This is how government works. Keep having referendums until the voters get it right.
Or gun control bills that keep getting defeated. Or privacy slashing "trade deals" that keep getting defeated... It is like politicians are stuck on Dori, and "just keep swimming..."
When I was a kid, there was an episode of the A Team where they took a Polaroid picture from the perspective of a security camera and then put that picture in front of the camera lens so it couldn't see them. Just do the same thing but with a print out of goatse or something.
Goatse... Zuckerbug nude... Hacking his camera is it's own punishment!
And I noticed right after that people in the modding community started recommending Buffalo... Seems the system works for educated consumers that give a crap.
I still wonder why people pay so much for sealed black boxes that they never really own... The most I will spend on an un-serviceable item I can not root is under $100. And thanks to China, I can get top shelf Androids for that and root them easier then name brands!
yep, you could have had a massive gun fight with bullets flying in from all directions (a bit like being in Syria - you don;t know who is going to kill you)
Yet for some reason, in all of the times CHL holders have used a weapon to stop a criminal, this has NEVER happened. Not once... Hmmm...
Doesn't matter. The guns did it. Only Guns kill people. At least that is the normal media narrative. God help us if anyone asks why someone on a watch list can pass a Federal Background check for a gun purchase... And nobody point out that "watch" does not mean he was on a "do anything" list. I mean, since we passed all these crappy surveillance laws to fight movie piracy, you think we could use them to stop mass murder occasionally?
The issue is that nobody is willing to pay for high-end tablets. A few years ago, there were more premium tablets around, and they didn't sell.
Not exactly. The "High End" tablets came preloaded with crapware and were hard to root. The China knockoffs had the same specs and had no preloaded crapware and were easy to root if not pre-rooted. I will pay more for more ram, and flash. I will not pay more for Samsung Update Utility and backup!
Funny you should mention facebook first. It has the most value. It can be used for spearfishing you friends or spamming sunglasses, or directing everyone you know to malware. Netflix is just resold so people can watch free movies.
Actually, the recommended advice is to have good backups, and don't click on unsolicited attachments... And funny enough, most people who have a house fire get smoke alarms for the next house.
Sure, it's less efficient for advertising, but its a hell of a lot safer.
I am thinking it would be much more efficient. Almost everyone is running an add blocker now, and many are blocking all scripts as well. A static image on a website, however, is not blocked, so people will actually see it and may click. Static images and pay per click may actually generate both more interest and more money. All while stopping malware and popups.:)
Alarmed users just means that snake oil salespeople will sell "anti-ransomware" applications, right next to the anti-malware, firewall, disk firewall, and antivirus application. It means another $50 bucks a year for a subscription service. Of course, will it actually stop a 0-day? Extremely doubtful.
The most effective anit-ransomware application / service is Backblaze or Carbonite. And frankly, if more people used backup services, that would be a good thing.
I do agree with your recommendation, and I am actually doing that exact thing at a few clients with Nas4free. But it is a bit complex for many small businesses, and Backblaze is easy!
It is improving security practices in classic Darwinian fashion. Companies with good security practices and good backups are not having an issue. People trying to keep IT to the lowest cost and ignoring recommendations and best practices are getting burned hard.
Good backups means cryptoware is not a problem. It also means hard drive failure, malicious employees, and hackers deleting stuff is not a problem. And yet many people still do not have good backups. If the press from this means that most people end up making backups a priority, it will help lots more then people with cryptoware. This also works for teaching people not to click every damn thing, and so on.
This is not a Windows thing. It is tricking someone into running a bit of software that with that users access only can lock all your data. If written for *nix, it would work on *nix.
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This is how government works. Keep having referendums until the voters get it right.
Or gun control bills that keep getting defeated. Or privacy slashing "trade deals" that keep getting defeated... It is like politicians are stuck on Dori, and "just keep swimming..."
Why not? It is happening with gun control bills in the US that keep getting voted down...
Surprised no one has hit them with a Dumping lawsuit for this yet...
Taxpayers when the build-outs are subsidized...
With good Internet there are lots of other choices. Not all are legal... But most are easier.
