I just don't understand why anyone would want to use a Windows-ish OS that has poor compatibility with both Windows-based and Linux/*BSD software. 20 something years in the making and still in a prealpha, or something, state is also kind of slow progress. Or maybe your comment was ironic. Who knows
It's OK for devices to be networked over WAN, but devices such as security cameras should *never* be accessible or able to access WAN directly. A few simple firewall rules and some site-to-site VPN piping would do the trick and wouldn't take long at all to set up. Just one of many possible ways of doing it right.
By the way, I wouldn't count security cameras as IoT.
Whenever governments start belittling UN resolutions and formal statements they start to lose their weight in the international community little by little. It also that governments that do such will themselves start having a hard time arguing points using UN as an authority.
This is the problem. Most of us don't need half (way more than half, actually) the features found in modern TVs. It took me a long time to find a TV without 1) "smart" capabilities, 2) 3D crap and 3) one that *actually* has a 100hz panel. It's in fact incredibly difficult to find out the actual refresh rate of the panels used in most TVs today. They tend to mention something along the lines of "3600hz" which any sensible nerd knows to be absolute bs and not the actual refresh rate of the panel.
Considering the crap we get in the TV today, my next TV will probably be just a big-ass monitor with a small factor PC running Linux beside it. A wireless keyboard with a touchpad instead of a remote, and Netflix etc. instead of TV broadcasts.
Cynicism in me is reaching critical mass in polynomial time...
Looking at the pyramids, I doubt we can ever build something that lasts for a hundred thousand years. There will always be somebody who wants to take a peek inside for one reason or another.
The one that just died was famous for digging through the historical records to try to determine what the authors of the Constitution might have thought instead of going by whichever way today's wind is blowing. What exactly do you have in mind when you want 'apolitical'?
I think you missed OP's post, the one I was replying to.
Every justice should be apolitical and politicians should focus on making sure there's judicial independence. It never seizes to amaze me how politicized the SCOTUS appointments are and how grave effects they can have for decades to come.
of American IT workers with South Asians IT workers have worked out for the corporations that have done so.
I've had the "pleasure" of having to work with a major American IT vendor who recently outsourced most of their services to Indian subcontractors. The crap the Indian staff tries to slip under our radar is just appalling. They are breaking things that are not broken and are completely incapable of producing any original solutions. All they can do is Google around a bit and copypaste a solution, and if that doesn't work they come back to us, the customer begging for help.
That's not all. When someone from our office gives them a working solution, they come back to us and present it as their own and try to bill us for it. It's just amazing and I've heard countless similar stories so it's not just this particular vendor, it's *everybody* there doing this. All the bright minds in the IT sector in India have long gone abroad, the remaining IT workers are the ones who didn't make it to the top and are left doing the shitty jobs. They got nice titles, though. You could accidentally mistake the local janitor for a CEO if you went solely by the titles.
So yeah, it hasn't worked out that well for pretty much anybody in the IT sector yet everybody still keeps doing it.
I disagree here are probably more than circa 300 people in the USA that work in secure facilities that sometimes need to be contacted quickly, and thus pager would be an alternative. That said, vanishingly few things are important enough that they cannot wait until the end of an 8hr shift.
I think you meant ~32.000.:-)
The only restrictions I've come across regarding phones are when you enter a nuclear power plant, you can't have a phone with a camera on it. Everything else is fine, it's just the camera. Things may have changed, though.
Let's put it this way: do you know that they do? If they did, why not create your own mirror?
The difference here is, as I outlined in the earlier post, that in Windows' case we know that it's phoning home despite explicit user disapproval. You're comparing facts to subjective speculation. We can speculate about anything and everything, but it doesn't mean everything that is possible is being done. And an important point with Debian is that even if it was being done, you have a legitimate and easy way of circumventing it.
As an avid Firefox user, I have to agree. Firefox is good because it's customizable, but it certainly lacks some inherent security features found in other major browsers. Many of the security risks can probably be averted by configuring the browser for added privacy and disabling certain features, but this is no excuse for lagging behind.
Maybe Mozilla will someday focus on its core competencies again and stop fooling around with nonsense like Firefox OS...
But support for a ban is not unanimous. Some researchers argue that autonomous weapons would commit fewer battlefield atrocities than human beings—and that their development might even be considered morally imperative.
I hope the people suggesting this have taken into account the responsibility factor. *When* an autonomous weapons platform commits a war crime, who gets sent to Hague? The CEO of the manufacturer? The brogrammers who made the code?
Well, to my knowledge Debian does not collect user data regarding installed packages, upgrades or similar, unless the user gives his or her explicit approval of such data collection (popcontest).
However, if you want to be anal about it: using apt is voluntary and you can build all the software you need by downloading them from any source you trust the most. Comparing voluntarily using apt on Debian to Windows phoning home even if you explicitly disable such features on it is fallacious.
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electronics you can get shipped from china for just a few bucks
I'd be willing to pay five times the asked price for items like these if they were manufactured in Europe.
What makes a device an IoT device?
If it floats on a cloud, runs off the willpower of app developers and is a security and privacy nightmare. Then it's IoT.
And you complain like a bitch with sand in his man-gina? Grow up.
It's easy to shout from the bushes as an AC, not using your own name. Man up and register an account.
Might I suggest not connecting them to the network either? That'll keep them secure.
Or, you know, just don't buy them.
I agree. We should invest our money in trustworthy major companies such as Cisco and Juniper instead.
