Microsoft has recreated their Disk Cleanup tool and integrated it into OneDrive while calling it Storage Sense. If you're using Windows 10, you've already accepted a lack of control over your computer, but this should only affect OneDrive storage (for now!!).
I use Fedora was my workstation, and I love it. There's little a user can't do with Fedora or Linux (outside of playing non Unity-based games; Valve's encouraged many more games to be cross-platform ultimately though).
What would I change? Whatever regression bugs have been added to and/or existed in GNOME 3. I prefer GNOME over other DEs aesthetically, but after two or more days, the performance of GNOME, especially on modal overlay drawings, is horrific. A reboot is required with Wayland (AFAIK).
This is something I'd never experience with Windows, and these sort of niggling bugs hold me back from pushing normies into Fedora land.
But I wasn't interested at all when it released. Big media circle jerk. I bought it this Friday post-patch and have loved the experience. Best not let your expectations get away from you.
I agree, an intelligent firewall or IPS should be able to handle this sort of attack. Reductive and higher level, HAProxy (etc.) could handle this. Perhaps I'm naive on internal traffic element, but if you protect the gateways into your system I'd monitor that traffic at most.
But I'm not enabling automatic updates in any environment I manage.
Too many times have I been alerted of a new security issue by a client, though I was already aware, and was asked to install the patches that correct the issue. The environment's already designed to prevent many of these issues (ACLs, competent firewall rules) and I'm not worried, but want to qualm their fears with something real, like Microsoft patches....
So it's 3AM and I'm rebooting and I receive a real blue screen of death (i.e. 'we can't boot to shit, you want to recover?'), I scramble around and restore the last backup. The client isn't pleased, neither am I, and we forget about the ordeal because it's already solved.
What I'm saying is just like many others. I don't need your patches, they usually fuck things up, but some people do. So, it's a deal. Microsoft can deal with a swathe of angry customers who fail to boot or reboot loop to oblivion and I'll keep my mouth shut (other than blaming Troy Hunt, maybe).
Most Windows Updates involve rarely utilized components that are exploitable only if not protected through other measures (specifically firewalls). I haven't seen anything come down the pipe that increased performance.
I hope to not require Windows in the future but Windows Update is disabled on my Win7 machine and everything's in its right place.
Most competitive games take the more liberal approach of allowing any input device and specify ad-hoc whether one is allowed. Very difficult to implement policy, no?
It's really unfortunate that IMDb is closing their forums, but I can only imagine the statement author having a shit-eating grin while writing, "but will leave them open for two additional weeks so that users will have ample time to archive any message board content they'd like to keep for personal use". I don't know what sadness has befell the IMDb forums in the past year, but any time I watched an enjoyable movie, I'd scramble to the message boards and find interesting information, asides, etc.
I'm sure most Americans felt, if any site, IMDb was a place to discuss specific movies. Welcome to searches like "The Big Chill forums" or the "FB Albino Alligator Discussion Group".
I'm down to entertain the conspiratorial, but I assume that the U.S. federal agencies infiltrated hosts with illegal material and then protected the files in a way as to record hosts that opened the file. I'm not a lawyer, but there's probably an argument to be made dependent on whether someone creates or assumes control of this entrapping honeypot. They probably didn't take out advertising or publish original material.
But if you're doing anything interested on the 'net, you should use a more secure system (I'd recommend not-Windows, but etc.) that would've indicated this attempt so articles like this aren't necessary to protect your browsing history.
I've heard so many people outside the computer industry decry our attempts to tell them that the Internet, much like the real world, isn't a nice place. Well, the present is always evolving, so have faith if you will, but this is the current landscape.
I was about to write some really snarky prose until I read the rest of the article and realized that the headline was a dog whistle specifically for me. There's some good stuff there, for the poor souls who accept such limited control over their computer.
One could argue that it is terribly optimal. Perhaps if children's sexual liberty were a priority, we could run around performing government-mandated psychological testing, and once passing, give them their V-card to play with; or simply remove the age of consent.
Yes. The web? No, not at all. I'm 26, and I'm willing to accept that my introduction to both subjects has influenced my opinion, but I think many more people will agree that the web has lost much of its luster for many reasons--while I still find the majority of computer technology interesting, available, and evolving.
The same thing goes with the cost of raising kids. Studies will tell you that you need tons of money to raise a kid but somehow, my parents raised 9 of us and they didn't spend the millions that studies suggest they would have needed.
How much money does it take to retire (or raise a kid)? It costs however much you want to spend on it. (Which is different than however much the next guy is going to spend).
