No, he bricked broken IOT(S) devices to stop them from attacking others. A bricked device is harmless, and there's even hope it gets returned to manufacturer. On the other hand, one that's part of a blackhat botnet is bad for everyone.
Yeah right, Chechnya voted 99.8% for his party with 99.7% turnout, not long after Putin waged two wars against them. Think about how many votes Lincoln would get in the South the next election had he survived the assassination.
You're used to vote fraud meaning a few tens of invalid votes. On the other had, Russia didn't have a remotely fair election anywhere in its history: not by the tsars, not during the revolution, not by the soviets, a close shave by Yeltsin, then fully back to normal by Putin. Same in puppet countries they conquered (most recent example in Crimea).
“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.” -- Joseph Stalin
There's a point to this nonsense: ISPs who aren't siding with Comcast, and promised they will not shit on their customers, get heavily punished the moment something goes bad even due to a random outage. On the other hand, ISPs who are fully evil have free reign.
Nope, this is a second keylogger. The one from May was in audio driver, this one is in the keyboard driver. Mentioned in the article -- have you read it before responding?
I call bullshit on this "mistake" not being intentional. Their coding practices might be bad for other reasons, but if companies add backdoors left and right, at this point it's reasonable to assume malice rather than stupidity.
I'd love to see someone demonstrate that they can create "Fe". Think carefully before you respond.
But we can! It's just still extremely expensive, but can be done. And once we'll learn how to milk fusion and fission to the last bit of energy, it's pure Fe that we'll have in excess.
My admin job involves the care and feeding, and updating and migrations, of an application server product that uses java for just about everything. It is not going away anytime soon.
There's lots of Cobol as the base of massive banking operations, yet somehow I wouldn't call Cobol thriving.
that seems unreasonable to include as the same idealogy that is in charge now. China has done a very good job of allowing enough of a market economy to not do that type of thing.
Like, herding Falun Gong practitioners for organ harvesting? Or keeping the majority of population as a caste deprived of most rights (hukou)?
It took 50 million deaths last time those fucks got power, this time we need to kill them all a lot sooner.
Let's put this in a perspective:
communism: 180M
christianity: 100M
islam: 75M
national socialism: 21M
Leopold II (no ideology): 10M
(This combines counts for ideologies with multiple denominations, thus putting in one bucket Mao+Stalin+Lenin+Pol Pot+Kims+Ho Chi Minh+misc African soviet-sponsored groups+etc -- without combining, China is 1st, Soviets 2nd; wars that are attributable to both secular and ideological reasons are attributed partially, with a weighted estimation so 10% religious gives only 1/10 of kill count. All of these figures are hotly contested, but ordering is pretty solid.)
Thus, Nazis are pretty evil (21M deaths is nothing we can forget), but they're boy scouts compared to some ideologies still in power (or, in case of Putin, called "our glorious past").
Thus, let's not discriminate between "kill all unbelievers, people of wrong skin color, shape of genitals, etc" ideologies and fight them either equally or based on actual harm done rather than on how reviled by those currently in power they are.
On Windows 10, can't you just run a proper shell? Too bad, you can only run win64 processes from it, not win32. Running some desktop environment this way could be interesting.
Thus, the problem is not scalpers or $FADITEM shortage. It's advertising. Especially, advertising aimed at the most vulnerable target: kids.
In Poland for example there's a strict ban on advertisements aimed at kids. Alas, the companies found some loopholes, and selling toys based on the newest kid movie is legal, but the problem has been greatly reduced.
Oh, and if your State's laws tell you to just stand there and die at a broken traffic light, you're really from an exceptional backwater. In my State, a malfunctioning traffic signal is legally equivalent to a stop sign in every direction; which actually means not only that the pedestrian doesn't need to wait for a light, it actually means they can cross at any time and cars are required to yield!
I live in no State, thank you. But, pray tell, how exactly a car is supposed to know that green light doesn't mean green?
