A friend bought a Win 8.1 PC a couple of years ago with (I think) Norton preloaded, one of those "free for a month or three" deals. She did not want that particular virus scanner, she wanted AV or Avira. She downloaded installed her scanner of choice. Windows 8.1 could not handle this, it did a fallback to the previous working config and all of the packages she had installed after buying the PC were gone.
Similar case but with a twist - I have been using a first-name.last-name@domain (not google) address for around 20 years now. Someone else wanted it, saw it was already in use and settled for first-name_last-name@domain instead.
Two years ago I was trying to register for a service using another email address which I did not otherwise use, it turned out that the address had been deleted because I had not used it for too long.
While I was sorting this mess out, he registered for the same service but accidentally gave my.address rather than his_address. I thought things were now fixed and confirmed the mail (do you recognise customer numbers?). Some details did not match so I realised something was wrong and rang the helpline to withdraw the confirmation. This failed, they probably thought I was playing with them. Then I started getting his bills, along with his postal address. I used the address to trace his number, rang him (his wife) and discovered I actually know the guy - we work for the same company and sometimes get phone calls or mails for each other at work.
It took three months to fix the problem, I was forwarding his bills to him for that long.
The people who collected the data stated it was "only" available for a maximum of just over two weeks. Well - they would say that. I suppose it would have been illegal if Vickery had nosed around a bit more and looked at their logs.
Naming the developer is less of a deal here than you think - he has been notorious for years because of his stance on this matter. He has rejected patches from third parties trying to fix the deficiency, something which finally led to the fork a year or so ago. Oh, the person who forked the project had suffered a breach where the lack of this feature was a major contributing factor.
I don't use FileZilla and never have, but for me the whole sordid tale raises a question mark against projects of this kind: Any project of this nature is substantially ego driven, the programmer is donating time and energy to provide a service. The problem is when that ego leads him (99% are male) to leave unnecessary deficiencies in the "product"? I'm running an old linux distribution on a machine in my internal network because an important tool was updated around 18 months ago to remove support for something I use a lot. It is a personality clash between the owners of two projects. My old version works. Look at the decisions Firefox has made recently, I consider some of them to be sabotage, vandalism.
Speaking strictly for myself, the last time I was in the US was shortly before Dubya's Gulf War. This was after 911 but before they started fingerprinting foreigners at the borders - my "line in the sand". If Obama had stopped the fingerprinting I would have been interested in visiting again. He either would not or could not and I was last seen heading north, or east.
I don't know what else Nadella has done but he has two disasters to his name already.
the memo which killed any chance Nokia had of bouncing back: "we are abandoning our current platforms and selling Windows phones in about a year" (paraphrasing liberally)
Microsoft buying the Nokia smartphone business and then watching market share slump to almost zero.
Now he appears to be trying to give Linkedin the kiss of death.
I remember the Reagan presidency. Something "bad" would happen and the official White House spokesman would come up with an explanation which fit the known facts. Then more facts would be revealed which totally discredited the spokesman's line - new explanation. Then even more facts . . .
The example I remember best because I was working in the airline business at the time was the shooting down of an Iranian passenger airbus (IR 655) by an American warship - USS Vincennes. It was claimed at various times that IR 655 was descending towards the Vincennes, it was off course, that the Vincennes was in international waters and that the airline pilot had ignored communication attempts. The first three of those claims were outright lies and the fourth irrelevant because communication attempts were on military frequencies, not civilian ones. Captain Will Rogers had taken his ship into Iranian waters in an attempt to stir up trouble. When a scheduled flight went over his head he panicked, decided it was an F-14 and had it shot down.
I drew my own conclusions about the veracity of White House spokesmen and the Reagan Administration that day.
I'd imagine no-one would want to buy a used tractor with these restrictions - hell, reselling one may well be against the licensing agreement. A search engine indicates that New Holland seem to have a similar market share to John Deere, and that there are several other smaller manufacturers. Why would anyone buy John Deere under these circumstances?
When Yahoo claimed they had been hacked by a foreign government organisation - rather than private hackers - I thought "well, they would claim that" because the big guys are pretty much unstoppable. This article is a claim that indictments may be about to happen, things are starting to become interesting. Still, the US along with various allies are quite happy to cause problems in other countries. Even a smoking gun is not going to change anything apart from perceptions.
Hopkins revels in personal attacks and makes up her facts to fit her views. There was another libel case recently when she - and her employers - had to shell out far more than in this case.
The leaking servers went dark during the process of notifying law enforcement and the major companies. Presumably this means RCM has contacts within Law Enforcement, Microsoft or Yahoo.
