In the case of the White House and GE Global Research -- they were obvious flat White rectangles that blotted out lawns and the building etc.. There were no features at all. While one couldn't see the rooftops it was obvious that something important was there.
As for the smudges - I haven't seen the ones referred to in the article. But I have seen others through time and they are mildly obvious. In this case I'll bet they were little ripples that somebody with Software could find. To our eye it probably wasn't all that obvious but to a computer program it was easy to find.
correct. How secret were they that somebody could be tasked with blurring them out? "here comrade - make these spots disappear from map"
I remember that the US White House used to be blurred out (actually it was a white rectangle drawn over the roof). But Security Through Obscurity is a poor choice -- so they rebuilt the roof in order to hide their secrets from overhead cameras.
Obvious those that live near the base know about it. But it was those who use the internet that they are hiding from. "gee what are all these smudges all over the map?!"
Does anyone really know why a spinning disk dies? Sure - maybe if the last operation was "dropped laptop down stairwell"
A narrative over what went wrong?! Whenever a HDD failed a light came on the RAID array - and I'd find a package from FedEx on my desk at 9AM with a replacement disk in it. As for personal computers - the drive stops working and you lose data.
What is there to think about?
I do agree about the "timebomb" thought. I know that SSD just give up the ghost. On a HDD many times "check disk" starts reporting a high number of failures and you can be prepared...except when the head falls off the arm. That's a rather rapid failure.
SSD have a write-lifetime that I can't predict. HDD goes until it doesn't work anymore. In both cases you break out the backup tapes.
I came to make the same point. Either the phone rings or kid needs something. Non-stop noise is our future?
It's like pulling out my smart-phone in order to turn the lights on/off. One has to [enter passcode, swipe swipe, tap app, wait for login prompt, scroll for device, tap, turn on/off "Yes/No?" ]. Christ I could flip the switch on the wall already.
I get the marketing behind this. Show content all the time. All of those blank screens could be showing Ads!! show more ads!!!
Is that title now the anti-attention grabber on tech websites. I don't care how real the article may be, but I'm not going to read it simply because the title turns me off.
Security researchers have been looking for years to see who owns certain "open" shared databases on AWS.
Apparently Marriot just stepped forward to claim ownership.
Now that our data is effectively out in the open - there is little to identity us from a trustworthy source. I wonder how banks (et al) are changing to address this. Seriously - if a bank or cellphone company called me to ask where my payment is, I'd ask them to prove "I" opened the account.
My data has been leaked multiple times. Ticketfly, Anthem, Marriott, Experian, and others I can't remember. (plus Amazon leaked my email address -- via a bug in their "forgot password" feature that returned an error message if the account didn't exist, which I reported to them... thank you... still waiting for my $$$).
So what data isn't public? Now that everything is public, nothing is private (If everyone is Super, then no-one is)
We need the government to request and be granted access to Back Doors !!!! Because we know that they will keep it secret and none of us will ever be affected by rogue hackers figuring them out. Better yet - the No Such Agency can be in charge of keeping the secrets.
Who knew!!! - a scam that uses a call center *might* come from India?! Let me say... "duh!" or as my kid says "dUuuUh!"
But I'm glad to see that authorities are getting better/faster at tracking them down and closing them (i.e. actually doing something about it).
One of the fascinating pieces of this is the technology used. The honeypots are quite sophisticated - including VoIP #'s that receive the calls. It is interesting what they "listen" for and how they correlate the calls. They track the ambient sounds to figure out which calls originate from the same call center (obviously the caller-id is fake). And then the honeypot PCs that are downloading the exploits are doing some cool things too.
We could use a whole story on just the technology. The podcast "Reply All" has covered some of it. Stories on the honeypot PCs is harder to find though (IMHO).
Dear all FB employees - we need to track you more easily. I can't tell what you are thinking. Let us develop the new level of tracking daily lives by having you beta test our new listening device on Android. It is impossible to implement this on iOS.
I updated my address online to be my current one. It didn't ask any questions, but I did receive an email letting me know changes had been made to my profile.
I'll wait to see if I get a post-card or something. I know when I created a Forward-my-mail request the Postmaster in my new town sent me a postcard asking Who Lives Here Now? So that they don't start rejecting mail etc.
But apparently the online edition isn't tied to it as I could, until the other day, still see scanned mail at my old address.
I moved a few years ago and haven't updated my address on usps.com. Apparently USPS turned on Informed Delivery automatically for me - so I can see all mail delivered to my old address. How cool and creepy is that!
What prevents me from entering in any random address? Do they send a postcard to the address stating "your mail is being monitored" ??
