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  1. Re:Is this really news?! on Compromised CCTV and NAS Devices Found Participating In DDoS Attacks (incapsula.com) · · Score: 1

    It's more likely "professionally" installed systems that are the problem. Most physical security companies have no freaking idea what they're doing on a network, even 10+ years after IP cameras were introduced. I should know, I clean up after them all the time at my own physical security company. Add that to all the problems that "Hackvision" (Hikvision) has had, and it's a recipe for disaster.

  2. Re:Very much not new on Tools Coming To Def Con For Hacking RFID Access Doors · · Score: 1

    Minor correction: the card would very likely not be a Wiegand card, as that's an old swipe technology. (The dude loved naming things after himself.) It'd more than likely be prox in the USA, since our adoption of smart cards is a decade behind the rest of the world.

  3. Missed link on Tools Coming To Def Con For Hacking RFID Access Doors · · Score: 2

    Either I missed a tag or the PDF was filtered. Either way, just search for "Black Hat Gecko Wiegand".

  4. Done before on Tools Coming To Def Con For Hacking RFID Access Doors · · Score: 3, Informative

    This was done several years ago by another: see here.
    The issue is that, even if you have the most secure, multi-factor biometric and smart card reader, it's still more than likely transmitting that data back to the access control panel via Wiegand, which is offers not even the slightest bit of security against interception, replay, etc. OSDP has been around for a while and offers encryption to at least combat this, but, honestly, nobody freaking cares, and the lack of industry adoption of OSDP reflects this. There's a dozen and a half easier ways to get into a building.

  5. Do /. editors even read these comments... on Andromeda Galaxy's Secrets Revealed By Going Beyond Visible Light · · Score: 1

    to see how completely fucking fed up with this kind of shit we are?

  6. Re:Summary is wrong, management didn't "freak" on Google Staffers Share Salary Info With Each Other; Management Freaks · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    But that doesn't fit the "boo hoo sexism" narrative!

  7. ActiveX is only for their browser viewers on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Open and Affordable IPCams? · · Score: 1

    All of the camera manufacturers you listed, assuming you bought their cameras in the last 5 years, will support an H.264 video feed over RTP/RTSP. Here's a list of a whole lot of CCTV camera RTSP URLs. If one you have isn't listed, it shouldn't be too hard to find it elsewhere on the web.

  8. Re:Hikvision on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Open and Affordable IPCams? · · Score: 1

    Hikvision and Dahua are the two big cheap Chinese names for CCTV. For the VMS, Milestone offers a free version of XProtect with a severely-limited feature set.

    I'm assuming that this is just a few cameras for a home or small office, though. If it's anything more than that you really should have it done professionally. There's a lot of ways to improperly install a CCTV system.

  9. Re:Wait, what? on Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature · · Score: 5, Informative

    This would be a very valid rant if the reporting here were correct. The car wasn't trying to park--it wasn't controlling itself. From T 2nd FA: "It seems they are trying to demonstrate pedestrian detection and auto-braking", which is what he didn't pay for. Even that feature is overridden if you keep pressing down on the gas. This is entirely driver error.

  10. Re:Flamebait title on Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From the Fusion story: "It seems they are trying to demonstrate pedestrian detection and auto-braking." So both the title and the content are wrong!

  11. Re:Another reason my first new car will be a Tesla on Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It might have to do with the fact that most people are confident enough in their ability to not hit pedestrians that they don't want to pay extra for the camera and radar.

  12. Re:Write-only code. on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 2

    One of the nice things about Python is the very concrete idea of what is and isn't "Pythonic". I've never had too much difficulty jumping right in to something written in Python and having a good idea of what's going on.

  13. Re:Unsettling science on US Gov't To Withdraw Food Warnings About Dietary Cholesterol · · Score: 1

    If you're suggesting that people get their n3 from seeds, it is important to note that the conversion rate from ALA (in seeds) to EPA (then to DHA) in humans is absolutely awful.

  14. Re:slow day on slashdot, on New Multi-Purpose Backdoor Targets Linux Servers · · Score: 1

    Can't tell if troll, or stupid.

  15. Re:It Remains a Journalism Scandal. Deal With It. on Twitter CEO: "We Suck" At Dealing With Trolls, Vows To Kick Them Out · · Score: 1

    No but it's about harassment because they say so[1].

    [1] Source: Them

  16. Re:The only people who consider GG as trolls are.. on Twitter CEO: "We Suck" At Dealing With Trolls, Vows To Kick Them Out · · Score: 1

    Really? 'cause that sounds a hell of a lot more like the people in the anti-GamerGate camp than those in GamerGate
    "OH NO THAT FEMALE GAME CHARACTER OFFENDS ME HELP HELP I'M BEING OPPRESSED!"

  17. Re:Harassment Patrol on Sweden Considers Adding "Sexism" Ratings To Video Games · · Score: 1

    more scorched-earth activity like doxxing and death threats against people who had the temerity to voice an opinion that someone didn't like

    Oops, thought you were talking about anti-GG for a second.
    I'll just leave this here: http://gamergateharassment.tumblr.com/

  18. Re:Be a man on Sweden Considers Adding "Sexism" Ratings To Video Games · · Score: 1

    The attitude that women are worse than men means that men being more like women makes them an object of derision

    Your bias towards women is showing, even if you don't consciously realize that you have it. Men acting like women or being accused of acting like women is a form of derision. Women acting like men or being accused of acting like men is a form of derision. Compassion is positive in women, and negative in men. Assertiveness is positive in men, and negative in women. There is no attitude that women are worse than men. There is no attitude that men are worse than women. There is an attitude of sticking to your gender role and striving to be the embodiment of it while shaming those more towards the middle than you are, or with more crossover than you.

  19. Re:Obviously. on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Uh, infant mortality? Predators actually being an issue? Disease? Constant strife? No, go ahead and just ignore those.

  20. Re:Perl: TMTOWTDI on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    Is it bad that that doesn't look all that confusing to me? Though it seems like having two list comprehensions that are exactly the same save for the property of "x" that they access is inefficient.

  21. Re:Google on Moto 360 Reviews Arrive · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Question: Who gives a fuck?

  22. Re:Let me just on Seagate Releases 6TB Hard Drive Sans Helium · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I pity anyone who runs RAID5 on such large disks. Enjoy your UREs.

  23. Re:Glad to see they/their as gender-neutral pronou on Facebook Debuts New Gender Options, Pronoun Choices · · Score: 1

    You're confusing "gender" and "sex".

  24. Re:I recommend RedCloud for your Entry Control on New Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    Except that RedCloud was just bought by Avigilon.

  25. Re:FWIW, the Regex Golf game on Regex Golf, xkcd, and Peter Norvig · · Score: 1

    Why would you do this? I was hoping to actually have a productive day.