I have been in a similar same situation except that the film was a porno and I was accused of sharing it. Lawyers claiming to represent the owners wanted money from me. You are in Scotland, so UK or Scottish law applies. Most of the people here are from different countries so their experiences and ideas have very little relevance to you. fwiw I got a lawyer specialised in this area and they crafted an appropriate response. Eventually the "enemy's" lawyer sold the complaint to another legal practice, they sent another threatening letter but my lawyer told me any rights they had had expired so I could ignore them. There has been nothing from those parasites for a couple of years now. The original threats were six years ago. My WLAN had a 63-character random WPA+ password and was blocking unknown MAC addresses back then, a bootable virus-scanner CD showed no trojans so I am sure the claim was bogus.
When Windows updates routinely override existing settings and break existing setups, they fit my definition of malware. Windows 10 qualifies fully and I wish I had never applied the update on one machine last summer. I know several people who applied the update and only one of them is happy with it (as of a few months ago, it is not topic number one). Microsoft seem to think we bought our PCs so we could run Windows Update and glory in its magnificence. No, I bought mine to perform certain functions and installing Windows 10 has broken more than it alleviated. It is not the security features which annoy me, even the telemetry is a lesser irritant. What really annoys me is when an update leaves something utterly broken, and the knowledge that the next update is going to repeat the experience.
My experience of Windows 10 updates is that they fully qualify as malware. They break things, screw up settings and you cannot even opt out.
Windows 7 updates started trending that way a year ago - when Microsoft started trying to force Windows 10 down collective throats. People started checking every non-security update before installing it. Googling each update in turn, I learned to classify most of the leading search results as uninformed bovine faeces, but with Microsoft's description on updates as being "This will fix a Windows problem" they were pretty much the only game in town so updates only went in when I was sure they would do no damage. The bottom line there was that the Windows 7 install base fractured - Microsoft could no longer make any assumptions at all as to which updates were installed and which ones not. Their fix to the problem they created was to bundle all updates together. Guess what, there is something in there which leads to an Install / Back Out loop on my remaining Windows 7 machine. Its patch-level is pretty much that of September. Microsoft can now say that Windows 10 would be more secure than that, but I get around it by treating it as a Windows XP installation - no emails and no browsing, just the two or three applications which were the reason I bought a Windows 7 machine in the first place.
* hurt the Tor network itself, which in the short term does more harm than good The goalpost is moving. Assisting the destruction of the 'net is going to leave Tor more vulnerable than they have ever been. My money is on someone identifying BestBuy, he has accumulated too many enemies.
I have noticed a persistent pattern in recent years where the actual result is a few percent to the right of what the polls were predicting. This includes this election, the last two or three in Britain, the most recent one in Israel and Brexit. Either people are lying about their intentions or the samples are non-representative. One of the polling institutes in Germany used to behave differently, the owner and founder was a personal friend of the head of the CDU and it seemed her findings were whatever would benefit the party most.
Whether that's "right" or not is a long and involved debate. A good many people feel the same way, and why it's often banned in Europe. They had to live under Hitler and his horrible racist-lead destruction, we haven't (yet). Where has Facebook been banned in Europe? The only country I can think of is Turkey, which is partially in Europe. Maybe Russia or Belarus but they do not really count. There was a story here recently about an attempt to prosecute Facebook that some lawyer is making. It is his second try. The public prosecutor is reviewing the evidence before deciding whether to proceed or not.
Well - I am having a bunch of problems, both with my remaining Windows 7 install (I have some software there which does not run under later levels) and with my Windows 10 machine.
Windows 7 updates have been bundled together for two months now. Unfortunately there was an update two years ago which could not be applied on my machine, I had automatic updates on back then and it was forwards - backwards - forwards - backwards completely automatically until I booted up into safe mode and turned automatic updates off. The bundled updates look to be including that particular patch so my Windows 7 is in a similar state to an ancient Win XP laptop lying around somewhere: Unsupported. I think I need to work out what the legal situation is here.
My Windows 10 machine was dual-boot with Linux. Windows 10 broke that with the October update (or was it September?) and it is going to take a lot of time and energy to recover things, Windows 10 updates routinely and deliberately reset configuration values. Each time. Breaking things deliberately is not improved security, it is what Malware does. The only thing stopping me reverting to Windows 7 is that the machine prefers UEFI and that is a bear under Windows 7.
Microsoft seem to think that I bought my computers so I could experience the privilege of running Windows Update, the thought that I could actually want to run anything else on it has either not reached their consciousness or it is something they are actively trying to inhibit.
When Yahoo initially claimed they were breached by a "state sponsored attack", my thoughts were: well - they would say that. Others - better informed - agreed. Now that claim is being spun as a "given", is there really any proof at all of that? The first I heard about it was at the start of August. That appears to be when the "internal probe" was launched, it took them a further 6 weeks to go public.
