Because, y'know, unless you espouse the RIGHT positions, some wanker "working" for a skeevy internet tabloid-esque echo chamber might be OFFENDED and yank a deal with you!
I use a password manager and try to make passwords as long as the app or site will allow me. The bitch is, a lot of sites and apps artificially limit password length at around 10 characters.
The problem is, in cases like the Badware crap, they're essentially libeling sites that have nothing truly wrong with them. And they aren't providing any more information than "You're on our list, reload your site from scratch and change a few things. What things? That's for you to guess!" And there's no reliable way to contact them to get data specific to your site about what the problem is. So instead of just fixing "the problem" (which may not even be a problem, it may just be something their particular scanner doesn't respond well to), you're left to basically rebuild your website from scratch?
As far as security reporting tools go, that's straight up bullshit. Especially when no other site security scanner on the net reports any problems whatsoever.
So, because the lazy fucks at Google can't do ongoing due diligence, they get to just demand that companies spend out cash on an ad-hoc basis? Just to try and wriggle out from under their blacklist?
Exactly, I wouldn't be so terribly chuffed about it, but their malware system is in play, by default on two major browsers.
And I know scammers would try to game it.
But dammit. If you're going to label a site as a malware-infested site and basically libel them in this way, there should be some form of accountability.
Basically, most of their services are run like "projects".
And there's nearly zero accountability and no real person can be contacted to light a fire under someone's ass to fix things when they go seriously wrong.
So things that break, tend to stay broken unless someone (or many someones) go to extravagant lengths
My company was on Google's StopBadware list for over a year for providing a passworded and checksummed remote support client from TeamViewer so our less technically inclined clients could safely download a known-good client and wouldn't be expected to jump through hoops to get it working.
Apparently, that's baaaaaaad! Because somehow a tech support scammer could direct someone to our site and abuse the client. Never mind that they couldn't get the password.
Or some bad, bad person would somehow break into our FTP site and swap out the file for a corrupted one. Never mind that we have processes in place to alert us immediately that something like this has happened.
And it took a fucking YEAR to finally get a response about this from the insipid fucktards. Because all their stupid site told us was our site was somehow compromised. Never mind that we took it down and reloaded clean TWICE, changing passwords, databases, etc all around.
Because questions to their google hangout board or whatever the fuck it was received no response. On multiple occasions. It finally took some asshole making some deeply targeted calls both to Google and the university that apparently oversees the project for them to actually respond and tell us the actual reason.
The Earth should be cooling, yet it is warming. Human activity is responsible for all of that warming, including countering the expected natural cooling.
Yep. Because it takes real balls for some AC to label someone a "trump troll".
Simply because I have ethics that aren't founded in envy of those with more money than myself. Simply because I have ethics that prevent me from performing criminal acts on people I disagree with personally or politically.
Again, I have no problem with this person's skills. I have a problem with how they choose to employ them.
And I have a history of dealing with so-called "hacktivists" before. Some of them are even still in jail today for the stupid shit they pulled.
Pretty much. Because such "minds" are nearly as sharp as a rubberized butter spreader (so dull you can't even call it a knife).
Basically all these modern script kiddie hacker activist-wannabes understand is "us and them".
So long as they perceive themselves as "the underclass", they're "morally" justified in doing pretty much ANYTHING. And, in their own mind, it's "okay", because they're on the side of "Right". And if they hurt innocent bystanders? Oh well, to make a omelette... Just so long as THEY are the chef and not the eggs.
In reality, they're primarily power-tripping pseudofascist assholes who would fail a basic ethics course, because they have none.
And, actually, I HAVE brought up submission patterns elsewhere.
And no, I didn't "wait until something can be said to make renewable solar sound unsafe".
Because renewable solar really isn't all that unsafe. This was an unfortunate accident that damaged a facility. But nobody died. Shit happens.
But the last couple submissions screaming about "dangerous stuff going on at nuclear facilities" came within a day of one another and both were from mdsolar. And mdsolar has a track record of FUD'ing up discussions that have to do with anything related to nuclear power. And with a handle like mdsolar, it's sort of hard to NOT suspect bias, if not outright shill-hood, here.
