The name of the game these days is to dress up a vuln/backdoor to make it appear as, "Oh, but it does xyz useful thing!" IMHO it's kind of dangerous to portray something pretty fucking insecure appear to be useful in any way. ME just needs to go away (or open sourced, which it appears legally it should be) so it can be fixed properly.
I was in the process of installing some Brother printer drivers by running a bash script (after looking it over a bit of course) provided by them. Afterwards I went to "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" and saw a new kernel and other core utils to be updated. I squinted at my screens, wondering for a minute whether I missed the part of the Brother install script that it quietly added some rogue apt repo to my sources.list[.d]. I went to my hosted server to do the same update and verified that it wasn't just my local machine. I sighed with relief =p
Thank you, Debian. I have been using you since Potato on my desktop and servers. You've never let me down. Well, maybe with systemd. But other than that, you've never let me down.;} (please don't start any systemd rants, I was just kidding!)
Seems the U.S. funded intel agencies are gonna do whatever the fuck they want to anyway. This bill, whether repealed or sustained, is moot in reality.
We need to bring the morals of these agencies into check if we want real change. Hopefully Snowden, Klein & others have done this to an extent. It sucks that these types of acts are what makes the most difference.
This raises a point to open-source style licenses for content, i.e. Creative Commons. Though there are restrictions to prevent using it for commercial purposes, AFAIK there's nothing against using a CC licensed song for, say, a promotional video for clubbing seals and eating babies.
Comboman made a good point above though, this can be translated into any situation - if you're a builder, your building may be used for 'bad things'. If you're an open source programmer, your code may be used for 'bad things'. You can't have total freedom along with restrictions based on your opinions or viewpoints.
Because we all know U.S. products *never, ever, ever* contain backdoors.
This is lame. I don't care if it's software made in Russia, or the U.S., or Germany, or China. If the source is closed and locked away, I don't trust it by default.
That brings us back to performance we had in the early Firefox days? I bet everyone could have saved a lot of time by just not adding bloat and focusing on FF's initial motivation (to split from Mozilla and be fast again) while adding value in other ways.
I am looking forward to my exit in supporting other people's Windows boxen. I cannot *wait* until I can say, with a big fat grin on my face, "Sorry, I don't do Windows support anymore", or better yet, "Sorry, I've literally *never* used Windows 11" (or whatever stupid Windows name they call it by then).
I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it. Oh, happy days await me. =}
What about stale thumbnail cache? Have you never seen the wrong thumbnails displayed in a file browser window for an image? Additionally, you say that in the sense it deletes thumbnail cache it's "absolutely malware and always has been"? I don't get it.
What program(s) do you use to do what CCleaner does?
It's pretty easy to get administrator access in Windows, yes. Many environments require normal domain users to be 'local administrators' of their machine to perform seemingly normal, day to day tasks.
Shameless plug to a blog I wrote in 2014. I still use it daily. I'm an independent I.T. consultant. I love the looks and questions people give me when they see it for the first time.
I mean I understand their reasoning of wanting to get "Developers!" but seriously, that's not been their thing most of their corporate life. That's Apple's thing, being creative hippie acid taking hackers. Microsoft is about corporate culture, suit-and-tie business deal money makers. Why are they afraid of who they really are?
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is to open-source the entire app.
This is not what "bricking" is. If you can fix it (i.e. roll back to an earlier kernel image in this case), it's simply a botched kernel update.
C'mon, msmash.
The name of the game these days is to dress up a vuln/backdoor to make it appear as, "Oh, but it does xyz useful thing!" IMHO it's kind of dangerous to portray something pretty fucking insecure appear to be useful in any way. ME just needs to go away (or open sourced, which it appears legally it should be) so it can be fixed properly.
"better protect data"
"use cloud-based technology" ....
BeauHD, you're my hero.
