Another Dongle - this is the life of a Mac owner. There are several people in the office who have chosen a Macbook Pro or Air for portability.
But they all care a zipper pouch of Dongles & wires with them. Their dongles need dongles. Kind of like that old IBM ad for the universal dongle-dongle. They have cables for DVI, HDMI, VGA, printers, USB, cellphones... arg. okay - you can't charge a device without a power cord (well - it isn't all that common...yet).
Hey Apple - stop it with the wires and dongles to another dongle. It sucks! My car, for instance, came with a 30-PIN iPod connector. The old school "Firewire" power model. But the iPod released that same year (2008) came with a new USB style 30-PIN meaning the power pins had moved. So I purchased a device that swapped pins for, humorously enough, $25. Then the iPhone5 came out and I had to purchase a 30-PIN converter pigtail cable. My car now has a Rube Goldberg series of wires and dongle converters strung together.
Our other car has a USB port in the dash. Everything just works. Apple - Standards are good - try it !!
Filed under "this is why we can't have nice things" --- How about: upgrading "home" routers to offer some form of packet inspection? Yes I know that sometimes the routers themselves are enlisted in the attack. However, it appears that many IoT devices are setup inside the home/business and are insecure. And homes are adding more IoT devices than they are adding routers - thereby increasing the available munition surface area. Usually it is 1-router and (n)-IoTs.
Maybe this is a trivial solution - but couldn't router software enforce a few simple restrictions on properly formed outbound packets?
Or wait - we don't need to upgrade the routers. Instead change their Gateway to send traffic to scanning device. Although one has to wonder if the likes of Comcast have IPS.
And since DNS seems to be in vogue - might DNS servers start asking themselves "why does server x.y.z need 1-bazillion replies to the same entry?"
However, these ideas only resolve the (current) symptom. The basics of the internet may need to be rethought - a super IPSEC? It wasn't that long ago that open mail routers posed a similar threat and opportunity for spammers (yes - the game has since moved to "legit" robo-inboxes). As the network grows attackers will continue to find ways to break it. A "single" person can take over the whole network. Things like blaster/code-red took over whole corporate networks from inside. Now these attacks are outside and treat all domain systems as one giant inside-system.
correct. That was my point. An employee can't Quit Early when they know they are about to be let go. This allows the employer "make" them stay and train their replacements. If they want unemployment they must stay until officially let-go.
These workers are going to be unemployed - but they aren't yet. They are being paid. If they could all quit now! and pickup unemployment while looking for a new job --- that would be a finger in the eye of their employer. However - I'm sure employers know this and it is what makes the equation work.
If there was a way for them to band together and all quit now - the equation wouldn't work. There is no incentive to remain - go find a job now! Regardless of what carrot the HR dept is hanging in front of you - your life career starts tomorrow, don't delay it. And for those who can quit now... do it.
But let's face it. Automation & Robots are coming and will fill some of these jobs in the near future. Farming used to have lots of labor - but now machines have replaced the laborer. Which is fine because most don't want this kind of hard work - certainly not for the pay.
I think some of these IT jobs are going the same way. Train thy self and move up to a job that can't be so easily replaced. And keep in mind - management is being automated too. These jobs will most likely disappear from the workforce in "10 years."
the iTunes cards should be a dead give-away of fraud. BUT --- I heard an interview with a woman who received TWO telephone calls at the same time - both working together (she had two phones, cell & landline). This scam was rather sophisticated.
The first caller was the normal "IRS calling - you owe us money" The second caller (caller id was "911") "This is FBI coming to get you now - stay where you are" First caller - "pay us now and I will cancel the FBI agent." She went to Western Union to make the payment as requested - and Western Union blocked her payment realizing it was fraud (they have a dept monitoring this). WU customer service handed her their phone over the desk "WU special agent wants to talk to you" The WU agent on this second line took 30 minutes to talk the woman down from repeatedly trying to make the payment ("no 'mam - this is a scam. no really.") She had the "FBI Agent" still on her cell phone - and WU agent on the store phone. FBI agent demanding "do it now or go to jail" and second person saying "no - it's a scam"
Her backstory was that she owned a small business and had somebody else doing her taxes - so she didn't fully know what was up. The call was semi-plausible coupled with the high pressure tactic.
Yeah the calls to my house began to accelerate last week - then suddenly stopped. It changed over the previous month from weekly recorded messages ("call us back") to daily real humans talking to me. One was an Australian bloke pretending to be an agent with the US Treasury dept.
But my favorite conversation I told the guy "Look, you've been trying to pin this on me for years. You Can't Prove Anything - your evidence is weak. Come Get me.. Every heard of the 4th Amendment? I'm loading my shotgun right now... come get me. You got nothing on me!"
