The problem is that the political system gives you a very limited set choices... Trump offers a solution to the biggest problems many people are facing, and he's the only one that does. You always have to choose the lesser of two evils.
In the 90s, computers were a geek thing and less people were interested, now they're more mainstream and attract more interest. But it takes time for these kids to enter the workplace... There is also a huge gap between someone who plays games or browses facebook, and someone who is actually interested in tech.
I can't think of who's in charge of most tech companies... In fact, those in charge generally only come to prominence if they are big personalities or if they screw up catastrophically. Your average company leader sits in his/her office and gets on with their job quietly.
Exactly, women in general are less likely to be interested in tech than men and therefore less likely to get into tech roles. It has nothing to do with inequality and everything to do with personal preference. Don't blame the industry, if anything blame gender biases during childhood, or just leave it be.
Use an isolated and hardened system for accessing the web, keep business systems airgapped from the public internet, what limited data needs to pass back and forth is easier to check. Your developer only needs to read, not usually copy large amounts of data.
There is a standard - S/MIME, OSX/iOS mail and Outlook all support it by default, not sure about Gmail... The problem is it takes effort to configure, so noone does.
Most email clients don't make it especially simple to show where links are actually pointing, you used to get a statusbar which showed the actual target (in browsers too) but thats uncommon now too. And most users wouldn't know what this meant anyway.
Most mail clients only show you the From: header field, while most mail servers only perform filtering on the envelope from, so its quite easy for someone malicious to bypass filtering and still make it look like the mail came from someone you know. It's not hard to work out email addresses of employees at a company, and work out the job roles of people...If someone receives an email purporting to be from someone senior in the company they're going to open it and probably follow any links within. Even more so if the company routinely sends out emails with links, users will be used to opening links and potentially entering data into the resulting sites. Many companies get all kinds of employee surveys sent around for instance.
A little research into the target organisation can yield a very high success rate with phishing emails. Even a blatantly obvious scam will usually net some results.
Current operating systems are designed by and for IT specialists, they are not suitable for people without such knowledge. If you need to use something that can only be done on such a system then you should receive appropriate training on how to use it properly, and/or use a machine that is managed by someone who does have the appropriate knowledge.
Opening an email should be a safe action, until you've opened it you have no idea what it contains and it might be a perfectly legitimate mail. The IT department should ensure that opening mails and reading their contents is safe. Visiting a site linked from an email should also be safe, and that's also the responsibility of the IT department to ensure that browsers and plugins are kept up to date and appropriately hardened against attack.
Actually entering passwords into a site is the only thing users shouldn't be doing, and this is often partly the companies fault too - in many companies there are legitimate emails which ask you to visit a site and enter creds, so users learn these poor practices and are more likely to fall for the scams, especially highly targeted scams done by someone who has actually researched the target organisation.
If their bulk negotiations allows them to buy power cheaper, then supplying it at cost to bitcoin miners as well as other users provides benefits to all those users. Bitcoin miners still have to pay tax on the property which houses their mining equipment, it may not bring in as much tax revenue as a factory full of workers but it still provides benefits to the area.
He died dealing with volatile compounds, wether he was intentionally making explosives or not is unknown. The volatile state may have been an intermediate state of production, or may have been the result of an error during his process. It's not proven yet if explosive compounds were his intended end product.
Avoiding dodgy domains doesn't help much... There is a lot of malicious advertising present on otherwise legitimate sites, legitimate sites also get hacked and configured to spread malware.
Their negotiations failed to account for demand... If anything, the presence of cryptocurrency mining operations increased usage and thus increased their bulk negotiation position.
There's plenty you can do depending on the situation... If a bomb explodes in a location where your friends and family are, you can find out if they were affected or not. If someone is critically injured or sick you may get a last chance to speak to them before they die.
Being arbitrarily disconnected from the world for no real reason is a bad thing.
What if your family or friends were directly affected by the attack? If i went away somewhere i'd still want to remain informed of important events occurring elsewhere.
It takes away people's freedom to choose.. By turning off the networks you are forcing people to do without. If people choose to take a day off then that's their choice to make, but taking away that choice and forcing it on people is dictatorial.
Some of us might need to use the internet for important matters, we might need to work, we might need to be contactable. There are also people with mental disabilities who wouldn't understand why things suddenly stopped working.
I won't be going to bali if they do things like this. I like the idea that my family can contact me in cases of emergency. If i want some quiet time without internet i'll go visit north korea.
And who operates the system that hands out access? And what happens if you need to do some urgent work but the system to hand out access is not working correctly? All of these systems are flawed in various ways, and often create new problems.
The problem is that people take such systems on face value and assume they cant be defeated... There are many movies with this premise too. Those keys will be wired in somehow, for a simple attack you could extend the wiring to move the keys. You could also bypass parts of the system and trigger a detonation directly.
Yes, we do need to know so we can make informed decisions on what to eat or avoid. Some of us have allergies to certain things, and eating them would make us sick.
Most smartphones support bluetooth keyboards... Many can be docked to a larger screen, so you have the same device wether your mobile or in a fixed location - best of both.
For many use cases a smartphone is "good enough", typing may be slower but many people aren't very proficient typists anyway. There are also various speech to text options which have improved a lot in recent years.
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The problem is that the political system gives you a very limited set choices...
Trump offers a solution to the biggest problems many people are facing, and he's the only one that does. You always have to choose the lesser of two evils.
In the 90s, computers were a geek thing and less people were interested, now they're more mainstream and attract more interest. But it takes time for these kids to enter the workplace...
