"Google and the criminal justice system ( a big ole example of how naughty it is to hack computer networks no matter how insecure or how you do it, simply not a opportunity for federal prosecutors to miss, esepcially if they land some of them with short custodial sentences, months not years and a really, really big fine, millions"
You seem to be confusing burger king, the corporation, with you or I or any other "individual 1337 h4xx0r". If "we" did this, we would be in jail for life. Corporations don't get put in jail. Corporations doing invasive marketing don't even generally pay fines. People accept this as another battle in the ad wars, and don't really see two corporations fighting as anything but spectacle of the elites.
One would hope that people take away from this that voice interfaces are terribly insecure to leave running all the time. Or even better, that google has to come up with a better defence mechanism for its hardware.
If its that easy to hack, its that easy to hack. No government can legislate away security flaws.
"[we] welcomed things crashing and deleting data so that we can stay up all night building up Nintendo thumbs."
uhh more like we left our consoles powered on for weeks until mom plugged in the vacuum one day and "I just needed the outlet for a sec dear! it can't be that bad!"
" Perhaps not even "ford compatible gas tanks" because a patent cover the tank design."
You clearly have never part shopped for car parts.. You cannot prevent aftermarket parts as you state it. There is no law stating that you cant produce ford compatible gas tanks in any country that i am aware of. Thats why you often have multple people who make gas tanks. Don't believe me? look it up. http://www.rockauto.com/en/cat...
These companies simply want to bring computer licensing models to things like toner carts and that is BS. The rulings for the courts were probably printed on re-manufactured toner cartridges. Who the hell buys brand name toner? Lexmark should be focusing on making their printers cheaper to run (use less power, use less toner), not creating a monopoly on cartridges. Guess which is easier though.
"By all appearances, Apple's assertion that this is a collection of information obtained from other sources, rather than an actual iCloud leak, appears to be true"
"Most of the people admitted to reusing the password on other major sites, though a few claimed they hadn't."
I re use passwords too. There ain't no one who doesn't. That some had unique passwords is significant, yet you gloss over that. You can think that some users are lying, but i'll bet its for real. I re use passwords, but for very important services they are of course unique. Having remote whipe on a phone seems to fall in that category, so I am inclined to believe that some are telling the truth.
If even one is, it means that somewhere got compromised. Maybe they only have a few hundred accounts, but still, they probably do have the ability to do what they say they can do, and most users should change their passwords in any case.
I've used a craigslist plumber, as well as other craigslist services. Did the job, no leaks years later. Paid cash, was happy.
If this has a rating system, it is far better than craigslist.
Bring on more person to person direct services trade facilitated by the internet! Sure you get the odd unqualified lout, but a ratings and reward system would correct some of that. If the company gave refunds, i would start looking at what i can farm out personally on a cold canadian day when i dont want to get under the vehicle.
"facebook is public folks. That shits posted straight there and it sure as hell isn't the posters anymore when it hits faceboooks servers."
I don't have a facebook, but i never meet even one single person around me for whom that is true anymore.
If everyone around you livestreams their life, do you get to opt out? seemingly the answer is increasingly no. And people rationalize it as it is a private company, you dont own your info and that they are stupid, as justifications.
Is that a justification for widespread mass surveillance? because the majority of the populace "opted in" and are sheeple? Is my privacy just considered collateral damage these days? Or should all laws consider these kinds of abuses for stupid people on their behalf (and in the end, mine).
If anyone thinks this is wrong, I'd like some of what you're smoking.
Oh yeah great so you catch that obvious terrorist. What about the other 99.9% false positives that this scheme will generate? You constructed your argument in such a way as to seemingly ignore that. Means that you are so scared of terror you don't care about becoming a police state. They did their job i guess on you.
