Corporal_Punishment
@Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk
- Comment on VPN ban on table in July as Labour confirm 'further statement' 1 day ago:
They’ll just make it impossible to download them.
They’ll instruct Google and apple to stop hosting the apps on mobile and They’ll threaten the big ones like Proton with legal action if they continue to offer them to British customers.
So it’ll push legit users to dodgy VPNS.
As for employers, like any government they won’t have thought of this
- Comment on UK could keep special pre-Brexit terms if it rejoined EU, Michel Barnier says | Brexit 1 day ago:
Sold.
When do we sign up?
- Comment on Lifeguards 3 days ago:
I mean,it’s not a terrible idea
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There are dozens of us!
- Comment on Drugs gang leader who sent 23,000 texts jailed 1 week ago:
So he is actually a 14 year old girl in 2002?
- Comment on Man allowed to drive off from nursery with wrong child 1 week ago:
Well put. Yet another person completely over reacting.
Yes, it could have been bad, but it wasn’t. Someone who keeps bleating after they’ve had an apology and the promises of a full investigstion to make sure it doesn’t happen again is usually someone who wants compo
- Comment on Do cops and soldiers go thru training to not freak out or get sick the first time they see an adult body? What about a kid or something? Or does it depend on the situation theie walking into? 1 week ago:
Haha no. Most people who died from natural causes were found by family members and we wouldn’t be involved. We were only called because it started as a concern for safety call and we were needed to force entry.
As a trainee I needed the experience with all different types of job so my tutor would cherry pick incidents and take us to stuff like this to broaden what I was exposed to.
- Comment on Do cops and soldiers go thru training to not freak out or get sick the first time they see an adult body? What about a kid or something? Or does it depend on the situation theie walking into? 1 week ago:
When i was in the police (UK) we did crime scene training, and a few hours of it involved talking about how we can try and cope when seeing a dead body for the first time.
The advice we were given is that basically they are no longer a person. They are a fleshy meat sack which we should consider as being evidence of a potential crime. We were told to ignore the body and concentrate on the scene.
What can we see/smell/hear. Document everything. Were lights on/off, were doors locked/unlocked. Windows open/closed. Smashed glass on the inside of the house or the outside.
It didn’t matter if it was suspicious or not. We were reminded we weren’t detectives, we weren’t there to solve a murder, just secure evidence.
And it worked. Found a dead person on my second day. She, like every other sinilar job I’d been to had died of natural causes. But I remembered my training and just did my job.
Other cops would rely on humour. Ignore the corpse, crack jokes.
And yes, we were shown pictures of incredibly gruesome scenes. My favourite was the embolism, looked like a scene from Saw.
- Comment on An economic draft? Drive to get young Neets in the military divides opinion 2 weeks ago:
Drones can be cheaper than live soldiers.
A british private - in year 1.
£26,500 salary.
£47,500 training/kit/accommodation/food
£fuck knows in national insurance and pension contributions.
That number increases each year as their salary does.
Unmanned drone costs -
£5000 for loitering munitions
£500 for consumer drones with grenades attached etc
- Comment on An economic draft? Drive to get young Neets in the military divides opinion 2 weeks ago:
You’re obviously not watching the news about the hundreds of automated drones in Ukraine…
Our military is unlikely to get larger in terms of manpower. I suspect for every soldier there will be 10 drones supporting them.
- Comment on Is there such a thing as a DVD player with a USB input where I can access the USB drive and skip the disk drive to watch movies on USB stick? Any good deals on them if they exist ? 2 weeks ago:
Anything made since around 2012 will have a USB for videos. Anything older and they tended to just be for photos
- Comment on 'Disgraceful' parking leaves village gridlocked 2 weeks ago:
Police have the power to remove vehicles causing an obstruction.
They should use it more often
- Comment on Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I should not be held responsible for the wrongdoing of men’ 2 weeks ago:
Fair, but that’s assuming he took it in even amounts, which some of the purchases suggests he didn’t.
And even with that amount of income, I’ve seen her statement where she says it was all his own money, but frankly I don’t believe her.
If you’re married, you will always have a rough idea about how much money you have in shared and individual accounts, and the idea that one of you can go out and spend £60k+ on a motorhome and another £80k+ on cars without having to discuss the purchase beforehand with your spouse isn’t a reality I’m familiar with.
The other stuff? Sure. But rocking up in a brand new electric car just seems a bit much to me. If my wife turned up with a new motorhome my first question would be “where did you get the money from”.
- Comment on Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I should not be held responsible for the wrongdoing of men’ 3 weeks ago:
The fact that she has denied knowing about it, not even questioning where all the extra money was coming from, and the police believed her is laughable.
