Yeah, it was paraphrased. The facts presented are the same.
Yes, it's unreasonable to ask a router OEM to alter the configuration of your PC unless you have some sort of contract with them.
My first suspicion given the very limited info you have provided is that your browser traffic was being routed through some sort of sandboxing and/or deep inspection proxy, but I can't be sure without actually having a look. The agency being used to implement that redirection could be many places but most likely it's something you installed, intentionally or not.
Your complete lack of a clue as to what exactly was going on tells me that either it was not implemented locally, or you are completely clueless. I prefer to think maybe it was something done in your router and you are mentally competent, which makes me recommend you stop letting 3rd parties control your router. In any case, no, I'd not call the OEM, nor would I reimage my PC. That would be idiotic.
You asked the router manufacturer (Arris) to "remove the Symantec from your computer", and then you reimage your PC when someone tries to MitM you? If that actually makes sense to you then I stand by everything I've said.
It's cool if you don't want to know how the stuff you use works, I bet almost no one knows how all the stuff they use works, there is a lot of technology in use today. But this is supposed to be a technical site; different standards. And no, I would not have called Arris, but then I don't use the crap modem or router the ISP supplies either.
In other news, McAfee are the ones who actually have a deal with Arris to supply a secured router, Symantec makes their own secure router, and sells it via Best Buy and Amazon, among other stores. I would strongly suspect the culprit was your ISP or some flakey browser addon. Consider not using the ISP DNS servers, and learning to use tools like ping and tracert, they are pretty simple and can shed a lot of light on simple problems.
I'd use check my router IP settings and then use ping and traceroute to start with, just to see what's going on. If you think not having access to the world wide web is the same as losing internet access you really should stick to something less technical.
Compared to what? Typical credit card charges can be reversed for months afterward. With cryptocurrency the time to settle might be a significant fraction of an hour but when it's done, the cost was a tiny fraction of the transaction and the "money" is 100% really really transferred, this removal of trillions of dollars of economic drag on the economy in the form of fees to "trusted 3rd parties" is another huge potential benefit of such digital currencies.
Stability of the blockchain ledger that underpins bitcoin. It's a well established blockchain with a large number of resources devoted to running the consensus algorithm, and thus more difficult to subvert than a freshly minted blockchain. That has utility and utility is value.
The thing of value isn't the coins, it's the blockchain and the processes around it. Other blockchains have been built but the stability of one that's deeply rooted like the Bitcoin BC is valuable. No saying BC is "worth" what it's going for, but it's not backed by nothing either.
I work in this area, and in fact I've implemented real time AV scanners. The sane way is to write a file filter driver and intercept file operations at that level, because guess what? Not all malware is a PE image. We have to look at everything. I don't know what the designed purpose of this API is, but if security software uses it as the sole means to protect a Windows PC the security software is defective, not the API.
Yes, rubbish, because I need a wide viewing angle and 10 bit color while cutting code, generating threat models and other artifacts, and other actual work tasks./sarc
The Firefly firearms/weapons are not revolvers, nor are they six-shooters. Some of them are stylistically similar to single action revolvers but they are not actually revolvers. This is obvious by a cursory inspection. The Expanse does seem to have revolvers, interestingly enough.
Looking at publicly available (and in most cases self published) information isn't a violation of privacy by any sane definition. It may legitimately constitute something we don't like and may want to proscribe our government from doing, but it's not a privacy issue. Words; they used to mean things.
It was intentional, and also what Lowe's implemented and released for use. At some point web "devs" need to be held responsible for releasing crap like this. Consumers using a device or site 'as implemented' shouldn't really be *criminally* responsible for the stupidity of the devs.
More like if Lowes self checkout station set the price on some goods at $0 if they were scanned upside-down, and people just checked out and left. And then got arrested.
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Seemed like a good idea at the time?
It had to be done.
Yeah, it was paraphrased. The facts presented are the same.
Yes, it's unreasonable to ask a router OEM to alter the configuration of your PC unless you have some sort of contract with them.
My first suspicion given the very limited info you have provided is that your browser traffic was being routed through some sort of sandboxing and/or deep inspection proxy, but I can't be sure without actually having a look. The agency being used to implement that redirection could be many places but most likely it's something you installed, intentionally or not.
