Back when some of us were clamoring for an iOpener to add touch screen and HDD hacks, tinkering with Panasonic touch-screen large palm sized gadgets (forgot the model, still have it in box) and all that stuff. A few more were out there and fizzled too, missed this one.
If whatever work French employers want done can be done in English and online, I am right here ready to do it! I've been unemployed for a while now and would rather be working.
Seems to me that myths were presented successfully as facts back when dead-tree, radio, and television ruled the roost. Back then, you could scream about falsehoods in newspapers until you turned blue and your word only carried about as far as your voice. Today one can do a good Fisking of most of those articles and get some traction in a wider circle. The biggest problem is the successful rent-seeking efforts of larger, traditional media organizations wooing politicians into granting them special protections that are not afforded to anybody else performing the same tasks as them.
I would believe crashing somewhere in reach of a recovery crew if they were trying to get to an airport and it was apparent it was not going to get over land, no matter where it is based. My first guess is a mangled statement from the sound bite generators.
Mann isn't a fraud, his observation an have been confirmed and refined, and you and Steyn are cowards incapable of facing the universe as it is. The only difference is at least Steyn is man enough to put his name to his libel.
How is Steyn a "coward" when he is standing up in court, rather than fleeing?
Better luck pissing on inalienable rights next time. Why not try banning the second amendment again. That'll make you feel better.
I like your wording better than the headline. She did indeed have that right all the time and the court forced the rest of the government to recognize that fact.
Even if the fridge-makers did test for all known vulnerabilities on the day the fridge was sold, that fridge is likely not ever getting a software update after that, and new exploits are discovered all the time...
It could be updated if it were connected to the internet, but that is where the problem begins in this example.
According to Dan Goodin (Arstechnica), who wrote "Is your refrigerator really part of a massive spam-sending botnet?", there are all sorts of problems with Proofpoint's statement. The last paragraph sums it up pretty well:
"Knight said he would check to see if missing evidence—including a malware sample, documentation of a command-and-control server, and samples of the spam and phishing messages—are available for publication. Again, I'm open to the possibility the botnet reported by Proofpoint exists. But until these smoking guns are produced, I'm maintaining a healthy amount of skepticism."
That brings a whole new level of funny to this affair. What if the spammers were randomly inserting false info into the return path (or something) like "Maytag Model 360XYZ" or such?
Still think that hooking everything up to the intertubes is a great idea? I can't wait to see what happens with all those home alarms systems that are getting hooked up this way as well.
Totally agree. Good luck convincing the folks who think this method is the cure to many ills.
From the article:
Mr Knight speculated that the malware that allowed spam to be sent from these devices was able to install itself because many of the gadgets were poorly configured or used default passwords that left them exposed.
That default password jazz is something I wish manufacturers would get away from, even if a solution is a hard reset and the user selects a password all over again.
The thing I was remembering was the RF coming from the port itself, no matter if anything was plugged in or not. Saw them do the sniffing of laptops with open VGA ports too.
Back a couple of decades ago, this was supposed to be possible remotely by monitoring RF output from those noisy, leaky VGA ports. Never saw a demonstration from 8 miles away, just across the street or from a van on the street. No special hardware in the computer, just the right gear to listen to the RF leaking all over the place.
Sorry for no link, Google is full of connecting HDMI to VGA stuff these days.
Or ask Hibbing, Minnesota. From 1919 to 1921, the entire city moved about two miles to make way for what became the largest open-pit iron mine in the world.
Home of Robert Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan. Also, that baseball home run champ, Roger Maris.
Sigh. There's more to Chicago than Capone, you know?
The Daleys were the longest serving mayors in Chicago history. Between J Daley and M Daley, Chicago had a mayor named Daley for 43 years. Chicago natives who were children in the 1960s will tell you that they grew up thinking that "Mayor-Daley" was the official title of the office holder and not just a man's name. That's what happens when you don't have term limits and everyone keeps voting for the guy who's been mayor forever.
