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  1. cages solves that but granted a nefarious party conducting espionage would find a way to circumvent that but the obvious thing, Internet attack shouldn't be possible with SCADA isolation.

  2. it still amazes me that SCADA implementations have back doors and direct Internet connectivity. Air Gaps people! No Internet/Intranet access to SCADA systems and access restrictions such as no USB thumb drives in machines and only personnel, verified and doubled up touch the network. It's pragmatic and off the shelf. Use it and then you won't potentially crash planes.

  3. Rome is burning but nobody is fiddling.

  4. Re:Sad leadership on Obama: The Word 'Classified' Means Whatever We Need It To Mean (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    seriously stop nutswinging on otard. I vote Libertarian and won't be voting for any Republicans.

  5. Meh, who gives a rats ass on In the Age of Trump, Tech CEOs Cast Themselves As the New Statesmen (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me." John 10:27

  6. Re:won't work, 'cause cancer's contagious on Sean Parker Announces $250 Million Grant To Fight Cancer (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    please, don't believe anything published in the NYT. Nothing is settled when it comes to cancer except you can get it and in most cases it'll eventually kill you.

  7. Requisite... on Sean Parker Announces $250 Million Grant To Fight Cancer (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    South Park reference: "And... it's gone..."

  8. Re:Mallicous? on Free Software Will Help Detect Faulty and Malicious USB-C Cables · · Score: 1

    Well I'm talking specifics. I mean the next thing I'll read on slashdot is that "USB C cables leap out of drawers and strangle their owners"

    That would be malicious and a boring sci-fi story. Wait they made two sharknado movies, never mine.

  9. Mallicous? on Free Software Will Help Detect Faulty and Malicious USB-C Cables · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So the cables are deliberately causing fault or do you mean the manufacturers? It's hard for me to believe than an inanimate object has malicious intent.

  10. Sad leadership on Obama: The Word 'Classified' Means Whatever We Need It To Mean (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    It's pathetic when we see the President skirting laws and circumventing the other branches of government, now he's coming up with his own definitions of the classification of documents. This will still go down as the worst 8 years in US history. Republican or Democrat you have to wince when this fucking moron speaks.

  11. As they say.. on Cybercriminals Are Adopting Corporate Best Practices · · Score: 2

    When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

  12. true, but still one restart should do it. Not a whole series of back and forth single responses. I'd think the craft would be sending a stream of status information anyway assisting in pinpointing the issue.

  13. 13 minutes? More like 7 unless there's a lot of processing delay. Batch Jobs perhaps? Sorting cards?

  14. The Cryptography Wars has begun on FBI Telling Congress How It Hacked iPhone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So here we go, the crypto wars are upon us. Even if legislation is passed restricting use of encryption, there will be services, software and tools that will be
    available to circumvent it. Just like gun control, criminals and terrorists will find a way around these supposed restrictions. This will hurt American technology companies who'll be handcuffed by stupid restrictions that won't save any lives nor lead to any foresight into nefarious activities. Of course it will erode your privacy and give the government new ways to fuck with your lives but hey, terrorism right?

    It's foolish to think you can put the Genie back in the bottle and it points out how valuable the concept of term limits on members of congress would be. You see the glad-handers and baby kissers, the ones that feign outrage and get re-elected by their gullible constituents; rising to power in congress because of the seniority system. You don't get the best leadership, you get the ones who are best at getting re-elected.

    Feinbitch there's a special place in hell for retards like yourself.

  15. Re:Vulnerability Warriors meet EOL on Quanta LTE Router May Be Most Unsecure Router Ever Made (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Other industries, such as cars, if the product you shipped has a serious design flaw then you have to recall and fix it, regardless of the product's age or if it is considered EOL. The same should apply here.

    And that's up to the laws within a country. Change the laws, or simply just don't buy cheap ass routers.

  16. Vulnerability Warriors meet EOL on Quanta LTE Router May Be Most Unsecure Router Ever Made (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    From: https://pierrekim.github.io/bl...

    Mar 15, 2016: Quanta confirms the product is EOL and the released firmware was approved by the operator. Quanta can't modify of change without the customer's approval. Quanta does not have plan to patch or change FW as the product is EOL. Quanta thanks Pierre Kim for the information and will consider the findings into our next product development in the near future.

    So then the Vulnerability finder discloses, which is fine but the product is EOL. Don't buy it, don't use it. As a rule don't buy network routers from unknown or little known manufacturers. It may be cheap now but it'll cost you eventually.

  17. Re:Does this give me native CLI tools or not on Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows amazing? No. It has core apps that businesses still hook onto, Office for one. The only reason I haven't completely dumped it is a) I have customers that I have to support that use Windows and 2) LibreOffice although it's getting better isn't Office

    Without that I have no need for Windows 10.

  18. Relevance on Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I can already run most windows apps under Linux, except for Office....

    LibreOffice is getting better and better....
    Linux tools/desktops and Ubuntu are getting better and better....
    Run Ubuntu apps on Windows...

    It's Microsoft trying to stay relevant. If they really wanted to be relevant they'd offer Office on Linux.

  19. I'm betting they spent $$ on a vulnerability on Police Unlikely To Win Wider Access To Smartphones Despite FBI Success In San Bernardino Case (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll bet the DOJ/FBI spent some money at one of those purveyors of vulnerabilities. You know, the folks who constantly sell hacks and backdoor tricks to governments for big profits.

  20. Well that's better than on Researcher Uses Valve Security Bug To Upload Paint Drying Game On Steam (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Paint Drying? Humm that's gotta be better than Civilization Beyond Earth

  21. Re:Chrome + Windows = Mirror on Chromium Being Ported To VC++, Scrubbed of Compiler Bugs · · Score: 1

    that's actually silver + windows = mirror. #FTFY

  22. really? on K-12 CS Framework Calls For Teaching Kids Responsible Use of Avatars and Emoji · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is the proper use of an emoji is now something we want taught in schools? This is ridiculous. Teach Johnny and Lisa to read instead of worrying about a fucking smiley..

  23. Re: Another privacy intrusion on Algorithm Deduces Drunk Tweets From Geolocation, Behavioral Data (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Nest = Google = Android so you're asking does the left side of your brain trust the right? I don't trust any company and you should get off of Nest's nutsack.

    For Android, there's more eyes on it, but still eyes wide open. I'm waiting for the changes coming with M and N, it's a long time in coming.
    As for Nest, I can't see the source code for the Nest App and as for the product, it's overpriced shit and I bought 3 of them when I upgraded my HVAC systems. What that means is roughly $750 for snooping shit that hasn't paid for itself in a year and a half of use. Oh I get a fucking "leaf report" once a month but that's about it.

  24. Re:on the next episode of fawlty aquaria on SeaWorld To End Orca Breeding Program (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Basil! Basil!

  25. In Sea World's defense on SeaWorld To End Orca Breeding Program (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, they're in the entertainment business but they did at one time do quite a bit of biological research on sea life, Orca included. With the stories that have come out and the trainer getting killed I would have thought they'd shutdown the program before now.

    I remember growing up on SoCal and we had Marineland where they kept their Orcas in a very small tank that was about 4 stories high and had glass around it. so you could see them in the tank. I always remember going there and seeing how for lack of a better term, depressed they were. One of the Orca crashed through the tank glass and died and that was the end of Marineland from what I remember.