Your complete lack of a clue as to what exactly was going on tells me that either it was not implemented locally, or you are completely clueless. I prefer to think maybe it was something done in your router and you are mentally competent, which makes me recommend you stop letting 3rd parties control your router. In any case, no, I'd not call the OEM, nor would I reimage my PC. That would be idiotic.
You asked the router manufacturer (Arris) to "remove the Symantec from your computer", and then you reimage your PC when someone tries to MitM you? If that actually makes sense to you then I stand by everything I've said.
It's cool if you don't want to know how the stuff you use works, I bet almost no one knows how all the stuff they use works, there is a lot of technology in use today. But this is supposed to be a technical site; different standards. And no, I would not have called Arris, but then I don't use the crap modem or router the ISP supplies either.
In other news, McAfee are the ones who actually have a deal with Arris to supply a secured router, Symantec makes their own secure router, and sells it via Best Buy and Amazon, among other stores. I would strongly suspect the culprit was your ISP or some flakey browser addon. Consider not using the ISP DNS servers, and learning to use tools like ping and tracert, they are pretty simple and can shed a lot of light on simple problems.
I'd use check my router IP settings and then use ping and traceroute to start with, just to see what's going on. If you think not having access to the world wide web is the same as losing internet access you really should stick to something less technical.
You are probably right.
You don't know how computers work, go play in reddit.
And also exacerbated his issues as well. Remember back in the old days when people were slightly literate?
WIth often long delays in confirmation ...
Compared to what? Typical credit card charges can be reversed for months afterward. With cryptocurrency the time to settle might be a significant fraction of an hour but when it's done, the cost was a tiny fraction of the transaction and the "money" is 100% really really transferred, this removal of trillions of dollars of economic drag on the economy in the form of fees to "trusted 3rd parties" is another huge potential benefit of such digital currencies.
Stability of the blockchain ledger that underpins bitcoin. It's a well established blockchain with a large number of resources devoted to running the consensus algorithm, and thus more difficult to subvert than a freshly minted blockchain. That has utility and utility is value.
The thing of value isn't the coins, it's the blockchain and the processes around it. Other blockchains have been built but the stability of one that's deeply rooted like the Bitcoin BC is valuable. No saying BC is "worth" what it's going for, but it's not backed by nothing either.
I work in this area, and in fact I've implemented real time AV scanners. The sane way is to write a file filter driver and intercept file operations at that level, because guess what? Not all malware is a PE image. We have to look at everything. I don't know what the designed purpose of this API is, but if security software uses it as the sole means to protect a Windows PC the security software is defective, not the API.
My ZTE Axon phone doesn't have Facebook installed. I didn't delete it so I assume it was not shipped with it.
I'll just keep using Chrome.
My VW tells me to take it to service every 10K miles or once a year. All hail synth lube.
Yes, rubbish, because I need a wide viewing angle and 10 bit color while cutting code, generating threat models and other artifacts, and other actual work tasks. /sarc
Well compared to CBS they're both pure genius is I guess the point I was trying for, at least that's what the bourbon is now telling me.
I read the Gunslinger series more than once; a multi-year series could actually stand a chance of doing it justice if HBO or Netflix was running it.
Two birds, with a publicly funded stone.
The Japanese have had robots for this for years.
The Firefly firearms/weapons are not revolvers, nor are they six-shooters. Some of them are stylistically similar to single action revolvers but they are not actually revolvers. This is obvious by a cursory inspection. The Expanse does seem to have revolvers, interestingly enough.
Only if you want to win.
Looking at publicly available (and in most cases self published) information isn't a violation of privacy by any sane definition. It may legitimately constitute something we don't like and may want to proscribe our government from doing, but it's not a privacy issue. Words; they used to mean things.
It was intentional, and also what Lowe's implemented and released for use. At some point web "devs" need to be held responsible for releasing crap like this. Consumers using a device or site 'as implemented' shouldn't really be *criminally* responsible for the stupidity of the devs.
More like if Lowes self checkout station set the price on some goods at $0 if they were scanned upside-down, and people just checked out and left. And then got arrested.