If this is heap of money-sucking, time-wasting garbage is what finally launches the telecommuting revolution and causes everyone to "understand" networked collaboration, there is a real non-zero chance I will go completely mad.
Exactly! The whole thing is based on tracking civil unrest. Its entirely focused on predicting bad things. Wouldn't acting on these predictions and then feeding that information back into the machine then continuing to act on the predictions blindly basically cause a feedback loop where the AI slowly goes mad as it directs its caretakers to stage the systematic disassembly of society?
The novel part isn't that it can beat humans. As previously observed, that is a simple job for an aim-bot combined with some predefined, map-specific movement patterns. The novel part here is that it taught itself how.
This pervasive sealing cripples public discussion of whether these judicial orders are lawful and appropriate.
Well of course it does. This is because they know very well that the orders are neither lawful nor appropriate. Furthermore they consider their ability to continue undermining national security a process that is vital to national security. So in order to maintain security, they must keep violating our security and must not allow public discourse to reach an informed consensus about what even constitutes security.
*sigh*
And that's not even touching on the privacy issues. Does anyone actually even need this shit unsealed to see the blatantly obvious logical flaw in the reasoning behind it being sealed in the first place?
The rest of the world should cut every cable going to/from America and let you have it.
In most cases all this would accomplish is alleviation of some load on our firewalls. 99.9999999999% of the traffic we get from out of the country is unprofitable garbage.
You're on the right track, but even if you add a second ethernet device the Raspberry Pi itself only has enough throughput to keep up with basic DSL speeds. There are other, less popular single-board ARM computers that would be better suited for this task.
Linksys stopped being good sometime shortly after being sold to Cisco. NetGear is usually fine but will fall over under heavy traffic if you add too many custom routes.
The C64's soundcard is in this drive. Even if they aren't using floppies anymore (and hadn't just taken this picture inbetween swapping disks) they probably still leave the drive connected and on just so they can hear the stock software sound effects.
I assume the issue is that the employee was acting on their own, in violation of Verizon's terms of service. It would have been perfectly legal if they'd been selling the data to advertising partners instead, who would have absolutely no restrictions on who they then re-sell the data to. Honestly this P.I. is an idiot and threw someone in the line of fire for really no reason other than perhaps convenience.
... is that its far cheaper and more effective to pay someone to float lies and falsified data like this "research" to convince their competition not to bother securing their networks than it is to just pay market prices for the customer data they want.
Yea, I'd also like a bit clearer accounting of what type of "security solutions" average more than $200,000... I think maybe these guys need a second opinion on what constitutes security.
The tools, which enable [salaried government employees] (who don't understand how they work) to exploit software flaws in computer and communications systems (which they also don't fundamentally understand), from [American companies] such as Cisco Systems and Fortinet Inc, (whose customers and reputations and overall integrity they also don't care about), were dumped onto public websites last month by a group calling itself Shadow Brokers.
There's no possibility that aliens capable of FTL would find us remotely interesting.
I think you meant remotely interesting... [conversationalists].
Plenty of people in our own civilization study insects and vermin all day long, as a profession, for science. We're far more technologically advanced than ants and rats yet there is still much we can learn from them without their consent...
What makes you think we'd be any different to aliens?
Well, this time, in the case of yahoo mail, probably its the same thing. Additionally, their persistent security issues over the years and especially the TYPE of security issues they seem to keep having has lead me to the conclusion there must be inside actors assisting.
Dude, all you have to do is dig up all the old slashdot articles about Yahoo. My anecdote is from past news that was made public.
(Also, just FYI if you're not into XSS vulnerabilities and such, putting ANY 3rd party content, such as banner ads, onto a webmail portal renders it fundamentally insecure.)
No, you're not wrong to tell her that, but you should probably also caveat that someone she knows (or at least who has her email address in their history/addressbook) probably has been hacked. Those spoofed headers need to be populated with plausible looking content from somewhere.
The only way Yahoo could improve the security of these accounts is a mandatory password change at the next login, nag active users to change their passwords, or wait for users to change the password themselves.
Or they could, you know, just stop hosting flash ads on the webmail page. At least then it would appear that they don't actually want user accounts to be easily harvested in an untraceable fashion by unknown unscrupulous parties.
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I doubt that Apple wants to be holding them when they explode either.
If this is heap of money-sucking, time-wasting garbage is what finally launches the telecommuting revolution and causes everyone to "understand" networked collaboration, there is a real non-zero chance I will go completely mad.
