"keep network services running but hide them behind a firewall so they cant be used" is pretty stupid, surely simply turning those services off by default so that even without a firewall there are no exploitable services to connect to would have been a better idea?
Businesses are not going to move to Chrome OS for example.
Why not? In most of the businesses i've seen, the typical user has fairly limited requirements that are satisfied easily by web based tools. Switching such users to chromebooks brings significant cost and security benefits.
Host in a country which doesn't care about these things, and then sign up to cloudflare from there... They may be required to disclose who signed up and the address of the master site, but if all that points to a far away country which doesn't have copyright laws then the information won't do them any good.
And if you buy food for people in africa or other starving places, you do two things...
1, make them dependent on your handouts 2, cause them to have more kids - thus requiring larger handouts in future
African countries like Zimbabwe used to have no trouble feeding themselves, in fact they used to export a lot of food. Proper education is needed, not handouts of food, and they need to actually want the education and learn from it.
Given that there was a stockpile of personal information about the employees themselves, perhaps they would have destroyed it out of their own self interest...
For something like a car, very few people can actually afford the most expensive ones available...
For code, it will typically spend far more time being executed than written, even if you take your time to optimize it heavily unless your writing your own single use script.
Some stores will offer the smaller quantities with a lower unit price because some people are foolish enough to think that buying larger quantities is *always* cheaper... Always pays to calculate the unit price yourself.
In the case of phones, the manufacturer generally stops supporting them with software updates long before the device physically fails... I still have an iphone 3GS which works fine, but isnt usable as a daily phone anymore because virtually no current apps will run on it.
Buying the cheapest products is often a false economy, they are usually of inferior quality and won't last as long... If you have to buy multiple inferior products over the space of time when you could have bought one high quality product, then you may well end up spending more in total. Although this highlights another problem, many people are poor at saving and can't afford $2000 up front, but can afford $3000 when payments are spread over 2 years, so you end up frequently replacing inferior products, or taking out an expensive loan.
The thing is, legitimate people do suddenly change their daily routine, for instance by going on holiday...
These anti fraud systems often result in false positives which are extremely painful for the legitimate users. For instance, i just had one of my cards blocked while on holiday, and the only way to unblock it is to call the bank during working hours. This might sound reasonable until you consider...
On holiday, making a phonecall back to your home country is often difficult and expensive.. Hotels usually charge a premium for phonecalls especially international ones, mobile roaming is usually extremely expensive, cheap local sims often block international calls by default and the instructions to enable them are in the local language which you might not understand, international calls are generally very expensive unless you have a specific calling plan - which you wont have access to. You may well be paying multiple dollars per minute to make a call.
The bank is likely to keep you on hold for a long time, further multiplying the cost.
Some banks require you to call from your registered callerid, which forces you to use mobile roaming at whatever extortionate rate the operator charges.
They need to use messaging services instead of insisting on phonecalls, not only would it be much cheaper when travelling (virtually all hotels now offer free wifi), but its also more convenient and cheaper - instead of sitting on hold waiting for an operator your message goes into a queue, you can get on with something else while you wait for a response and won't be spending money while your waiting.
Most consumer isps in the west don't, most business focused isps or transit providers do, as do many providers in other countries. Guess where someone malicious is going to launch their spoofed packet attacks from?
Great, so send spoofed packets to your router using the source addresses of google etc, watch your router block all access to legitimate sites for 24 hours because of spoofed packets. After 24 hours you do it again, trivially easy denial of service.
Yes, it generally benefits the destination country - at the expense of the source country, which only serves to fuel further migration. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.
Look at why most migration (legal and otherwise) occurs... It is due to disparity of conditions between the source and destination country, where the migrant is planning to have a significantly higher quality of life in the destination country.
Legal migration then actually hurts the source country, because legal migration is typically only available to the top percentages of a population (smartest, best educated, richest etc)... If you allow the smartest people from a poor country to migrate to a richer country for better personal conditions, you are left with those of lower intelligence remaining in the poor country, which then contributes towards the country remaining poor.
A typical linux distro on the other hand comes with a lot more tools than windows does...
The Linux kernel also does a lot more than the windows kernel, it has many more features, runs on a much wider array of hardware and includes drivers for a lot more hardware (windows drivers are typically provided by third parties).
There would still be problems, but security would still be better because you'd be starting from a better base...
Windows has a lot of bad legacy design, and then lots of cruft bolted on top trying to implement security alongside a system that was never designed with it in mind (im referring to windows specifically and all the crap thats been inherited from dos and win3x/9x, not NT which although a more sensible design has had the aforementioned cruft bolted on top of it).
