Firstly, the link in the article above takes you to a site which has nothing at all in it about Android malware. It's completely about Linux malware that's injected via Windows machines. So what the hell is it doing in the article as the primary link?
Then, if I understand correctly (based on the summary alone - because, you know, the primary linked article is clearly completely wrong), you'd need to:
1. Get an SMS with a link in it. 2. Click the link. 3. Get redirected to a website (which Chrome doesn't block). 4. Download an APK from that site. 5. Attempt to sideload it. 6. Realise you can't sideload it without disabling default security options (because the second link does indeed say that the user needs to manually install the APK). 7. Go disable default security options. 8. Sideload the APK.
WHO THE FUCK FALLS FOR THIS SHIT?!?!
Seriously? How the hell do people successfully find idiots who will do that kind of thing?
Downloaded filezilla today for a client - fully expected to see that stupid malware installer and was pleasantly surprised to see it not pop up. I remembered the article from a week or so back here on/. and realised you had kept your word (which, to be fair, I expected you would - but not so quickly). So that's great.
You won't get much praise here on/. because people here still bitch about Microsoft's behaviour in the 90's and are completely incapable of letting go of any negative, ever, even if someone else is now in control - but I for one thank you for making filezilla, at the very least, a download that isn't likely to crud people's PCs up anymore. I wish you luck but I do feel github has a somewhat default hold on the market, now.
True, if you call two people from Microsoft licensing for an answer you'll get three answers. And none of them will overlap.
Given the explosion of corse on a processor, I'm not inherently against the concept of charging by core - as long as the price is reasonable. From what I can see elsewhere on line, however, it doesn't look reasonable.
Also, only including storage replicas in Datacentre was a huge mistake that will basically kill any chance Microsoft had of getting into storage.
The biggest issue I imagine would be all the Google specific calls - essentially all the Google Apps and fundamentals would need to be there, too (thinking things like Maps, Gmail integration, which is often interwoven into apps in the background).
As an ex-Windows Phone user, I said many times I would have stayed on the platform if I could (reliably and safely) run Android Apps (I'm aware of the work over at XDADevs to make this happen but I don't want to have to get my app APKs from Russia - I want them from the Play Store). I actually quite liked the OS of Windows Phone - it was quite powerful, smooth and frankly, feature rich (mainly because it had to be, because there were no damn apps for it). If I could have Android apps - and they worked well and safely (you know... for Android) I'd call that best of both worlds and come back.
Depends on your kids. Personally, I got the XBox One primarily because of Kinect; I wanted something that would encourage physical activity along with playing, rather than just sitting on a couch. Unfortunately, my kids are probably too young for anything other than Nintendo (4 and 7) - Xbone games are really aimed at older people. So they basically just watch Netflix on it. A nice thing I've set up is facial recognition (which works extremely well) so they can't watch Netflix unless the XBox first sees my face.
Also, I am a Windows 10 guy (which I know just lost me 100% cred on this site), so the integration between XBone and Windows 10 is nice. I know others will bag that it's based on Windows but personally, I use Windows - like a lot - so I can actually (theoretically - I don't actually do it) play my Xbox games on my PC and sync the same accounts, photos, etc. without effort. That's nice.
Sorry - autocorrect on a phone is a pain. I would have thought the editors would pick that up (and I should have too). This is why I shouldn't submit stories from my phone, in bed.
Then again, maybe the slashdot guys approved it from a phone, in bed, too!:-P
Which is not a lot of comfort to the guy who got both his arms bitten off, in Western Australia (http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/shark-attack-sean-pollard-loses-arm-both-hands-in-feeding-frenzy/news-story/6e2eff891ce25ba13d25a1444f7a91d4). It doesn't really matter if the shark considers you a preferred meal or not, once it's taken a bite out of you.
The biggest problem is shown in the ABC article in the summary. At this time, ISPs are starting to do it but in a grace period (until April 2017). 84% of ISPs are storing data in plain text, right now, because of the "costs" of encryption. 61% of ISPs have applied to be permanently exempt from encrypting this data. Just looking at this, you already know this shit is going to get stolen. You just know it. Some ISPs will certainly have this data directly accessible from their corporate LANs and some will even have it accessible from the internet. You know it without even needing to be told. Because this shit happens all the time. Many of these ISPs will not have done much to get ready and they'll have shoddily made, inhouse systems that were made as quickly and cheaply as possible. So it's a certainty that this data is going to get stolen. And when that happens, who knows what information will be leaked, that someone really didn't want leaked. It'll make Ashley Madison look trivial.
Thanks - I have about a dozen WP sites I barely ever think about (I know I should more - but time isn't my friend, these days). I'll go check out wordfence now.
