My Webcam came with an open root telnet port. Just connect to port XXXX (whatever it was, I forget) and you were automatically logged in to a root shell.
There's a reason I kept it completely firewalled from the Internet.
However, the UI of the Tomb Raider reboots is much less annoying than the original 'press jump button at precisely the right pixel or fall and have to start over again' games. Agreed about the idiotic 'Press button or die' quick time events, though.
Don't forget that we all know the game we buy will be incomplete and there'll be $300 of DLC to buy afterwards, which will be released in a 'Game Of The Year' pack after twelve months, and we'll be able to buy that in a Steam sale for $5 the Christmas after next.
And it will probably be consolized, on-the-rails, checkpoint-save-only crap anyway.
I have precisely zero incentive to buy most modern games at release now. Few are worth more than that $5 in entertainment value.
The problem is that most 'remakes' aren't content to just update the graphics and keep the gameplay, but feel they must 'update' the gameplay, too.
Like the recent Carmageddon remake that added new graphics, but removed most of the fun. I can drive around minding my own business, get hit once by another car, and SPLAT. I'm smashed into pieces all over the ground. That never happened in the original... even a police van wouldn't destroy me in one hit.
What was it, sixty bullets to hit the Asian woman in a pickup truck they misidentified as their black male 'cop killer' suspect last year? And that was someone who wasn't even shooting at them. Nine innocent bystanders they shot while firing dozens of bullets at one guy who was shooting at them last year or the year before?
I remember a Korea vet complaining that the.30 carbine he was issued with couldn't kill a bad guy if he hit them with a full magazine of bullets, and would break if he tried to beat them to death with it.
Doesn't matter whether women are in the front lines. If they're in combat zones, they need weapons they can shoot... it's not like the bad guys will play nice and only attack the guys in the front lines.
Very few developers need more than 16 GB RAM or a 1 TB SSD. Also very few need a processor faster than an i5-6300U.
If, by 'developers' you mean 'people writing Javascript web crap for some social media startup', yes.
I only have 16GB of RAM and 12 cores on my development machine, and it's trivially easy to exceed both when writing real code that does real work in the real world.
I notice that there is no mention of cleaning up the malware/exploit/drive-by-download issues the advertising networks currently have.
If you eliminate all but simple text and image ads, you pretty much eliminate the malware problems. Obviously image decoders do sometimes have bugs that allow infection, so text-only ads would be even better.
I think the people who flock to Apple's products have already proven your second point by overpaying for second rate hardware.
We're not paying for the hardware, we're paying for the software. My Nexus tablet has much more powerful hardware than my girlfriend's iPad, but the Nexus is far more sluggish because of Android's software overhead that requires much more RAM and CPU for the same performance.
Not to mention that I still can't download Android 6 to get any meaningful security permissions on the Nexus.
But, I must admit, I almost got a Blackberry when my old phone broke, because I don't trust Android 'security' at all. Unfortunately, the only reason to have a smartphone was for the one app I have to run for work, and I wasn't sure whether it would run on a Blackberry.
Full encryption does nobody any good if the OS, as deployed, is so full of holes that the encryption isn't much of an impediment to gaining full access to everything on the device.
Sure, you could start the browser and go to www.hackmyphone.com to install malware that would take over the phone you stole.
But how do you do that if the phone is encrypted, and you don't know the password?
Any mobile device should be encrypted by default, because it's the one you're likely to lose, or have stolen.
You don't think that your bank app on your phone, and your email app for the email address the bank account is registered to, might be considered 'sensitive'?
(And, no, I don't do that, because I'm not dumb enough to let anyone who steals my phone take over my bank account)
WD's 3TB Green drives have been problematic for me. I've had about a 33% failure rate. Their other drives have been fine, with some 1TB and greater consumer drives still running after over 40,000 power-on hours.
Of course it may just be bad luck on my part with the 3TBs.
Sandisk SD cards, on the other hand, have all kinds of corruption problems with my dashcams, which went away when I replaced them with cards from another manufacturer. Hopefully WD's SSDs won't be so bad.
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My Webcam came with an open root telnet port. Just connect to port XXXX (whatever it was, I forget) and you were automatically logged in to a root shell.
There's a reason I kept it completely firewalled from the Internet.
However, the UI of the Tomb Raider reboots is much less annoying than the original 'press jump button at precisely the right pixel or fall and have to start over again' games. Agreed about the idiotic 'Press button or die' quick time events, though.
Don't forget that we all know the game we buy will be incomplete and there'll be $300 of DLC to buy afterwards, which will be released in a 'Game Of The Year' pack after twelve months, and we'll be able to buy that in a Steam sale for $5 the Christmas after next.
And it will probably be consolized, on-the-rails, checkpoint-save-only crap anyway.
I have precisely zero incentive to buy most modern games at release now. Few are worth more than that $5 in entertainment value.