As a person who has visited Dachau, my sincere condolences
You made my day, dear Sir. :-)
I just don't understand why anyone would want to use a Windows-ish OS that has poor compatibility with both Windows-based and Linux/*BSD software. 20 something years in the making and still in a prealpha, or something, state is also kind of slow progress. Or maybe your comment was ironic. Who knows
It's OK for devices to be networked over WAN, but devices such as security cameras should *never* be accessible or able to access WAN directly. A few simple firewall rules and some site-to-site VPN piping would do the trick and wouldn't take long at all to set up. Just one of many possible ways of doing it right.
By the way, I wouldn't count security cameras as IoT.
Whenever governments start belittling UN resolutions and formal statements they start to lose their weight in the international community little by little. It also that governments that do such will themselves start having a hard time arguing points using UN as an authority.
I have no idea, but I'm happy he chose to leave Twitter. For whatever reason.
This is the problem. Most of us don't need half (way more than half, actually) the features found in modern TVs. It took me a long time to find a TV without 1) "smart" capabilities, 2) 3D crap and 3) one that *actually* has a 100hz panel. It's in fact incredibly difficult to find out the actual refresh rate of the panels used in most TVs today. They tend to mention something along the lines of "3600hz" which any sensible nerd knows to be absolute bs and not the actual refresh rate of the panel.
Considering the crap we get in the TV today, my next TV will probably be just a big-ass monitor with a small factor PC running Linux beside it. A wireless keyboard with a touchpad instead of a remote, and Netflix etc. instead of TV broadcasts.
Cynicism in me is reaching critical mass in polynomial time...
Holy shit, yes. Almost had a seizure when I realized I had made such a stupid typo.
Looking at the pyramids, I doubt we can ever build something that lasts for a hundred thousand years. There will always be somebody who wants to take a peek inside for one reason or another.
Every justice should be apolitical
The one that just died was famous for digging through the historical records to try to determine what the authors of the Constitution might have thought instead of going by whichever way today's wind is blowing. What exactly do you have in mind when you want 'apolitical'?
I think you missed OP's post, the one I was replying to.
Every justice should be apolitical and politicians should focus on making sure there's judicial independence. It never seizes to amaze me how politicized the SCOTUS appointments are and how grave effects they can have for decades to come.
of American IT workers with South Asians IT workers have worked out for the corporations that have done so.
I've had the "pleasure" of having to work with a major American IT vendor who recently outsourced most of their services to Indian subcontractors. The crap the Indian staff tries to slip under our radar is just appalling. They are breaking things that are not broken and are completely incapable of producing any original solutions. All they can do is Google around a bit and copypaste a solution, and if that doesn't work they come back to us, the customer begging for help.
That's not all. When someone from our office gives them a working solution, they come back to us and present it as their own and try to bill us for it. It's just amazing and I've heard countless similar stories so it's not just this particular vendor, it's *everybody* there doing this. All the bright minds in the IT sector in India have long gone abroad, the remaining IT workers are the ones who didn't make it to the top and are left doing the shitty jobs. They got nice titles, though. You could accidentally mistake the local janitor for a CEO if you went solely by the titles.
So yeah, it hasn't worked out that well for pretty much anybody in the IT sector yet everybody still keeps doing it.
Your eye for irony is sharp, mate.
I disagree here are probably more than circa 300 people in the USA that work in secure facilities that sometimes need to be contacted quickly, and thus pager would be an alternative. That said, vanishingly few things are important enough that they cannot wait until the end of an 8hr shift.
I think you meant ~32.000. :-)
The only restrictions I've come across regarding phones are when you enter a nuclear power plant, you can't have a phone with a camera on it. Everything else is fine, it's just the camera. Things may have changed, though.
Restore a new instance with the vulnerability fixed.
All private phone conversations will be stored for later use in targeted advertisements and citizen profiles.
just wtf are they teaching the kids?!?!
The important stuff? Like say, Pledge of Aellegiance.
Let's put it this way: do you know that they do? If they did, why not create your own mirror?
The difference here is, as I outlined in the earlier post, that in Windows' case we know that it's phoning home despite explicit user disapproval. You're comparing facts to subjective speculation. We can speculate about anything and everything, but it doesn't mean everything that is possible is being done. And an important point with Debian is that even if it was being done, you have a legitimate and easy way of circumventing it.
As an avid Firefox user, I have to agree. Firefox is good because it's customizable, but it certainly lacks some inherent security features found in other major browsers. Many of the security risks can probably be averted by configuring the browser for added privacy and disabling certain features, but this is no excuse for lagging behind.
Maybe Mozilla will someday focus on its core competencies again and stop fooling around with nonsense like Firefox OS...
Now that I think about it, you're absolutely correct.
But support for a ban is not unanimous. Some researchers argue that autonomous weapons would commit fewer battlefield atrocities than human beings—and that their development might even be considered morally imperative.
I hope the people suggesting this have taken into account the responsibility factor. *When* an autonomous weapons platform commits a war crime, who gets sent to Hague? The CEO of the manufacturer? The brogrammers who made the code?
Well, to my knowledge Debian does not collect user data regarding installed packages, upgrades or similar, unless the user gives his or her explicit approval of such data collection (popcontest).
However, if you want to be anal about it: using apt is voluntary and you can build all the software you need by downloading them from any source you trust the most. Comparing voluntarily using apt on Debian to Windows phoning home even if you explicitly disable such features on it is fallacious.