For most people the threat model they should be concerned with is password reuse and weak passwords. A password manager, even a flawed one, can fix both of those.
The convenience vs. security trade-off of not having to keep unlocking the password manager is worth it for most people, because the alternative is realistically going to be using "passw0rd" for everything. In fact I recommend people have their browser remember their passwords.
Anti-union, anti-rights and equality, covering up sexual misconduct, enabling people like Sarah Jeong who actual SJWs despise... They don't sound like SJWs.
CCTV doesn't do much to reduce crime. At best it displaces it.
Random anecdote. A friend bought a 4 channel dashcam system for his car. Covers the front, back and both sides, and works while parked. He was fed up of people hitting his car with their doors in car parks. Eventually he caught someone scratching his paintwork. Of course they had already driven off so he had to get their details from their insurance and put in a claim that way.
Problem is his own insurance premium then went up as the result of having made a claim. He's now trying to get the third party's insurance to cover his increased premium too.
USB port that can charge at more than 2.5W would be nice. Bring your own movies on a phone/tablet. AC socket is even better.
The on-board media libraries seem to vary a lot, but are always kinda small. You get 3 episodes of some TV series in over-compressed 480p. Maybe aviation rated hard drives are really expensive or something.
I wonder if there is also a microphone. My first thought would be to use it as a webcam, which would mean wanting a mic as well.
Eventually companies are going to realize that people find it creepy to have a camera pointed at them. Laptop manufacturers are starting to get it, and include a physical sliding cover (although never anything for the microphones).
Actually microphones are in some ways worse than the camera. With the camera there is usually a light that indicates when it is in use, controlled by the camera firmware so it's pretty much impossible for malware to disable, but the microphone is always on and always feeding in to the audio codec.
What happened to her has nothing to so with "SJWs". It was Vice journalists (particularly Sarah Jeong) who screwed her over by reneging on an agreement they had to not discuss certain things in their article. She lives in China, it's not safe to be putting out articles like that.
Vice are not SJWs. They are just scummy, low grade journalists with flexible morals looking for a story. Their only agenda is self promotion and building their own careers. There is no ideology. There was so "wrongthink" here, they just threw Wu under the bus to make a quick buck and then refused to even acknowledge it, let along put things right.
There is a great documentary about how the Nazis built and launched their rockets that was made by the British after the war, as a way to document the whole process so that the knowledge would not be lost.
It's absolutely fascinating. Not only did they manage to build rockets capable of reaching space, but they managed make them simple and robust enough that largely unskilled soldiers could operate them. They developed many of the basic techniques that became fundamental to all future rockets.
Germany was an engineering powerhouse. Such a shame it was wasted on that war, and built on the back of slaves and bigotry.
Keepass is basically as good as it can ever possibly be. The "vulnerability" they found relates to the fact that when it displays entries on screen Windows will make copies of some of the data to create the GUI, and there is no effective way to scrub that.
Which is basically irrelevant because 99% of the time the user is going to use that information on the same machine anyway, i.e. they will copy/paste it into a browser or encryption app. So the attacker needs to have control of the machine in order to read process memory, and even if somehow Keepass blocked them they could likely just recover it from keystrokes, the clipboard or the app it's being used it.
The main risk is that the app crashes and the secret data can be recovered from the crash dump, but Keepass prevents that happening. Unfortunately they don't seem to have tested that attack.
China uses economics to create "soft power". Where the US would send in the CIA to organize a coup or assassinate someone, China offers loans and builds infrastructure and does a lot of our manufacturing.
I prefer to look at larger projects they have worked on, but sometimes for embedded people I'm not sure about I might present them with some code like the string reverse but with a few issues and ask them to improve it. Debugging tends to be harder than writing code anyway, and it gives them an opportunity to show they know how to create robust, maintainable code.
For me that's one of the most important skills. I'm not that fussed if you don't know everything there is to know about C, what is more important is that you can build software that avoids difficult to debug problems and which is easy for other people to maintain. Also, never be afraid to refactor if it makes the code better.
