So let me get this straight: you have web-connected cameras and microphones IN YOUR HOME, and you're going to let strangers INTO YOUR HOME when you're not there, just to drop off some goddamned package? Really? Are you insane!?
I've warned about shit like this for years and years now, and I've always been scoffed at; "LOL you're paranoid, nobody is going to put cameras and microphones in our houses, that's crazy talk!". But here we are, in 2017, and you're voluntarily putting cameras and microphones in your houses. You actually do this, you get what you deserve.
If the corporations and the State are in bed with each other, then what's the difference?
Are you going to wait until there is precisely ONE corporation running all the AM and FM radio stations in the country before you wake up and see there's a problem?
My first thought is a noisy power rail and analog components (DACs, preamps, power amps, etc) that have poor PSRR (power supply rejection ratio), and the noise is getting amplified.
At this point in time, is it just easier to list the assets on the Internet that haven't been compromised?
Seriously, I'm beginning to think that the Internet died years ago, and this is just Zombie Internet, and the corpse has just been running on inertia this whole time and will sooner or later grind to a halt and become DEAD-dead instead of UNdead.
So far as I know there is civilian oversight of law enforcement, they're not autonomous or all-powerful. Also I'll assume from your username that you're legitimately an older person and as such I am even more offended and outraged by your cowardice in the face of adversity and injustice; this is OUR COUNTRY. Law enforcement is supposed to serve US, not the other way around, and we have a RIGHT to demand they be held accountable for their actions. "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing", or have you forgotten that? It all starts HERE, in places like this, discussing it. Those who should be protecting us instead of violating our rights would have us be silent and 'do as we are told'. We should do NEITHER, and I think you know that. Don't forget it.
You're preaching to the choir, and our so-called 'law enforcement' doesn't care about little trifles like facts and logic and reason, they just want total and complete control over every citizen at all times, and FUCK THE CONSTITUTION. Also it's not like this hasn't been the problem with any law enforcement since such a thing was ever invented, law enforcement attracts a certain mindset that wants power over people, and the ability to bully them into doing whatever they're told, right or wrong, good or bad, fair or not, with utter impunity. There are some police who are fair and reasonable but they're few and far between, and once the more typical types rise to power within their respective organizations, the ones who are most like them feel free to stop hiding who they really are. Also doesn't help that the law enforcement lifestyle attracts extremists like white supremacists and neo-nazis/neo-nazi sympathizers and other types of racists and bigots. That's why we have checks and balances built into law enforcement, to keep them from running rampant. Lately they're being encouraged from various quarters to feel free to do as they please, therefore we see the problems we're having today. As usual we need to institute reforms (again) and weed out the worst of them (again) to show that The People are what count here and who (should) have the real power in this country, not jackbooted thugs with guns and badges.
No, I didn't read the article, but why should I when this sounds really dumb? Why not protect the entire drive instead of protecting parts of it!? If you have a method for the former, why not do it for the latter and leave it at that? Also how is this fundamentally different than the access/security settings for files and subdirectories that have existed in NTFS for decades?
Oh look another idiot operating under the following flawed excuse for 'logic':
Nothing bad has ever happened to me, therefore nothing bad can EVER happen to me!
Enjoy your game of Russian Roulette, especially the part where your financial life and identity get SHOT IN THE HEAD. You're taking CONSTANT chances and IGNORING taking any real precautions, expecting someone else to protect you. THAT IS CHILDISH THINKING (mommy and daddy will protect me!). Grow up and take some proactive responsibility for your life, idiot.
Buddy, I've heard these arguments about a MILLION times now, and they still hold water about as well as a collander.
I'm in my 50's. Number of times I've been mugged and had my wallet stolen: PRECISELY ZERO.
Number of times I've had somewhere I've used plastic to pay experience a 'data breach': ABOUT HALF A DOZEN, and that's in the LAST TWELVE MONTHS. I've had to have my bank cancel the aforementioned plastic and re-issue a replacement with a totally different number on it.
I've never had anything bad happen to me, so it can't be possible for anything bad to EVER happen!
