Why shouldn't we?

If given the chance to "Play god", I'm going to. Easy choice.

e: Can you not make a well formed answer to "Why shouldn't we?"

We've had that conversation and its a resounding yes. Giving people a better life from their first moments is a no brainer.

You're probably more focus on the weird things like making kids taller or whatever. Rich people are going to do rich people things. We'll see how that works out.

Ummmmmm, are we just blowing right past “should we” to see if “could we” might work? I’m sure we will revisit “should we” once we figured out it’s possible I’m sure. Right?

It's largely performative

The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing has concluded that current gene editing techniques are not safe enough to be used in human embryos for reproductive purposes

I cant say which department/s it was/is. Security is incredibly tight. But its not MI5 or anything like that :D A lot of civil servants mostly at the moment. But iv spoken to people you would put in that list. But not MP's or ministers. Although we were warned they might call if they wanted to. I guess they are too important and have too many assistants to deal with us directly :D

One of the locations i worked had an OG enigma machine i walked past every day. which was cool.

My security training lasted a week when i started. 3 strike rule enforced by security officers who would do occasional patrols arround the place. left pc unlocked, strike, printed something and left it at the printer because it was a mistake and didnt shread it. strike. left any documents on your desk at the end of the day not locked away. strike. 3rd strike was instant dismissal.

My security trainer told a story of when he went to his gym and over heard a guy talking to a fried about where he worked. (This was some time ago when people were not QUITE as concious about security as they should have been.) He didnt mention what he did. mention the place by name or too many specifics. But he could tell from some of the bits he did say that he worked in the building. So he waited for him to leave. took a note of the registration number of his car. Then when he got into work looked up his reg number which was recorded when he comes in the gates and cross referenced it with his security pass. Took his name and went and found his desk. He said he sat down next to him. introduced himself and asked him how how his session at the gym was. Which got a confused reaction. He didnt get a strike. But got given a sturn warning to be more carefull about exactly what he said in public places.

Why the fuck are they using government devices for entertainment lmfao

Any corp that runs BYOD should be using Conditional Access / InTune or a 3rd party equivalent. You sign into mail/calendar etc and it enrolls your device, turns on and enforces strong PIN, encryption, remote wipe etc.

This is very much a Solved Problem.

more interested in any government having to use officially recorded media, whatever that may be, so it is open to scrutiny. You can bet your house that WhatsApp Meta can and are passing on data to the American intelligence services, which doesn't particularly concern me, but a lack of transparency for the British public is shocking

There seem to be plenty of reports of people using personal devices for government related business. That might have a lot to do with it. Did your work cover MPs, ministers, consultants and similar positions?

I am pretty liberal when it comes to state involvement in my life. From CCTV to banning sugary drinks I want as much freedom to do what I want as possible as long as it doesn't infringe or harm someone else.

But using the "I'll do what I want" on national security is a big fucking leap that just screams either selfishness or ignorance.

It's too late.

How much you want to bet that right-wingers will still have access but left-wingers will have to pay?

Because most of the time they are your personal ones.

The reality is that most government officials have bring your own device phones.

Only the real top bananas get government phones.

Worked for Tesla lol.

I already see “Rate Limit Exceeded” in the official Twitter iOS app lmao. I’m sure it’s much easier to get around this using a normal browser, but it’s probably going to be made more and more annoying over time -_-

I've seen others say that scraping data would give roughly 0.01%. I think this is just a negotiating point for Elon. Hopefully, this blows up in his face like everything else he's done with Twitter.

The truth? It's really all just bring your own device in with these government officials.

And the actual government devices that are provided likely will have the things you just described. But the vast majority are BYOD and people are just being told to remove it.

Whether they do or not, is not possible to be checked because it is BYOD.

They do though, large parts of HMG use InTune as the MDM solution.

And as you say, all they have to do is flick a switch, deploy a new policy and InTune will do everything for them.

Iv worked IT helpdesks for years serving multiple different gov departments... They don't allow it. And you don't have access to install anything for the app store or the Apple store. If you want an app that isn't o365 stuff you have to request it be pushed to you. Iv never seen Facebook. Tiktok YouTube or anything like that present on a device. And you can't visit the web based versions because they are blocked by browsing policy's.

There must be more behind this headline than it initially reads. Something like changing wording on an outdated policy to define specifics or something like that. Unless they are singling out politicians who may be deemed too important to upset.

Iv worked on IT helpdesks for 3 different government agencies/departments in recent times. And currently do. You can't install twitter, Facebook, YouTube or pretty much anything unless you request it and it gets authorised and then pushed out to your device. You don't get access to ether the android or apple stores to download apps.

So there must be more to this than the headline let's on.

The Suboxone of Reddit is much better.

Apparently you are already sucking Elon's dick, so he can skip you

You say this speaking on a platform full of average people... I don't understand your point

Ever been on Facebook? We’re better off on networks without average people.