Alex Jones railing against child sex-trafficking is the very definition of virtue signalling. He doesn't really care, he just does it to have something that makes his detractors look bad. "YouTube bans child sex-trafficking activist" sounds bad, until you realize that Alex Jones has been harassing the victims of Sandy Hook for years, and that's not even the worst of it.
In this case though all they need to do is disable comments. They are not objecting to the content of the video, just the comments from people jacking off over them.
Of course the problem with that is that some of those channels want comments, because they create engagement which translates to $$$. Even just people reading the comments while the video plays adds to its watch time.
Can't really force advertisers to advertise on videos they don't want to be associated with, so we need another solution.
How about some kind of charity to support worthwhile YouTube channels? Patreon is too specific and people are unwilling to sign up to a dozen $5/month subscriptions, but a charity that supports a large group of channels might work.
I suppose the problem would be people objecting to some of the channels, but at the very least it would be an interesting experiment in seeing if people really are willing to financially support channels they don't agree for the sake of free speech and better content.
She is also an accomplished engineer. She has a great deal of skill when it comes to 3D modelling and printing/CNC, particularly an ability to conceive of a product and turn it into something workable quickly.
She has done a lot of China too, especially promoting open source. She is responsible for the first three open source hardware products out of China. She went to the manufacturer of some 3D printers, convinced them to open source the design, helped them do it and meet all the requirements, and got it certified. Gave them a nice sales boost too as westerners love open source hardware. She also helped take some of the stigma off Chinese products, demonstrating that they can be good quality and that the manufacturer can engage with the western world.
There is also the Sinobit, a single board computer for learning. She does a lot to help kids learn about engineering. The design is a little bit like the British Microbit board, but with a larger LED display because the British one is too small to display Chinese characters. Again, open source.
I'm amazed that she kept going after western journalists from Vice nearly destroyed her. They put her in real danger - I won't get into it because that would just be compounding the problem, but suffice to say many people would have gone into hiding after that.
The problem is that they treat YouTube like social media, but it's not really. On Facebook they can post the video and only their friends of the gymnastics group can see and comment on it. Anyone posting inappropriate stuff gets booted out.
YouTube doesn't have that kind of access control. Visibility is either everyone or no-one, comments are either on or off.
It's hardly a new thing. There have always been public events for children, or maybe more like their parents, to show off their ballet skills or whatever. A few years ago there was a panic over parents taking photos of their kids at swimming events or even just playing football.
A few years ago that was the case, but these days you have to invent an outlandish conspiracy theory about how that feature is being used to spy on you.
What is the point of buying a phone this expensive and trying to keep it for five years? Why not just pay half as much, get a phone that is 97% as good, and upgrade it after 2.5 years? Seems much more sensible than trying to find a phone that will hold up on both tech and durability with everyday use for 5 years.
I'm just glad we are finally getting practical foldable phones. The tech will quickly get cheaper and we can have a phone and tablet in one. Finally a major advance in smartphone tech.
For a criminal the temperature settings would probably be of more interest, to determine when you are out. Clearly if you can afford a Nest smart thermostat you have stuff worth stealing.
Companies rightly get flack for advertising features that don't actually work at launch and only get activated later with a software update. Sometimes they even get sued over it, e.g. Tesla with autopilot features.
On the other hand if they don't state up front that the hardware has something like a microphone, even if it doesn't do anything yet, the conspiracy theories start flying.
Some people view any suggestion that radiation or radioactive material may be dangerous as an attack on their favourite unfairly maligned tech - nuclear power.
They are convinced that if people would just wake up and realize that radiation wasn't dangerous and actually it's fine to live next door to Chernobyl now we would see a nuclear renascence. Also most of the costs associated with the technology are due to radiation fearing NIMBYs, who would otherwise be happy to have a great big power station built next to them.
The only issue I could see is if you would not have bought it had you known about the microphone, but even then if they refused to give you a refund you would have to argue in court that disabling it in software was not adequate.
Hopefully Google will refund if asked, but unfortunately I don't think there is much of a legal leg to stand on here.
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For most people the threat model they should be concerned with is password reuse and weak passwords. A password manager, even a flawed one, can fix both of those.