Exactly! The whole thing is based on tracking civil unrest. Its entirely focused on predicting bad things. Wouldn't acting on these predictions and then feeding that information back into the machine then continuing to act on the predictions blindly basically cause a feedback loop where the AI slowly goes mad as it directs its caretakers to stage the systematic disassembly of society?
No, this is actually a legitimate example of irony.
The novel part isn't that it can beat humans. As previously observed, that is a simple job for an aim-bot combined with some predefined, map-specific movement patterns. The novel part here is that it taught itself how.
This pervasive sealing cripples public discussion of whether these judicial orders are lawful and appropriate.
Well of course it does. This is because they know very well that the orders are neither lawful nor appropriate. Furthermore they consider their ability to continue undermining national security a process that is vital to national security. So in order to maintain security, they must keep violating our security and must not allow public discourse to reach an informed consensus about what even constitutes security.
*sigh*
And that's not even touching on the privacy issues. Does anyone actually even need this shit unsealed to see the blatantly obvious logical flaw in the reasoning behind it being sealed in the first place?
The rest of the world should cut every cable going to/from America and let you have it.
In most cases all this would accomplish is alleviation of some load on our firewalls. 99.9999999999% of the traffic we get from out of the country is unprofitable garbage.
You're on the right track, but even if you add a second ethernet device the Raspberry Pi itself only has enough throughput to keep up with basic DSL speeds. There are other, less popular single-board ARM computers that would be better suited for this task.
What can I tell my non-computer-savy relatives to get?
An education, or at least better help.
Do you have to flash DD-WRT software to improve the security situation?
An old used PC with 2 or more ethernet ports that's running OpenBSD also does just fine.
Linksys stopped being good sometime shortly after being sold to Cisco. NetGear is usually fine but will fall over under heavy traffic if you add too many custom routes.
That's not how you beg for us to give you our old toys.
The C64's soundcard is in this drive. Even if they aren't using floppies anymore (and hadn't just taken this picture inbetween swapping disks) they probably still leave the drive connected and on just so they can hear the stock software sound effects.
There's plans online for SD card readers for them and such. Its a solved problem.
I assume the issue is that the employee was acting on their own, in violation of Verizon's terms of service. It would have been perfectly legal if they'd been selling the data to advertising partners instead, who would have absolutely no restrictions on who they then re-sell the data to. Honestly this P.I. is an idiot and threw someone in the line of fire for really no reason other than perhaps convenience.
Sorry, we didn't realize any of you were smart enough to notice! LOL!
Yes, sage advice indeed. Don't bother securing your servers, everything will be fine, we promise! What was your router IP again?
... is that its far cheaper and more effective to pay someone to float lies and falsified data like this "research" to convince their competition not to bother securing their networks than it is to just pay market prices for the customer data they want.
Yea, I'd also like a bit clearer accounting of what type of "security solutions" average more than $200,000... I think maybe these guys need a second opinion on what constitutes security.
The tools, which enable [salaried government employees] (who don't understand how they work) to exploit software flaws in computer and communications systems (which they also don't fundamentally understand), from [American companies] such as Cisco Systems and Fortinet Inc, (whose customers and reputations and overall integrity they also don't care about), were dumped onto public websites last month by a group calling itself Shadow Brokers.
There, FTFY.
There's no possibility that aliens capable of FTL would find us remotely interesting.
I think you meant remotely interesting... [conversationalists].
Plenty of people in our own civilization study insects and vermin all day long, as a profession, for science. We're far more technologically advanced than ants and rats yet there is still much we can learn from them without their consent...
What makes you think we'd be any different to aliens?
Well, this time, in the case of yahoo mail, probably its the same thing. Additionally, their persistent security issues over the years and especially the TYPE of security issues they seem to keep having has lead me to the conclusion there must be inside actors assisting.
Dude, all you have to do is dig up all the old slashdot articles about Yahoo. My anecdote is from past news that was made public.
(Also, just FYI if you're not into XSS vulnerabilities and such, putting ANY 3rd party content, such as banner ads, onto a webmail portal renders it fundamentally insecure.)
No, you're not wrong to tell her that, but you should probably also caveat that someone she knows (or at least who has her email address in their history/addressbook) probably has been hacked. Those spoofed headers need to be populated with plausible looking content from somewhere.
The backdoor is in the ad network where its always been. They never fix it they just keep saying they did.
The only way Yahoo could improve the security of these accounts is a mandatory password change at the next login, nag active users to change their passwords, or wait for users to change the password themselves.
Or they could, you know, just stop hosting flash ads on the webmail page. At least then it would appear that they don't actually want user accounts to be easily harvested in an untraceable fashion by unknown unscrupulous parties.