It depends on the type of troll. If someone is just issuing personal attacks, then it's easy to ignore them. But if someone is spreading false information, then while someone more informed may be able to easily identify them as a troll, others might take it as truth. However, if someone who knows it is false wants to point out the fact that it is false, then they're feeding the troll.
People don't need coding per se, they need a basic understanding of how computers work first. General computing classes would go a long ways in helping people become more technologically proficient.
Why would they go through the trouble of reverse enigneering your password system when there's thousands of other people who just use the same exact password everywhere? Unless someone is trying to specifically target you, it's usually sufficient to simply not be the low-hanging fruit. In case of these large password leaks, what they're probably doing is something like this:
1. Take every username (or email) and password combination
2. Through automated means, check if they are valid on other websites
3. Record the ones that worked and abuse/sell those as well.
The whole "no commercial use" thing is beyond silly. What if I took some pictures with my drone, not intending to do anything commercial with them, and then later someone wanted to buy the rights to those photos? Am I retroactively breaking an FAA rule? There's far too much gray area, but that's beside the point entirely. The FAA should be regulating what can fly, where it can fly, and how it gets flown, not the reason for flying it.
Looking at the Bromium report, it appears that it's checking for various drivers that Vm programs would typically install as part of their guest tools. It looks like if you were to install something as simple as the VMware mouse driver it would think you're in VMware. It also checks for Fiddler so you could simply install that.
Then again... only a fraction of the audience is really that invested in their save games. The truly valuable stuff (relatively speaking) is all tied to mmo accounts (and therefore not stored on your PC anyway).
Exactly, it would be far more profitable for them to simply steal any saved account credentials.
All of these crypto ransomware things are actually a plot to make people associate "encryption" with something bad, so that people will stop using things like encrypted-by-default phones.
I was going to suggest something like this, but maybe with an iPad or other simple tablet. But the issue becomes supplying power to it. I have no idea if USB will even be around when this time capsule is opened, so you'd possibly want to include a schematic showing how to power the device.
From what I understand (and I have only sketchy information on this), the police were contacted, and YikYak was asked for an IP address.
However, either they refused to give one, or it ended up being some public computer (this is, after all, a university; there are hundreds of public computers on campus). Nothing the police can do about that. Even CSI's reality-bending tricks would have trouble figuring out which of dozens of people who sat at that computer might have sent the message.
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How is that different from any internet communications platform? If someone hops on a random public computer, they could easily anonymously send those death threats or other nasty messages via an email, some other anonymous website/service, or even through a payphone of all things. The only thing that YikYak provides is convenience. I don't think that if there were no death threats before YikYak, that any of the death threats sent through YikYak would have any shred of credibility. Someone isn't going to say "wow look at this app that I can send death threats through, I think I'll go murder someone that I wasn't going to murder before".
That being said, the installer will install systemd by default, so you either need to remove it after the fact, or monkey with the installer to force it to use sysvinit instead.
It's not being "forced" upon users. It's still entirely possible to have a Debian system without systemd. It's not Debian forcing it on users, it's Gnome depending on it. If you don't need Gnome (which you especially wouldn't on a server), then you don't need systemd.
The prolem is that it's difficult to allow access to just the top 25 sites when everything goes through CDNs and pages have scripts being pulled in from 30 different sites (if my noscript menu is taller than my screen, I generally question the developers if the site). How do you determine what stuff to allow access to when those top 25 sites require so many other domains to function?
I'd rather pay to have a little bit of nuclear waste buried beneath a mountain where it will never be seen again than have stuff burned and pollute the air, have oil spills, and have totally-not-related-to-oil wars. Who pays for all of those things? The public.
Well that is my name, because I don't post things on/. that I wouldn't mind having associated with my real identity. I wouldn't even think about posting something even remotely close to the things the people in TFA posted. Do I ever say things on the internet I wouldn't want attached to my name? Sure, but I sure as hell wouldn't attach my real name of all things to it.
I think the scariest part of all of it is that someone could easily just use my name, post bad things, and I'd take the blame for it.
Better question is how dumb does a troll have to be to actually be linked to their real-life identity without someone actually cracking their account security?
What they should do is stop hiding the concept of the "home folder" from the user so much. It would be a lot easier than providing a bunch of library links to subfolders within the home dir.
Fun fact: They aren't actually called "My" Documents and such, they're just called "Documents" and explorer sticks the "My" prefix on them. Do a dir on your home folder and you'll see the actual folder names.
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It depends on the type of troll. If someone is just issuing personal attacks, then it's easy to ignore them. But if someone is spreading false information, then while someone more informed may be able to easily identify them as a troll, others might take it as truth. However, if someone who knows it is false wants to point out the fact that it is false, then they're feeding the troll.
