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I seem to remember reading about this early last year.

Let's see...

Oh yeah. Here we go.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...
https://threatpost.com/exploit...
https://www.hackread.com/cisco...
https://www.incapsula.com/blog...
https://www.schneier.com/blog/...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
http://news.com.com/Bug+expose...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009...
http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

* STILL BELIEVE routers = best security alone?

YOU SAID YOUR DNS NEVER WENT DOWN TOO?

Funny YOU ADMIT IT DOES -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & you FAIL vs. myself as usual, noob do-nothing "rookie ne'er-do-well" CHUMP!

APK

P.S.=> So much for your faith in routers alone stupid (225 in total, 15 posts with 15 items each) & YOU OUTRIGHT LIED ON YOUR DNS NEVER GOING DOWN TOO - HUGE fail (one for my bookmarks)... apk

SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

http://www.cnet.com/products/n...

Speaking through its head of research and development, Wolfgang Epple, JLR says customers should not expect an autonomous car from them as it has no plans to manufacture cars that drive themselves for one reason: They view owners of self-driving car or people who ride in them as cargo and don't consider their customers as such. ''We don't consider customers cargo. We don't want to build a robot that delivers the cargo from A to B"

I wonder what changed in the last 6 months.

Well, he did say "high end" monitors. That means models like the Sony Artisan and IBM P275

There were a lot of cheaper models (sub $500) that could do 1600x1200, which is over 90% of 1080p's pixel count - less horizontal space but more vertical.

Don't know of any case in the US where the only minor involved was 17 and 11 months, but in a broader sense it appears that it does happen.

@xiando's explanation of the laws is essentially correct; although age of consent varies by state (not nation) in the USA, sexual pictures of anybody under 18, even if voluntarily generated and only shared privately with other minors who are already in a (legal!) relationship with the minor pictured, are legally child porn and have led to child porn prosecutions and even convictions.

Ah, if *most* jurisdictions have provisions, that means it's not a problem? For example, feel free to peruse the relevant WA state legal code and point out the relevant provision (spoiler: the ACLU doesn't seem to think it exists). In any case, 18 US code 2251, a law against child porn is a federal law and - while I believe it only covers inter-state or foreign transmission - contains no such provisions. Fortunately, minors are definitely never in a different state from their SOs, and if they somehow were, would never request or send naughty pictures, right? Not that I know of any cases of the feds prosecuting such a case of private communications between consenting teens, but if they did the law would appear to be on their side.

While states certainly have some de facto control over what cases they will prosecute, in many cases they have certainly attempted to convict sexting teens as child pornographers, and sometimes they have succeeded. The situation does seem less outrageous than I believed it to be, especially after the first few cases to make the news generated enough outrage at this travesty, but it's still far from perfect.

http://www.cnet.com/news/polic... - 17 and 16 year old in Florida prosecuted, found guilty, conviction upheld on appeal.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2... - 15 year old arrested on felony charge (apparently got put on no-cell-phone-or-unsupervised-Internet probation, charges probably dropped afterward)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2... - 7 teens charged with felonies, at least 6 plea bargained to misdemeanors (better than it could have been, still very wrong)
http://laist.com/2013/05/17/re... - Key quote: "... anyone who sends obscene images of persons under the age of 18, whether it’s of themselves or someone else, are violating child pornography laws,” San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Dept.
https://www.washingtonpost.com... - Cops photographing a 17-year-old's junk to try and enter the pictures as evidence. They eventually backed down, after massive public ridicule, on the plan to have him given an injection to make him erect before photographing him *again*.
http://pilotonline.com/news/go... - Provisions, you say? Nope, can't even downgrade it to a misdemeanor, gotta stay a felony!

Sorry for doing the research...

Forget the gubmint spahs stuff, they've already established they can shoot anything out of the sky over their property ( http://www.cnet.com/news/judge... ), _and_ that it's also ok for the drone owner to be TTFO at gunpoint...

Now there's going to be free stuff flying through the air, and it's legal to shoot it down and keep it. That's gonna be redneck heaven, a fairground tin can shoot but free to play, real guns and real prizes...

