Once they get customers switched over to monthly subscriptions, then they might start fixing bugs... Until then, they need to introduce new features to encourage upgrades.
However it's more likely that they would just stop adding new features, and still not bother fixing bugs.
Big companies like microsoft and google spend a lot of money to influence elections, much of this money has been derived from foreign sources of income and many executives of large companies are foreigners.
There are many organizations which manage money intended to influence political processes, most large companies spend a lot of money trying to manipulate the political process. This isn't really any different.
Which is the whole point, many people are simply monitoring users who are in the administrators group - and this attack creates a user with administrative privileges while not being a member of the group. If your monitoring depends on such criteria, then this attack defeats it.
No monitoring strategy is flawless, there are so many things you could keep track of but you also need to eliminate the noise generated by legitimate activity. If you just log everything you'll be flooded with data all day long, if you filter too much or log too little then you will miss things. It's extremely difficult to strike the right balance, especially when strategies such as this are discovered which invalidate previous assumptions about logging and alerting.
The point is to retain administrative access while not being detected, the extra complication is not useless if it reduces the chance of the backdoor being detected (and thus removed, resulting in you losing administrative access).
You remove and replace the computer with one that's under your control, or you reprogram the existing one (which would be easily possible once you obtain physical access to it). Or you just wire up simple controls to the mechanical equipment of the ship (engines, rudder etc).
That's assuming there are no manual controls at all, which is unlikely as such controls would be needed for emergencies in the event of computer failure, and would probably be insisted upon by governments who don't want a large out of control ship crashing into anything.
Hostages are generally easier to take and get large sums of money for as well as easy to hide, but a ship full of cargo is not cheap - you could hold it to ransom and threaten to sink it or you could offload goods and sell them.
You could not prevent manual control of the vessel, only make it difficult...
On the other hand it would be relatively easy for pirates to damage the vessel such that it shut down and went off the grid. They could then offload any valuable cargo, or tow the ship away.
Without a government to enforce rules, warlords are what you end up with. If you have too much freedom, then people will exploit the freedom they have to try and take freedom way from everyone else. True freedom will never last for that reason.
Either MongoDB is better than I have heard, or else these people are stupid or at least deceived.
Which happens a lot, because 99% of the people buying and using software have no idea how it works, and are often deceived into thinking the software they're using isn't as shit as it really is. Microsoft are the perfect example of this.
Yes there's no technical reason for chips on cartridges, doing so increases the cost and complexity of the cartridges while providing no benefit whatsoever to the customer. Something needs to be done to stop manufacturers from expending additional effort to implement features which are entirely detrimental to the customer.
I've no objection to something which is inferior because it's inherently so due to lower cost, but i am totally against companies investing additional resources to create an intentionally inferior product.
I don't know about the 2 as i've not used one for a long time, but i have a newer laserjet (4200)...
It supports PCL and Postscript, so i don't have to use official HP drivers (assuming the official drivers can even run on any current systems)... The memory is upgradeable, it has 4 simm slots and memory is available cheaply on ebay - mine has 256mb, but i think some base models came with 16 or 64, so i've never had problems rendering complex pages.
One of the problems with page rendering and memory use btw is that older systems would download fonts to the printer and the printer would render the text, but modern systems basically dump a huge bitmap to the printer.
You wouldn't, but if you look at it from the opposite view - as a manufacturer, why wouldn't you want to get your customers dependent on you as a single supplier? Without controls or incentives otherwise, manufacturers will always do what benefits them to the detriment of their customers.
A "signature" is stupid anyway, i just make a random few lines with in osx preview.app and save the pdf. It's different every time, just like a real signature.
The older samsung lasers were good, we had one a while back where i worked which supported postscript and the toner was reasonable... The newer ones are less so, postscript support was gone and the toner was smaller and more expensive.
I'd generally go for a used office printer like a laserjet, postscript/pcl support and widely available toner.
I bought a cheap HP all-in-one a few years ago as i needed something urgently and it's all the local retailer had. The Mac drivers are PPC only, while the Windows drivers are 32bit only. Linux however (tested with ubuntu) supports both the printer and scanner out of the box because the drivers are open source, and there's no reason it wouldn't also work with non x86 architectures.
However this problem is entirely at the low end, if you buy a higher end printer then these problems won't occur. I bought an HP Laserjet 4200, it supports PCL and Postscript so it can operate driverless on virtually any platform. As i bought this printer used it was dirt cheap ($40) and came with an almost full toner. And when i've looked has never been any problem finding multiple suppliers willing to sell me original or third party toner for this printer. I assume it was an ex corporate printer and probably ran for many years in someone's office before it got sold to me.
So these highend printers are very much worth recycling, and will have many years of useful life in them.
The problem is that people don't think long term, or properly research their purchases. They are fooled by low up front prices and flashy marketing, and take advice from the wrong (ie biased) sources.
I did the same with an old hp laserjet, has network connectivity, supports postscript and pcl so it works with everything, has duplexer etc... Came with a toner that's supposed to be good for 20k pages and its still around 98% full.
Because the current economic system punishes any system designed to operate for decades unless it requires an ongoing maintenance contract.
The companies producing these devices need to show growth in their business and increased sales, but that's hard to do when your customers will buy one product that lasts 20 years.
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Once they get customers switched over to monthly subscriptions, then they might start fixing bugs... Until then, they need to introduce new features to encourage upgrades.
However it's more likely that they would just stop adding new features, and still not bother fixing bugs.
Distros like CentOS do limit you to just security updates, and unless the update is for the kernel it won't require you to reboot.
