I think we are rapidly approaching the day when the fun and games of the free, open Internet, with every last gadget, device, appliance, phone, tablet, laptop, pc and server all being on that very same Internet.
Why there would need to be direct access from the public Internet to some of the data we've seen compromised recently is beyond me. Cheap bastards in the C-Suites? I get that if I want to see my account in an online banking web site that the web server I access is going to be connected to the public Internet but why wouldn't the back-end, such as the customer database be on a separate network with tightly controlled access from the public facing web servers to the back-end databases. It shouldn't be possible to connect from the public Internet via some exploit in the public-facing web server and then just dump the contents of all the back-end database servers.
Am I just being naive here? Are going to end up requiring all connected devices have licenses/permits?
Sprint has a lot of unused spectrum that they don’t have the cash to build out. I think this spectrum + T-Mobile’s cash could be something that would make T-Mobile more competitive against the bigger Verizon & ATT.
WiFi / network scanning are one of the only things I've ever missed when using an iPhone. I guess Apple considers it somewhat suspicious behavior, things that hackers and all that lot would do.
I have an iPad2 that is working perfectly well - except the AppStore won't let me upgrade past iOS 9.something.
Thanks Apple!
Your iPad 2 was released 6 years ago. It was supported with bug fixes and upgrades for just about 5 years. That is actually remarkable for any device in this day and age. You say it is working fine, so keep using it until it dies.
Not really true. I can't think of anything I can do with my phone that I can't do otherwise. While it's easy to pay bills with an app, I can still go into my bank or mail a cheque. I can still use a camera, even a film camera if I want to. I can still mail a letter rather than use email.
You say you can quit any time you want, is that it?
Well perhaps that is good for you. Some of us have rather larger boxes with 4-8 drives. I also use FreeNAS in my office. Rather less expensive than a Windows file server.
The cost of service varies by region so it's impossible to give you accurate pricing if they don't know where you live. And it's not just who the competing providers are...
Oh, I think you are being too generous. They offer lower cost Internet not far from where I live, in the same jurisdiction, the only difference is that CenturyLink DSL is offered there.
Every computer I clean up has crap I know got there via clicking on ads or downloading computer speed up and optimization apps. Every customer I warn about this has no clue what I talking about and assures me that they don’t click on ads.
Clearly P&G just needs to be more deceptive in the placement of their advertising if they want clicks.
So, you are streaming everything via wireless then? For a large number of us the Internet comes through our cable company or not at all. So, maybe we cancel cable TV but we can't really cut the cord, can we? Now that Trump has appointed a cable/telco company FCC commission, net-neutrality is done. It is only a matter of time until we "cable-cutters" find that our streaming services will be raising their rates because the cable companies are charging them for access to customers (us).
We are also seeing the cable companies signing deals to lock up content from various cable channels. The cable companies and telcos are also setting up their own streaming services and could buy out the others. I bet that they won't block their own streaming services, probably they'll zero-rate them so they don't count against your download limit, while lowering the boom on you for using so much bandwidth watching those nasty 3rd party services.
When you have a natural monopoly and the government isn't inclined to do anything about it you can do what ever you want and get away with it. Our only choice is to pay or do without.
Yup. My Internet only from Comcast just jumped by 30%. They were happy to lower that to only a 25% increase if I signed a one year contract. Where I am at it is Comcast or satellite. I expect they know that. Have you noticed how you can't even see a Comcast price list if you don't provide them with your address?
Why does equipment even have a default user/password?
It simply should not function until you have changed/set it.
That is actually true of a few modern devices. Unfortunately many of these device makers buy off-the-shelf firmware to plug in to their gadgets. Perhaps a regulation or two?
You’re certainly correct that Kim hasn’t done anything overt as yet. But I guarantee you North Korea has had indirect impact on Americans, increased defense expenditures in the region come to mind. It is certainly true the NSA‘s activities have impacted Americans, and others worldwide, with the release of their hacking tools leading directly to ransomware attacks.
The point in my original post was that those ransomware attacks were less the fault of the NSA, and more the fault of the hackers and leakers that gave the NSA’s hacking tools to WikiLeaks, who promptly published them, without regard to the potential for damage to all of us, American or not. Scratch that, I think that Julian Assange published the NSA hacking tools and exploits specifically because of the damage they would do to us.
