billybob88

Who cares. No one is forced to use the facial recognition feature.

[1] Google keeps their handsets up to date. They even have Android O and 7.1.2 images for current handsets. They make it clear they do not support devices older than 2 years.

[2] If you buy a device from another party, like Samsung, LG, etc. it is not Google's fault if they do not provide the updates. Or if the carrier is no longer doing updates. That is like the milk farmer complaining that the cupcake shop is using expired milk in their products.

[3] Please have a look and see the MacOS breakdown figures. While Windows 10 might only be on 400 million devices, MacOS is just as fragmented as other operating systems. IOS has such a high upgrade rate because Apple forces you to roll up the new version. Your device might be fine, but do a restore and it gets updated. Other devices you can roll back to older versions if needed.

[4] Just because Apple now has a font doesn't make them king of the GPU world now. What they have done is good, but the competition is just as good - and more focussed on a single product. You can't tell me the company that can't even make a Pro macbook is all of a sudden going to make a Pro GPU.

DanielEran said:

rogifan_new said:

So it's curious because The iPad didn't score #1? Hasn't Apple been #1 with this survey before?

I don't think of Surface as a tablet but I guess because it's multi touch and the keyboard is detachable it's classified as such. 

Curious in that JD Power has been doing this for 6 years, and each report is based on a different set of criteria. Microsoft Surface wasn't in previous reports (despite being more of a tablet 2012-2014 before canceling the whole ARM WinRT thing. Microsoft bills Surface Pro as a MBA competitor.

2016 report has the Surface as one point below the iPad
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-surface-apples-ipad-in-customer-satisfaction-dead-heat/

How can we trust anything from someone who can't even find last year's report?

9secondkox2 said:

ttollerton said:

"Dumb it down for America."  Nice. Now you've pissed off a larger demographic - including your own readers.  Lol.  Well done.  And what the hell does being American have anything to do with this dialogue?

And as the majority of commenters have noted, the analogy was not apt.  So, it's not as clever as you seem to think.   

Is that actually what he said before he edited his post?

if so, very troubling. And no it wasn't clever. It was an attempt at being clever without having any real genius behind it. Kind of a shame as most of his stuff is well researched  

Yes, this is on his Twitter. 

Articles like this put AI at a disservice. The other articles are normally based around product launches, or releases or the like.
They are informative, a little biased but a good source to refer to.

However once every couple of days we get these "Editorial" pieces that come in, that remind me of a seagull that comes and leaves a big splat of poo on a clean floor.
Don't let the seagull ruin a good site.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/04/14/protecting-customers-and-evaluating-risk/
From Microsoft themselves.

"A spokesperson for Microsoft said that it is "reviewing the report and will take the necessary actions to protect our customers." yet they had a blog post up YESTERDAY already.

DanielEran said:

billybob88 said:

also "In any case, there's no way they can implement the same kind of security policy that Apple developed for Touch ID and Apple Pay"

Here's a tip DED - Apple Pay is just VSTS - Visa Token Services https://usa.visa.com/partner-with-us/payment-technology/visa-digital-solutions.html and guess what, it's just as secure as the other systems. 

The issue isn't tokenization. it's how the hardware can be attacked. If you read the article that jumps out rather clearly. 

Also, you don't hand your phone to random merchants. You do frequently do this with cards, particularly in the US. That give anyone access to a card with your prints already all over it for a long enough time to capture your print data while in possession of the card. 

So all around, having a sensor on the card is radically worse in terms of real world security than having an expensive phone that you don't hand around to others. 

Your criticism is welcome, but if you keep posting abusive comments your account will be terminated. Forums are provided for intelligent discourse on articles. 

Please do tell how the hardware can be hacked.

"There is no battery in the card. Instead, it is powered up only when it is inserted into a card reader, which provides power during the transaction. 

This obviously means the print data isn't disabled when power is lost (because it's lost all the time when it's not in use), meaning that a lost card could be attacked with a false print at any point between being lost and discovered and reported stolen. It never resets."

EMV cards (the "chip") in the credit card is a really sophisticated piece of technology with processor(s) as well. These things wipe themselves securely when they detect tampering, and are fully encrypted. This technology has all but killed the satellite/cable hacking cards from years ago, and it's proved almost impossible to clone a chip/pin card. The EMV "hacks" that was published at BlackHat a few years ago was about a man in the middle due to bad implementations on the card reader software, nothing with the card itself. If someone is able to hack this hardware, they have managed to create a billion dollar industry for themselves across many systems.

So no, based on the capabilities of the chips and the success it has shown on previous implementations I don't believe that there is much cause for concern.