The problem in Poland is, you get a fine for crossing on red not only when there's not a single car in sight, but even if the road is completely closed. You are allowed to cross a road at your own risk only if there's no pedestrian crossing within 100 meters. Who cares if the red light is stuck, and there was no traffic at the time? There's money to be obtained, catching criminals on the other hand means risk but no monetary gain.
Then, depending on jurisdiction, you'd be guilty of murder or at least manslaughter. Homicide during home invasion is no small thing. While this will be no consolation for me (I'd be dead), homicides are a kind of crime that the police tends to actually investigate. In Poland where I live, this is 8 to life if it appeared you were in my home accidentally or with no intention to confront me, 25 to life if it counted as (even unarmed) robbery -- facts don't seem to matter as in practice our courts decide this completely at random, even contrary to elementary common sense.
As for me, in nearly every jurisdiction I have a duty to see what's going on, but usually it's about whether a reasonable person would believe you're either a danger or intend to commit a crime. Poland was until recently one of worst offenders, with about no right to self-defense, but fixing this is pretty much the only good deed of our current government. They're also fixing home invasion law by making defense against such entry immune from prosecution unless I "drastically exceed" what is considered reasonable. I'm only waiting to actually be allowed to own a gun (currently you need quite some connections to get a permit), as currently I don't believe I'd have any chances against even a single weakish thug.
Please tell me why I should be unable to defend myself in my own home.
And don't tell me "call the police". Not a single crime I've been a victim of that I reported had been acted upon, even though in two of three times catching the perpetrator would be trivial (unprovoked battery: the bum kept sitting there, cell phone robbery: robbers did not turn the phone off). That's why I don't even bother to report crimes anymore. On the other hand, try to cross the street at a crosswalk with a broken (always red) light...
The prisoner's dilemma doesn't result in everyone cooperating. If it did, then it wouldn't be a dilemma.
If the reward for defecting is small enough, and the population punishes defectors enough, it's a smart play to cooperate. If the payoffs are (5,0), (3,3), (0,5), (1,1), you can get 5 once then nothing but 1s for the rest of your life -- while everyone else keeps getting 3s. On the other hand, if you're in a population of defectors, cooperation is suicidal. Note that in a world of cooperation, the average person fares drastically better.
But alas, we live in a world where defectors buy themselves draconian copyright laws, and attempt to make cooperation illegal (like FCC rules or Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive).
Without copyright there is no such thing as the GPL. There is no such thing as copyleft,
Without copyright, there would be no need for copyleft. Somewhat counterintuitively, it's GPL (v2) rather than BSD/MIT that emulates a world without copyright better: we'd have decompilers.
Decompiling is merely an optimization problem: make a front-end that takes x86/etc code (these already exist), output C/etc code, optimizing for human readability; you lose comments and (without debug info) function and variable names. The only reason no one wrote a serious decompiler yet is that cases when using source recovered this way are so niche it's not worth the effort.
For pretty much any interesting program, people would clean up and comment such source, thus there'd be no commercial benefit for keeping the code closed. And, releasing real source means you get better outside contributions, thus cooperating with your users is a win. Ie, we'd have an all-GPL world.
I specified GPLv2, as there exist a way around decompilers: DRM. Of course, doing so on a general-purpose CPU would be mere pointless obfuscation (just run the thing in an emulator and dump memory when decrypted), thus such evil CPU would need to include sealed DRM chips. But, the corp would still have to give the user both the lock and the key: decapping is not that simple, but it can be done, immediately breaking all DRMed code runnable by the chip that got decapped. DRM is physically impossible, it serves merely as a stumbling block. At this point, it'd be so niche that no company would really bother, turning the tables to what we have now with decompilers.
We'd end with a prisoner dilemma world where everyone cooperates, instead of current population of defectors.
Doesn't sound like it's working. Case in point: there's a Hitler-style war going on right now: concentration camps, mass-bombing civilian cities with no military presence whatsoever, etc. And US and UK are helping.