I used to travel on business a lot and used the website to stop / start my mail when on extended trips. I forgot I had an account until today! How many other people might be in this same situation?
I changed my address online - so we'll see what happens.
1) maybe they can't crack it - so everybody move to another one that they can break. 2) maybe they want to see Who moves - and that is telling 3) I'm surprised they didn't say "gosh we can't break this other Secure Chat App":-)
/. fell for it too. I think Ars has a good write up of the click-bait news cycle on this one. The paper is pages long and goes into great detail. Then on the last line "could be aliens too" and that's all people read.
The new Volvo will be encased in a large bright yellow rubber duck bumper system. And a bright flashing light on a pole overhead. The two drivers will actually walk in front of the vehicle and brush the road as they pull the car on a little leash.
Somebody didn't do their job. The idea that everyone should know that Node has issues and how to fix them yourself is like buying an American car, including a toolkit in the trunk, and training everyone to do engine repair. Look, it crap. Training people to fix it themselves isn't the solution.
Buy German software. Then you'll tell everyone you have the best performance engineered product on the planet. Until it breaks and costs you a lot of money to repair.
While this has become an iPhone bashing pissing contest.... I really appreciate the craziness of this story.
Now if only the phone died from something poisonous. All the iPhone users run to their Tesla's and turn on the air filter to save their lives. Meanwhile all Android people are like "what?"
I'm not sure anyone knows how evolution actually works. It's just a theory:-D
Seriously. I agree with your basic point. How many computers are around us these days. Do we need to know how they work in order to use them?
Scratch is nice but ha abstracted the workings of a computer away. We don't teach, and few us use, assembly language. And for good reason.
I thought the whole idea was to make these complexities disappear. I have a degree in Computer Science from a University. But I don't think "everyone" needs to know how computers work, esp at these young ages.
I'm not sure I agree with this movement to teach CS at the younger ages. Teaching math and problem solving yes. Using Scratch maybe. Everyday I write code and never worry how the computer works. Networks, VPNs, database tables and indices, and other topics that are abstracted from the computer. Sure, sometimes there's a performance issue that requires understanding O(n) with regards to loops RAM cache access patterns. But I have a degree and learned about computer architecture. These basics can be taught in a two year program. I learned that I was to create programs to solve problems so that the users could do a bigger task. I don't know much about doing theirs jobs.
I don't know much about the physics behind the design of a hammer, or what makes a good one better than a sucky one. But I can drive nails with them. Somebody else worked out the details
I find it difficult to believe that a default Amazon "file share" would simply be open to the world. Even an internal Microsoft Windows Share is closed by defaultand you have to try pretty hard to make it "Everyone." (although that wasn't true under Win95/Win2k). MS learned that it had to be secure out of the box.
People have been "misconfiguring" WordPress for years leading to some spectacular thefts. I've never setup an Amazon storage - it sure seems that Amazon should deliver it properly configured and attached to the customers domain. i've read many "we found an Amazon share open" reports lately.
What button are people missing during setup?? Share mode: "Make Secure" or "Share with the World" ?
Either that or the unnamed sources weren't exactly in the know. It could be they killed off Method-1 for 10mm and decided to focus on Method-2.
Or they revised numbers lower and layed off the unnamed source...who took it upon themselves to tell-a-friend that Intel was abandoning 10mm.
I read the article and concluded that they didn't have the full story. I find it hard to believe Intel would abandon "small better" -- refocus efforts while they work out a few kinks, yes. It could be a market manipulation scheme like that short-Telsa group does. Folks are finding it easier and easier to manipulate the news cycle by offing content to "bloggers" who will print anything to eat.
What was the recent one about strange newspaper ads (opinion piece) appearing near communities that build stuff for the space industry? Claimed to be authored by a retired NASA engineer who didn't actually write it?!
While I'm all for Mozilla trying to make money to stay afloat, I think this feature will lead to scam opportunities.
I can see it now - other "looks like" VPN services will offer fake popups tricking people to switch. "Firefox recommends VPN for Ru" with a Scooby snack on it.
It'll probably be a notification subscription scam.
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In the case of the White House and GE Global Research -- they were obvious flat White rectangles that blotted out lawns and the building etc.. There were no features at all. While one couldn't see the rooftops it was obvious that something important was there.
As for the smudges - I haven't seen the ones referred to in the article. But I have seen others through time and they are mildly obvious. In this case I'll bet they were little ripples that somebody with Software could find. To our eye it probably wasn't all that obvious but to a computer program it was easy to find.
