I apologize that someone modded this as flamebait, when it's the absolute truth. It's not just Asia and Africa, but the entire planet is becoming over-populated, with new settlements in places that can't sustain the population growth. It's a problem everywhere. Sadly, your citation of Asia and Africa makes you sound racist.
Did it have an onboard PSP? Did it need auth to that PSP? Did it use any security co-processor? That's the point. Right now you can bypass the auth. Anything could be there, and you would have NO way of finding it. Go ahead and install a new BIOS. The new BIOS still can't see what's on that PSP. Downgrade prevention isn't the problem. It's that you can't audit what's there, and code in the PSP prior to the BIOS install *will still be executed* unless you cut off the PSP entirely, and that's not gonna happen because doing so disables a lot of functionality in the processor.
This affects millions, who were dumped to part-time status to get around the civil act of giving people needed health care coverage, which is also otherwise poorly managed by states, including those that bucked the ACA.
I know several individuals in just this mess. It sucks. Universities should have more dignity for their faculty. But they don't.
Read about the architecture of the vulnerability. It's a hidden rootkit. You can't checksum it, or really even probe it: https://amdflaws.com/#TABLE-vu...
It took them a week to acknowledge, then post something.
Nearly every Zen-based CPU has the problem, and there is no chain of authorities to say that these aren't somehow already affected, because you CAN'T FIND THE HIDDEN POSSIBILITIES because of their architecture. Any system can have a flash drive-reboot, get infected, and you'd never know the difference because correctly constructed, the malware isn't detectable.
If a BIOS can be re-flashed, it can be flashed back again. This is an architectural problem that isn't going to be easily fixed. Every sysadmin is going to have to look for unscheduled reboots, which is the first sign that something got root, then re-flashed the system with the vulnerabilities cited, likely with a malware payload.
So it's not pretty, and it's another sign of deep problems in CPU architecture.
My friends and colleagues that are adjunct faculty make far less than you do. They're treated as contractors, saving the university from having to play prevailing, living wages, requiring no benefits, and allowing them no recourse if their contracts aren't renewed. But they know this.
Some of them attempt to "live" from the wages. They can make more at McDonalds, and they're teaching incredibly difficult courses (comparatively speaking).
People don't necessarily work for the money. Yes, they have to eat, and monetary reward wasn't the first things on their minds. Viz teachers, social workers, and so many volunteers in so many areas.
There are people that work for slave labor, meaning university adjuncts. I see pride in workmanship that has little or nothing to do with the wages paid.
Hackathons are an exercise. They're olympics of the mind. They're full of ego, truthfully, but also a competitive spirit. Does someone rob them of their code? I don't think so. Open Source is full of dramatic contributions by brilliant people that weren't looking for the first penny. Yes, there are bad contributions, too, but often fueled by the same zeal and sense of common good, if not artistry breezing through a compiler.
There is the list of available *reasonable routes*, the capacity of those routes, normalized event cycles (go to work, come home on the 9/5 basis), aperodic events (accidents, POTUS motorcade, public safety/fire events, ducks crossing the road, etc) having a quotient of inputs to a specific route under consideration (congestion, events as above, timing of traffic signals), weather, truck vs auto traffic, road construction/cone-zones, and more.
If an app shows only a static route, and user-choices (freeway only, fastest route, etc) then it should certainly yield one best route, and everyone following such a route will jam it.
Many drivers learn back-side routes and use them. My uncle prefers only state highways because they're scenic. These choices are probably in the noise floor, but are significant if only that they don't add to a static route recommendation congestion.
Will the resulting bottlenecks add to new construction ideas? Probably not, because they're bottlenecks created by massive physical features, like rivers, lakes, mountains, ocean curvatures, etc. No one makes roads big enough to meet future needs because politicians don't want to spend the money, and also want to keep contractors in business, year after year after year, so there is no incentive for futuristic thinking, or even decent congestion control.
Really. Do this. Don't listen to the left or the right, follow the money. It will lead you to my conclusion, as I have followed the money. Understand the foundations, the FEC law, and who contributed to what. Then you, too, will ignore the media and go for the facts.
Fast forward to 2016 where gas/fuel/distribution titans The Koch Bros. influenced sufficient elections to foist an anti-environment, anti-regulation, pro-coal, and largely anti-solar electric/wind/hydro electric regime into control of the US House, Senate, the POTUS, and the Supreme Court's open nominations.
Like it or not, in this year, there are billions of dollars fighting de-carbonization, to my dismay. Saving the planet is NOT on their agenda, rather, The Rapture is on their agenda.
