MPs are, yes, but it affected everyone registered as attendees, including party members (who aren’t public figures) and journalists (who mightn’t even have chosen to be there). MPs are a minority of the people attending a national party conference.
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Someone flamingoed up.
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I guess I go to different kinds of conferences; the kind where you know everyone but the newest grad students. Still, it seems like an opportunity for someone to write a generic version of a conference app (and get things like basic security right) and licence individually themed versions out.
I think the problem is that it’s usually outside parties making these apps, and done poorly, they can lead to exploitation of people’s phones… it doesn’t really have anything to do with how well you know your colleagues.
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So ther’re still doing that Tory Power Stance?
At least Mitch McConnell doesn’t do that.
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Days like this are why the GDPR was invented. The Tories have 72 hours to report themselves to the ICO after which they can be looking at a fine, compulsory audits and mandatory compliance.
It’s going to be delightful to watch.
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Apparently,
Within minutes of the vulnerability being revealed, Boris Johnson’s profile image was changed to a picture of hardcore pornography.
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Vandalized, improved…
In his case, I’d need no invitation!
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If I had done it first, I would have changed his image to Jean-Claude Juncker. Jacob Rees-Mogg would have his changed to Donald Tusk.
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For a certain level, this amuses me greatly.
The problem is, the people that NEED to see this never will.
Take my mother for example, she gets 100% of her news from mainstream media… IE a 100% extreme rightwing bias.
As much as my attempts to educate her has tried, she still thinks the EU is the cause of the (Adimtedly numerous) problems in the UK, rather than the actual root cause being of our own governments actions for the past 40years…
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That’s because the tories fell for the “power poses” woo, and they keep on doing it:
Clearly technological and scientific literacy are not exactly their best subjects.
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I didn’t mean to imply a direct connection between the two sentences other than the fact that having an app for conferences is foreign to me. My point was that someone should do the app correctly, once, and just copy it over and over again.
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Nor economic or fiscal literacy.
Nor social or civil literacy.
Nor emotional literacy.
In fact, just because some of them can apparently read, but only selectively, they hardly qualify as literate at all.
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Sadly sums up the party quite well nowadays.
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I don’t think it’s a thing that we need, though, given the obvious risks. YMMV.
I hear if you buy all the coding training packages from the Boing Boing Store you can write software that is completely free of any bugs and works exactly as intended.
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Careful, or you might get people on the disappoint list who are not completely sarcasm-literate. /s
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