I don't think you understand, you cannot enable this feature without the owner's consent.
The manual clearly states, there is a key combination you have to enter to get it to enable it, then you can connect it to a service on your LAN where you can remotely image the machine, but not enough where you can interrupt a running OS. Specific drivers and services must be present and running in order to use the Intel AMT to manage the host OS.
There is always the case that you AREN'T the owner of the computer (eg. a corporate computer, a rental or you trust your vendor to not have enabled it). All it takes is a re-imaging of the computer.
So the prerequisites to having it "control your computer surreptitiously" - Install an Intel software package on a host on the same subnet you're currently on - Go into the BIOS/EFI and enable the feature - Install software packages to allow you to remotely control the host OS.
Read up on the feature, thatâ(TM)s exactly how it works, the only thing is that you have to allow the traffic on your network to send it a sequence of bytes.
It has its own IP and MAC addressing, enabling the features is pretty obvious.
The skyrocketing rates of isolation, mental illness, and suicide driven by disco, rock, heavy metal social media aren't to be feared? How about increasing - and increasingly feasible - efforts by monopolistic corporations unshackled by free speech protections to thought police and censor people.
My point was that they're still around in kids that are the same age when you used them. You grew out of it but the generations behind you still have them.
You can hash images in a way that cropping or resizing or even blurring/resolution changes still generate a valid hash. Sort of like Soundex for images.
The problem with hashing on the client side is that it will get abused by anyone that wants to remove any sort of content. Regardless of the bots being able to match it, a human still has to decide whether something is in violation of any particular rule.
Citizenship, in the US at least, is not required to vote or participate in the political process. The only thing that you canâ(TM)t do without a citizenship is get top secret (although exceptions exist) clearance or become President.
But even illegal residents vote. All you have to do is have a mailing address in the county/counties you want to vote in.
You also grow out of them. Go to any school and you will still find them around children the same age you had them. At some point you become an adult and the jokes arenâ(TM)t appropriate anymore and you get ones better suited for your age.
The paper actually contradicts your statement. Back in the day we believed that children werenâ(TM)t able to distinguish reality from fiction, the paper shows that although they make mistakes, around the age of 3 they are pretty well versed into distinguishing the two.
This may be a recent thing too, before the 50s story time and church was the only time a child that couldnâ(TM)t read yet experienced fantasy, now fantasy (television, computer games) is pervasive in childrenâ(TM)s daily activities from birth.
Lol, what we really need is parents to be parents. My kids canâ(TM)t watch YouTube videos on their tablets without my password.
Once theyâ(TM)re old enough, theyâ(TM)ll get access to their own accounts and then they can surf the porn and the dark corners of the Interwebs.
And yeah, we were watching shock sites in high school computer classes way back when the entire school had a single ISDN line. I think I turned out pretty normal.
Go, even though the number of moves for an entire game are very high, only has a limited set of moves that wouldn't outright lose you the game. The players also have an overview of the state of the board at all times.
Eventually, there will be "AI" that can beat people at StarCraft, but that doesn't mean it will be any time soon. So far, its been trying with brute force, simply trying to be better than human at controlling units and trying to abuse certain properties of the game.
Not really, Go and chess are full-knowledge games, you know at all points, where your opponent currently is, what his moves have been and where he can go. Not to say, there are only a very small numbers of paths you can take at any point in time.
StarCraft is a partial-knowledge game, you have to intuit where your opponent may be popping out what his intentions are based on very limited amounts of data and counter their strategy accordingly. There are also various ways of winning the game, you can starve your opponent, you can just go out and destroy him with superior force, annoy him continuously or simply execute a fast counterattack when their forces are away from the base in an offensive maneuver and most likely a combination of those things will win you the game. You can't just "guess" a solution because 90% of the times you will guess wrong, the game develops very differently based on tech trees your opponent chooses and choosing your own tech tree is a constant back and forth of trying to one-up your opponent.
This is really the worst situations for AI. There are no "common situations" as you have in chess or Go that you can just hard-code ideal responses to. AI's are still very poor at pattern recognition if the patterns aren't fully visible.
The issue comes down to trust. If someone controls your pipe, even DNSSEC wonâ(TM)t help.
If you use it, then you have to trust the root DNS servers, which are generally controlled by the U.N. and thus by extension the US/UK etc.
The system we have now allows you to at least selectively trust one or more CA and itâ(TM)s relatively easy to take the trust out, if you put it in DNS and the DNS goes rogue or is exploited, then you canâ(TM)t trust anything anymore.