And, do you even hear a word about Yemen in the news? Likewise, the Wikipedia article has a table of "alleged" war crimes that lists a bunch of one- or two-digit incidents, without a mention of those with thousands.
Or, when Georgia and Ukraine got invaded by their neighbour bloody dictator, did the US and UK (who even made such a promise in return for Ukraine getting rid of nuclear weapons) intervene?
Sorry, but the UN is toothless. It plays no useful role.
By that logic, Russia can take an UN non-member such as their occupied parts of Ukraine and use them to eject Ukraine from the UN. If controlling enough of territory is an issue: no problem, they'll tell their insignia-less troops there to advance a bit more, so they'd have more than just Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea.
Those names are fringe newcomers; "kilobyte" meant 1024 bytes for over half a century before a sleazy hard disk manufacturer paid a committee to introduce these conflicting definitions.
You don't step over entrenched usage without a good reason. Heck, even when there's a very good reason, conventions are usually kept: see +/- signs for electricity for example. This case is nothing but a marketing gimmick that makes us suffer.
And I have an extra reason to care, personally. I've been using this login name for years well before those bozos got slapped with a lawsuit.
I don't think a guy named Adolfo Hitlero from Antarctica, whose face looks remarkably like a cat's ass, and who connects over Tor, is going to reduce my privacy.
(I don't even remember the login name of any of such accounts, though, and there was no reason for me to even look at Facebook for years.)
This said, while the likes of us might be willing and able to expend all this effort to preserve our privacy, 99.99% of users don't know how to do so even if they wanted. And that's why such kinds of tracking must be made illegal by default.
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No, he bricked broken IOT(S) devices to stop them from attacking others. A bricked device is harmless, and there's even hope it gets returned to manufacturer. On the other hand, one that's part of a blackhat botnet is bad for everyone.
Yeah right, Chechnya voted 99.8% for his party with 99.7% turnout, not long after Putin waged two wars against them. Think about how many votes Lincoln would get in the South the next election had he survived the assassination.
You're used to vote fraud meaning a few tens of invalid votes. On the other had, Russia didn't have a remotely fair election anywhere in its history: not by the tsars, not during the revolution, not by the soviets, a close shave by Yeltsin, then fully back to normal by Putin. Same in puppet countries they conquered (most recent example in Crimea).
“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.” -- Joseph Stalin
There's a point to this nonsense: ISPs who aren't siding with Comcast, and promised they will not shit on their customers, get heavily punished the moment something goes bad even due to a random outage. On the other hand, ISPs who are fully evil have free reign.
It'll suck to live in the US...
isnt this a repost from May
Nope, this is a second keylogger. The one from May was in audio driver, this one is in the keyboard driver. Mentioned in the article -- have you read it before responding?
I call bullshit on this "mistake" not being intentional. Their coding practices might be bad for other reasons, but if companies add backdoors left and right, at this point it's reasonable to assume malice rather than stupidity.
it turns out that, on arm embedded systems [...], sysvinit easily outperforms systemd for boot times.
So it does on bog-standard noisy boxes. Despite the original primary piece of advertising for systemd.
I'd love to see someone demonstrate that they can create "Fe". Think carefully before you respond.
But we can! It's just still extremely expensive, but can be done. And once we'll learn how to milk fusion and fission to the last bit of energy, it's pure Fe that we'll have in excess.
My admin job involves the care and feeding, and updating and migrations, of an application server product that uses java for just about everything. It is not going away anytime soon.
There's lots of Cobol as the base of massive banking operations, yet somehow I wouldn't call Cobol thriving.
that seems unreasonable to include as the same idealogy that is in charge now. China has done a very good job of allowing enough of a market economy to not do that type of thing.
Like, herding Falun Gong practitioners for organ harvesting? Or keeping the majority of population as a caste deprived of most rights (hukou)?
