Nor HP.. HP's quality has tanked hard as well. Most of their Mexico Assembled crap fails quickly. 5 desktops quad i7 top of the line HP boxes, 3 of them had problems that required a major repair like mother board replacement.
It seems that all the computer makers are just building low grade dog food these days.
No we are shocked at the amazing lack of education people have when they act that way. I personally have never had anything but a positive reaction and curiosity from people, I have NEVER had someone go all crazy and start screaming "STOP FILMING ME!" because it is insanely obvious when it is recording.
Then they need to look at the employees. We did it up in the projection booth back in the VHS days. Only a morons would want a bootleg shot with what is basically a cameraphone on someone's head.
If this was in the USA, the kids would have been shot several times by cops and the bodies taken to Gitmo for waterboarding.
Kids in the USA, DO NOT try and be a white hat unless you can do it untraceable and anonymously. You will be severely punished for doing something good here.
Your place is a minority, a very well trained minority that is doing things right.
Very cool that some places are doing security right. Problem is do you run background checks for all contractors coming in? Because your security will have to let outside contractors in the door without security passes eventually.
You sit there and cry because we all know that ethernet cables are impossible to unplug once they are plugged in. DAMN THEM for making them a single use permanent item!
If you think "space is at a premium" even in a 250 sq foot apartment, that a Smart TV is a good idea, then you are nuts.
You have a buttload of space on the back of that TV to put a Roku Box, and a Apple TV, and a XBMC box, and your Cable TV box Plus a HDMI switcher if you bought low end with less than 4 HDMI inputs. And if that space is really at a premium, then you also bought a universal remote and a IR extender so all the devices can be on the back of that TV out of the way and you have only one remote to really simplify operation of the whole setup.
There is NEVER a reason to buy a smart TV other than being talked into it by the sales guy at Best Buy.
Dont even need the right uniform. I do this all the time in just street clothes. Hell even past security checkpoints it's easy "I left my badge in the car" works great.
The fact that you will only affect the 6 houses that is connected to that pole. the COAX is only from that Optical termination to the houses, and you can not magically make the equipment at the headend change it's programming from transmit video only to receive the data return and then resend it out the video transmit.
And even if it was old COAX only, you cant magically make RF amplifiers rebroadcast backwards.
"All it'd take to do this is walk into the room and swap a commercial with one with the attack embedded."
I managed the Cable TV systems for commercial insertion for 10 years, so tell me again how easy it is to swap a TV commercial? Because all the AD insertion servers are password protected and also in locked racks that you have to get through first. Are you an uber haxor? where hacking a server is a 30 second trivial thing and then you know the Ad insertion software suite (Seachange By the way for all you Uber Hax0rs) so well that you carry the client insertion apps with you on your laptop? Oh and what file format did you encode that TV commercial? Because you need the right format for the system setup, no it's not the same nation wide.
In fact it's easier for you to pick a far less protected network location, Like a sales office, Get hired on the cleaning crew and attack the network from there to try and gain access to the encode and upload station at the main ad insertion office. If you are lucky, that one was set up by IT retards and is on both the corporate network and the ad insertion network (ad insertion network is a protected and isolated network)
A far more plausable route is social engineering while wearing a suit and having a lot of money. Contact a sales person for AD insertion, buy Air time and supply them with a Pre Encoded TV commercial that is already set up for their systems file and encoding settings. A file that hopefully they will just drop in the system and not run through any video re-encoding software that will destroy or strip your evil info. faking urgency and throwing a lot of cash at the sales person increases the chances of just a straight file copy, but that is against SOP and has a high possibility of failing. But then Places like Comcast pay nearly minimum wage for the poor guys that do video conversion and upload, so if done late in the day the chance that they will just copy and call it done is high.
Just swap a TV commercial..... That's Hilarious, this is not 1993 when you had racks full of video tapes for the TV commercials.
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"HP has a long history of OS and CPU design, including their own computers with a proprietary architecture."
and nobody works there anymore that does that, They fired all the high paid specialists years ago.
The HP of today is not even worthy to stand in the shadow of the HP of yesterday.
Nor HP.. HP's quality has tanked hard as well. Most of their Mexico Assembled crap fails quickly. 5 desktops quad i7 top of the line HP boxes, 3 of them had problems that required a major repair like mother board replacement.
It seems that all the computer makers are just building low grade dog food these days.
No we are shocked at the amazing lack of education people have when they act that way.
I personally have never had anything but a positive reaction and curiosity from people, I have NEVER had someone go all crazy and start screaming "STOP FILMING ME!" because it is insanely obvious when it is recording.