Nothing prevents me as a law-abiding citizen from owning guns and building up a small arsenal to slaughter people in the name of Santa Claus. All the intelligence agencies won't have the slightest clue if I keep to myself and don't broadcast my intentions to the world at large.

Clearly the end game involves a mixture of hiring one half of the population to spy on the other half, indoctrinating children to inform on their parents, and detaining reclusive people who live alone and don't have children because that's just unAmerican.

Don't forget TVs that watch you.

Re "If you connect to my machine why can't I obtain as much information about your machine as I can, using any means?"
Senator: Let's monitor P2P for illegal files (April 17, 2008)
http://www.cnet.com/news/senat...
"But in about half its cases, for purposes of longer-term tracking, the software captures "unique serial numbers" from the person's computer ... "
It seems the get a unique "number" policy is an older method thats been used for a while now.
Is the number created from a larger set of details about a computer as seen down from the web or within a computer OS by pushed down gov crafted bespoke software?
But the MAC address was listed as something thats also been collected. Some consumer grade OS helps? Or gov software enters without any AV heuristic and behavioural protection been alerted to something new/different.
Third party outgoing software firewalls would not be alerted.. or AV products set to a high detection setting...

hey Hey HEY! Hold on right there, chief!

Those were the creme-d-la-creme 1% engineers you're talking about there.
Just the kind of people that "don't need unions" because they're "highly skilled".

I'm sure they all approved of this fine example of unfettered markets in action and realize they deserved the treatment they got.

Because folks might bother hacking crap like FitBits or baby monitors or drug pumps or Barbie dolls, or maybe even cars, but it's not like a refrigerator has ever been proven to be insecure.
Oops.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...
https://threatpost.com/exploit...
https://www.hackread.com/cisco...
https://www.incapsula.com/blog...
https://www.schneier.com/blog/...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
http://news.com.com/Bug+expose...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009...

* STILL BELIEVE routers = best security alone?

APK

P.S.=> So much for your faith in routers alone stupid (225 in total, 15 posts with 15 items each)... apk

OMG!!! Ponies!!!

That's true, but from the sounds of it this is for business reasons. For business it's probably more important than if it was personal.

For business it can be even more important to clean things out. Having old things on hand is more likely to work against you than work in your favor. Yes, some documents need to be carefully retained and kept on file for the life of the business and the best place to do that is not in email. Most of these communications should be disposed of on a regular basis.

Most business lawyers I've worked with have strongly recommended a data retention policy to dump email regularly and always before the 3-month government communications free-for-all. Most work places I've been at have had 3 months before automatic forced deletion of email. If it is important it does not belong in email. Unread email is treated differently under the law, and currently any email that is six months old or older and marked as unread can be opened and read by federal agencies without a warrant. Similarly, transitory communications like chat logs and even file transfers through services like DropBox are easily accessed by government's prying eyes. Don't keep data there because lots of organizations, including government agencies, corporate spies, and opposition lawyers, can all get access to it.

If it is important it gets printed and filed, or moved to electronic documents that are properly archived, or otherwise moved to a better location than email. Paper files and electronic archives get properly maintained with their own data retention policies. Contracts and agreements made get filed with dates.

There is no good reason to keep 25 years of email.

Print out and properly file what is important. Agreements and important documents get filed. Properly file and archive personal mementos (not in email) or put them in a scrap book.

Google paid $3.2B for a thermostat company founded by a former PM from the iPod team. At least they are selling a few units and in a decade or two they will grow enough to be a footnote for Google's annual report.

The article is repeating a lie. The actual settlement and case do not contain the lie.

The Lie is Intel sold below cost.

Due to a fixed cost to operate a fab and process wafers, the cost per die is greatly impacted by line yield.

Due to the competitors line yield of about 50% at the time, it was assumed Intel had to be selling below cost. This was investigated and found to be false based on the number of raw wafers purchased and the number of die shipped. If two identical companies manufacture identical chips and one has 45% yield and the other 90% yield and offers bulk discounts that is 20% below the other companies cost to produce, it does in no way indicate the company is selling below cost. Read the lawsuit and settlement.