That's the totally flawed excuse for LOGIC you and everyone like you is using! Are you young and dumb, or are you just plain dumb? There are data breaches going on CONSTANTLY in the last year or two and there's no end to it in sight. How many times do you pull the trigger in this game of financial Russian Roulette before you get shot in the head? Take your pick, buddy: Run a SMALL chance of someone mugging you (oh and by the way, where the hell do you live or walk around that you're getting mugged???) and taking a few bucks from your wallet (oh and by the way if you're actually so dumb as to be walking around places where you're going to get mugged, THEY ARE GOING TO DO IT REGARDLESS OF WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET, YOU MOOK!) or would your rather run a CONSTANT risk of cybercriminals MUGGING YOUR BANK ACCOUNTS AND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE!? Face it buddy, I'm being smart, you're being dumb, and I'm not even going to pretend to be nice about that, those are the facts.
Consumer Reports has credibility and a dedication to science and the truth; if they don't recommend a product, they have damned good reasons backing that up.
You clearly and obviously either don't read actual news source (Facebook, Twitter, and other 'social media' crap doesn't count as 'real news sources' either, by the way) otherwise you'd know that EVERY MONTH there's some sort of data breach or other of electronic payment systems. Either that or you're one of those myopic, head-in-the-sand people who refuse to believe that YOUR payment information can fall into the hands of hackers and criminal organizations. Would love to be a fly on the wall if your bank accounts and/or credit card(s) get drained because of a hardware card skimmer, a software exploit that does the same thing as a hardware card skimmer, or the payment systems in general of some company (or group of companies) gets hacked. Oh and by the way I've had my payment information stolen before and narrowly avoided having my bank account drained which is why I now pay CASH for everything I do in person and limit electronic funds transfers to as little as possible, I recommend EVERYONE do the same until such time as ALL companies that provide payment services for credit cards and debit cards take their security more seriously and we don't hear about these sorts of breaches more than maybe once a YEAR. Continue to be careless all you want but don't pretend you're smarter than I am.
At this point in time, the whole 'signature' or 'no signature' issue is irrelevant, since electronic payment systems, from the card readers themselves all the way through to the server farms processing the data, are about as secure as a collander is capable of holding water and so far as I'm concerned you're insane if you use anything other than CASH everywhere you possibly can, limiting your risk of accounts being compromised and identity being stolen to a minimum. Instead of worrying about some little details like 'signatures' they should be spending 100% of their time determining how to secure the entire chain of electronic payment systems, end-to-end, assuming it's even possible.
I've been saying for YEARS that any sort of 'DRM' or copy protection you can spend any amount of time developing, someone will have cracked within a matter of days. It's always been this way, it'll always BE this way, and they're wasting their time and money. Just accept that there's going to be some copying going on and get over it.
Yeah sure just keep everyone locked up in some room somewhere all the time. No so-called 'VR' experience is going to ever be as rich as the real thing. If you're going to have a mindset of 'why not have virtual field trips instead of REAL field trips?' then why ever go anywhere for any reason? Why not take your 'vacation' at your desk at work, and pretend to be on a beach in Fiji with a headset on and a glass of warm salt water to stick your hand in? More and more like Wall-E, where people never even get out of their chair their entire lives. No thanks.
By releasing this to the general public, aren't they just inviting malware authors to reverse-engineer it, so they can write malware that does an end-run around it?
No, you're completely and totally wrong, and are you even a U.S. citizen? Or are you some foreigner who has no stake in this? Or are you a government shill? Or are you just a troll/jackass? Regardless you are to be IGNORED as you are no better than these shitty politicians and so-called 'law enforcement'.
You NEVER trade freedom for security. EVER.
'Backdooring' encryption RUINS it, plain and simple; there is no compromise that can or should be made there. EVER.
The irony here is that even if they put a gun to everyones heads and forced them to ruin encryptions' value by compromising it with 'backdoors' (that anyone would eventually be able to discover and leverage) criminals and terrorists would not just use non-compromised encryption (copied from before the ban on 'real' encryption), they'd use codebooks and other types of obfuscation (book ciphers, and so on; the list is endless) that have been used for much longer than we've had computers, and goverments and cops would be back at Square One again: needing to do REAL police work, not just be jackbooted thugs with guns forcing their will on everyone. Are they really so blind to all this, or is it just another power-grab?
Slashdot Mirror
So let me get this straight: you have web-connected cameras and microphones IN YOUR HOME, and you're going to let strangers INTO YOUR HOME when you're not there, just to drop off some goddamned package? Really? Are you insane!?