Child porn and privacy violations aren't synonymous. One is not the other. Your data is vacuumed everywhere, including this site, where there are eight different trackers. Unless you stop them, they'll count you, track you, and get into your social business.
That data in turn, becomes easily personally identifiable, thence characterized, and worse.
It's an industry-wide, Internet-wide problem. It won't be prosecuted because: profit. Until it's not profitable or satisfy their seemingly endless curiosity (for profit), it'll continue. Corporate immunity means that breaches are highly unlikely to be prosecuted, because: lobbying and expense in prosecution.
Face this reality and vote until they get it right.
Far be it from me to defend a carrier or telco, but you're not being realistic.
ISPs have routes to other peers. Inside their own realm, they may or may not have links or even hosted content distribution networks to ease the traffic on their core routers. Netflix, along with Akamai and plentiful others allow peering agreements to boost the QoS of their delivery to end nodes.
This in turn, is a bit different than how LTE carriers deliver their own feeds. Some people NEVER watch a movie on their phone, and others consume all of their video on their phones.
In a neighborhood with lots of WiFi users, many people misconfigure their access points, especially in densely populated metropolitan areas and apartment complexes, etc.
There is a HUGE problem called low-hanging-fruit where ISPs/carriers/telcos only want to invest in upgrades when it pays off for them by covering lots of density with small investments. Doing huge system-wide upgrades of their core isn't the problem, it's the last mile costs to all of those end points.
And I'm also sure they have shenanigans, but also the results of everyone going to a newly popular site that still doesn't have load-balancing, CloudFlare protections, and so forth. Some people also have devices that are completely clogged with anti-virus software, or who bitch when they have 150+ browser tabs going, each active content moving in them.
Summary: it's not easy to catch the shenanigans, and there are lots of rational explanations for odd slowdowns, including your own device CPU loads (due to anti-virus activity or poor resources). A simple speed test may or may not indicate something's wrong. It's just not that easy, sadly.
And I'm shocked that anyone would believe that two of the most famous stream-gleaning successes *ever*, wouldn't be sniffing, snorting, and otherwise gleaning the hell out of their internal traffic. Their very production engines are optimized for this sort of thing.
Facebook not know that their "secret projects" are being leaked?
Google, whose very existence is built upon their ability to sift your stuff, not sifting your stuff?
I think they have to use a Pinkertons just to make it look legit by proxy.
Everyone seems to forget the era when Microsoft locked-in Internet Explorer (with horrific results), causing the EU, and yes, even the USA to demand that those poor Mozilla folks, and that tiny company called Google, and all those little guys had to be able to play as a first-choice browser.
It's pretty insulting for Microsoft to have chosen to mandate its own browser AGAIN.
Apple's BS had nothing to do with it-- Microsoft has shot a hole in its foot, the SAME FOOT, before. They just don't remember the pain. Let's remind them, shall we?
There are 600 companies, each of whom can have a tasty snack of your data. Each of these companies has only the strictest security. I'm sure NO one could do proxy queries, because all 600 have the best security ever!
No, there can't be a nearly exponential number of hack possibilities with 600 partners. No factorial representation of port open across so many different jurisdictions.
I'm just positive it's as tight as a drum. Has to be, eh?
Read up on how Comcast configures its servers to understand how you can get a browser hang as the re-direct goes infinite-loop. It's not a missing entry error. I'm trying to find the site that explains their info vacuuming architecture.
However, remember they run their own DNS so they can mine where you're going with that so-called stealth browser of yours. When it does a DNS lookup, you get the correct IP address to do the https page pull.
If a DNS address becomes black-holed (there are a number of ways to accidentally do this, including being stupid), then you loose a site.
I'm guessing it got screwed up in cache, and when the cache flushed, it came back again. No huge subterfuge, no DDoS attack, just normal screw up. Even Slashdot was pretty stupid about how they did their infrastructure change-over. Happens all too frequently, but it happens. An alarmist charge towards the fate of net neutrality violations is a bit hyperbolic to me.
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I apologize that someone modded this as flamebait, when it's the absolute truth. It's not just Asia and Africa, but the entire planet is becoming over-populated, with new settlements in places that can't sustain the population growth. It's a problem everywhere. Sadly, your citation of Asia and Africa makes you sound racist.