Watch this year's DEFCON talk on Bitcoin hacking to see why correcthorsebatterystaple actually isn't a good password idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Many attack routines now simply combine many words together, like this, to brute force, so you're not actually looking at entropy based on character length - your entropy is based on number of words, which is far less. In you "maddisoncompromisedmarriagelost" example, you only have an entropy of 4 - which is not, I think you'll agree, a large number. The crack times to break these are quite short - and in that video, you'll see he cracks some far longer combinations of words. Many people use entire lines from poems or from their favourite novels as passwords - so dozens of words - and they still get cracked in a very short time.
I actually like Lumia Storyteller. Not because of the story teller feature - but because it opens the images in full resolution. On my Nokia 930, I can zoom in endlessly in storyteller - with the 20MP camera, I can read the numberplate on a car that's little more than a dot in the photo - but in the Windows Photo app, I can hardly zoom in at all.
Considering the camera is about the only reason I am sticking with a Windows Phone... bad move, Microsoft.
Because many people across many industries dislike their jobs? Seriously - most people are paid to go to work, for a reason. Sure, some people have the luxury of loving their job (or just liking it) but they're not the norm, they're the exception. Most people find the things they do at work, day to day, unpleasant.
IT workers have the added gripe that no one ever contacts us for good reasons. It's just one endless day of bailing out thankless users / customers. However I think you'll find many other industries feel the same way about their work.
We also have the negative that our work usually follows us 24x7, while many people just clock off at 5 and go do whatever it is they do. Other industries have this, true - but IT probably has this at a higher level.
I think you'll find the US does follow Australia (or vice versa) on this. Likewise, Australia does not prosecute you for smoking weed in Amsterdam - but the concept here is, it could chose to do so, should it wish; it's just simply not a priority or a concern. The law is the law. If Germany chooses to prosecute Germans who break German law, regardless of what that law is, then so be it. It's Germany's prerogative to do so. You can't say that the law says you can't say certain things in German, except on Facebook or where does it end.
The real argument here isn't whether or not German citizens should be above certain German laws, when on Facebook - of course they should not. Facebook is not some legal free-zone. The real argument is whether or not the law should exist - but once it does, it has to exist everywhere.
Well then they are also subject to German law, if German law says so. For example, if I, as an Australian, was to go overseas and commit a crime as defined in Australia, I could still be charged. We (Australia) use this law all the time to prosecute people who go on child-sex safaris in South East Asia (as we should) or who join ISIS, for example. Are you seriously suggesting that just because you take a holiday you should also take a holiday from the law?
Sounds like someone's being reading the promotional material. I don't know what part of Australia you live in but I actually work in many Australian data centres and I *promise* you, I could get in without an AK-47. I have personally coat-tailed in to many of them, behind complete strangers, on more than one occasion. I make a game of trying to do just that, in fact - just to see if anyone ever stops me. In all the times I've done that, I recall once that the person in front of me, who I was coat-tailing, actually stopped me and asked me for my ID. Considering he was not even an employee of the datacentre but just a colo customer, I don't know what he could even have done, had I told him to get stuffed.
Many of them would be trivial to break in to, if I didn't care about leaving physical damage behind and the only ramification would be I'd be caught on film (which would hardly be a major issue for someone willing to think it through).
For all the talk about being extremely secure, many are basically if not completely (usually completely) unmanned after hours, many are in normal office buildings in and around the various CBDs and rely on little more than a swipe card preventing you selecting a specific floor from the lift and not having a hammer to break the invariably glass door past said lift (which may be tempered glass but it's still only a couple cm embedded into an aluminium frame, so bullet-proofing isn't going to help, here). There are a handful of higher tiered ones scattered around that do have (a single) security guard(s) after hours but I they're usually little more than a concierge.
As with all things in Australia, the vast majority of our datacentre physical security comes down to our national security policy of "it'll never happen, so why worry about it".
I have been in datacentres that house equipment belonging to a certain American company, that starts with "G" and ends with "oogle" and the only enhanced security they had was a yellow mesh around their racks, made out of the same stuff that fails to protect the doors and windows of residential houses from 12 years olds on a daily basis.
I've been in the supposedly "most secure, tier 3" commercial datacentre in the country and seen the perimeter fence and main access doors propped open by reels of cabling, because electricians doing onsite work didn't want to have to be buzzed in, constantly, while collecting stuff from their vans. I've even had an electrician who was testing onsite UPS hold doors to secure areas open for me, without asking me who I was or if I had access to them (without me even asking him to). Security in Australian datacentres is not quite where it should be.
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Firstly, the link in the article above takes you to a site which has nothing at all in it about Android malware. It's completely about Linux malware that's injected via Windows machines. So what the hell is it doing in the article as the primary link?
Then, if I understand correctly (based on the summary alone - because, you know, the primary linked article is clearly completely wrong), you'd need to:
1. Get an SMS with a link in it.
2. Click the link.
3. Get redirected to a website (which Chrome doesn't block).
4. Download an APK from that site.
5. Attempt to sideload it.
6. Realise you can't sideload it without disabling default security options (because the second link does indeed say that the user needs to manually install the APK).
