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This one, then:
Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:12AM from the new-weapon dept
Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 04, 2016 @02:41PM from the like-a-sieve dept.
So that's 1 a day, and I stopped looking after hitting "older" 4 or 5 times and not finding a single one. So you are complaining about 3 articles from the same source in 3 days? Have you seen the amount of DICE crap on here? Jesus.
Turn of the notify and only check it when you are really really bored.
First, this guy is running Sophos for a home network? WTF is the point to that other than tinfoil hat paranoia?
Second and most importantly......
If you have something connected to this series of tubes some call the interwebs, you WILL GET SCANNED. That's how this shit works. Now in this case, it appears to be coming from a specific source he's already blocked.
And....... then I call bullshit because every ISP puts a "no port scanning" clause into their terms, and if it's not blocked outright, they will knock your modem offline until they have a chat on the phone about all the port scanning you have been doing (speaking from experience here).
But, even if this is the 1 ISP that openly allows port scanning and hacking with no repercussions.....
It's the alerts that are bothering this guy, and he has 100% control over the alerts.
The same cisco that immediately changed their shipping routines after the NSA leaks? The same cisco that's setting up pentesting sites so customers can come analyze their devices before they deploy them?
I think you said Cisco but meant to say Apple.
The US? I think you mean Israel and the US.
When we found Hebrew in the code it certainly didn't come from Jewish Israelis but when we find Persian in there it's definitely the Iranians.
You don't want to use outlook? Because every other thing you mentioned outlook is more than capable of doing. Yes, the stupid PST nonense is a nonstarter for some, but actually it's not that bad and if you understand powershell even a little, it's pretty easy to pull out what you want if you are talking restores.
There's a plethora of email clients out there most of which do exactly what you want. A few slashdotters have already provided the ones I'd recommend.
But don't ignore outlook just because it's a microsoft product.
Doesn't it though? At least for TV shows, it will stream like 2 or 3 episodes back to back before it spams you to say "continue watching". Pc, ps3, ps4 all do this. I really don't want netflix pausing my movie half way through.
Because illiterate rednecks be rednecking. There's no reasonable argument against solar farms, and there's nothing dubious about it's ability to generate power. FFS you can cover your roof with them, half-assedly, and power your whole house from the electricity generated and stored in batteries.
That town is full of asshats, plain and simple.
If it's anything like the patriot act it's technically impossible to fully read and large portions are amending parts of many other bills and documents. That's why shit like this is rammed through just before a break, after changes have been made ensuring there is not enough time to actually read the document. This is EXACTLY what happened with the patriot act.
This is how it works.
Exactly, but I think the key here is he's saying he's made "discoveries" to help the AI be much more robust.
I don't believe him and you shouldn't either, but that's the take away. Autonomous vehicles existed, technically, back as far as ww2 (self guiding V rockets, can't recall if it was v1 or v2 but they were self guiding)
That in itself is meaningless, if I wanted a car that can drive itself I could probably hodge podge it together quickly. It would result it my death and probably a few others because just making the car drive itself is not enough. It needs to not only react to things, it has to ANTICIPATE things.
While I tend to root for the underdog and would love to see a guy tinkering in his garage make this happen, I find it dubious. And considering this is the guy who showed everyone how to jailbreak iphones and mod their ps3 to PIRATE CONTENT because information should be free, or some bullshit, I don't trust the fact that he's made great "discoveries" in regards to AI.
ACtually yes corporations actually care about antivirus, Kaspersky is one of the heavy hitters in this regard, and now I have to go verify our half assed implementation is patched.
And you can fix stupid with software by locking down and limiting the amount of stupid things mr stupid can do.
The fantasy of "no viruses if you have no script and don't visit porn sites" is that, a fantasy that evaporated a long time ago. Those of us tasked with securing windows servers and clients (I'd laugh if it didn't make me die inside) have to deal with real stupid, not theoretical internet stupid.
Actually, no encrytion is perfect, it's mainly about making it take so long that it's not feasible to break.
This ignores steath p2p networks and cpu sharing, as well as MASSIVE clusters and data centers dedicated to nothing but cracking the primes used. This, according to so very intelligent people, is how the NSA is getting through encryption, once you crack the prime, you are in. And sadly, a lot of applications use a cut and paste prime.