Intel agreed to change some business practices and settled, but still claimed they did nothing wrong such as dumping below cost, because they were not.

The cost per die was calculated based on the number of wafers purchased and the number of die shipped. Intel had much higher line yield than AMD.

AMD cut corners trying to compete, but did not solve the yield issue. AMD on the other hand had a policy of undercutting Intel on Price, but with their lower yield, they ran into the problem of having to sell below cost to meet their price points. This is where the incorrect assumption was made that Intel had to be selling below cost. This has been proven otherwise.

http://www.cnet.com/news/intel...
http://www.intel.com/pressroom...
"By contrast, AMD's investments in manufacturing capacity during this period were anaemic - because AMD had elected to change course. Through the late 1990s, AMD itself has acknowledged, AMD had persistent quality problems with manufacturing production and insufficient capacity."

Please do not repeat the lie that Intel sold under cost. They didn't. They had lower production costs due to higher yield.

AMD settled their entirely valid lawsuit:
http://www.cnet.com/news/intel...

Intel's actions were shocking and absurd, and they seem to be willing to play by legal limits only when failing to do so would visibly get them hammered with monopoly lawsuits.

That pretty much describes any corporation on the planet.

When it's one we like: YAAAY!

When it's one we don't: BOOO!

It's a bit annoying to see such a transparently, click-bait article appear, but /. is really just a tiny shadow of itself, these days.

Remember when a story on this site would bring down servers? I'll bet that C|Net article barely tweaks the bandwidth meter.

It was a poor resolution to a very real issue. The other part? It prevents Intel from having to do anything rash or aggressive with their chip power, because by neutering their only competitor they were able to focus more on profitability and less on performance and perception. In my *opinion*, I think this is a big part of why we saw chips mostly become stagnant compared to in years prior- Intel is actually keeping in range of what AMD is capable of on purpose. They are holding back.

Good point.

Competition is generally a good thing, eh, Comcast customers?

AMD settled their entirely valid lawsuit:
http://www.cnet.com/news/intel...

Intel's actions were shocking and absurd, and they seem to be willing to play by legal limits only when failing to do so would visibly get them hammered with monopoly lawsuits. It was a poor resolution to a very real issue. The other part? It prevents Intel from having to do anything rash or aggressive with their chip power, because by neutering their only competitor they were able to focus more on profitability and less on performance and perception. In my *opinion*, I think this is a big part of why we saw chips mostly become stagnant compared to in years prior- Intel is actually keeping in range of what AMD is capable of on purpose. They are holding back.

I see 'streaming video on mobile devices' as another tech bubble that will burst sooner than most people think it will. There is only so much bandwidth available, and people keep demanding more and more of it, and all the while wireless providers like AT&T and Verison are literally gouging people for service,

Except "streaming video on mobile devices" does NOT imply that people are using their cellular data plans at all. The linked article even talks about people using free business/municipal WiFi.

I see it either coming to a point where you can't get more people and more bandwidth because it just doesn't exist, or it getting to the point where people are paying so much money that they start backing away from it

I don't see that happening... Spectrum reuse (smaller towers, lower-power antennas, with much shorter range) will allow the existing available cellular frequencies to be utilized many times more efficiently, blanketing small areas (neighborhoods) with much higher speeds, which don't interfere with the big towers covering large geographic areas.

The up-coming FCC incentive auction will give the cellular companies big new swaths of lower frequencies. Meanwhile micro-cells and pico-cells are decreasing in price and increasing in popularity with cellular carriers, and their operation necessarily involves higher spectrum reuse. LTE-U operates just like WiFi, on the same unlicensed frequencies and with a very small radius of service, and those devices should be available very shortly.

Meanwhile there are people like me (and I don't believe I'm anything like alone in this) who have no smartphone and see no reason to ever get one, because of how much wireless companies gouge for 'data plans'

You're not alone, but certainly in a very, very tiny minority. Back in early 2013, the majority of all Americans owned smartphones, and that trend has only increased several percent per year:

Early 2015: "overall smartphone penetration up to 77% of mobile phone owners in the U.S. Among recent phone acquirers, 91% chose smartphones as their mobile handset [...] Overall smartphone penetration continues to rise rapidly, increasing 8 percentage points"

While there's some truth to what you say about the two biggest US cellular carriers, it doesn't apply to T-Mobile/Sprint.

