"Does no one else think cars + computers + network connectivity = bad?"
Nope. Tesla was able to patch all their cars quickly, without asking drivers to come in to get serviced.
That's a net gain of: thousands of kms saved + time saved + less cars on road = good
You're making the assumption that only legitimate researchers who follow proper notification procedures are looking for this stuff. Hackers looking to take advantage of it are looking, too, but they won't tell Tesla (or whatever relevant manufacturer) if they find anything. What happens if some genius security researcher with a mental instability (we know they exist) gets recruited by Daesh, and figures out how to lock up the brakes on every Tesla that's travelling faster than 50 mph with a GPS location that puts it on a freeway? Do you really think "Well, Tesla would have been able to update the firmware over the air to prevent it, if only those miserable hackers had told them about it instead of causing thousands of car crashes around the world," is going to be comforting to anybody who's been run over by a transport truck as a result?
I know, the chances of the incompetent twits that comprise Daesh actually accomplishing anything like this are slim to none, but there are smart hacker groups out there looking at this, and how much do you think Putin would pay to see a whole bunch of high end American cars cause huge amounts of chaos on American roads where thousands of cars (or more) get in pileups on the freeways across the country within a span of 5 minutes?
And VCRs, DVD burners, and BitTorrent should be illegal, too, right? Because the vast majority of all of them are just used to pirate movies; everybody knows that.
If they had a clear case, they wouldn't spend the money and time on the publicity surrounding the case and their inability to protect their brand.
Or maybe they spend the money on publicity so that people realize that "Sharon, your local Google rep" isn't actually from Google, and that if you hire these people it can severely screw up your Google rankings, rather than helping. There's nothing wrong with educating people.
Not a right and diminishes those freedoms that are by attempting to twist rights to fit your agenda rather than having it codifed, like a coward.
Privacy is not a right? WTF? I suppose if you're in North Korea, maybe Venezuela, and a few other dictatorships, then no. But that "right to be secure in papers and effects" (paraphrased, as I'm not looking up the exact wording, considering I'm not even American) means it's your right to keep them private, as much as it's your right to not have them arbitrarily seized by the authorities.
14,000 god fearing americans killed by other god fearing americans every year for the last 100 years or more. More Americans have been murdered with a gun since WWII than were killed in WWII.
So, it's OK to assume every American is a God fearing, murderous gun nut, but it's not OK to assume every Muslim is a jihad-waging, terrorist psychopath? OK. Nice double standard you've got there.
Christianity is objectively worse because it preaches one things, and does the opposite.
So, all you've done is prove that there are some Christians who are hypocritical, just like you.
What is just as bad is Trump is encouraging a foreign government to intervene and help him win the election. That is so far beyond the pale as to be totally unforgiveable and instantly disqualifying.
Did you actually listen to the speech where he said this, or just your Democratic Information Masters? It's blatantly obvious it's totally tongue in cheek if you actually listen to it. Trump says a lot of stupid stuff; why don't you attack the stuff that he's serious about, rather than jokes?
What the hell does number of deaths on each side have to do with anything? If 12 idiots with dull machetes attack 2 guys with AR-15s, the most the idiots can kill is 2. The most the 2 guys can kill is 12. Is it the 2 guys' fault that they get attacked by idiots with primitive weapons and a death wish?
Person's location: Starbuck's on 7th Street. Person's name: John Smith.
But Starbucks has started banning IPs associated with hacking and child pornography.
I suspect due to your knowledge of the subject, you are a pervert.
Errr....what? Did you even read what I posted? How does Starbucks ban 192.168.3.192, when it's on their internal network? I mean all 35 people in the coffee shop are going to share a single public IP address. If it's been "associated with hacking and child pornography," as you put it, then Starbucks is going to start banning themselves. That makes no sense.
Maybe he talks to his computers, and gets to know them as a machine, and doesn't just use them for video games and toss them out like yesterday's jam when he's tired with them.
I admit it's been nearly 15 years since I was in the UK, but I found nothing wrong with the food. Now, I tend to like fish and chips (which nobody does consistently better than Britain) and your basic "steak and potatoes" kind of pub food. Maybe the fancier restaurants have crappy food, but I never went to any of them.
Er, Verisign and a lot of other big "private" certificate authorities have been hacked years ago.
Verisign is not a private CA in any sense of the word. The CA that I set up for myself and my VPN so I can connect to my office network securely when I'm working at a customer site? That's a private CA.
The CA that's set up by a company that's used internally and for direct customers of that company? That's sort of a private CA. A hell of a lot closer than Verisign is, anyway...
Unfortunately, backups that are connected to the system, such as those running automatically each day, are vulnerable. Is there some sort of a backup system that is normally disconnected unless a backup is being made? A robot arm that physically yanks the USB connection when not in use? Of course, malware could manipulate the robot arm. Hmm.
