I've been a Lyft user since the Uber scandals in 2014 including god mod, sucking up people's contacts, and digging up dirt on Journalists. They didn't blow up like the scandals this year, but it was enough for me to know that the company was shady. People used to ask me why I used Lyft instead of Uber, but not anymore.
It is part of the advertising SDKs in some apps that you install from the app stores. The idea is that if the advertising network can link the tracking cookie IDs on your devices (e.g. sending a signal on your desktop and picking it up on your phone), they can build a better profile on you with more targeted ads.
Silverpush is one SDK that does that though there are several others. You can find some apps that use it here, though they are mostly junk apps: https://public.addonsdetector....
So the attackers will just have to buy one of these to make sure their malware passes, just like they do already with desktop AV? I guess that's good for Norton's bottom line.
I leave all my important data with my Attorney. I update it every so often which sometimes involves copying the old stuff to a new drive and adding anything new. My attorney is also a family member so YMMV. As for my cloud data, I pretty much assume that any smaller company could go bust any day, and the larger ones could quite possibly be doing things with my data that I don't like. I use those services accordingly.
That is harder than you'd think. A surprising amount of data ends up going through the US. A lot of the EU-Asia traffic ends up going through the US as the indian ocean routes are relatively slow, and AFAIK Russia hasn't built any extensive cross continent fiber networks.
The conventional rule of thumb is that your standard freeway costs ~$1 million a mile, depending on the size and local considerations (e.g. prevalent natural disasters in the area). I don't even want to think about the cost of a 2 tiered system. You'd have the normal $1 million/mile for the bottom layer, and then the cost of engineering, building, and maintaining a completely elevated roadway. Not to mention the massive interchanges you need to connect these 2 tiered freeways to each other. I'd guess you'd increase the cost by an order of magnitude.
Also the number one cause of traffic is traffic density. The weaving just exacerbates it.
Back when I did OpenSolaris work, we used a tool called mbuffer which is basically netcat with a buffer on each end. It wouldn't been suitable for internet backups (no encryption) but it works pretty well for cross campus backups and the like.
IIRC it works like this on the sending side: 'zfs send pool/fs@snap | mbuffer -s 128k -m 4G -O 10.0.0.1:9090'
And on the receive side: 'mbuffer -s 128k -m 4G -I 9090 | zfs receive pool/fs'
It can still be pretty bursty but it smoothes out a lot of it.
>The good news is that although the botnet itself is bad, the number of connections and extra clients improves Tor security overall for all the other users. The thing is, the more relays, the more connections, the larger the network... the faster and more secure it is.
That isn't what is happening here. The new connections are clients only so they aren't acting as relays or exit nodes. Tor network stats actually show a slight drop in performance. However, the increased number of clients does probably make correlation attacks harder, if the NSA or someone else is actually doing those.
It's just as likely some independent hacker who figures that it is easier to get away with hacking the "enemy". Smart russian hackers don't hack russians, smart american hackers don't hack western targets, smart chinese hackers don't hack chinese targets. Pretty good chance that this is just the same from an Indian perspective.
France and England gave Germany a lot of slack in the lead up to WW2. Europe suffered so many casualties in WWI that it decimated a generation and made most countries in Europe very war shy. Consequently, when Germany began openly flaunting the restrictions that had been place on it after WWI in the Treaty of Versailles, making demands, and annexing other countries, France and England compromised, made concessions, and offered little real resistance besides formal protest. They hoped by appeasing Hitler, they could diffuse the situation and avoid another full scale war, which worked well obviously because only 60 or 70 million people died during WW2.
That won't really work in this situation. Kim Jong Un isn't just some bellicose asshole sitting at the helm of North Korean and giving the world the finger because he feels like it. All the confrontations, defiance, and war mongering are instrumental, mainly to keep his hold on power. Take that away and his grip will start slipping. Once that happens he would have to escalate to something we couldn't ignore (probably war, or at least a large conflict), or he'd be replace by someone controlled by the military, which would quite likely go to war as well to solidify their new hold on power. No matter how you look at it, practice bomb runs are better than mass casualties.
Well arguably the game could be shorter/have few hands if one of the players wielded a significant advantages, thus causing the casino to "lose" money. On the other hand, missing out on possible income isn't exactly stealing.
Getting someone's mailing address, email address, or jabber address requires a secondary communication channel anyway. When is the last time you emailed someone to find out what their email address what?
>>Put simply, the scientific world deals with vasts amount of data
This is so true. I work for a bioinformatics compute cluster and our users have no problem maxing out our infiniband infrastructure. Who needs load simulators when your users sometimes work with >1TB datasets?
And then one week later it will be full child porn and paranoid conspiracy theories and very little in the way of leaked documents. Such is the fate of all darknets I guess. (see Tor, Freenet, I2P, etc).
I usually use Linux, but occasionally I spin up a Win 7 vm when I need it. If you install using a SP1 disk, there are around 100 updates that need to be installed afterward. In my experience, this is comparable to the amount of updates needed after grabbing the latest Ubuntu LTS or a few month old Fedora release (Although Windows update can be slower that Apt or Yum).
Sure its not super convenient, but if you are installing Windows enough for it to be a problem, then you aren't doing your deployments correctly. You should really look into WSUS and WAIK for updating and deploying windows, respectively. They are both Microsoft products, but there are also numerous 3rd party tools of variable quality. A proper WAIK install can actually do the patching process during the install, so that when the computer logs in for the first time, it is fully patched.
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I've been a Lyft user since the Uber scandals in 2014 including god mod, sucking up people's contacts, and digging up dirt on Journalists. They didn't blow up like the scandals this year, but it was enough for me to know that the company was shady. People used to ask me why I used Lyft instead of Uber, but not anymore.
