I was going to post EXACTLY this same point!
From the trenches at Netscape, during the middle of the browser wars, it was plain as daylight that Microsoft was doing all sorts of nefarious things to ensure that the Netscape browser would not run as well as Internet Explorer. In fact, if memory serves correctly, I seem to recall there was specific evidence of the operating system even maliciously looking for code signatures that would indicate that it was NETSCAPE code running.
Man, revenge may have taken 20 years, but it sure feels friggin' sweet..... Stick that bright green dinosaur where the sun don't shine, Microsoft.
On the flip side, there are other movies which have come out on DVD which Netflix refuses to release to their loyal customers:
Ghost In The Shell : https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/...
Steve Gibson had suggested a configuration of three routers to isolate IoT devices.
https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-545....
Again, it depends on how much you want to put "common consumers" through.
I'd submit that unless it's ridiculously easy, the vast majority of consumers would simply scoff and claim it wasn't worth the trouble. (And those are the folks who probably were the main constituents of the recent botnets)
Does anybody find it ironic to see the slashdot sales as for IoT cameras immediately above this sorry?
Until we can somehow force vendors to responsibly patch, these devices have NO BUSINESS being on the web and we should boycott them. (Looking at you, AVTECH)
Be VERY careful about only relying upon the file contents -- my wife spent 3 weeks tagging a large (~8,000 images) collection of family photos -- and the method she used was to put the children's names in the filename.
Being the clever geek, I ran a MD5 against all the files, and compared both filesize and MD5 -- and triumphantly purged all the binary duplicates -- only to find that the filename itself was important to retain.
Also, note that some application such as Apple's iPhoto will conveniently retain multiple copies of the same image in various dimensions - as well as the original image before any transformations would apply.
Bottom line: doing a filename+filecontents hash (single O(n) to calculate over entire file set), and then comparison of the hash feels _to me_ as the safest approach.
Netscape used to offer a "bug Bounty" for issues reported --
xref article "BUGS BOUNTY By Philip Elmer-DeWitt Monday, Oct. 23, 1995 "
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983604,00.html
"[...]Netscape last week began offering cash awards to anybody who can find a security hole in the beta, or test, version of its latest browser software. Under the so-called Bugs Bounty program, the first person to identify a "significant" security flaw wins $1,000. Lesser bugs earn smaller prizes ranging from $40 sweatshirts to $12 coffee mugs. The idea, explains a company spokesperson, is to get hackers to hack when it will do the Netscape some good--before the product is officially released.[...]"
So - given inflation, does this mean that the value of a bug has gone down over time - or was Netscape just paying way above market value?:D
Slashdot Mirror
obligatory references https://www.justice.gov/atr/us... and https://money.cnn.com/2002/01/...
I was going to post EXACTLY this same point! From the trenches at Netscape, during the middle of the browser wars, it was plain as daylight that Microsoft was doing all sorts of nefarious things to ensure that the Netscape browser would not run as well as Internet Explorer. In fact, if memory serves correctly, I seem to recall there was specific evidence of the operating system even maliciously looking for code signatures that would indicate that it was NETSCAPE code running. Man, revenge may have taken 20 years, but it sure feels friggin' sweet..... Stick that bright green dinosaur where the sun don't shine, Microsoft.
If you want some truly timeless classics, you have to delve into the vault of physical DVDs.
Sneakers: https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/...
THX 1138: https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/...
On the flip side, there are other movies which have come out on DVD which Netflix refuses to release to their loyal customers:
Ghost In The Shell : https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/...
Intrigued to hear what others have to say.
Whoops. "Takeshi Kovacs", what I get for posting before first pot of coffee.
+1 for altered carbon, I also enjoyed Th1rt3en from this author Richard K. Morgan - even though it didn't have Takahashi in it.
Steve Gibson had suggested a configuration of three routers to isolate IoT devices. https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-545.... Again, it depends on how much you want to put "common consumers" through. I'd submit that unless it's ridiculously easy, the vast majority of consumers would simply scoff and claim it wasn't worth the trouble. (And those are the folks who probably were the main constituents of the recent botnets)
Does anybody find it ironic to see the slashdot sales as for IoT cameras immediately above this sorry? Until we can somehow force vendors to responsibly patch, these devices have NO BUSINESS being on the web and we should boycott them. (Looking at you, AVTECH)
Be VERY careful about only relying upon the file contents -- my wife spent 3 weeks tagging a large (~8,000 images) collection of family photos -- and the method she used was to put the children's names in the filename. Being the clever geek, I ran a MD5 against all the files, and compared both filesize and MD5 -- and triumphantly purged all the binary duplicates -- only to find that the filename itself was important to retain. Also, note that some application such as Apple's iPhoto will conveniently retain multiple copies of the same image in various dimensions - as well as the original image before any transformations would apply. Bottom line: doing a filename+filecontents hash (single O(n) to calculate over entire file set), and then comparison of the hash feels _to me_ as the safest approach.
Netscape used to offer a "bug Bounty" for issues reported -- xref article "BUGS BOUNTY By Philip Elmer-DeWitt Monday, Oct. 23, 1995 " http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983604,00.html "[...]Netscape last week began offering cash awards to anybody who can find a security hole in the beta, or test, version of its latest browser software. Under the so-called Bugs Bounty program, the first person to identify a "significant" security flaw wins $1,000. Lesser bugs earn smaller prizes ranging from $40 sweatshirts to $12 coffee mugs. The idea, explains a company spokesperson, is to get hackers to hack when it will do the Netscape some good--before the product is officially released.[...]" So - given inflation, does this mean that the value of a bug has gone down over time - or was Netscape just paying way above market value? :D