You clearly never tried to enter the US as a non citizen. They will deny you even from places like canada, for seemingly minor infractions (criminal record, saying you ever did any drug EVER). And this is just some minor checklist stuff, you smoked a joint 20 years ago, but it means you cant travel in the USA, or you lie like most folks. Either way, i would think there is lots of questionable content on most peoples facebooks, that POLITICALLY motivated inquisitors could use against one.
All this does is persecute a bunch of innocents to catch the very occasional superterrorist who, while being a terrorist mastermind, is too stupid to log out of facebook on their phone.
Critical infrastructure DOESN'T NEED ACCESS TO A PUBLIC INTERNET
The focus of my job, nor my companies is security. However if someone is on the lan with DDC (Digital Data Control) and other systems, access control for instance, they have an even better shot of pulling something like this off. For all you know, they had a default system with default security credentials and no Vlans or any other of even the most basic controls. I get your point, but it could have easily been an inside job, by even say, a guest in the hotel.
Most small businesses i see, have zero vlans and access their cameras, pos, hvac, and access control from the same network that is available in the wall ports. Sure a hotel SHOULD have better security than that, but realistically, do they?
Most cable testers are not put inline, so that if your cable is bad, it doesn't fry anything. Tha'ts one of the points of a cable tester. That it can independently test cable. For instance, you don't need a switch to check an ethernet cable (and even if you did plug a bad cable into a switch, there is logic there not to overwhelm and fry the equipment on every POE switch i have seen. Ports rarely fry in my experience. XLR testers, while very low power, also operate on the same principle.)
The point he is making is not that its not "in line" its that it shouldn't have to be, and since it obviously does not stop the device in question from drawing too much power it will most likely not prevent damage to the device. The same way that if you hook a multimeter on 10amps into your car charging system and crank it, your gonna have a bad time. So the device does not work on preventing anything and is therefor only mildly interesting as a power meter for USB, OR if the cable isn't completely and catastrophically bad and you manage to react in time.
"Please Mr Hype and Ms Hyperbole - explain it like I am five - what is the quantifiable risk that somebody will bust through my firewall and attack my IOT device that generally does not communicate out side of my network."
Ah i bet your the sort to not run a virus scanner either because "i dont get viruses".
Scenario #1: Shit happens. Someone on your network gets rooted somehow (trivial in the windows world) and now scripts on that PC run 100 exploits, one of which is to search the local network for bathroom doors that the clueless lusers never update because "my bathroom door isn't on the internet".
Unless you have an active monitoring of your network firewall you would never detect it either. Which is 95% of home users. Even I only run pftop when i perceive there to be a problem. Thankfully i am not rich enough for any IoT devices to be that concerned, but as the last few months show, hacked IoT botnets are a giant problem for everyone, rich and poor. Of course this is all on the manufacturers, so nothing will be done unless the industry is far more tightly regulated.
Exactly. Having done this for a few years, CLEAR LANGUAGE is very important. There are english courses dedicated to that concept, but its pretty simple to grasp.
"Yes, that's probably a virus. Delete it."
While not exactly technically accurate, leaves absolutely no ambiguity. You would never tell the user to change their password, because obviously, they are being told that already by a third party so you telling them that would be an explicit validation of the problem and cause them to immediately act on it.
That he says a typo is to blame is icing on the cake really. Like someone who went over reading bad correspondences they made and desperately searching for any reason that it is not their fault.
Language of course, can only help if your direction is sound. And with that many screw ups in a tiny email, it was clearly not. This guy does seem like a bad admin at this point and perhaps, clueless. lor knows there are plenty of them
"It's not any different then the "we're going to run out of oil/gas/etc in 10 years." That has been repeated since the 1970's."
Gas was slowly getting more expensive till the saudi's dumped dumped all the oil on the market a few years ago. This collapsed the alberta economy as well as Venezuelas.
I cant think of a more fitting cast member than that. The guy just oozes slime and is well antiquated with "law" and "order". Physically, he is exactly who i picture is listening to my phone calls and recording my packets.
"I'ts crazy that computer repair houses are still a thing."
