Have a friend who works for a mid-sized insurance firm that provides Cyber Insurance, it's actually exclusively what he does now. So what they do is get you to agree that you'll take all these preventative measures to avoid it (ie making backups) and when you get ransomwared they find some particular provision you violated to not pay your claim. Like any insurance of course.
It's about capital investment and the time to return a profit. You focus time and resources in the densest places so that your investment (loan) returns money as fast as possible so you have happy shareholders.
I don't believe the other reply is correct, it's not "hijacked servers". Popcorn Time which used to be hugely popular (might still be) used bittorrent to distribute the files. In the past others have used file locker services (ie Mega). So you setup a filelocker service where you claim ignorance (or in the US maybe Safe Harbor protection under the DMCA) and that you don't know what's being stored. Then you setup a streaming service that stores it's files there. Seems like a pretty easy way to build a "firewall" (metaphorical, not technical) between the content and the front end player(s). Not sure if anyone is doing this, but if not they probably should.
Apparently the most popular one now is called Exodus. This was based on some other plugins, Genesis and Lambda, which used NON-torrent streaming sources.
The most controversial part of the FCC's decision reclassifies fixed and mobile broadband as a telecommunications service, with providers to be regulated as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act.
Their bigger concern should be the exemptions provided to them under the OCILLA Act. If you argue that you're just a carrier and you can't block illegal content you're fine. But once you prove you CAN block illegal content then why aren't you blocking more of it?
So I'm curious where you work or whatever that you know plenty of them.
Well I actually said CCNP and CCIE, quoting myself here:
I know plenty of very competent CCNP and CCIE who haven't read anything near that
...but CCIE specifically? Pretty easy, I work in IT and interact with quite a few professionally. We have a couple that work as regular contractors. I also have a good personal friend who's an R&S CCIE and we have a regional ISP who's VP of Engineering has been a CCIE for a decade that I consider a good friend. I also just hired a guy a couple weeks ago who is a CCNP who's already passed the CCIE written. And I've met dozens over the years. I interviewed a guy once who was a WAN Switching CCIE (look that one up). To be honest, every single CCIE I know has their's in route/switch.
Look I don't disagree with you, I'm just not aware of any legislation that targets this specifically. If there was any such legislation, I'd certainly oppose it. But what you're describing is essentially BGP in action on the Internet. If I decided to AS path prepend a particular link because it was congested, I don't think anyone would argue that violated net neutrality. At least I'm not seeing that argument anywhere.
Joining Jeffery Eisenach on Trump's FCC transition team is Mark Jamison, an economist at the University of Florida. Like Eisenach, Jamison is affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, an expert in telecommunications policy and a critic of the FCC's net-neutrality regs.
I'm not aware of any Net Neutrality law that prevents path selection by ISP. This is about equal treatment of packets on an individual link. But I'm not an expert, do you have a source?
I'd really like to see a list of books that equal 10,000 pages that you think you "have to study" to configure policing/shaping and dynamic routing. I know plenty of very competent CCNP and CCIE who haven't read anything near that. You're talking 15-20 books specifically on routing and traffinc shaping. Seems excessive, certainly not a requirement.
You would really need some pretty advanced deep packet inspection, otherwise people will just run their webservers on ports that have a better DSCP value.
Again, you don't replace those unless you have billions in backend investment and billions of users.
There are some really interest projects going on that allow for decentralization of applications (eg ipfs, blockchain technology). With the continued increase in broadband speeds and distributed technologies it's not as far fetched as it once was.
Again, no, it doesn't. Here is a screenshot from the flash download page from 30 seconds ago. It installs some McAfee and Intel shit. No Google Chrome. Never has, never will.
I don't see it as that big of a deal. I bet a large percentage of our average web use is visiting the same sites frequently (ie Slashdot, CNN, Facebook, Gmail, etc). I'd be interested to see what percentage of average users page loads result in cache hits.
An anomaly to be sure. What percentage of Android phones in use do you think the OnePlus makes up? 0.1%? It also carried all the horrendous security flaws of Android over the last couple of years and runs CyanogenMod which is now essentially defunct. Oh and ridiculous invite system and long delays. And let's not forget that the iPhone 6 camera was light years ahead of the OnePlus One and it's a 5.5" phone -- thats bordering on phablet, coming in at 20% heavier than the iPhone 6 (it's competition at the time). That's not even mentioning things like TouchID. I haven't typed in a passcode since the iPhone 5 and I'll never go back.