- Comment on Salmonella infections in England at highest level in a decade, figures show 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t it be a shame if it was all the raw milk/barely cooked meat influencers who had been struck down.
- Comment on ‘My hospital room is unbearable’: how the heatwave is affecting Britons 3 weeks ago:
I work in a public building. Our office is essentially the loft, and its unbearable. The aircon stopped working years ago and will cost approx 30k to repair/replace. So it won’t be repaired/replaced.
- Comment on British canals are 2 to 4 ft deep and don't have currents. Did they not know how to simply stand up? 3 weeks ago:
They didn’t fall in. They lowered themselves in, they’re wearing waders and there are two of them to help each other if they need it
- Comment on Farage under mounting pressure to prove Russian hack claim 3 weeks ago:
Irrelevant. Doesn’t matter how it leaked, it still demonstrates that he is a slimy piece of shit
- Comment on The Bad Beer That’s an Incredible Beverage 3 weeks ago:
The choice isnt between IPA, stout and shitty piss water.
Other lagers do exist, as well as pilsner. In the UK in the hot temperature we’re currently having i enjoy Rheinbacher from Aldi/Lidl.
It’s light but also actually tastes good.
- Comment on What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV? 3 weeks ago:
Mine does really small, quiet barks and “runs” in her sleep. We think she’s chasing birds in her dreams which is her favourite daytime activity
- Comment on Senior civil servants to get bonuses for first time to reward ‘doers, not talkers’ 4 weeks ago:
And what about the people who actually do the work?
I worked for the civil service for 10 years. The only way to get any sort of pay rise was to get promoted. No bonuses, nothing.
So I left and got a similar job that pays 10k more
- Comment on Teenagers’ non-custodial sentences for rape under review, UK government says 4 weeks ago:
That judge needs his hard drive checking.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 4 weeks ago:
I agree
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 4 weeks ago:
I agree, 700k is suspiciously high but without additional information its hard to say what is driving it. Unless each separate component of a request is considered to be a separate request. But who knows
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 4 weeks ago:
To help understand, it might be useful to know that the basic principle in the UK is that communications networks are considered to be a public utility. Anything you do on that network is considered to be a public communication. Now the detail of what you’re actually doing is hidden becaise of encryption. But your identity is not.
Its the same principle as if you call or text people. Your phone number,like your IP is owned by the service provider.
Finding out who the IP is registered to is no different than asking a mobile company who the number belongs to.
Same as your car number plate.
Looking up an identifier to see who it is linked to isn’t an abuse of process
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 4 weeks ago:
I agree.
Requesting communications data from an ISP isn’t any of those things though.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 4 weeks ago:
A judge issuing a warrant just for the police to try and identify a suspect isn’t feasible or proportionate. Same logic would apply to requesting CCTV etc.
It would grind everything to a halt.
Where the warrant comes in is if you need to search a house and seize things.
As for the scale, I agree it does seem high. But like I said in another post, there isnt a cop in the land who has the time and inclination to put in subscriber requests just for the fun of it. The majority of those 700k requests will be on the back of a formal complaint/allegation of a crime.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 4 weeks ago:
You can change your IP/Mac.
Most people cant.
Most people when signing up to an email address don’t do that straight away, or they inadvertently log in using their real one at some point.
As for the first bit? No idea, I’m not from London. But 700,000 requests potentially represent 700,000 complaints from people about alleged criminal activity. Might be less, might be more. But I can tell you now, no cop in the land has the time or inclination to start searching for this stuff unless its a crime thats been reported to them.
And I’m guessing from your tone you obviously dont agree with any of it. Which begs the question, if you become a victim how would you feel if the police simply responded “yeah we don’t know whos doing it and we aren’t gonna bother trying to find out, good luck”?
- Comment on Question for The Boys fans: how can Vought International possibly, in-universe, “save” superhero reputations? 4 weeks ago:
“We can turn you into a super hero, in exchange you’ll have this explosive device implanted in your brain which is on a dead man’s switch”
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 4 weeks ago:
As always, a misleading story.
You’re minding your own business.
A stalker starts sending you threatening emails and messages saying they’re going to hunt you down and rape you.
You have no idea who it is, tried blocking them so they create a new account/buy a new ohone.
You report it to the police.
Police request communications data from the email provider to obtain an IP address. Also provides information that was given when the account was created, any geo-tagged data, any information about linked accounts that are used for 2fa/recovery.
They then request subscriber data from the ISP linked to the IP address, as well as things like the MAC to make sure they capture information about the device being used.
Now police have enough evidence to obtain a warrant to search the home address of the sender. They can seize the device (forensically linked earlier) and arrest the suspect for questioning.
This is exactly the process I followed many years ago. It kept an innocent woman safe and resulted in a potentially dangerous sex offender being arrested and dealt with.