To which a broken english reply came: "you kiss my ass"
Absolutely - he has *Evolved* to use Phase shifting to hide from us humans - knowing that this wavelength of light is just beyond our visible range. Thus remains hidden and safe from us predators
The "brains in a jar" hypothesis or thought-experiment is very very very old. I seem to remember studying the writings of Descartes and Plato.
Spending money on this huh?! This does seem like "touch the face of God" -- what other societies desired this? Take your stuff with you!
oh well - they plenty of money to piss away. Maybe I'll go into the business of studying strange phenomenon and taking rich people's money to do it. My code name will be Fox Mulder.
It occurs to me that in order to restore this recording they needed to read the notes of several people. How much of today's content is "on the web" that will be lost? Blog posts on a platform that is being retired and shutdown.
Makes me think those printers that "print the web," the ones we scoffed at, might actually make sense.
I've been trying to get more info on this IoT unsecure thing and understand what these devices are. One thing that confuses me is that - aren't these things installed (mostly) in Residential Homes? which would be behind a "firewall" router that (usually) uses NAT?
The reason I ask this - how do I protect myself if I place such a device in my home? Are these pwned devices on the open network --- or can they be attacked through NAT? My "smart" TV, Bluray, Amazon TV, Apple TV, Raspberry Pi, Sonos, etc are all on the network. I have a NAT w/ uPNP disabled (prevent holes from being poked). Sure I understand there are ways through NAT....but these IoT attacks seem to "telnet" directly to the device without any special layers.
Beyond basic NAT/uPNP --- what else do I need to know?
...that they scanned all users data no matter what. It's just that some people were willing to pay a large sum of money to pretend it wasn't happening.
I also suspect SSL is making it harder for them to learn anything.
Yup - totally living that. Superseded never made sense either - esp with a mix of "older" and "newer" installs. You couldn't decline an patch via the cleanup tool if it was needed. And then upgrading a newly deployed machine was difficult unless you spent the time to slipstream which was a pita.
A healthy mix of several OU Targets and I just keep pressing "Approve all" (after testing in a smaller group of early adopters).
I look forward to this change - not sure what the impact will be.
I have since used Allo. It is telephone# / SMS only - so I registered my Google Voice number. I can't chat with my G+ friends - nor those in my "Circles." Unless I'm totally missing something.
This is worse than iMessage. Apple lets you (optionally) find people by email (they might be Mac only users without a phone). With iMessage I register via multiple contacts (email(s) & phone#). So people searching for me can use whatever contact info they have (not everyone has my phone#)
It gets worse. I sent a message from my iPhone to my google virtual number - and Google Voice received it. Next I sent a message from Allo to my iPhone - and it showed up as a weird short-number, with a preamble "This is from Allo - install it from here." While it integrates with SMS - it really wants to be Allo only.
Bizarre. A totally new "top shelf" chat platform that doesn't plug into the whole Google platform?!
From the article: "Kim was testing his Ducati in a controlled environment at a reputable race track, which he says is the safest place to ride a motorcycle. In an attempt to avoid a collision with another vehicle, he hit a row of sandbags in the track’s runoff area."
So - seems that biologists are hot and heavy on this thing called Evolution. Zuck must be low on Science creds - seems to me that attempts to "kill" disease would cause them to mutate and get around whatever road block is in the way.
$3 billion fighting evolution? Who will win? Place your bets!
I was intrigued by Lit when they first made headlines a few years ago. Recently I went looking to see whatever came of them - only to discover that the CEO/Mastermind had suffered a serious accident and everything had slowed to a virtual halt.
So this may be good news. A new life for Lit.
Imagine lots of little 1 (or 2) person self driving taxis. It could be a breakthrough. Rather than lots of regular sized cars (or mini things like Google has) - Lits could be single person cars which also solves the number of cars on the road issue. Pack'em in.
And maybe "Ginger" (Segway) will make a comeback in a weird sort of rickshaw mode of city transportation. Rather than you driving it - you just sit and it takes you to your destination.
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Another Dongle - this is the life of a Mac owner. There are several people in the office who have chosen a Macbook Pro or Air for portability.
But they all care a zipper pouch of Dongles & wires with them. Their dongles need dongles. Kind of like that old IBM ad for the universal dongle-dongle. They have cables for DVI, HDMI, VGA, printers, USB, cellphones ... arg. okay - you can't charge a device without a power cord (well - it isn't all that common...yet).
