I think it is typical that no electronic device can brought into secure areas. I don't know if the meetings described in the article constitute secure areas, but even if a real Apple Watch cannot be "hacked", conceivably, a fake Apple Watch could be created that would serve as a "spy watch." Never mind that there are "spy watches" readily available...
You Americans (journalists at Appleinsider) are so flipping ignorant of the rest of the world! The picture of Malcolm Turnbull., Prime Minister of Australia is NOT one of him "at a meeting" !! Any Australian junior school boy or girl will recognise that it is a picture of Turnbull at his seat in the Parliament in the House of Representatives. Rather than make a fool of yourselves and place doubt in our minds about other stuff you write, check your facts hey?
Michael Gove has an Apple Watch? I just got a lot cooler on the idea, I wouldn't want to be the same club as that weasel.
He also uses an iPhone, lives in a house, and has not cut off his testicles with a rusty garden tool, but there's no need to take the opposite actions of those with whom you disagree.
It's a joke, sausage; no need to take everything so literally.
Michael Gove has an Apple Watch? I just got a lot cooler on the idea, I wouldn't want to be the same club as that weasel.
He also uses an iPhone, lives in a house, and has not cut off his testicles with a rusty garden tool, but there's no need to take the opposite actions of those with whom you disagree.
It's a joke, sausage; no need to take everything so literally.
I can't imagine the mindset where you use hyperbole and are aware of it, then I reply with hyperbole yet thinks "cut off his testicles with a rusty garden tool" is to be taken literally. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Replace "Russia"with "UK"or "USA" in this story to see how much the facts of this story do not change.
But unlike Russia, the vocal critics of the U.K. or US governments don't end up censored, beaten, imprisoned, shot or poisoned with radioactive substances.
What the government is worried that someone may be watching and listening to what they are doing. People should be offended that the government is concern they someone maybe interesting in recording what they are doing. No different than the police harassing or arresting people for recording that they are doing. I am sorry government officer should not be allow to ban anything they could be used to record their activities. They have no expectation of privacy and they are required to be open at all time on their activities. Do not give me the national securities thing, they did not say they that, they said sensitive things, yeah how they going to screw the public sensitive.
Nah.... given enough time & money, ANY computer system can be hacked. . Any wise security person knows that it is impossible to keep hackers out of something they are determined to get into. The goal is to make it hard enough that they go elsewhere...
Actually, most so called hacks are not hacks at all, mostly phishing, and most real hacks need physical access to devices . If someone can do that they might as well just bug your regular watch
I think it is typical that no electronic device can brought into secure areas. I don't know if the meetings described in the article constitute secure areas, but even if a real Apple Watch cannot be "hacked", conceivably, a fake Apple Watch could be created that would serve as a "spy watch." Never mind that there are "spy watches" readily available...
People can just bug the watch or even the guy. Focusing on a device is just a red herring for click bait reasons
I think it is typical that no electronic device can brought into secure areas. I don't know if the meetings described in the article constitute secure areas, but even if a real Apple Watch cannot be "hacked", conceivably, a fake Apple Watch could be created that would serve as a "spy watch." Never mind that there are "spy watches" readily available...
People can just bug the watch or even the guy. Focusing on a device is just a red herring for click bait reasons
I think the difference is a single vector attack with a wide net, which is basically an Internet-connecting, computing device that isn't hardcoded. Sure, people can bug a watch, bug a person, bug a building, but those are targeted. I support their decision. The unlikeliness of the Apple Watch being remotely hacked and then recording info that is then sent back to a server and then later decoded shouldn't be the primary argument.
Any device with recording capability is best banned from any SCIF So information doesn't escape. And foreign government intrusion is never benign re "transparency". Putin, for instance, isn't a friend if British subjects.
Can anyone explain why the image is of the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull?
They are different countries, you know…
Only pic of a gov't official using an Apple Watch. At least he speaks with a Britishish accent.
Bloody ignorance again !! It's not funny !! No, Malcolm Tuurnbull speaks with an Australian accent. Repeat, Aussie accent! Otherwise you poor Americans speak with a "Brtitishish" accent also, despite the Boston tea party. Now, let's all say together, "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie,.. Oi, Oi Oi "
Can anyone explain why the image is of the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull?
They are different countries, you know…
Only pic of a gov't official using an Apple Watch. At least he speaks with a Britishish accent.
Bloody ignorance again !! It's not funny !! No, Malcolm Tuurnbull speaks with an Australian accent. Repeat, Aussie accent! Otherwise you poor Americans speak with a "Brtitishish" accent also, despite the Boston tea party. Now, let's all say together, "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie,.. Oi, Oi Oi "
Can anyone explain why the image is of the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull?
They are different countries, you know…
Only pic of a gov't official using an Apple Watch. At least he speaks with a Britishish accent.
Bloody ignorance again !! It's not funny !! No, Malcolm Tuurnbull speaks with an Australian accent. Repeat, Aussie accent! Otherwise you poor Americans speak with a "Brtitishish" accent also, despite the Boston tea party. Now, let's all say together, "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie,.. Oi, Oi Oi "
Be fair, he is incredibly posh. As I said above: Grammar boy with pretentions.
Better safe than sorry. Low probability x unlimited damage is a good enough reason not to wear a gadget to Parliament...
I agree, but the last word in your post should be 'cabinet', not 'parliament'. Parliament is open to the public and broadcast on radio (and the juicier bits are on the TV news each night), so no one needs to hack to know what is going on. Cabinet (the PM and senior ministers, usually meeting at 10 Downing Street) is where the important decisions are made.
Can anyone explain why the image is of the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull?
They are different countries, you know…
Only pic of a gov't official using an Apple Watch. At least he speaks with a Britishish accent.
Not really British-ish, just the affected accent of a Sydney Grammar boy with pretentions. The locals probably thought he sounded like Dick Van Dyke when he was at Oxford.
I'm surprised he didn't spring for an Edition, though.
He knows so little about technology (NBN) I suspect he's trying to work out how to read the time on it!
Michael Gove has an Apple Watch? I just got a lot cooler on the idea, I wouldn't want to be the same club as that weasel.
He also uses an iPhone, lives in a house, and has not cut off his testicles with a rusty garden tool, but there's no need to take the opposite actions of those with whom you disagree.
It's a joke, sausage; no need to take everything so literally.
I can't imagine the mindset where you use hyperbole and are aware of it, then I reply with hyperbole yet thinks "cut off his testicles with a rusty garden tool" is to be taken literally. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I... didn't?
But your reply suggested you were taking me seriously, and therefore needed some measure of dressing down. Why bother otherwise?
Anyway, I wasn't being serious. Apart from the bit about Michael Gove being a weasel.
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Be fair, he is incredibly posh. As I said above: Grammar boy with pretentions.
But your reply suggested you were taking me seriously, and therefore needed some measure of dressing down. Why bother otherwise?
Anyway, I wasn't being serious. Apart from the bit about Michael Gove being a weasel.