He cannot possibly claim to be "leaking" with a purpose when he didn't even know what he was revealing.
But he did claim that it was not his intent to do so. In his version of the story, he's on his way to meet a journalist in Hong Kong (who would have been tasked with responsible disclosure) when his passport is revoked during at a stopover in a Moscow airport, then they leaked all of it. Something he had even anticipated as a possibility, but was forced to accept as a risk to meet with the one journalist he felt he could trust, in the one location that journalist felt safe, within the time frame they had available.
You certainly knew that, right? Certainly you wouldn't be constantly astroturfing over his version of the story while pretending to know something if you actually didn't know any better, would you?
It's bad, but it's nowhere near as dangerous as allowing non-citizens who have no vested interest in the good of the country to participate. If you can't figure out why that's orders of magnitude worse you're probably a completely psychopathic douchebag, or just lying about which country you're really from. (Which is how this all started, essentially.)
My statement obviously applies doubly to you. If you knew the tiniest thing about advertising you'd realize this is actually super easy to do. Doesn't require lots of money or expertise. Just requires man hours and a way to skirt US laws that normally protect citizens from this type of thing.
Interestingly enough, the W3C did try to remove iframes and frames both from the spec. Pressure from advertisers over this and some other sanity-induced changes caused the industry to split with the W3C though and make their own "HTML5" standard, which the W3C then only later ratified in order to remain relevant.
Woah woah woah, easy there, Tex. Struck a real chord with you, didn't that? Take a few deep breaths and ask yourself what would happen if you had to seriously consider the possibility that it's all true. Now read that part again carefully. I'm not saying to bother thinking about whether it's true or not. I'm just saying to consider how it would affect you if it wasn't a forgone conclusion to you. How would that change your behavior? How would it affect your judgement if you had to take this all seriously. What would it mean about you? Think you could cope?
I saw it coming, Bruce. It didn't help me do anything about it, but I saw this coming. And even as I railed against colleagues, peers, and family who all got their hands dirty participating in it one way or another, everyone called me paranoid and crazy. But if I had the pulpit that you do, maybe I could have at least saved a few of them.
Instead, the result is they just trust me even less because they can't fathom how I could have known.
I hope you are being paid to parrot that lie and don't actually believe it. If not, you should really do some math. Find out how much bandwidth and equipment actually costs for big companies like ISPs buying in bulk, and find out how bandwidth flows normally.
While not strictly a requirement for network multiplayer games on the recent two Nintendo consoles, it's the only way to disable the NAT/TCP response port randomization security feature on most consumer-grade home routers, which does break pretty much all of them, though not always immediately unless there is other traffic passing through the router at that point.
Let's get real. Netflix is everyone's enemy here. Nobody is gonna prioritize them over any of their own services, ever. The scenario you outline is perfectly reasonable except for the completely disingenuous placement of Netflix in this scenario as the beneficiary of shady illegal government lobbying.
A minor correction: DirecTV just resells other ISP services in a bundle with it's satellite service. They don't own any internet infrastructure of their own. That's why they get to play by different rules. They don't even bundle the same ISP's service in every region... though since they were recently bought by AT&T, I think the result of this whole net neutrality fiasco will probably affect how they continue to restructure the company and their services going forward.
A large amount of federal funding was used to pay for the network infrastructure, too. By your own logic, Net Neutrality needs to be reinstated because of that alone.
Comcast has that ability, but they mostly use it to provide different service quality to different types of traffic, or traffic to/from different places. This whole lynching of net neutrality was, for them, primarily in effort to just change the law to make legal what they were already getting away with illegally on a wide-spread basis. That their service quality differs so much between individual regions is possible to be something they control with the same technology, but in the case of Comcast specifically, this is more likely just basic incompetence combined with an insufficient maintenance budget.
People just want something like "Computer" from Star Trek TNG. Unfortunately it's apparently completely legal for these companies to pretend that's what they're selling.
So much this. This is the part that makes me angry. They're allowed to call it "A.I." and then wax poetically about all the theoretical potential possibilities if it were, when actually all it is is a dumb pattern matcher for voice clips (and not even a very good one) tied to a state tree you could replicate with some entry-level BASH scripting.
If you have access to the hypervisor you already have full control over the guests even without this "exploit." Why is this considered a big deal exactly?
We don't know for sure that it couldn't be a satellite-based attack. A sonic attack from space may sound far-fetched but they have been doing very creative things with lasers and microwaves these days.
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He cannot possibly claim to be "leaking" with a purpose when he didn't even know what he was revealing.