This isn't entirely true. Backups that are connected to or directly accessible by the machine that contains the data you want to back up are vulnerable. Backups that are connected to a different machine, that doesn't contain your data and isn't accessible by that machine are safe. I'm working on just such a thing, actually, as part of a remote support and management service I've been building.
You aren't living in some distopian world where you're forced to eat recycled people and slave away in mines to produce resources for an elite group living in paradise somewhere, yet.
If the scan engine wasn't running as Ring 0 kernel drivers, then it wouldn't be able to detect Ring 0 rootkit drivers, and other such crapware. Since we know there are kernel vulnerabilities which allow infection with Ring 0 malware, not running your scanner at least partially in Ring 0 would make it even less useful than it currently is.
My 2010 charger and 2007 grand caravan do not have "hand" brakes. They both have ratchet pedals for the emergenct brake. The caravans is siezed and does not work because of salty roads here in the winter.
I'm in Ontario. Use the parking brake every time you park, whether on a slope or level ground, and you'll find it doesn't seize. The only seized cables I've had are when I bought a used car as is from someone who never used it. Both times I replaced the cable, and used it regularly. Years later, it was still working fine.
But a repair is a repair, and I didn't mean to imply that one was less valid than another; just that, on some devices, "component level" repair by the average person is in no way practical. And mobile devices fall squarely into the "cannot troubleshoot at the component-level" category.
Ahh, that's the problem. See, you were the first person to mention component vs module, while the rest of us were just talking about repairs in general. To me, your wording implied that a module replacement wasn't really a "repair" because you were just replacing a module. Maybe I read into it something that wasn't there.
I agree with what you're saying, but I'd go one further: Any repair, component or otherwise, of virtually anything by the average person is completely impractical.
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"Does no one else think cars + computers + network connectivity = bad?"
Nope. Tesla was able to patch all their cars quickly, without asking drivers to come in to get serviced.
That's a net gain of: thousands of kms saved + time saved + less cars on road = good
You're making the assumption that only legitimate researchers who follow proper notification procedures are looking for this stuff. Hackers looking to take advantage of it are looking, too, but they won't tell Tesla (or whatever relevant manufacturer) if they find anything.
What happens if some genius security researcher with a mental instability (we know they exist) gets recruited by Daesh, and figures out how to lock up the brakes on every Tesla that's travelling faster than 50 mph with a GPS location that puts it on a freeway? Do you really think "Well, Tesla would have been able to update the firmware over the air to prevent it, if only those miserable hackers had told them about it instead of causing thousands of car crashes around the world," is going to be comforting to anybody who's been run over by a transport truck as a result?
I know, the chances of the incompetent twits that comprise Daesh actually accomplishing anything like this are slim to none, but there are smart hacker groups out there looking at this, and how much do you think Putin would pay to see a whole bunch of high end American cars cause huge amounts of chaos on American roads where thousands of cars (or more) get in pileups on the freeways across the country within a span of 5 minutes?
It was unclear what he would do if he was expecting a call from a number he doesn't know in advance.
He won't answer, and they'll leave a message, because a call he's expecting is presumably legitimate. I'm not sure what's difficult about this.....
And VCRs, DVD burners, and BitTorrent should be illegal, too, right? Because the vast majority of all of them are just used to pirate movies; everybody knows that.
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If they had a clear case, they wouldn't spend the money and time on the publicity surrounding the case and their inability to protect their brand.
Or maybe they spend the money on publicity so that people realize that "Sharon, your local Google rep" isn't actually from Google, and that if you hire these people it can severely screw up your Google rankings, rather than helping. There's nothing wrong with educating people.
Not a right and diminishes those freedoms that are by attempting to twist rights to fit your agenda rather than having it codifed, like a coward.
Privacy is not a right? WTF? I suppose if you're in North Korea, maybe Venezuela, and a few other dictatorships, then no.
But that "right to be secure in papers and effects" (paraphrased, as I'm not looking up the exact wording, considering I'm not even American) means it's your right to keep them private, as much as it's your right to not have them arbitrarily seized by the authorities.
14,000 god fearing americans killed by other god fearing americans every year for the last 100 years or more. More Americans have been murdered with a gun since WWII than were killed in WWII.
So, it's OK to assume every American is a God fearing, murderous gun nut, but it's not OK to assume every Muslim is a jihad-waging, terrorist psychopath? OK. Nice double standard you've got there.
Christianity is objectively worse because it preaches one things, and does the opposite.
So, all you've done is prove that there are some Christians who are hypocritical, just like you.
What is just as bad is Trump is encouraging a foreign government to intervene and help him win the election. That is so far beyond the pale as to be totally unforgiveable and instantly disqualifying.
Did you actually listen to the speech where he said this, or just your Democratic Information Masters? It's blatantly obvious it's totally tongue in cheek if you actually listen to it. Trump says a lot of stupid stuff; why don't you attack the stuff that he's serious about, rather than jokes?