Oh, my camera works. But Skype can't see it half the time...
I'm using Linux, so it probably doesn't work, anyway ;)
(serious: I suppose this actually IS possible on Linux, but any cases in the wild?)
Not too likely. Most people can't get their own camera to work properly on Linux. ;) If some malware does, Skype should hire him!
When I was a kid, there was an episode of the A Team where they took a Polaroid picture from the perspective of a security camera and then put that picture in front of the camera lens so it couldn't see them. Just do the same thing but with a print out of goatse or something.
Goatse... Zuckerbug nude... Hacking his camera is it's own punishment!
And I noticed right after that people in the modding community started recommending Buffalo... Seems the system works for educated consumers that give a crap.
And I call it "idiots" for buying a sealed box like that with more then beer money.
I still wonder why people pay so much for sealed black boxes that they never really own... The most I will spend on an un-serviceable item I can not root is under $100. And thanks to China, I can get top shelf Androids for that and root them easier then name brands!
yep, you could have had a massive gun fight with bullets flying in from all directions (a bit like being in Syria - you don;t know who is going to kill you)
Yet for some reason, in all of the times CHL holders have used a weapon to stop a criminal, this has NEVER happened. Not once... Hmmm...
Doesn't matter. The guns did it. Only Guns kill people. At least that is the normal media narrative. God help us if anyone asks why someone on a watch list can pass a Federal Background check for a gun purchase... And nobody point out that "watch" does not mean he was on a "do anything" list. I mean, since we passed all these crappy surveillance laws to fight movie piracy, you think we could use them to stop mass murder occasionally?
The A500 is a fantastic device! We have one too and it ain't for sale!
The issue is that nobody is willing to pay for high-end tablets. A few years ago, there were more premium tablets around, and they didn't sell.
Not exactly. The "High End" tablets came preloaded with crapware and were hard to root. The China knockoffs had the same specs and had no preloaded crapware and were easy to root if not pre-rooted. I will pay more for more ram, and flash. I will not pay more for Samsung Update Utility and backup!
Of course you have a lot more room for a bigger battery in a tablet then in a phone...
Check in or back up. It is not rocket surgery. Just subscribe the laptop top backblaze and you cover that.
Funny you should mention facebook first. It has the most value. It can be used for spearfishing you friends or spamming sunglasses, or directing everyone you know to malware. Netflix is just resold so people can watch free movies.
Actually, the recommended advice is to have good backups, and don't click on unsolicited attachments... And funny enough, most people who have a house fire get smoke alarms for the next house.
Are we classifying systemd as Ransomware yet?
No, it is a trojan that brings in other malware.
Sure, it's less efficient for advertising, but its a hell of a lot safer.
I am thinking it would be much more efficient. Almost everyone is running an add blocker now, and many are blocking all scripts as well. A static image on a website, however, is not blocked, so people will actually see it and may click. Static images and pay per click may actually generate both more interest and more money. All while stopping malware and popups. :)
Alarmed users just means that snake oil salespeople will sell "anti-ransomware" applications, right next to the anti-malware, firewall, disk firewall, and antivirus application. It means another $50 bucks a year for a subscription service. Of course, will it actually stop a 0-day? Extremely doubtful.
The most effective anit-ransomware application / service is Backblaze or Carbonite. And frankly, if more people used backup services, that would be a good thing.
I do agree with your recommendation, and I am actually doing that exact thing at a few clients with Nas4free. But it is a bit complex for many small businesses, and Backblaze is easy!
It is improving security practices in classic Darwinian fashion. Companies with good security practices and good backups are not having an issue. People trying to keep IT to the lowest cost and ignoring recommendations and best practices are getting burned hard.
Good backups means cryptoware is not a problem. It also means hard drive failure, malicious employees, and hackers deleting stuff is not a problem. And yet many people still do not have good backups. If the press from this means that most people end up making backups a priority, it will help lots more then people with cryptoware. This also works for teaching people not to click every damn thing, and so on.
This is not a Windows thing. It is tricking someone into running a bit of software that with that users access only can lock all your data. If written for *nix, it would work on *nix.