However, there's a submission about a fire at a solar plant, and he's strangely...absent from the discussion.
And for your edification. I basically think this country's power generation needs to switch off of oil, coal and NG and move over to an improved nuclear baseline supplemented by renewables with power storage (not natural gas supplemented by renewables, which is what many of these "renewable facilities" actually are).
The market's up! It's a good time to buy/sell! The market's down! It's a good time to buy/sell! The market's crashing! It's a good time to buy/sell! The market is so fucked you shouldn't buy or sell right now! It's a good time to buy/sell!
So this dumbshit is advocating closed source so we can lock ourselves into proprietary software, hoping that "someday" the owners of the proprietary shit MAY open source it. "Out of the goodness of their hearts."
Dude needs to stop huffing his compressed air cans... He's delusional.
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Because, y'know, unless you espouse the RIGHT positions, some wanker "working" for a skeevy internet tabloid-esque echo chamber might be OFFENDED and yank a deal with you!
I wonder if their pussy hurts too...
In other words "read the EULA", there's nothing "secret" about the recording.
I use a password manager and try to make passwords as long as the app or site will allow me.
The bitch is, a lot of sites and apps artificially limit password length at around 10 characters.
Implicity Dumb Internet of Things.
This is basically the sate of IoT due to an almost total lack of security.
Unfortunately there's 2 problems there.
1: Microsoft are stupid cocksuckers who deliberately obfuscate that option.
2: Most end users aren't savvy enough to look around for it.
The problem is, in cases like the Badware crap, they're essentially libeling sites that have nothing truly wrong with them.
And they aren't providing any more information than "You're on our list, reload your site from scratch and change a few things. What things? That's for you to guess!"
And there's no reliable way to contact them to get data specific to your site about what the problem is. So instead of just fixing "the problem" (which may not even be a problem, it may just be something their particular scanner doesn't respond well to), you're left to basically rebuild your website from scratch?
As far as security reporting tools go, that's straight up bullshit.
Especially when no other site security scanner on the net reports any problems whatsoever.
So, because the lazy fucks at Google can't do ongoing due diligence, they get to just demand that companies spend out cash on an ad-hoc basis? Just to try and wriggle out from under their blacklist?
HELL THE FUCK NO!
Exactly, I wouldn't be so terribly chuffed about it, but their malware system is in play, by default on two major browsers.
And I know scammers would try to game it.
But dammit. If you're going to label a site as a malware-infested site and basically libel them in this way, there should be some form of accountability.
Basically, most of their services are run like "projects".
And there's nearly zero accountability and no real person can be contacted to light a fire under someone's ass to fix things when they go seriously wrong.
So things that break, tend to stay broken unless someone (or many someones) go to extravagant lengths
My company was on Google's StopBadware list for over a year for providing a passworded and checksummed remote support client from TeamViewer so our less technically inclined clients could safely download a known-good client and wouldn't be expected to jump through hoops to get it working.
Apparently, that's baaaaaaad! Because somehow a tech support scammer could direct someone to our site and abuse the client. Never mind that they couldn't get the password.
Or some bad, bad person would somehow break into our FTP site and swap out the file for a corrupted one.
Never mind that we have processes in place to alert us immediately that something like this has happened.
And it took a fucking YEAR to finally get a response about this from the insipid fucktards. Because all their stupid site told us was our site was somehow compromised. Never mind that we took it down and reloaded clean TWICE, changing passwords, databases, etc all around.
Because questions to their google hangout board or whatever the fuck it was received no response. On multiple occasions.
It finally took some asshole making some deeply targeted calls both to Google and the university that apparently oversees the project for them to actually respond and tell us the actual reason.
Try walking into a deli and urinating on the cheese...
Really though, what is this idiot entitlement that tells you that you have any rights on a site someone else is paying for?
Because going "we don't do X' means there are, automatically swaths of vulnerabilities that are ignored.
These researchers' jobs are to think like bad guys. An sure ad shit, bad guys have no such limits.
Still gets me how many people still confuse "know" with "believe".
The Earth should be cooling, yet it is warming. Human activity is responsible for all of that warming, including countering the expected natural cooling.
