There's a reason why some of us only use free software on free operating systems, and this kind of abuse is a perfect example of what happens when you trust proprietary software on a closed operating system. If you use a so-called "smart" device, you are a patsy, a mark, a willing victim. Stop hurting yourself.
Yes it seems practically everyone is oblivious to the world around them, living in some kind of paranoid dystopia where they are afraid to look up from their telescreen or answer the doorbell. It must be some kind of contagious brain cancer. Moral: Richard Stallman was right.
You are not permitted to write software for your own computing devices. You are not permitted to control your own computing devices. You have no way of knowing what your computing devices are doing, even as they monitor your every movement, your every word.
And you have the unmitigated gall to expect to be able to repair your own computing devices?
What will it take, before folks realize anyone using a so-called "smart" so-called "telephone" is being played for a patsy, a mark, a victim? Or are the masses so brainwashed they will continue to use these Orwellian telescreens?
Shhh, now Everybody who's Anybody is going to have to breathe exclusively canned air, because Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk say so. The truly elite breathe iAir, natchurally.
If you sell a computer that the user cannot control, and which constantly runs malicious software, call it a "telephone" because telephones aren't threatening like computers are.
If you sell a constantly-enabled microphone that sends everything to some central headquarters, call it a "speaker" because speakers aren't threatening like microphones are.
Thank you for your co-operation. Signed, Ministry of Truth.
Naturally, Hawker-Siddeley was part of UTDC who built Toronto's streetcars and the "lozenge" commuter-rail cars now built by Bombardier, a Canadian corporation, whilst Tempest is/was an NSA computer security specification. Thus we demonstrate: A nefarious plot between Canada and the NSA causes hurricanes.
Anyone who uses one of these devices -- designed from the get-go to spy on the user -- is a patsy, a mark, a fool. Free software, and free hardware, exists for a reason. Think about it.
Is there an actual test to run to verify whether or not a given device has these vulnerabilities? The listed ports do not seem to be open on the ones I was able to test.
Anyone who would willingly pay for and use a treacherous device, a locked-down computer that you cannot control, and run programs (applications) that you have no idea what they are actually doing, is signing up for this kind of abuse. Any owner of a so-called "smart" so-called "telephone" is a patsy, a willing mark, a tourist to Las Vegas, oblivious to how they are being robbed of everything valuable in their life. Stick to free software.
Other than Jeopardy, Masterpiece Theatre, Nova, and Nature, there hasn't been a show on television I care to watch since Cosby and Frasier. All the new stuff is full of swear words and sex, bleh, not in my living room.
Age 51, computer geek since 1977. My dad began with RCA in 1947 installing television sets. We never had cable or satellite, the concept of paying for television being bonkers, so what's there to miss? Movies and CDs I can check out from the library. Seriously, paying for television?
Great. A telephone that cannot be used to make telephone calls. With a five-inch screen that makes the Kaypro I look generous. No real keyboard, only a touchscreen emulation of a keyboard with microscopic key-targets so you can type perhaps as fast as five words a minute before realizing everything you entered was silently changed to be nothing like what you intended to write. Of what possible use is such a device?
It is depressing to attend a Linux users group and see that practically everyone there is carrying around a proprietary spy-machine. If anyone should grok the dangers of giving money to Google and Apple, it should be Linux users. But even they are blithely following the sheep. Help me RMS you're our only hope...
The DEC VT52 (1975) and most other terminals and printers of the 1970s and 1980s, including the Epson MX-80, used tab stops at 9, 17, and every 8 thereafter. A relative few (VT100) had settable tab stops. The every-8 setting is still the default on HP Laserjets and practically any console or terminal emulator you can find. Emacs merely follows the standard.
George, so proud to receive one of the first truly self driving cars, sat down and spoke "Supermarket!" and the doors locked, off he went, and everything was fine until the car said, "Our records indicate your devices suggest you may be harboring an Unapproved Thought, please remain seated and do not attempt to leave the vehicle (recomputing) Detention and Reprogramming Center (recomputing)" and that's the last thing he ever remembered.
First computer was an RCA VIP, January 1977 (the TRS-80 and Apple ][ hadn't been introduced yet). To program the VIP, you flipped the RUN/RESET switch up while holding the 'C' key on the hex heypad, then '0' to write memory, then the four-digit address, then entered your hex codes. You had better have written your program out on paper ahead of time. Clear screen was 00E0. After awhile you could read programs just by looking at the hexdump. A lost art.
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There's a reason why some of us only use free software on free operating systems, and this kind of abuse is a perfect example of what happens when you trust proprietary software on a closed operating system. If you use a so-called "smart" device, you are a patsy, a mark, a willing victim. Stop hurting yourself.