You have massive complexity, design flaws that cannot be fixed without breaking compatibility, and a lot of legacy hanging over from a system which didn't even have a concept of users or privileges.
Windows still stores passwords using an unsalted algorithm, and still allows authentication by hash (so effectively it stores plain text passwords)... Windows still runs several highly complex network-listening services by default at a high privilege level and which are hard to turn off (they recommend hiding the problem with a firewall rather than actually fixing it by removing the services). The shear complexity makes it extremely difficult to manage and monitor, new techniques are constantly being discovered and noone knows the whole system well enough to truly understand whats going on. Linux is extremely simple by comparison. Windows users are expected to download and run arbitrary binaries, although there is now a repository system in the form of the windows store it is still not widely used. Downloading random binaries requires a high level of technical literacy in order to verify the legitimacy of the site and the binaries downloaded.
So the whole world using linux wouldn't be perfect, but it would be better... A good example of this is Android, while there are malware problems on android in reality they are very few and far between compared to windows, despite the huge number of active android devices.
And also a lot more secure, if a remote user connects them to a random free wifi network the chance of them being compromised and becoming a foothold on your corporate network is massively reduced.
A corporate windows (or macos to a lesser degree) laptop connecting to a third party wireless network often leaks a LOT of information at the network level (eg it tries to perform dns lookups for your internal domain), and often contains a lot of data that can be extracted. A chromebook will do none of these things, and is far less likely to be compromised in any case.
A lot of corporate users use outlook web access, which works fine in chromeos... A lot of users use gmail, which works fine in chromeos.
Very few activex controls are still out there, i've not encountered any of that crap for years...
If you're going to buy a chromebook, you buy a compatible printer to go along with it, assuming you actually need to print something. Most consumer printers are cheap and disposable and regularly replaced because they fail or become incompatible with the latest os updates.
There are lots of users for whom chromeos works great, infact there are many users who's only interaction with the internet is from a mobile device and have never used a traditional computer at all.
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"keep network services running but hide them behind a firewall so they cant be used" is pretty stupid, surely simply turning those services off by default so that even without a firewall there are no exploitable services to connect to would have been a better idea?
Businesses are not going to move to Chrome OS for example.
Why not? In most of the businesses i've seen, the typical user has fairly limited requirements that are satisfied easily by web based tools. Switching such users to chromebooks brings significant cost and security benefits.
If you can be forced to pay child support despite not being the father, abstinence is not going to help you...
Host in a country which doesn't care about these things, and then sign up to cloudflare from there...
They may be required to disclose who signed up and the address of the master site, but if all that points to a far away country which doesn't have copyright laws then the information won't do them any good.
And if you buy food for people in africa or other starving places, you do two things...
1, make them dependent on your handouts
2, cause them to have more kids - thus requiring larger handouts in future
African countries like Zimbabwe used to have no trouble feeding themselves, in fact they used to export a lot of food.
Proper education is needed, not handouts of food, and they need to actually want the education and learn from it.
Intel were never entrenched in the mobile/embedded market, the market basically grew around ARM. Intel tried and failed to enter this market.
Given that there was a stockpile of personal information about the employees themselves, perhaps they would have destroyed it out of their own self interest...
They don't offer a facility to send a message through it... some banks do, this one doesnt...
For something like a car, very few people can actually afford the most expensive ones available...
For code, it will typically spend far more time being executed than written, even if you take your time to optimize it heavily unless your writing your own single use script.
Some stores will offer the smaller quantities with a lower unit price because some people are foolish enough to think that buying larger quantities is *always* cheaper... Always pays to calculate the unit price yourself.
In the case of phones, the manufacturer generally stops supporting them with software updates long before the device physically fails... I still have an iphone 3GS which works fine, but isnt usable as a daily phone anymore because virtually no current apps will run on it.
Buying the cheapest products is often a false economy, they are usually of inferior quality and won't last as long... If you have to buy multiple inferior products over the space of time when you could have bought one high quality product, then you may well end up spending more in total.
Although this highlights another problem, many people are poor at saving and can't afford $2000 up front, but can afford $3000 when payments are spread over 2 years, so you end up frequently replacing inferior products, or taking out an expensive loan.
The thing is, legitimate people do suddenly change their daily routine, for instance by going on holiday...
These anti fraud systems often result in false positives which are extremely painful for the legitimate users. For instance, i just had one of my cards blocked while on holiday, and the only way to unblock it is to call the bank during working hours. This might sound reasonable until you consider...