The question was, “Who has caused the most damage for American citizens?” The NSA’s activities are certainly objectionable but how much real damage have they done to American citizens?
Who has caused the most damage for American citizens?
NORTH KOREA or THE NSA?
Or state-sponsored hackers, fighting an undeclared cyber-war? 99% of the American citizenry were enjoying their usual lives, un-molested, prior to said hackers, oh, and of course, "patriotic" leakers, sharing our state secrets and many of our own cyber-war weapons with our "friends" at Wiki-Leaks. Dear Julian, having absolutely no compunctions, if it increases his importance and fluffs his, umm, ego has done quite a bit of damage. Did was really need him to out the basis for the recent ransom-ware attacks or could he have published enough to let everyone know it was legit without releasing the actual code to the NSA malware?
WiGig was developed several years ago with faster speeds than then-current Wi-Fi standards, but because it relied on the 60GHz channel, its high throughput could only travel over short distances. As a result, it eventually became marketed as a feature for wireless laptop docking stations
So, a non-docking docking station???
WTF is the point of that?
Are you being intentional obtuse or going for a jab of sarcasm? A "dock" to plug all my desktop bound peripherals that I don't actually need to plug in to my laptop when I get home is actually kind of cool. Perhaps he we actually called it a "hub" just for you then?
To avoid inconveniences like this, firms like Equifax will simply move vulnerable assets outside of the reach of US Law. Perhaps Belize or Somalia. What kind of physical presence do they actually need in the US any longer? It's all done with the Tubes these days.
They can base themselves anywhere they like. They’ll still need to operate within the U.S. and can therefore be regulated, or even banned. The former is slightly likely, the latter is not likely at all, though the class action lawsuits might take care of Equifax for us.
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I think we are rapidly approaching the day when the fun and games of the free, open Internet, with every last gadget, device, appliance, phone, tablet, laptop, pc and server all being on that very same Internet.
Why there would need to be direct access from the public Internet to some of the data we've seen compromised recently is beyond me. Cheap bastards in the C-Suites? I get that if I want to see my account in an online banking web site that the web server I access is going to be connected to the public Internet but why wouldn't the back-end, such as the customer database be on a separate network with tightly controlled access from the public facing web servers to the back-end databases. It shouldn't be possible to connect from the public Internet via some exploit in the public-facing web server and then just dump the contents of all the back-end database servers.
Am I just being naive here? Are going to end up requiring all connected devices have licenses/permits?
Sprint has a lot of unused spectrum that they don’t have the cash to build out. I think this spectrum + T-Mobile’s cash could be something that would make T-Mobile more competitive against the bigger Verizon & ATT.
If you return something just because you don’t want it after all then you get to pay shipping.
WiFi / network scanning are one of the only things I've ever missed when using an iPhone. I guess Apple considers it somewhat suspicious behavior, things that hackers and all that lot would do.
I have an iPad2 that is working perfectly well - except the AppStore won't let me upgrade past iOS 9.something.
Thanks Apple!
Your iPad 2 was released 6 years ago. It was supported with bug fixes and upgrades for just about 5 years. That is actually remarkable for any device in this day and age. You say it is working fine, so keep using it until it dies.
There's also 44 frames of a PPT, in low resolution, with so much jpeg that you cannot read them properly.
So, the author must have been stuck with Ubuntu desktop apps to produce his report. Hence the crappy result.
Read now, article is fucking pathetic, So yes the summary was bad, but the article basically is waffle that says nothing.
You are probably right.
Not really true. I can't think of anything I can do with my phone that I can't do otherwise. While it's easy to pay bills with an app, I can still go into my bank or mail a cheque. I can still use a camera, even a film camera if I want to. I can still mail a letter rather than use email.
You say you can quit any time you want, is that it?
Go read the article. It wasn’t about the iPhone X per se.
Well perhaps that is good for you. Some of us have rather larger boxes with 4-8 drives. I also use FreeNAS in my office. Rather less expensive than a Windows file server.
The cost of service varies by region so it's impossible to give you accurate pricing if they don't know where you live. And it's not just who the competing providers are...
Oh, I think you are being too generous. They offer lower cost Internet not far from where I live, in the same jurisdiction, the only difference is that CenturyLink DSL is offered there.
