Nah. MaacTripper isn't anywhere near as insulting or juvenile and he doesn't usually engage in personal attacks. You might disagree with his points of view, (I know I do a lot), but he's nothing like teckstud was.
Totally different "voice" or writing style anyway, and those are hard to fake.
Password protected means the files themselves are not accessible without the password, but that's trivial to bypass if your hacked into the system hosting the pictures.
Encrypted means the files themselves are scrambled and can only be unscrambled with the password on the device itself, using the processor on the device.
What that does is if someone who wants to see your private pictures has to hack your device, when you got it turned on and within range of wifi or cell, AND break the encryption or wait till you do.
This is much harder to do and less of a reward, than hacking the entire MobileMe system with a simple password protection and getting ALL the pictures from everyone. Like it already has occurred for other "cloud" based systems and even Facebook.
And what happens to the access of my files if/when my device gets stolen/lost?
Like it, but was really hoping for the ability to create new galleries from my iPhone.
I like to shoot quick video with the iPhone, upload it to MobileMe, and send a share link to view it. I do this for family, friends, clients, whatever - it's really easy. BUT, sometimes I just want to add a video into a brand new gallery for whatever reason, which I have to use a browser on my mac to do - slight pain!
Really it should be the full feature set - create / rename / delete, etc, with ability to delete photos and videos as well.
P.S. MacTripper has long been on my ignore list - all of you could easily save yourselves the bother of reading his drivel.
Any encryption the average person is willing to put with is not security. This whole thread has become silly, the worry about things you can't control is destructive.
And what happens to the access of my files if/when my device gets stolen/lost?
First of all Mactipper is just looking to argue, I have an awesome idea, don't use it, go make your own, pay for it and sell it, if not drop it because you are stealing oxygen... few now that's out of the way. In relation to loosing your phone you have a few options. First you should have a lock screen on the phone with a code in the first place, if you don't you may log into your mobileme account on-line, lock the phone, locate it through maps and get it back. If that does not work you may also remote wipe the whole phone at last resort. Hope that answers your question newbee
Third, Google, because of the attack on emails of Chinese human rights folks, has just enabled HTTPS as standard to access Gmail. It's not full encryption of the emails, just the secure communication between their servers and the users device. So it's a start.
The best option would be to integrate encryption all the time, instead of waiting for something bad to happen.
This whole argument is based on the premise that there's something "bad" about
people seeing your family member in a public place. This is a sad, unfortunate,
pitiful fear: that there's a bad person hiding behind every bush and internet
connection, waiting to take images of your family member and do something
with them. That fear is enhanced and encouraged by overblown media reports
on the rare occasions that something like that does happen, but in reality, most
people (even those taking snapshots in public places) are simply nice people
doing ordinary, harmless things.
And, EVEN IF someone decided to doctor up a photo of one of your family members
and make them look like Conan the Barbarian, or a person of ill-repute, or
the President of Kafiristan -- what harm has really been done to the person?
None. A photograph doesn't steal your soul, and a doctored photograph does
not ruin your life.
Photos are not the same as emails containing financial information, or information
that could get a dissident thrown into a dark torture chamber for (the rest of their
short) life.
I back up my opinions with my actions. I have thousands of family photos
hosted on online photo sites, and none of them are encrypted. My relatives
and friends who live in other countries and states enjoy seeing what my kids
are up to and how they are growing, and my wife and I have even made a
few friends when people happen across our photos and have something nice
to say about them.
You'd enjoy life more if you didn't have such an irrational mistrust of your
fellow human beings. The world really isn't as scary as the nine-o-clock
Ya I suppose I'll have to work out my ignore list. Opinions stated as imperitives with snark thrown in make me want to cram a pencil in my ear for relief.
So your supposed to deny yourself the joy of private personal photo's on your mobile device just because Apple refuses to implement a encryption option?
Then just sync them with iTunes not MobileMe?
It might help if you actually used the products before bagging them & what evidence do you have that the password protected galleries aren't also encrypted?
