Publicly, the FBI is attempting to retain at least the appearance of neutrality. Privately, Herr Drumpf is the FBI's wet dream come true!
With our current President-erect's publicly stated attitudes, do you think the FBI's investigative powers will grow or shrink over the next four to eight years? What, with that pesky ACLU and its [redacted] lawyers put in their place, I suspect the FBI will be more than busy enough to justify any budget increase they may need to keep us safe.
Uh, most enterprises I've dealt with use some form of WSUS to provide exactly the kind of control you're referring to - because they are running servers which will leave a lot of employees sitting around getting paid to do nothing if a server goes down. They also have people trained to keep an eye on the whole update process to ensure that nothing bad happens, as well as to ensure that employee desktops are updated.
Microsoft shoves updates down the throats of end-user (consumer) desktops because Joe Sixpack doesn't have a clue which hole to stick an update in or even why he should. That's one of the reasons botnets are moving rapidly to internet appliances (from MS-Win systems) - those who know how still manage their updates, the guys at Bubba's Bait and Software Shop can learn how too, or they can just let someone who knows a lot more about it than they do handle it for them. Either way, someone is patching systems. Left to their own devices (pun intented), the average consumer doesn't care about patching.
I'm somewhat guilty of this - I may take assiduous care of my workplace desktop (and my issued laptop), but I really don't feel like concentrating when I'm at home listening to MP3's and posting on Slashdot.
Pendulum swings hard left - we get a "Wild West" internet where nothing can be trusted.
Pendulum swings hard right - we get AOL, the sanitized (government?) internet where nothing can be trusted.
Who should be less mistrusted - the left or the right? Self-regulation hasn't worked. Government regulation has seldom been any better. Perhaps the solution is to hold manufacturers of IOT devices accountable? General purpose computers, no - those are managed by people and those people should be held to account for the actions of the systems under their control (because before they get to drive a computer, they ought to know how to drive a computer. Hey, it works for cars!). But the vast collection of internet appliances exist because the manufacturers implicitly assert that they've done their job right - that's a whole lot of toes to hold in the fire, yes?
You do have to stop reposting the same thing over and over. Combined with your immediate resort to personal attacks, this only serves to blunt and dilute your message.
Change will only come gradually - a lot of people here (especially the older/.'ers) will see an A/C post with "APK" in the body as a sign that you're not to be taken seriously. Easy, man! Lay off the spambardment and the personal attacks and soon you'll be able to post without fear of being ostracized. In this area, you've definitely got something right - time to make people listen while you whisper, rather than plugging their ears when you shout.
Hate to admit it, but you're dead-bang right here.
Don't get me wrong - DNS is not the cause and your solution is not the cure for all ills (and has practically no application in the IOT), but with Windows systems being only somewhat more secure than the average baby monitor, it might be a start. Hell, I can even think of a couple of major players who could benefit from something like this. I can't name 'em, but I've worked at a couple of major tech-sector firms which still use hostfiles because DNS can't fill the bill for them (due to complexity or insecurity, or both).
It's also good to see you've dialed the hyperbole down a few notches. This is respectable behavior, the sort which might get you the notice you want. Keep it up!
We don't need to take any legal action other than seizing the botnet for more appropriate use. D'ya suppose Trump's allies in Moscow would appreciate the simple irony in being attacked by literally hundreds of thousands of thermostats, light bulbs, baby monitors, security cameras, smart TV's, DVR's - it would be the ultimate proletarian protest, most of it done by devices made in China!
Hey hognoxious - you need to spit that cock out of your mouth and speak up. Can you hear me now? We can't hear you (problems with your network, perhaps?).
Agreed. Twitter is already Donald Drumpf's personal megaphone - and they never even thought about censoring the lying piece of shit that is now our President-elect. Why would they need any reassuring from Herr Drumpf?
Trump's not the threat . . . giving up and letting him continue to get away with it is the threat. What's that old saying, "the price of liberty is eternal vigilance" (or words to that effect)?
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With our current President-erect's publicly stated attitudes, do you think the FBI's investigative powers will grow or shrink over the next four to eight years? What, with that pesky ACLU and its [redacted] lawyers put in their place, I suspect the FBI will be more than busy enough to justify any budget increase they may need to keep us safe.
