What if they are required by the NSA (along with the "don't disclose that we are asking this") to give them your passwords? Giving the control to an US company could go very wrong. Even Hushmail that promised to have all your information encrypted gave it to the feds... and they are Canadians.
Also works or have alternatives that use the same data files for most OSs, including mobile ones. You can backup/sync your password file between devices using online services while have a secure enough master password for it. Of course, you must keep in mind that if you have a keylogger in the device you are using that password file it will become compromised. Maybe having different password files for different uses would make it safer.
Be careful with what makes you what you are. This shows the importance of not abusing generic/strong antibiotics, breast feeding childs for years (probiotics are probably an incomplete fix) and not removing your appendix without need. If you don't care enough about that, may be a fecal transplant in your future.
When will be US turn? Basically stripping the entire mankind of a basic human right according with the UN should worth something. Droning thousands of people in a lot of countries, including schools, weddings, funerals, rescuers or just being close enough to the wrong phone should be pretty bad too. And kidnapping, jailing, and torturing people (even minors) in Guantanamo is worth mentioning too. And i bet that that don't even qualifies as the tip of the iceberg.
A lot of the lower/8 ranges, that were assigned to companies and organizations(some of them that don't exist anymore) got reused to make ipv4 last a little longer. They will stil
Also don't help a lot that companies and ISPs may still be deploying hardware/software that is not ipv6 capable, replacing legacy systems is one the things that slows down adoption.
... unless an employee decides to use it, a secret order of the NSA requires to disclose it, their servers get hacked (by the NSA, other countries intelligence agencies, hacking groups, or script kiddies) or the protocol have a vulnerability or the information can be captured and decrypted. The respect of privacy by US companies had become an oximoron. Is a promise that they can't possibly honor, and they are too big to close doors like Lavabit if the NSA want their customers data.
Compared with the mostly unsolvable new normal of having most of basic internet infrastructure backdoored by a government i'd say that is pretty benign. You can diminish a lot asking administrators to fix their NTP servers or ban their IPs. But no matter how much you try, internet as a worldwide network is broken beyond repair, you can choose to ignore that fact (as much you can ignore to being hit by a 400gbps attack), but it will still be broken.
Getting humans (and maybe even robots) to the next solar system might will be impossible in practical terms, and even harder for more distant solar systems. Finding habitable planets in our local group of stars will mean hear attently all of them to check if they were transmitting something in our direction N years ago, and to spam the close enough ones (10-20 light years away?) them with information in the hope that they might answer in some decades. And the answer will come back to a very different world, considerating our rate of change.
But if is plaintext it don't need to be a very complex one. That the report is for ftp servers and no ssh/enterprise/etc servers points in that direction, Occam's razor sometimes is right.
While people take them as synonymous will think that one is as safe as the other will keep using the "wrong" one. From the article can't tell if any, most or all were plain, old, legacy ftp instead of sftp.
Making the initial roads is not the same as making the cars that go in it or owning the people that drive them, the content is what makes internet special, and it was made by every internet user, including you with your comment. Inventing the "a" letter don't make you owner/author of every book ever written.
If i don't like my black/muslim/spanish/different-in-some-way neighbors, or the boyfriend of the girl i want, i can just report them as pointing a laser to a passing aircraft. In the worst case i could say that I mistook a keychain for a laser pointer. In the best case, i will get $10.000, and could get rid of that neighbor because he will be victim of authorities/nsa confirmation bias.
And it could work in both ways, if you don't want that nasty redneck falsely accuse you, you can accuse him first. In any case, whats the worst that could happen if you call the police?
You still have to apply security updates to your installed software, specially with the lot of remote java vulnerabilities that had been disclosed in the last year (and that you should had been hurried to fix). And you must trust in who send you your update to whitelist it, because it could be someone playing MITM.
In the other hand, whitelisting an approved by some authority list of software means that the only software you will be able to install is the already backdoored by government ones, and perpetuating monopolies.
You can always hack, or social engineer, or worker there that abuses or sell that information, in the layer that actually does the killing. And the same happen with the layers above (inparticular the rogue worker part could be a rogue CEO or the government itself). Would you be actually buying something if someone else keeps having the power of kill it at will?
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What if they are required by the NSA (along with the "don't disclose that we are asking this") to give them your passwords? Giving the control to an US company could go very wrong. Even Hushmail that promised to have all your information encrypted gave it to the feds... and they are Canadians.
Also works or have alternatives that use the same data files for most OSs, including mobile ones. You can backup/sync your password file between devices using online services while have a secure enough master password for it. Of course, you must keep in mind that if you have a keylogger in the device you are using that password file it will become compromised. Maybe having different password files for different uses would make it safer.