Did it have an onboard PSP? Did it need auth to that PSP? Did it use any security co-processor? That's the point. Right now you can bypass the auth. Anything could be there, and you would have NO way of finding it. Go ahead and install a new BIOS. The new BIOS still can't see what's on that PSP. Downgrade prevention isn't the problem. It's that you can't audit what's there, and code in the PSP prior to the BIOS install *will still be executed* unless you cut off the PSP entirely, and that's not gonna happen because doing so disables a lot of functionality in the processor.
This affects millions, who were dumped to part-time status to get around the civil act of giving people needed health care coverage, which is also otherwise poorly managed by states, including those that bucked the ACA.
I know several individuals in just this mess. It sucks. Universities should have more dignity for their faculty. But they don't.
Go to: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2... then here: https://community.centminmod.c...
Enjoy.
Good grief.
What if there are actual facts inside? Would that interest you?
Read about the architecture of the vulnerability. It's a hidden rootkit. You can't checksum it, or really even probe it: https://amdflaws.com/#TABLE-vu...
Did you read the vulnerability, and how it is instantiated? Of do you just play a geek on TV?
It would be good to read about the problem to understand to have a context to the answer: https://amdflaws.com/#TABLE-vu...
Except that it's not.
It took them a week to acknowledge, then post something.
Nearly every Zen-based CPU has the problem, and there is no chain of authorities to say that these aren't somehow already affected, because you CAN'T FIND THE HIDDEN POSSIBILITIES because of their architecture. Any system can have a flash drive-reboot, get infected, and you'd never know the difference because correctly constructed, the malware isn't detectable.
If a BIOS can be re-flashed, it can be flashed back again. This is an architectural problem that isn't going to be easily fixed. Every sysadmin is going to have to look for unscheduled reboots, which is the first sign that something got root, then re-flashed the system with the vulnerabilities cited, likely with a malware payload.
So it's not pretty, and it's another sign of deep problems in CPU architecture.
My friends and colleagues that are adjunct faculty make far less than you do. They're treated as contractors, saving the university from having to play prevailing, living wages, requiring no benefits, and allowing them no recourse if their contracts aren't renewed. But they know this.
Some of them attempt to "live" from the wages. They can make more at McDonalds, and they're teaching incredibly difficult courses (comparatively speaking).
Mod parent up.
People don't necessarily work for the money. Yes, they have to eat, and monetary reward wasn't the first things on their minds. Viz teachers, social workers, and so many volunteers in so many areas.
There are people that work for slave labor, meaning university adjuncts. I see pride in workmanship that has little or nothing to do with the wages paid.
Hackathons are an exercise. They're olympics of the mind. They're full of ego, truthfully, but also a competitive spirit. Does someone rob them of their code? I don't think so. Open Source is full of dramatic contributions by brilliant people that weren't looking for the first penny. Yes, there are bad contributions, too, but often fueled by the same zeal and sense of common good, if not artistry breezing through a compiler.
Maybe you could get actual results by tagging -ad -spam -google -bribed -transaction in the search field.
They're pimps. No finer word than that.
It's not that simple, at all.
There is the list of available *reasonable routes*, the capacity of those routes, normalized event cycles (go to work, come home on the 9/5 basis), aperodic events (accidents, POTUS motorcade, public safety/fire events, ducks crossing the road, etc) having a quotient of inputs to a specific route under consideration (congestion, events as above, timing of traffic signals), weather, truck vs auto traffic, road construction/cone-zones, and more.
If an app shows only a static route, and user-choices (freeway only, fastest route, etc) then it should certainly yield one best route, and everyone following such a route will jam it.
Many drivers learn back-side routes and use them. My uncle prefers only state highways because they're scenic. These choices are probably in the noise floor, but are significant if only that they don't add to a static route recommendation congestion.
Will the resulting bottlenecks add to new construction ideas? Probably not, because they're bottlenecks created by massive physical features, like rivers, lakes, mountains, ocean curvatures, etc. No one makes roads big enough to meet future needs because politicians don't want to spend the money, and also want to keep contractors in business, year after year after year, so there is no incentive for futuristic thinking, or even decent congestion control.
You offered specious google tossings. I'll not do your homework for ya.
Mmmmm. Sure.
Follow the money and the campaign contributions.
Really. Do this. Don't listen to the left or the right, follow the money. It will lead you to my conclusion, as I have followed the money. Understand the foundations, the FEC law, and who contributed to what. Then you, too, will ignore the media and go for the facts.
Fast forward to 2016 where gas/fuel/distribution titans The Koch Bros. influenced sufficient elections to foist an anti-environment, anti-regulation, pro-coal, and largely anti-solar electric/wind/hydro electric regime into control of the US House, Senate, the POTUS, and the Supreme Court's open nominations.