7. Go disable default security options.
8. Sideload the APK.
WHO THE FUCK FALLS FOR THIS SHIT?!?!
Seriously? How the hell do people successfully find idiots who will do that kind of thing?
Ahh Zork. A game where reading the T&C and playing the game was basically the same thing...
Downloaded filezilla today for a client - fully expected to see that stupid malware installer and was pleasantly surprised to see it not pop up. I remembered the article from a week or so back here on /. and realised you had kept your word (which, to be fair, I expected you would - but not so quickly). So that's great.
/. because people here still bitch about Microsoft's behaviour in the 90's and are completely incapable of letting go of any negative, ever, even if someone else is now in control - but I for one thank you for making filezilla, at the very least, a download that isn't likely to crud people's PCs up anymore. I wish you luck but I do feel github has a somewhat default hold on the market, now.
You won't get much praise here on
Starkiller wasn't even the worst thing... but I won't say anything because my biggest complaints are all spoilers.
So basically, Kylo Ren is sucking the energy out of the star to make a new StarKiller?
No because he's fast as hell and web-scale
Presumably he'll be returning it, on fire, on top of a motorcycle?
"Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones"
:-)
should read: "Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Making Firefox OS Smartphones".
You can't stop selling something no one was buying!
True, if you call two people from Microsoft licensing for an answer you'll get three answers. And none of them will overlap.
Given the explosion of corse on a processor, I'm not inherently against the concept of charging by core - as long as the price is reasonable. From what I can see elsewhere on line, however, it doesn't look reasonable.
Also, only including storage replicas in Datacentre was a huge mistake that will basically kill any chance Microsoft had of getting into storage.
The biggest issue I imagine would be all the Google specific calls - essentially all the Google Apps and fundamentals would need to be there, too (thinking things like Maps, Gmail integration, which is often interwoven into apps in the background).
As an ex-Windows Phone user, I said many times I would have stayed on the platform if I could (reliably and safely) run Android Apps (I'm aware of the work over at XDADevs to make this happen but I don't want to have to get my app APKs from Russia - I want them from the Play Store). I actually quite liked the OS of Windows Phone - it was quite powerful, smooth and frankly, feature rich (mainly because it had to be, because there were no damn apps for it). If I could have Android apps - and they worked well and safely (you know... for Android) I'd call that best of both worlds and come back.
Depends on your kids. Personally, I got the XBox One primarily because of Kinect; I wanted something that would encourage physical activity along with playing, rather than just sitting on a couch. Unfortunately, my kids are probably too young for anything other than Nintendo (4 and 7) - Xbone games are really aimed at older people. So they basically just watch Netflix on it. A nice thing I've set up is facial recognition (which works extremely well) so they can't watch Netflix unless the XBox first sees my face.
Also, I am a Windows 10 guy (which I know just lost me 100% cred on this site), so the integration between XBone and Windows 10 is nice. I know others will bag that it's based on Windows but personally, I use Windows - like a lot - so I can actually (theoretically - I don't actually do it) play my Xbox games on my PC and sync the same accounts, photos, etc. without effort. That's nice.
Sorry - autocorrect on a phone is a pain. I would have thought the editors would pick that up (and I should have too). This is why I shouldn't submit stories from my phone, in bed.
:-P
Then again, maybe the slashdot guys approved it from a phone, in bed, too!
I wonder - is that 24mbit or is that "24 mbit" like my 3-4mbit ADSL is "up to 24mbit"?
Which is not a lot of comfort to the guy who got both his arms bitten off, in Western Australia (http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/shark-attack-sean-pollard-loses-arm-both-hands-in-feeding-frenzy/news-story/6e2eff891ce25ba13d25a1444f7a91d4). It doesn't really matter if the shark considers you a preferred meal or not, once it's taken a bite out of you.
The biggest problem is shown in the ABC article in the summary. At this time, ISPs are starting to do it but in a grace period (until April 2017). 84% of ISPs are storing data in plain text, right now, because of the "costs" of encryption. 61% of ISPs have applied to be permanently exempt from encrypting this data. Just looking at this, you already know this shit is going to get stolen. You just know it. Some ISPs will certainly have this data directly accessible from their corporate LANs and some will even have it accessible from the internet. You know it without even needing to be told. Because this shit happens all the time. Many of these ISPs will not have done much to get ready and they'll have shoddily made, inhouse systems that were made as quickly and cheaply as possible. So it's a certainty that this data is going to get stolen. And when that happens, who knows what information will be leaked, that someone really didn't want leaked. It'll make Ashley Madison look trivial.