It took 50 million deaths last time those fucks got power, this time we need to kill them all a lot sooner.
Let's put this in a perspective:
(This combines counts for ideologies with multiple denominations, thus putting in one bucket Mao+Stalin+Lenin+Pol Pot+Kims+Ho Chi Minh+misc African soviet-sponsored groups+etc -- without combining, China is 1st, Soviets 2nd; wars that are attributable to both secular and ideological reasons are attributed partially, with a weighted estimation so 10% religious gives only 1/10 of kill count. All of these figures are hotly contested, but ordering is pretty solid.)
Thus, Nazis are pretty evil (21M deaths is nothing we can forget), but they're boy scouts compared to some ideologies still in power (or, in case of Putin, called "our glorious past").
Thus, let's not discriminate between "kill all unbelievers, people of wrong skin color, shape of genitals, etc" ideologies and fight them either equally or based on actual harm done rather than on how reviled by those currently in power they are.
On Windows 10, can't you just run a proper shell? Too bad, you can only run win64 processes from it, not win32. Running some desktop environment this way could be interesting.
Thus, the problem is not scalpers or $FADITEM shortage. It's advertising. Especially, advertising aimed at the most vulnerable target: kids.
In Poland for example there's a strict ban on advertisements aimed at kids. Alas, the companies found some loopholes, and selling toys based on the newest kid movie is legal, but the problem has been greatly reduced.
Oh, and if your State's laws tell you to just stand there and die at a broken traffic light, you're really from an exceptional backwater. In my State, a malfunctioning traffic signal is legally equivalent to a stop sign in every direction; which actually means not only that the pedestrian doesn't need to wait for a light, it actually means they can cross at any time and cars are required to yield!
I live in no State, thank you. But, pray tell, how exactly a car is supposed to know that green light doesn't mean green?
The problem in Poland is, you get a fine for crossing on red not only when there's not a single car in sight, but even if the road is completely closed. You are allowed to cross a road at your own risk only if there's no pedestrian crossing within 100 meters. Who cares if the red light is stuck, and there was no traffic at the time? There's money to be obtained, catching criminals on the other hand means risk but no monetary gain.
Then, depending on jurisdiction, you'd be guilty of murder or at least manslaughter. Homicide during home invasion is no small thing. While this will be no consolation for me (I'd be dead), homicides are a kind of crime that the police tends to actually investigate. In Poland where I live, this is 8 to life if it appeared you were in my home accidentally or with no intention to confront me, 25 to life if it counted as (even unarmed) robbery -- facts don't seem to matter as in practice our courts decide this completely at random, even contrary to elementary common sense.
As for me, in nearly every jurisdiction I have a duty to see what's going on, but usually it's about whether a reasonable person would believe you're either a danger or intend to commit a crime. Poland was until recently one of worst offenders, with about no right to self-defense, but fixing this is pretty much the only good deed of our current government. They're also fixing home invasion law by making defense against such entry immune from prosecution unless I "drastically exceed" what is considered reasonable. I'm only waiting to actually be allowed to own a gun (currently you need quite some connections to get a permit), as currently I don't believe I'd have any chances against even a single weakish thug.
I mean, civilised people would offer them a cup of tea, sit down and have a chat about why they're there and whether they're ok.
Against a civilised person, no potentially lethal force is required. Such a person wouldn't also break into my home.
Even Hitler is not worse than Hitler.
Mao, Stalin, Muhammad?
Please tell me why I should be unable to defend myself in my own home.
And don't tell me "call the police". Not a single crime I've been a victim of that I reported had been acted upon, even though in two of three times catching the perpetrator would be trivial (unprovoked battery: the bum kept sitting there, cell phone robbery: robbers did not turn the phone off). That's why I don't even bother to report crimes anymore. On the other hand, try to cross the street at a crosswalk with a broken (always red) light...
The prisoner's dilemma doesn't result in everyone cooperating. If it did, then it wouldn't be a dilemma.