All this nonsense about unbreakable encryption is a smoke screen to make you THINK they can't break it. The NSA sure as fuck can, and is, breaking encryption.
None of this gets past the point that this twat wants the government to do her parenting for her. Worried about your kid talking to predators on their playstation? Set fucking parental controls on that shit like a normal human being.
But it's not about the kids. It's never been about the kids.
But it's doing a bang up job of pushing people to use encryption with a false sense of security, which is exactly what they want.
I'll go ahead and mention that one of the patches was to revoke the xbox live cert because the private key was leaked, opening ALL xbox users to man in the middle attacks.
So yeah, MS is the devil, omfg FREE windows NOOOOOOOOOO theyz tracking us!!!!!
But they also did something good here but actually acknowledging this happened and then took action to fix it.
I will continue to work and support linux servers and hosts, but I will always been running at least 1 windows box at home. Get over yourselves, seriously, this is getting old and honestly it's become complete fanboyism on your part.
Windows 10 isn't the bees knees, but it's also not the steaming pile of bullshit you all ASSUME it is. and I say assume because clearly none of you have even tested a build of win10 because you are still whining about non-existent issues.
And there's Apple creating that wonderful eco system again, by limiting useful features to their dying dinosaur of a browser, because that's the only reason safari even shows up in any browser lists, because apple forces you to use it.
And I thought it was bad when they enabled "other browsers" that infact are merely a skin ontop of safari, this right here takes the cake.
"We've listened to your concerns about privacy and tracking, and we care. But only enough to position our browser to be the only one on our platform that can use these new features"
Get bent with your IOS bullshit.
"Valerie Castle and Doug Bornstein, are set to premier GunTV, a new 24-Hour shopping channel for guns"
" I don't really know that it's going to put more guns on the streets."
I'm pretty sure those two things are mutually exclusive. I'm not sure how them selling a metric shit ton of more guns will not put more guns on the street, unless they are being very specific. Not many people store their guns on the street, so maybe that's their angle.
I remember that show, it had the doctor from Fringe (cringe) but it was a fun throw away show, dubious is one way to put it. But that's exactly what sprang to mind when i read the summary, they did an episode on that bug, pretty neat considering.
"Trump will probably tackle ISIS and have some success even if you don't approve of his methods"
Well any intelligence I might have thought you held just evaporated. How exactly is mildly retarded Trump going to tackle ANYTHING? What experience does he have? oh, just go get a small loan of a million dollars from friends. Sure, that qualifies you to tackle a global alliance of terrorists being funded directly and indirectly by the 3 largest and most sophisticated armed forces on earth.
He's a clown, he's an asshat, and he offers NOTHING of substance. Sure, he appeals to the base racism and bigotry found in sects of republicans, but where is the substance.
"Build a wall and make Mexico pay for it"
"Just stop muslims from coming here"
How exactly? You can't just throw money at every problem. I'm not saying Obama is better, but actually, I am, he's a much better candidate than Trump even with his shitty record. Trump as president will not only be humiliating, it quite possibly could be the end of your damn country.
He's unintelligent and belligerent and you want HIM to represent YOU when dealing with the Saudis, Chinese and Russians?
You are insane.
with USB that's merely a caching thing and 99% of the time you are fine to rip it out (once the actual transfer is done). Floppies, oh boy, you can literally tear the thing apart yanking it out early.
If the lights are still flashing on your usb drive, it's not done!
I only watched that pile of shit because of all the ruckus. NK is simply not equipped to have done this and there's no benefit from doing it. If their goal was to ensure the movie was never released that failed badly, it WAS released specifically because of this "attack"
Honestly, and I'll probably take lots of flack for saying it, I think this was an amateur (or group there of) that got lucky and an inept IT department was the icing on the cake.
"Computers became bricks."
Hold on, that's totally not how network attacks work, at all, by any stretch of the imagination. I'm going to assume that employees who say "no internet connection" warnings were the ones who had their computers "bricked".
Oh my mistake, I thought the article was labled "What Single Change Would You Make To a Tech Product?" not "What Single Change Would You Make To a COMPUTER?
Besides that I don't count prying plastic casings open desperately trying to not break the little flimsy clips as an easy method to disable the leds. I simply can not understand why there is no toggle to just disable the led circuits entirely.
