The main advantage of POTS lines is that they will work even if the power is out.
Your VoIP equipment has a battery in it to accomplish a similar thing, but it can wear down in an extended outage. Also... as with any digital service, it is relying on layers upon layers upon layers of technology working correctly whereas a POTS line is dead simple analog signals.
I am guessing that new releases will not be included in this.
I currently buy all my e-books from B&N and read them on my Nook e-ink. I got locked in to that because, at the time, the Kindle didn't have a backlight and the Nook did.
Turns out, I like the Nook's size and weight and I also like not living 100% in Amazon's ecosystem.
Still... they may still hook me into another year of Prime if the selection of sci-fi is decent. I will just have to read them on a tablet (heavy and bright and battery hungry)
I don't order enough stuff on Amazon to make the 2 day deliver worthwhile and the only reason I kept it for another year was for the Prime video... but it seems like all the good stuff is going paid anyway so I don't see much point in that service anymore.
I think the easiest fix would be to stop spoofed packets at the egress boarder router.
This would eliminate reflection attacks and a whole lot of other nastiness.
Of course, this would require every ISP to get on board and not let packets which do not belong to their IP space to leave their network.
I currently do this for our small network. No spoofed packets can leave our network. I am trying to do my small part in case any of our computers become compromised.
Is this proof of iOS's security or does this correlate with the value of the holders of the iPhones? I could see it either way or both.
The harder a platform is to crack, the higher the value of the exploit. But only if the users of that platform are valuable or there are economies of scale in play.
iPhone is certainly not the most widespread platform, so then it must be the value of the targets... right?
I use an old Android phone as an alarm clock. It doesn't have cell service but was still hooked up to the wifi. I was awoken one morning for a severe weather alert that was not even in my location.
I turned that function off.
Interestingly, my main phone (a Microsoft Lumia) does still have the alerts turned on and appears to only give relevant alerts.... not sure how or why that would be... isn't it the same system?
I don't know about crowd sourced, but I am using FastMail these days.
It does everything that I used to use Google Apps for: multiple domains and aliases and spam filtering. I love it. Plus, as the name implies, the web interface is very snappy.
There is nothing after death and nothing we do matters beyond a few miles above our heads or a few millimeters outside our own skulls.
If we were to all disappear in a flash of green light, the galactic community would not even know we were gone. As a matter of fact, our own world would be better off.
I do enjoy breathing and feeling the wonder of existence, but I don't really fear death (as long as it isn't super painful).
I remember a long time ago (probably like 20 years ago now) doing a password audit using l0phtcrack. Us IT guys got our passwords cracked in about a day of it running. We were using 6 - 8 character passwords with upper/lower/numbers/symbols.
The password that took the longest (actually, it ran for a week and never got cracked) turned out to be 2 dictionary words concatenated together with a number in between them. No upper case, no symbols. It just turned out that it was all about length.
That made me a believer in password length vs. complexity.
Of course, with a password manager, you can achieve both.
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The main advantage of POTS lines is that they will work even if the power is out.
Your VoIP equipment has a battery in it to accomplish a similar thing, but it can wear down in an extended outage. Also... as with any digital service, it is relying on layers upon layers upon layers of technology working correctly whereas a POTS line is dead simple analog signals.
Simplicity and reliability go hand-in-hand...
Won't stingray devices affect the service too if they happen to roll through your area?
And they will be subject to node congestion, interference, power loss and a host of other problems that do not affect a POTS line.
I am guessing that new releases will not be included in this.
I currently buy all my e-books from B&N and read them on my Nook e-ink. I got locked in to that because, at the time, the Kindle didn't have a backlight and the Nook did.
Turns out, I like the Nook's size and weight and I also like not living 100% in Amazon's ecosystem.
Still... they may still hook me into another year of Prime if the selection of sci-fi is decent. I will just have to read them on a tablet (heavy and bright and battery hungry)
I don't order enough stuff on Amazon to make the 2 day deliver worthwhile and the only reason I kept it for another year was for the Prime video... but it seems like all the good stuff is going paid anyway so I don't see much point in that service anymore.