But he did claim that it was not his intent to do so. In his version of the story, he's on his way to meet a journalist in Hong Kong (who would have been tasked with responsible disclosure) when his passport is revoked during at a stopover in a Moscow airport, then they leaked all of it. Something he had even anticipated as a possibility, but was forced to accept as a risk to meet with the one journalist he felt he could trust, in the one location that journalist felt safe, within the time frame they had available.
You certainly knew that, right? Certainly you wouldn't be constantly astroturfing over his version of the story while pretending to know something if you actually didn't know any better, would you?
It's bad, but it's nowhere near as dangerous as allowing non-citizens who have no vested interest in the good of the country to participate. If you can't figure out why that's orders of magnitude worse you're probably a completely psychopathic douchebag, or just lying about which country you're really from. (Which is how this all started, essentially.)
My statement obviously applies doubly to you. If you knew the tiniest thing about advertising you'd realize this is actually super easy to do. Doesn't require lots of money or expertise. Just requires man hours and a way to skirt US laws that normally protect citizens from this type of thing.
These assholes got a research grant to prove it? Someone please give me some money to prove a CS101 lecture too!
It's spreading!!
That one might actually still work...
Interestingly enough, the W3C did try to remove iframes and frames both from the spec. Pressure from advertisers over this and some other sanity-induced changes caused the industry to split with the W3C though and make their own "HTML5" standard, which the W3C then only later ratified in order to remain relevant.
Woah woah woah, easy there, Tex. Struck a real chord with you, didn't that? Take a few deep breaths and ask yourself what would happen if you had to seriously consider the possibility that it's all true. Now read that part again carefully. I'm not saying to bother thinking about whether it's true or not. I'm just saying to consider how it would affect you if it wasn't a forgone conclusion to you. How would that change your behavior? How would it affect your judgement if you had to take this all seriously. What would it mean about you? Think you could cope?
There. See what you just learned?
I saw it coming, Bruce. It didn't help me do anything about it, but I saw this coming. And even as I railed against colleagues, peers, and family who all got their hands dirty participating in it one way or another, everyone called me paranoid and crazy. But if I had the pulpit that you do, maybe I could have at least saved a few of them.
Instead, the result is they just trust me even less because they can't fathom how I could have known.
I hope you are being paid to parrot that lie and don't actually believe it. If not, you should really do some math. Find out how much bandwidth and equipment actually costs for big companies like ISPs buying in bulk, and find out how bandwidth flows normally.
(On Steam it's only a problem I've seen with Hammerwatch, and only if you're the host.)
While not strictly a requirement for network multiplayer games on the recent two Nintendo consoles, it's the only way to disable the NAT/TCP response port randomization security feature on most consumer-grade home routers, which does break pretty much all of them, though not always immediately unless there is other traffic passing through the router at that point.
I think owners of delivery trucks or rental car fleets would jump on this right away.
Registrations in California already happen online. That's stupid.
Useless without their names.
Let's get real. Netflix is everyone's enemy here. Nobody is gonna prioritize them over any of their own services, ever. The scenario you outline is perfectly reasonable except for the completely disingenuous placement of Netflix in this scenario as the beneficiary of shady illegal government lobbying.
A minor correction: DirecTV just resells other ISP services in a bundle with it's satellite service. They don't own any internet infrastructure of their own. That's why they get to play by different rules. They don't even bundle the same ISP's service in every region... though since they were recently bought by AT&T, I think the result of this whole net neutrality fiasco will probably affect how they continue to restructure the company and their services going forward.
A large amount of federal funding was used to pay for the network infrastructure, too. By your own logic, Net Neutrality needs to be reinstated because of that alone.
Comcast has that ability, but they mostly use it to provide different service quality to different types of traffic, or traffic to/from different places. This whole lynching of net neutrality was, for them, primarily in effort to just change the law to make legal what they were already getting away with illegally on a wide-spread basis. That their service quality differs so much between individual regions is possible to be something they control with the same technology, but in the case of Comcast specifically, this is more likely just basic incompetence combined with an insufficient maintenance budget.
People just want something like "Computer" from Star Trek TNG. Unfortunately it's apparently completely legal for these companies to pretend that's what they're selling.
So much this. This is the part that makes me angry. They're allowed to call it "A.I." and then wax poetically about all the theoretical potential possibilities if it were, when actually all it is is a dumb pattern matcher for voice clips (and not even a very good one) tied to a state tree you could replicate with some entry-level BASH scripting.
Heh, that's an amusing thought actually.
If you have access to the hypervisor you already have full control over the guests even without this "exploit." Why is this considered a big deal exactly?
We don't know for sure that it couldn't be a satellite-based attack. A sonic attack from space may sound far-fetched but they have been doing very creative things with lasers and microwaves these days.
I said the same thing about Facebook, but it didn't do any good.