Go head and disable the led on your tablet, or the leds inside your macbook air, or your surge protecting power bar, or your UPS. See where I was going? I have and will continue to manually disable them on my desktops, but that's not really what this article was talking about, at all.
No LEDS to tell me the device is turned off. No LEDS to tell me it's "sleeping". OR simply a method to disable these LEDS because I'm old enough to not want my computer room looking like the engine room of the enterprise WHEN EVERYTHING IS POWERED OFF
NO LEDS
Lets dissect your post:
"I would have gotten an Xbox One if it wasn't for MSFT shenanigans. " - agreed, I almost opted for one but I wanted a gaming console, not an entertainment center that also plays games (at lower resolutions than it's competition)
"Meanwhile, Sony makes you play for any online connectivity and constantly throws advertisements to purchase crap." - Opps, you failed here. You require an xbox live subscription to play xbox games online. I suspect there are some caveats to this much like the BULLSHIT playstation plus requirement for ps4. But... you can't say MS has one up on sony considering they've been doing that since day freaking 1. Can't argue the ads, that pisses me off to no end. MS wins for the store format and actually making it worth while to pay that extra fee, not even the worst Sony fanboy can argue against that.
"PS Plus itself is mostly a joke except you actually need it access certain content in games like Destiny." Well yes and no, if you actually WANT to play destiny, you need ps plus. And many games like battlefield and such are basically online only requiring that extra fee that NO ONE WANTS TO PAY (fuck you in the face Sony)
Almost it's about a 99/1 ratio in favor of consoles, but when it comes to modded consoles and pirated games, there ARE hacks. You won't deal with it very much compared to pc though, but there are hacks and illegal mods out there for console titles
0% piracy rate? You are on crack. lets recap:
gamecube = piracy, literally this box, and 1 specific game disk, launched console pirating. Google it, it's an interesting read
xbox=piracy
ps1=piracy
ps2=piracy
ps3=piracy
psp (both generations)=piracy
gameboy advance+ =piracy
wii=piracy
xbox360=piracy
And bet your ass dollar to doughnuts that ps4 and xboxone piracy is in the works, it's off the shelf pc components for both so it shouldn't take as long, or be as finnicky, as ps3 piracy.
You are clueless
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Learn to count.... This one, then: Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:12AM from the new-weapon dept Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 04, 2016 @02:41PM from the like-a-sieve dept. So that's 1 a day, and I stopped looking after hitting "older" 4 or 5 times and not finding a single one. So you are complaining about 3 articles from the same source in 3 days? Have you seen the amount of DICE crap on here? Jesus.
Turn of the notify and only check it when you are really really bored. First, this guy is running Sophos for a home network? WTF is the point to that other than tinfoil hat paranoia? Second and most importantly...... If you have something connected to this series of tubes some call the interwebs, you WILL GET SCANNED. That's how this shit works. Now in this case, it appears to be coming from a specific source he's already blocked. And....... then I call bullshit because every ISP puts a "no port scanning" clause into their terms, and if it's not blocked outright, they will knock your modem offline until they have a chat on the phone about all the port scanning you have been doing (speaking from experience here). But, even if this is the 1 ISP that openly allows port scanning and hacking with no repercussions..... It's the alerts that are bothering this guy, and he has 100% control over the alerts.
The same cisco that immediately changed their shipping routines after the NSA leaks? The same cisco that's setting up pentesting sites so customers can come analyze their devices before they deploy them? I think you said Cisco but meant to say Apple.
The US? I think you mean Israel and the US. When we found Hebrew in the code it certainly didn't come from Jewish Israelis but when we find Persian in there it's definitely the Iranians.
You don't want to use outlook? Because every other thing you mentioned outlook is more than capable of doing. Yes, the stupid PST nonense is a nonstarter for some, but actually it's not that bad and if you understand powershell even a little, it's pretty easy to pull out what you want if you are talking restores. There's a plethora of email clients out there most of which do exactly what you want. A few slashdotters have already provided the ones I'd recommend. But don't ignore outlook just because it's a microsoft product.
Doesn't it though? At least for TV shows, it will stream like 2 or 3 episodes back to back before it spams you to say "continue watching". Pc, ps3, ps4 all do this. I really don't want netflix pausing my movie half way through.
forceblock chrome extension, get it and use it people, this thread is already flagged for spoilers
Because illiterate rednecks be rednecking. There's no reasonable argument against solar farms, and there's nothing dubious about it's ability to generate power. FFS you can cover your roof with them, half-assedly, and power your whole house from the electricity generated and stored in batteries. That town is full of asshats, plain and simple.