Hey Apple - stop it with the wires and dongles to another dongle. It sucks! My car, for instance, came with a 30-PIN iPod connector. The old school "Firewire" power model. But the iPod released that same year (2008) came with a new USB style 30-PIN meaning the power pins had moved. So I purchased a device that swapped pins for, humorously enough, $25. Then the iPhone5 came out and I had to purchase a 30-PIN converter pigtail cable. My car now has a Rube Goldberg series of wires and dongle converters strung together.
Our other car has a USB port in the dash. Everything just works. Apple - Standards are good - try it !!
Right - Coors from Texarkana to Georgia
Geez - these young people just don't understand history!!
Filed under "this is why we can't have nice things" --- How about: upgrading "home" routers to offer some form of packet inspection? Yes I know that sometimes the routers themselves are enlisted in the attack. However, it appears that many IoT devices are setup inside the home/business and are insecure. And homes are adding more IoT devices than they are adding routers - thereby increasing the available munition surface area. Usually it is 1-router and (n)-IoTs.
Maybe this is a trivial solution - but couldn't router software enforce a few simple restrictions on properly formed outbound packets?
Or wait - we don't need to upgrade the routers. Instead change their Gateway to send traffic to scanning device. Although one has to wonder if the likes of Comcast have IPS.
And since DNS seems to be in vogue - might DNS servers start asking themselves "why does server x.y.z need 1-bazillion replies to the same entry?"
However, these ideas only resolve the (current) symptom. The basics of the internet may need to be rethought - a super IPSEC? It wasn't that long ago that open mail routers posed a similar threat and opportunity for spammers (yes - the game has since moved to "legit" robo-inboxes). As the network grows attackers will continue to find ways to break it. A "single" person can take over the whole network. Things like blaster/code-red took over whole corporate networks from inside. Now these attacks are outside and treat all domain systems as one giant inside-system.
> Too bad it is most assuredly dead now.
hmm... well, that would be a good test of this Evolution theory thing.
correct. That was my point. An employee can't Quit Early when they know they are about to be let go. This allows the employer "make" them stay and train their replacements. If they want unemployment they must stay until officially let-go.
....his kettle will produce coffee tomorrow morning.
These workers are going to be unemployed - but they aren't yet. They are being paid. If they could all quit now! and pickup unemployment while looking for a new job --- that would be a finger in the eye of their employer. However - I'm sure employers know this and it is what makes the equation work.
If there was a way for them to band together and all quit now - the equation wouldn't work. There is no incentive to remain - go find a job now! Regardless of what carrot the HR dept is hanging in front of you - your life career starts tomorrow, don't delay it. And for those who can quit now... do it.
But let's face it. Automation & Robots are coming and will fill some of these jobs in the near future. Farming used to have lots of labor - but now machines have replaced the laborer. Which is fine because most don't want this kind of hard work - certainly not for the pay.
I think some of these IT jobs are going the same way. Train thy self and move up to a job that can't be so easily replaced. And keep in mind - management is being automated too. These jobs will most likely disappear from the workforce in "10 years."
the iTunes cards should be a dead give-away of fraud. BUT --- I heard an interview with a woman who received TWO telephone calls at the same time - both working together (she had two phones, cell & landline). This scam was rather sophisticated.
The first caller was the normal "IRS calling - you owe us money" The second caller (caller id was "911") "This is FBI coming to get you now - stay where you are" First caller - "pay us now and I will cancel the FBI agent." She went to Western Union to make the payment as requested - and Western Union blocked her payment realizing it was fraud (they have a dept monitoring this). WU customer service handed her their phone over the desk "WU special agent wants to talk to you" The WU agent on this second line took 30 minutes to talk the woman down from repeatedly trying to make the payment ("no 'mam - this is a scam. no really.") She had the "FBI Agent" still on her cell phone - and WU agent on the store phone. FBI agent demanding "do it now or go to jail" and second person saying "no - it's a scam"
Her backstory was that she owned a small business and had somebody else doing her taxes - so she didn't fully know what was up. The call was semi-plausible coupled with the high pressure tactic.
Critical thought was not obvious.
I should also say that I screwed with the Treasury guy by asking
"You sure? Since when has the IRS been part of the Treasury? I don't believe you."
That ended with an unsatisfying [click]
Yeah the calls to my house began to accelerate last week - then suddenly stopped. It changed over the previous month from weekly recorded messages ("call us back") to daily real humans talking to me. One was an Australian bloke pretending to be an agent with the US Treasury dept.
But my favorite conversation I told the guy "Look, you've been trying to pin this on me for years. You Can't Prove Anything - your evidence is weak. Come Get me.. Every heard of the 4th Amendment? I'm loading my shotgun right now... come get me. You got nothing on me!"
