it's unknown objectives > > Please explain what you imagine these "unknown objectives" might be > in concrete language and how they might hurt me. Can you genuinely not see how misuse of

Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

2018-11-12 Thread David
On Tuesday, 13 November 2018 10:52:20 AEDT Jim Birch wrote: > David wrote: > But the problem with MHRecord lies in it's unknown objectives > Please explain what you imagine these "unknown objectives" might be in > concrete language and how they might hurt me. It sound very like fairies at >

Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

2018-11-12 Thread Jim Birch
David wrote: But the problem with MHRecord lies in it's unknown objectives Please explain what you imagine these "unknown objectives" might be in concrete language and how they might hurt me. It sound very like fairies at the bottom on the garden talk. Sorry, goblins. > Longitudinal

Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

2018-11-12 Thread Karl Auer
On Tue, 2018-11-13 at 09:32 +1100, Jim Birch wrote: > What are your improved design element? How often do we have to point them out? 1: Uploaded documents should be inaccessible by default (except to the user) 2: The user should be able to upload any document. 3: The user should be able to

Re: [LINK] RFC: Guidelines re Avoiding Looking Like a Scammer

2018-11-12 Thread Tom Worthington
On 12/11/18 5:23 pm, Roger Clarke wrote: ... Is anyone aware of guidance for marketers ... No, but we do teach this stuff to IT students, some of whom are doing business degrees: http://www.tomw.net.au/basic_ict_professional_ethics/#ch170110 There doesn't appear to be anything on this in

[LINK] AFR: UberAir Ride-Sharing to be Piloted, then Autonomous

2018-11-12 Thread Roger Clarke
[The arrogance of GenY corporations is breathtaking: >"We're trying to work within the existing set of aviation regulations" [The law is just another impediment, just another thing that disruptive technologies need to break. [The basic proposition that vehicles-for-short-notice-hire could be

[LINK] This incredibly simple privacy app helps protect your phone from snoops with one click

2018-11-12 Thread Kim Holburn
https://www.fastcompany.com/90265744/this-incredibly-simple-privacy-app-helps-protect-your-phone-from-snoops-with-one-click > A cool feature of Cloudflare’s DNS service, at the IP address 1.1.1.1, is > that it supports encryption. So an ISP, government, or hacker also can’t read > the requests

Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

2018-11-12 Thread Jim Birch
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 at 17:28, David wrote: It's not even a document-management system as far as I can tell, it's more > of a badly designed drop-box. > I don't quite understand what you're saying here. It is a document management system as a matter of fact because it actually manages

Re: [LINK] The "health" record security model

2018-11-12 Thread Stephen Loosley
Perhaps of interest, an American doctor’s perspective .. “Sometimes, before I interview new patients, while I’m waiting for them to be transported from the emergency department to the medical floor, I play a game. I look through their lab tests. I peruse their imaging studies. I read other