It doesn't matter, just like any lies from the leave campaign would have been ignored had they lost.
Because they lost, so any lies they might have told would never have been exposed anyway.
Big companies like microsoft and google spend a lot of money to influence elections, much of this money has been derived from foreign sources of income and many executives of large companies are foreigners.
There are many organizations which manage money intended to influence political processes, most large companies spend a lot of money trying to manipulate the political process. This isn't really any different.
Which is the whole point, many people are simply monitoring users who are in the administrators group - and this attack creates a user with administrative privileges while not being a member of the group. If your monitoring depends on such criteria, then this attack defeats it.
No monitoring strategy is flawless, there are so many things you could keep track of but you also need to eliminate the noise generated by legitimate activity. If you just log everything you'll be flooded with data all day long, if you filter too much or log too little then you will miss things. It's extremely difficult to strike the right balance, especially when strategies such as this are discovered which invalidate previous assumptions about logging and alerting.
Except /etc/passwd is an easily human readable text file, making such a change trivially easy to notice.
The point is to retain administrative access while not being detected, the extra complication is not useless if it reduces the chance of the backdoor being detected (and thus removed, resulting in you losing administrative access).
Electric cars require power to operate too, and in many cases the power to operate them comes from coal power stations.
You remove and replace the computer with one that's under your control, or you reprogram the existing one (which would be easily possible once you obtain physical access to it). Or you just wire up simple controls to the mechanical equipment of the ship (engines, rudder etc).
That's assuming there are no manual controls at all, which is unlikely as such controls would be needed for emergencies in the event of computer failure, and would probably be insisted upon by governments who don't want a large out of control ship crashing into anything.
Hostages are generally easier to take and get large sums of money for as well as easy to hide, but a ship full of cargo is not cheap - you could hold it to ransom and threaten to sink it or you could offload goods and sell them.
You could not prevent manual control of the vessel, only make it difficult...
On the other hand it would be relatively easy for pirates to damage the vessel such that it shut down and went off the grid. They could then offload any valuable cargo, or tow the ship away.
Without a government to enforce rules, warlords are what you end up with.
If you have too much freedom, then people will exploit the freedom they have to try and take freedom way from everyone else. True freedom will never last for that reason.
It's GPL vs BSD
If you're providing a hosted instance of the software then you only need to use an unmodified version...
Either MongoDB is better than I have heard, or else these people are stupid or at least deceived.
Which happens a lot, because 99% of the people buying and using software have no idea how it works, and are often deceived into thinking the software they're using isn't as shit as it really is. Microsoft are the perfect example of this.
Yes there's no technical reason for chips on cartridges, doing so increases the cost and complexity of the cartridges while providing no benefit whatsoever to the customer. Something needs to be done to stop manufacturers from expending additional effort to implement features which are entirely detrimental to the customer.
I've no objection to something which is inferior because it's inherently so due to lower cost, but i am totally against companies investing additional resources to create an intentionally inferior product.
Or set a static address on the printer but don't set a gateway, it won't be able to route outside of the local network.
Loss leading is companies trying to cheat customers...
I don't know about the 2 as i've not used one for a long time, but i have a newer laserjet (4200)...
It supports PCL and Postscript, so i don't have to use official HP drivers (assuming the official drivers can even run on any current systems)...
The memory is upgradeable, it has 4 simm slots and memory is available cheaply on ebay - mine has 256mb, but i think some base models came with 16 or 64, so i've never had problems rendering complex pages.
One of the problems with page rendering and memory use btw is that older systems would download fonts to the printer and the printer would render the text, but modern systems basically dump a huge bitmap to the printer.
You wouldn't, but if you look at it from the opposite view - as a manufacturer, why wouldn't you want to get your customers dependent on you as a single supplier? Without controls or incentives otherwise, manufacturers will always do what benefits them to the detriment of their customers.
A "signature" is stupid anyway, i just make a random few lines with in osx preview.app and save the pdf. It's different every time, just like a real signature.
The older samsung lasers were good, we had one a while back where i worked which supported postscript and the toner was reasonable... The newer ones are less so, postscript support was gone and the toner was smaller and more expensive.
I'd generally go for a used office printer like a laserjet, postscript/pcl support and widely available toner.
I've had similar issues with cheap printers...
I bought a cheap HP all-in-one a few years ago as i needed something urgently and it's all the local retailer had. The Mac drivers are PPC only, while the Windows drivers are 32bit only. Linux however (tested with ubuntu) supports both the printer and scanner out of the box because the drivers are open source, and there's no reason it wouldn't also work with non x86 architectures.
However this problem is entirely at the low end, if you buy a higher end printer then these problems won't occur.
I bought an HP Laserjet 4200, it supports PCL and Postscript so it can operate driverless on virtually any platform.
As i bought this printer used it was dirt cheap ($40) and came with an almost full toner. And when i've looked has never been any problem finding multiple suppliers willing to sell me original or third party toner for this printer. I assume it was an ex corporate printer and probably ran for many years in someone's office before it got sold to me.
So these highend printers are very much worth recycling, and will have many years of useful life in them.
The problem is that people don't think long term, or properly research their purchases. They are fooled by low up front prices and flashy marketing, and take advice from the wrong (ie biased) sources.
I did the same with an old hp laserjet, has network connectivity, supports postscript and pcl so it works with everything, has duplexer etc... Came with a toner that's supposed to be good for 20k pages and its still around 98% full.
Because the current economic system punishes any system designed to operate for decades unless it requires an ongoing maintenance contract.
The companies producing these devices need to show growth in their business and increased sales, but that's hard to do when your customers will buy one product that lasts 20 years.