Is that how he was hacked? I looked at several of the links but did not see that. codesquid seems to have a very well developed sense of what-he-is-prepared-to-do and what not, or "who cares what the users want because they are clueless?".
I know someone who uses Filezilla but he is on a network which has no direct connection to the outside world. Probably the safest way.
Slashdot Mirror
Solar power of course, that or wind power. Dragon fire does not cut it.
A friend bought a Win 8.1 PC a couple of years ago with (I think) Norton preloaded, one of those "free for a month or three" deals. She did not want that particular virus scanner, she wanted AV or Avira. She downloaded installed her scanner of choice.
Windows 8.1 could not handle this, it did a fallback to the previous working config and all of the packages she had installed after buying the PC were gone.
Don't try this at home folks.
Similar case but with a twist - I have been using a first-name.last-name@domain (not google) address for around 20 years now. Someone else wanted it, saw it was already in use and settled for first-name_last-name@domain instead.
Two years ago I was trying to register for a service using another email address which I did not otherwise use, it turned out that the address had been deleted because I had not used it for too long.
While I was sorting this mess out, he registered for the same service but accidentally gave my.address rather than his_address. I thought things were now fixed and confirmed the mail (do you recognise customer numbers?). Some details did not match so I realised something was wrong and rang the helpline to withdraw the confirmation. This failed, they probably thought I was playing with them.
Then I started getting his bills, along with his postal address. I used the address to trace his number, rang him (his wife) and discovered I actually know the guy - we work for the same company and sometimes get phone calls or mails for each other at work.
It took three months to fix the problem, I was forwarding his bills to him for that long.
The people who collected the data stated it was "only" available for a maximum of just over two weeks. Well - they would say that. I suppose it would have been illegal if Vickery had nosed around a bit more and looked at their logs.
As a non-developer I can't really explain how or why this happened seems to apply here as well, that was a ridiculous mistake to make.
Naming the developer is less of a deal here than you think - he has been notorious for years because of his stance on this matter. He has rejected patches from third parties trying to fix the deficiency, something which finally led to the fork a year or so ago. Oh, the person who forked the project had suffered a breach where the lack of this feature was a major contributing factor.
I don't use FileZilla and never have, but for me the whole sordid tale raises a question mark against projects of this kind: Any project of this nature is substantially ego driven, the programmer is donating time and energy to provide a service. The problem is when that ego leads him (99% are male) to leave unnecessary deficiencies in the "product"? I'm running an old linux distribution on a machine in my internal network because an important tool was updated around 18 months ago to remove support for something I use a lot. It is a personality clash between the owners of two projects. My old version works.
Look at the decisions Firefox has made recently, I consider some of them to be sabotage, vandalism.
Speaking strictly for myself, the last time I was in the US was shortly before Dubya's Gulf War. This was after 911 but before they started fingerprinting foreigners at the borders - my "line in the sand".
If Obama had stopped the fingerprinting I would have been interested in visiting again. He either would not or could not and I was last seen heading north, or east.
I don't know what else Nadella has done but he has two disasters to his name already.
Now he appears to be trying to give Linkedin the kiss of death.
I remember the Reagan presidency. Something "bad" would happen and the official White House spokesman would come up with an explanation which fit the known facts. Then more facts would be revealed which totally discredited the spokesman's line - new explanation. Then even more facts . . .
The example I remember best because I was working in the airline business at the time was the shooting down of an Iranian passenger airbus (IR 655) by an American warship - USS Vincennes. It was claimed at various times that IR 655 was descending towards the Vincennes, it was off course, that the Vincennes was in international waters and that the airline pilot had ignored communication attempts. The first three of those claims were outright lies and the fourth irrelevant because communication attempts were on military frequencies, not civilian ones. Captain Will Rogers had taken his ship into Iranian waters in an attempt to stir up trouble. When a scheduled flight went over his head he panicked, decided it was an F-14 and had it shot down.
I drew my own conclusions about the veracity of White House spokesmen and the Reagan Administration that day.
I'd imagine no-one would want to buy a used tractor with these restrictions - hell, reselling one may well be against the licensing agreement.
A search engine indicates that New Holland seem to have a similar market share to John Deere, and that there are several other smaller manufacturers. Why would anyone buy John Deere under these circumstances?
When Yahoo claimed they had been hacked by a foreign government organisation - rather than private hackers - I thought "well, they would claim that" because the big guys are pretty much unstoppable. This article is a claim that indictments may be about to happen, things are starting to become interesting.
Still, the US along with various allies are quite happy to cause problems in other countries. Even a smoking gun is not going to change anything apart from perceptions.
I don't think that was the choice offered.
Hopkins revels in personal attacks and makes up her facts to fit her views. There was another libel case recently when she - and her employers - had to shell out far more than in this case.