Like it or not, in this year, there are billions of dollars fighting de-carbonization, to my dismay. Saving the planet is NOT on their agenda, rather, The Rapture is on their agenda.
Child porn and privacy violations aren't synonymous. One is not the other. Your data is vacuumed everywhere, including this site, where there are eight different trackers. Unless you stop them, they'll count you, track you, and get into your social business.
That data in turn, becomes easily personally identifiable, thence characterized, and worse.
It's an industry-wide, Internet-wide problem. It won't be prosecuted because: profit. Until it's not profitable or satisfy their seemingly endless curiosity (for profit), it'll continue. Corporate immunity means that breaches are highly unlikely to be prosecuted, because: lobbying and expense in prosecution.
Face this reality and vote until they get it right.
Far be it from me to defend a carrier or telco, but you're not being realistic.
ISPs have routes to other peers. Inside their own realm, they may or may not have links or even hosted content distribution networks to ease the traffic on their core routers. Netflix, along with Akamai and plentiful others allow peering agreements to boost the QoS of their delivery to end nodes.
This in turn, is a bit different than how LTE carriers deliver their own feeds. Some people NEVER watch a movie on their phone, and others consume all of their video on their phones.
In a neighborhood with lots of WiFi users, many people misconfigure their access points, especially in densely populated metropolitan areas and apartment complexes, etc.
There is a HUGE problem called low-hanging-fruit where ISPs/carriers/telcos only want to invest in upgrades when it pays off for them by covering lots of density with small investments. Doing huge system-wide upgrades of their core isn't the problem, it's the last mile costs to all of those end points.
And I'm also sure they have shenanigans, but also the results of everyone going to a newly popular site that still doesn't have load-balancing, CloudFlare protections, and so forth. Some people also have devices that are completely clogged with anti-virus software, or who bitch when they have 150+ browser tabs going, each active content moving in them.
Summary: it's not easy to catch the shenanigans, and there are lots of rational explanations for odd slowdowns, including your own device CPU loads (due to anti-virus activity or poor resources). A simple speed test may or may not indicate something's wrong. It's just not that easy, sadly.
And I'm shocked that anyone would believe that two of the most famous stream-gleaning successes *ever*, wouldn't be sniffing, snorting, and otherwise gleaning the hell out of their internal traffic. Their very production engines are optimized for this sort of thing.
Facebook not know that their "secret projects" are being leaked?
Google, whose very existence is built upon their ability to sift your stuff, not sifting your stuff?
I think they have to use a Pinkertons just to make it look legit by proxy.
Your new career at Cambridge Analytica has been approved.
You can turn off Cortana, and yes, you can turn off Windows Mail. But the mandate, that's a problem.
I wonder if there's a way to rename Firefox as Edge, and have it come up instead. I'll have to try that sometime. But not now.
Everyone seems to forget the era when Microsoft locked-in Internet Explorer (with horrific results), causing the EU, and yes, even the USA to demand that those poor Mozilla folks, and that tiny company called Google, and all those little guys had to be able to play as a first-choice browser.
It's pretty insulting for Microsoft to have chosen to mandate its own browser AGAIN.
Apple's BS had nothing to do with it-- Microsoft has shot a hole in its foot, the SAME FOOT, before. They just don't remember the pain. Let's remind them, shall we?
There are 600 companies, each of whom can have a tasty snack of your data. Each of these companies has only the strictest security. I'm sure NO one could do proxy queries, because all 600 have the best security ever!
No, there can't be a nearly exponential number of hack possibilities with 600 partners. No factorial representation of port open across so many different jurisdictions.
I'm just positive it's as tight as a drum. Has to be, eh?
Read up on how Comcast configures its servers to understand how you can get a browser hang as the re-direct goes infinite-loop. It's not a missing entry error. I'm trying to find the site that explains their info vacuuming architecture.
I'm not an apologist for Comcast, at all.
However, remember they run their own DNS so they can mine where you're going with that so-called stealth browser of yours. When it does a DNS lookup, you get the correct IP address to do the https page pull.
If a DNS address becomes black-holed (there are a number of ways to accidentally do this, including being stupid), then you loose a site.
I'm guessing it got screwed up in cache, and when the cache flushed, it came back again. No huge subterfuge, no DDoS attack, just normal screw up. Even Slashdot was pretty stupid about how they did their infrastructure change-over. Happens all too frequently, but it happens. An alarmist charge towards the fate of net neutrality violations is a bit hyperbolic to me.