On holiday, making a phonecall back to your home country is often difficult and expensive.. Hotels usually charge a premium for phonecalls especially international ones, mobile roaming is usually extremely expensive, cheap local sims often block international calls by default and the instructions to enable them are in the local language which you might not understand, international calls are generally very expensive unless you have a specific calling plan - which you wont have access to. You may well be paying multiple dollars per minute to make a call.
The bank is likely to keep you on hold for a long time, further multiplying the cost.
Some banks require you to call from your registered callerid, which forces you to use mobile roaming at whatever extortionate rate the operator charges.
They need to use messaging services instead of insisting on phonecalls, not only would it be much cheaper when travelling (virtually all hotels now offer free wifi), but its also more convenient and cheaper - instead of sitting on hold waiting for an operator your message goes into a queue, you can get on with something else while you wait for a response and won't be spending money while your waiting.
Thanks, BA, because I will never fly an airline which doesn't care about its loyal customers and their own employees, of their home country.
Sounds like you'll never be flying then...
Most consumer isps in the west don't, most business focused isps or transit providers do, as do many providers in other countries. Guess where someone malicious is going to launch their spoofed packet attacks from?
Great, so send spoofed packets to your router using the source addresses of google etc, watch your router block all access to legitimate sites for 24 hours because of spoofed packets.
After 24 hours you do it again, trivially easy denial of service.
Yes, it generally benefits the destination country - at the expense of the source country, which only serves to fuel further migration. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.
LibreOffice already supports javascript macros (and python, and some others too)...
Look at why most migration (legal and otherwise) occurs... It is due to disparity of conditions between the source and destination country, where the migrant is planning to have a significantly higher quality of life in the destination country.
Legal migration then actually hurts the source country, because legal migration is typically only available to the top percentages of a population (smartest, best educated, richest etc)... If you allow the smartest people from a poor country to migrate to a richer country for better personal conditions, you are left with those of lower intelligence remaining in the poor country, which then contributes towards the country remaining poor.
A typical linux distro on the other hand comes with a lot more tools than windows does...
The Linux kernel also does a lot more than the windows kernel, it has many more features, runs on a much wider array of hardware and includes drivers for a lot more hardware (windows drivers are typically provided by third parties).
There would still be problems, but security would still be better because you'd be starting from a better base...
Windows has a lot of bad legacy design, and then lots of cruft bolted on top trying to implement security alongside a system that was never designed with it in mind (im referring to windows specifically and all the crap thats been inherited from dos and win3x/9x, not NT which although a more sensible design has had the aforementioned cruft bolted on top of it).
You have massive complexity, design flaws that cannot be fixed without breaking compatibility, and a lot of legacy hanging over from a system which didn't even have a concept of users or privileges.
Windows still stores passwords using an unsalted algorithm, and still allows authentication by hash (so effectively it stores plain text passwords)...
Windows still runs several highly complex network-listening services by default at a high privilege level and which are hard to turn off (they recommend hiding the problem with a firewall rather than actually fixing it by removing the services).
The shear complexity makes it extremely difficult to manage and monitor, new techniques are constantly being discovered and noone knows the whole system well enough to truly understand whats going on. Linux is extremely simple by comparison.
Windows users are expected to download and run arbitrary binaries, although there is now a repository system in the form of the windows store it is still not widely used. Downloading random binaries requires a high level of technical literacy in order to verify the legitimacy of the site and the binaries downloaded.
So the whole world using linux wouldn't be perfect, but it would be better... A good example of this is Android, while there are malware problems on android in reality they are very few and far between compared to windows, despite the huge number of active android devices.
And also a lot more secure, if a remote user connects them to a random free wifi network the chance of them being compromised and becoming a foothold on your corporate network is massively reduced.
A corporate windows (or macos to a lesser degree) laptop connecting to a third party wireless network often leaks a LOT of information at the network level (eg it tries to perform dns lookups for your internal domain), and often contains a lot of data that can be extracted. A chromebook will do none of these things, and is far less likely to be compromised in any case.
A lot of corporate users use outlook web access, which works fine in chromeos...
A lot of users use gmail, which works fine in chromeos.
Very few activex controls are still out there, i've not encountered any of that crap for years...
If you're going to buy a chromebook, you buy a compatible printer to go along with it, assuming you actually need to print something. Most consumer printers are cheap and disposable and regularly replaced because they fail or become incompatible with the latest os updates.
There are lots of users for whom chromeos works great, infact there are many users who's only interaction with the internet is from a mobile device and have never used a traditional computer at all.
So switch to Mac, there is a build of their suite available there.
Get a raspberry pi and a large external usb disk...
Get a decent ISP that gives you routable addresses...