People don't need coding per se, they need a basic understanding of how computers work first. General computing classes would go a long ways in helping people become more technologically proficient.
So then they simply won't use cell phones, they'll use one of the many other ways of detonating a bomb remotely.
Well, comcast used to give you "unlimited" and then instead of throttling you they just gave you the boot. Not sure which is worse.
The difference there is that apart from #2, those are all choices that someone makes.
It's not surprising. They probably considered ending phone surveillance because internet surveillance is more important.
Why would they go through the trouble of reverse enigneering your password system when there's thousands of other people who just use the same exact password everywhere? Unless someone is trying to specifically target you, it's usually sufficient to simply not be the low-hanging fruit. In case of these large password leaks, what they're probably doing is something like this:
1. Take every username (or email) and password combination
2. Through automated means, check if they are valid on other websites
3. Record the ones that worked and abuse/sell those as well.
There's even an aptly-named tool for it!
The whole "no commercial use" thing is beyond silly. What if I took some pictures with my drone, not intending to do anything commercial with them, and then later someone wanted to buy the rights to those photos? Am I retroactively breaking an FAA rule? There's far too much gray area, but that's beside the point entirely. The FAA should be regulating what can fly, where it can fly, and how it gets flown, not the reason for flying it.
Looking at the Bromium report, it appears that it's checking for various drivers that Vm programs would typically install as part of their guest tools. It looks like if you were to install something as simple as the VMware mouse driver it would think you're in VMware. It also checks for Fiddler so you could simply install that.
Then again... only a fraction of the audience is really that invested in their save games. The truly valuable stuff (relatively speaking) is all tied to mmo accounts (and therefore not stored on your PC anyway).
Exactly, it would be far more profitable for them to simply steal any saved account credentials.
All of these crypto ransomware things are actually a plot to make people associate "encryption" with something bad, so that people will stop using things like encrypted-by-default phones.
I was going to suggest something like this, but maybe with an iPad or other simple tablet. But the issue becomes supplying power to it. I have no idea if USB will even be around when this time capsule is opened, so you'd possibly want to include a schematic showing how to power the device.
From what I understand (and I have only sketchy information on this), the police were contacted, and YikYak was asked for an IP address.
However, either they refused to give one, or it ended up being some public computer (this is, after all, a university; there are hundreds of public computers on campus). Nothing the police can do about that. Even CSI's reality-bending tricks would have trouble figuring out which of dozens of people who sat at that computer might have sent the message.
Dan Aris
How is that different from any internet communications platform? If someone hops on a random public computer, they could easily anonymously send those death threats or other nasty messages via an email, some other anonymous website/service, or even through a payphone of all things. The only thing that YikYak provides is convenience. I don't think that if there were no death threats before YikYak, that any of the death threats sent through YikYak would have any shred of credibility. Someone isn't going to say "wow look at this app that I can send death threats through, I think I'll go murder someone that I wasn't going to murder before".
That being said, the installer will install systemd by default, so you either need to remove it after the fact, or monkey with the installer to force it to use sysvinit instead.
It's not being "forced" upon users. It's still entirely possible to have a Debian system without systemd. It's not Debian forcing it on users, it's Gnome depending on it. If you don't need Gnome (which you especially wouldn't on a server), then you don't need systemd.
The prolem is that it's difficult to allow access to just the top 25 sites when everything goes through CDNs and pages have scripts being pulled in from 30 different sites (if my noscript menu is taller than my screen, I generally question the developers if the site). How do you determine what stuff to allow access to when those top 25 sites require so many other domains to function?
I'd rather pay to have a little bit of nuclear waste buried beneath a mountain where it will never be seen again than have stuff burned and pollute the air, have oil spills, and have totally-not-related-to-oil wars. Who pays for all of those things? The public.
Well that is my name, because I don't post things on /. that I wouldn't mind having associated with my real identity. I wouldn't even think about posting something even remotely close to the things the people in TFA posted. Do I ever say things on the internet I wouldn't want attached to my name? Sure, but I sure as hell wouldn't attach my real name of all things to it.
I think the scariest part of all of it is that someone could easily just use my name, post bad things, and I'd take the blame for it.
Better question is how dumb does a troll have to be to actually be linked to their real-life identity without someone actually cracking their account security?
unless you want to move the kernel into systemd as well.
Shhhhh...you're giving them ideas.
So why not have it group only when the taskbar is full? IIRC that used to be the default, but now it groups even if there's plenty of room.
Windows doesn't care. If it ends with exe, it considers it a compiled executable, end of story.
What they should do is stop hiding the concept of the "home folder" from the user so much. It would be a lot easier than providing a bunch of library links to subfolders within the home dir.
Fun fact: They aren't actually called "My" Documents and such, they're just called "Documents" and explorer sticks the "My" prefix on them. Do a dir on your home folder and you'll see the actual folder names.