iOS before 10.3 is affected. macOS before 10.12.4 is affected. tvOS before 10.2 is affected. watchOS before 3.2 is affected.
That's on every entry in the list. Apple even came out and said that everything in the wikileaks page had already been fixed. Are people going to keep looking for new things to exploit? Sure. Is Apple going to keep fixing them immediately? You bet!
I'm sorry, but after all the tech support jobs I've been at, someone is going to search for *.jpg/gif/png/whatever.
I never have myself, but at every job I've been at, a bored nerd is going to do a random search for pics/porn. It takes 30 seconds when they are spending hours on a computer.
These days, I work for a company that has a long disclosure that people ignore while I read it to them, but the big thing is "if you have shit you don't want us seeing, make a second account with a password that we can use to fix your shit."
Again, I have never done it myself, but I have seen so many colleagues do it that I can only assume it's common over all areas.
I'm sorry, you're replying on a website that uses English as the main language. You appear to be using a different language. Maybe you'd like to try again.
Snowden embarrassed the Obama administration. As much as I think he should be pardoned and let back onto US soil, Obama won't do it. Trump certainly won't either.
"Hi , this is some random website called The Intercept (fair warning, if this is a legit site, I personally have never heard of it, ever)
Would you ever sell your services to make a registry for muslims? We need a response in 24 hours."
Every single legitimate company: "uh... this is the media department, we can pass this up the chain, but this is a legitimately open-ended and confusing question with a lot of "what-if's" that haven't been defined yet. I'll pass this up to my higher ups, but I can't say when I'll have a response. If you want a sound-bite... I can't give one immediately."
There already is a solution to this. We've done it already with email and with the increasing compromised accounts/junk message spam on iMessage getting throttled.
If someone is part of a botnet, then when someone reports being DDoS'd, they report it and the higher level ISP's should be notified. Cut them off temporarily, give them the same message that violators of MPAA/RIAA are given on their ISP's where they get a standard message that they are a shithead instead of loading normal pages and have to call in to an ISP to get the ban lifted.
"Your computer is running outdated software, is actively infected. We'll lift the ban for a few hours, but if you're still part of the botnet after 3 hours, you're banned again until you call us again."
Something along those lines. If you're running an infected system and get reported, then fuck off and either call a family member that knows computers or take it to a shop and have it cleaned.
You can pay Apple (not sure about android phones, but I'd assume there's some kind of service) a fairly cheap fee ($79) to open the device and swap the battery. It's a lot cheaper than buying a whole new device.
The exchanges being stopped are the "bad" 7's for the "safe" 7's.
Refunds are issued by the store the device was purchased from. I've seen at least one major retailer state that you could exchange a Note 7 for a different model phone without any restocking fee. I'm not sure how the price difference matters in, but I'd imagine the store would do something for you, and you can be sure that the store will get their money back from Samsung.
Not that I am pro-Trump, but just because his name is in the email doesn't mean it's a Trump supporting email. It could just as easily be anti-Trump spam.
It's not even lulz, it's that some people are so desperate to cling on to ANY bit of power whatsoever that they'll push for the title. Look at wikipedia, the people that are... I don't even know the phrase, but the ones that sit on pages and deny any updates that aren't their own, or any update that makes their information look wrong.
People will spend 20 hours a day earning points just so they can get the "hero" title and get whatever mod power that grants, and they will base their entire lives around it. Because that's their peak in life.
It was a bug with the system. To violate the CFAA, it would have to have been maliciously or purposefully destroying his data. Apple sent engineers to the guys house to attempt to reproduce the issue and they weren't even able to reproduce it at the time.
>Chris Vickery, a security researcher at MacKeeper
Are you fucking kidding me?
An article quotes someone who is a "security researcher" for one of the biggest malware companies plaguing macs, and instead of being told to eat every dick on the planet, they're given a link on slashdot so they look somewhat legitimate??? GREAT FUCKING JOB!
Apple has said from the start that the security on the phone in question was hackable, and that further generations include things like secure enclave that make the only possible means for hacking this particular phone obsolete.
That's why the case was bullshit from the beginning. The FBI could give a fuck about this particular phone, they wanted a precedent on record that Apple had to write custom big brother software (and digitally sign it so it could be installed without wiping the phone, potentially even over the internet), so that future phones that are unhackable would be open to the government to snoop.