Um, yes AC I am fully aware of the longevity of the Daley brand. Be that as it may, Cermak was the one in Chicago who started the "vote early, vote often" saying even before Richard J. Daley was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Republican in 1936, or before he lost his Cook County Sheriff's race in 1946. Cermak was shot while shaking hands with President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt at Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida, on February 15, 1933. Now that you know there were other mayors of Chicago, you are welcome.
hackers will not only steal my identity, they will steal my vote.
That is what I was thinking the first time I heard about voting via remote terminal. It was back in the early 1980s, before very many had personal computers. The idea was to have terminals in public places where people could walk by just any old time, log in and vote on all manner of issues. ATMs were newly popular (not exactly new, but finally showing up all over) and I suppose they were the metaphor.
Anyway, accounts were being "cracked" by various means at ATMs already, and making the news. At the same time, my PoliSci 1001 instructor was talking about the "near future" of voting via unattended computer terminal.
Maybe he thought he was outdoing Christopher Boyce, i.e., Falcon of "Falcon and the Snowman" fame? Boyce stayed out for 1 year 8 months and robbed something like 17 banks while on vacation from incarceration.
Yes. Or perhaps only one (in the relevant time frame).
I am TOR ignorant, so maybe that is not the piece of the chain I should be asking about. Does TOR have a feature to delay passing the message that is not transmitted in the message? Anonymous email remailers used to have that feature, with incoming messages going back out in a different order than received, with various delays that could be added.
I found this part of that odd: The NSA says it closed this vulnerability by working with computer manufacturers.
Did they work with a time machine to take care of machines built with this vulnerability? Includes those that are set not to automatically upgrade BIOS, of course.
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Back when some of us were clamoring for an iOpener to add touch screen and HDD hacks, tinkering with Panasonic touch-screen large palm sized gadgets (forgot the model, still have it in box) and all that stuff. A few more were out there and fizzled too, missed this one.
"Was that a Felicity Kendal show?"
No, that was "The Good Life"
at least in English
I think they translated that as "Goode Neighbors" for American audiences
Maybe it did play in America, but I don't recall that. I remembered it from "The Young Ones."
without googling, isn't that "The Sweet Life" or something like that?
I don't know any french or Italian, but it's close enough to Spanish.
Was that a Felicity Kendal show?
If whatever work French employers want done can be done in English and online, I am right here ready to do it! I've been unemployed for a while now and would rather be working.
Seems to me that myths were presented successfully as facts back when dead-tree, radio, and television ruled the roost. Back then, you could scream about falsehoods in newspapers until you turned blue and your word only carried about as far as your voice. Today one can do a good Fisking of most of those articles and get some traction in a wider circle. The biggest problem is the successful rent-seeking efforts of larger, traditional media organizations wooing politicians into granting them special protections that are not afforded to anybody else performing the same tasks as them.
I would believe crashing somewhere in reach of a recovery crew if they were trying to get to an airport and it was apparent it was not going to get over land, no matter where it is based. My first guess is a mangled statement from the sound bite generators.
Mann isn't a fraud, his observation an have been confirmed and refined, and you and Steyn are cowards incapable of facing the universe as it is. The only difference is at least Steyn is man enough to put his name to his libel.
How is Steyn a "coward" when he is standing up in court, rather than fleeing?
Better luck pissing on inalienable rights next time. Why not try banning the second amendment again. That'll make you feel better.
I like your wording better than the headline. She did indeed have that right all the time and the court forced the rest of the government to recognize that fact.
Even if the fridge-makers did test for all known vulnerabilities on the day the fridge was sold, that fridge is likely not ever getting a software update after that, and new exploits are discovered all the time...
It could be updated if it were connected to the internet, but that is where the problem begins in this example.
According to Dan Goodin (Arstechnica), who wrote "Is your refrigerator really part of a massive spam-sending botnet?", there are all sorts of problems with Proofpoint's statement. The last paragraph sums it up pretty well:
"Knight said he would check to see if missing evidence—including a malware sample, documentation of a command-and-control server, and samples of the spam and phishing messages—are available for publication. Again, I'm open to the possibility the botnet reported by Proofpoint exists. But until these smoking guns are produced, I'm maintaining a healthy amount of skepticism."