The convenience vs. security trade-off of not having to keep unlocking the password manager is worth it for most people, because the alternative is realistically going to be using "passw0rd" for everything. In fact I recommend people have their browser remember their passwords.
Anti-union, anti-rights and equality, covering up sexual misconduct, enabling people like Sarah Jeong who actual SJWs despise... They don't sound like SJWs.
CCTV doesn't do much to reduce crime. At best it displaces it.
Random anecdote. A friend bought a 4 channel dashcam system for his car. Covers the front, back and both sides, and works while parked. He was fed up of people hitting his car with their doors in car parks. Eventually he caught someone scratching his paintwork. Of course they had already driven off so he had to get their details from their insurance and put in a claim that way.
Problem is his own insurance premium then went up as the result of having made a claim. He's now trying to get the third party's insurance to cover his increased premium too.
USB port that can charge at more than 2.5W would be nice. Bring your own movies on a phone/tablet. AC socket is even better.
The on-board media libraries seem to vary a lot, but are always kinda small. You get 3 episodes of some TV series in over-compressed 480p. Maybe aviation rated hard drives are really expensive or something.
I wonder if there is also a microphone. My first thought would be to use it as a webcam, which would mean wanting a mic as well.
Eventually companies are going to realize that people find it creepy to have a camera pointed at them. Laptop manufacturers are starting to get it, and include a physical sliding cover (although never anything for the microphones).
Actually microphones are in some ways worse than the camera. With the camera there is usually a light that indicates when it is in use, controlled by the camera firmware so it's pretty much impossible for malware to disable, but the microphone is always on and always feeding in to the audio codec.
What happened to her has nothing to so with "SJWs". It was Vice journalists (particularly Sarah Jeong) who screwed her over by reneging on an agreement they had to not discuss certain things in their article. She lives in China, it's not safe to be putting out articles like that.
Vice are not SJWs. They are just scummy, low grade journalists with flexible morals looking for a story. Their only agenda is self promotion and building their own careers. There is no ideology. There was so "wrongthink" here, they just threw Wu under the bus to make a quick buck and then refused to even acknowledge it, let along put things right.
There is a great documentary about how the Nazis built and launched their rockets that was made by the British after the war, as a way to document the whole process so that the knowledge would not be lost.
https://youtu.be/80DzifHHIxk
It's absolutely fascinating. Not only did they manage to build rockets capable of reaching space, but they managed make them simple and robust enough that largely unskilled soldiers could operate them. They developed many of the basic techniques that became fundamental to all future rockets.
Germany was an engineering powerhouse. Such a shame it was wasted on that war, and built on the back of slaves and bigotry.
Keepass is basically as good as it can ever possibly be. The "vulnerability" they found relates to the fact that when it displays entries on screen Windows will make copies of some of the data to create the GUI, and there is no effective way to scrub that.
Which is basically irrelevant because 99% of the time the user is going to use that information on the same machine anyway, i.e. they will copy/paste it into a browser or encryption app. So the attacker needs to have control of the machine in order to read process memory, and even if somehow Keepass blocked them they could likely just recover it from keystrokes, the clipboard or the app it's being used it.
The main risk is that the app crashes and the secret data can be recovered from the crash dump, but Keepass prevents that happening. Unfortunately they don't seem to have tested that attack.
China uses economics to create "soft power". Where the US would send in the CIA to organize a coup or assassinate someone, China offers loans and builds infrastructure and does a lot of our manufacturing.
So the main difference is that in China the government controls big companies, and in the US the big companies control the government.
I prefer to look at larger projects they have worked on, but sometimes for embedded people I'm not sure about I might present them with some code like the string reverse but with a few issues and ask them to improve it. Debugging tends to be harder than writing code anyway, and it gives them an opportunity to show they know how to create robust, maintainable code.
For me that's one of the most important skills. I'm not that fussed if you don't know everything there is to know about C, what is more important is that you can build software that avoids difficult to debug problems and which is easy for other people to maintain. Also, never be afraid to refactor if it makes the code better.