It's not all my fault.
I update my toilet, immediately after flushing the cache. It prevents buffer-overflow attacks!
Microsoft shoves updates down the throats of end-user (consumer) desktops because Joe Sixpack doesn't have a clue which hole to stick an update in or even why he should. That's one of the reasons botnets are moving rapidly to internet appliances (from MS-Win systems) - those who know how still manage their updates, the guys at Bubba's Bait and Software Shop can learn how too, or they can just let someone who knows a lot more about it than they do handle it for them. Either way, someone is patching systems. Left to their own devices (pun intented), the average consumer doesn't care about patching.
I'm somewhat guilty of this - I may take assiduous care of my workplace desktop (and my issued laptop), but I really don't feel like concentrating when I'm at home listening to MP3's and posting on Slashdot.
They're on everybody else's!
Pendulum swings hard right - we get AOL, the sanitized (government?) internet where nothing can be trusted.
Who should be less mistrusted - the left or the right? Self-regulation hasn't worked. Government regulation has seldom been any better. Perhaps the solution is to hold manufacturers of IOT devices accountable? General purpose computers, no - those are managed by people and those people should be held to account for the actions of the systems under their control (because before they get to drive a computer, they ought to know how to drive a computer. Hey, it works for cars!). But the vast collection of internet appliances exist because the manufacturers implicitly assert that they've done their job right - that's a whole lot of toes to hold in the fire, yes?
Probably cash - a bag full of used twenties slipped under the men's room stall.
Change will only come gradually - a lot of people here (especially the older /.'ers) will see an A/C post with "APK" in the body as a sign that you're not to be taken seriously. Easy, man! Lay off the spambardment and the personal attacks and soon you'll be able to post without fear of being ostracized. In this area, you've definitely got something right - time to make people listen while you whisper, rather than plugging their ears when you shout.
Don't get me wrong - DNS is not the cause and your solution is not the cure for all ills (and has practically no application in the IOT), but with Windows systems being only somewhat more secure than the average baby monitor, it might be a start. Hell, I can even think of a couple of major players who could benefit from something like this. I can't name 'em, but I've worked at a couple of major tech-sector firms which still use hostfiles because DNS can't fill the bill for them (due to complexity or insecurity, or both).
It's also good to see you've dialed the hyperbole down a few notches. This is respectable behavior, the sort which might get you the notice you want. Keep it up!
Mike Mell
Sit back and enjoy the show.
Besides, if a major corporation were to rent a botnet, what makes you think they wouldn't use it?
We don't need to take any legal action other than seizing the botnet for more appropriate use. D'ya suppose Trump's allies in Moscow would appreciate the simple irony in being attacked by literally hundreds of thousands of thermostats, light bulbs, baby monitors, security cameras, smart TV's, DVR's - it would be the ultimate proletarian protest, most of it done by devices made in China!
Ba-dum bum.
"... No court would consider that copyright infringement" . . . yet.
Hey, if I'm lyin', I'm dyin' (don't I wish!).
If you became President, I'm sure you'd go after all of these companies - on Twitter!
Hey hognoxious - you need to spit that cock out of your mouth and speak up. Can you hear me now? We can't hear you (problems with your network, perhaps?).
Are you into trigonometry, 'cuz that's one helluva tangent!
Yeah . . . somebody shoulda wanted the natives. Nature would've solved the whole problem.
Yes, this is the end. Funny - somehow, I always expected to have a hand in the apocalypse. Oh, well . . .
Ja, Herr underfuhrer.
Yeah he's got plans for us . . . "Arbeit macht frei".
Agreed. Twitter is already Donald Drumpf's personal megaphone - and they never even thought about censoring the lying piece of shit that is now our President-elect. Why would they need any reassuring from Herr Drumpf?
Trump's not the threat . . . giving up and letting him continue to get away with it is the threat. What's that old saying, "the price of liberty is eternal vigilance" (or words to that effect)?
Those high-energy radiation sources probably cause cancer! Oooh, ba-a-ad!