The most recent average I've heard is $280,000 to raise a child to eighteen. No idea when you were born, but if that were in 1980, the average adjusted for inflation would be $93,800. Purely by the numbers, that's a factor.
We are all subject to the media environment (much like you describe) which is largely technological. I'm not saying their aren't culturally-related solutions to this "problem", but technological ones may even be the quickest. No matter the minority that still uses RSS and the web outside walled gardens, and will receive their desired "news" however they damn well please, how Facebook et al. display news posts, from friends and friends-of-friends, isn't nothing.
Also, discouraging technological solutions doesn't seem to be productive. e.g. I just thought of a bot that scans white supremacist and alt-right sites, running each paragraph through fact checking algorithms, and replying in comments sections with fairly approachable rescinders. Knee-jerk, obvious, sorta dumb. Would it be effective? I doubt it--down-voted and ad hominemed to all hell, but there are more nuanced versions of that idea and I think even that implementation could have value; social problems may have a variety of effective solutions, even technological.
I'd argue that sites like Beta News exist to publish commercial propaganda, and that they'd like you leave questions of that sort to a cloud security company, like Netskope (http://betanews.com/2016/10/12/business-cloud-service-malware/) or CTERA Networks (http://betanews.com/2016/10/12/enterprise-cloud-protection/).
1.) Andrew Morton was the maintainer that published the commit, but Johannes Weiner pushed the fix. Almost no one mentions this.
2.) Point #1 doesn't really matter. Who cares about who did what.
3.) A relatively and surprisingly cool Linus comments on something that's been bugging him. It's almost pub talk except kernel developers.
I wish I could've created a more cogent proof or argument, but really, non-news. Kernel developers discuss an issue resolved slightly later than ideal. Linus loves his beautiful artifact and wants to address anything that may mar it (which almost every article on this mailing list thread has overblown). I'd like to think everyone on that list is nearly as interested as he.
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Microsoft has recreated their Disk Cleanup tool and integrated it into OneDrive while calling it Storage Sense. If you're using Windows 10, you've already accepted a lack of control over your computer, but this should only affect OneDrive storage (for now!!).
I use Fedora was my workstation, and I love it. There's little a user can't do with Fedora or Linux (outside of playing non Unity-based games; Valve's encouraged many more games to be cross-platform ultimately though).
What would I change? Whatever regression bugs have been added to and/or existed in GNOME 3. I prefer GNOME over other DEs aesthetically, but after two or more days, the performance of GNOME, especially on modal overlay drawings, is horrific. A reboot is required with Wayland (AFAIK).
This is something I'd never experience with Windows, and these sort of niggling bugs hold me back from pushing normies into Fedora land.
No mod points available, but excellent synopsis. Thanks.
But I wasn't interested at all when it released. Big media circle jerk. I bought it this Friday post-patch and have loved the experience. Best not let your expectations get away from you.
I agree, an intelligent firewall or IPS should be able to handle this sort of attack. Reductive and higher level, HAProxy (etc.) could handle this. Perhaps I'm naive on internal traffic element, but if you protect the gateways into your system I'd monitor that traffic at most.
Like Robert Graham describes in http://blog.erratasec.com/2017..., it's a type of attack that can be perpetrated against any service on the internet.
Solutions:
- Build a proxy service (per the article) that parses input before passing it to $SERVICE.
- Do not put it on the internet (i.e. firewall).
Is SMB open by default in Windows Firewall anyway? If anything, pooh-pooh Redmond for that. I know, I know, millions of affected hosts.
"McCombs School of Business"
"nearly 800"
With all due respect to both of them, I get it. Who's directing this?
I hope not, it'll go to Hell I imagine.
But I'm not enabling automatic updates in any environment I manage.
Too many times have I been alerted of a new security issue by a client, though I was already aware, and was asked to install the patches that correct the issue. The environment's already designed to prevent many of these issues (ACLs, competent firewall rules) and I'm not worried, but want to qualm their fears with something real, like Microsoft patches. ...
So it's 3AM and I'm rebooting and I receive a real blue screen of death (i.e. 'we can't boot to shit, you want to recover?'), I scramble around and restore the last backup. The client isn't pleased, neither am I, and we forget about the ordeal because it's already solved.
What I'm saying is just like many others. I don't need your patches, they usually fuck things up, but some people do. So, it's a deal. Microsoft can deal with a swathe of angry customers who fail to boot or reboot loop to oblivion and I'll keep my mouth shut (other than blaming Troy Hunt, maybe).
Someone recently laughed when I mentioned I still use RSS. Their loss.
Feedly, by the by.