Half get a raise, half don't? Centered around the mid-point of a Bell-curve?
correct. How secret were they that somebody could be tasked with blurring them out? "here comrade - make these spots disappear from map"
I remember that the US White House used to be blurred out (actually it was a white rectangle drawn over the roof). But Security Through Obscurity is a poor choice -- so they rebuilt the roof in order to hide their secrets from overhead cameras.
Obvious those that live near the base know about it. But it was those who use the internet that they are hiding from. "gee what are all these smudges all over the map?!"
Does anyone really know why a spinning disk dies? Sure - maybe if the last operation was "dropped laptop down stairwell"
A narrative over what went wrong?! Whenever a HDD failed a light came on the RAID array - and I'd find a package from FedEx on my desk at 9AM with a replacement disk in it. As for personal computers - the drive stops working and you lose data.
What is there to think about?
I do agree about the "timebomb" thought. I know that SSD just give up the ghost. On a HDD many times "check disk" starts reporting a high number of failures and you can be prepared...except when the head falls off the arm. That's a rather rapid failure.
SSD have a write-lifetime that I can't predict. HDD goes until it doesn't work anymore. In both cases you break out the backup tapes.
I came to make the same point. Either the phone rings or kid needs something. Non-stop noise is our future?
It's like pulling out my smart-phone in order to turn the lights on/off. One has to [enter passcode, swipe swipe, tap app, wait for login prompt, scroll for device, tap, turn on/off "Yes/No?" ]. Christ I could flip the switch on the wall already.
I get the marketing behind this. Show content all the time. All of those blank screens could be showing Ads!! show more ads!!!
For quality purposes this call may be recorded or monitored. You should try to be a quality person.
Shocking, just shocking !!! Shocking I tell you.
Is that title now the anti-attention grabber on tech websites. I don't care how real the article may be, but I'm not going to read it simply because the title turns me off.
Security researchers have been looking for years to see who owns certain "open" shared databases on AWS.
Apparently Marriot just stepped forward to claim ownership.
Now that our data is effectively out in the open - there is little to identity us from a trustworthy source. I wonder how banks (et al) are changing to address this. Seriously - if a bank or cellphone company called me to ask where my payment is, I'd ask them to prove "I" opened the account.
My data has been leaked multiple times. Ticketfly, Anthem, Marriott, Experian, and others I can't remember. (plus Amazon leaked my email address -- via a bug in their "forgot password" feature that returned an error message if the account didn't exist, which I reported to them... thank you... still waiting for my $$$).
So what data isn't public? Now that everything is public, nothing is private (If everyone is Super, then no-one is)
We need the government to request and be granted access to Back Doors !!!! Because we know that they will keep it secret and none of us will ever be affected by rogue hackers figuring them out. Better yet - the No Such Agency can be in charge of keeping the secrets.
Government secrets !! yay team !
Who knew!!! - a scam that uses a call center *might* come from India?! Let me say... "duh!" or as my kid says "dUuuUh!"
But I'm glad to see that authorities are getting better/faster at tracking them down and closing them (i.e. actually doing something about it).
One of the fascinating pieces of this is the technology used. The honeypots are quite sophisticated - including VoIP #'s that receive the calls. It is interesting what they "listen" for and how they correlate the calls. They track the ambient sounds to figure out which calls originate from the same call center (obviously the caller-id is fake). And then the honeypot PCs that are downloading the exploits are doing some cool things too.
We could use a whole story on just the technology. The podcast "Reply All" has covered some of it. Stories on the honeypot PCs is harder to find though (IMHO).
Dear all FB employees - we need to track you more easily. I can't tell what you are thinking. Let us develop the new level of tracking daily lives by having you beta test our new listening device on Android. It is impossible to implement this on iOS.
Plus I don't like Tim Cook.
Thanks, :-D
-The Big Z.
I updated my address online to be my current one. It didn't ask any questions, but I did receive an email letting me know changes had been made to my profile.
I'll wait to see if I get a post-card or something. I know when I created a Forward-my-mail request the Postmaster in my new town sent me a postcard asking Who Lives Here Now? So that they don't start rejecting mail etc.
But apparently the online edition isn't tied to it as I could, until the other day, still see scanned mail at my old address.
I moved a few years ago and haven't updated my address on usps.com. Apparently USPS turned on Informed Delivery automatically for me - so I can see all mail delivered to my old address. How cool and creepy is that!
What prevents me from entering in any random address? Do they send a postcard to the address stating "your mail is being monitored" ??
I used to travel on business a lot and used the website to stop / start my mail when on extended trips. I forgot I had an account until today! How many other people might be in this same situation?