Yes it seems practically everyone is oblivious to the world around them, living in some kind of paranoid dystopia where they are afraid to look up from their telescreen or answer the doorbell. It must be some kind of contagious brain cancer. Moral: Richard Stallman was right.
Did not CompuServe, Prodigy, AOL, and many other internet providers have this same vertical integration?
You are not permitted to write software for your own computing devices. You are not permitted to control your own computing devices. You have no way of knowing what your computing devices are doing, even as they monitor your every movement, your every word.
And you have the unmitigated gall to expect to be able to repair your own computing devices?
What will it take, before folks realize anyone using a so-called "smart" so-called "telephone" is being played for a patsy, a mark, a victim? Or are the masses so brainwashed they will continue to use these Orwellian telescreens?
Shhh, now Everybody who's Anybody is going to have to breathe exclusively canned air, because Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk say so. The truly elite breathe iAir, natchurally.
If you sell a computer that the user cannot control, and which constantly runs malicious software,
call it a "telephone" because telephones aren't threatening like computers are.
If you sell a constantly-enabled microphone that sends everything to some central headquarters,
call it a "speaker" because speakers aren't threatening like microphones are.
Thank you for your co-operation.
Signed, Ministry of Truth.
Windows 10 itself is malware, isn't it?
Naturally, Hawker-Siddeley was part of UTDC who built Toronto's streetcars and the "lozenge" commuter-rail cars now built by Bombardier, a Canadian corporation, whilst Tempest is/was an NSA computer security specification. Thus we demonstrate: A nefarious plot between Canada and the NSA causes hurricanes.
Anyone who uses one of these devices -- designed from the get-go to spy on the user -- is a patsy, a mark, a fool. Free software, and free hardware, exists for a reason. Think about it.
Is there an actual test to run to verify whether or not a given device has these vulnerabilities? The listed ports do not seem to be open on the ones I was able to test.
Really? There is? Did I miss Richard Stallman endorsing some model of so-called "smart" so-called "telephone" ? Please enlighten.
Anyone who would willingly pay for and use a treacherous device, a locked-down computer that you cannot control, and run programs (applications) that you have no idea what they are actually doing, is signing up for this kind of abuse. Any owner of a so-called "smart" so-called "telephone" is a patsy, a willing mark, a tourist to Las Vegas, oblivious to how they are being robbed of everything valuable in their life. Stick to free software.
i mean, Google Reader
Other than Jeopardy, Masterpiece Theatre, Nova, and Nature, there hasn't been a show on television I care to watch since Cosby and Frasier. All the new stuff is full of swear words and sex, bleh, not in my living room.
Age 51, computer geek since 1977. My dad began with RCA in 1947 installing television sets. We never had cable or satellite, the concept of paying for television being bonkers, so what's there to miss? Movies and CDs I can check out from the library. Seriously, paying for television?
Stallman was right after all.
Great. A telephone that cannot be used to make telephone calls. With a five-inch screen that makes the Kaypro I look generous. No real keyboard, only a touchscreen emulation of a keyboard with microscopic key-targets so you can type perhaps as fast as five words a minute before realizing everything you entered was silently changed to be nothing like what you intended to write. Of what possible use is such a device?
Which is exactly why anyone giving those companies any money whatsoever, does themselves actual harm. Stop hurting yourselves, folks!
It is depressing to attend a Linux users group and see that practically everyone there is carrying around a proprietary spy-machine. If anyone should grok the dangers of giving money to Google and Apple, it should be Linux users. But even they are blithely following the sheep. Help me RMS you're our only hope...
The DEC VT52 (1975) and most other terminals and printers of the 1970s and 1980s, including the Epson MX-80, used tab stops at 9, 17, and every 8 thereafter. A relative few (VT100) had settable tab stops. The every-8 setting is still the default on HP Laserjets and practically any console or terminal emulator you can find. Emacs merely follows the standard.
George, so proud to receive one of the first truly self driving cars, sat down and spoke "Supermarket!" and the doors locked, off he went, and everything was fine until the car said, "Our records indicate your devices suggest you may be harboring an Unapproved Thought, please remain seated and do not attempt to leave the vehicle (recomputing) Detention and Reprogramming Center (recomputing)" and that's the last thing he ever remembered.
Jessica Jones and the Empire? I didn't even know Roger Rabbit's girlfriend had a thing for Darth Vader.
Thank you for gifting us, for informating us, with the needfuls. (Have you tried rebooting your grammars?)
First computer was an RCA VIP, January 1977 (the TRS-80 and Apple ][ hadn't been introduced yet). To program the VIP, you flipped the RUN/RESET switch up while holding the 'C' key on the hex heypad, then '0' to write memory, then the four-digit address, then entered your hex codes. You had better have written your program out on paper ahead of time. Clear screen was 00E0. After awhile you could read programs just by looking at the hexdump. A lost art.
Look up "Stockholm Syndrome" as you seem to have it.