I always have a shop-vac hose next to the the dust-off whilst blowing out the dust bunnies. I’ll read the article you recommended.
I was going to update my FeeNAS server today. I guess I shouldn’t have wasted so much time in the foums!
...a device with decade old specs, and is non-upgradeable...It is a very expensive toy, and perhaps business device...It is a nice piece of tech...
You seem to be a bit undecided!
Every computer I clean up has crap I know got there via clicking on ads or downloading computer speed up and optimization apps. Every customer I warn about this has no clue what I talking about and assures me that they don’t click on ads.
Clearly P&G just needs to be more deceptive in the placement of their advertising if they want clicks.
So, you are streaming everything via wireless then? For a large number of us the Internet comes through our cable company or not at all. So, maybe we cancel cable TV but we can't really cut the cord, can we? Now that Trump has appointed a cable/telco company FCC commission, net-neutrality is done. It is only a matter of time until we "cable-cutters" find that our streaming services will be raising their rates because the cable companies are charging them for access to customers (us).
We are also seeing the cable companies signing deals to lock up content from various cable channels. The cable companies and telcos are also setting up their own streaming services and could buy out the others. I bet that they won't block their own streaming services, probably they'll zero-rate them so they don't count against your download limit, while lowering the boom on you for using so much bandwidth watching those nasty 3rd party services.
When you have a natural monopoly and the government isn't inclined to do anything about it you can do what ever you want and get away with it. Our only choice is to pay or do without.
Yup. My Internet only from Comcast just jumped by 30%. They were happy to lower that to only a 25% increase if I signed a one year contract. Where I am at it is Comcast or satellite. I expect they know that. Have you noticed how you can't even see a Comcast price list if you don't provide them with your address?
It is IF you vote away your freedoms in return for gov handouts. See Venezuela.
So, you want to do away with food stamps, medicaid, medicare, social security et cetera?
Why does equipment even have a default user/password? It simply should not function until you have changed/set it.
That is actually true of a few modern devices. Unfortunately many of these device makers buy off-the-shelf firmware to plug in to their gadgets. Perhaps a regulation or two?
You’re certainly correct that Kim hasn’t done anything overt as yet. But I guarantee you North Korea has had indirect impact on Americans, increased defense expenditures in the region come to mind. It is certainly true the NSA‘s activities have impacted Americans, and others worldwide, with the release of their hacking tools leading directly to ransomware attacks.
The point in my original post was that those ransomware attacks were less the fault of the NSA, and more the fault of the hackers and leakers that gave the NSA’s hacking tools to WikiLeaks, who promptly published them, without regard to the potential for damage to all of us, American or not. Scratch that, I think that Julian Assange published the NSA hacking tools and exploits specifically because of the damage they would do to us.
The question was, “Who has caused the most damage for American citizens?” The NSA’s activities are certainly objectionable but how much real damage have they done to American citizens?
Laying off Credit Bureaus is part of a larger bill in hearings right now to reduce regulations and “make American business competitive”. Check it out.
Who has caused the most damage for American citizens?
NORTH KOREA or THE NSA?
Or state-sponsored hackers, fighting an undeclared cyber-war? 99% of the American citizenry were enjoying their usual lives, un-molested, prior to said hackers, oh, and of course, "patriotic" leakers, sharing our state secrets and many of our own cyber-war weapons with our "friends" at Wiki-Leaks. Dear Julian, having absolutely no compunctions, if it increases his importance and fluffs his, umm, ego has done quite a bit of damage. Did was really need him to out the basis for the recent ransom-ware attacks or could he have published enough to let everyone know it was legit without releasing the actual code to the NSA malware?
So, a non-docking docking station???
WTF is the point of that?
Are you being intentional obtuse or going for a jab of sarcasm? A "dock" to plug all my desktop bound peripherals that I don't actually need to plug in to my laptop when I get home is actually kind of cool. Perhaps he we actually called it a "hub" just for you then?
To avoid inconveniences like this, firms like Equifax will simply move vulnerable assets outside of the reach of US Law. Perhaps Belize or Somalia. What kind of physical presence do they actually need in the US any longer? It's all done with the Tubes these days.
They can base themselves anywhere they like. They’ll still need to operate within the U.S. and can therefore be regulated, or even banned. The former is slightly likely, the latter is not likely at all, though the class action lawsuits might take care of Equifax for us.