And YOU know this HOW?
I wish I could think like this.
But I'm a realist.
There's always going to be some asshole out there trying to impose their will(s) on everyone else and make the world over to their liking.
That's why stuff like this will ALWAYS be needed.
That's awesome.
Now they just have to deal with Oracle spending out the ass on followup lawsuits on this to increase everyone's financial burden on this.
I know this study didn't purport to say "all millennials". So this is directed at just the portion that values speed over security.
YOU ARE MORONS!
If you think any of these companies you're putting your trust (and your data) in are your "friend", you've been misled and/or are delusional.
After you get burned enough by this insane level of trust, you'll (hopefully) come around.
Until then, the rest of us are just going to sit back and laugh at you...
Seriously. Why the fuck do we need a GOVERNMENT AGENCY to handle what should be getting handled by standard, ACCOUNTABLE, airport security?
There's literally NOTHING these security theater freaks are doing that couldn't be done by old-school airport security.
Really?
Do you even know who their targets are?
Hell, do you think THEY know?
In most cases, the answer is "no".
They see that they're attacking some huge, faceless organization. What they don't always see is the aftermath and the personal costs.
Take one of these doofuses I helped put away. He was stealing credit card info and making donations to "worthwhile" causes as far as he was concerned.
Never mind that, when the card companies retracted said donations later on, said charities also got hit by chargeback fees as well...
Yep. Because it takes real balls for some AC to label someone a "trump troll".
Simply because I have ethics that aren't founded in envy of those with more money than myself.
Simply because I have ethics that prevent me from performing criminal acts on people I disagree with personally or politically.
Again, I have no problem with this person's skills.
I have a problem with how they choose to employ them.
And I have a history of dealing with so-called "hacktivists" before. Some of them are even still in jail today for the stupid shit they pulled.
My problem is with his politics.
I never have a problem with anyone's skills.
Just how they choose to employ them.
Pretty much. Because such "minds" are nearly as sharp as a rubberized butter spreader (so dull you can't even call it a knife).
Basically all these modern script kiddie hacker activist-wannabes understand is "us and them".
So long as they perceive themselves as "the underclass", they're "morally" justified in doing pretty much ANYTHING. And, in their own mind, it's "okay", because they're on the side of "Right".
And if they hurt innocent bystanders? Oh well, to make a omelette... Just so long as THEY are the chef and not the eggs.
In reality, they're primarily power-tripping pseudofascist assholes who would fail a basic ethics course, because they have none.
Yeah. Hi mdsolar.
And, actually, I HAVE brought up submission patterns elsewhere.
And no, I didn't "wait until something can be said to make renewable solar sound unsafe".
Because renewable solar really isn't all that unsafe. This was an unfortunate accident that damaged a facility. But nobody died. Shit happens.
But the last couple submissions screaming about "dangerous stuff going on at nuclear facilities" came within a day of one another and both were from mdsolar.
And mdsolar has a track record of FUD'ing up discussions that have to do with anything related to nuclear power. And with a handle like mdsolar, it's sort of hard to NOT suspect bias, if not outright shill-hood, here.
However, there's a submission about a fire at a solar plant, and he's strangely...absent from the discussion.
And for your edification. I basically think this country's power generation needs to switch off of oil, coal and NG and move over to an improved nuclear baseline supplemented by renewables with power storage (not natural gas supplemented by renewables, which is what many of these "renewable facilities" actually are).
Strange how a lot of submissions about bad things supposedly happening in Nuclear come from mdsolar.
But something big in Solar power, like a huge facility fire, gets reported by someone else.
Coincidence?
Another piece of scaremongering FUD.
How...quaint.
The market's up! It's a good time to buy/sell!
The market's down! It's a good time to buy/sell!
The market's crashing! It's a good time to buy/sell!
The market is so fucked you shouldn't buy or sell right now! It's a good time to buy/sell!
So this dumbshit is advocating closed source so we can lock ourselves into proprietary software, hoping that "someday" the owners of the proprietary shit MAY open source it. "Out of the goodness of their hearts."
Dude needs to stop huffing his compressed air cans... He's delusional.