I changed my address online - so we'll see what happens.
I wasn't stress out until AFTER the children were born.
gosh - raising children is stressful. Making them is easy.
I see it several ways.
1) maybe they can't crack it - so everybody move to another one that they can break. :-)
2) maybe they want to see Who moves - and that is telling
3) I'm surprised they didn't say "gosh we can't break this other Secure Chat App"
/. fell for it too. I think Ars has a good write up of the click-bait news cycle on this one. The paper is pages long and goes into great detail. Then on the last line "could be aliens too" and that's all people read.
Bloggers vs Science Writers.
"Predictably, online media go nuts over ‘Oumuamua and Harvard scientists"
https://arstechnica.com/scienc...
no no. We need less reliable cars so that kids can learn to "push" them when they break down.
Problem solved: Fewer running cars is less pollution. And more physical exercise. win-win.
Per device it might be generating less. But there are more devices. ...and they're made by VW...and clean coal.
The new Volvo will be encased in a large bright yellow rubber duck bumper system. And a bright flashing light on a pole overhead. The two drivers will actually walk in front of the vehicle and brush the road as they pull the car on a little leash.
Give up. Or change the name.
Somebody didn't do their job. The idea that everyone should know that Node has issues and how to fix them yourself is like buying an American car, including a toolkit in the trunk, and training everyone to do engine repair. Look, it crap. Training people to fix it themselves isn't the solution.
Buy German software. Then you'll tell everyone you have the best performance engineered product on the planet. Until it breaks and costs you a lot of money to repair.
Wait - that sounds like an iPhone.
While this has become an iPhone bashing pissing contest.... I really appreciate the craziness of this story.
Now if only the phone died from something poisonous. All the iPhone users run to their Tesla's and turn on the air filter to save their lives. Meanwhile all Android people are like "what?"
The life of the have and have nots :-)
I'm not sure anyone knows how evolution actually works. It's just a theory :-D
Seriously. I agree with your basic point. How many computers are around us these days. Do we need to know how they work in order to use them?
Scratch is nice but ha abstracted the workings of a computer away. We don't teach, and few us use, assembly language. And for good reason.
I thought the whole idea was to make these complexities disappear. I have a degree in Computer Science from a University. But I don't think "everyone" needs to know how computers work, esp at these young ages.
I'm not sure I agree with this movement to teach CS at the younger ages. Teaching math and problem solving yes. Using Scratch maybe. Everyday I write code and never worry how the computer works. Networks, VPNs, database tables and indices, and other topics that are abstracted from the computer. Sure, sometimes there's a performance issue that requires understanding O(n) with regards to loops RAM cache access patterns. But I have a degree and learned about computer architecture. These basics can be taught in a two year program. I learned that I was to create programs to solve problems so that the users could do a bigger task. I don't know much about doing theirs jobs.
I don't know much about the physics behind the design of a hammer, or what makes a good one better than a sucky one. But I can drive nails with them. Somebody else worked out the details
I find it difficult to believe that a default Amazon "file share" would simply be open to the world. Even an internal Microsoft Windows Share is closed by defaultand you have to try pretty hard to make it "Everyone." (although that wasn't true under Win95/Win2k). MS learned that it had to be secure out of the box.
People have been "misconfiguring" WordPress for years leading to some spectacular thefts. I've never setup an Amazon storage - it sure seems that Amazon should deliver it properly configured and attached to the customers domain. i've read many "we found an Amazon share open" reports lately.
What button are people missing during setup?? Share mode: "Make Secure" or "Share with the World" ?
Either that or the unnamed sources weren't exactly in the know. It could be they killed off Method-1 for 10mm and decided to focus on Method-2.
Or they revised numbers lower and layed off the unnamed source...who took it upon themselves to tell-a-friend that Intel was abandoning 10mm.
I read the article and concluded that they didn't have the full story. I find it hard to believe Intel would abandon "small better" -- refocus efforts while they work out a few kinks, yes. It could be a market manipulation scheme like that short-Telsa group does. Folks are finding it easier and easier to manipulate the news cycle by offing content to "bloggers" who will print anything to eat.
What was the recent one about strange newspaper ads (opinion piece) appearing near communities that build stuff for the space industry? Claimed to be authored by a retired NASA engineer who didn't actually write it?!
While I'm all for Mozilla trying to make money to stay afloat, I think this feature will lead to scam opportunities.
I can see it now - other "looks like" VPN services will offer fake popups tricking people to switch. "Firefox recommends VPN for Ru" with a Scooby snack on it.
It'll probably be a notification subscription scam.