What should happen is that CA advertise what domains theyâ(TM)re authoritative for (LetsEncrypt does it). If they sign out a domain thatâ(TM)s not on that list, the trust gets automatically revoked. In the case of this particular CA they could just say they are authoritative for *.gov.nl and that would fix this entire brouhaha.
The US state has little in the form of public CA authorities. I think Staat der Nederlanden was the first âoegovernment owned CAâ publicly trusted in browsers.
I installed a custom firmware on my TV (they all run Linux anyway) and this lets me do all sorts of stuff on my TV. If you already have a Linux box that does all that, and you just need a âoedumbâ TV then I probably wouldnâ(TM)t bother given it has no added value, then again, I wouldnâ(TM)t purchase smart TVs if Iâ(TM)m not going to use the functionality, itâ(TM)s a waste of money (~$100-300 in added cost)
Yes it does, with one you can have safeguards in place to prevent it from happening and you hopefully have vetted the people that work for you. With places like Amazon your data is quite literally handled by the lowest paid random person they could find on the Internet and you have no control over the qualifications, history or legal requirements for those people.
What's more is that security systems with any 3rd party provider is only going to be the minimum requirements because anything 'better' cuts in the profits and whatever benefits there may have been cost-wise (which I still haven't seen any improvement of cloud vs self-hosted) go out of the window.
If homomorphic encryption ever becomes a reality and the cost goes down significantly, I'll consider the "cloud" but until then it's a nice place to put encrypted blobs of existing backups.
Yes, I don't participate in services I don't agree with the TOS. But the Twitter TOS specifically is pretty clear that "users own their content".
Do you really think Twitter wants to own any one of the channels? If they owned the data, people wouldn't be able to criticize the president, because then it would be "Twitter says".
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I don't think you understand, you cannot enable this feature without the owner's consent.
The manual clearly states, there is a key combination you have to enter to get it to enable it, then you can connect it to a service on your LAN where you can remotely image the machine, but not enough where you can interrupt a running OS. Specific drivers and services must be present and running in order to use the Intel AMT to manage the host OS.
There is always the case that you AREN'T the owner of the computer (eg. a corporate computer, a rental or you trust your vendor to not have enabled it). All it takes is a re-imaging of the computer.
So the prerequisites to having it "control your computer surreptitiously"
- Install an Intel software package on a host on the same subnet you're currently on
- Go into the BIOS/EFI and enable the feature
- Install software packages to allow you to remotely control the host OS.
Read up on why itâ(TM)s there in the first place. It is well documented and was never âoehiddenâ.
We know what it does, what itâ(TM)s function is and how to enable it. Because the majority of people doesnâ(TM)t, does not mean it is evil.
Read up on the feature, thatâ(TM)s exactly how it works, the only thing is that you have to allow the traffic on your network to send it a sequence of bytes.
It has its own IP and MAC addressing, enabling the features is pretty obvious.
Some of them do, eg Apple and Samsung chips have something similar on-die while a lot of other chipsets simply have it off-die.
ARM chips are designed based on the requirements of the manufacturer.
We ARE getting old. The patent was filed about the time I first tried Debian and Red Hat from mailer CD's
If you figured out fluid dynamics IN YOUR HEAD, you shouldn't be posting on /. Einstein.
The skyrocketing rates of isolation, mental illness, and suicide driven by disco, rock, heavy metal social media aren't to be feared? How about increasing - and increasingly feasible - efforts by monopolistic corporations unshackled by free speech protections to thought police and censor people.
We've had AI SC games for more than a decade, they have improved yet not quite as stellar.
My point was that they're still around in kids that are the same age when you used them. You grew out of it but the generations behind you still have them.
You can hash images in a way that cropping or resizing or even blurring/resolution changes still generate a valid hash. Sort of like Soundex for images.
The problem with hashing on the client side is that it will get abused by anyone that wants to remove any sort of content. Regardless of the bots being able to match it, a human still has to decide whether something is in violation of any particular rule.
I think the point was that without children now there wonâ(TM)t be any or sufficient workers then to care of all the elderly.
Citizenship, in the US at least, is not required to vote or participate in the political process. The only thing that you canâ(TM)t do without a citizenship is get top secret (although exceptions exist) clearance or become President.
But even illegal residents vote. All you have to do is have a mailing address in the county/counties you want to vote in.
Whatâ(TM)s the problem?
Kids have played with toy soldiers and toy weapons all the way throughout written history.
