Supposedly it tones down it's activity while a user is logged in and waits for the machine to go idle. Another reason to have centralized performance monitoring.
Absolutely. Metadata notwithstanding, highly encrypted payloads and highly compressed payloads should theoretically be almost indistinguishable from each other as both operations have a technical side-effect of extremely high data entropy.
What are they going to do ban math? That's all encryption is. Just because you block a few services isn't going to prevent anything from being encrypted. I can do end-to-end with just a couple of certificates. Are they going to ban PGP or TLS next? Is everyone going to have to install a Danish root cert, so the gov't can spy on everything?
According to the article they want to ban encrypted chat services. This is of course the dumbest implementation, as (as the article points out), everyone who uses encrypted messaging for illegal purposes will just switch to another lesser known service.
When it comes to the internet... I'd prefer it to stay like the wild west. Least amount of regulation beyond something like net neutrality. People forget that the reason we have all of these "free" services is because of ads and that's coming from someone who hates ads. Every streaming subscription I have, I pay for the ad-free service. Let the people who don't know how to install a browser extension or change a few settings pay for these things for the rest of us.
I observed a friend of mine click on a malicious ad link recently in front of me when driving a presentation for a community meeting. It was shown as an overlay for a seemingly harmless site I found. In my home with a pihole I didn't see any of the ads.
I felt terrible that I was partially responsible for her clicking it. This knowledge and habit of ad-blocking and secure computer usage takes factors of time, effort, and money to learn, and not everyone is going to, or is capable of, devoting what's needed.
I agree; it seems worth it. My wife, who resisted dropping cable for the longest time, now prefers adless streaming and asks if wifi is down, because ads popped on her phone. If it has a downside, it is that my kid now is fascinated by ads, when we are in the wild. She normally does not see them and thus has no internal firewall built up.
I've never seen an SLA that compensates for anything more than credit off your bill. I can't imagine a service that pays for loss of productivity, one outage and the whole company could be bankrupt. If your business depends on a cloud service for productivity you should have a backup plan if that service goes down.
I haven't seen one (at least for a SaaS company) that will compensate for loss of productivity/revenue etc, but something like Slack's SLA[0] seems like it's moving in the right direction. They guarantee a 99.99% uptime (max downtime of 4 min/22 seconds per month) and give 10x credits for any downtime.
Granted, there's probably not many businesses that are losing major revenue because slack's down for half an hour, but it's nice to at least see them acknowledge that 1 minute down deserves more than 1 minute of refunds!
> I haven't seen one (at least for a SaaS company) that will compensate for loss of productivity/revenue
They won't show up on automated systems aimed at SMEs, but anybody taking out an "enterprise plan" with tailored pricing from a SaaS, will likely ask for tailored SLA conditions too (or rather should ask for them).
It's hard to give a compensation for profit loss, as then you would have to know the profit of the customer beforehand and put an adequate pricing including that risk. It's almost like insurance!