I dont disagree with the gist of your post, but this is silly. Having a slightly older teen, I would say that neither he nor any of his friends disassembles PCs in any way. (They may be able to remove the cover and stare at it if it makes a weird noise, as most adults could too). I have obviously taught my son how to do it, but I think what a lot of people forget, is that we, the people who were there at the dawn of the computer age, had to fix everything ourselves. You pretty much couldn't own a computer without knowing how the damn thing worked and how to fix it when you broke it.
I really think that is missing from my sons life. He has the skills, I taught him. But he has no passion for the art of repair at all. His friends just never learned. So I think really its great that your son likes to do that and maybe i should have tried harder to get my son into it while he was still younger, but not everyone who had a mechanic as a dad grows up to be a mechanic.
Personally I think it skips a generation with some combination of genes and experience. My grandfather could build anything, but my dad takes his car to the dealership every single time.
But yeah, the good techs get picked up by a corporation sooner or later, or are the ones running their own businesses. I think actual computer stores would do better than an office supply store all around though. Repairs definitely lead to purchases in that situation. Its like taking your car to canadian tire as opposed to a real mechanic
I actually went to read the article and expected a proper comparison with actual benchmarks. Instead, find a one liner as quoted in the summary. Come here and everyone says the obvious thing i missed with all the abbreviations: Final Cut Pro is a mac application.
Fuck this apple fanboi and his trolling!
shame on you slashdot for bothering to link it in the first place! *newsflash!* know-nothing nobody SAYS SOMETHING! stop the presses!
I would love to make firefox the default browser in my company. However mozilla has zero interest in that. While chrome provides MSI's and group policy templates to tie the whole thing together, enforce custom settings, etc.
google how to deploy faq: https://support.google.com/chr... (and many other webpages, but you dont even need instructions because its teh same as every other well designed software package from a major corporation)
Its been like this for literally years. Mozilla simply does not care about centralized policy management or deployment.
Firefox is the best web browser by far and much more stable, and less ram hungry than chrome, so its sad for me. Until i can push out adblock and firefox with a customized home page in 30 minutes to 200 workstations its not going to be standard on my network.
"Mines May Eliminate More Than Half The Human Workers"
If its mines vs humans now, I am ready. I have been training for years using the tactical simulator codenamed "minesweeper.exe", waiting for a day like this to arrive.
Face it, america the world is watching you. Don't fuck it up. Clinton isn't that great, but trump is both stupider and more violent than george w bush ever was. It was extremely hard to get rid of that asshole. Trump may just end it all.
So your damn right people should ignore some stupid BS about some stupid clasified documents and someone stupid fucking insecure MAILSERVER! Do you know how many hosts on the internet are insecure? like fuck who cares!
TRUMP is going to nuke the fucking world man. You americans are like the densest fucks ever. This is exactly the bullshit that got george bush elected. People were apathetic about gore, i remember it, and then bush snuck right in. No one thought he actually had a shot either.
"So you only like the truth leaked when it's about people you don't like? If there's damning evidence that's being hidden about people you agree with, you would want it hidden?"
If it involves prevention of the literal end times, then yes. At least until the damn american election is over! I'd rather she was impeached after getting into office than trump gets anywhere near that kind of power!
I used one last week with a new dell laptop. They have a range of only a few feet, but they do work and can share screens and network and all that over it. In fact the one i was using is second generation. Its an intel technology.
"The better solution is don't "take" the money, just let developers choose how many units they want to invest in and they will remedy the problem, profitably, without stealing anyone's money."
Oh i guess you haven't been to vancouver and surrounding suburbs where the developers are in the pockets of the government and love to choose towers full of one bedroom and bachelor condos.
Letting the developers choose what to build has ruined this city for families. 2 bedroom condos are 400k in the suburbs (more like 1mil in the city) and there simply are no 3 bedroom condos in most developments.