If the reward for defecting is small enough, and the population punishes defectors enough, it's a smart play to cooperate. If the payoffs are (5,0), (3,3), (0,5), (1,1), you can get 5 once then nothing but 1s for the rest of your life -- while everyone else keeps getting 3s. On the other hand, if you're in a population of defectors, cooperation is suicidal. Note that in a world of cooperation, the average person fares drastically better.
But alas, we live in a world where defectors buy themselves draconian copyright laws, and attempt to make cooperation illegal (like FCC rules or Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive).
Without copyright there is no such thing as the GPL. There is no such thing as copyleft,
Without copyright, there would be no need for copyleft. Somewhat counterintuitively, it's GPL (v2) rather than BSD/MIT that emulates a world without copyright better: we'd have decompilers.
Decompiling is merely an optimization problem: make a front-end that takes x86/etc code (these already exist), output C/etc code, optimizing for human readability; you lose comments and (without debug info) function and variable names. The only reason no one wrote a serious decompiler yet is that cases when using source recovered this way are so niche it's not worth the effort.
For pretty much any interesting program, people would clean up and comment such source, thus there'd be no commercial benefit for keeping the code closed. And, releasing real source means you get better outside contributions, thus cooperating with your users is a win. Ie, we'd have an all-GPL world.
I specified GPLv2, as there exist a way around decompilers: DRM. Of course, doing so on a general-purpose CPU would be mere pointless obfuscation (just run the thing in an emulator and dump memory when decrypted), thus such evil CPU would need to include sealed DRM chips. But, the corp would still have to give the user both the lock and the key: decapping is not that simple, but it can be done, immediately breaking all DRMed code runnable by the chip that got decapped. DRM is physically impossible, it serves merely as a stumbling block. At this point, it'd be so niche that no company would really bother, turning the tables to what we have now with decompilers.
We'd end with a prisoner dilemma world where everyone cooperates, instead of current population of defectors.
Doesn't sound like it's working. Case in point: there's a Hitler-style war going on right now: concentration camps, mass-bombing civilian cities with no military presence whatsoever, etc. And US and UK are helping.
And, do you even hear a word about Yemen in the news? Likewise, the Wikipedia article has a table of "alleged" war crimes that lists a bunch of one- or two-digit incidents, without a mention of those with thousands.
Or, when Georgia and Ukraine got invaded by their neighbour bloody dictator, did the US and UK (who even made such a promise in return for Ukraine getting rid of nuclear weapons) intervene?
Sorry, but the UN is toothless. It plays no useful role.
By that logic, Russia can take an UN non-member such as their occupied parts of Ukraine and use them to eject Ukraine from the UN. If controlling enough of territory is an issue: no problem, they'll tell their insignia-less troops there to advance a bit more, so they'd have more than just Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea.
I doubt you can "kick off" a permanent member.
China.
Those names are fringe newcomers; "kilobyte" meant 1024 bytes for over half a century before a sleazy hard disk manufacturer paid a committee to introduce these conflicting definitions.
You don't step over entrenched usage without a good reason. Heck, even when there's a very good reason, conventions are usually kept: see +/- signs for electricity for example. This case is nothing but a marketing gimmick that makes us suffer.
And I have an extra reason to care, personally. I've been using this login name for years well before those bozos got slapped with a lawsuit.
I don't think a guy named Adolfo Hitlero from Antarctica, whose face looks remarkably like a cat's ass, and who connects over Tor, is going to reduce my privacy.
(I don't even remember the login name of any of such accounts, though, and there was no reason for me to even look at Facebook for years.)
This said, while the likes of us might be willing and able to expend all this effort to preserve our privacy, 99.99% of users don't know how to do so even if they wanted. And that's why such kinds of tracking must be made illegal by default.
Then, after mysteriously missing Android 9, expect Android 10 that spies on you all the time.
Oh, wait...