Most Windows Updates involve rarely utilized components that are exploitable only if not protected through other measures (specifically firewalls). I haven't seen anything come down the pipe that increased performance.
I hope to not require Windows in the future but Windows Update is disabled on my Win7 machine and everything's in its right place.
Most competitive games take the more liberal approach of allowing any input device and specify ad-hoc whether one is allowed. Very difficult to implement policy, no?
+1
It's really unfortunate that IMDb is closing their forums, but I can only imagine the statement author having a shit-eating grin while writing, "but will leave them open for two additional weeks so that users will have ample time to archive any message board content they'd like to keep for personal use". I don't know what sadness has befell the IMDb forums in the past year, but any time I watched an enjoyable movie, I'd scramble to the message boards and find interesting information, asides, etc.
I'm sure most Americans felt, if any site, IMDb was a place to discuss specific movies. Welcome to searches like "The Big Chill forums" or the "FB Albino Alligator Discussion Group".
I'm down to entertain the conspiratorial, but I assume that the U.S. federal agencies infiltrated hosts with illegal material and then protected the files in a way as to record hosts that opened the file. I'm not a lawyer, but there's probably an argument to be made dependent on whether someone creates or assumes control of this entrapping honeypot. They probably didn't take out advertising or publish original material.
But if you're doing anything interested on the 'net, you should use a more secure system (I'd recommend not-Windows, but etc.) that would've indicated this attempt so articles like this aren't necessary to protect your browsing history. I've heard so many people outside the computer industry decry our attempts to tell them that the Internet, much like the real world, isn't a nice place. Well, the present is always evolving, so have faith if you will, but this is the current landscape.
I was about to write some really snarky prose until I read the rest of the article and realized that the headline was a dog whistle specifically for me. There's some good stuff there, for the poor souls who accept such limited control over their computer.
One could argue that it is terribly optimal. Perhaps if children's sexual liberty were a priority, we could run around performing government-mandated psychological testing, and once passing, give them their V-card to play with; or simply remove the age of consent.
Yes. The web? No, not at all. I'm 26, and I'm willing to accept that my introduction to both subjects has influenced my opinion, but I think many more people will agree that the web has lost much of its luster for many reasons--while I still find the majority of computer technology interesting, available, and evolving.
Sort of like the way NetworkManager often fucks up my networks arbitrarily (when I miss a NM_CONTROLLED=no).
The same thing goes with the cost of raising kids. Studies will tell you that you need tons of money to raise a kid but somehow, my parents raised 9 of us and they didn't spend the millions that studies suggest they would have needed.
How much money does it take to retire (or raise a kid)? It costs however much you want to spend on it. (Which is different than however much the next guy is going to spend).
The most recent average I've heard is $280,000 to raise a child to eighteen. No idea when you were born, but if that were in 1980, the average adjusted for inflation would be $93,800. Purely by the numbers, that's a factor.
We are all subject to the media environment (much like you describe) which is largely technological. I'm not saying their aren't culturally-related solutions to this "problem", but technological ones may even be the quickest. No matter the minority that still uses RSS and the web outside walled gardens, and will receive their desired "news" however they damn well please, how Facebook et al. display news posts, from friends and friends-of-friends, isn't nothing. Also, discouraging technological solutions doesn't seem to be productive. e.g. I just thought of a bot that scans white supremacist and alt-right sites, running each paragraph through fact checking algorithms, and replying in comments sections with fairly approachable rescinders. Knee-jerk, obvious, sorta dumb. Would it be effective? I doubt it--down-voted and ad hominemed to all hell, but there are more nuanced versions of that idea and I think even that implementation could have value; social problems may have a variety of effective solutions, even technological.
Smoking causes emphysema, lung cancer, and may complicate pregnancies.
I'd argue that sites like Beta News exist to publish commercial propaganda, and that they'd like you leave questions of that sort to a cloud security company, like Netskope (http://betanews.com/2016/10/12/business-cloud-service-malware/) or CTERA Networks (http://betanews.com/2016/10/12/enterprise-cloud-protection/).
1.) Andrew Morton was the maintainer that published the commit, but Johannes Weiner pushed the fix. Almost no one mentions this. 2.) Point #1 doesn't really matter. Who cares about who did what. 3.) A relatively and surprisingly cool Linus comments on something that's been bugging him. It's almost pub talk except kernel developers. I wish I could've created a more cogent proof or argument, but really, non-news. Kernel developers discuss an issue resolved slightly later than ideal. Linus loves his beautiful artifact and wants to address anything that may mar it (which almost every article on this mailing list thread has overblown). I'd like to think everyone on that list is nearly as interested as he.