The developers know that selling a 2 bedroom condo for 1 million is not as valuable as selling 3 bachelors for 550k each, but both take up the same amount of space.
Developers maximize profit - that's it. The city makes a deal with the devil for the tax revenue and land sales. Up until recently they did not care at all about what was built. Now you get 5 token 3 bedroom units in a tower of hundreds. its a joke.
Slashdot Mirror
Or people with children who go to bed early, or bitchy neighbours..
Free subtitle databases are a godsend.
You seem to be confusing burger king, the corporation, with you or I or any other "individual 1337 h4xx0r". If "we" did this, we would be in jail for life. Corporations don't get put in jail. Corporations doing invasive marketing don't even generally pay fines. People accept this as another battle in the ad wars, and don't really see two corporations fighting as anything but spectacle of the elites.
One would hope that people take away from this that voice interfaces are terribly insecure to leave running all the time. Or even better, that google has to come up with a better defence mechanism for its hardware.
If its that easy to hack, its that easy to hack. No government can legislate away security flaws.
Vaping weed provides wayyyy less offence to most around you. Vape pens are the new normal in dispensary land.
uhh more like we left our consoles powered on for weeks until mom plugged in the vacuum one day and "I just needed the outlet for a sec dear! it can't be that bad!"
Ladies and gentlemen, that girl you wish you hadn't started a conversation with at the party!
You clearly have never part shopped for car parts.. You cannot prevent aftermarket parts as you state it. There is no law stating that you cant produce ford compatible gas tanks in any country that i am aware of. Thats why you often have multple people who make gas tanks. Don't believe me? look it up. http://www.rockauto.com/en/cat...
These companies simply want to bring computer licensing models to things like toner carts and that is BS. The rulings for the courts were probably printed on re-manufactured toner cartridges. Who the hell buys brand name toner? Lexmark should be focusing on making their printers cheaper to run (use less power, use less toner), not creating a monopoly on cartridges. Guess which is easier though.
I re use passwords too. There ain't no one who doesn't. That some had unique passwords is significant, yet you gloss over that. You can think that some users are lying, but i'll bet its for real. I re use passwords, but for very important services they are of course unique. Having remote whipe on a phone seems to fall in that category, so I am inclined to believe that some are telling the truth.
If even one is, it means that somewhere got compromised. Maybe they only have a few hundred accounts, but still, they probably do have the ability to do what they say they can do, and most users should change their passwords in any case.
can't be too careful...
I've used a craigslist plumber, as well as other craigslist services. Did the job, no leaks years later. Paid cash, was happy.
If this has a rating system, it is far better than craigslist.
Bring on more person to person direct services trade facilitated by the internet! Sure you get the odd unqualified lout, but a ratings and reward system would correct some of that. If the company gave refunds, i would start looking at what i can farm out personally on a cold canadian day when i dont want to get under the vehicle.
I don't have a facebook, but i never meet even one single person around me for whom that is true anymore.
If everyone around you livestreams their life, do you get to opt out? seemingly the answer is increasingly no. And people rationalize it as it is a private company, you dont own your info and that they are stupid, as justifications.
Is that a justification for widespread mass surveillance? because the majority of the populace "opted in" and are sheeple? Is my privacy just considered collateral damage these days? Or should all laws consider these kinds of abuses for stupid people on their behalf (and in the end, mine).
Oh yeah great so you catch that obvious terrorist. What about the other 99.9% false positives that this scheme will generate? You constructed your argument in such a way as to seemingly ignore that. Means that you are so scared of terror you don't care about becoming a police state. They did their job i guess on you.
You clearly never tried to enter the US as a non citizen. They will deny you even from places like canada, for seemingly minor infractions (criminal record, saying you ever did any drug EVER). And this is just some minor checklist stuff, you smoked a joint 20 years ago, but it means you cant travel in the USA, or you lie like most folks. Either way, i would think there is lots of questionable content on most peoples facebooks, that POLITICALLY motivated inquisitors could use against one.