If it's anything like the patriot act it's technically impossible to fully read and large portions are amending parts of many other bills and documents. That's why shit like this is rammed through just before a break, after changes have been made ensuring there is not enough time to actually read the document. This is EXACTLY what happened with the patriot act. This is how it works.
Exactly, but I think the key here is he's saying he's made "discoveries" to help the AI be much more robust. I don't believe him and you shouldn't either, but that's the take away. Autonomous vehicles existed, technically, back as far as ww2 (self guiding V rockets, can't recall if it was v1 or v2 but they were self guiding) That in itself is meaningless, if I wanted a car that can drive itself I could probably hodge podge it together quickly. It would result it my death and probably a few others because just making the car drive itself is not enough. It needs to not only react to things, it has to ANTICIPATE things. While I tend to root for the underdog and would love to see a guy tinkering in his garage make this happen, I find it dubious. And considering this is the guy who showed everyone how to jailbreak iphones and mod their ps3 to PIRATE CONTENT because information should be free, or some bullshit, I don't trust the fact that he's made great "discoveries" in regards to AI.
ACtually yes corporations actually care about antivirus, Kaspersky is one of the heavy hitters in this regard, and now I have to go verify our half assed implementation is patched. And you can fix stupid with software by locking down and limiting the amount of stupid things mr stupid can do. The fantasy of "no viruses if you have no script and don't visit porn sites" is that, a fantasy that evaporated a long time ago. Those of us tasked with securing windows servers and clients (I'd laugh if it didn't make me die inside) have to deal with real stupid, not theoretical internet stupid.
Actually, no encrytion is perfect, it's mainly about making it take so long that it's not feasible to break. This ignores steath p2p networks and cpu sharing, as well as MASSIVE clusters and data centers dedicated to nothing but cracking the primes used. This, according to so very intelligent people, is how the NSA is getting through encryption, once you crack the prime, you are in. And sadly, a lot of applications use a cut and paste prime. All this nonsense about unbreakable encryption is a smoke screen to make you THINK they can't break it. The NSA sure as fuck can, and is, breaking encryption. None of this gets past the point that this twat wants the government to do her parenting for her. Worried about your kid talking to predators on their playstation? Set fucking parental controls on that shit like a normal human being. But it's not about the kids. It's never been about the kids. But it's doing a bang up job of pushing people to use encryption with a false sense of security, which is exactly what they want.
I'll go ahead and mention that one of the patches was to revoke the xbox live cert because the private key was leaked, opening ALL xbox users to man in the middle attacks. So yeah, MS is the devil, omfg FREE windows NOOOOOOOOOO theyz tracking us!!!!! But they also did something good here but actually acknowledging this happened and then took action to fix it. I will continue to work and support linux servers and hosts, but I will always been running at least 1 windows box at home. Get over yourselves, seriously, this is getting old and honestly it's become complete fanboyism on your part. Windows 10 isn't the bees knees, but it's also not the steaming pile of bullshit you all ASSUME it is. and I say assume because clearly none of you have even tested a build of win10 because you are still whining about non-existent issues.
And there's Apple creating that wonderful eco system again, by limiting useful features to their dying dinosaur of a browser, because that's the only reason safari even shows up in any browser lists, because apple forces you to use it. And I thought it was bad when they enabled "other browsers" that infact are merely a skin ontop of safari, this right here takes the cake. "We've listened to your concerns about privacy and tracking, and we care. But only enough to position our browser to be the only one on our platform that can use these new features" Get bent with your IOS bullshit.
"Valerie Castle and Doug Bornstein, are set to premier GunTV, a new 24-Hour shopping channel for guns" " I don't really know that it's going to put more guns on the streets." I'm pretty sure those two things are mutually exclusive. I'm not sure how them selling a metric shit ton of more guns will not put more guns on the street, unless they are being very specific. Not many people store their guns on the street, so maybe that's their angle.
All backdoors become front doors eventually. Case closed. You can not knowingly subvert security and at the same time act appalled that it was abused.
I remember that show, it had the doctor from Fringe (cringe) but it was a fun throw away show, dubious is one way to put it. But that's exactly what sprang to mind when i read the summary, they did an episode on that bug, pretty neat considering.