That's the same argument that any company at all could make to sell a new model. All the Apple bashers manage to miss this point completely. New versions of hardware and software = better security (most times). Bug fixes, zero-day resolutions, new ideas in hardware like secure enclave, shit gets better as people have ideas on how to secure stuff better.
But lets just pretend that Apple is the only company that ever wants to sell new models of stuff, and is also the only company that ever improves their stuff. Lets also pretend that Apple actually doesn't want to protect your privacy, that they haven't improved their security before this was ever even an issue.
Also lets continue to pretend that Apple was the company that brought this up publically, and not the FBI. The FBI definitely didn't make this case public, hoping that public opinion would make Apple buckle, after Apple filed a motion to keep it quiet and between the courts and the FBI/Apple.
Show them you're a better player on the same format then or shut up. Cross-platform for XBox only means PS4, not PC/Mac/Linux.
There were studies done years ago when (I believe) Xbox was originally being developed, it was cross-platform with PC. There are (obvious) differences in control styles, and the PC people just destroyed the console players in every situation. That's why you don't have console/PC cross-platforms now. There are things you simply can't do with Xbox/PS that you can with a mouse/keyboard on PC. It's up to the individual user to decide what they prefer more.
They may very well be superior players on console but suck on PC. You might be a pro gamer on PC but totally blow on console. There's no comparison between the two because there's no valid comparison between the two. Stick a professional swimmer against a professional sprinter on land and I guarantee there's no contest. People are trained for different situations.
You know exactly the kind of person I'm talking about when I say old people; while you personally may be savvy enough to use one if you wanted, by far the older population as a whole is ignorant about adblockers. There's no reason to be an ass just for the sake of being an ass.
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iOS before 10.3 is affected. macOS before 10.12.4 is affected. tvOS before 10.2 is affected. watchOS before 3.2 is affected.
That's on every entry in the list. Apple even came out and said that everything in the wikileaks page had already been fixed. Are people going to keep looking for new things to exploit? Sure. Is Apple going to keep fixing them immediately? You bet!
I'm sorry, but after all the tech support jobs I've been at, someone is going to search for *.jpg/gif/png/whatever.
I never have myself, but at every job I've been at, a bored nerd is going to do a random search for pics/porn. It takes 30 seconds when they are spending hours on a computer.
These days, I work for a company that has a long disclosure that people ignore while I read it to them, but the big thing is "if you have shit you don't want us seeing, make a second account with a password that we can use to fix your shit."
Again, I have never done it myself, but I have seen so many colleagues do it that I can only assume it's common over all areas.
Morpheus fired the EMP.
I'm sorry, you're replying on a website that uses English as the main language. You appear to be using a different language. Maybe you'd like to try again.
Do you think the guy is actually going to call his insurance company and tell them that he has that phone and to please raise his rates?
Snowden embarrassed the Obama administration. As much as I think he should be pardoned and let back onto US soil, Obama won't do it. Trump certainly won't either.
Lets live in reality people.
"Hi , this is some random website called The Intercept (fair warning, if this is a legit site, I personally have never heard of it, ever)
Would you ever sell your services to make a registry for muslims? We need a response in 24 hours."
Every single legitimate company: "uh... this is the media department, we can pass this up the chain, but this is a legitimately open-ended and confusing question with a lot of "what-if's" that haven't been defined yet. I'll pass this up to my higher ups, but I can't say when I'll have a response. If you want a sound-bite... I can't give one immediately."
The Intercept: didn't immediately respond.
You can modify an iPhone all you want, you just void the warranty.
Apple isn't the first company nor will it be the last to void warranty for opening a device up and messing with it.
So have a backup, holy shit. What would an audio pro do if their SSD failed? Restore from the backup you have, right?
Time Machine is a pretty sweet backup option, built into the OS. Set it and forget it.
There already is a solution to this. We've done it already with email and with the increasing compromised accounts/junk message spam on iMessage getting throttled.
If someone is part of a botnet, then when someone reports being DDoS'd, they report it and the higher level ISP's should be notified. Cut them off temporarily, give them the same message that violators of MPAA/RIAA are given on their ISP's where they get a standard message that they are a shithead instead of loading normal pages and have to call in to an ISP to get the ban lifted.
"Your computer is running outdated software, is actively infected. We'll lift the ban for a few hours, but if you're still part of the botnet after 3 hours, you're banned again until you call us again."
Something along those lines. If you're running an infected system and get reported, then fuck off and either call a family member that knows computers or take it to a shop and have it cleaned.