I was in the process of installing some Brother printer drivers by running a bash script (after looking it over a bit of course) provided by them. Afterwards I went to "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" and saw a new kernel and other core utils to be updated. I squinted at my screens, wondering for a minute whether I missed the part of the Brother install script that it quietly added some rogue apt repo to my sources.list[.d]. I went to my hosted server to do the same update and verified that it wasn't just my local machine. I sighed with relief =p
Thank you, Debian. I have been using you since Potato on my desktop and servers. You've never let me down. Well, maybe with systemd. But other than that, you've never let me down. ;} (please don't start any systemd rants, I was just kidding!)
Seems the U.S. funded intel agencies are gonna do whatever the fuck they want to anyway. This bill, whether repealed or sustained, is moot in reality.
We need to bring the morals of these agencies into check if we want real change. Hopefully Snowden, Klein & others have done this to an extent. It sucks that these types of acts are what makes the most difference.
This raises a point to open-source style licenses for content, i.e. Creative Commons. Though there are restrictions to prevent using it for commercial purposes, AFAIK there's nothing against using a CC licensed song for, say, a promotional video for clubbing seals and eating babies.
Comboman made a good point above though, this can be translated into any situation - if you're a builder, your building may be used for 'bad things'. If you're an open source programmer, your code may be used for 'bad things'. You can't have total freedom along with restrictions based on your opinions or viewpoints.
So Ubuntu has lapped itself in letter-names back to 'A' and people are still complaining about basic usage and stability issues.
"Linux for Humans" == "Linux that acts like Windows"
Because we all know U.S. products *never, ever, ever* contain backdoors.
This is lame. I don't care if it's software made in Russia, or the U.S., or Germany, or China. If the source is closed and locked away, I don't trust it by default.
A storm starts with a single raindrop.
Total surveillance starts with a single camera.
Or, to use another analogy, we are the frogs.
That brings us back to performance we had in the early Firefox days? I bet everyone could have saved a lot of time by just not adding bloat and focusing on FF's initial motivation (to split from Mozilla and be fast again) while adding value in other ways.
Otherwise he wouldn't be doing it.
"We can't read this" - Sorry if I'm a bit uneducated (I don't travel much) but what exactly does customs do with your phone when inspecting it?
I'd be perfectly fine with an alternative that is never widely adopted.
This. Personally I *prefer* that. There may be less adoption but successful attacks on the phone would be nothing compared to iOS/Android.
I am looking forward to my exit in supporting other people's Windows boxen. I cannot *wait* until I can say, with a big fat grin on my face, "Sorry, I don't do Windows support anymore", or better yet, "Sorry, I've literally *never* used Windows 11" (or whatever stupid Windows name they call it by then).
I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it. Oh, happy days await me. =}
"CC Cleaner" sounds like an imitating (malware-ridden) app.
"CCleaner" is the app TFA is discussing.
What about stale thumbnail cache? Have you never seen the wrong thumbnails displayed in a file browser window for an image? Additionally, you say that in the sense it deletes thumbnail cache it's "absolutely malware and always has been"? I don't get it.
What program(s) do you use to do what CCleaner does?
Ba-zing!
It's pretty easy to get administrator access in Windows, yes. Many environments require normal domain users to be 'local administrators' of their machine to perform seemingly normal, day to day tasks.
They'll get it =p
Shameless plug to a blog I wrote in 2014. I still use it daily. I'm an independent I.T. consultant. I love the looks and questions people give me when they see it for the first time.
Why I still use a Palm Pilot
I mean I understand their reasoning of wanting to get "Developers!" but seriously, that's not been their thing most of their corporate life. That's Apple's thing, being creative hippie acid taking hackers. Microsoft is about corporate culture, suit-and-tie business deal money makers. Why are they afraid of who they really are?
You're kind of a n00b, huh?
You think the accuweather app gets access to cellular tower location info of the device its running on? No.
You think an IP is tied to someone's physical location? No.
Go back to school, your book report is due.
BACK IN MY DAY, Slashdotters used Linux and X11AMP. Then XMMS. Then XMMS2. Then Audacious.
I still use Audacious, in fact it's right here on my left screen.