All this does is persecute a bunch of innocents to catch the very occasional superterrorist who, while being a terrorist mastermind, is too stupid to log out of facebook on their phone.
The focus of my job, nor my companies is security. However if someone is on the lan with DDC (Digital Data Control) and other systems, access control for instance, they have an even better shot of pulling something like this off. For all you know, they had a default system with default security credentials and no Vlans or any other of even the most basic controls. I get your point, but it could have easily been an inside job, by even say, a guest in the hotel.
Most small businesses i see, have zero vlans and access their cameras, pos, hvac, and access control from the same network that is available in the wall ports. Sure a hotel SHOULD have better security than that, but realistically, do they?
Most cable testers are not put inline, so that if your cable is bad, it doesn't fry anything. Tha'ts one of the points of a cable tester. That it can independently test cable. For instance, you don't need a switch to check an ethernet cable (and even if you did plug a bad cable into a switch, there is logic there not to overwhelm and fry the equipment on every POE switch i have seen. Ports rarely fry in my experience. XLR testers, while very low power, also operate on the same principle.)
The point he is making is not that its not "in line" its that it shouldn't have to be, and since it obviously does not stop the device in question from drawing too much power it will most likely not prevent damage to the device. The same way that if you hook a multimeter on 10amps into your car charging system and crank it, your gonna have a bad time. So the device does not work on preventing anything and is therefor only mildly interesting as a power meter for USB, OR if the cable isn't completely and catastrophically bad and you manage to react in time.
Happy Valentines
Too soon?
Ah i bet your the sort to not run a virus scanner either because "i dont get viruses".
Scenario #1: Shit happens. Someone on your network gets rooted somehow (trivial in the windows world) and now scripts on that PC run 100 exploits, one of which is to search the local network for bathroom doors that the clueless lusers never update because "my bathroom door isn't on the internet".
Unless you have an active monitoring of your network firewall you would never detect it either. Which is 95% of home users. Even I only run pftop when i perceive there to be a problem. Thankfully i am not rich enough for any IoT devices to be that concerned, but as the last few months show, hacked IoT botnets are a giant problem for everyone, rich and poor. Of course this is all on the manufacturers, so nothing will be done unless the industry is far more tightly regulated.
The powers that be will just find some loophole. Perhaps having the bot phone a human before it fires. A human who will always respond "good to go!".
Exactly. Having done this for a few years, CLEAR LANGUAGE is very important. There are english courses dedicated to that concept, but its pretty simple to grasp.
"Yes, that's probably a virus. Delete it."
While not exactly technically accurate, leaves absolutely no ambiguity. You would never tell the user to change their password, because obviously, they are being told that already by a third party so you telling them that would be an explicit validation of the problem and cause them to immediately act on it.
That he says a typo is to blame is icing on the cake really. Like someone who went over reading bad correspondences they made and desperately searching for any reason that it is not their fault.
Language of course, can only help if your direction is sound. And with that many screw ups in a tiny email, it was clearly not. This guy does seem like a bad admin at this point and perhaps, clueless. lor knows there are plenty of them
Gas was slowly getting more expensive till the saudi's dumped dumped all the oil on the market a few years ago. This collapsed the alberta economy as well as Venezuelas.
No one knows how much oil they have in saudi arabia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And fracking will really end a portion of humanity so that doesnt make us survive longer either.
Rudy Giuliani.
I cant think of a more fitting cast member than that. The guy just oozes slime and is well antiquated with "law" and "order". Physically, he is exactly who i picture is listening to my phone calls and recording my packets.
Sleaze incarnate.
I dont disagree with the gist of your post, but this is silly. Having a slightly older teen, I would say that neither he nor any of his friends disassembles PCs in any way. (They may be able to remove the cover and stare at it if it makes a weird noise, as most adults could too). I have obviously taught my son how to do it, but I think what a lot of people forget, is that we, the people who were there at the dawn of the computer age, had to fix everything ourselves. You pretty much couldn't own a computer without knowing how the damn thing worked and how to fix it when you broke it.