"Trump will probably tackle ISIS and have some success even if you don't approve of his methods" Well any intelligence I might have thought you held just evaporated. How exactly is mildly retarded Trump going to tackle ANYTHING? What experience does he have? oh, just go get a small loan of a million dollars from friends. Sure, that qualifies you to tackle a global alliance of terrorists being funded directly and indirectly by the 3 largest and most sophisticated armed forces on earth. He's a clown, he's an asshat, and he offers NOTHING of substance. Sure, he appeals to the base racism and bigotry found in sects of republicans, but where is the substance. "Build a wall and make Mexico pay for it" "Just stop muslims from coming here" How exactly? You can't just throw money at every problem. I'm not saying Obama is better, but actually, I am, he's a much better candidate than Trump even with his shitty record. Trump as president will not only be humiliating, it quite possibly could be the end of your damn country. He's unintelligent and belligerent and you want HIM to represent YOU when dealing with the Saudis, Chinese and Russians? You are insane.
with USB that's merely a caching thing and 99% of the time you are fine to rip it out (once the actual transfer is done). Floppies, oh boy, you can literally tear the thing apart yanking it out early. If the lights are still flashing on your usb drive, it's not done!
I only watched that pile of shit because of all the ruckus. NK is simply not equipped to have done this and there's no benefit from doing it. If their goal was to ensure the movie was never released that failed badly, it WAS released specifically because of this "attack" Honestly, and I'll probably take lots of flack for saying it, I think this was an amateur (or group there of) that got lucky and an inept IT department was the icing on the cake. "Computers became bricks." Hold on, that's totally not how network attacks work, at all, by any stretch of the imagination. I'm going to assume that employees who say "no internet connection" warnings were the ones who had their computers "bricked".
Oh my mistake, I thought the article was labled "What Single Change Would You Make To a Tech Product?" not "What Single Change Would You Make To a COMPUTER? Besides that I don't count prying plastic casings open desperately trying to not break the little flimsy clips as an easy method to disable the leds. I simply can not understand why there is no toggle to just disable the led circuits entirely. Go head and disable the led on your tablet, or the leds inside your macbook air, or your surge protecting power bar, or your UPS. See where I was going? I have and will continue to manually disable them on my desktops, but that's not really what this article was talking about, at all.
No LEDS to tell me the device is turned off. No LEDS to tell me it's "sleeping". OR simply a method to disable these LEDS because I'm old enough to not want my computer room looking like the engine room of the enterprise WHEN EVERYTHING IS POWERED OFF NO LEDS
Lets dissect your post: "I would have gotten an Xbox One if it wasn't for MSFT shenanigans. " - agreed, I almost opted for one but I wanted a gaming console, not an entertainment center that also plays games (at lower resolutions than it's competition) "Meanwhile, Sony makes you play for any online connectivity and constantly throws advertisements to purchase crap." - Opps, you failed here. You require an xbox live subscription to play xbox games online. I suspect there are some caveats to this much like the BULLSHIT playstation plus requirement for ps4. But... you can't say MS has one up on sony considering they've been doing that since day freaking 1. Can't argue the ads, that pisses me off to no end. MS wins for the store format and actually making it worth while to pay that extra fee, not even the worst Sony fanboy can argue against that. "PS Plus itself is mostly a joke except you actually need it access certain content in games like Destiny." Well yes and no, if you actually WANT to play destiny, you need ps plus. And many games like battlefield and such are basically online only requiring that extra fee that NO ONE WANTS TO PAY (fuck you in the face Sony)
Almost it's about a 99/1 ratio in favor of consoles, but when it comes to modded consoles and pirated games, there ARE hacks. You won't deal with it very much compared to pc though, but there are hacks and illegal mods out there for console titles
0% piracy rate? You are on crack. lets recap: gamecube = piracy, literally this box, and 1 specific game disk, launched console pirating. Google it, it's an interesting read xbox=piracy ps1=piracy ps2=piracy ps3=piracy psp (both generations)=piracy gameboy advance+ =piracy wii=piracy xbox360=piracy And bet your ass dollar to doughnuts that ps4 and xboxone piracy is in the works, it's off the shelf pc components for both so it shouldn't take as long, or be as finnicky, as ps3 piracy. You are clueless