T-Mobile now offers unlimited video streaming (Netflix, HBO NOW, Hulu, more) that doesn't apply against your data allowance. And that's besides T-Mobile offering "unlimited" data plans for some time.

Sprint doesn't charge overages at all... they prefer to throttle your data connection down to much slower speeds, rather than disconnect your data, or charge you extra fees. And a Sprint service like Boost with several GBytes of data is just $30/mo, including most taxes/fees.

MVNOs can have even better deals. RingPlus, FreedomPop and others offer free plans that include cellular data. Some MVNOs like Republic will allow activating your smartphone for $10 with unlimited calling/sms, but NO DATA PLAN at all. You are tied to WiFi for internet, but that means no overage charges, ever.

You don't even need to be a government.

Snooping: It's not a crime, it's a feature

Facebook Wants To Listen In On What You're Doing

Big Brands Use Mobile Apps to Direct Offers as You Watch TV

Google looks to patent tech that listens to calls to promote ads

and people will stand in line for days to pay $99 and sign a two-year contract for this.

My wife's Telsa got an autopilot upgrade last week. It can now mostly drive itself.

Here is a video of some idiot that got out of the driver's seat, and got into the backseat, while his Tesla was on autopilot and driving 80+ km/hr.

The fact than one finds more advertising than explanations already betrays the true nature of that feature. In short, you post a link to an ephemeral resource; but you may further encumber that with DRM-like stuff. More here and here.

In fact, all email is self-destructing, eventually. Just not under the sender's control.

Then who got Microsoft and Nintendo to change their policies? Back in March 2011, Reggie Fils-Aime of Nintendo likened "hobbyist developers" to American Idol contestants. But by late 2012, Nintendo was phasing out its ban on home offices. As for Xbox, it was originally announced that Xbox One developers would need a publisher, until Microsoft backpedaled in July 2013 and announced what eventually became ID@Xbox.

They spun off Agilent in 2002.

This is kind of funny. Gates actually DID say this:

http://www.cnet.com/news/steve...

Big players like IBM and Sun Microsystems had initially bought into the software but the hardware was eschewed (or ignored) largely by the public. Microsoft's CEO Bill Gates didn't help matters when he said the computer was "crap," according to Walter Isaacson's biography "Steve Jobs." And when asked by Jobs to write software for it, Gates said, "Develop for it? I'll piss on it," according to InfoWorld, which Isaacson quotes in his book.

What secret? I'm perfectly happy to stand behind my comments.

You're trying to deflect the argument with a non-sequitur. Your original, highly antagonistic and accusatory post, that the original commenter was literally a paid shill for Apple, was based on you being unable to comprehend a basic piece of English language.

For example, here is a piece from the verge using the same turn of phrase: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9...

Here's Cnet talking about Windows 10 using the same phrase structure in a video: http://www.cnet.com/videos/bes...

Here's Extreme Tech using the same turn of phrase to discuss the iPhone 6: http://www.extremetech.com/mob...

Like I said, it was a pretty basic construction that is used frequently in common English, especially when paired with a qualifier as it was in the original poster's comment.

You either deliberately took the comment out of context to try and claim he was a shill or you just didn't understand the phrase. Either way you were wrong and have been trying to twist in the wind to try and bluster your way out of the argument. There's no way out though - your original comment was plain wrong.

In 2008, when this very site discussed John McCain's opinion on warrantless wiretapping, his views were sufficiently unpopular for TFA to be tagged voteobama...

The first post requested a link on Obama's view on the subject — and got a +1 Interesting upvote. The reply — with a level-5 moderation — quoted a promise by the then junior Senator from Illinois thus:

Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me

All of you, fellow Slashdotters, who voted for the post-racial Nobel Peace Prize winner based on that (or similar) promise, should ask for your money back. Public self-flagellation is optional.