I really think that is missing from my sons life. He has the skills, I taught him. But he has no passion for the art of repair at all. His friends just never learned. So I think really its great that your son likes to do that and maybe i should have tried harder to get my son into it while he was still younger, but not everyone who had a mechanic as a dad grows up to be a mechanic.
Personally I think it skips a generation with some combination of genes and experience. My grandfather could build anything, but my dad takes his car to the dealership every single time.
But yeah, the good techs get picked up by a corporation sooner or later, or are the ones running their own businesses. I think actual computer stores would do better than an office supply store all around though. Repairs definitely lead to purchases in that situation. Its like taking your car to canadian tire as opposed to a real mechanic
I actually went to read the article and expected a proper comparison with actual benchmarks. Instead, find a one liner as quoted in the summary. Come here and everyone says the obvious thing i missed with all the abbreviations: Final Cut Pro is a mac application.
Fuck this apple fanboi and his trolling!
shame on you slashdot for bothering to link it in the first place! *newsflash!* know-nothing nobody SAYS SOMETHING! stop the presses!
I would love to make firefox the default browser in my company. However mozilla has zero interest in that. While chrome provides MSI's and group policy templates to tie the whole thing together, enforce custom settings, etc.
Firefox how to deploy faq: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Deplo... (note the two most important links are broken and defunct)
google how to deploy faq: https://support.google.com/chr... (and many other webpages, but you dont even need instructions because its teh same as every other well designed software package from a major corporation)
Its been like this for literally years. Mozilla simply does not care about centralized policy management or deployment.
Firefox is the best web browser by far and much more stable, and less ram hungry than chrome, so its sad for me. Until i can push out adblock and firefox with a customized home page in 30 minutes to 200 workstations its not going to be standard on my network.
If its mines vs humans now, I am ready. I have been training for years using the tactical simulator codenamed "minesweeper.exe", waiting for a day like this to arrive.
Do you remember george w bush?
Face it, america the world is watching you. Don't fuck it up. Clinton isn't that great, but trump is both stupider and more violent than george w bush ever was. It was extremely hard to get rid of that asshole. Trump may just end it all.
So your damn right people should ignore some stupid BS about some stupid clasified documents and someone stupid fucking insecure MAILSERVER! Do you know how many hosts on the internet are insecure? like fuck who cares!
TRUMP is going to nuke the fucking world man. You americans are like the densest fucks ever. This is exactly the bullshit that got george bush elected. People were apathetic about gore, i remember it, and then bush snuck right in. No one thought he actually had a shot either.
If it involves prevention of the literal end times, then yes. At least until the damn american election is over! I'd rather she was impeached after getting into office than trump gets anywhere near that kind of power!
Dell has been shipping "wigig" docks since at least 2013
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wigi...
I used one last week with a new dell laptop. They have a range of only a few feet, but they do work and can share screens and network and all that over it. In fact the one i was using is second generation. Its an intel technology.
http://www.dell.com/support/ar...
Oh i guess you haven't been to vancouver and surrounding suburbs where the developers are in the pockets of the government and love to choose towers full of one bedroom and bachelor condos.
Letting the developers choose what to build has ruined this city for families. 2 bedroom condos are 400k in the suburbs (more like 1mil in the city) and there simply are no 3 bedroom condos in most developments.
The developers know that selling a 2 bedroom condo for 1 million is not as valuable as selling 3 bachelors for 550k each, but both take up the same amount of space.
Developers maximize profit - that's it. The city makes a deal with the devil for the tax revenue and land sales. Up until recently they did not care at all about what was built. Now you get 5 token 3 bedroom units in a tower of hundreds. its a joke.
But dont believe me, see for yourself:
http://www.onepacificliving.ca...
thats what they build if you give the developer carte blanche. Luxury condos.