I've warned about shit like this for years and years now, and I've always been scoffed at; "LOL you're paranoid, nobody is going to put cameras and microphones in our houses, that's crazy talk!". But here we are, in 2017, and you're voluntarily putting cameras and microphones in your houses. You actually do this, you get what you deserve.
If the corporations and the State are in bed with each other, then what's the difference?
Are you going to wait until there is precisely ONE corporation running all the AM and FM radio stations in the country before you wake up and see there's a problem?
My first thought is a noisy power rail and analog components (DACs, preamps, power amps, etc) that have poor PSRR (power supply rejection ratio), and the noise is getting amplified.
At this point in time, is it just easier to list the assets on the Internet that haven't been compromised?
Seriously, I'm beginning to think that the Internet died years ago, and this is just Zombie Internet, and the corpse has just been running on inertia this whole time and will sooner or later grind to a halt and become DEAD-dead instead of UNdead.
You forgot at the end of your comment.
42% of Americans under 8 will grow up to be socially awkward/avoidant/have social anxiety issues because they weren't properly socialized by age 8.
Zombie pig apocalypse!!!1!
So far as I know there is civilian oversight of law enforcement, they're not autonomous or all-powerful. Also I'll assume from your username that you're legitimately an older person and as such I am even more offended and outraged by your cowardice in the face of adversity and injustice; this is OUR COUNTRY. Law enforcement is supposed to serve US, not the other way around, and we have a RIGHT to demand they be held accountable for their actions. "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing", or have you forgotten that? It all starts HERE, in places like this, discussing it. Those who should be protecting us instead of violating our rights would have us be silent and 'do as we are told'. We should do NEITHER, and I think you know that. Don't forget it.
You're preaching to the choir, and our so-called 'law enforcement' doesn't care about little trifles like facts and logic and reason, they just want total and complete control over every citizen at all times, and FUCK THE CONSTITUTION. Also it's not like this hasn't been the problem with any law enforcement since such a thing was ever invented, law enforcement attracts a certain mindset that wants power over people, and the ability to bully them into doing whatever they're told, right or wrong, good or bad, fair or not, with utter impunity. There are some police who are fair and reasonable but they're few and far between, and once the more typical types rise to power within their respective organizations, the ones who are most like them feel free to stop hiding who they really are. Also doesn't help that the law enforcement lifestyle attracts extremists like white supremacists and neo-nazis/neo-nazi sympathizers and other types of racists and bigots. That's why we have checks and balances built into law enforcement, to keep them from running rampant. Lately they're being encouraged from various quarters to feel free to do as they please, therefore we see the problems we're having today. As usual we need to institute reforms (again) and weed out the worst of them (again) to show that The People are what count here and who (should) have the real power in this country, not jackbooted thugs with guns and badges.
Agreed.
This insanity needs to STOP, RIGHT NOW.
No, I didn't read the article, but why should I when this sounds really dumb? Why not protect the entire drive instead of protecting parts of it!? If you have a method for the former, why not do it for the latter and leave it at that? Also how is this fundamentally different than the access/security settings for files and subdirectories that have existed in NTFS for decades?
Nothing bad has ever happened to me, therefore nothing bad can EVER happen to me!
Enjoy your game of Russian Roulette, especially the part where your financial life and identity get SHOT IN THE HEAD. You're taking CONSTANT chances and IGNORING taking any real precautions, expecting someone else to protect you. THAT IS CHILDISH THINKING (mommy and daddy will protect me!). Grow up and take some proactive responsibility for your life, idiot.
Buddy, I've heard these arguments about a MILLION times now, and they still hold water about as well as a collander.
I'm in my 50's. Number of times I've been mugged and had my wallet stolen: PRECISELY ZERO.
Number of times I've had somewhere I've used plastic to pay experience a 'data breach': ABOUT HALF A DOZEN, and that's in the LAST TWELVE MONTHS. I've had to have my bank cancel the aforementioned plastic and re-issue a replacement with a totally different number on it.
I've never had anything bad happen to me, so it can't be possible for anything bad to EVER happen!