You also grow out of them. Go to any school and you will still find them around children the same age you had them. At some point you become an adult and the jokes arenâ(TM)t appropriate anymore and you get ones better suited for your age.
The paper actually contradicts your statement. Back in the day we believed that children werenâ(TM)t able to distinguish reality from fiction, the paper shows that although they make mistakes, around the age of 3 they are pretty well versed into distinguishing the two.
This may be a recent thing too, before the 50s story time and church was the only time a child that couldnâ(TM)t read yet experienced fantasy, now fantasy (television, computer games) is pervasive in childrenâ(TM)s daily activities from birth.
Lol, what we really need is parents to be parents. My kids canâ(TM)t watch YouTube videos on their tablets without my password.
Once theyâ(TM)re old enough, theyâ(TM)ll get access to their own accounts and then they can surf the porn and the dark corners of the Interwebs.
And yeah, we were watching shock sites in high school computer classes way back when the entire school had a single ISDN line. I think I turned out pretty normal.
Go, even though the number of moves for an entire game are very high, only has a limited set of moves that wouldn't outright lose you the game. The players also have an overview of the state of the board at all times.
Eventually, there will be "AI" that can beat people at StarCraft, but that doesn't mean it will be any time soon. So far, its been trying with brute force, simply trying to be better than human at controlling units and trying to abuse certain properties of the game.
Not really, Go and chess are full-knowledge games, you know at all points, where your opponent currently is, what his moves have been and where he can go. Not to say, there are only a very small numbers of paths you can take at any point in time.
StarCraft is a partial-knowledge game, you have to intuit where your opponent may be popping out what his intentions are based on very limited amounts of data and counter their strategy accordingly. There are also various ways of winning the game, you can starve your opponent, you can just go out and destroy him with superior force, annoy him continuously or simply execute a fast counterattack when their forces are away from the base in an offensive maneuver and most likely a combination of those things will win you the game. You can't just "guess" a solution because 90% of the times you will guess wrong, the game develops very differently based on tech trees your opponent chooses and choosing your own tech tree is a constant back and forth of trying to one-up your opponent.
This is really the worst situations for AI. There are no "common situations" as you have in chess or Go that you can just hard-code ideal responses to. AI's are still very poor at pattern recognition if the patterns aren't fully visible.
The issue comes down to trust. If someone controls your pipe, even DNSSEC wonâ(TM)t help.
If you use it, then you have to trust the root DNS servers, which are generally controlled by the U.N. and thus by extension the US/UK etc.
The system we have now allows you to at least selectively trust one or more CA and itâ(TM)s relatively easy to take the trust out, if you put it in DNS and the DNS goes rogue or is exploited, then you canâ(TM)t trust anything anymore.
What should happen is that CA advertise what domains theyâ(TM)re authoritative for (LetsEncrypt does it). If they sign out a domain thatâ(TM)s not on that list, the trust gets automatically revoked. In the case of this particular CA they could just say they are authoritative for *.gov.nl and that would fix this entire brouhaha.
The US state has little in the form of public CA authorities. I think Staat der Nederlanden was the first âoegovernment owned CAâ publicly trusted in browsers.
I installed a custom firmware on my TV (they all run Linux anyway) and this lets me do all sorts of stuff on my TV. If you already have a Linux box that does all that, and you just need a âoedumbâ TV then I probably wouldnâ(TM)t bother given it has no added value, then again, I wouldnâ(TM)t purchase smart TVs if Iâ(TM)m not going to use the functionality, itâ(TM)s a waste of money (~$100-300 in added cost)
Most of us were in high school or college, the majority of people in the world wasn't even born and we were raving over 36GB IDE hard drives.
Yes it does, with one you can have safeguards in place to prevent it from happening and you hopefully have vetted the people that work for you. With places like Amazon your data is quite literally handled by the lowest paid random person they could find on the Internet and you have no control over the qualifications, history or legal requirements for those people.
What's more is that security systems with any 3rd party provider is only going to be the minimum requirements because anything 'better' cuts in the profits and whatever benefits there may have been cost-wise (which I still haven't seen any improvement of cloud vs self-hosted) go out of the window.
If homomorphic encryption ever becomes a reality and the cost goes down significantly, I'll consider the "cloud" but until then it's a nice place to put encrypted blobs of existing backups.
Yes, I don't participate in services I don't agree with the TOS. But the Twitter TOS specifically is pretty clear that "users own their content".
Do you really think Twitter wants to own any one of the channels? If they owned the data, people wouldn't be able to criticize the president, because then it would be "Twitter says".