What the hell does number of deaths on each side have to do with anything? If 12 idiots with dull machetes attack 2 guys with AR-15s, the most the idiots can kill is 2. The most the 2 guys can kill is 12. Is it the 2 guys' fault that they get attacked by idiots with primitive weapons and a death wish?
Person's location: Starbuck's on 7th Street.
Person's name: John Smith.
But Starbucks has started banning IPs associated with hacking and child pornography.
I suspect due to your knowledge of the subject, you are a pervert.
Errr....what? Did you even read what I posted?
How does Starbucks ban 192.168.3.192, when it's on their internal network? I mean all 35 people in the coffee shop are going to share a single public IP address. If it's been "associated with hacking and child pornography," as you put it, then Starbucks is going to start banning themselves. That makes no sense.
Maybe he talks to his computers, and gets to know them as a machine, and doesn't just use them for video games and toss them out like yesterday's jam when he's tired with them.
Person's location: Starbuck's on 7th Street.
Person's name: John Smith.
See how "Starbuck's on 7th Street" and "John Smith" are the exact same text?
Oh, wait.....
My car has _two_ black boxes, soft and with white dots, hanging from the rear view mirror. Does that count?
Only if it's a garish coloured early 70s Cadillac with leopard print upholstery, and you're a pimp.
No. China has decent food.
I admit it's been nearly 15 years since I was in the UK, but I found nothing wrong with the food. Now, I tend to like fish and chips (which nobody does consistently better than Britain) and your basic "steak and potatoes" kind of pub food. Maybe the fancier restaurants have crappy food, but I never went to any of them.
Er, Verisign and a lot of other big "private" certificate authorities have been hacked years ago.
Verisign is not a private CA in any sense of the word. The CA that I set up for myself and my VPN so I can connect to my office network securely when I'm working at a customer site? That's a private CA.
The CA that's set up by a company that's used internally and for direct customers of that company? That's sort of a private CA. A hell of a lot closer than Verisign is, anyway...
Unfortunately, backups that are connected to the system, such as those running automatically each day, are vulnerable. Is there some sort of a backup system that is normally disconnected unless a backup is being made? A robot arm that physically yanks the USB connection when not in use? Of course, malware could manipulate the robot arm. Hmm.
This isn't entirely true. Backups that are connected to or directly accessible by the machine that contains the data you want to back up are vulnerable.
Backups that are connected to a different machine, that doesn't contain your data and isn't accessible by that machine are safe. I'm working on just such a thing, actually, as part of a remote support and management service I've been building.
You aren't living in some distopian world where you're forced to eat recycled people and slave away in mines to produce resources for an elite group living in paradise somewhere, yet.
FTFY.
If the scan engine wasn't running as Ring 0 kernel drivers, then it wouldn't be able to detect Ring 0 rootkit drivers, and other such crapware. Since we know there are kernel vulnerabilities which allow infection with Ring 0 malware, not running your scanner at least partially in Ring 0 would make it even less useful than it currently is.
I was there, but the damned instructor showed up so late, the class was over. I want my money back!
Phonetically writing the Russian sounds using /. compatible western characters, it comes out like this:
Vse vashi bazy prinadlezhat nam
And Google translate is apparently smart enough to still translate this properly, so I should have just done it this way in the first place. D'oh!
Basically, it says:
Link to Google Translate
(Had to do the Google translate link because slashcode borked it if I tried to put Russian text in.)
let the rest of us get on with the persuits of free people.
I think governments around the world are already in pursuit of free people enough, thank you.
My 2010 charger and 2007 grand caravan do not have "hand" brakes. They both have ratchet pedals for the emergenct brake. The caravans is siezed and does not work because of salty roads here in the winter.
I'm in Ontario. Use the parking brake every time you park, whether on a slope or level ground, and you'll find it doesn't seize. The only seized cables I've had are when I bought a used car as is from someone who never used it. Both times I replaced the cable, and used it regularly. Years later, it was still working fine.
In 'Murica the vast majority of cars are automatic, so that's not needed.
A steep hill, and an automatic can still roll backwards at idle. I've had it happen.
In that case, some of them had a rubber seal around the distributor where the cap sits against it. If yours didn't have one, I bet it was supposed to.
But a repair is a repair, and I didn't mean to imply that one was less valid than another; just that, on some devices, "component level" repair by the average person is in no way practical. And mobile devices fall squarely into the "cannot troubleshoot at the component-level" category.
Ahh, that's the problem. See, you were the first person to mention component vs module, while the rest of us were just talking about repairs in general. To me, your wording implied that a module replacement wasn't really a "repair" because you were just replacing a module. Maybe I read into it something that wasn't there.
I agree with what you're saying, but I'd go one further: Any repair, component or otherwise, of virtually anything by the average person is completely impractical.