Thanks - I have about a dozen WP sites I barely ever think about (I know I should more - but time isn't my friend, these days). I'll go check out wordfence now.
Oh - specifically, it's at about 16:40 into the video.
Watch this year's DEFCON talk on Bitcoin hacking to see why correcthorsebatterystaple actually isn't a good password idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Many attack routines now simply combine many words together, like this, to brute force, so you're not actually looking at entropy based on character length - your entropy is based on number of words, which is far less. In you "maddisoncompromisedmarriagelost" example, you only have an entropy of 4 - which is not, I think you'll agree, a large number. The crack times to break these are quite short - and in that video, you'll see he cracks some far longer combinations of words. Many people use entire lines from poems or from their favourite novels as passwords - so dozens of words - and they still get cracked in a very short time.
Visual Studio for Linux (kind of): https://code.visualstudio.com/...
.NET is also supported on Linux, now. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet...
I actually like Lumia Storyteller. Not because of the story teller feature - but because it opens the images in full resolution. On my Nokia 930, I can zoom in endlessly in storyteller - with the 20MP camera, I can read the numberplate on a car that's little more than a dot in the photo - but in the Windows Photo app, I can hardly zoom in at all.
Considering the camera is about the only reason I am sticking with a Windows Phone... bad move, Microsoft.
Because many people across many industries dislike their jobs? Seriously - most people are paid to go to work, for a reason. Sure, some people have the luxury of loving their job (or just liking it) but they're not the norm, they're the exception. Most people find the things they do at work, day to day, unpleasant.
IT workers have the added gripe that no one ever contacts us for good reasons. It's just one endless day of bailing out thankless users / customers. However I think you'll find many other industries feel the same way about their work.
We also have the negative that our work usually follows us 24x7, while many people just clock off at 5 and go do whatever it is they do. Other industries have this, true - but IT probably has this at a higher level.
I think you'll find the US does follow Australia (or vice versa) on this. Likewise, Australia does not prosecute you for smoking weed in Amsterdam - but the concept here is, it could chose to do so, should it wish; it's just simply not a priority or a concern. The law is the law. If Germany chooses to prosecute Germans who break German law, regardless of what that law is, then so be it. It's Germany's prerogative to do so. You can't say that the law says you can't say certain things in German, except on Facebook or where does it end.
The real argument here isn't whether or not German citizens should be above certain German laws, when on Facebook - of course they should not. Facebook is not some legal free-zone. The real argument is whether or not the law should exist - but once it does, it has to exist everywhere.
Well then they are also subject to German law, if German law says so. For example, if I, as an Australian, was to go overseas and commit a crime as defined in Australia, I could still be charged. We (Australia) use this law all the time to prosecute people who go on child-sex safaris in South East Asia (as we should) or who join ISIS, for example. Are you seriously suggesting that just because you take a holiday you should also take a holiday from the law?
Sounds like someone's being reading the promotional material. I don't know what part of Australia you live in but I actually work in many Australian data centres and I *promise* you, I could get in without an AK-47. I have personally coat-tailed in to many of them, behind complete strangers, on more than one occasion. I make a game of trying to do just that, in fact - just to see if anyone ever stops me. In all the times I've done that, I recall once that the person in front of me, who I was coat-tailing, actually stopped me and asked me for my ID. Considering he was not even an employee of the datacentre but just a colo customer, I don't know what he could even have done, had I told him to get stuffed.
Many of them would be trivial to break in to, if I didn't care about leaving physical damage behind and the only ramification would be I'd be caught on film (which would hardly be a major issue for someone willing to think it through).
For all the talk about being extremely secure, many are basically if not completely (usually completely) unmanned after hours, many are in normal office buildings in and around the various CBDs and rely on little more than a swipe card preventing you selecting a specific floor from the lift and not having a hammer to break the invariably glass door past said lift (which may be tempered glass but it's still only a couple cm embedded into an aluminium frame, so bullet-proofing isn't going to help, here). There are a handful of higher tiered ones scattered around that do have (a single) security guard(s) after hours but I they're usually little more than a concierge.
As with all things in Australia, the vast majority of our datacentre physical security comes down to our national security policy of "it'll never happen, so why worry about it".
I have been in datacentres that house equipment belonging to a certain American company, that starts with "G" and ends with "oogle" and the only enhanced security they had was a yellow mesh around their racks, made out of the same stuff that fails to protect the doors and windows of residential houses from 12 years olds on a daily basis.
I've been in the supposedly "most secure, tier 3" commercial datacentre in the country and seen the perimeter fence and main access doors propped open by reels of cabling, because electricians doing onsite work didn't want to have to be buzzed in, constantly, while collecting stuff from their vans. I've even had an electrician who was testing onsite UPS hold doors to secure areas open for me, without asking me who I was or if I had access to them (without me even asking him to). Security in Australian datacentres is not quite where it should be.