5 Eyes

I really do think that Wayne McAlpine is rather stupid to conclude that my comments on the activities of security services, as revealed by Edward Snowden about the NSA, are just a "cover" for my own activities.

I have been interested in privacy and security long before I commented on his rather seedy attempts at doing business as a computer data recovery specialist.

This continues today as there is more nonsense coming out of the Oval Office. This is now coupled with the similar nonsense of Social Media and my continued distain for Facebook and Twitter.

American Fingerprints

The Trump administration is "out-to-lunch" to suggest that their own intelligence agents have nothing to do with the alleged "spying" at Trump Towers ordered by Obama.

The NSA and CIA are closely in-bed with GCHQ as was pointed out by Edward Snowden. They are not just spying on The Donald but everyone in the US and the UK!

I guess I should not be surprised that Donald Trump suggests, or rather Sean Spicer, that GCHQ were the ones that did the snooping as his relationship with the US intelligence services are bad enough as they are.

A little bird

.... tells me that someone in Saskatoon has not been reporting all his business activity and income to CRA.

It is also suggested that this person had been banned from driving, perhaps it was a case of "Road Rage"?

All in all I am sure that the person in question will get justice metered out to them eventually.

A visit from Osoyoos, British Columbia

This was on the 12th March.

It was strange that the visit was to my post on Dubious Business. The post that Wayne McAlpine complained to Google about!

Looking on the Chilling Effects Clearing House website (a service that keeps a record of complaints such as DMCA violations) it showed that Google had looked at the post and determined that there as nothing wrong with what I had said.

Osoyoos is not too far from Kelowna, too much of a coincidence if you ask me. Joshua Sham tells me that Terry Bradshaw is a "reasonable guy", the question is regarding the company that he kept in 2011/2012. If he wants to discuss this further I encourage him to do so.

Joshua also says the same about Anthony Mannella. I would email him but the email on his LinkedIn profile wants me to register on LinkedIn for "full access". I am not going to do that as I despise LinkedIn almost as much as I do Wayne McAlpine.

IoT

The Internet of Things - why is it that so much nonsense surrounds it?

I posted earlier with regard to "connected devices" - today John Humphries was interviewing Donald Toon the Director of Prosperity (Economic crime and cyber crime) at the NCA - it was if John was winding Donald Toon up. He was goading Donald with the example of a freezer connected to the Internet and seemed to be trying to get him to explain how said freezer could "attack" poor defenceless companies with a DDoS.

While I realise that there are going to be more and more Internet Connected devices in the near future, I really do think that it is being over-played. I really think that there are more important things to be concerned about with respect to changing the security settings of such devices. I really do think that users need to be educated about the perils of Social Engineering across the board rather than getting people all concerned about toasters and fridges.