That's the totally flawed excuse for LOGIC you and everyone like you is using! Are you young and dumb, or are you just plain dumb? There are data breaches going on CONSTANTLY in the last year or two and there's no end to it in sight. How many times do you pull the trigger in this game of financial Russian Roulette before you get shot in the head? Take your pick, buddy: Run a SMALL chance of someone mugging you (oh and by the way, where the hell do you live or walk around that you're getting mugged???) and taking a few bucks from your wallet (oh and by the way if you're actually so dumb as to be walking around places where you're going to get mugged, THEY ARE GOING TO DO IT REGARDLESS OF WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET, YOU MOOK!) or would your rather run a CONSTANT risk of cybercriminals MUGGING YOUR BANK ACCOUNTS AND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE!? Face it buddy, I'm being smart, you're being dumb, and I'm not even going to pretend to be nice about that, those are the facts.
Consumer Reports has credibility and a dedication to science and the truth; if they don't recommend a product, they have damned good reasons backing that up.
Why the EVER-LOVING FUCK should I take the chance!?
You clearly and obviously either don't read actual news source (Facebook, Twitter, and other 'social media' crap doesn't count as 'real news sources' either, by the way) otherwise you'd know that EVERY MONTH there's some sort of data breach or other of electronic payment systems. Either that or you're one of those myopic, head-in-the-sand people who refuse to believe that YOUR payment information can fall into the hands of hackers and criminal organizations. Would love to be a fly on the wall if your bank accounts and/or credit card(s) get drained because of a hardware card skimmer, a software exploit that does the same thing as a hardware card skimmer, or the payment systems in general of some company (or group of companies) gets hacked. Oh and by the way I've had my payment information stolen before and narrowly avoided having my bank account drained which is why I now pay CASH for everything I do in person and limit electronic funds transfers to as little as possible, I recommend EVERYONE do the same until such time as ALL companies that provide payment services for credit cards and debit cards take their security more seriously and we don't hear about these sorts of breaches more than maybe once a YEAR. Continue to be careless all you want but don't pretend you're smarter than I am.
At this point in time, the whole 'signature' or 'no signature' issue is irrelevant, since electronic payment systems, from the card readers themselves all the way through to the server farms processing the data, are about as secure as a collander is capable of holding water and so far as I'm concerned you're insane if you use anything other than CASH everywhere you possibly can, limiting your risk of accounts being compromised and identity being stolen to a minimum. Instead of worrying about some little details like 'signatures' they should be spending 100% of their time determining how to secure the entire chain of electronic payment systems, end-to-end, assuming it's even possible.
You know goddamned well what I mean so fuck off.
I've been saying for YEARS that any sort of 'DRM' or copy protection you can spend any amount of time developing, someone will have cracked within a matter of days. It's always been this way, it'll always BE this way, and they're wasting their time and money. Just accept that there's going to be some copying going on and get over it.
Yeah sure just keep everyone locked up in some room somewhere all the time. No so-called 'VR' experience is going to ever be as rich as the real thing. If you're going to have a mindset of 'why not have virtual field trips instead of REAL field trips?' then why ever go anywhere for any reason? Why not take your 'vacation' at your desk at work, and pretend to be on a beach in Fiji with a headset on and a glass of warm salt water to stick your hand in? More and more like Wall-E, where people never even get out of their chair their entire lives. No thanks.
By releasing this to the general public, aren't they just inviting malware authors to reverse-engineer it, so they can write malware that does an end-run around it?
No, you're completely and totally wrong, and are you even a U.S. citizen? Or are you some foreigner who has no stake in this? Or are you a government shill? Or are you just a troll/jackass? Regardless you are to be IGNORED as you are no better than these shitty politicians and so-called 'law enforcement'.
You NEVER trade freedom for security. EVER.
'Backdooring' encryption RUINS it, plain and simple; there is no compromise that can or should be made there. EVER.
The irony here is that even if they put a gun to everyones heads and forced them to ruin encryptions' value by compromising it with 'backdoors' (that anyone would eventually be able to discover and leverage) criminals and terrorists would not just use non-compromised encryption (copied from before the ban on 'real' encryption), they'd use codebooks and other types of obfuscation (book ciphers, and so on; the list is endless) that have been used for much longer than we've had computers, and goverments and cops would be back at Square One again: needing to do REAL police work, not just be jackbooted thugs with guns forcing their will on everyone. Are they really so blind to all this, or is it just another power-grab?
Need I elaborate?