Encrypt all the things!

Apologies, I'll try to keep up in future :)

ce n'est pas?

«n'est-ce pas?»

Someone reboot Oli for us?

Is the former common colloquial French, or just plain wrong?

Neither--well, it's wrong with a question mark, as it's not a question/question tag but part of an indicative sentence. It's not wrong in, for instance: «Ce n'est pas possible.» or «Ceci n'est pas une pipe.» or some such use.

While the form of the question tag is fixed, you *can* ask questions without the inversion in colloquial French, but you need at least one object. «Ce n'est pas le train à Avignon?» This mostly follows on from what someone else has just said and can effectively be a shortened form of something like «Voulez-vous dire que ... ?».

All that said, there's a lot of bad French spoken, as every language is spoken badly much of the time, and someone may well come along in a moment to say it has become colloquial since I last looked. :)

Now back from New Orleans. No phone search in the US but still used carefully. Whatsapp'd travel mates and fam back here. On reflection, will get a dedicated 'travel' phone and sim for future trips as sim used is my 'backup' sim.

ION I can thoroughly recommend Mardi Gras and if you love deep fried chicken/fish/meat, that is the place to be.

https://mobile.twitter.com/cdixon25/status/839106845025398784

Anyone any experience of these? Will mainly be used for taking hotel wi-fi and letting a variety of devices access it through a VPN set up on there.

Looks like it should fit the bill

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Electronics-Photo/AR300M-external-antenna-300Mbps-OpenWrt-repeater-openvpn/B01K6MHRJI/

Didn't even know it was a thing, but here's some reviews:
http://lifehacker.com/five-best-travel-routers-1452441479

Yes, I have one of the current ones already. Useful if you spend a lot of time travelling. Just tempted by one with a built in VPN but reviews are scarce.

This is a good account of how Wired dealt with a potential security flaw on their website

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/wired-potential-infosecurity-problem-heres/

Surely they could log into the dead man's phone (they must be able to do that...) and then just open WhatsApp to read his messages?

Does this work even if the hotel wifi requires a browser based login?

Well yes. They have his fingerprint and everything, just need to heat it up a little first.

It is meant to but I haven't been anywhere that has had a log-in page yet so haven't tested it.

Easy enough to set up with PIA. Takes the speed down a bit but I was still getting 15Mbps or so which realistically is going to be OK for hotel internet.

Amber Rudd seems to not really know how encryption works.

So, remove it from messaging apps so you can find the baddies but then what about businesses or governments? Does she think we should ban encryption for them as well?

Just a neat little backdoor so that only good people can read bad people's messages.

Simples.

Why not just ban cars?

No, she wants to keep encryption, just have it so that it can be decrypted by other people, which sounds perfectly sensible.

I'm assuming by the frequency that this stupid subject rears it's head, politician X voices said desire for back doors and are quickly briefed on why it is silly by the security services and it goes quiet again until the next time.

Except Snoopers Charter... USA's previous ban on encryption tech... USAs pipes into internet backbones and stuff like Skype datacentres.

Trying to intercept it and decrypt is one thing but telling people to just leave their front doors open is never going to fly.

Like Brexit and Trump winning?

People are idiots. They'll hand over their entire life on the promise of a Greggs meat square. The ones that aren't that stupid will use tech that's not banned or compromised so are probably a bit apathetic towards the idiotic government anyway.

Yeah but people in GCHQ etc know it's a stupid idea....

Linked from the why not ban cars article is https://www.facewatch.co.uk/cms

Used by businesses to share faces of dodgy characters with other businesses... Sweet