Alex Jones railing against child sex-trafficking is the very definition of virtue signalling. He doesn't really care, he just does it to have something that makes his detractors look bad. "YouTube bans child sex-trafficking activist" sounds bad, until you realize that Alex Jones has been harassing the victims of Sandy Hook for years, and that's not even the worst of it.
In this case though all they need to do is disable comments. They are not objecting to the content of the video, just the comments from people jacking off over them.
Of course the problem with that is that some of those channels want comments, because they create engagement which translates to $$$. Even just people reading the comments while the video plays adds to its watch time.
Can't really force advertisers to advertise on videos they don't want to be associated with, so we need another solution.
How about some kind of charity to support worthwhile YouTube channels? Patreon is too specific and people are unwilling to sign up to a dozen $5/month subscriptions, but a charity that supports a large group of channels might work.
I suppose the problem would be people objecting to some of the channels, but at the very least it would be an interesting experiment in seeing if people really are willing to financially support channels they don't agree for the sake of free speech and better content.
She is also an accomplished engineer. She has a great deal of skill when it comes to 3D modelling and printing/CNC, particularly an ability to conceive of a product and turn it into something workable quickly.
She has done a lot of China too, especially promoting open source. She is responsible for the first three open source hardware products out of China. She went to the manufacturer of some 3D printers, convinced them to open source the design, helped them do it and meet all the requirements, and got it certified. Gave them a nice sales boost too as westerners love open source hardware. She also helped take some of the stigma off Chinese products, demonstrating that they can be good quality and that the manufacturer can engage with the western world.
There is also the Sinobit, a single board computer for learning. She does a lot to help kids learn about engineering. The design is a little bit like the British Microbit board, but with a larger LED display because the British one is too small to display Chinese characters. Again, open source.
I'm amazed that she kept going after western journalists from Vice nearly destroyed her. They put her in real danger - I won't get into it because that would just be compounding the problem, but suffice to say many people would have gone into hiding after that.
The problem is that they treat YouTube like social media, but it's not really. On Facebook they can post the video and only their friends of the gymnastics group can see and comment on it. Anyone posting inappropriate stuff gets booted out.
YouTube doesn't have that kind of access control. Visibility is either everyone or no-one, comments are either on or off.
It's hardly a new thing. There have always been public events for children, or maybe more like their parents, to show off their ballet skills or whatever. A few years ago there was a panic over parents taking photos of their kids at swimming events or even just playing football.
A few years ago that was the case, but these days you have to invent an outlandish conspiracy theory about how that feature is being used to spy on you.
What is the point of buying a phone this expensive and trying to keep it for five years? Why not just pay half as much, get a phone that is 97% as good, and upgrade it after 2.5 years? Seems much more sensible than trying to find a phone that will hold up on both tech and durability with everyday use for 5 years.
I'm just glad we are finally getting practical foldable phones. The tech will quickly get cheaper and we can have a phone and tablet in one. Finally a major advance in smartphone tech.
For a criminal the temperature settings would probably be of more interest, to determine when you are out. Clearly if you can afford a Nest smart thermostat you have stuff worth stealing.
If you don't trust their security why are you buying an internet connected device from them in the first place?
Companies rightly get flack for advertising features that don't actually work at launch and only get activated later with a software update. Sometimes they even get sued over it, e.g. Tesla with autopilot features.
On the other hand if they don't state up front that the hardware has something like a microphone, even if it doesn't do anything yet, the conspiracy theories start flying.
Some people view any suggestion that radiation or radioactive material may be dangerous as an attack on their favourite unfairly maligned tech - nuclear power.
They are convinced that if people would just wake up and realize that radiation wasn't dangerous and actually it's fine to live next door to Chernobyl now we would see a nuclear renascence. Also most of the costs associated with the technology are due to radiation fearing NIMBYs, who would otherwise be happy to have a great big power station built next to them.
The only issue I could see is if you would not have bought it had you known about the microphone, but even then if they refused to give you a refund you would have to argue in court that disabling it in software was not adequate.
Hopefully Google will refund if asked, but unfortunately I don't think there is much of a legal leg to stand on here.