This whole argument is based on the premise that there's something "bad" aboutpeople seeing your family member in a public place. This is a sad, unfortunate,
pitiful fear: that there's a bad person hiding behind every bush and internet
connection, waiting to take images of your family member and do something
with them. ...
Isn't that effectively what I said to him earlier with my response about that family member's already put the photos on Facebook, MySpace, and their SMS buddies...?
Anyways, you should see the hot pictures of some guy's wife in her teddy I just snagged off of his MobileMe page. :sizzle
People will take private photo's of themselves with the iPhone, store them in the "cloud" on MobileMe thinking it's private with a password protected, but not encrypted, like a option it should have.
good heavens, you are a negative fellow, aren't you? of course it's important to be aware of the dangers of the web, (and the dangers of life in general), but you seem to delight in seeing everything from a fatalistic and negative point of view, spiced with a bitter and angry twist.
if indeed you do have a 16 yo old daughter, i'm sure she is really enjoying life. "don't answer the door, it's sure to be a rapist. don't go near the windows, terrorist snipers are aiming at your bedroom, don't meet your friends, they're just taking advantage of you and will force you to take drugs"
Jeez! I put both those guys on ignore and now everybody is quoting their idiotic comments and spreading the spam. Trolls 1, me 0.
Ok,ok. My bad 2 cents. In my own defense, it was my first post on these forums and my second one I made a point of not quoting. I promise to try and play nice...er. (and I do realize my first quote starts a chain reaction of quotes and spreads the pain)
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Long time reader, first time poster. Thanks for having me. I have a question:Is Techstud now mactripper?
Welcome aboard.
Doesn't matter much to me.
He has already earned a coveted position on my ignore list.
Unfortunately I still see his comments when others reply to him.
Who at Apple got away with creating AND approving such a cheesy icon?
Wow, I see why you said that. It couldn't be uglier.
Long time reader, first time poster. Thanks for having me. I have a question:Is Techstud now mactripper?
Absolutely my thought as well. Techstud always made several, very rapid responses that were highly charged. I'd put my bets on it.
The more recent join date lends credence to this as well.
Mactripper=the new techstud
Admins, please take out the garbage.
Nah. MaacTripper isn't anywhere near as insulting or juvenile and he doesn't usually engage in personal attacks. You might disagree with his points of view, (I know I do a lot), but he's nothing like teckstud was.
Totally different "voice" or writing style anyway, and those are hard to fake.
And it begins...
I don't like my stuff being on the "cloud", especially in a unencrypted format.
Isn't Google finally realizing the mistakes they made?
Just because you have nothing to hide shouldn't mean you give up your right to privacy.
If its on MobileMe its on the cloud anyway, this app just let you to access that gallery
Wow, I see why you said that. It couldn't be uglier.
Yeah, me hates that icon. Not even attractive in a cheesy sort of way.
The icon on an app is sooo terribly important on the iPhone platform, but so many developers never seem to even think about it.
I can think of quite a few apps that I deleted for no other reason than I couldn't stand to look at some ugly icon a dozen times a day.
Password protected is not encrypted.
Password protected means the files themselves are not accessible without the password, but that's trivial to bypass if your hacked into the system hosting the pictures.
Encrypted means the files themselves are scrambled and can only be unscrambled with the password on the device itself, using the processor on the device.
What that does is if someone who wants to see your private pictures has to hack your device, when you got it turned on and within range of wifi or cell, AND break the encryption or wait till you do.
This is much harder to do and less of a reward, than hacking the entire MobileMe system with a simple password protection and getting ALL the pictures from everyone. Like it already has occurred for other "cloud" based systems and even Facebook.
And what happens to the access of my files if/when my device gets stolen/lost?
I like to shoot quick video with the iPhone, upload it to MobileMe, and send a share link to view it. I do this for family, friends, clients, whatever - it's really easy. BUT, sometimes I just want to add a video into a brand new gallery for whatever reason, which I have to use a browser on my mac to do - slight pain!
Really it should be the full feature set - create / rename / delete, etc, with ability to delete photos and videos as well.
P.S. MacTripper has long been on my ignore list - all of you could easily save yourselves the bother of reading his drivel.
The free, 0.7MB application requires iPhone OS version 3.1 or later.