Link: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/is-your-refrigerator-really-part-of-a-massive-spam-sending-botnet/
That brings a whole new level of funny to this affair. What if the spammers were randomly inserting false info into the return path (or something) like "Maytag Model 360XYZ" or such?
Still think that hooking everything up to the intertubes is a great idea? I can't wait to see what happens with all those home alarms systems that are getting hooked up this way as well.
Totally agree. Good luck convincing the folks who think this method is the cure to many ills.
From the article:
That default password jazz is something I wish manufacturers would get away from, even if a solution is a hard reset and the user selects a password all over again.
When sovereign immunity is given to any people the result is predictable.
Yes, in some of those old reports, if memory serves, the big point was that your laptop is still vulnerable even if it is not connected to a CRT.
The thing I was remembering was the RF coming from the port itself, no matter if anything was plugged in or not. Saw them do the sniffing of laptops with open VGA ports too.
By monitor I mean see what was on screen. I do not recall any demonstration of being to remotely manipulate input, data, etc.
Back a couple of decades ago, this was supposed to be possible remotely by monitoring RF output from those noisy, leaky VGA ports. Never saw a demonstration from 8 miles away, just across the street or from a van on the street. No special hardware in the computer, just the right gear to listen to the RF leaking all over the place.
Sorry for no link, Google is full of connecting HDMI to VGA stuff these days.
Or you could have the people who want the iron ore to buy what is above it.
Or ask Hibbing, Minnesota. From 1919 to 1921, the entire city moved about two miles to make way for what became the largest open-pit iron mine in the world.
Home of Robert Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan. Also, that baseball home run champ, Roger Maris.
Sigh. There's more to Chicago than Capone, you know?
The Daleys were the longest serving mayors in Chicago history. Between J Daley and M Daley, Chicago had a mayor named Daley for 43 years. Chicago natives who were children in the 1960s will tell you that they grew up thinking that "Mayor-Daley" was the official title of the office holder and not just a man's name. That's what happens when you don't have term limits and everyone keeps voting for the guy who's been mayor forever.
Vote early, vote often, vote daily, vote Daley, vote Daley.
Um, yes AC I am fully aware of the longevity of the Daley brand. Be that as it may, Cermak was the one in Chicago who started the "vote early, vote often" saying even before Richard J. Daley was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Republican in 1936, or before he lost his Cook County Sheriff's race in 1946. Cermak was shot while shaking hands with President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt at Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida, on February 15, 1933. Now that you know there were other mayors of Chicago, you are welcome.
hackers will not only steal my identity, they will steal my vote.
That is what I was thinking the first time I heard about voting via remote terminal. It was back in the early 1980s, before very many had personal computers. The idea was to have terminals in public places where people could walk by just any old time, log in and vote on all manner of issues. ATMs were newly popular (not exactly new, but finally showing up all over) and I suppose they were the metaphor. Anyway, accounts were being "cracked" by various means at ATMs already, and making the news. At the same time, my PoliSci 1001 instructor was talking about the "near future" of voting via unattended computer terminal.
Vote early, vote often, vote Daley.
Not Daley, Anton "Tony" Joseph Cermak coined "vote early, vote often." He was Al Capone's mayor.
Government contracts, with government oversight right?
Maybe he thought he was outdoing Christopher Boyce, i.e., Falcon of "Falcon and the Snowman" fame? Boyce stayed out for 1 year 8 months and robbed something like 17 banks while on vacation from incarceration.
Yes. Or perhaps only one (in the relevant time frame).
I am TOR ignorant, so maybe that is not the piece of the chain I should be asking about. Does TOR have a feature to delay passing the message that is not transmitted in the message? Anonymous email remailers used to have that feature, with incoming messages going back out in a different order than received, with various delays that could be added.
I found this part of that odd: The NSA says it closed this vulnerability by working with computer manufacturers.
Did they work with a time machine to take care of machines built with this vulnerability? Includes those that are set not to automatically upgrade BIOS, of course.