The leaking servers went dark during the process of notifying law enforcement and the major companies.
Presumably this means RCM has contacts within Law Enforcement, Microsoft or Yahoo.
I have been in a similar same situation except that the film was a porno and I was accused of sharing it. Lawyers claiming to represent the owners wanted money from me.
You are in Scotland, so UK or Scottish law applies. Most of the people here are from different countries so their experiences and ideas have very little relevance to you.
fwiw I got a lawyer specialised in this area and they crafted an appropriate response. Eventually the "enemy's" lawyer sold the complaint to another legal practice, they sent another threatening letter but my lawyer told me any rights they had had expired so I could ignore them. There has been nothing from those parasites for a couple of years now. The original threats were six years ago.
My WLAN had a 63-character random WPA+ password and was blocking unknown MAC addresses back then, a bootable virus-scanner CD showed no trojans so I am sure the claim was bogus.
When Windows updates routinely override existing settings and break existing setups, they fit my definition of malware. Windows 10 qualifies fully and I wish I had never applied the update on one machine last summer. I know several people who applied the update and only one of them is happy with it (as of a few months ago, it is not topic number one).
Microsoft seem to think we bought our PCs so we could run Windows Update and glory in its magnificence. No, I bought mine to perform certain functions and installing Windows 10 has broken more than it alleviated. It is not the security features which annoy me, even the telemetry is a lesser irritant. What really annoys me is when an update leaves something utterly broken, and the knowledge that the next update is going to repeat the experience.
My experience of Windows 10 updates is that they fully qualify as malware. They break things, screw up settings and you cannot even opt out.
Windows 7 updates started trending that way a year ago - when Microsoft started trying to force Windows 10 down collective throats. People started checking every non-security update before installing it. Googling each update in turn, I learned to classify most of the leading search results as uninformed bovine faeces, but with Microsoft's description on updates as being "This will fix a Windows problem" they were pretty much the only game in town so updates only went in when I was sure they would do no damage. The bottom line there was that the Windows 7 install base fractured - Microsoft could no longer make any assumptions at all as to which updates were installed and which ones not. Their fix to the problem they created was to bundle all updates together.
Guess what, there is something in there which leads to an Install / Back Out loop on my remaining Windows 7 machine. Its patch-level is pretty much that of September. Microsoft can now say that Windows 10 would be more secure than that, but I get around it by treating it as a Windows XP installation - no emails and no browsing, just the two or three applications which were the reason I bought a Windows 7 machine in the first place.
* hurt the Tor network itself, which in the short term does more harm than good
The goalpost is moving. Assisting the destruction of the 'net is going to leave Tor more vulnerable than they have ever been. My money is on someone identifying BestBuy, he has accumulated too many enemies.
I have noticed a persistent pattern in recent years where the actual result is a few percent to the right of what the polls were predicting. This includes this election, the last two or three in Britain, the most recent one in Israel and Brexit. Either people are lying about their intentions or the samples are non-representative.
One of the polling institutes in Germany used to behave differently, the owner and founder was a personal friend of the head of the CDU and it seemed her findings were whatever would benefit the party most.
Whether that's "right" or not is a long and involved debate. A good many people feel the same way, and why it's often banned in Europe. They had to live under Hitler and his horrible racist-lead destruction, we haven't (yet).
Where has Facebook been banned in Europe?
The only country I can think of is Turkey, which is partially in Europe. Maybe Russia or Belarus but they do not really count.
There was a story here recently about an attempt to prosecute Facebook that some lawyer is making. It is his second try. The public prosecutor is reviewing the evidence before deciding whether to proceed or not.
Well - I am having a bunch of problems, both with my remaining Windows 7 install (I have some software there which does not run under later levels) and with my Windows 10 machine.
Microsoft seem to think that I bought my computers so I could experience the privilege of running Windows Update, the thought that I could actually want to run anything else on it has either not reached their consciousness or it is something they are actively trying to inhibit.
When Yahoo initially claimed they were breached by a "state sponsored attack", my thoughts were: well - they would say that. Others - better informed - agreed. Now that claim is being spun as a "given", is there really any proof at all of that?
The first I heard about it was at the start of August. That appears to be when the "internal probe" was launched, it took them a further 6 weeks to go public.
Is that how he was hacked? I looked at several of the links but did not see that.
codesquid seems to have a very well developed sense of what-he-is-prepared-to-do and what not, or "who cares what the users want because they are clueless?".
I know someone who uses Filezilla but he is on a network which has no direct connection to the outside world. Probably the safest way.
You expect credit card numbers to be on IOT devices? Who on earth would place them there? I suppose if you held one up in front of the camera . . .
How many users - or even downloads of their iso - did they have?
More importantly, how is Cluthu Linux doing? Drop that one at your peril.