Do they ban children and the demographic that talks to the screen?
Then they need to look at the employees. We did it up in the projection booth back in the VHS days. Only a morons would want a bootleg shot with what is basically a cameraphone on someone's head.
Agreed. But remember Fear sells, and that is what the gun haters have on their side.... fear.
If this was in the USA, the kids would have been shot several times by cops and the bodies taken to Gitmo for waterboarding.
Kids in the USA, DO NOT try and be a white hat unless you can do it untraceable and anonymously. You will be severely punished for doing something good here.
Google wallet has been around for a while now.
Only to the very dumb stock holders.
Honestly if anyone can not see the huge profits in setting a standard, they need to be beaten with a sack of door knobs.
Incorrect. the Model S has the range that will satisfy 99% of drivers. The problem is that it's ungodly expensive.
"It was also the only car to ever receive a 99 out of 10 from Consumer Reports"
The Mode S is so good that it broke the scale by a factor of 10!
Those are called minivans. I dont care how they want to twist it... It's a minivan without sliding doors.
Yes they do. Chevy Tahoe owners drive that oversized minivan hoping they look "cool"
Yes Modern SUV's are all minivans. none of them are capable of real of road anymore.
Fantastic! It's a breath of fresh air to hear of a place that takes security seriously instead of just treating it as theater.
Your place is a minority, a very well trained minority that is doing things right.
Very cool that some places are doing security right. Problem is do you run background checks for all contractors coming in? Because your security will have to let outside contractors in the door without security passes eventually.
I love how incredibly low IQ people like you actually think you have a clue.
It's cute, let me guess your mommy always told you that you were special.
They already have that. very thick latex paint can do exactly what you talk about.
Dont need it airtight, just keep pressure high enough for .8 atmospheres.
He only said redneck not a Chevy Tahoe owner. That is unforgivable.
You sit there and cry because we all know that ethernet cables are impossible to unplug once they are plugged in. DAMN THEM for making them a single use permanent item!
If you think "space is at a premium" even in a 250 sq foot apartment, that a Smart TV is a good idea, then you are nuts.
You have a buttload of space on the back of that TV to put a Roku Box, and a Apple TV, and a XBMC box, and your Cable TV box Plus a HDMI switcher if you bought low end with less than 4 HDMI inputs. And if that space is really at a premium, then you also bought a universal remote and a IR extender so all the devices can be on the back of that TV out of the way and you have only one remote to really simplify operation of the whole setup.
There is NEVER a reason to buy a smart TV other than being talked into it by the sales guy at Best Buy.
NYC and find a tall building.
Dont even need the right uniform. I do this all the time in just street clothes. Hell even past security checkpoints it's easy "I left my badge in the car" works great.
The fact that you will only affect the 6 houses that is connected to that pole. the COAX is only from that Optical termination to the houses, and you can not magically make the equipment at the headend change it's programming from transmit video only to receive the data return and then resend it out the video transmit.
And even if it was old COAX only, you cant magically make RF amplifiers rebroadcast backwards.
"All it'd take to do this is walk into the room and swap a commercial with one with the attack embedded."
I managed the Cable TV systems for commercial insertion for 10 years, so tell me again how easy it is to swap a TV commercial? Because all the AD insertion servers are password protected and also in locked racks that you have to get through first. Are you an uber haxor? where hacking a server is a 30 second trivial thing and then you know the Ad insertion software suite (Seachange By the way for all you Uber Hax0rs) so well that you carry the client insertion apps with you on your laptop? Oh and what file format did you encode that TV commercial? Because you need the right format for the system setup, no it's not the same nation wide.
In fact it's easier for you to pick a far less protected network location, Like a sales office, Get hired on the cleaning crew and attack the network from there to try and gain access to the encode and upload station at the main ad insertion office. If you are lucky, that one was set up by IT retards and is on both the corporate network and the ad insertion network (ad insertion network is a protected and isolated network)
A far more plausable route is social engineering while wearing a suit and having a lot of money. Contact a sales person for AD insertion, buy Air time and supply them with a Pre Encoded TV commercial that is already set up for their systems file and encoding settings. A file that hopefully they will just drop in the system and not run through any video re-encoding software that will destroy or strip your evil info. faking urgency and throwing a lot of cash at the sales person increases the chances of just a straight file copy, but that is against SOP and has a high possibility of failing. But then Places like Comcast pay nearly minimum wage for the poor guys that do video conversion and upload, so if done late in the day the chance that they will just copy and call it done is high.
Just swap a TV commercial..... That's Hilarious, this is not 1993 when you had racks full of video tapes for the TV commercials.