The problem is that most 'remakes' aren't content to just update the graphics and keep the gameplay, but feel they must 'update' the gameplay, too.
Like the recent Carmageddon remake that added new graphics, but removed most of the fun. I can drive around minding my own business, get hit once by another car, and SPLAT. I'm smashed into pieces all over the ground. That never happened in the original... even a police van wouldn't destroy me in one hit.
I take it don't watch the news?
What was it, sixty bullets to hit the Asian woman in a pickup truck they misidentified as their black male 'cop killer' suspect last year? And that was someone who wasn't even shooting at them. Nine innocent bystanders they shot while firing dozens of bullets at one guy who was shooting at them last year or the year before?
I remember a Korea vet complaining that the .30 carbine he was issued with couldn't kill a bad guy if he hit them with a full magazine of bullets, and would break if he tried to beat them to death with it.
Doesn't matter whether women are in the front lines. If they're in combat zones, they need weapons they can shoot... it's not like the bad guys will play nice and only attack the guys in the front lines.
That's what I thought this story was about when I saw 'Makers' in the title...
law enforcement is down-sizing their handguns as well. the .40SW is being replaced by the 9MM.
Given that US police seem to hit ten innocent bystanders for every bad guy they shoot, I'd recommend they downsize to Nerf Guns.
Isn't Eric Raymond in the middle of a major rewrite of the NTP software, with emphasis on security?
I heard it was going to become part of systemd.
Exactly what is it you are doing to achieve this that applies broadly to "developers"?
You know, just the boring kind of thing that keeps the global economy working, rather than posting funny cat pictures to sell advertising?
It CLICKS! And that's SCARY!
Very few developers need more than 16 GB RAM or a 1 TB SSD. Also very few need a processor faster than an i5-6300U.
If, by 'developers' you mean 'people writing Javascript web crap for some social media startup', yes.
I only have 16GB of RAM and 12 cores on my development machine, and it's trivially easy to exceed both when writing real code that does real work in the real world.
I notice that there is no mention of cleaning up the malware/exploit/drive-by-download issues the advertising networks currently have.
If you eliminate all but simple text and image ads, you pretty much eliminate the malware problems. Obviously image decoders do sometimes have bugs that allow infection, so text-only ads would be even better.
Online ads? They have online ads? Seriously? Where?
I think they're on Android. I don't see them anywhere else.
I think the people who flock to Apple's products have already proven your second point by overpaying for second rate hardware.
We're not paying for the hardware, we're paying for the software. My Nexus tablet has much more powerful hardware than my girlfriend's iPad, but the Nexus is far more sluggish because of Android's software overhead that requires much more RAM and CPU for the same performance.
Not to mention that I still can't download Android 6 to get any meaningful security permissions on the Nexus.
Yeah, because I really want to spend hours and 30GB of my network cap downloading the game again next time I want to play it.
Full disk encryption does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to protect that data.
OK, you steal my phone. It's encrypted, and has a secure password.
How are you planning to get my data?
Remember, the encryption does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to protect the data, so you won't have any trouble, right?
This is Slashdot. They issue you a tinfoil hat when you log in.
If you're not wearing a tinfoil hat, you haven't been reading the news for the last few years.
You mean Blackberry.
He did say 'large scale'.
But, I must admit, I almost got a Blackberry when my old phone broke, because I don't trust Android 'security' at all. Unfortunately, the only reason to have a smartphone was for the one app I have to run for work, and I wasn't sure whether it would run on a Blackberry.
Full encryption does nobody any good if the OS, as deployed, is so full of holes that the encryption isn't much of an impediment to gaining full access to everything on the device.
Sure, you could start the browser and go to www.hackmyphone.com to install malware that would take over the phone you stole.
But how do you do that if the phone is encrypted, and you don't know the password?
Any mobile device should be encrypted by default, because it's the one you're likely to lose, or have stolen.
I know this is an unpopular opinion but most people don't need to encrypt their phone because they have no sensitive data on it.
Ha-ha-ha. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
You don't think that your bank app on your phone, and your email app for the email address the bank account is registered to, might be considered 'sensitive'?
(And, no, I don't do that, because I'm not dumb enough to let anyone who steals my phone take over my bank account)
The only people still on conventional hard drives for 'important' games are people who play Candy Crush and people who are poor college students.
LOL WUT?
New games are often 30+GB. My Steam folder is well over 1TB. I'm not buying a 2TB SSD that would probably cost more than the games did.
WD's 3TB Green drives have been problematic for me. I've had about a 33% failure rate. Their other drives have been fine, with some 1TB and greater consumer drives still running after over 40,000 power-on hours.
Of course it may just be bad luck on my part with the 3TBs.
Sandisk SD cards, on the other hand, have all kinds of corruption problems with my dashcams, which went away when I replaced them with cards from another manufacturer. Hopefully WD's SSDs won't be so bad.
Buying any $100,000 car used is generally an expensive proposition.