The later...
I am sure that this is the case.
We do love our scapegoats though....
Their security was fine, as long as you changed the default password.
And, you know, don't connect them directly to the Internet....
Oh, I am sure that all it will take is a subpoena to get that microphone recording and camera flicking pics.... I am sure that the Echo is the same.
These types of devices are a wet dream for law enforcement (or any hacker capable enough).
I think we need just a little bit of data diversity... I am not going to use any single service for everything I do online.
I am guessing that this view is not in the majority, however.
I think you got it backwards...
I fully expect that we are facing nothing less than total apocalypse
This is the end people!
Remember y2k? Yeah, just imagine that times 1... you are starting to get the picture...
I think the easiest fix would be to stop spoofed packets at the egress boarder router.
This would eliminate reflection attacks and a whole lot of other nastiness.
Of course, this would require every ISP to get on board and not let packets which do not belong to their IP space to leave their network.
I currently do this for our small network. No spoofed packets can leave our network. I am trying to do my small part in case any of our computers become compromised.
Except that MS is a juggernaut of a company, is hugely profitable and is working in their primary skill set.
Does Amazon even make money yet?
Azure has already surpassed all other cloud services companies including Google.
So I would not count them out. Their offerings may be behind AWS, but I would expect that lead to narrow dramatically in the coming years.
Don't forget that LinkedIn had just acquired Lynda.com, one of the biggest e-learning sites out there.
I am sure that MS is very interested in that property.
Is this proof of iOS's security or does this correlate with the value of the holders of the iPhones? I could see it either way or both.
The harder a platform is to crack, the higher the value of the exploit. But only if the users of that platform are valuable or there are economies of scale in play.
iPhone is certainly not the most widespread platform, so then it must be the value of the targets... right?
Thank paying for a whole team and their operating budget for a year...
Way to take the cheap route, Amazon...
At some point, I am sure that the entirety of Amazon's human workforce will consist of Jeff Bezos...
Because they are mutually exclusive? That's kind of a myopic view of the world you have there...
Same here.
I use an old Android phone as an alarm clock. It doesn't have cell service but was still hooked up to the wifi. I was awoken one morning for a severe weather alert that was not even in my location.
I turned that function off.
Interestingly, my main phone (a Microsoft Lumia) does still have the alerts turned on and appears to only give relevant alerts.... not sure how or why that would be... isn't it the same system?
I don't know about crowd sourced, but I am using FastMail these days.
It does everything that I used to use Google Apps for: multiple domains and aliases and spam filtering. I love it. Plus, as the name implies, the web interface is very snappy.
Ouch....that's kinda pessimistic, isn't it?
That's my MO. I am pretty pessimistic.
There is nothing after death and nothing we do matters beyond a few miles above our heads or a few millimeters outside our own skulls.
If we were to all disappear in a flash of green light, the galactic community would not even know we were gone. As a matter of fact, our own world would be better off.
I do enjoy breathing and feeling the wonder of existence, but I don't really fear death (as long as it isn't super painful).
(.)(.)
Especially if the case has rounded corners...
Yeah, because that is Apple's MO, right? Build something that nobody other than Apple can use?
If the product says "Apple" or "iPhone" anywhere on the marketing material, packaging or product... they are getting license fees....
I remember a long time ago (probably like 20 years ago now) doing a password audit using l0phtcrack. Us IT guys got our passwords cracked in about a day of it running. We were using 6 - 8 character passwords with upper/lower/numbers/symbols.
The password that took the longest (actually, it ran for a week and never got cracked) turned out to be 2 dictionary words concatenated together with a number in between them. No upper case, no symbols. It just turned out that it was all about length.
That made me a believer in password length vs. complexity.
Of course, with a password manager, you can achieve both.
This is the tragedy of the commons... everyone only thinking of themselves, then complaining about all the spam they are getting in their inbox.
If everyone put forth a little bit of effort to secure their shit, we might be able to have nice things.
Instead.... oh, who cares if this account is compromised... it doesn't affect me that greatly... so why should I bother?
You should bother because that compromised account is now a platform for malicious activity which then affects us all.