This has nothing to do with expertise in IT. You don't need to know how the telephone system works to know not to give your bank account information to some guy who calls you up and asks for it.
The concept that Cyberspace "exists" is just as silly as the concept (pardon, I mean "legal fiction") that Corporations are People.
There is no such concept. in the USA corporations are treated by civil (not criminal) law as unnatural persons (not people) for certain purposes. There is a myth that USA law treats corporations as people but it is just that: a myth. USA law does treat corporations as groups of people: that is what they are.
See Corporate Personhood
Many decades ago we decided that 1024 bits was close enough to 1000 that we could, as an approximation, call it 1 kilobit. This was convenient because memory was made in multiples of 1024. The other approximations followed from that, but they were always approximations. Eventually the ISO approved the labels kibi, mibi, etc for the obvious powers of two. Use them. Everywhere else in the world kilo means 1000. Only in computing is it misdefined as 1024.
From the scant details, it appears Samsung didn't provide enough storage [of whatever type] to be able to store the UEFI variables that one could reasonably be expected to store. And/or when that storage ran out [or hit a percentage threshold], simply failed to prevent the bricking with a limit check and refuse to store the new information [returning an error code instead].
That would imply that this bug may be present in many/most/all UEFI implementations, with others merely having higher limits.
It also implies that it may be possible to exploit this in various other ways, such as bypassing Secure Boot if you can figure out what to overwrite.
> That is a serious infringement of Liberty, IMHO.
Your liberty does not include the right to spray your rf all over my land.
> If the federal government wants to setup a radio free > zone, they should do it on government owned land.
Read the FCC regs. WiFi on those frequencies is explicitly authorized on a "no interference" basis. If an authorized user complains that you are interfering you must shut down.
> It doesnt surprise me that the zone was setup in the > 'government can do no wrong' 1950's.
You write this while putting up with the DHS and a president who claims the right to assassinate US citizens? You don't know what you are talking about.
If I did, though, I would of course assume that everything sent via those services was pretty much public (not that anyone would care). But then, unencrypted email is never confidential anyway.
Theory is experiment, generalized and codified. It allows us to prove that *this* proposed experiment is really just a version of *that* experiment which has already been done and the results confirmed enough times that we don't need to do it again. It is what allowas us to progress rather than thrashing around doing billions of random experiments. Illustration: how do you know that painting blue stripes on your feet would not allow you to walk on water as long as you get the width just right?
> Surely you'd be interested in replicating his experiment, if > only to prove it doesn't work.
So we are to try *everything*, just in case it might work? Better get to work. You've got many trillions of experiments to do. Start with painting yourself blue and dancing in a circle. Be sure to try both directions.
> This may only mean that Boeng got what data they needed > to design a similar device of their own, which they could > patent in America and shut Shawyer out.
That's nonsense. Even if Shawyer did not apply for a patent in the USA his European patents and his publications would establish his priority as inventor and block anyone else from getting a patent in the USA.
> Government work cannot infringe a patent, because the > government was kind enough to give itself an exemption.
Not true in the USA. They can, of course, practice your patent even if you refuse to give them permission, but doing so is an eminent domain taking and so you can go to court and get compensation.
Their "terms of use" may (or may not) form a contract between them and their users but you are not a party to that contract and so are not bound by its terms. If they believe that their users are breaching their contract by loading files created using their program into yours they need to sue their users.
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This has nothing to do with expertise in IT. You don't need to know how the telephone system works to know not to give your bank account information to some guy who calls you up and asks for it.
We can only hope.
> It would depend on how accurately I could weight it...
I think that any digital kitchen scale should work. You don't really need accuracy: just reproducibility.
...when power failures or other disasters take the TV stations off the air?
There is no such concept. in the USA corporations are treated by civil (not criminal) law as unnatural persons (not people) for certain purposes. There is a myth that USA law treats corporations as people but it is just that: a myth. USA law does treat corporations as groups of people: that is what they are. See Corporate Personhood
Yes, of course it is. Unfortunately we are stuck with it: the sort of people who think that global warming might attract asteroids believe in it.
Many decades ago we decided that 1024 bits was close enough to 1000 that we could, as an approximation, call it 1 kilobit. This was convenient because memory was made in multiples of 1024. The other approximations followed from that, but they were always approximations. Eventually the ISO approved the labels kibi, mibi, etc for the obvious powers of two. Use them. Everywhere else in the world kilo means 1000. Only in computing is it misdefined as 1024.
a standard marketing technique? That makes it possible to be "Amazed and pleased at the huge demand that has far exceeded our expectations!"
Of course. All those Chinese hackers trying to break into US Federal systems should be able to spend the holiday with their families.
No, I didn't.
What does UEFI do that coreboot doesn't other than Secure Boot?
That would imply that this bug may be present in many/most/all UEFI implementations, with others merely having higher limits.
It also implies that it may be possible to exploit this in various other ways, such as bypassing Secure Boot if you can figure out what to overwrite.
> That is a serious infringement of Liberty, IMHO.
Your liberty does not include the right to spray your rf all over my land.
> If the federal government wants to setup a radio free
> zone, they should do it on government owned land.
Read the FCC regs. WiFi on those frequencies is explicitly authorized on a "no interference" basis. If an authorized user complains that you are interfering you must shut down.
> It doesnt surprise me that the zone was setup in the
> 'government can do no wrong' 1950's.
You write this while putting up with the DHS and a president who claims the right to assassinate US citizens? You don't know what you are talking about.
If I did, though, I would of course assume that everything sent via those services was pretty much public (not that anyone would care). But then, unencrypted email is never confidential anyway.
> If you visited any of the sites, directly, while logged into
> Facebook you were affected.
And therefor it affected only Facebook users. Neither the Web nor the Net was broken. Just Facebook.
> Are we now starting to refer to the Internet as teh
> Facebook???
Well, you're already confounding the Web and the Net.
Theory is experiment, generalized and codified. It allows us to prove that *this* proposed experiment is really just a version of *that* experiment which has already been done and the results confirmed enough times that we don't need to do it again. It is what allowas us to progress rather than thrashing around doing billions of random experiments. Illustration: how do you know that painting blue stripes on your feet would not allow you to walk on water as long as you get the width just right?
> Surely you'd be interested in replicating his experiment, if
> only to prove it doesn't work.
So we are to try *everything*, just in case it might work? Better get to work. You've got many trillions of experiments to do. Start with painting yourself blue and dancing in a circle. Be sure to try both directions.
Citizens of China are, on average, no less gullible than anyone else.
> This may only mean that Boeng got what data they needed
> to design a similar device of their own, which they could
> patent in America and shut Shawyer out.
That's nonsense. Even if Shawyer did not apply for a patent in the USA his European patents and his publications would establish his priority as inventor and block anyone else from getting a patent in the USA.
> Government work cannot infringe a patent, because the
> government was kind enough to give itself an exemption.
Not true in the USA. They can, of course, practice your patent even if you refuse to give them permission, but doing so is an eminent domain taking and so you can go to court and get compensation.
We've still got the Dean drive .
...that they will accidentally shoot down an airliner.
If you need to go to DC take the train.
Their "terms of use" may (or may not) form a contract between them and their users but you are not a party to that contract and so are not bound by its terms. If they believe that their users are breaching their contract by loading files created using their program into yours they need to sue their users.
Mad as hatters, they are.