While this is definitely cool, it's not cool enough to make me give up tethering via iPhone OS version 3.0.
Dave
And what happens to the access of my files if/when my device gets stolen/lost?
First of all Mactipper is just looking to argue, I have an awesome idea, don't use it, go make your own, pay for it and sell it, if not drop it because you are stealing oxygen... few now that's out of the way. In relation to loosing your phone you have a few options. First you should have a lock screen on the phone with a code in the first place, if you don't you may log into your mobileme account on-line, lock the phone, locate it through maps and get it back. If that does not work you may also remote wipe the whole phone at last resort. Hope that answers your question newbee
Third, Google, because of the attack on emails of Chinese human rights folks, has just enabled HTTPS as standard to access Gmail. It's not full encryption of the emails, just the secure communication between their servers and the users device. So it's a start.
The best option would be to integrate encryption all the time, instead of waiting for something bad to happen.
This whole argument is based on the premise that there's something "bad" about
people seeing your family member in a public place. This is a sad, unfortunate,
pitiful fear: that there's a bad person hiding behind every bush and internet
connection, waiting to take images of your family member and do something
with them. That fear is enhanced and encouraged by overblown media reports
on the rare occasions that something like that does happen, but in reality, most
people (even those taking snapshots in public places) are simply nice people
doing ordinary, harmless things.
And, EVEN IF someone decided to doctor up a photo of one of your family members
and make them look like Conan the Barbarian, or a person of ill-repute, or
the President of Kafiristan -- what harm has really been done to the person?
None. A photograph doesn't steal your soul, and a doctored photograph does
not ruin your life.
Photos are not the same as emails containing financial information, or information
that could get a dissident thrown into a dark torture chamber for (the rest of their
short) life.
I back up my opinions with my actions. I have thousands of family photos
hosted on online photo sites, and none of them are encrypted. My relatives
and friends who live in other countries and states enjoy seeing what my kids
are up to and how they are growing, and my wife and I have even made a
few friends when people happen across our photos and have something nice
to say about them.
You'd enjoy life more if you didn't have such an irrational mistrust of your
fellow human beings. The world really isn't as scary as the nine-o-clock
news makes it out to be.
So your supposed to deny yourself the joy of private personal photo's on your mobile device just because Apple refuses to implement a encryption option?
Then just sync them with iTunes not MobileMe?
It might help if you actually used the products before bagging them & what evidence do you have that the password protected galleries aren't also encrypted?
McD
If it wasn't for Unix under OS X, it would have been pawned long ago.
So if it wasn't for OSX being OSX it would have been pawned long ago?
McD
This whole argument is based on the premise that there's something "bad" aboutpeople seeing your family member in a public place. This is a sad, unfortunate,
pitiful fear: that there's a bad person hiding behind every bush and internet
connection, waiting to take images of your family member and do something
with them. ...
Isn't that effectively what I said to him earlier with my response about that family member's already put the photos on Facebook, MySpace, and their SMS buddies...?
Anyways, you should see the hot pictures of some guy's wife in her teddy I just snagged off of his MobileMe page. :sizzle
People will take private photo's of themselves with the iPhone, store them in the "cloud" on MobileMe thinking it's private with a password protected, but not encrypted, like a option it should have.
good heavens, you are a negative fellow, aren't you? of course it's important to be aware of the dangers of the web, (and the dangers of life in general), but you seem to delight in seeing everything from a fatalistic and negative point of view, spiced with a bitter and angry twist.
if indeed you do have a 16 yo old daughter, i'm sure she is really enjoying life. "don't answer the door, it's sure to be a rapist. don't go near the windows, terrorist snipers are aiming at your bedroom, don't meet your friends, they're just taking advantage of you and will force you to take drugs"
Jeez! I put both those guys on ignore and now everybody is quoting their idiotic comments and spreading the spam. Trolls 1, me 0.
Ok,ok. My bad 2 cents. In my own defense, it was my first post on these forums and my second one I made a point of not quoting. I promise to try and play nice...er. (and I do realize my first quote starts a chain reaction of quotes and spreads the pain)