The new versions of the OnePlus (3) shipped with bugs and a significantly increased cost ($399). The reviews also panned it's poor display and absurd "20 app limit".. The 3T I believe solved some of the display issues, but wasn't exactly critically received.
So even if the OnePlus One was probably the best Android phone ever made, it still had serious issues, and isn't a good alternative today.
Four year old iphone runs great, not sure what you're referring to? What wear and tear, you put it in a $10 case and it's as good as the day you bought it four years later.
You get stability, ease of use, timely updates, excellent security,
You can't be serious? What are these $300 android phones with "ease of use" (ie non brain dead skins), "timely updates" that don't take 6 months to make it through the carrier, if ever (at least in the US) and "excellent security" ? you have to be kidding me.
FWIW I'm sitting here with an iPhone SE and an LG Nexus, so I'm far from a fanboy, but let's be honest with ourselves here. My LG is a cheap backup that lets me play with Android. I didn't buy it because it runs great after a couple years or has "excellent security".
I always wondered why one would pay over US$900 for something that has functionality of other devices at half the cost; and would be "obsolete" in a year.
Stability, ease of use, frequency of updates, much better overall security, etc, etc. iPhone is far from obsolete in 1-2 years, they receive updates for at least four.
The state with the highest population has the highest GDP? Shocking! What per capita GDP? Oh look at that, number 17. Despite having probably the best climate and access to natural resources of any state in the country.
Both attack bursts originated from spoofed IPs, making it impossible to trace the botnet's actual geo-location or learn anything about the nature of the attacking devices.
For that matter, I used to have a program that would connect to a unix server and multiplex 7 virtual VT100 windows, of which about three would be running Lynx, on my 68000 based Macintosh Portable.
I'm not sure how phone theft is still happening. At least iPhones, not sure about Android. But if you put a password on your phone then report it stolen, I thought it was useless at that point? Could never be reactivated by another person. Is that not the case?
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Have a friend who works for a mid-sized insurance firm that provides Cyber Insurance, it's actually exclusively what he does now. So what they do is get you to agree that you'll take all these preventative measures to avoid it (ie making backups) and when you get ransomwared they find some particular provision you violated to not pay your claim. Like any insurance of course.
It's about capital investment and the time to return a profit. You focus time and resources in the densest places so that your investment (loan) returns money as fast as possible so you have happy shareholders.
I don't believe the other reply is correct, it's not "hijacked servers". Popcorn Time which used to be hugely popular (might still be) used bittorrent to distribute the files. In the past others have used file locker services (ie Mega). So you setup a filelocker service where you claim ignorance (or in the US maybe Safe Harbor protection under the DMCA) and that you don't know what's being stored. Then you setup a streaming service that stores it's files there. Seems like a pretty easy way to build a "firewall" (metaphorical, not technical) between the content and the front end player(s). Not sure if anyone is doing this, but if not they probably should.
Apparently the most popular one now is called Exodus. This was based on some other plugins, Genesis and Lambda, which used NON-torrent streaming sources.
The most controversial part of the FCC's decision reclassifies fixed and mobile broadband as a telecommunications service, with providers to be regulated as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act.
Their bigger concern should be the exemptions provided to them under the OCILLA Act. If you argue that you're just a carrier and you can't block illegal content you're fine. But once you prove you CAN block illegal content then why aren't you blocking more of it?
So I'm curious where you work or whatever that you know plenty of them.
Well I actually said CCNP and CCIE, quoting myself here:
I know plenty of very competent CCNP and CCIE who haven't read anything near that
...but CCIE specifically? Pretty easy, I work in IT and interact with quite a few professionally. We have a couple that work as regular contractors. I also have a good personal friend who's an R&S CCIE and we have a regional ISP who's VP of Engineering has been a CCIE for a decade that I consider a good friend. I also just hired a guy a couple weeks ago who is a CCNP who's already passed the CCIE written. And I've met dozens over the years. I interviewed a guy once who was a WAN Switching CCIE (look that one up). To be honest, every single CCIE I know has their's in route/switch.
Look I don't disagree with you, I'm just not aware of any legislation that targets this specifically. If there was any such legislation, I'd certainly oppose it. But what you're describing is essentially BGP in action on the Internet. If I decided to AS path prepend a particular link because it was congested, I don't think anyone would argue that violated net neutrality. At least I'm not seeing that argument anywhere.