It is part of the advertising SDKs in some apps that you install from the app stores. The idea is that if the advertising network can link the tracking cookie IDs on your devices (e.g. sending a signal on your desktop and picking it up on your phone), they can build a better profile on you with more targeted ads.
Silverpush is one SDK that does that though there are several others. You can find some apps that use it here, though they are mostly junk apps: https://public.addonsdetector....
So the attackers will just have to buy one of these to make sure their malware passes, just like they do already with desktop AV? I guess that's good for Norton's bottom line.
I leave all my important data with my Attorney. I update it every so often which sometimes involves copying the old stuff to a new drive and adding anything new. My attorney is also a family member so YMMV.
As for my cloud data, I pretty much assume that any smaller company could go bust any day, and the larger ones could quite possibly be doing things with my data that I don't like. I use those services accordingly.
That is harder than you'd think. A surprising amount of data ends up going through the US. A lot of the EU-Asia traffic ends up going through the US as the indian ocean routes are relatively slow, and AFAIK Russia hasn't built any extensive cross continent fiber networks.
The conventional rule of thumb is that your standard freeway costs ~$1 million a mile, depending on the size and local considerations (e.g. prevalent natural disasters in the area). I don't even want to think about the cost of a 2 tiered system. You'd have the normal $1 million/mile for the bottom layer, and then the cost of engineering, building, and maintaining a completely elevated roadway. Not to mention the massive interchanges you need to connect these 2 tiered freeways to each other. I'd guess you'd increase the cost by an order of magnitude.
Also the number one cause of traffic is traffic density. The weaving just exacerbates it.
I assume my email transits the internet in the clear regardless how I send it so I am having a hard time getting angry about this.
Whoosh!
Back when I did OpenSolaris work, we used a tool called mbuffer which is basically netcat with a buffer on each end. It wouldn't been suitable for internet backups (no encryption) but it works pretty well for cross campus backups and the like.
IIRC it works like this on the sending side: 'zfs send pool/fs@snap | mbuffer -s 128k -m 4G -O 10.0.0.1:9090'
And on the receive side: 'mbuffer -s 128k -m 4G -I 9090 | zfs receive pool/fs'
It can still be pretty bursty but it smoothes out a lot of it.
Somehow this will cause someone to puke.
I for one welcome our new viral overlords.
Had to read that twice.
>The good news is that although the botnet itself is bad, the number of connections and extra clients improves Tor security overall for all the other users. The thing is, the more relays, the more connections, the larger the network... the faster and more secure it is.
That isn't what is happening here. The new connections are clients only so they aren't acting as relays or exit nodes. Tor network stats actually show a slight drop in performance. However, the increased number of clients does probably make correlation attacks harder, if the NSA or someone else is actually doing those.
welp, the fbi's got me now
I donated some just because. I don't use my wallet that much anyway and there is never a bad reason to toss a little money EFF's way.
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It's just as likely some independent hacker who figures that it is easier to get away with hacking the "enemy". Smart russian hackers don't hack russians, smart american hackers don't hack western targets, smart chinese hackers don't hack chinese targets. Pretty good chance that this is just the same from an Indian perspective.
France and England gave Germany a lot of slack in the lead up to WW2. Europe suffered so many casualties in WWI that it decimated a generation and made most countries in Europe very war shy. Consequently, when Germany began openly flaunting the restrictions that had been place on it after WWI in the Treaty of Versailles, making demands, and annexing other countries, France and England compromised, made concessions, and offered little real resistance besides formal protest. They hoped by appeasing Hitler, they could diffuse the situation and avoid another full scale war, which worked well obviously because only 60 or 70 million people died during WW2.
That won't really work in this situation. Kim Jong Un isn't just some bellicose asshole sitting at the helm of North Korean and giving the world the finger because he feels like it. All the confrontations, defiance, and war mongering are instrumental, mainly to keep his hold on power. Take that away and his grip will start slipping. Once that happens he would have to escalate to something we couldn't ignore (probably war, or at least a large conflict), or he'd be replace by someone controlled by the military, which would quite likely go to war as well to solidify their new hold on power. No matter how you look at it, practice bomb runs are better than mass casualties.
Well arguably the game could be shorter/have few hands if one of the players wielded a significant advantages, thus causing the casino to "lose" money. On the other hand, missing out on possible income isn't exactly stealing.
Getting someone's mailing address, email address, or jabber address requires a secondary communication channel anyway. When is the last time you emailed someone to find out what their email address what?
So they aren't ripping off GTA anymore, and moving on to ripping off Prototype and Infamous instead?
>>Put simply, the scientific world deals with vasts amount of data This is so true. I work for a bioinformatics compute cluster and our users have no problem maxing out our infiniband infrastructure. Who needs load simulators when your users sometimes work with >1TB datasets?
And then one week later it will be full child porn and paranoid conspiracy theories and very little in the way of leaked documents. Such is the fate of all darknets I guess. (see Tor, Freenet, I2P, etc).
I usually use Linux, but occasionally I spin up a Win 7 vm when I need it. If you install using a SP1 disk, there are around 100 updates that need to be installed afterward. In my experience, this is comparable to the amount of updates needed after grabbing the latest Ubuntu LTS or a few month old Fedora release (Although Windows update can be slower that Apt or Yum). Sure its not super convenient, but if you are installing Windows enough for it to be a problem, then you aren't doing your deployments correctly. You should really look into WSUS and WAIK for updating and deploying windows, respectively. They are both Microsoft products, but there are also numerous 3rd party tools of variable quality. A proper WAIK install can actually do the patching process during the install, so that when the computer logs in for the first time, it is fully patched.
conservative, sex negative parents != conservative parents