To which a broken english reply came: "you kiss my ass"
Absolutely - he has *Evolved* to use Phase shifting to hide from us humans - knowing that this wavelength of light is just beyond our visible range. Thus remains hidden and safe from us predators
Watch out for 'dem killer clowns too!!!
The "brains in a jar" hypothesis or thought-experiment is very very very old. I seem to remember studying the writings of Descartes and Plato.
Spending money on this huh?! This does seem like "touch the face of God" -- what other societies desired this? Take your stuff with you!
oh well - they plenty of money to piss away. Maybe I'll go into the business of studying strange phenomenon and taking rich people's money to do it. My code name will be Fox Mulder.
You missed part of the statement. it states in part "scanning described in the article does not exist on our systems"
Which could mean - a scanning system does exist - but as described does not.
I just read that due to fear of the police, and a belief they won't help you anyhow --- calls to 911 are down drastically too.
Apparently being nice is good for business. Or being really brutal.
http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...
It occurs to me that in order to restore this recording they needed to read the notes of several people. How much of today's content is "on the web" that will be lost? Blog posts on a platform that is being retired and shutdown.
Makes me think those printers that "print the web," the ones we scoffed at, might actually make sense.
I've been trying to get more info on this IoT unsecure thing and understand what these devices are. One thing that confuses me is that - aren't these things installed (mostly) in Residential Homes? which would be behind a "firewall" router that (usually) uses NAT?
The reason I ask this - how do I protect myself if I place such a device in my home? Are these pwned devices on the open network --- or can they be attacked through NAT? My "smart" TV, Bluray, Amazon TV, Apple TV, Raspberry Pi, Sonos, etc are all on the network. I have a NAT w/ uPNP disabled (prevent holes from being poked). Sure I understand there are ways through NAT....but these IoT attacks seem to "telnet" directly to the device without any special layers.
Beyond basic NAT/uPNP --- what else do I need to know?
Thanks!
...that they scanned all users data no matter what. It's just that some people were willing to pay a large sum of money to pretend it wasn't happening.
I also suspect SSL is making it harder for them to learn anything.
Yup - totally living that. Superseded never made sense either - esp with a mix of "older" and "newer" installs. You couldn't decline an patch via the cleanup tool if it was needed. And then upgrading a newly deployed machine was difficult unless you spent the time to slipstream which was a pita.
A healthy mix of several OU Targets and I just keep pressing "Approve all" (after testing in a smaller group of early adopters).
I look forward to this change - not sure what the impact will be.
wow - a helpful and relevant /. post !!!
I have since used Allo. It is telephone# / SMS only - so I registered my Google Voice number. I can't chat with my G+ friends - nor those in my "Circles." Unless I'm totally missing something.
This is worse than iMessage. Apple lets you (optionally) find people by email (they might be Mac only users without a phone). With iMessage I register via multiple contacts (email(s) & phone#). So people searching for me can use whatever contact info they have (not everyone has my phone#)
It gets worse. I sent a message from my iPhone to my google virtual number - and Google Voice received it. Next I sent a message from Allo to my iPhone - and it showed up as a weird short-number, with a preamble "This is from Allo - install it from here." While it integrates with SMS - it really wants to be Allo only.
Bizarre. A totally new "top shelf" chat platform that doesn't plug into the whole Google platform?!
Racing his motorcycle on a track - in the interest of science.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/li...
From the article: "Kim was testing his Ducati in a controlled environment at a reputable race track, which he says is the safest place to ride a motorcycle. In an attempt to avoid a collision with another vehicle, he hit a row of sandbags in the track’s runoff area."
So - seems that biologists are hot and heavy on this thing called Evolution. Zuck must be low on Science creds - seems to me that attempts to "kill" disease would cause them to mutate and get around whatever road block is in the way.
$3 billion fighting evolution? Who will win? Place your bets!
I was intrigued by Lit when they first made headlines a few years ago. Recently I went looking to see whatever came of them - only to discover that the CEO/Mastermind had suffered a serious accident and everything had slowed to a virtual halt.
So this may be good news. A new life for Lit.
Imagine lots of little 1 (or 2) person self driving taxis. It could be a breakthrough. Rather than lots of regular sized cars (or mini things like Google has) - Lits could be single person cars which also solves the number of cars on the road issue. Pack'em in.
And maybe "Ginger" (Segway) will make a comeback in a weird sort of rickshaw mode of city transportation. Rather than you driving it - you just sit and it takes you to your destination.
you may have to read the article :-D
Just tried Allo - it is SMS contacts only. So I can't find my Hangout / G+ only friends (no email or "circles" only contacts).
It is nice that they realized we're all SMS users "first" -- but failing to tie it into Google is very strange.