There is also a huge gap between someone who plays games or browses facebook, and someone who is actually interested in tech.
I can't think of who's in charge of most tech companies...
In fact, those in charge generally only come to prominence if they are big personalities or if they screw up catastrophically. Your average company leader sits in his/her office and gets on with their job quietly.
Exactly, women in general are less likely to be interested in tech than men and therefore less likely to get into tech roles. It has nothing to do with inequality and everything to do with personal preference.
Don't blame the industry, if anything blame gender biases during childhood, or just leave it be.
Or provide a PSP that users can control and load their own software onto, or disable if they wish.
Home users may not want it, but large vendors absolutely do want it to enforce drm and other user-hostile "features".
If you have physical access you could also:
clone the drive
backdoor the existing install
install a hardware keylogger
modify the hardware
and all manner of other things. As many people have said, yes it's a bug but it's nowhere near as serious as people have been claiming.
Thats the UI for the webmail system, not javascript embedded in the content of received messages.
Use an isolated and hardened system for accessing the web, keep business systems airgapped from the public internet, what limited data needs to pass back and forth is easier to check. Your developer only needs to read, not usually copy large amounts of data.
There is a standard - S/MIME, OSX/iOS mail and Outlook all support it by default, not sure about Gmail...
The problem is it takes effort to configure, so noone does.
Most email clients don't make it especially simple to show where links are actually pointing, you used to get a statusbar which showed the actual target (in browsers too) but thats uncommon now too. And most users wouldn't know what this meant anyway.
Most mail clients only show you the From: header field, while most mail servers only perform filtering on the envelope from, so its quite easy for someone malicious to bypass filtering and still make it look like the mail came from someone you know. It's not hard to work out email addresses of employees at a company, and work out the job roles of people...If someone receives an email purporting to be from someone senior in the company they're going to open it and probably follow any links within.
Even more so if the company routinely sends out emails with links, users will be used to opening links and potentially entering data into the resulting sites. Many companies get all kinds of employee surveys sent around for instance.
A little research into the target organisation can yield a very high success rate with phishing emails. Even a blatantly obvious scam will usually net some results.
Current operating systems are designed by and for IT specialists, they are not suitable for people without such knowledge. If you need to use something that can only be done on such a system then you should receive appropriate training on how to use it properly, and/or use a machine that is managed by someone who does have the appropriate knowledge.
Opening an email should be a safe action, until you've opened it you have no idea what it contains and it might be a perfectly legitimate mail. The IT department should ensure that opening mails and reading their contents is safe.
Visiting a site linked from an email should also be safe, and that's also the responsibility of the IT department to ensure that browsers and plugins are kept up to date and appropriately hardened against attack.
Actually entering passwords into a site is the only thing users shouldn't be doing, and this is often partly the companies fault too - in many companies there are legitimate emails which ask you to visit a site and enter creds, so users learn these poor practices and are more likely to fall for the scams, especially highly targeted scams done by someone who has actually researched the target organisation.
If their bulk negotiations allows them to buy power cheaper, then supplying it at cost to bitcoin miners as well as other users provides benefits to all those users.
Bitcoin miners still have to pay tax on the property which houses their mining equipment, it may not bring in as much tax revenue as a factory full of workers but it still provides benefits to the area.
He died dealing with volatile compounds, wether he was intentionally making explosives or not is unknown. The volatile state may have been an intermediate state of production, or may have been the result of an error during his process. It's not proven yet if explosive compounds were his intended end product.
Which pretty much requires replacing the OS, since you can't get rid of this unwanted software while still running windows 10.
There will likely be third party builds which still run, there are still third party builds for powerpc macs among other things.
Avoiding dodgy domains doesn't help much...
There is a lot of malicious advertising present on otherwise legitimate sites, legitimate sites also get hacked and configured to spread malware.
Their negotiations failed to account for demand... If anything, the presence of cryptocurrency mining operations increased usage and thus increased their bulk negotiation position.
There's plenty you can do depending on the situation...
If a bomb explodes in a location where your friends and family are, you can find out if they were affected or not.
If someone is critically injured or sick you may get a last chance to speak to them before they die.
Being arbitrarily disconnected from the world for no real reason is a bad thing.
What if your family or friends were directly affected by the attack?
If i went away somewhere i'd still want to remain informed of important events occurring elsewhere.
It takes away people's freedom to choose.. By turning off the networks you are forcing people to do without.
If people choose to take a day off then that's their choice to make, but taking away that choice and forcing it on people is dictatorial.
Some of us might need to use the internet for important matters, we might need to work, we might need to be contactable. There are also people with mental disabilities who wouldn't understand why things suddenly stopped working.
I won't be going to bali if they do things like this. I like the idea that my family can contact me in cases of emergency. If i want some quiet time without internet i'll go visit north korea.
And who operates the system that hands out access?
And what happens if you need to do some urgent work but the system to hand out access is not working correctly?
All of these systems are flawed in various ways, and often create new problems.
The problem is that people take such systems on face value and assume they cant be defeated... There are many movies with this premise too.
Those keys will be wired in somehow, for a simple attack you could extend the wiring to move the keys. You could also bypass parts of the system and trigger a detonation directly.
Yes, we do need to know so we can make informed decisions on what to eat or avoid. Some of us have allergies to certain things, and eating them would make us sick.
Most smartphones support bluetooth keyboards...
Many can be docked to a larger screen, so you have the same device wether your mobile or in a fixed location - best of both.
For many use cases a smartphone is "good enough", typing may be slower but many people aren't very proficient typists anyway. There are also various speech to text options which have improved a lot in recent years.