Joining Jeffery Eisenach on Trump's FCC transition team is Mark Jamison, an economist at the University of Florida. Like Eisenach, Jamison is affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, an expert in telecommunications policy and a critic of the FCC's net-neutrality regs.
I'm not aware of any Net Neutrality law that prevents path selection by ISP. This is about equal treatment of packets on an individual link. But I'm not an expert, do you have a source?
I'd really like to see a list of books that equal 10,000 pages that you think you "have to study" to configure policing/shaping and dynamic routing. I know plenty of very competent CCNP and CCIE who haven't read anything near that. You're talking 15-20 books specifically on routing and traffinc shaping. Seems excessive, certainly not a requirement.
You would really need some pretty advanced deep packet inspection, otherwise people will just run their webservers on ports that have a better DSCP value.
Again, you don't replace those unless you have billions in backend investment and billions of users.
There are some really interest projects going on that allow for decentralization of applications (eg ipfs, blockchain technology). With the continued increase in broadband speeds and distributed technologies it's not as far fetched as it once was.
I'm all ears. If you've got a more recent source I'd love to see it.
Only about half of large organizations allow BYOD. See the graph here.
Again, no, it doesn't. Here is a screenshot from the flash download page from 30 seconds ago. It installs some McAfee and Intel shit. No Google Chrome. Never has, never will.
What in the world are you talking about? Chrome was never installed as a part of Java. You're thinking of the ask or Yahoo! toolbar, maybe?
I don't see it as that big of a deal. I bet a large percentage of our average web use is visiting the same sites frequently (ie Slashdot, CNN, Facebook, Gmail, etc). I'd be interested to see what percentage of average users page loads result in cache hits.
A cash register is likely going to be some sort of PC
Funny enough, I see these more than anything lately.
You mean the CPU being absolutely trounced in the watt/FLOP benchmarks by Intel?
An anomaly to be sure. What percentage of Android phones in use do you think the OnePlus makes up? 0.1%? It also carried all the horrendous security flaws of Android over the last couple of years and runs CyanogenMod which is now essentially defunct. Oh and ridiculous invite system and long delays. And let's not forget that the iPhone 6 camera was light years ahead of the OnePlus One and it's a 5.5" phone -- thats bordering on phablet, coming in at 20% heavier than the iPhone 6 (it's competition at the time). That's not even mentioning things like TouchID. I haven't typed in a passcode since the iPhone 5 and I'll never go back.
The new versions of the OnePlus (3) shipped with bugs and a significantly increased cost ($399). The reviews also panned it's poor display and absurd "20 app limit".. The 3T I believe solved some of the display issues, but wasn't exactly critically received.
So even if the OnePlus One was probably the best Android phone ever made, it still had serious issues, and isn't a good alternative today.
You get stability, ease of use, timely updates, excellent security,
You can't be serious? What are these $300 android phones with "ease of use" (ie non brain dead skins), "timely updates" that don't take 6 months to make it through the carrier, if ever (at least in the US) and "excellent security" ? you have to be kidding me. FWIW I'm sitting here with an iPhone SE and an LG Nexus, so I'm far from a fanboy, but let's be honest with ourselves here. My LG is a cheap backup that lets me play with Android. I didn't buy it because it runs great after a couple years or has "excellent security".
I always wondered why one would pay over US$900 for something that has functionality of other devices at half the cost; and would be "obsolete" in a year.
Stability, ease of use, frequency of updates, much better overall security, etc, etc. iPhone is far from obsolete in 1-2 years, they receive updates for at least four.
The state with the highest population has the highest GDP? Shocking! What per capita GDP? Oh look at that, number 17. Despite having probably the best climate and access to natural resources of any state in the country.
Both attack bursts originated from spoofed IPs, making it impossible to trace the botnet's actual geo-location or learn anything about the nature of the attacking devices.
For that matter, I used to have a program that would connect to a unix server and multiplex 7 virtual VT100 windows, of which about three would be running Lynx, on my 68000 based Macintosh Portable.
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I'm not sure how phone theft is still happening. At least iPhones, not sure about Android. But if you put a password on your phone then report it stolen, I thought it was useless at that point? Could never be reactivated by another person. Is that not the case?
Or course nobody in power can say it outloud or it wouldn't work.
Bingo, that's the only problem with the plan.
(only downside, if the middle east gets too hot, the oil money will help the Ruskys).
That's a good point, but with fracking we can keep it under control to a certain degree.