Be careful with what makes you what you are. This shows the importance of not abusing generic/strong antibiotics, breast feeding childs for years (probiotics are probably an incomplete fix) and not removing your appendix without need. If you don't care enough about that, may be a fecal transplant in your future.
WhatsApp issues DMCA takedown notices against alternative clients shortly before the acquisition.
That is a perfect example on how to misalign graphs to make them match your agenda. He should be jailed for that.
When will be US turn? Basically stripping the entire mankind of a basic human right according with the UN should worth something. Droning thousands of people in a lot of countries, including schools, weddings, funerals, rescuers or just being close enough to the wrong phone should be pretty bad too. And kidnapping, jailing, and torturing people (even minors) in Guantanamo is worth mentioning too. And i bet that that don't even qualifies as the tip of the iceberg.
A lot of the lower /8 ranges, that were assigned to companies and organizations(some of them that don't exist anymore) got reused to make ipv4 last a little longer. They will stil
Also don't help a lot that companies and ISPs may still be deploying hardware/software that is not ipv6 capable, replacing legacy systems is one the things that slows down adoption.
... unless an employee decides to use it, a secret order of the NSA requires to disclose it, their servers get hacked (by the NSA, other countries intelligence agencies, hacking groups, or script kiddies) or the protocol have a vulnerability or the information can be captured and decrypted. The respect of privacy by US companies had become an oximoron. Is a promise that they can't possibly honor, and they are too big to close doors like Lavabit if the NSA want their customers data.
In related news, Saw VIII will use some new "hidden footage" that will add a lot of realism to the horror series.
Compared with the mostly unsolvable new normal of having most of basic internet infrastructure backdoored by a government i'd say that is pretty benign. You can diminish a lot asking administrators to fix their NTP servers or ban their IPs. But no matter how much you try, internet as a worldwide network is broken beyond repair, you can choose to ignore that fact (as much you can ignore to being hit by a 400gbps attack), but it will still be broken.
Worse than that. The one putting backdoors in Huawei networking gear is the NSA itself.
The gold they persued were not of the olympic kind.
Getting humans (and maybe even robots) to the next solar system might will be impossible in practical terms, and even harder for more distant solar systems. Finding habitable planets in our local group of stars will mean hear attently all of them to check if they were transmitting something in our direction N years ago, and to spam the close enough ones (10-20 light years away?) them with information in the hope that they might answer in some decades. And the answer will come back to a very different world, considerating our rate of change.
But if is plaintext it don't need to be a very complex one. That the report is for ftp servers and no ssh/enterprise/etc servers points in that direction, Occam's razor sometimes is right.
While people take them as synonymous will think that one is as safe as the other will keep using the "wrong" one. From the article can't tell if any, most or all were plain, old, legacy ftp instead of sftp.
Who will know that that kind of things would be possible in a protocol where login credentials are transfered in plain text.
You can download already made VM images for VMWare, KVM or VirtualBox, or, if you already run Linux and want something lighter than a VM, you can run OwnCloud inside a Docker container.
Making the initial roads is not the same as making the cars that go in it or owning the people that drive them, the content is what makes internet special, and it was made by every internet user, including you with your comment. Inventing the "a" letter don't make you owner/author of every book ever written.
Each bus in Montevideo use it for ticket sales, gps tracking and more.
If i don't like my black/muslim/spanish/different-in-some-way neighbors, or the boyfriend of the girl i want, i can just report them as pointing a laser to a passing aircraft. In the worst case i could say that I mistook a keychain for a laser pointer. In the best case, i will get $10.000, and could get rid of that neighbor because he will be victim of authorities/nsa confirmation bias.
And it could work in both ways, if you don't want that nasty redneck falsely accuse you, you can accuse him first. In any case, whats the worst that could happen if you call the police?
Is pretty clear that that comitee members descended from monkeys... and kept descending.
Don't worry. The confirmation bias will make sure that you will become an expert too.
You still have to apply security updates to your installed software, specially with the lot of remote java vulnerabilities that had been disclosed in the last year (and that you should had been hurried to fix). And you must trust in who send you your update to whitelist it, because it could be someone playing MITM.
In the other hand, whitelisting an approved by some authority list of software means that the only software you will be able to install is the already backdoored by government ones, and perpetuating monopolies.
You can always hack, or social engineer, or worker there that abuses or sell that information, in the layer that actually does the killing. And the same happen with the layers above (inparticular the rogue worker part could be a rogue CEO or the government itself). Would you be actually buying something if someone else keeps having the power of kill it at will?
There are rumors that now Guantanamo Bay prisoners are forced to use Slashdot Beta. This madness must stop, they are human beings after all.