You can pay Apple (not sure about android phones, but I'd assume there's some kind of service) a fairly cheap fee ($79) to open the device and swap the battery. It's a lot cheaper than buying a whole new device.
The exchanges being stopped are the "bad" 7's for the "safe" 7's.
Refunds are issued by the store the device was purchased from. I've seen at least one major retailer state that you could exchange a Note 7 for a different model phone without any restocking fee. I'm not sure how the price difference matters in, but I'd imagine the store would do something for you, and you can be sure that the store will get their money back from Samsung.
Not that I am pro-Trump, but just because his name is in the email doesn't mean it's a Trump supporting email. It could just as easily be anti-Trump spam.
It's not even lulz, it's that some people are so desperate to cling on to ANY bit of power whatsoever that they'll push for the title. Look at wikipedia, the people that are... I don't even know the phrase, but the ones that sit on pages and deny any updates that aren't their own, or any update that makes their information look wrong.
People will spend 20 hours a day earning points just so they can get the "hero" title and get whatever mod power that grants, and they will base their entire lives around it. Because that's their peak in life.
And that's so fucking sad.
"No, we swear the tool won't ever get out to the public! We 100% guarantee it!"
6 months later: "well... shit"
Make it seven seconds, take over the world.
It was a bug with the system. To violate the CFAA, it would have to have been maliciously or purposefully destroying his data. Apple sent engineers to the guys house to attempt to reproduce the issue and they weren't even able to reproduce it at the time.
>Chris Vickery, a security researcher at MacKeeper
Are you fucking kidding me?
An article quotes someone who is a "security researcher" for one of the biggest malware companies plaguing macs, and instead of being told to eat every dick on the planet, they're given a link on slashdot so they look somewhat legitimate??? GREAT FUCKING JOB!
How many of you people upset that the Rift is "always on" installed Steam and let it sit in your system tray every second that your computer is on?
Apple has said from the start that the security on the phone in question was hackable, and that further generations include things like secure enclave that make the only possible means for hacking this particular phone obsolete.
That's why the case was bullshit from the beginning. The FBI could give a fuck about this particular phone, they wanted a precedent on record that Apple had to write custom big brother software (and digitally sign it so it could be installed without wiping the phone, potentially even over the internet), so that future phones that are unhackable would be open to the government to snoop.
That's the same argument that any company at all could make to sell a new model. All the Apple bashers manage to miss this point completely. New versions of hardware and software = better security (most times). Bug fixes, zero-day resolutions, new ideas in hardware like secure enclave, shit gets better as people have ideas on how to secure stuff better.
But lets just pretend that Apple is the only company that ever wants to sell new models of stuff, and is also the only company that ever improves their stuff. Lets also pretend that Apple actually doesn't want to protect your privacy, that they haven't improved their security before this was ever even an issue.
Also lets continue to pretend that Apple was the company that brought this up publically, and not the FBI. The FBI definitely didn't make this case public, hoping that public opinion would make Apple buckle, after Apple filed a motion to keep it quiet and between the courts and the FBI/Apple.
http://bgr.com/2016/02/19/appl...
I'm sure you'll say that bgr.com isn't a good source, that's fine. The NY Times is the quote they use in that article.
Feel free to hate on Apple all you want, but feel free to go fuck yourself too.
The government does not want communications to be encrypted, it goes against everything they've worked towards for decades.
Show them you're a better player on the same format then or shut up. Cross-platform for XBox only means PS4, not PC/Mac/Linux.
There were studies done years ago when (I believe) Xbox was originally being developed, it was cross-platform with PC. There are (obvious) differences in control styles, and the PC people just destroyed the console players in every situation. That's why you don't have console/PC cross-platforms now. There are things you simply can't do with Xbox/PS that you can with a mouse/keyboard on PC. It's up to the individual user to decide what they prefer more.
They may very well be superior players on console but suck on PC. You might be a pro gamer on PC but totally blow on console. There's no comparison between the two because there's no valid comparison between the two. Stick a professional swimmer against a professional sprinter on land and I guarantee there's no contest. People are trained for different situations.
Furthermore, Apple cannot make a device until Samsung and LG have created the next version of screen technology.
Wat?
Apple has a normal device cycle that comes around every year. In the September area. Apple doesn't give a shit about what Samsung or LG does.
You know exactly the kind of person I'm talking about when I say old people; while you personally may be savvy enough to use one if you wanted, by far the older population as a whole is ignorant about adblockers. There's no reason to be an ass just for the sake of being an ass.