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The moment sports betting was legalized in NYC, live sports became insufferable. Every free throw, every timeout, every replay is sponsored by Draft Kings or one of its competitors. It’s poisoned the viewing experience.
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I usually avoid following sports, but I think the UK faces similar issues with sports betting. I recently watched your short about Microsoft giving the FBI BitLocker encryption keys. While I understand the concerns, especially given the current administration, I support this as long as the FBI has a court order and is targeting specific individuals they suspect of involvement in a crime.
I also recall that on This Week in Enterprise Tech, Bryan Chee commented that any academic research posted online is considered published. Maybe, therefore, it should go without saying that anything you put in the cloud is fair game for the FBI, especially since Microsoft obviously have the key.
I suppose, if you are really worried, you could always use VeraCrypt to encrypt your files before uploading them to a non-U.S. cloud provider
It is funny, I was watching an series of podcasts from Coffeezilla on sports betting and how it has become an epidemic yesterday and it was also on TWiT.
As somebody who got hooked on slot machines at 12, I have to be very careful when it comes to gambling, so I am glad that such apps are illegal here and that the sports TV isn’t plastered with odds etc. like the US TV seems to be.
I agree with @maguswine with regard to the FBI and BitLocker keys. As long as the warrants are valid, there should be no problems, the same for other countries. At least Microsoft has a track record for standing up to authorities and even going to court over it - which is, unfortunately, why we also now have the CLOUD Act. They fought the FBI and won, when the FBI was too lazy to pick up a phone and ask their Irish colleagues to get an Irish warrant for data held on Irish servers, instead the US Government declared all servers belonging to companies with even a single employee in the USA to be on US soil, regardless of where they are physically located…
@maguswine there is a difference between published and being in a cloud drive. If the research paper is published on a website, it is available to anyone who wants to look at it, either for free or behind a paywall. Your private data on a cloud drive is, theoretically at least, only available to you, unless you decide to share individual files or folders with someone.
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Just to be clear - I’m pretty sure it’s Doc Rock - not Doc Grok. Enunciation matters! LOL!