On the other hand, technical workarounds might render this sort of user-consent mandate irrelevant.
Admittedly, there may be technical workarounds for all of these concerns, but having to actively implement those will still take a lot of time and effort, which will have knock-on effects.
In the meantime, the content creators have been successful in having more than 40 websites blocked so that users in the UK could not reach them unless using technical workarounds.
The solution to ad blocking will not come from a technical workaround, a ruthless prosecution of the ad blockers or through forcing a subscription on users.
Because the material they studied, a thallium-barium-copper oxide compound, hasn't been grown in crystals big enough for neutron scattering, the scientists had to devise a painstaking technical workaround.
And more serious measures, like isolating the offending site by blacklisting it on nearby nodes, would be more difficult to circumvent — but let's be honest, if things reach that level of Gibson-esque cyber-espionage, things may require something more than a technical workaround.
Google suggested a technical workaround to secure web servers, but added on its blog that it hopes to eventually remove support for SSL 3.0 from all client software.
In practice, diplomats are eager to ensure that Paris remains a truly global effort, and have created a technical workaround so that even countries that are yet to ratify can participate in discussions.
Several years ago, Kafka learned that the food sensitivities of her childhood had resurfaced, so she set out to rethink the full-flavored soups, roasts, braises and sauces she's been known for, coupling them with ingenious technical breakthroughs and workarounds.
Giving a speech at MIT yesterday, Robert Hannigan called for the tech industry to help governments and security agencies find technical solutions to workaround encryption — although he claimed he is not advocating for backdoors to be mandated.
Apple's Mail program for OS X does not support read receipt requests by default, but some users have found a workaround with some technical fiddling.
